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Dr. Alan Bruce, CEO & Director of Universal Learning Systems, speaks at UND’s inaugural Disability Awareness Day. Photo by Kenya Zarns. On Monday, March 18, 2024, UND hosted its first-ever Disability Awareness Day at the Memorial Union. The event was the brainchild of Dr. Lee Ann Williams, program director of Inclusive Rehabilitation Sciences […]
November was surprisingly busy for students and faculty alike. Check out CEHD’s Month In Review. Nov. 30: Dr. Ryan Summers and CEHD future educators used liquid nitrogen to offer stone-cold instruction to middle schoolers From banana splits (flash frozen) to splitting atoms Nov. 30: UND Today’s story about online student Muhammad Nasir put […]
Last September, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum created the Task Force for Teacher Retention and Recruitment to address the critical and ongoing teacher shortage in the state. On Tuesday, Oct. 31, Burgum released the names of the 15 appointees who will represent the education community in this initiative. The only appointee from an institute […]
Room 5 in the Education Building was packed Tuesday night with future educators and other UND students who were there for…trauma. UND Teacher Education worked with the National Center for Safe Supportive Schools (NCS3) to present “Trauma-Informed Practices”, an enlightening and interactive presentation that challenged how attendees understood and perceived trauma. Dr. Tali Raviv, a […]
Students from all five of CEHD’s doctoral programs gathered at the Memorial Union on Aug. 16 to kick off the new Fall 2023 semester with a bang. Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development Dr. Rob Stupnisky organized the event, which included refreshments and a social hour that allowed students to network and get to know […]
On Thursday, Aug. 10, educators and education professsionals from North Dakota and Minnesota gathered at UND’s Memorial Union…to play with toys. Throughout the day, they got to play with KEVA planks, learn tabletop games, experience robotics, operate drones, and even build mini Martian rovers. Most importantly, they got to ignite a creative spark that they […]
Categories: Events
In early May 2023, the GRO.UND learning gardens in Room 22 of the Education Building hosted several dozen Head Start children over two days. The children, referred to as SPROUTS, enjoyed making flowers out of construction paper. They also learned about how plants grow through instruction and song. They even got their hands dirty […]
Categories: News, Student Recognition
In a kindergarten classroom near Sacramento, CA a child practices reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears aloud. Sometime later and 1,800 miles away, a room full of kindergartners in Grand Forks, ND listen carefully to a digital recording of that child’s voice retelling the story to them. This scenario, which took place multiple times last […]