School of Learning and Teaching

Flanagan co-authors dyslexia explainer for MEA magazine

Sarah Flanagan, University of Maine assistant professor of special education, and Rachel Brown-Chidsey, assistant professor of special education at the University of Southern Maine, have an article in the new edition of Maine Educator, the magazine of the Maine Education Association, titled “Dyslexia 101: Questions & Answers for Educators.”

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Media share UMaine release on accelerated program for Maine CDS employees

The Bangor Daily News, Penobscot Bay Pilot and Zipe Education shared a University of Maine news release on a partnership between the UMaine College of Education and Human Development and Maine Child Development Services (CDS) that allows CDS employees to become certified as teachers of students with disabilities, birth to age 5, in just nine months.

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Media report on UMaine alum’s Milken Educator Award

Sarah Collins (’08, ’14G), a fourth-grade science teacher at Patricia A. Duran School in Hermon, will get a $25,000 unrestricted cash prize from the Milken Family Foundation, which hands out the awards — sometimes called the Oscars of Teaching — to educators who inspire and uplift, and make a profound difference for students, colleagues and communities.

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