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Many artists may aspire to see their work hanging on a wall for public view, but for University of Delaware alumnus Matt Terranova, his work often is the wall itself. Since graduating in 2006 from the visual communications program in the Department of Art and Design, Terranova has developed something of …

How can K-12 teachers connect their students’ personal, lived experiences to an often mandated, impersonal, and standards-based curriculum? This question becomes even more pressing for teachers who are working in underperforming schools with student populations who have been historically marginalized by traditional curricula. Elizabeth Soslau, associate professor in the School of …

On an overcast Saturday morning, staff and volunteers gathered at the Early Learning Center and Laboratory Preschool, both located on the University of Delaware’s Children’s Campus. With shovels and wheelbarrows in hand, they set about installing an edible forest garden. This multilayer collection of fruit and nut trees, legumes, shrubs, roots and …

The Delaware Academy for School Leadership (DASL) at the University of Delaware is a professional development, research and policy center working to improve public education by developing leaders. On Wednesday, June 26, DASL will host its 17th Annual Policy and Practice Institute at Dover High School. This is a premier …

Jackie Wilson, director of the UD’s Delaware Academy for School Leadership and assistant professor in the School of Education, recently appeared on the National Governor’s Association’s new Education School Leadership podcast series. In this episode, Wilson shares her expertise and insights on the value of school leadership and strategies that governors and state …

There’s a very good reason why 94% of undergraduates majoring in elementary teacher education (ETE) at the University of Delaware are employed as elementary, middle school or special education teachers after graduation. In addition to traditional classroom learning, ETE majors spend much of their degree program engaged in extensive field …

As the norms of American families have changed, so too has fatherhood. It’s become a more engaging and dynamic responsibility. No longer the sole breadwinner in many families, many dads nowadays are fulfilling household roles that their own fathers did not. This expectation for fathers to be more involved in …

2019 Alumni Award Winners On June 7, 2019, CEHD presented three awards during our Alumni Weekend reception. These awards recognize alumni for their remarkable contributions to the community and commitment to making a difference in people’s lives.   Shelby Dorr The 2019 Excellence in Education Award went to Shelby Dorr, …

During the fall semester of 2017, Mckenna Winnie, a human services major in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, was just starting her sophomore year at the University of Delaware. To that point, her college career was proceeding according to plan. Because of AP credits that carried over …

In today’s political climate, marked by the Black Lives movement and other protests, conversations about race are difficult to have, especially as social media often fuels racial tensions rather than fostering productive dialogue. “In lives dominated by the isolation and polarization of social media, college classrooms are fast becoming rare …