Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education

Anthropology students Clementine Wall and Sierra Raimondi and education student Erin Deans presented their research at the Appalachia Studies Assoication conference in Dahlonega, Ga., March 19-20.

Joan Barnatt's presentation, Inquiry on Inquiry: Practitioners' Research and Students' Learning, was part of a special session on teacher reflectivity in theory and research.

Bird Stasz, Sierra Ramondi (senior anthropology) and Erin Deans (senior Teaching Fellow elementary education) presented the results of their research, “A good idea but: Vanishing rural schools in Appalachia.” The research, funded through summer research funds and sponsored by PERCS, is an ethnographic study of two rural schools in Macon County N.C., one bound for consolidation and one not bound.

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, a national expert on teacher education research, comes to Elon University on March 10 for an evening lecture that explores a current school focus on testing, and how educators can use their teaching in the service of social justice.

Children’s book author Jane Belk Moncure is seeding an early childhood collection for the School of Education at Elon University with a substantial donation of her popular books for preschoolers, which will be housed in the Curriculum Resources Center to support a future degree program in early childhood education.

An Alamance County family has donated to Elon a quarter acre next to the northern edge of campus near Rhodes Stadium, where a two-room wooden building first opened before the Civil War still stands as one of North Carolina’s original public school facilities.

Due to local school system closings in Alamance, Guilford, and Orange Counties, Spring Semester 2010 Cooperating Teachers will not be expected to attend the Student Teaching Orientation on Monday, February 1.

A paper co-authored by School of Education associate professor Jean Rattigan-Rohr was published in the current issue of The Journal of Teacher Education.