Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education

Lisa Brown Buchanan, associate professor in the Watts Williams School of Education, co-presented at the 4th Annual Teaching Black History Conference in July. Carter Center’s Annual Teaching Black History Conference brings together educators who seek transformative and engaging ways to teach PK-12 Black history in both history and humanities courses.

Vice President for Access and Success Jean Rattigan-Rohr will become a special assistant to the president on June 1, 2022, and will focus on the significant expansion of the “It Takes a Village” Project.

The largest endowment gift in Elon’s history will name the university’s School of Education in honor of Vice President Emerita Jo Watts Williams ’55.

Associate Professor Jeffrey Carpenter, director of the Teaching Fellows program, and his co-authors published the article in Computers & Education Open.

Annabelle Jones, a 2019 graduate of Elon's Master of Education program, was invited to participate in a new professional learning experience alongside educators in North Carolina, Iowa and Kentucky to learn, create, and share innovative practices in social studies education.

Erika Hernandez G'23 has been invited to present her research on promoting equity in elementary mathematics at the annual Latin American Meeting of Educational Mathematics (RELME) later this month.

Williams, vice president and associate provost for inclusive excellence at Elon, was a member of the inaugural class of honorees recognized by the regional business publication.

Designed to support families in using strategies to foster their infant’s language development, Strong Beginnings for Babies focused on families of children slated to enter high-poverty schools at kindergarten or who were receiving Medicaid.

The School of Education welcomed 16 new graduate students into the revised M.Ed. program on Monday, June 14.

Elon’s renowned program for struggling young readers has received new Oak Foundation funding to serve more children over the next five years.