Jennifer Strange

School of Education faculty members Katie Baker, Mark Enfield, Heidi Hollingsworth and Mary Knight-McKenna were recognized on May 21 for faculty excellence at the annual school awards banquet. In addition, staff member Jennifer Fish was recognized for her promotion to associate director of Teaching Fellows. 

Allyson Golightly '13 received the 2019 Tressler Distinguished Teacher Award for having a significant impact on young people.

Associate Professors Mary Knight-McKenna and Heidi Hollingsworth co-authored two articles, along with Nicole Ammerman ’16 for one article. Both articles presented findings of research on academic service-learning in early childhood.

The School of Education hosted its annual Celebration of Student Excellence on May 6 to recognize the Class of 2019 and the students who demonstrate exceptional contributions in and out of the classroom.

On Monday, April 29th, a panel of Elon alumni shared their experiences in their first years of teaching with senior teaching candidates in the School of Education.

Cathy Bovill is a senior lecturer in student engagement and member of the learning and teaching team in the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh.

Seventeen undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Education were inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education that promotes the highest ideals of the teaching profession, on April 18, 2019.

Resa Walch, senior lecturer in wellness, was honored for her 22 years of service to Elon University by the School of Education faculty and staff on April 3, 2019, in the McBride Gathering Space. 

Kearns' research titled "Implications for elementary educators' abilities to accurately self-evaluate their mathematics teaching practices in relation to math anxiety levels" discusses the correlation and effects between high levels of female elementary school teachers and the fact that women tend to have higher anxiety levels when it comes to math. 

Kristen O'Neill's research titled, "Reading to Succeed: An examination of Interests and Motivations of Struggling Pre-Adolescent Readers," has been presented twice at the North Carolina Reading Association Conference, SURE at Elon, and most notably, at the Hawaii International Conference on Education.