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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

The annual CEHD Research Conference featured breaking research from UND faculty and students alike On May 16, 2023, a wealth of research and collected knowledge was all assembled in one ballroom in UND’s memorial union – in poster form. The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) hosted their annual Research Conference, a celebration of […]

The following article appeared in the Jan. 30, 2023 edition of the News and Notes newsletter of the North Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR). North Dakota, along with many other states, struggles to find teachers, especially those with science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) backgrounds. At their March 2022 meeting, the […]