The Building a Healthy Temple program, directed by Dr. Meizi He, professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition, and her team, has established a partnership with the state of Texas and will take part in the statewide initiative, Growing Healthy Texas.

If there’s one thing that Thandiwe Dlodlo is passionate about, it’s education. The 13-year teaching veteran and current Director of the Foundational Phase in the Limpopo Province traveled 9,207 miles from her home in South Africa to the UTSA College of Education and Human Development to learn how to become a better writer, teacher, and teacher educator.

Deepti Kharod, a doctoral student at The University of Texas at San Antonio, has been awarded a scholarship from Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education, headquartered in Indianapolis.

UTSA associate professor Maricela Oliva has been named associate vice provost for academic and faculty support. She assumed her new responsibilities on July 15.

Donovan Fogt    |    Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition

Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition

Jake Mills, a comedian who attempted to take his own life after suffering with mental health problems, says he "started dreading counselling".

One of my most memorable experiences in medical school was caring for an infant who suffered life-threatening seizures progressing to coma. The cause was brain swelling due to water intoxication from “formula stretching.” Her family had been running out of infant formula before the next month’s supply, so resorted to watering down what little formula they had remaining.

Biculturals take part, to varying degrees, in the life of two or more cultures. They adapt their attitudes, behaviors, and values to these cultures and they combine and blend aspects of the cultures involved (see here).

In Texas, like much of the United States, if a school district has 20 or more English Language Learners, or ELLs, in a single grade, it’s required to offer bilingual education with a certified bilingual teacher. But for more than two decade many school districts in Texas haven’t been able to make that happen. Last year, more than half the school districts in Texas couldn’t find enough bilingual teachers to teach all the students learning English — as required. They have to ask the state education commissioner to waive that requirement for the year.

Like most educators, Janet is determined to create an environment in which each student reaches his or her full potential. And like many of us, despite overflowing with good intentions, Janet has bought into the most common and dangerous myths about poverty.

A look at the books schools around the country have assigned to incoming freshmen.

Both houses of Congress have now passed versions of the bill that would update the largest federal education law, known as No Child Left Behind, for the first time since 2001. They are big, meaty and complicated, and now they have to be reconciled into one messy Dagwood sandwich of a bill to go to the president.