Category: School of Education

SOE Curriculum Library, May 16 at 11 am

Mary Middleton, Accounting and Human Resource Manager for Drake Head Start, was honored with the Spotlight Award during All Staff Council's Best in Show event.

There was a time long ago when school administrators spent their time on education. They set curriculum, reviewed textbooks, evaluated teachers and explored ways to inspire students. Nowadays, administrators spend their time fretting over balance sheets. The state is short on money, so schools are short on money. This caused Rick Rubino to open his...

From Times Delphic writer Emily Krstulic Two middle-aged men sit at a round table among rows of low bookshelves. One man, with graying hair and a faded John Deere hat, slowly reads a list of sentences from a spiral notebook, stuttering over the word “splattered.” His tutor, a younger man in a blue polo, wears...

Drake University Head Start participated again this year in Kidsfest at the Iowa State Fairgrounds from March 5th through the 7th. The booth at the event showcased some of the types of activities that would occur in a Head Start classroom. This year’s event was as successful as previous years as over 70 families indicated...

The goal of the practicum experience is to provide Drake students with a first-hand look at education today.

Olmsted Center at 7 pm

Students in Adjunct Professor and Juvenile Court Judge Celeste Bremer's ALOP class helped with the program which donates books for children visiting prisoners in the county jail.

Amy Hanson, Grace Higdon and Sue Miller, and Georgia Sheriff of Drake University Head Start, along with Anne Murr from the Drake Adult Literacy Center, attended the SPARC Literacy Training in Lisle, Illinois from March 1st through March 4th. This is the third module of this training, which focuses on strengthening literacy among Head Start...

The School of Ed has 53 students who are finishing their student teaching and will graduate in May or August. 14 MAT’s – Graduate Secondary 5 MST’s – Graduate Elementary 16 Undergraduate Secondary 15 Undergraduate Elementary 3 Music Education