UNC School of Education

Undergraduate Programs Virtual Info Session
2021-03-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The UNC School of Education invites prospective students to participate in an online information session to learn more about our undergraduate programs in Human Development and Family Studies, Human Organizational Leadership and Development, K-12 Music Education, UNC-BEST, Minor in Education, & Pre-MAT. School of Education faculty and staff from the Office of Student Affairs will lead participants in an overview of the program, requirements for admission, application process, and program structure and distinctiveness. Prospective students will have an opportunity to connect with faculty, staff, and current students and get their questions answered in an online setting.
Register here.

Remembering our past. Focused on our future. - Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy
2021-02-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Black History Month Conversation Series:
Remembering our past. Focused on our future.
In celebration of Black History Month, each Thursday in February, the UNC School of Education’s Dana Griffin — Dean’s Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — will host leaders in counseling education and psychology for hour-long, online discussions focused on the role of schools of education in uplifting and elevating Black youth, families, and communities. Join us on Thursdays at 11 a.m. EST to participate in the discussion.
About the Speaker

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy
Professor and Dean, School of Education, American University
Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, Ph.D., is in her fifth year as Dean of the School of Education and Professor at American University. Previous to this role, she served as Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs (central administration) and Vice Dean of Academic Affairs (in the School of Education) at Johns Hopkins University. Previous to her time at Johns Hopkins, she was an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services (ranked #1 in U.S. News & World Report) at the University of Maryland College Park and Director of the School Counseling Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Dean Holcomb-McCoy is the founder of AU’s Summer Institute on Education, Equity and Justice, the Johns Hopkins School Counseling Fellows Program, and the AU Teacher Pipeline Project, a partnership with the District of Columbia Public Schools and Friendship Charter Schools. She is also the author of the best-selling book, “School Counseling to Close the Achievement Gap: A Social Justice Framework.” Currently, she is collaborating with AU colleagues to create an antiracist curriculum for teachers-in-training. Dean Holcomb-McCoy is an American Counseling Association (ACA) Fellow and from 2014-2016, she was a consultant to Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher Initiative.

Remembering our past. Focused on our future. - William Jackson ('18 Ph.D.)
2021-02-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Black History Month Conversation Series:
Remembering our past. Focused on our future.
In celebration of Black History Month, each Thursday in February, the UNC School of Education’s Dana Griffin — Dean’s Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — will host leaders in counseling education and psychology for hour-long, online discussions focused on the role of schools of education in uplifting and elevating Black youth, families, and communities. Join us on Thursdays at 11 a.m. EST to participate in the discussion.
About the Speaker

William Jackson (’18 Ph.D.)
CEO, Village of Wisdom
William Jackson, Ph.D., is the founder and “Chief Dreamer” of Village of Wisdom, a Durham, North Carolina-based organization that engages parents, school leaders, non-profit leaders, and community members to recognize the negative cognitive implication of racial bias on Black students. Jackson works with these same stakeholders to build strategies that help Black youth navigate and heal from the racial bias they are exposed to, especially those that occur in educational environments. Through this work, he has led his team at Village of Wisdom to create tools designed to help youth heal from racial bias experiences, develop racial bias resilience capacities (e.g., racial comeback lines) and identify how their interests align with social justice activities: two such tools are the Racial Genius Profile and the Racial Stress Coping Plan.

Master of Education for Experienced Teachers, Early Childhood Intervention & Family Services (MEDX, ECIFS) Virtual Info Session
2021-02-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Take the first step towards earning a Master of Education for Experienced Teachers-Early Childhood Intervention & Family Support (B-K), by attending an online information session. During this web-based presentation, School of Education faculty and recruitment staff will cover how the MEDX Program can help you advance your career and achieve your goals by honing in on your leadership skills and acquiring the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective educator. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the application and admissions process as well as ask any further questions that you may have. All you will need is a computer with internet access and a phone.
Register here.

