Education professor Doris Santoro is helping Portland Public Schools attract and retain more educators of color. Diversity among school staff is important, she explains, especially when half the students are people of color.
Read more
More than a dozen students undertake fully funded summer internships in the health care sector. Here we profile several of them.
Read more
From Denmark to Brazil, from South Korea to Spain, these scholars have secured funding to head overseas to teach English or conduct research in the next academic year.
Read more
Telingator has been awarded FAO Schwartz's two-year fellowship, which funds paid positions at nonprofits for recent college graduates "with leadership potential who are interested in careers in social change."
Read more
Assistant Professor of Education Alison Riley Miller takes her students into a local elementary school classroom—albeit remotely—for their 3000-level advanced seminar in education research.
Read more
Using the online tool Diverse Book Finder, Mohamed Kilani ’21 and Norell Sherman ’21 have purchased 250 new picture books about many different cultures and languages for a Brunswick elementary school.
Read more
Students in the Bowdoin Teacher Scholars program have had a double challenge this year: They've had to learn how to be teachers while also learning how to teach virtually.
Read more
Wendy Amato '91 is chief academic officer at Learner’s Edge/Teaching Channel, which offers online continuing education courses to teachers. She recently hosted a series of webinars to support educators in distance learning.
Read more
In Margaret Boyle's new class, students are teaching world languages to elementary school children in Brunswick. At the same time, they are conveying another important lesson.
Read more
This one-hour webinar hosted by the Education Department will feature Seattle educator and scholar activist Jesse Hagopian. As a key leader in the Black Lives Matter at School Movement, Hagopian has organized within local, national, and international networks to bring the uprising for Black lives into schools.
Read moreStudents are able to coordinate studies in education with the liberal arts curriculum in a variety of ways—including research, community-engaged study, and teacher preparation.