A new report from the University of Maine’s Beyond Crisis Schooling project examines the unprecedented challenge of “redesigning schools” undertaken by educators for the 2020–21 school year.
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The son of the first dean of the University of Maine College of Education, Mark R. Shibles Jr., passed away August 24 at the age of 83.
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Asli Sezen-Barrie, an associate professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, has been named rotating program director of the National Science Foundation’s Division for Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL).
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Penobscot County Teacher of the Year Kelsey Stoyanova and Waldo County Teacher of the Year Hillary Hoyt, both graduates of the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, have been named finalists for 2022 Maine Teacher of the Year.
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The Ellsworth American interviewed Rebecca Buchanan, an assistant professor of curriculum, assessment and instruction in the College of Education and Human Development, about how she teaches multicultural education for a story about critical race theory.
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WMTW (Channel 8, Portland) reported on a new paper by Sandra Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality in the College of Education and Human Development, and Deborah Mitchell, a retired University of Maine police officer, that outlines the reasons many victims do not tell anyone about being sexually assaulted.
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Despite greater cultural awareness about the prevalence of sexual assault in recent years, many victims are reluctant to talk about what happened to them.
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Courtney Angelosante, a lecturer in special education in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, spoke to Centralmaine.com for a story about Maine School Administrative District 11 joining a lawsuit against vaping company Juul Labs, Inc.
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More than 4,000 students across Maine are now receiving Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) thanks to intensive professional development provided by University of Maine College of Education and Human Development experts supported by a grant from the Maine Department of Education.
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Carole Goldberg had a distinguished career at Yale University, where she worked for 25 years. She was founding director of the SHARE (Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education) Center at Yale and served as assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Before that she traveled the world, first as a teacher and later as a successful retail manager.
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