Professor Mark Shermis, former chair of education psychology at the COE, has been named dean of the University of Akron’s College of Education. He will be leaving UF and assuming his new position at the end of spring semester.
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Erica McCray, the College’s 2009 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, believes she’s doing more than teaching facts, figures and processes. She is instilling attitudes-and that is best done by example.
” I must be willing to go with my students to unfamiliar places and to denounce some of the familiar that I hold dear,” McCray says. “I teach by example; I teach for social justice.”
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Christina Hoff Sommers, author of two provocative books debunking “misguided feminism” and a prevailing view that American schools “favor boys and grind down girls,” will share her controversial views and findings in a lecture and panel discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Anonymously submitted comments on the budget discussion Feb 03, 2009 Your voice is important. Thanks for contributing comments. Feb 06, 2009 Could you please explain further why furloughs and/or salary reductions won’t work? I see states such as California are trying it as a measure to deal with the budget situation. From what I know, […]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School has hired an international expert in school architecture to help plan and design a “revitalized campus” for the University of Florida laboratory school. Now, school director Fran Vandiver seeks input from the school community and “anyone else interested in shaping the vision of a prototype, state-of-the-art campus—not only for P.K. Yonge but for K-12 schools of the future in general.”
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The National Staff Development Council recently presented its 2008 Book of the Year award to co-authors Nancy Dana, COE professor and director of the Center for School Improvement, and her colleague, former COE Professor Diane Yendol-Hoppey, for their most recent collaboration.
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Shermis named dean at Akron college
Mark Shermis
Professor Mark Shermis, former chair of education psychology at the COE, has been named dean of the University of Akron’s College of Education. He will be leaving UF and assuming his new position at the end of spring semester.
McCray named Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
Erica McCray
Erica McCray, the College’s 2009 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, believes she’s doing more than teaching facts, figures and processes. She is instilling attitudes-and that is best done by example.
” I must be willing to go with my students to unfamiliar places and to denounce some of the familiar that I hold dear,” McCray says. “I teach by example; I teach for social justice.”
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'War Against Boys': COE professors to discuss gender equity with controversial author Feb. 18
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Christina Hoff Sommers, author of two provocative books debunking “misguided feminism” and a prevailing view that American schools “favor boys and grind down girls,” will share her controversial views and findings in a lecture and panel discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
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Anonymously submitted comments on the budget discussion Feb 03, 2009 Your voice is important. Thanks for contributing comments. Feb 06, 2009 Could you please explain further why furloughs and/or salary reductions won’t work? I see states such as California are trying it as a measure to deal with the budget situation. From what I know, […]
P.K. Yonge laboratory school seeks input to shape vision for new 'campus of the future'
January 22, 2009
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School has hired an international expert in school architecture to help plan and design a “revitalized campus” for the University of Florida laboratory school. Now, school director Fran Vandiver seeks input from the school community and “anyone else interested in shaping the vision of a prototype, state-of-the-art campus—not only for P.K. Yonge but for K-12 schools of the future in general.”
Book of the Year award 'reflects' well on CSI director