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App State hosts High Country MATHCOUNTS Competition
Mar 21, 2023

On Tuesday, February 21, Appalachian State hosted the High Country Chapter Competition of MATHCOUNTS. MATHCOUNTS is a national mathematics compet...

RCOE Hosts an Evening with North Carolina’s Award Winning Educators on April 4, 2023
Mar 17, 2023

The Reich College of Education (RCOE) presents “An Evening with North Carolina’s Award Winning Educators” professional development opportunity.&...

Patton Band Director Chad Higdon is pictured with some of his students from The Patton High School Panther Regiment on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory.

Burke County band director wins prestigious regional award
Mar 9, 2023

Congratulations to music education alum Chad Higdon '96!Patton High School Band Director Chad Higdon has received the Award of Excellence by the North...

Children's Literature Symposium

2023 Children’s Literature Symposium returns April 1
Mar 6, 2023

The sixth biennial Children’s Literature Symposium is returning to Appalachian State University on April 1. This year’s event features award-winni...

Dr. Dominique Hammonds receives award.

Dr. Hammonds Receives Devoted Service Award from NCCA
Mar 6, 2023

Dr. Dominique Hammonds, director of the clinical mental health counseling graduate program and associate professor in the Department of Human Developm...

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Students and Faculty Present at the 2023 North Carolina Association for Research in Education Conference
Mar 6, 2023

Reich College of Education (RCOE) students and faculty members gave presentations at the 2023 North Carolina Association for Research in Education (NC...

Watauga County Schools Professional Development Day

RCOE Faculty Lead Professional Development for Watauga County Schools Teachers
Feb 28, 2023

Both in the Department of Reading Education and Special Education, Dr. Kindel Nash, associate professor and Spangler Distinguished Professor of Early ...

Bloom Where You Are: Climate Resilience in our Communities

Bloom Where You Are: Educating for Sustainability in Guatemala & Appalachia
Feb 24, 2023

Marleny Rosales-Meda, Dr. María Susana Hermes, Rafael Coy Choocoj, and Dr. Anne Fanatico will present, “Bloom Where You Are: Climate Resilience in ...

App State Chief Diversity Officer, Jamie Parson, left in background, and App State alumnus Hudson Miller ’21, right in background, read “First Rain” to students at the App State Academy at Elkin in December 2022. The reading was a celebration of Jewish heritage. Miller was the former president of App State’s Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. Photo submitted

App State Office of Diversity brings monthly read-alouds to lab schools
Feb 23, 2023

This academic year, App State’s Office of Diversity has begun monthly read-alouds with mini-Mountaineers at the university’s two la...

Rachel Wilson and Jennifer Luetkemeyer

Mentoring Initiatives in the RCOE Continue to Grow Under New Leadership
Feb 10, 2023

Dr. Rachel Wilson, a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been named the Reich College of Education’s (RCOE) Faculty Fello...