A $300,000 grant from Waterloo Schools Foundation will fund the expansion of a thriving partnership between the Waterloo Community School District (WCSD) and the University of Northern Iowa (UNI).
Teach Waterloo aims to diversify the K-12 teacher workforce in support of student success – research has shown that having a teacher of color in a classroom is associated with higher achievement and increases the likelihood that students of color complete high school and attend college.
A two-year, national effort led by the University of Northern Iowa, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and Universities has resulted in federal legislation introduced this week that creates a future vision for the federal role in educator preparation.
Donated by the class of 1970, the Mary Ann Bolton Undergraduate Research Award recognizes and celebrates students who have completed undergraduate research. Those who have conducted research using library materials and worked with a UNI faculty member or mentor can qualify. Full-time students from any major must have completed a credit-bearing course or faculty-mentored project. Projects must also be original work completed no earlier than spring of 2021.
Future teachers studying teaching English to students of other languages (TESOL) at University of Northern Iowa (UNI) have a new opportunity for their field experience: working with emergent bilingual students in the Storm Lake Community School District (SLCSD).
Tanner Roos, UNI alum and elementary physical education teacher, has won awards for his forward-thinking approach to physical education, but fitness has been a lifelong love for the Denison native. Today, he shares his passion for an engaging, inclusive form of PE with his Linn Grove Elementary classroom in Marion.
A new online option for the Master of Arts (MA) degree in postsecondary education: student affairs will deliver the same high-quality curriculum taught by the same dedicated faculty, with the added flexibility of an online format.
For a time when she was 11 years old, Leydi Eagan stopped talking. Her childhood dream of being adopted had come true, but traveling 2,000 miles from an orphanage in Colombia to live with her new family in Iowa turned out to be the easy part.
