AJCU Education Deans Network Reconnects, Reenergizes & Reimagines Teacher Education
In addition to serving as Dean of Saint Louis University’s School of Education, Gary Ritter holds another role: chair of the AJCU Education Deans’ Network. Read on to learn more about the goals, collaborations, and mission of its members.
Creighton Educates Teachers to Serve in Catholic Schools
For more than two decades, hundreds of Catholic school teachers across eight states have received training, professional support and Ignatian faith formation through Creighton University’s Magis Catholic Teacher Corps program.
Guided by Jesuit Ideals, Boston College Strives to Prepare the Next Generation of Teachers
For Stanton E. F. Wortham, dean of Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development, BC’s commitment to formative education is a distinctive mission that undergirds the Lynch School’s approach to teacher education and preparation.
Loyola Maryland Launches Teacher Residency Program with Baltimore County Public Schools
Loyola University Maryland’s School of Education Dean, Afra Hersi, explains how a new partnership with BCPS is helping Loyola to offer an innovative teacher residency program designed to recruit and retain special educators who reflect the diversity of the school communities they serve.
LMU Dean: How Schools and Colleges of Education Can Help Assuage the Teacher Shortage
Problems and conditions faced by K-12 schools today are increasingly urgent: Estela Zarate, Dean of the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University, offers several recommendations for how schools and colleges of education can support our nation’s future teachers.
Le Moyne Prepares Teachers to Lead 21st Century Classrooms
Are Jesuit institutions particularly well-equipped to prepare teachers to lead in 21st century classrooms? Professor Andrea Tochelli-Ward of Le Moyne College believes so: she has witnessed it firsthand.
Government Relations
What kind of impact can a teacher make on a student? A significant one. According to one recent study, “Teachers matter to student achievement more than any other aspect of schooling.”