Early Childhood Education majors Isabella Whitmore and Callie Wright, under the mentorship of Dr. Dawnita Gallo, recently published a manuscript in the open-access journal Essays in Education. Their article, Science Learning Centers in Early Childhood Classrooms, builds upon a poster they presented at the Spring 2025 Student Academic Conference. Whitmore and Wright conducted an extensive review of literature examining how […]
Keri DeSutter, School of Teaching and Learning, has been selected as a member of PELSB’s Special Education Licensure Advisory Group. The advisory group will meet once a month throughout the academic year to discuss special education licensure and make recommendations to the Board.
Through its new Institute of Applied AI, Moorhead is reshaping the way professors teach and students learn. Dr. Julia Poplin, one of five AI Faculty Fellows, is using AI to re-create project-based assignments, increase critical thinking, and remove learning barriers. “We’re not waiting to be told how AI fits in higher education,” Julia says. “We’re building it from the inside […]
Alumna and veteran teacher Sara Kubicek is shaping the next generation of educators by welcoming student teachers into her classroom. Fatima Alshahmani, a Moorhead elementary inclusive education major, is gaining invaluable hands-on classroom experience and inspirational mentorship. “Watching and learning have their place, but engaging with kids one-on-one and building relationships is key,” Sara says. Minnesota State Moorhead’s rigorous teacher […]
Dr. Kenneth Driggers, Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education in the School of Teaching and Learning, recently won the Social Foundations Doctoral Dissertation award from Georgia State University. His dissertation is titled Articulating the Teacher: Gottlieb, Dreyfus, and Heidegger on Language, and it can be accessed here: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/eps_diss/277/.