Virginia Dearani of Auburn, Maine is the 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development.
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Several University of Maine faculty members and graduate students presented their research at the 56th annual conference of the New England Educational Research Organization (NEERO), March 26-28 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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University of Maine College of Education and Human Development alumna Emilie Throckmorton has been named a finalist for 2025 Maine Teacher of the Year.
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It’s after the last bell at Bangor High School on a Friday afternoon and most of the students have gone home for the weekend. Kelsey Stoyanova is sitting in her classroom when a teenage boy enters.
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Bushra Amil is the 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. Her research interests include language and literacy, applied linguistics, translanguaging and TESOL. Before coming to UMaine she was an English (ESL) teacher in Pakistan. You can read a Q&A with Amil below.
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The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development’s School of Learning and teaching, along with the Maine Department of Education, are co-hosting a free screening of the documentary The Right to Read on Thursday, April 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the McIntire Room at Buchanan Alumni House.
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Marwa Hassanien, an alumna and current doctoral student at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, is one of two recipients of the university’s 2024 Maryann Hartman Award this year.
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University of Maine alumna Tanya Baker has been named executive director of the National Writing Project (NWP).
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As schools nationwide struggle with staffing shortages, two University of Maine faculty members are exploring ways to empower and elevate teachers as leaders in their schools and communities.
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Edith Berger, the 2023 Lincoln County Teacher of the Year and a two-time University of Maine alumna, and Colleen Maker, 2023 Washington County Teacher of the Year and University of Maine at Machias alumna, have been named finalists for 2024 Maine Teacher of the Year.
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