College of Education News

May 2013

Honorary doctorates awarded to Beasley, Bodenheimer and Carle

Three individuals with close ties to Appalachian State University received a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa during May commencement. They are George G. Beasley of Naples, Fla., F.P. Bodie Bodenheimer of Greensboro and Eric Carle of Blowing Rock and Tavernier, Fla. [more]

Watauga County Teachers of the Year all RCOE graduates

From left, Tiffany Reece, Jenny McCourry, Donna Greene, Jamie Dale, Meghan Mixon, Susan Trew, Klay Anderson, Gina Holste, and Lindsey Wilson. Photo by Watauga County Schools. All nine Watauga County Teachers of the Year for 2013-14 are graduates of the Reich College of Education, the second straight year RCOE alumni have swept the school system's top teaching honors. Gina Holste, a third-grade teacher at Valle Crucis Elementary School, was named the Watauga County Teacher of the... [more]

Obama honors local teacher Darcy Grimes

N.C. Teacher of the Year Darcy Grimes meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on April 23. [more]

April 2013

Pakistan Exchange Program

See the video below which chronicles the recent Pakistani exchange program that brought a group of students and teachers from Pakistan to the RCOE; the participants worked with faculty and students in our programs, spent time in local schools, interacted with parents and the community; a similar exchange occurred with a number of our people going to Pakistan to meet with the teachers and become more familiar with the curriculum and educational system of Pakistan. This partnership is envisioned... [more]

Mountaineer Summer Reading Program

The Mountaineer Summer Reading Program is a collaborative effort between Appalachian Athletics and the Reich College of Education. Since its beginning in 2007, the program has continued to grow stronger each year, supporting and encouraging literacy among students in first through eighth grades in the ASU Public School Partnership. Mountaineer Readers 2013 will begin soon, with opportunities for participation from all Partnership schools. Students in kindergarten through seventh grades, in... [more]

February 2013

Dr. Sammie Garner named "Professional of the Year"

Dr. Sammie Garner, faculty member of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, was recently recognized as the "Professional of the Year" at the 2013 Annual Conference of the North Carolina Association of Family & Consumer Sciences held at Wrightsville Beach, NC February 22-24, 2013. The award recognizes outstanding performance and service in the field of Family and Consumer Sciences. [more]

Pakistan and the Partnership Schools

Arshad Bashir Mirza one of our doctoral students, and Linda McCalister, director of the ASU-Public School Partnership, John Spagnolo (Dean's Office) and Jesse Lutabingwa (OIED), along with teachers and principals from three of our Partnership schools are currently in Pakistan discussing ways that we can work with schools in Pakistan and the Partnership schools to promote greater international understanding; the project was initiated by Arshad. [more]

December 2012

Passing of Leigh Cooper Wallace

We are saddened to inform the RCOE community of the passing of our colleague Leigh Cooper Wallace, adjunct instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Leigh also taught and coached at Watauga High School for over ten years. She will be greatly missed by family, friends, students, and colleagues. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Hampton Funeral Home in Boone. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 19th at Watauga High School. Funeral service will... [more]

Valdese students host international visitors

Fifth-grade students at Valdese Elementary School played host to some Pakistani visitors this week, and the cultural exchange was almost entirely made possible by Arshad Bashir, a Fullbright scholar at Appalachian State University. [more]

August 2012

New Graduate Cohort in Child Development: BK

A new cohort of 24 graduate students working on their Master's Degree in Child Development: Birth through Kindergarten began meeting Fall 2012 at the Hickory Center. [more]
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