Amanda Ferguson smiles in front of a garden.

UCF Curriculum and Instruction Doctoral Student Leads Orange County School to Prestigious Environmental Status

Amanda Ferguson played a critical role in helping Arbor Ridge K-8 School secure a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School designation...
Maria Vazquez

UCF Alumna Named First Hispanic Superintendent of Orange County Public Schools

Maria Vazquez ’95MEd ’10EdD has served as the district’s deputy superintendent since 2018...
Michele Gill

Knights Do That: The Psychology of Creating Change

Program Coordinator and Professor Michele Gregorie Gill shares a few of her favorite things that have helped her with cueing and rewarding new behaviors...
Deshawn Chapman

UCF Alum Advocates for Education Research That Centers Community Homegrown Ideas

EdD alum DeShawn Chapman collaborates with communities to build educational access from early childhood to adulthood...
MIchele Gill

UCF Education Professor Creates Women’s History One Student at a Time

Michele Gill makes an impact on the present and future by making student success and support her top priority...
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College of Community Innovation and Education Student Wins UCF 3MT Research Competition

Ten finalists competed for scholarships. Graduate students from the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the College of Sciences rounded out the top spots...
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10 Commandments of Teaching

In the push to improve schooling, I think we often lose sight of the fundamentals of having a kind, safe, respectful atmosphere in which to learn...
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Let’s Stop Glorifying Tribalism—It Doesn’t Serve Us Well

Yet again, one of my Facebook groups has erupted into an often mean-spirited debate about whether someone really is (fill in the blank). For instance, a chronic fatigue group has become sharply...
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It’s Time to Push for Schools to be Places of True Excitement for Our Kids

In this era of classrooms saturated with testing, we are missing the overall end of education: What do we want our students to be like as a result of their...