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How do young children make sense of the world around them? A partnership between our College and the University Children’s Learning Center (UCLC) is exploring how nature, movement, and everyday experiences help preschoolers build skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Since 2024, CEHD faculty members Drs. Elizabeth Suazo-Flores, Amber Adgerson, and Chris McGrail […]

Pictured: a teacher at Lake Agassiz Elementary in her classroom. Credit: UND.    UND has offered degrees in teacher education since its founding in 1883 – meaning we’ve been producing and supporting teachers in North Dakota before North Dakota was even a state! (That came six years later.) The point is that we love teachers […]

THE TLC BLOG IS BACK!!! After a year off, we’re touching grass and posting again                 Alright chat – lore drop! We Have a New Student Council – and You Can Join CEHD elected its first Student Council for the 2025-26 academic year. The council is advised by […]

Putting together a professional wardrobe on a student budget isn’t easy. That’s why for the second year in a row, the Future Educators of UND (FEUND) are sponsoring a clothing drive for students who are about to begin student teaching or working in career environments. “The students had expressed perhaps a need or interest in […]

SEA OTRR event drew future education majors to UND’s campus    Teacher education and education careers were front and center at this fall’s See Education in Action for Outreach in Teacher Recruitment and Retention (SEA OTRR) event on October 9. The event drew over 100 high school students from within a 90-mile radius of Grand […]

If you were away from UND and CEHD for the summer, you may not have realized that CEHD has a new dean. Dr. Shelbie Witte, a native of Stillwater, Oklahoma, assumed the deanship of the college on July 1 of this year. The Grand Forks Herald stopped by the college and interviewed her for a […]

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 […]

CEHD was proudly represented at the 2023 UND Faculty Investiture Ceremony & Celebration. The event, which honors faculty who have been awarded endowed positions, took place at the Gorecki Alumni Center. Speakers DeAnna Carlson Zink, ’86, CEO of the UND Alumni Association and Foundation, hosted the program in lieu of President Andy Armacost, who was […]