The Neag School of Education conducted an opening reception of the Implicit Bias Exhibition at the Homer Babbidge Library on the University of Connecticut Storrs campus.

Ridgefield Assistant Superintendent of Schools Kimberly Beck is mentoring with Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, this school year through the University of Connecticut’s Executive Leadership Program.

Greenwich Daily Voice (Neag School alum, Lori Mulligan, was appointed summer school coordinator for Greenwich Public Schools)

“The People’s Inauguration is designed to affirm the values they believe create the UConn community that they would like to belong to,” Dr. Glenn Mitoma, director of the Dodd Center and assistant professor of human rights and education, said.

Neag School undergraduate students are part of a pilot initiative with Stamford Public Schools, where the students worked in different capacities over winter break.

“It’s easy to call overt sexism ‘sexism,’” says Laura Burton, a professor at the Neag School who studies gender issues in sports. “It’s so much more difficult when it becomes more subtle and more implicit. It’s harder to name it, and it’s harder to see it and put our finger on it.”

Not every day do you meet a young teacher that comes back to his hometown to teach and inspire youth while running his own company, but that is the case with Justis Lopez.
Lopez is a social studies teacher at Manchester High School and the owner of Just Experience, LLC.

University of Connecticut Professor Del Siegle has been named Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs for the Neag School of Education.

ACSD Express (Neag School’s Shaun Dougherty co-wrote a report with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on the impact of career and technical education programs)

“As educators, we can help our students develop their capacity to respond more creatively to uncertainty by making a few slight adjustments in our daily teaching practices,” says Neag School professor Ronald Beghetto.