Skip the tourist traps and travel like a local! How, you ask? It’s pretty simple! When choosing where to book your accommodations, focus on local establishments like a bed and…
Outreach
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This summer, the Early Learning Center hosted its first annual Early Learning Institute, Cultivating Our Natural Learning Community. During the two-day institute, more than one hundred educators from across the country participated in…
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Assistant Professor and Coordinator Grief Outreach Initiative As an intern and then as a practicing counselor, Laura Wheat noticed a lot of her young clients were grieving. The source of their grief…
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It’s no secret how important reading is in the development of young minds. So we asked three experts from the Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature to write about emerging trends in children’s literature and the increasingly popular genres of young adult lit and graphic novels.
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Kimberly Wolbers was close to getting a degree in accounting when she took time off to work with disabled individuals at Camp Courageous. There she encountered a three-year-old deaf boy who didn’t know any sign language. And neither did she.
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Michelle Kwan, the most decorated figure skater in US history, visited UT in April to speak and participate in a panel discussion with coaches from six countries as part of the Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports initiative.
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Service-learning is quite the buzzword in higher education, but it’s a practice that students and faculty in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences have been engaging in for many years. The practice aims to enhance academic learning by challenging students to apply disciplinary knowledge within the context of real-world situations.
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By David Brill We’ve all heard the proverb: “Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime.” Two…
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By Cassandra J. Sproles He was falling in too deep. School—especially a middle school—should’ve been a safe place where Danny wouldn’t have to worry about drugs or violence or gangs.…
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Since receiving a grant from the US State Department last year, the center’s Sarah Hillyer and Ashleigh Huffman have developed, lead, and facilitated programs for 125 women and girls from…