Category Archives: General

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

Faculty, General, Professional Development, Special Events

Dean’s Sabbatical Series: Sarah Lohnes Watulak

Instructor and Student Experiences of Connected Learning in Pre-service Technology Education Courses

Dr. Sarah Lohnes Watulak
May 10, 2017, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Towson Room, Cook Library

This sabbatical presentation will share emerging findings from a multi-case study conducted in Fall 2016 that examined the possibilities for connected learning as a model for the design of rich, technology supported learning in pre-service technology education courses. Themes related to the course instructors and pre-service teachers’ experiences of teaching and learning in a connected learning environment will be presented. Implications for the design of future connected learning experiences for pre-service teachers, as well as avenues for future research, will also be highlighted.

Faculty, General, Professional Development, Special Events

Dean’s Sabbatical Series: Keri-Anne Croce

Navigating Assessment with Linguistically Diverse Learners
Keri-Anne Croce

May 1, 2017, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Loch Raven Room, University Union

In this sabbatical presentation, Dr. Croce will discuss how to assess and instruct linguistically diverse students while also honoring their cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Special attention is given to students’ literacy development in the math and sciences. This book talk revolves around the idea that linguistically diverse learners may engage in critical thinking in ways that we may not anticipate. It is suggested that students who are learning in an additional language do not need to “catch up.” Assessment should instead measure the new ways that students are interacting with the world. This book helps discover the many ways to help students develop as critically thinking readers, writers, and speakers. The information contained in this book will hopefully advance a dialogue between teachers and linguistically diverse students as they read and write multiple genres together.