Getting kids reading takes more than a little doing—it requires making the library somewhere students want to be.
Kimberly Severance ‘05
Kimberly Severance ‘05 (New England, MED) is the new Head Golf Coach and Director of Career Services at Cottey College, an independent liberal arts and sciences women’s college in Missouri….
Raising Awareness and Improving Vision for Childhood Learning
It was almost twenty years ago when Wendy Rosen’s daughter began having difficulties in school. The long-time elementary school teacher knew something was wrong. But she didn’t know what. She…
Nature-Based Early Childhood Education Faculty Host a Weeklong Workshop
Antioch New England’s Nature-Based Early Childhood Education program faculty, Ellen Doris and Elizabeth Lowe, recently hosted a weeklong workshop with the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union. Cheryl Charles, chairwoman of the…
Big Idea: Redefining Literacy
We’re getting ready to launch Season Four of the Seed Field Podcast and we’re putting together two mini-episodes that revisit interviews from Season Three and pull out the themes that consistently run through them. If there’s hope in anything, there is hope in children as educators. As our school systems focus on producing certain test scores, checking boxes, and sometimes treating students as products rather than people, we have education experts like the three guests from this mini-series on “literacy” who challenge teachers to take an individualized approach, to meet students where they are, and encourage their curiosity.
Jazmine Casey, MA in Teaching
I was a preschool teacher for seven years and then I decided to take myself to the next level and get into elementary school. I chose Antioch because I really…
Promoting Literacy Education as a Key for Social Justice
“Students come to Antioch to be justice educators,” says Heather Cheney, a core faculty member and chair of the MA in Teaching program at Antioch Seattle. “I mean, it’s part…
Khavin Debbs ’18
Khavin Debbs ’18 (Seattle, MA in Education with Urban Environmental Education) was appointed to Executive Director position of Tiny Trees, a nationally recognized innovator of outdoor preschool education. “Tiny Trees…
Kristin Leong ’10
Kristin Leong ’10 (Seattle, MA Education) has been named Executive Director for The Bureau of Fearless Ideas (BFI). BFI is an award-winning writing and tutoring organization serving diverse youth in…
Antioch Spotlight: MA in Teaching Alum Jeff Imboden
We recently caught up with Jeff Imboden, an alum of Antioch New England. He graduated with his MA in Teaching in 1975 and applied it to his career as a…
Nandita Bajaj ’21
Nandita Bajaj ’21 (New England, MED) had an article published in Ms. Magazine. The alum and adjunct faculty member discusses abortion bans and mentions a course she is teaching at…
Antioch University is Helping Teachers Build Capacity for Social Emotional Learning
Antioch University’s Continuing Education Programs hosted an online event on June 15 titled Building Capacity for Social Emotional Learning. This event, which was sponsored by Six Seconds and Antioch University’s…