From creating lessons for students at Rogers Elementary to traveling with the basketball team as a member of the Big Red Basketball Band, Rosamaria McMahon stays busy and dedicated to her work at IU.
The prestigious Outstanding Future Educator Award given by the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to teacher candidates who excel academically and in student teaching, and show excellent professional promise.
If you visit the Campus Cafe in the Wright building, you’ll find four flavors of Teatulia tea available for purchase. In March over spring break, three IU students and two staff members traveled to Bangladesh, where they visited the tea garden that tea is sourced from.
Last month, students from the special education program came together in a research symposium that showcased their important work. The annual event included poster sessions and oral presentations from several students.
Jessica Nina Lester is the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Division 5 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring in Qualitative Inquiry Award.
As policymakers and members of the media become more reliant on thought leaders and other opinion-shapers of public policy, a new report from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy cautions that some of the most influential figures at research organizations have little to no expertise or training on the issues they speak on.
The IU School of Education has been recognized again as one of the best graduate schools in education across the country by U.S. News and World Report’s 2024-2025 “Best Graduate Schools,” with eight graduate specialty programs ranked in the top 20.
The total solar eclipse approaching April 8 is providing a unique learning opportunity across the state, and Indiana University educational science programs in Indianapolis and Bloomington are preparing educators and students for this astronomical event.
A new installation has gone up in the Atrium of the Wright Education Building, bringing even better technological capabilities to the IU School of Education community. The IQ-Wall is a large format, ultra-high resolution, tiled video display system developed by the UITS Advanced Visualization Lab.
Vesna Dimitrieska, coordinator of global education initiatives at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and School of Education, has received the 2024 Central States Paul Simon Award for her work advancing world language education in Indiana.
Myeshia Price has won the Rosalind Franklin Society Special Award in Science for contributions to transgender health. This award is given to the best paper of the year by a woman or underrepresented minority in each of the Mary Ann Liebert Inc. journals in health, medicine, and biotechnology.
Six teams of IU School of Education students spent last month engaging in meaningful research and interacting with statewide education professionals about a real-world education challenge: confronting the teacher shortage in Indiana.
Patricia Kubow, Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Seonmi Jin, Ph.D. candidate, Higher Education and Student Affairs, have been selected for the 2024 Best Paper Award for Research on Teaching Comparative and International Education.
The project, a partnership between the IU School of Education working with the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center (IUSCCC), has a big goal: provide cancer research pathways for students from underrepresented populations in a manner that ultimately increases the quantity of and diversity within the biomedical workforce.
The project, led by IU School of Education professor Carmen Medina, will help pre-service and early-career elementary teachers in Puerto Rico acquire essential tools to bring cultural relevance to their curricula and foster critical literacy.
Jillian Kinzie has won the George Kuh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and/or Research from NASPA. Kinzie said working with Kuh to discover and document educational effective practices at colleges and universities and to shape and problematize student success in college has been central to her career in higher education.
Last fall, Kaia Krejci became the first student placed in Mexico as part of the Global Gateway for Teachers program. Krejci worked at La Palapa in Todos Santos, Mexico, where she taught English to Spanish native speakers.
The next time you find yourself on the second floor of the Wright Education Building, you’ll see two new portraits of Martha Dawson and Elder Watson Diggs. The portraits are an important step to recognizing those who contributed in a meaningful way to the School of Education.
Chris Lubienski has been selected as a 2024 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. The AERA Fellows Program honors scholars for their exceptional contributions to, and excellence in, education research.
Myeshia Price, associate professor in Counseling and Educational Psychology, has been nominated for an award recognizing an article they wrote for Time magazine.
In honor of Women’s History Month, the newest edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education highlights 40 women who have made a difference by tackling some of higher education’s toughest challenges, exhibiting extraordinary leadership skills, and making a positive difference in their respective communities.
Four specialty master’s programs at the IU School of Education have been recognized by the 2024 U.S. News and World Report Best Online Program rankings.
Oscar Patrón has been awarded a grant from the Spencer Foundation for his project, "Exploring Institutional Agents’ Leadership Approaches and Racial Equity Orientations: Supporting Black and Latinx Students in Higher Education.”
Theresa A. Ochoa and Sandi Cole have both been recognized with teaching awards from Indiana University. Ochoa will receive the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award, while Sandi Cole will receive the Part-Time Teaching Award.
The history of the IU School of Education has been told for the first time through a new book. Written by Frederic Lieber, “A Disciplined Mind and Cultivated Heart: Indiana University School of Education at 100” tells the rich, illustrated history of the state’s leading research and teacher education institution.
Joel Wong has been awarded the IU Asian Culture Center’s Distinguished Service Award. Wong, a professor in Counseling and Educational Psychology, was recognized for support, advocacy, and engagement with the Asian Culture Center.
Last month, the AI Goes Rural team warmly welcomed 23 K-12 educators from nine different schools across Indiana to participate in "Middle School AI Explorers: Professional Development for Educators."
Andrés Pérez-Rojas, an associate professor in Counseling and Educational Psychology, received the 2024 Rising Star Award from the National Multicultural Conference and Summit.
Last semester, a diverse group of faculty from IU attended the fourth International Scientific Conference of Higher Education hosted by Santa Clara’s Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” Las Villas (UCLV) in Cuba.
Professor Keith Barton has won the Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career Research in the Social Studies Award from the National Council for the Social Studies. Barton was honored for his extensive, meritorious contributions to the body of knowledge on important issues in social studies education.
