The past year has been a busy one for the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, with numerous stories of innovation, research, service and outreach by our students, faculty and staff. As we look forward to 2026 and another year of accomplishments from our college community, we wanted to highlight stories featured on […]
Read more
Jon Doty, assistant superintendent of RSU 34, the school district for Old Town, Alton and Bradley, received the inaugural Robert A. Cobb Award for Extraordinary Service to the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine.
Read more
This post originally appeared on the Rural Schools Collaborative website. It has been republished with permission. Amidst an unseasonably warm fall week belied by blazing fall colors, the RSC team recently returned from an inspiring and exciting trip to Orono, Maine. RSC’s New England regional hub, led by the University of Maine, serves as a […]
Read more
Penny Bishop, dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine, spoke to News Center Maine about an educator accelerator program at RSU 34 in Old Town.
Read more
Penny Bishop, dean of the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, was interviewed by WFVX-TV (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) about the educator accelerator program in RSU 34 (Old Town, Alton, Bradley) that pays preservice teachers to work in classrooms as paraprofessionals and substitutes.
Read more
University of Maine graduate student and alumna Maylinda Boynton of Belfast, Maine learned a lot about performing arts at UMaine.
Read more
Preservice teacher candidates from the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development will put some of what they are learning in their literacy methods courses into practice 5–6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 at literacy night at Old Town Elementary School.
Read more
The Maine Department of Education recently shared a story in its online newsletter about an Old Town High School senior who overcame reading and writing struggles as a young student with the help of Reading Recovery.
Read more
The Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision (COPIS) has awarded its annual Arthur Blumberg-Edward Pajak Award to Jon Doty, who earned his Ed.D. in educational leadership from University of Maine in May 2018.
Read more
Over the past two years, and continuing this spring, University of Maine faculty, staff, and undergraduate students have worked collectively with local K-8 schools to promote a broad kind of inquiry about the physical and social world around them through geographic awareness and global literacy events.
Read more