by kaylasharp | Feb 5, 2015 | Alumni Accolades, Alumni Notes, Newsmakers
David Fields, a 2008 M.Ed. graduate in social studies education, has been named the Clay County (Fla.) School District’s Teacher of the Year. Fields has been teaching advanced placement U.S. history and American government at Orange Park High School for the past seven...
by kaylasharp | Aug 13, 2012 | Press Releases
Elizabeth Washington has been smitten with social studies and civics education since her 11th-grade American History class. She remembers dressing up as Eleanor Roosevelt for American Heritage Day as a class assignment and never looking back on her way to becoming a...
by kaylasharp | Jun 21, 2012 | Faculty Laurels, Press Releases
As part of a $3 million campaign to strengthen civic learning and involvement, UF education professor Elizabeth Washington was recently named a Knight Effective Citizens Fellow by the university’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service to help develop and test a novel...