Boston Public Schools
Empowering Students to Plan for Their Futures
Educators play an important role in setting students up for future success—among other things, they foster social emotional skills, help with career exploration, and support executive functioning. And these are just some of the ways they support academic growth, self-awareness, and identity formation, all in service of connecting students to a brighter future. For this […]
How Strong School Leaders Drive Student Success
High-quality school and district leadership are a critical part of student success. But developing and sustaining effective leaders can present challenges as leaders navigate growing demands and competing priorities. So how can research and practice intersect to support the development of effective leaders? For this Conversations with the Dean session, Dean Penny Bishop is joined […]
Setting Students Up for Success
With access to tutors, internships, and other resources, students from middle- and upper-class families often have a leg up when it’s time to prepare for higher education and the working world. On the other hand, many first-generation and low-income students lack access to these benefits and find themselves struggling to keep up in both college […]
Improving Teaching for English Learners
A five-year grant will support the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being at BU Wheelock in studying ways to improve the quality of teaching for young English learners. The Nuestros Niños project will work with Boston Public Schools’ Universal Prekindergarten Program, ABCD Head Start in Massachusetts, and school districts in Colorado to provide professional development to […]
BU Wheelock’s Upward Bound Hosts Students for College-Prep Program
Seventy students from public schools throughout Boston and Chelsea participated in a second summer of virtual programming hosted by BU Wheelock’s Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math Science programs. The theme for this year’s program was “Are You On? Building Effective Communications Skills.” In addition to their academic courses, participating students took part in enrichment […]
BPS Community Scholars Volunteer to Make a Difference
This fall, more than 175 Boston Public Schools (BPS) Community Service Scholars completed over 3,500 hours of volunteer work in the local community both virtually and in-person. They served in a range of community-based settings, including healthcare centers, nonprofit organizations, and schools. BPS Community Service Scholars receive full financial aid without loans and a full-time […]
Study Explores How Youth Mentors Facilitate STEM Learning, Teaching, and Doing
BU Wheelock faculty members Eli Tucker-Raymond, Maria Olivares, and Kate Frankel have been awarded a three-year grant through the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources Core Research Program (ECR) to study how acting as peer mentors helps youth develop relational and personally meaningful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) identities. The project will run […]
BU Wheelock Joins AACTE to Address Shortage of Special Education Teachers
Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development has joined a team of 11 peer colleges and universities collaborating on a project led by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) that seeks to examine ways of helping school districts address the critical need of recruiting and retaining special education teachers. The Reducing the […]
Partnership with Boston Debate League Receives Funding from Chan Zuckerberg
A new partnership between the CERES Institute for Children and Youth at BU Wheelock, the Boston Debate League (BDL), and the Henderson Inclusion School in Boston received funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This is one of nine grants announced by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative this week for teams of educators and researchers working together […]
Elementary Education Students Participate in “A Queer Endeavor”
BU Wheelock undergraduate and graduate students whose class meets once a week at the William Monroe Trotter School in Dorchester to teach Language Arts and Science recently attended a workshop presented by Sara Staley and Bethy Leonardi, who led “A Queer Endeavor,” an initiative focused on supporting teachers and school communities around topics of gender, […]