Rachel Weber, a master’s student in the College of Education and Human Development’s Department of Counseling, is the first recipient of the Laura Carter Memorial Fellowship. The newly established fellowship awards $2,500 annually to a student in the UTSA Counseling Program.

How the College of Education and Human Development’s Academy for Teacher Excellence teamed up with award-winning actor Tony Plana and the East L.A. Classic Theatre to bring theater arts to San Antonio youth.

The San Antonio Writing Project’s (SAWP) 2015 Summer Institute held its 10th annual Visitor’s Day on Thursday, July 2, wrapping up the four-week workshop.  Twenty teachers, including one from Limpopo, South Africa, were joined by family, friends, coworkers, and faculty from the College of Education and Human Development (COEHD) for a morning filled with readings, presentations, and videos illustrating their time spent during the 2015 institute.

Donovan Fogt    |    Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition

Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition

summer has come into its rights already, and the majority of students enjoy July and wait for August, having forgotten about all those exams they had to pass and all those academic papers they had to write about a month ago.

A new group of bilingual teachers is joining the Oklahoma City Public School District. The district's Human Resources recruiting team traveled to Puerto Rico to recruit, interview and hire bilingual teachers to support the district's growing Spanish-speaking student population and diversify the district.

Two national civil rights organizations filed papers in federal court on Tuesday that accuse the Texas Education Agency and two local independent school districts, Southwest and North East ISDs, of not effectively monitoring, implementing, enforcing and supervising programs for English-language learners, or ELLs.

“It is so appropriate to have a scholarship fund in the name of Reverend Pinckney as he highly valued education,” says Rev. Goff, “It is our hope that the recipients of this gift will value education themselves further along in life.”

Walking through the Drexel University Recreation Center, I couldn’t even spot it at first. In fact, I walked by it multiple times. I just didn’t expect a kiosk that screens for mental illness to look like a sleek version of an ATM. The sign next to the kiosk read, “Get a Check-Up From the Neck Up,” so I pressed “Take A Screening” to start the process.

Inside Out, which was released June 19 and topped the box office during the holiday weekend, takes moviegoers inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl. Modeling the main character after his daughter, director Pete Docter set out to explore the complex mind of a pre-teen.