Category: School of Education

In the fall 2013 semester, School of Education counseling students engaged in a service learning project to provide personality and career assessment at Dress for Success, a local non-profit organization providing services for mostly underprivileged women in their careers. The program was well received by the participants and the organizers; counseling students are invited to...

J-Term brought a multitude of international travel opportunities to School of Education students.  Among them, counseling students were given an opportunity to travel to Kapaa, Hawaii on Kauai.  The course introduced student to the Clubhouse Model for individuals with mental illness.  They were given the chance to work in a clubhouse in Des Moines, learn...

Drake University School of Education students will be able to participate in the new Iowa Financial Literacy Academy this spring semester provided by the Iowa Financial Literacy Academy. The Academy, based on the legacy of Maddie Levitt’s financial mentorship, provides SOE  students with a chance to increase personal financial knowledge while building financial teaching skills....

The Drake University Adult Literacy Center (ALC@DU) received a grant for $5000 from the Gannett Foundation/The Des Moines Register. This grant will assist ALC@DU sustain and expand the reach of their services, provide a variety of learning options to adults in the greater Des Moines area, and support volunteers with excellent training and professional development. Many...

Congratulations to all of the students that made the Dean’s List and President’s List in the fall, 2013. Dean’s List Kaitlyn Aberson Cassandra Aerts Abbygayle Anderson Matthew Andrews Erin Andrus Joan Barry Emily Bowman Kristen Bramhall Kayla Brauer Leah Bromaghim Jessica Bruin Ellen Calder Ashley Clark-Davidson Emelia Clement Lara Cox Krystal  Cudworth Patricia DeWeerdt Kelly...

Drake University School of Education graduate, Josie Burg, MSE ’07, represented Iowa as one of this year’s winners of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. For the complete article, visit the news release from Des Moines Public Schools.

Dr. Cathy Beck-Cross, alumnus of the School of Education Doctoral program (Ed.D.), recently won the Iowa Education Research and Evaluation Association’s (IEREA) Distinguished Research Award for her dissertation work titled “Individual, Family, School, and Community Predictors of High School Male Suicidal Behaviors: An analysis of 2010 Iowa Youth Survey Data.” Dr. Beck-Cross will present her...

When Mike Woods enrolled in the Adult Literacy Center at Drake University in March 2009, his goal was to get his GED. Since he was reading at the 3rd grade level, he first dedicated himself to improving his reading skills. He spent four years (approximately 500 hours) learning word concepts, sentence structure, vocabulary, and comprehension...