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“Do you like to make and bake cake?” Principles for Engaging Children in Early Literacy Instruction

"How to make a cake," Barbara Culatta, associate dean of the McKay School of Education, began her presentation for a recent IP&T seminar. Using, sugar, salt, plastic eggs, and baking utensils, she asked the audience to help her "make a cake" using words that rhymed with -ake. "You take the flour, and shake it into...

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Sterling Hilton Appointed New EDLF Chair

Several years before earning a PhD in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University, Sterling Hilton of the Educational Leadership & Foundations (EDLF) Department was working as a young intern at the US Consulate in Bilbao, Spain, preparing for what he thought would be a life in the foreign service. His plans changed though; in Spain...

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Joe Matthews Publishes Book on Principalship

Research shows that professional learning communities improve student learning, and effective principals have crucial roles in developing them, according to Joe Matthews, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations. He and a colleague, Gary M. Crow, recently published a book titled The Principalship: New Roles for a Professional...

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