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Did you know ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ has a new Early Childhood Education program?

A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will bolster the number of math and science teachers ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ graduates in the years ahead through a partnership with the Alamance-Burlington School System.

Glenda Crawford, education professor and director of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ teaching fellows program, was selected to be a 2011 Wye Fellow with the Aspen Institute and traveled to Maryland for the Institute’s annual faculty seminar, July 16-22.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ President Leo M. Lambert announced this week a special campus initiative to collect and distribute school supplies to hundreds of homeless children in Alamance County and to children at a school in Afghanistan who struggle for access to basic educational materials.

Thirty-nine students in the Master of Education program received their ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ degrees Saturday morning in a Commencement ceremony featuring a keynote address from professor Judith Howard, the longtime director of the education graduate program who retires this month after serving the university since 1993 as a teacher, researcher and mentor.

Forty first-year Doctor of Physical Therapy students joined 26 elementary children on July 14 for a morning of fun and physical activity as part of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Summer Learning and Enrichment Academy, a partnership between ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ and the Alamance-Burlington School System that focuses on helping exceptional children in grades K-8 develop and maintain academic and behavioral skills they need to be successful in their learning.

"Valued Voices," a play written by Jean Rattigan-Rohr, associate professor in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's School of Education, will be featured in The Reader’s Theatre of New Works section of the 2011 National Black Theater Festival. The performance will be at 10 a.m., Aug. 2nd, in the Gaines Ballroom I – Embassy Suites Hotel, Winston Salem, N.C.

It’s no longer enough to teach reading, writing and arithmetic. Teachers must also emphasize “the four Cs” - critical thinking, creative problem solving, collaboration and communication, said Michelle Shearer, the 2011-12 National Teacher of the Year who addressed hundreds of North Carolina Teaching Fellows visiting ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ for a weekend conference for college seniors throughout the state studying to be educators.

The youngest scholars spoke on the habits of highly effective teenagers, while those a year older focused on how the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy has changed their lives. The eldest of the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy students who presented to classmates, parents and educators on Friday evening? They read from the first drafts of admissions essays that will be used this fall to apply for college educations many once thought were out of reach.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ will revise its Teaching Fellows program following recent action by the North Carolina General Assembly to phase out funding for the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program. The new ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ fellows program will recruit outstanding students nationally as well as those from North Carolina who want to pursue careers in education.