Category Archives: Faculty

Call for Proposals, Faculty, General, Professional Development

2018 NCTEAR Conference: Proposals Requested

2018 NCTEAR Conference
National Council of Teachers of English, Assembly for Research
Proposals Due: September 30, 2017

Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Activism (IDEA):
Research and Practice for Success for All
March 16-18, 2018
Towson University

NCTEAR has been an open, inclusive, progressive, and friendly forum that welcomes participants from diverse research paradigms, educational practices, and ethnolinguistic backgrounds. 2018 NCTEAR would like to invite you to rethink the critical issues of inclusivity, diversity, and equity in our shared passions, dreams, and worlds of education where students, teachers, and diverse communities succeed in, through, and with our joint efforts of building the bridges.

Faculty, General, Staff

COE Calendar of Meetings Fall 2017

August 22 COE New Faculty Orientation
1:00 – 3:00 pm, PY 108
28 Classes Begin
September 11 Department Meetings (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
Graduate Directors Meeting (11:00 am – 12:30 pm) – HH 018
12 CAEP Leadership Committee (1:00 – 2:00 pm) – HH 014
TEEB Meeting (2:45 – 4:15 pm) – HH 408
18 COE Meeting (2:00 – 4:00 pm) – WVC, Ballroom A
25 College Council / Standing Committees (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
October 2 Department Meetings (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
9 Graduate Directors Meeting (11:00 am – 12:30 pm) – HH 018
College Council/Standing Committees (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
10 CAEP Leadership Committee (1:00 – 2:00 pm) – HH 014
TEEB Meeting (2:45 – 4:15 pm) – HH 408
30 COE Meeting/PLC Meeting (2:00 – 4:00 pm) – UU Potomac Lounge
November 6 Department Meetings (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
13 Graduate Directors Meeting (11:00 am – 12:30 pm) – HH 018
College Council/Standing Committees (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
14 CAEP Leadership Committee (1:00 – 2:00 pm) – HH 014
TEEB Meeting (2:45 – 4:15 pm) – HH 408
27 COE Meeting/PLC Meeting (2:00 – 4:00 pm) – UU Potomac Lounge
December 4 Department Meetings (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
11 Graduate Directors Meeting (11:00 am – 12:30 pm) – HH 018
College Council/Standing Committees (2:00 – 4:00 pm)
Last Day of Classes
12 CAEP Leadership Committee (1:00 – 2:00 pm) – HH 014
TEEB Meeting (2:45 – 4:15 pm) – HH 408
19 Last day of exams and the semester
COE Commencement Reception (4:00 – 5:30 pm) – UU Chesapeake
20 COE Commencement – (10:00 am) SECU Arena
Faculty, General, Staff

School Supply Drive

The College of Education will be participating in The Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools Supply Drive.

From now until August 13th, we will be collecting school supplies.  Donations can be dropped off in Psychology 304, or you can order school supplies online and have them delivered to us at:

Towson University
College of Education
8000 York Road
Towson, MD 21252-0001

The most-needed school supplies are: folders, composition books / notebooks, pencils, crayons, highlighters / markers, glue sticks, scissors, backpacks, binders, pens, Post-it Notes, and primary journals (composition books that include space for drawing).

If you have any questions, please contact coe@towson.edu, or 410-704-3601

Thank you for your contributions!

Faculty, General, Professional Development, Special Events, Students

Envisioning Equity in Greater Baltimore Classrooms

Join Towson University and other education stakeholders for Envisioning Equity in Greater Baltimore’s Classrooms: A gathering hosted by Towson University’s College of Education.

From tackling the ways in which implicit biases affect systems, practices, and how we approach our work with children of color to exploring promising practices that promote equity, we will use this day to recognize the challenges and focus on the assets of the children and their communities to guarantee future student success.

Noted social critic, public intellectual, and science advocate Dr. Christopher Emdin will serve as keynote speaker. Emdin is a leading researcher in Hip-Hop, science, and education, whose commentary on issues of race, culture, inequality, and education have appeared in dozens of influential periodicals.

West Village Commons
Saturday, October 7, 2017
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Link to Register

Faculty, General, ILPD

Announcement regarding the Chairperson for the Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development

Dr. Diane Wood is completing her last year as Chairperson in the Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development.  Diane has been in the field of higher education for over twenty years, having held previous appointments at the University of Southern Maine, where she was Diversity Scholar for two years, and George Mason University.  Her scholarship focuses particularly on the development of professional teaching cultures, those that foster teachers’ engagement in collaborative and critical dialogue, reflection, and inquiry and on the development of school cultures that nurture student learning, development, and well-being.  Currently, she is engaged in small studies of Baltimore County schools successfully working with students in high poverty neighborhoods and on a larger study of the resilience and longevity of the National Writing Project as a professional development network for teachers.  As chairperson, Diane led the department in major redesign of the curriculum in response to new standards while maintaining an enduring commitment to equity and diversity.  She serves as the leader for the college “Leadership Goal”.  We will soon begin a national search for her replacement to begin in the 2018 school year.

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Ron Thomas has agreed to serve as the Interim Chairperson for the 2017-2018 school year.

Dr. Thomas has a long connection with the College of Education and is celebrating the 50th. year of his B.S. degree from Towson State College.  He also received his Master’s degree in Secondary Education from Towson University and his Ph.D. in Curriculum Theory from the University of Maryland, College Park.  He was a teacher and administrator in three Maryland school districts.  His last two leadership positions were as the Associate Superintendent for Instruction in St. Mary’s County and the Assistant Superintendent for Educational Accountability in Baltimore County.  He has served on the Towson faculty since 2001 and has taught a variety of school leadership courses in ILPD, both in face-to-face classes and online.  He has several publications to his credit.  His most recent article is “Data at the Speed of Teaching: Data’s Next Frontier” in the January 2017 issue of School Administrator.

Faculty, General, Professional Development

Writing Boot Camp Invitation

Writing Boot Camp For College of Education Faculty Members

June 5-9, 2017
9:00 am – 1 pm
Cook Library

  • Is another semester slipping by without you meeting your research and writing goals?
  • Do you have a research project that you have been trying to start or finish (or both)?

Then spend a week in the COE Writing Boot Camp!

This week is devoted to you writing in a supportive environment with others working toward the same goal – no workshops, no presentations, just uninterrupted work time. Group facilitation and goal-setting will be incorporated to support you in achieving your writing goal(s) for the week.

Boot Camp is open to all tenured and non-tenured professors, as well as clinical and visiting faculty.

To RSVP, email coe@towson.edu, by May 26, 2017