Bishop's Blog

CAEP Accredited!!!! Congratulations to all of you for the part you played in our CAEP accreditation. A special shout out to Alicia and David for their hours of work to get us to this wonderful conclusion! Although we are accredited through 2025, we will continue to pursue excellence and continuous improvement. School of Education Faculty Meeting On Tuesday, November 13 the faculty met and were updated on what's new in Canvas by Alicia Noddings. Brian Knapp and Nicole Gagnon from University Advancement talked to us about Career Services and what they are doing to help our students become ready for the workplace. We also went to the computer lab and learned about the improvements to simSchool from David Collum and Stacey Kruse from Pragmatic Solutions, LLC. Active Learning in ECED 413 & ECED 513 Kathleen Bauer says, "It remains a joy to share courses with our MBU pre-service teachers! For our most recent evening of class, we took opportunity to en...

Directors' Meeting A Directors' meeting was held on Tuesday, October 30. We reviewed student evaluation comments, the DESE 1st Year Teacher, Principal, Counselor surveys, graduate enrollment data, and graduate exit surveys. We discussed curriculum and instruction, rubrics, admissions, and advising. It was a full agenda and we accomplished a lot. MBU Alumni First Year Experience A panel discussion by four of our first year teachers from various grade levels and content areas was held on Tuesday, October 30 for all of our future teachers. The panel was very informative and helpful to those that attended. This event was hosted by the MBU School of Education Student Organizations, which is comprised of MSTA, ASCD, and Kappa Delta Pi. Alison Downey, Amanda Ward, Madeline Smith, Dana Freymuth Education Advisory Board Meeting at St. Charles Community College Tammy Cox attended the 2018 spring Education Advisory Board meeting on Thursday, November 1, at...