Boston Public Schools
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, […]
Boston Public Schools & BU Wheelock Launch Partnership
Beginning this fall, Boston Public Schools (BPS) employees will have access to discounted tuition rates when pursuing a master’s degree, certificate of advanced graduate study (CAGS), or graduate certificate at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. The partnership is designed to meet the goal of improving professional growth and development opportunities for […]
New Community Partnership Forged with Boston Public Schools
Assistant Professor of Special Education Elizabeth Bettini is part of a team that has been conducting research and providing professional development at McKinley Middle and McKinley Preparatory High School, two Boston Public Schools serving students with emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD). Bettini and fellow 2017 IES Grant Recipient Lindsay Fallon of UMass Boston have teamed […]