Category: School of Education

Staff members in the School of Education Extension Education department volunteered during the Meals from the Heartland 2014 Annual Hunger Fight.  This annual event packages meals to alleviate hunger of malnourished or food insecure people.  Nearly 15,000 volunteers helped package 4.3 million meals.  Kendra Colbert, Extension Education staff member stated, “I really enjoyed knowing how...

Featured in Quick Bites newsletter: Drake University Head Start has served children and families in the state of Iowa since 1975. The Head Start program is designed to promote the school readiness of children, ages birth to five years old, from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive and social/emotional competence. Head Start provides comprehensive services to...

Drake University hosted a Learning Symposium on August 15.  Faculty and staff were invited to participate in various breakout sessions focused on the topic of “Partnering for the Future.” Nine faculty members from the School of Education presented at the event on the following topics: Building Our Community One Block at a Time Judy Russell,...

Drake University is pleased to announce that Drake now offers a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) endorsement at the elementary and secondary level, as well as a professional strand.  These endorsements build upon our existing high quality math and science education courses. The course offering will provide students with additional tools to meet the expectations of...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literacy Education, Elizabeth Beschorner, recently published an article entitled, “Using the iPad as a tool to support literacy instruction,” in the publication Technology, Pedagogy and Education. The purpose of this case study was to examine how iPads could be integrated into literacy instruction in a fourth-grade classroom in ways consistent with...

Education Leadership faculty from the School of Education hosted a symposium entitled, “The Leader’s Role in Implementing Standards-Based Grading” on June 18. As educators align instruction and assessments with the Common Core standards for student learning, most find they also must change their grading policies and revise their report card. This symposium focused on how...

The Iowa Commission on the Status of Women will award the Cristine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice to United States Magistrate Judge Celeste Bremer, GR’02, at the annual Women’s Equality Day event at 10 a.m. on August 23, 2014 at the State of Iowa Historical Building, followed by a luncheon at the Embassy Suites...

The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) held its annual “Day on the Hill” in Washington, D.C. on June 11 and 12. Representatives from institutions of higher education from across the country met with senators and representatives to discuss upcoming legislation that addresses teacher preparation programs. The AACTE’s Iowa chapter received a grant...

  On June 9, Drake alumnus Todd Shaw, BN’86 presented a gift to Dean McMahill to create the Donald D. Shaw Family Scholarship for future STEM educators. Todd and his wife, Elizabeth, chose to support this endowed scholarship to honor Todd’s father, Donald Shaw, ED’55, GR’62, a lifelong educator in the Des Moines Public Schools.  His career spanned decades,...