COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

The College of Education comprises the departments of Elementary, Literacy, and Special Education; Leadership Studies; and Teaching and Learning. It also houses the Office of Candidate Services, the Mashburn Center for Learning, the Child Study Center and the Technology Learning Center. The College of Education maintains its role as a leader in providing a premier training environment for those in the education field. The college continued its 1:1 iPad Mobile Learning Initiative in middle level, elementary, literacy and special education, and select secondary education programs, which has contributed to a reduction in the number of textbooks students purchase. The college also continued its community outreach efforts. The Mashburn Center for Learning collaborated with Education Service Cooperatives and various school districts to provide more than 40 professional development sessions to Arkansas teachers, UCA faculty and other Arkansas educators. The college also conducted Cultural Proficiency Field Trips to schools outside of its placement range to allow candidates to gain field experience. Schools were selected for their diversity and exceptional educational practices.

HIGHLIGHTS ◊ The Arkansas Department of Education’s

Division of Elementary and Secondary

Education accepted Leadership Studies’

Instructional Technology Online

Teaching Concentration for the Online

Teaching Endorsement. This is the first — and currently only — program of its kind in Arkansas. ◊ Graduate Joel Lookadoo was named the 2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year.

A 2013 graduate, Lookadoo is an instructional facilitator at the Don Tyson

School of Innovation in Springdale. ◊ College faculty organized the Media and Literacy Summer Conference held in July 2019. The conference offered

innovative ideas for school media, library and literacy teachers. ◊ Through a generous gift from the

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, faculty experienced six months of the

Disruptive Educational Equity Project, which provided intensive professional development related to race and equity in K-12 schools. ◊ Victoria Groves-Scott, dean of the college, was re-elected to the state’s

Professional Licensure Standards Board, whose work includes conducting audits of teacher education programs and overseeing a code of ethics for administrators and teachers.

350+ $5,500

Number of high school students who attended the Impacting Tomorrow Summit for Arkansas high school students taking an Orientation to Teaching or Teacher Cadet class

Amount of money raised for the college’s Student Emergency Fund during the 2020 Day of Giving, shattering previous records

| FRESHMAN WELCOME DISRUPTIVE EDUCATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT