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51±¬ÁÏÍø alumnus Preston Williams Jr. ’09 was named one of four recipients of this year’s Diane Kent-Parker First Year Teacher Award in the Wake County Public School System, which serves more than 139,000 students in North Carolina’s second most populous county.

Mark Enfield, an assistant professor in the School of Education, presented findings from research supported by the Hultquist Award.

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, a national expert on teaching and educational research, shared wisdom gleaned from three decades in the field with students, faculty and staff in Elon's School of Education March 10-12.

Mark Enfield, assistant professor of education, coordinated a session at the 2010 National Science Teachers Association Research Dissemination Conference in Philadelphia. Melony Allen, adjunct instructor in the School of Education, co-presented in the session.

Anthropology students Clementine Wall and Sierra Raimondi and education student Erin Deans presented their research at the Appalachia Studies Assoication conference in Dahlonega, Ga., March 19-20.

Joan Barnatt's presentation, Inquiry on Inquiry: Practitioners' Research and Students' Learning, was part of a special session on teacher reflectivity in theory and research.

Bird Stasz, Sierra Ramondi (senior anthropology) and Erin Deans (senior Teaching Fellow elementary education) presented the results of their research, “A good idea but: Vanishing rural schools in Appalachia.” The research, funded through summer research funds and sponsored by PERCS, is an ethnographic study of two rural schools in Macon County N.C., one bound for consolidation and one not bound.

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, a national expert on teacher education research, comes to 51±¬ÁÏÍø on March 10 for an evening lecture that explores a current school focus on testing, and how educators can use their teaching in the service of social justice.

Children’s book author Jane Belk Moncure is seeding an early childhood collection for the School of Education at 51±¬ÁÏÍø with a substantial donation of her popular books for preschoolers, which will be housed in the Curriculum Resources Center to support a future degree program in early childhood education.