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/.
Kayla Heller is doing it all. A mother of five and a preschool teacher, she returned to MSUM in 2016 to finish her undergraduate degree. Now she’s about to finish her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction. Kayla decided to finish her early childhood education degree after having her youngest child. Her goal was to complete her degree and show […]
People say all roads lead to Rome; for Rikki Fischer all paths led to MSUM. Rikki Fischer earned her bachelor’s in psychology here, then a master’s degree in counseling and student affairs, and then came back to be assistant professor in the School of Leadership and Learning. “MSUM sets you up for success. The resources available, support from faculty and […]
Dr. Erin Gillett, Professor of Early Childhood Education in the School of Teaching and Learning, and her colleagues from three other Minnesota Institutions of Higher Education, published an article in the January/February 2025 issue of The Reading League Journal. Titled, The Science of Reading and Higher Education: Minnesota Takes Action, the article describes the year-long professional learning community for teacher […]