When Professor Corrine Occhino took the helm of the School of Education’s American Sign Language program in fall 2021, three sections of ASL 101 and one section of ASL 102 were offered. Since then, ASL has been added to the languages accepted for the University’s core language requirement, and the program has doubled in size. […]
Equity Audits in School Districts: An Explainer (Education Week | April 18, 2023) In late 2020, the Baldwinsville Central School District in upstate New York began gathering data on middle school students’ participation in accelerated learning programs, which aim to provide them with access to Advanced Placement and other college-level courses in high school, according […]
The School of Education is well-represented among 2023 graduate student awards for a wide-range of research and creative work, as well as teaching, mentorship, and the Three-Minute Thesis competition, an award that encourages effective scholarly communication. Joan N. Burstyn Endowed Fund for Collaborative Research Awardees Jessica Fundalinski (with Professor Ben Dotger) Atiya McGhee, Linzy Andre […]
As part of the inclusive entrepreneurship and design course called Intelligence++, design student Rabia Razzaq G’23 spent time last year with Andrew Dingel ’22, a student who has autism. The idea was to learn about his daily routine, interests and obstacles he encounters—and come up with ideas for a product that could enhance his quality […]
Professor Joanna Masingila was interviewed for “Math Counts: Factoring Math into your Out-of-School Time Program,” a March 9, 2023, webinar produced by the You for Youth program, funded by the US Department of Education. Let’s bust some math myths! Math is essential for our students’ future success, but many educators may not feel comfortable with […]
The InclusiveU Business Engagement Group invited the local business community to the Salt City Market in downtown Syracuse on April 12, for Inclusion Works 2023. Click below to view the Photo Essay: Attendees learned about the benefits of hiring people with disabilities, met members of the Business Engagement Group, and got a chance to connect […]
Savannah Stocker ’23, an Inclusive Education and Special Education major in the School of Education and a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, is among 12 seniors named 2023 Syracuse University Scholars, the highest undergraduate honor the University bestows. The Syracuse University Scholars Selection Committee, a University-wide faculty committee, selected the 2023 scholars […]
Syracuse University School of Education Professor Michael Gill has been awarded an Engaged Communities Mini-Grant by the College of Arts and Sciences. The funding allows Gill to collaborate with Brady Farm, located in Syracuse’s South Side neighborhood, to explore how communities use food fermentation as a culture-making practice. Gill’s study addresses fermentation in light of […]
Scaling Up: Syracuse Expands Learning Simulations Clinical simulations give students a hands-on, safe learning environment to engage in interactions with a trained actor. Syracuse University just added to its 60-plus simulations with a new financial ethics simulation. (Inside Higher Ed | April 6, 2023) One educator at Syracuse University is propelling real-world learning with clinical […]
The 2023 Syracuse University Three-Minute Thesis champion is Lei Wang G’18, a doctoral student in the Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation (IDDE) program in the School of Education. She presented “Decision-Making Matters: A Learning Resources Tool to Prompt Deeper Learning” at the 3MT finals on March 3 in Bird Library. 3MT is a research communication […]
Group projects are critical to the applied learning that takes places across the Syracuse University campus, and not least to the Bioengineering Capstone Design course led by Pun To (Douglas) Yung, Associate Teaching Professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Yung’s course (BEN 486/487) asks student teams to develop real-world solutions to biomedical […]
(The Daily Orange | April 4, 2023) In 2004, Dr. Nick Walker implemented the term “neurominority.” While the term neurodivergent broadly covers acquired conditions like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the term neurominority is specific to conditions that don’t necessarily make a person’s brain different, but are still a disability. On April 4, Walker was part […]
Adrianna Kam holds a B.S. in Selected Studies in Education (2015), an M.S. in School Counseling (2017), and a CAS in School Counseling (2017), all from the Syracuse University School of Education. Currently a school counselor at Chittenango (NY) Middle School, Kam uses research and data driven assessments to help close the achievement gap through […]
Syracuse University Libraries’ Sound Beat: Access Audio has released the audio book King Arthur and the Book of Corbenic, written by InclusiveU graduate Christopher Catroppa ’22. The audio book can be found at SoundBeat.org. This retelling of the Arthurian tale portrays the mythical British King Arthur as a young man gazing into his own future […]
What is it like to be autistic and non-speaking in a world that has already made up its mind about you? On March 30, 2023, Syracuse University School of Education and the Center on Disability and Inclusion will present This Is Not About Me, a film about Jordyn Zimmerman, an autistic woman and disability activist […]
Professor Michael Gill, School of Education Associate Professor of Disability Studies and Cultural Foundations of Education, is among eight faculty members receiving a 2023 Syracuse University Graduate School Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award. The honor is presented to faculty members who have a significant, positive influence on graduate education through their commitment to […]