Jane Neapolitan (Office of Academic Innovation) and Marilyn Nicholas (Instructional Leadership and Professional Development) presented a paper at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers Educators held February 10-14, in Orlando, FL. In their presentation titled, “Building the Future of Leadership Using Quality Matters (QM)” they described how TU’s graduate program in Educational Leadership underwent the Gold Review, a faculty-centered, collaborative peer-review of courses that uses a customized version of the QM rubric. The U.S. News & World Report 2017 America’s Best Colleges guide has ranked TU’s Educational Leadership program in the top one-third of the nation’s best online graduate education programs.
Sarah Lohnes Watulak and Barbara Laster (College of Education) published Take 2: A Second Look at Technology Stalled: Exploring the New Digital Divide in One Urban School. Journal of Language and Literacy Education (2016, December).
Barbara Laster & Carla Finkelstein (College of Education) published Professional learning for educators focused on reading comprehension. In S. E. Israel (Ed.) Handbook of research on reading comprehension, 2nd Edition. New York: Guilford.
College of Education Professor Dr. Barbara Laster was awarded a place on the roster of international experts (for literacy) by the FULBRIGHT SPECIALIST program.
