Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education

Freebird McKinney, who teaches social studies at Walter M. Williams High School in Burlington, N.C., is an adjunct instructor in the School of Education. 

The university's top award comes with $20,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achievements. 

Twenty-three undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Education on April 19, 2018, were inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education that promotes the highest ideals of the teaching profession.

Research from two School of Education faculty, four current students and one alum was presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in New York City.

Elon Teacher Education students co-lead a week-long STEM enrichment program at a local elementary school during the school system's spring break.

The state teaching fellows program is specifically designed to attract high-quality teachers to low-performing schools by offering an accelerated loan forgiveness schedules for Fellows who agree to teach in a low-performing school in North Carolina.

Duckworth, a University of Pennsylvania professor, co-founder of the Character Lab and 2013 MacArthur Fellow headlined Elon's annual Spring Convocation on April 5. She's the best-selling author of "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance."

Elon Academy Kappa Scholar Jenny Te Vazquez has made history by becoming the first of the program's students to be awarded the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Research from three School of Education faculty, four current students and one alum was presented at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, co-authored the article in the peer-reviewed journal Teaching and Teacher Education.