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Policy and Practice Institute 2025
July 2, 2025In 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 …
Read MoreCEHD For The Record: Spring 2025
July 1, 2025Check 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, …
Read MoreCEHD In The News
July 1, 2025Read 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 …
Read MoreSwimming With Sharks
June 30, 2025Wading 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 …
Read MoreResearch Spotlight: Eric Layland
June 26, 2025For 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 …
Read MoreCatching Zzz
June 23, 2025As 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, …
Read MoreChampioning student speech
June 17, 2025For 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 …
Read MorePathway to leadership
June 11, 2025Faculty 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 …
Read MoreInspiring the next generation
June 10, 2025The 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 …
Read MoreShowing Students They Matter
May 30, 2025For 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 …
Read MoreResearch Spotlight: Steve Amendum
May 30, 2025Multilingual learners (ML), or children whose home language is not English, make up about 15% of all kindergarten and first grade students in U.S. public schools. Yet, many teachers receive little preparation in ML instruction, and many feel unprepared to support their ML’s languages, cultures and immigration experiences. To support …
Read MoreLaunching engaged citizens
May 30, 2025Jasmin Bioteau attended her first University of Delaware classes virtually from home. Since then, Bioteau has built houses in Georgetown, Delaware, tutored elementary school students in reading in Baltimore, and helped farmers and restored rainforest in Puerto Rico. Bioteau, a senior honors chemistry and Spanish double major from Glenside, Pennsylvania, …
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