MERC report: Making Advanced Placement more equitable
The second report in a series on advanced coursework examines the nation’s most prominent college preparatory program. By Sara Burns David Naff, Ph.D. The Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC), a center affiliated with the VCU School of Education, released the second report in its equity in advanced coursework series titled “Analyzing Advanced Placement (AP): Making the […]
Website for provisionally licensed teachers launches today
The SPED Class Finder recommends programs and courses within the School of Education that can help fulfill licensure requirements. Monday, August 23, 2021 The VCU School of Education is launching a new website August 23 that will help provisionally licensed teachers in Virginia identify courses within the school that will help them fulfill their licensure […]
Professional learning opportunities to grow in 2021-22
SOE’s Office of Strategic Engagement expands one popular series and adds three new ones. The VCU School of Education’s Office of Strategic Engagement (OSE) will be offering a variety of professional learning opportunities in the 2021-22 academic year! Becoming an Antiracist Educator: Level 1 & 2 The Becoming an Antiracist Educator series is back for its second […]
Counselors should support social justice, study says
Two SOE counselor education students explore the relationship between social factors and mental health challenges in society. From left: Waleed Y. Sami, lead author, and Christopher L. Jeter, co-author. Mental health counselors should support movements to eradicate inequality and improve the lives of their clients and of society as a whole, according to a new […]
RTR Residency program featured in Richmond Free Press
Harold Aquino-Guzman The RTR Residency program, a program within the VCU School of Education, is featured in a recent Richmond Free Press article on Richmond Public Schools’ (RPS) highest achieving student. The student, Harold Aquino-Guzman, was George Wythe High School’s senior class president and valedictorian for the 2020-21 school year. He was also the top achieving RPS […]
SOE faculty aim to improve partnerships with new grant
Dr. Hoffman and Dr. Spence are part of a three-year, multi-university grant to improve partnerships between schools, families, and communities. By Sara Burns From left: Adria Hoffman, Ph.D. and Christine Spence, Ph.D. Two VCU School of Education professors are collaborating with professors from the University of Virginia and James Madison University to develop a suite […]
What is VDOE T/TAC at VCU?
Training and Technical Assistance Center helps improve learning and positive school outcomes for students with disabilities Phyllis L.M. Haynes, Ph.D. The Virginia Department of Education’s Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) of Virginia Commonwealth University is a project housed within the Partnership for People with Disabilities, a center affiliated with the VCU School of Education. T/TAC […]
Two first-year ACE-IT students pursue career goals
Wright Villani and Jewell Jones making use of program’s career and campus opportunities. By Sara Burns Although many first-year Virginia Commonwealth University students haven’t decided what they want to focus on for their future careers, Wright Villani and Jewell Jones have already started honing in on their professional goals. Both are in the ACE-IT in College […]
VCU, SOE commencements signal end of semester
Events mark the university’s and the school’s first in-person graduation ceremonies since December 2019 From left: VCU School of Education Dean Andrew Daire, Ph.D.; Bob and Anna Lou Schaberg; VCU President Michael Rao, Ph.D. (Tom Kojcsich, University Marketing) At the Virginia Commonwealth University December commencement ceremony on December 11 at the Stuart C. Siegel Center, Anna […]
Dr. Clay named residential fellow at humanities research center
Kevin L. Clay, Ph.D. Kevin L. Clay, Ph.D., assistant professor in the VCU School of Education’s Department of Foundations of Education, has been named residential fellow at the VCU Humanities Research Center. Clay is set to join a cohort of colleagues who will begin their fellowship in the spring of 2022. The humanities residential fellowship program […]
