News

Erin Gillett, School of Teaching and Learning, and her colleague Susan Pierson Ellingson, Concordia College Department of Education, have published an article in the September/October issue of The Reading Teacher, a peer-reviewed journal of the International Literacy Association. Their article is titled, “How Will I KNow What My Students Need? Preparing Preservice Teachers to Use Running Records to Make Instructional Decisions.”

Please join Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Joseph Bessie in congratulating our newly tenured and promoted faculty members, and wishing them continued success in their careers.  Read the rest of this entry →

Please join us in congratulating our newly tenured and promoted faculty members, and wishing them continued success in their careers.  Read the rest of this entry →

Drs. Layna Cole and Erin Gillett, School of Teaching and Learning, along with June Reineke, Director of the Winona State University Children’s Center, gave a presentation at the Minnesota Rural Education Association annual conference. Their session, titled “Minnesota’s Early Childhood Landscape: Lessons and Opportunities,” explored the challenges and opportunities in creating alignment among various state agencies involved in Early Childhood Education and Care.

Erin Gillett and Marilyn Labrensz, Early Childhood Education, presented at the Minnesota Kindergarten Association conference April 18. Their session, P.L.A.Y. in K: Play, Literacy And Young children in Kindergarten, shared the many ways teachers can foster the literacy and oral language development of kindergartners through dramatic play experience.

Dr. Erin Gillett, STL, presented a research poster at the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference. The poster, A Thematic Analysis of Teacher Candidate Journals within a South African Preparatory School Case Study, outlined the initial results of an ongoing research project with colleagues Boyd Bradbury and Ximena Suarez-Sousa.

Layna Cole and Erin Gillett, School of Teaching and Learning, presented a paper at the fall conference of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators in Washington, D.C. Their paper was titled, “Inside-Outside: Supporting Teachers ‘Doing’ Early Literacy with Infants and Toddlers.”