Fourth graders wearing braids and friendship bracelets encircle preservice teacher Zoe Lightcap at Weinland Park Elementary School in Columbus. The children don’t know it, but Lightcap, in her fourth year studying teaching and learning at Ohio State, is putting research into practice as she reads The Kindness Book. And she’s working the crowd like a […]
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‘They bonded quickly’: Training in Indonesia gets teachers innovating, dancing
In the last few years, we’ve learned some valuable truths about human connections. When necessary, community can be achieved via the internet and two-dimensional computer screens. But some finer aspects of social engagement get lost in the process. So, when the college’s Buckeye Language Education Resource Center (BuckLER) needed to, it used a hybrid format […]
Intriguing origins of the College of Education and Human Ecology
Do you know how the two colleges that make up EHE today originally formed? Find out and learn about two thought-provoking personalities from the past.
The arc of the diversity movement in one man’s life
Alumnus Mac Stewart attended segregated schools and learned from Civil Rights pioneers. America still has inclusion work to do, he says.
Lucky encounter inspires leader to strive daily to make a difference
A photo hangs in Don Pope-Davis‘ office as a reminder of a lucky encounter with a world leader and his inspirational words about bringing people together for change. Archbishop Desmond Tutu was at the same conference where the now-dean of the College of Education and Human Ecology was participating. The Nobel Peace Prize winner told […]
Campbell Hall puts its best future forward
The renovation of this iconic campus building, now underway, will create opportunity and promise. New prospects for teaching and discovery will arise at the heart of campus. Learn about the exciting improvements planned and how they’ll blend with the building’s historic character.
