Ah, the life of a 4-year-old: Always playing, learning, and experimenting as they prepare for kindergarten. But in the childcare setting, do social skills rate differently between 4-year-olds enrolled in play-based preschools when compared to those in academic-based...

Brother Robert Smith, FSC, Ph.D., hands a diploma to the one of the recent graduates of the M.Ed. program at the commencement ceremony at Catholic College of Mandeville on Oct. 27. On Oct. 27, the Master of Education in Teaching and Learning program celebrated the...

Long before COVID-19 popped into the world’s collective consciousness, Annette Greely has felt a vocation to serve elderly members of her community. “They teach me every day through stories about their lives or how they view the world,” Greely said. As the situation...

Alumni of the M.Ed. in Learning Design and Technology (LDT) online program at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota knew the skills they learned would be useful in their classrooms. But few could have predicted the situation facing teachers all over the country as...

Sitting in the counseling center of Park Center High School with a row of college pennants hanging above her bright pink hair, Sara Schreiner M’97 loves to surround her life with colors — both in a traditional sense and with the colorful experiences that she has had...

It was a Tuesday morning like any other, back in 1988. Paul Kotz, Ph.D.,had been washing windows when he heard a homeless man across the street yell, “Hey, you!”  Dr. Kotz came to know the homeless man as Joe, and from that encounter, their friendship grew  until one...

When it comes to his work for Alexandria Public Schools, Lukas Gotto M’17 has a phrase that sums up his teaching philosophy: Cool is exciting. Exciting is engaging. Engaging leads to learning. “That slipped out of my mouth one day when I was explaining it to somebody,...

MINNEAPOLIS/WINONA, Minn. — Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota has been awarded a $1,732,643 grant from the Kern Family Foundation for the university’s School of Education Character and Virtue Initiative. Using grant funding, Saint Mary’s will develop an enhanced...

She did not know it at the time, but Jennifer Backer-Johnson M’01, C’03, C’11 was always meant to be a juggler. It started with trying to juggle pairs of socks with her roommates while a student at Winona State University. Being on the school’s basketball team,...