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Policy and Practice Institute 2025
July 2, 2025Read moreIn partnership with the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) and the Delaware Association of School Administrators, UD’s School Success Center (SSC) and Partnership for Public Education (PPE), housed within the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), welcomed nearly 600 educators to the 23rd annual Policy and Practice Institute on …
CEHD For The Record: Spring 2025
July 1, 2025Read moreCheck out the latest issue of CEHD For the Record, the College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) internal newsletter highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and students. The Spring 2025 issue showcases diverse and inspiring work across our School of Education, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, …
CEHD In The News
July 1, 2025Read moreRead the latest on CEHD faculty, staff and programs featured in news publications. July 2025 Roberta Michnick Golinkoff There is nothing wrong with being a “beige mother”, according to children’s development specialists, News Maven, July 1 June 2025 The College School Student scientists design aquatic robots at Delaware summer …
Swimming With Sharks
June 30, 2025Read moreWading in the creek behind University of Delaware’s The College School, elementary students laughed and cheered as they met a challenge their teacher Laurie Drumm posed only a few months prior: build a robot that travels through water, mimics the characteristics of underwater animals and doesn’t scare the other fish. Through …
Research Spotlight: Eric Layland
June 26, 2025Read moreFor many communities across the nation, Pride Month is a time to celebrate the challenges that LGBTQ+ people have faced and overcome. But the month of June also reminds parents, educators and human service professionals that LGBTQ+ individuals continue to grapple with the mental health effects of social stigma, especially …
Catching Zzz
June 23, 2025Read moreAs a teenager at boarding school in China, Xiaopeng Ji remembers lying awake in her bed at night, staring at the ceiling for hours after lights out at 9 p.m. “I wasn’t a good sleeper, and I always thought it was all my fault,” she recalled. Years later, during her doctoral studies, …
Championing student speech
June 17, 2025Read moreFor University of Delaware alumnus Jon Tressler, the inspiration behind his career as a speech-language pathologist (SLP) has always been close to home — his younger sister, Hannah. Hannah has Down syndrome, but it’s never defined her. Self-determination and love from family and friends helped Hannah reach her goals, but …
Pathway to leadership
June 11, 2025Read moreFaculty at the University of Delaware are accustomed to leading class lectures and research labs — but recently 16 of them were back in the classroom as participants in the Presidential Academic Leadership Program, a new initiative designed to equip them with the foundational knowledge, tools and perspective shifts needed …
Inspiring the next generation
June 10, 2025Read moreThe daughter of a Guyanese immigrant and a mother who “believed in the magic of school,” University of Delaware alumna Maria D’Aguiar Cobb grew up knowing education could change lives. Now a third grade gifted services teacher at Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Wilmington and a recipient of the Presidential Award …
Showing Students They Matter
May 30, 2025Read moreFor University of Delaware alum Camila Polanco, EHD25, school was one of the first places where she learned how much it matters to feel seen, heard and valued—not only as a student, but as a whole person. After graduating this May, Polanco now hopes to use her dissertation work to …