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Neag School Office of Teacher Education Launches Microgrants to Benefit Future Teachers
A new initiative created by Director of Teacher Education Alyssa Hadley Dunn is designed to give grants of up to $150 to fund unique classroom experiences for teacher education students.
Neag School Alumna Kiana Foster-Mauro is Connecticut’s 2024 Teacher of the Year
Foster-Mauro ’20 (ED), ’21 MA will be recognized at a ceremony in Hartford in November, and is preparing an application for National Teacher of the Year
Neag School’s Annual Scholarship Celebration Spotlights Students and Donors
The event on Oct. 6 commemorated students’ academic achievements and the generosity of donors who have financially enabled those students to continue pursuing higher education.
10 Questions With Rachael Gabriel About Her Book on Disciplinary Literacy
A professor of literacy education and director of the Neag School’s Reading and Language Arts Center, Gabriel recently published “Doing Disciplinary Literacy” through Teachers College Press.
Keyokah Mars-Garrick ’22 MA: From the Basketball Court to the Classroom
Keyokah Mars-Garrick ’22 MA, a special education teacher at Wheeler High School in North Stonington, Connecticut, originally attended Wheeler High as a student-athlete. Mars-Garrick returned to the school in 2020 as a substitute teacher while researching her next career move and fell in love with teaching and special education students.
10 Questions With Jennie Weiner About Advancing Women in K-12 Administration
An associate professor in the Neag School, Weiner recently co-published “Education Lead(her)ship: Advancing Women in K–12 Administration” through Harvard Education Press.
Neag School Welcomes New Faculty, Celebrates New Program Director
Risa Isard and Zachary Collier join the Neag School as assistant professors, while Tracy Sinclair has been named director of the Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates
Neag School Expands its Early College Experience Courses, Allowing High School Students to Explore Careers in Education
More than 350 students from 21 partner schools were enrolled in the Neag School's ECE courses in 2022-2023, an increase from 201 students in five districts the year before.
10 Questions With the Neag School’s Director of Teacher Education
As the Neag School of Education’s new director of teacher education, Alyssa Hadley Dunn came to UConn at the beginning of 2023 from Michigan State University, where she was an associate professor of education. This 10 Questions feature covers her work and research in teacher education.
From Recruitment Through Retention: Strategies to Repair and Strengthen the BIPOC Teaching Pipeline
Taylor Strickland, Neag School doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership, prepared the following rapid research brief with the Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation (CEPARE). The absence of sustainable recruitment, hiring, and retention processes for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) educators is a long-standing failure within the U.S. education system.