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Five BU Wheelock Faculty Promoted to Senior Lecturers
Five BU Wheelock faculty members were recently promoted for their significant contributions to BU Wheelock and beyond. Aaron Brakoniecki, Jennifer Bryson, Todd Czubek, Raul Fernandez, and Mary Hughes were all... Read More
Global Conference on Sign Language Explores Acquisition and Accessibility
Researchers and practitioners—including teachers of the deaf, sign language specialists, and early intervention providers—will come together for the 4th International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition. Hosted this year by BU... Read More
Families are Already Digitally Connected—and We Can’t Ignore This Opportunity
A blog post by Nermeen Dashoush A little over a year ago, I found myself in a Zoom class with a director of preschools in Detroit, discussing educational technology. I shared... Read More
2022 BU Wheelock Forum Examines Teacher Workforce and Equity in Education
Every day, teachers make decisions that shape their jobs, classrooms, and students’ experiences. Although they seem like individual choices, these decisions are inevitably impacted by a broader context of district, Read More
Teachers Have an Important Role to Play in Children’s Mental Health
A blog post by Jennifer Greif Green A few weeks ago, one of my kids told me she had a sore throat. “Oh no, here we go,” I thought, since there... Read More
We Must Keep Striving to Do Better
A message from Dean David J. Chard I know each of you woke Wednesday morning with a heavy heart over the events in Uvalde, Texas—the horrific murders of children and adults... Read More
BU Wheelock Partners with Bahrain Teachers College for Virtual EdM
BU Wheelock announced a partnership with Bahrain Teachers College to offer the Master of Education (EdM) in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program to practicing and aspiring school leaders in... Read More
Mary Churchill Selected Fulbright U.S. Scholar
Dr. Mary Churchill, BU Wheelock’s associate dean for strategic initiatives and community engagement, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2022-2023. She will participate in the Fulbright International... Read More
Postdoc Receives $800K Kellogg Grant for Early Childhood Racial Equity Research
Dr. Nneka Ibekwe-Okafor, a postdoctoral research associate at the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED), has been awarded a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant to promote racial empathy and... Read More
Four BU Wheelock Faculty Promoted with Tenure
Four faculty members representing BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development’s Special Education, Literacy Education, Deaf Studies, and Science Education programs were recently promoted. Elizabeth Bettini, Katherine Frankel, Amy... Read More