School of Education

Teacher Residency Partnership with VCU School of Education Established to Recruit and Prepare Teachers for Surry County  To help address the teacher shortage in Surry County, the VCU School of Education’s RTR Residency Program (RTR) announces a new $155,000 investment in an innovative, school-based teacher preparation program partnership with Surry County Public Schools. During the first […]

The keen eye of Chuck Harris is focused on his family’s legacy of dyslexia research and student support at VCU Spurred by his struggles as a youth, the successful cinematographer is upholding his parents’ commitment and philanthropy As a third-grade student, Charles A. “Chuck” Harris struggled with reading, writing and spelling. After seeing those challenges, […]

  February 8, 2023 Teacher Residency Partnership with VCU School of Education Established to Recruit and Prepare Teachers for Surry County  To help address the teacher shortage in Surry County, the VCU School of Education’s RTR Residency Program (RTR) announces a new $155,000 investment in an innovative, school-based teacher preparation program partnership with Surry County […]

News from: VCU School of Education Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) Introducing RRTC’s new Director, Wendy Parent-Johnson, Ph.D. A VCU alum, Wendy brings rich academic and leadership experience and is invigorating RRTC’s focus on impactful research and support for individuals with disabilities and their families. Wendy envisions a future of collaboration, innovation, and shared […]

Apply for one of five $1,000 competitive, new incoming student scholarships.  This scholarship is for incoming/prospective undergraduate or graduate students to any of our VCU School of Education program starting in either summer/fall 2023 or spring 2024. Funding will be distributed in fall 2023 or spring 2024 for scholarship award winners. Learn more about eligibility […]

January 2023 Signup and Confirm Dates for Link School of Education New Student Info Sessions:>> bit.ly/VCUEducationGraduateInfoSessions **Master of Education and Master of Teaching Info Sessions** M.Ed. Adult Learning – Human Resources and Instructional Design01/31 12 PM M.T. Secondary Science and Math concentrations02/02 5 PM M.Ed. Educational Leadership- Higher Education Concentration02/23 6 PM M.Ed. in Educational […]

January, 2023 Led by Al Byers, Ph.D.,  the Center for Innovation in STEM Education hosted the out-of-this-world STEM event for area students.  Supported by VCU School of Education, the center empowers students, particularly those from underserved and underrepresented populations, and the teachers who serve them to engage in high-impact trans-disciplinary STEM learning experiences and become […]

January, 2023 The NIH grant will fund a project to support health science education. Elizabeth Edmondson, Ph.D. Elizabeth Edmondson, Ph.D., research professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, was awarded a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Pathways for Authentic Teaching of Health Sciences (PATHS) project. PATHS will […]

January 23, 2023 The Regents of the University of California at Berkeley announced a Spencer Foundation $499,075 grant for “Race-conscious education policies and adaptive anti-discrimination in a divided, multiracial democracy” to a team of principal investigators, which includes Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Educational Leadership, VCU School of Education. The Spencer Foundation is a prestigious […]

January, 2023 Major Christal Corey is an RTR teacher residency alum of Cohort 4, a 3X RTR mentor (which means she has trained 3 future Richmond Public Schools teachers in her classroom), science teacher at Franklin Military Academy, a 3rd generation educator, alongside of her mother, father, and sister who are also RPS educators…and so […]