Dr. Guili Zhang, professor and chair of the Department of Special Education, Foundations and Research in East Carolina University’s College of Education, conducted a Quant/Qual Café and helped many researchers and evaluators with research design and data analysis on site at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) annual conference held in Minneapolis on Nov. 12-16. As co-chair of AEA’s Quantitative Methods Topical Interest Group (TIG), Dr. Zhang and the other leaders organized the Quant/Qual Café two years in a row to provide highly needed research consultation Continue reading →read more..
Five faculty members and four graduate students from Hiroshima University in Japan visited East Carolina University in September. Colleagues from Hiroshima University visit ECU every year as part of the two universities’ global partnership. While in Pitt County, the visiting faculty and students visited schools in Pitt County, including Elmhurst Elementary School, Eppes Middle School, and Wahl-Coates Elementary School. One of the faculty members, Professor Tomoyuki Kobara, taught students about what young people in Japan went through in Hiroshima during the atomic bombing in 1945. Continue reading →read more..
On September 12 and 13, 2019, teachers from Lenoir and Wilson counties joined East Carolina University special education students in Greenville for a professional development workshop for the Hill Reading Achievement Program (HillRAP). The HillRAP curriculum provides teachers with a research-based, individualized, multisensory, and direct instruction reading program for teaching students with disabilities. The HillRAP training was provided by the Durham-based Hill Learning Center (hillcenter.org), which provides direct services to students in the Triangle and trains educators across the Southeast. The training was held in Continue reading →read more..
Collaborating to break down silos in schools – this was the recurring theme throughout the second annual CONVEY Summer Institute hosted by the College of Education in collaboration with the College of Allied Health Sciences and Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, CONVEY is led by four ECU faculty: Drs. Sandra Warren, Principal Investigator (Special Education); Christy Walcott, Co-Principal Investigator (School Psychology); Marianna Walker, Co-Principal Investigator (Communication Sciences and Disorders); and Melissa Continue reading →read more..
The College of Education’s Diversity Committee hosted their Spring Speakers Event, “Investigating the Matrix of Dominance Through Audism,” on March 12 at the East Carolina Heart Institute. Dr Flavia. Fleischer, Professor in Deaf Studies at California State University Northridge (CSUN), and Dr. Will Garrow, Associate Professor in Deaf Studies at CSUN, talked about the interconnectedness of audism—the systematic oppression of Deaf people—and other forms of oppression, like racism and sexism. Rooted in the Critical Race Theory concepts of micro, meso, macro-aggressions, their presentation provided an Continue reading →read more..