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Founded in 1984, TED – which stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design – events feature a diverse array of speakers from varied backgrounds and areas of scholarship. These speakers share knowledge, ideas, and connection through storytelling. Sometimes information gleaned through a TED Talk can be life-altering for the right recipient. If you’ve seen a TED […]

The following post was written by Komal Mangle on behalf of the CEHD Student Council. She has served as the council’s president since its formation in 2025. A door is always open. Have you ever heard a classmate say, almost in a whisper, “I wish I’d known about that sooner”? The assistantship was quietly filled. […]

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 […]

Teachers, educational researchers, and two retired professors. A principal and an assistant superintendent. A director and a COO in STEM. A nurse. A poet. A former SPED and PE instructor. A Fulbright scholar and a former North Dakota state senator. What do these accomplished individuals have in common? They are all esteemed alumni who are […]

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 […]

CEHD students experienced place-based science learning focused on bird migration Science learning is an important part of the curriculum for all PreK-12 students. That foundational learning begins at the elementary level. Recently, a group of future elementary school teachers took an extra step towards expanding their own science understanding through place-based learning in the Red […]

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 […]

  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 […]