Cato College of Education

Heather Coffey from the Cato College of Education’s Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education is this year’s recipient of the Bonnie E. Cone Early-Career Professorship of Teaching.

Cato College of Education Dean Ellen McIntyre authored a recent article that focuses on a UNC Charlotte summer reading camp, which has the potential to be a model for summer programs everywhere.

Mathematics research by one Cato College of Education professor is among scientific findings from 2017 with the potential to change world, according to publishing giant Springer Nature.

While Cato College of Education students enjoy summer break, for the second year in a row, the college and education stakeholders from across the region are working to reimagine the way those students are molded into effective teachers.

Counseling master’s student Amie Begg has received a national fellowship to support her education and facilitate her addictions counseling service to underserved minority youth.

The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) Minority Fellowship Program-Addictions Counselors (MFP-AC) is awarded annually. The program’s goal is to reduce health disparities and improve behavioral health care outcomes for diverse populations by increasing the available number of culturally competent behavioral health professionals.

Mathematics education professor Michelle Stephan and a group of Cato College of Education colleagues are among the architects of new instructional frameworks to guide math teachers in K-8 schools across North Carolina.

Diane Browder, Lake and Edward P. Snyder Distinguished Professor of Special Education, has received the 2018 Special Education Research Award from the Council for Exceptional Children. This award recognizes an individual whose research has significantly advanced the education of children and youth with exceptionalities.

As children are exposed to technology and cyber learning at a younger and younger age, there is a growing need to prepare K-12 students to navigate the digital world. The UNC Charlotte Cato College of Education has earned the opportunity to do just that by designing a cyber safety curriculum that will be implemented with teachers, technology facilitators, middle school students and parents from three school districts and a charter school in the Charlotte region.

A new study co-authored by Cato College of Education member Ryan Miller is shedding light on efforts by higher education administrators nationwide to respond to bias and hate incidents while preserving students’ free speech rights.

The Department of Reading and Elementary Education in the Cato College of Education won the Staff Council Homecoming Decorating Contest.

Rachel Pierson-Bonin, HR, was the individual winner.

The UNC Charlotte Staff Council sponsors a decorating contest during Homecoming to encourage offices/departments and individuals to display their Niner spirit.

Campus units that competed in the contest were: