Since its inception in 2014, the Dream to Teach program at Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) has introduced minority students to a profession where minorities are largely underrepresented. Dream to Teach has chapters in seven of the 10 district middle schools and all five of the district’s high schools. The Dream to Teach program introduces...
The Drake TAG online endorsement program is being extended to South Africa. Emeritus Professor Sally Beisser developed the program with Dr. Angela James, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. This partnership developed out of a Drake International Program. Service-learning projects were organized with area universities and this project took shape as a result....
Counseling Education student, Renu Suddapalli, recently presented her academic work at a conference. Suddapalli presented at the Race Challenge Conference held in October at Boston College. The theme of the 2019 conference was, “Race, Culture, & White Heterosexual Male Privilege (WHMP): Survival, Resistance, and Healing in the Current Social Climate.” The conference is sponsored by the Institute...
Sally Beiser, Talented and Gifted Professor, will be hosting a pre-conference workshop on October 13th for the Iowa Talented & Gifted Association’s Annual Fall Conference. The conference, held on October 14th-15th, will offer a variety of keynote speakers and breakout sessions to both general and special education teachers. Dr. Beisser’s workshop is centered around the...
The Rehabilitation Counseling Program offered through the School of Education at Drake University was recently rated as one of the Best Graduate Schools for Health according to the U.S.News and World Report. This ranking is based on the results of peer assessment surveys sent to administrators and faculty of accredited degree programs. Respondents rated the...
Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2019) – More than 200 advocates from 35 states traveled to our nation’s capital this week and met with more than 100 lawmakers and their staff on Tuesday, urging them to protect and invest in kids both at home and around the world. The meetings on Capitol Hill were the culmination...
Dr. Sally Beisser and Dr. Jennifer Thoma from the Drake University School of Education (SOE) are traveling to Kosovo March 1-8 in continuation of the partnership between Drake University and the Kosovo Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST). Dr. Beisser and Dr. Thoma will conduct professional development workshops in contemporary teaching methods for faculty...
Dr. Jerrid Kruse, Associate Professor of Education, was selected as the 2019 Outstanding Science Teacher Educator of the Year by the Association of Science Teacher Education (ASTE). The award was announced at ASTE’s annual international conference held in Savannah, Georgia on January 3-5. The award is chosen based on six criteria: (1) Competency in Teaching,...
This summer, approximately seventy-five k-7 graders were on Drake University’s campus for the first ever Spanish Immersion STEM camp. The students were a part of St. Anthony’s Spanish Immersion program, one of the only programs of its kind in the Des Moines Metro, where the entire school curriculum is taught in Spanish by native Spanish...