Surviving Sexual Assault
July 25, 2019
As a survivor of childhood sexual assault, University of Delaware alumna Samantha Leonard knows that sexual predators are methodical about targeting and manipulating their victims. The process is known as “grooming,” and it can last for months or years before the first instance of sexual assault occurs. Leonard experienced the …
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Teachers of the Year
July 24, 2019
Three alumni and one graduate student from the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development have been named as finalists for the 2020 State Teacher of the Year Award. The following teachers will represent their districts in the competition’s final round, with the winner named at a ceremony …
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Allison Karpyn in the Media
July 23, 2019
This Woman is On a Mission to Turn Beer into Food August 23, 2019 Food insecurity isn’t uncommon in America. Allison Karpyn says that one in six people in America don’t have enough food for a healthy lifestyle and it affects children most. She says that current benefits programs, like …
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Learning Backward
July 22, 2019
Have you ever learned something new only to realize that it’s caused you to forget something old? You’re not alone, said Charles Hohensee, associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. The phenomenon, known as “backward transfer,” is quite common, especially in math classrooms where prior …
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UD Doctoral Student Named Miss Delaware
July 19, 2019
University of Delaware doctoral student Hillary May was recently crowned Miss Delaware 2019 and will advance to the 2020 Miss America competition. May ran on a platform to destigmatize mental illness and raise awareness of resources for suicide prevention, especially among adolescents and teenagers. In 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease …
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Art alumnus brings campus to UD’s youngest students
July 10, 2019
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 …
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University of Delaware partnership supports culturally responsive pedagogy
July 8, 2019
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 …
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Edible Forest Garden
June 24, 2019
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 …
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School Leadership Conference
June 19, 2019
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 …
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Jackie Wilson Shares Expertise on New Podcast
June 14, 2019
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 …
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Training Delaware’s Teachers
June 14, 2019
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 …
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Fathering Full-time
June 13, 2019
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 …
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