Education & Leadership Spotlight

A Summer Trip That Reverberates For A Lifetime

Global Experiential Learning Courses Provide Students With Unforgettable Opportunities

By Rachel Deanne Sherman ’18 Shenandoah University’s for-credit, faculty-led Global Experiential Learning courses took students to countries around the world this summer, where they immersed…

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An Incubator for Literacy Education

Degree, Conference, Writing Project and Student Writing Effort Combine To Create a Culture of Literacy Education In Northern Virginia at Shenandoah University

For a few special moments on the afternoon of May 31, the entire student body of Winchester’s Garland R. Quarles Elementary School (GQES) celebrated inside…

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Introducing The School of Education & Leadership

A name change has been approved for the School of Education & Human Development

Shenandoah University’s Board of Trustees has approved a name change for the School of Education & Human Development, which is now known as the School…

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Education Graduate Student Wins VACTE Award 

Sujin Chung '18 Embarking On Elementary Education Career After Years In Accounting Field

Sujin Chung ’18 has received one of only 11 scholarships awarded recently by the Virginia Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (VACTE), according to Associate…

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Education News: Fall/Winter 2017

School of Education & Human Development students create Claymation videos, attend a student educators' conference and collaborate with students almost a thousand miles away

On Dec. 4, university studies students learned how to make Claymation videos using modeling clay, their iPads, Apple Pencils, and the Keynote app. The workshop,…

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A Shenandoah Story to Remember

Shenandoah's 32nd Annual Children's Literature Conference Explores The Enduring Power of Tales Well-Told

Children’s book author and the nation’s first Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jon Scieszka kicked off Shenandoah University’s 32nd Annual Children’s Literature Conference on June…

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Literacy Culture Inspires Book Dedication

Shenandoah University’s Children’s Literature Conference, the university-housed Shenandoah Valley Writer’s Project and a school devoted to literacy combine to create a story that must be told

It just had to happen at Garland R. Quarles Elementary School in Winchester, Virginia. And it just had to be connected to Shenandoah University’s annual…

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Ed Student Earns SoftChalk Recognition

Jessica Kirkland Receives Accolades for Her Lesson Plan for "I, Too: Bringing to Life the Voices of African-American Writers"

Jessica Kirkland, a School of Education & Human Development MSEd-Individualized Focus student, has been recognized by Softchalk as an honorable mention lesson plan developer. Kirkland…

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Professor Marks Unusual, Special Graduation

New high school grads head out into the world after working with Shenandoah education professor since first grade

Director of Children’s Literature Program and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction Karen Huff, Ed.D. in May met, on Shenandoah University’s main campus, with a group…

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