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Honoring Excellence in Urban Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I just began loving teaching from there, even if I had imaginary students.” Alongside teaching, Thompson is also working on her master’s degree in education policy at Florida State University and is scheduled to graduate next month. They always chose me to be the teacher,” said Thompson, who was born in St. James, Jamaica. “I

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Going from Family Engagement to Family Partnerships With Black Marginalized Families

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Hope Barnes When I, Hope Barnes, started teaching at the age of 22 in Baltimore, Maryland, I was excited and eager to shape and mold the minds of the future. By this time, I was 13 years into teaching, and too often my schedule would conflict with my son’s school events. Dr. Donna Y.

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Rutgers Plan to Merge Medical Schools Met with Pushback

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Having the two school be separate creates an “artificial separation” that hinders teaching, care, and reputation, he said. However, opposing faculty argue that such a merger would provide little benefit for clinical care and medical education, given that the two schools collaborate anyway.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. The college emphasizes collaboration, communication and intentionality with a focus on serving and deepening partnerships with the community.

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The Importance of Listening to Student Needs Emphasized at Department of Education Summit

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Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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MSU Cuts a Year from Teacher Certification Program

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The program’s hallmark feature for roughly thirty years, a fifth year centered on student teaching, will be cut, with classroom practice becoming the focus of a reorganized fourth year. They don't come back to complete student teaching.” The fifth year of student teaching has long been what distinguished the MSU program from others.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

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She saw that certain processes and procedures, such as schedules and transcript evaluations, could be unique and not simply replications from four-year institutions. The strategic plan became a focus on coaching, teaching and learning, and data. As technology developed, she embraced it.