Integrating climate change into PD
August 12, 2015
MADE CLEAR is a collaborative National Science Foundation-funded project that prepares educators from Delaware and Maryland to teach about climate change. The University of Delaware has an interdisciplinary team of researchers and educators focusing on the design, implementation and outcomes of teacher professional development that helps teachers translates the science of …
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Promoting Quality Improvement for Family Child Care Providers
August 12, 2015
Stars Plus: Promoting Quality Improvement for Family Child Care Providers in QRIS using a Community of Practice Model Principal Investigator Rena Hallam, and Co-Principal Investigators Martha Buell, Myae Han and Kaitlin Bargreen have partnered with the Kentucky Department for Community Based Services University of Kentucky, Delaware Office of Early Learning …
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Summer STEM
August 12, 2015
Armando Caro, a math teacher at William Penn High School, got goose bumps following a conversation with Vatekeh Corlon, a student attending the Student STEM Summer Academy held at the University of Delaware’s Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory. During the lesson “Deflecting Hyperbolators,” Corlon exclaimed, “I now have a …
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For the Love of the Profession: Manny Caulk
August 11, 2015
Emmanuel (Manny) Caulk 1996 Elementary Teacher Education 2002 Masters of Education ASPIRE Alumni Successful or struggling, urban, suburban and rural, University of Delaware alumnus Emmanuel (Manny) Caulk has worked in every type of educational setting. “Education is my passion. I love going into a school, talking to the teachers, parents, …
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Transformational School Leader
July 30, 2015
Three time alumnus Lamont Browne, executive director of EastSide Charter School and Family Foundations Academy, has been selected to receive the Ryan Award, a national award honoring transformational school principals.
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Incentives to purchase of healthier foods
July 27, 2015
For the 47 million Americans participating in SNAP, it’s difficult for them to put healthy food on their table. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a study in July 2014 that explored incentives designed to encourage participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to make healthier food choices. Allison Karpyn, …
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Congratulations to our student awardees!
July 8, 2015
Two CEHD students, Mary Beth Elberfeld, M.Ed, and Valerie Hill, ETE, received the 2015 Autism Delaware Daniel and Lois Gray Memorial Scholarship, given annually by Autism Delaware.
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Welcome to our new leaders
June 12, 2015
On July 1, CEHD will welcome several leaders to new positions within our College. As our dean, Lynn Okagaki, begins her term as UD’s interim deputy provost, she will hand the reins over to Carol Vukelich, interim dean. We also welcome Laura Glass, Jackie Wilson and Bahira Trask to their …
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Alumni Spotlight: Kayla Vanderbeek
June 4, 2015
Alumni Spotlight CEHD has remarkable, inspiring and active alumni working in education, human development, and family services professions. Our Alumni Spotlight helps us recognize and celebrate those individuals. If you would like to nominate an alum, or answer “Ask an Alumni” questions submitted by our students, please email CEHDSocial@udel.edu. Be sure to like CEHD …
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Academy Road Closed
June 1, 2015
July 27 – Aug. 7, access to Alison Hall, Alison Hall West, Pearson Hall, 200 Academy Building and Perkins Parking Garage will be limited, as Academy St. is repaved (yay!). Both auto and pedestrian traffic will be detoured.
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2015 Events, Awards and Celebrations
June 1, 2015
Learn more about the exciting events we host throughout the year within our college and out in the community. CEHD Celebration of Excellence On May 8, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development hosted a Celebration of Excellence at Clayton Hall. Over 200 family, friends and faculty were on-hand to offer congratulations …
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Golinkoff receives lifetime achievement award
May 28, 2015
Roberta Golinkoff, SOE professor, received the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award in May, the highest honor conferred by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), for “a lifetime of outstanding contributions to applied psychological research.”
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