How cross-sector collaborators enabled one urban school district to create and maintain a sprawling and successful college and career readiness reform by building career academies that partnered a dozen high schools with the local business community, higher education entities, non-profits, and civic organizations.
For Marc Nachowitz, assistant professor of teacher education at Miami University, the goal of knowledge-transforming literacy is to teach students how to work with knowledge. Its about learning how to generate ideas and to ask questions, and to challenge, advance, and justify ideas through social dialogue.
Cassie Campbell is the first recipient of the prestigious Miami University Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship. She is a third-year undergraduate pursuing a dual degree in Integrated Mathematics Education and Mathematics with a minor in Creative Writing.
Its a behavior that can be so unhealthy, it is now linked to some of the worst chronic diseases. It can lead to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Even cancer. And if youre reading this, you are probably doing it right now.
Starting this fall, a new Community-based Action Project for Future Teachers (CAP) will be introduced to the College of Education, Health and Society. CAP promises to help educators become more critically-minded, culturally relevant, and better equipped to help more students succeed.
