Faculty, doctoral student provide professional development sessions to Peruvian teachers

Boyd Bradbury (School of Teaching and Learning), Erin Gillett (STL), Marci Glessner (STL), Kathrina O’Connell (Educational Leadership doctoral student), and Ximena Suarez-Sousa (STL) provided professional development sessions to Peruvian elementary and secondary teachers on March 7 and 8, 2019. The sessions focused on 1) Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), 2) evidence-based instructional practices in literacy (Tier 1), 3) evidence-based instructional […]

Faculty, doctoral student present at Universidad Tecnológica del Perú

Boyd Bradbury, Erin Gillett, Marci Glessner, Kathrina O’Connell (Educational Leadership doctoral student), and Ximena Suarez-Sousa presented at the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú (UTP) in Lima, Peru on March 7, 2019. The presentation introduced the audience to the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and to the process of developing local academic norms for the formative assessments measuring the basic early literacy […]

Graduate student in Teaching English as a Second Language presents at annual conference.

Kathrina O’Connell, a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language student, presented at the annual Minnesota English Learner Education (MELEd) Conference in Bloomington, MN on November 15. O’Connell’s talk, titled “Language Analysis of Leveled Readers” had an attendance of 80 people, many of whom had to stand for the whole presentation, reports O’Connell’s advisor, Dr. Linda Houts-Smith, […]