Master of School Administration (MSA) Career Connections
2021-02-11 17:00 - 18:00
Career Connections: Ways to Connect College and Careers
Join faculty, staff, students, and alumni from the UNC School of Education and its MSA program for a Facebook Live event to hear how the current school year is going, how school leaders are continuing to care for and inspire their communities, and how the MSA program prepares students for successful careers in school leadership. Audience members will have the opportunity and are encouraged to ask questions during the event.

Remembering our past. Focused on our future. - Paul C. Harris
2021-02-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Black History Month Conversation Series:
Remembering our past. Focused on our future.
In celebration of Black History Month, each Thursday in February, the UNC School of Education’s Dana Griffin — Dean’s Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — will host leaders in counseling education and psychology for hour-long, online discussions focused on the role of schools of education in uplifting and elevating Black youth, families, and communities. Join us on Thursdays at 11 a.m. EST to participate in the discussion.
About the Speaker

Paul C. Harris
Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Paul C. Harris, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Counselor Education program at the University of Virginia. He is also a faculty affiliate with the Center for Race and Public Education in the South at the University. He earned his B.S.Ed. in Health & Physical Education with a concentration in Sports Medicine and his M.Ed. in School Counseling from the University of Virginia. He worked as a high school counselor for several years prior to completing his Ph.D. in Counselor Education from the University of Maryland, where the program’s emphasis was on promoting systemic equity, access, and justice in schools through counseling. He also holds a Master of Divinity degree from Virginia Union University. Harris focuses on improving the college and career readiness process of underrepresented students in his research. He is particularly interested in promoting the identity development of Black male student-athletes and understanding how school counselors play a role in that process. In addition to teaching core courses in the school counseling program, Harris designed and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that focus on counseling all student-athletes from a strengths-based perspective, with one of those courses centering on the Black student-athlete experience, specifically. He currently serves on the editorial review board for the Professional School Counseling Journal. He is also the former president of the Virginia School Counselor Association and a former member of the Board of Directors for the American School Counselor Association.

Remembering our past. Focused on our future. - S. Kent Butler
2021-02-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Black History Month Conversation Series:
Remembering our past. Focused on our future.
In celebration of Black History Month, each Thursday in February, the UNC School of Education’s Dana Griffin — Dean’s Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — will host leaders in counseling education and psychology for hour-long, online discussions focused on the role of schools of education in uplifting and elevating Black youth, families, and communities. Join us on Thursdays at 11 a.m. EST to participate in the discussion.
About the Speaker

S. Kent Butler
Professor, University of Central Florida
President-Elect, American Counseling Association
Kent Butler Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a concentration in Counseling Psychology, from the University of Connecticut. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), and Nationally Certified School Counselor (NCSC). In February of 2020, Butler was elected President-Elect of the American Counseling Association (ACA). His presidential year is 2021 – 2022. In July of 2019, Butler was appointed Interim Chief Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Officer at the University of Central Florida. In March of 2020, he was selected as a Fellow within the National Association of Chief Diversity Officer in Higher Education’s Chief Diversity Officer Fellows Program (NADOHE-CDOFP). He is a 2020-2021 cohort (C-7) member. The professional leadership program mentors new and early career Chief Diversity Officers. Butler was also recently promoted to Professor of Counselor Education at the University of Central Florida and has served as a Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence within the Office of the Provost.
Butler presently serves as faculty advisor to CHI SIGMA IOTA International Honor Society (CSI), the Counselor Education Doctoral Student Organization (CEDSO), Project for Haiti Knights, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He served as the Principal Investigator, for The High-Risk Delinquent and Dependent Child Educational Research Project: Situational Environmental Circumstances Mentoring Program (SEC), which was a partnership between the University of Central Florida and several Florida universities. This grant opportunity has transitioned into the UCF Young Knights Mentoring Project a program that supports students at Hungerford Elementary School in Eatonville, FL.
Also on the national level, Butler has served the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) as the 2011-2012 President and ACA Governing Council Representative (2015-2018). He is honored to be a member of AMCD’s Multicultural Counseling Competencies Revisions Committee (2014-2015) which produced the ACA-AMCD endorsed Multicultural Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC). In April of 2016, Butler was bestowed with the prestigious ACA Fellow Award. His research and academic interests lie in the areas of Multicultural and International Counseling, Social Justice, Mentoring, Counseling work as it relates specifically to African American males, Group Counseling, School Counseling, and Multicultural Supervision.

Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (MEITE) Career Connections-Facebook Live
2021-02-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Join faculty, staff, students, and alumni from the UNC School of Education’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (MEITE) program for a ranging discussion on Facebook Live that touches on opportunities in educational innovation and technology, how the MEITE program is preparing students for the current (and future) educational landscape, and how our graduates are taking lessons from the program to forge new paths in their careers and in education. Audience members will have the opportunity and are encouraged to ask questions during the event.
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Undergraduate Programs Virtual Information Session
2021-01-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Carolina’s School of Education invites prospective students to participate in an online information session to learn more about our undergraduate programs in Human Development and Family Studies, Human Organizational Leadership and Development, K-12 Music Education, UNC-BEST, Minor in Education, & Pre-MAT. School of Education faculty and staff from the Office of Student Affairs will lead participants in an overview of the program, requirements for admission, application process, and program structure and distinctiveness. Prospective students will have an opportunity to connect with faculty, staff, and current students and get their questions answered in an online setting.
Register here.

Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Virtual Info Session
2021-01-20 18:00 - 19:15 | Online
Take the first step towards earning a Master’s of Arts in Teaching (MAT) by attending an online information session. During this web-based presentation, School of Education faculty and recruitment staff will cover how the MAT program can help you advance your career and achieve your goals by honing in on your leadership skills and acquiring the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective educator. Participants will have an opportunity to discuss the application and admissions process as well as ask any further questions that you may have. All you will need is a computer with internet access and a phone.
Register here.

School Counseling Career Connections
2020-12-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Career Connections: Ways to Connect College and Careers
Join faculty, staff, students, and alumni from the UNC School of Education and its school counseling program for a Facebook Live event to hear how the current school year is going, how school counselors are continuing to care for their communities, and how our school counseling program prepares students to successfully serve all of their students, especially the most vulnerable ones. Audience members will have the opportunity and are encouraged to ask questions during the event.

Master of Education for Experienced Teachers-Early Childhood Intervention and Family Support (MEDX-ECIFS) Online Information Session
2020-12-10 18:00 - 19:00
Take the first step towards earning a Master of Education for Experience Teachers – Early Childhood Intervention and Family Studies (MEDX-ECIFS) by attending an online information session. During these web-based presentations, School of Education faculty and recruitment staff will cover how the MEDX-ECIFS program can help you advance your career and achieve your goals by honing in on your leadership skills and acquiring the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective school leader. There will also be an opportunity to discuss the application and admissions process as well as ask any further questions that you may have. All you will need is a computer with internet access and a phone.
Register here.

Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Career Connections
2020-12-08 17:30 - 18:30
Career Connections: Ways to Connect College and Careers
Join faculty, staff, students, and alumni from the UNC School of Education and its MAT program for a Facebook Live event to hear how the current school year is going, how Tar Heel teachers are making an impact, and how the MAT program prepares students for successful teaching careers. Audience members will have the opportunity and are encouraged to ask questions during the event.

Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (MEITE) Career Connections
2020-12-03 18:00 - 19:00
Career Connections: Ways to Connect College and Careers
Join faculty, staff, students, and alumni from the UNC School of Education’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (MEITE) program for a ranging discussion on Facebook Live that touches on opportunities in educational innovation and technology, how the MEITE program is preparing students for the current (and future) educational landscape, and how our graduates are taking lessons from the program to forge new paths in their careers and in education. Audience members will have the opportunity and are encouraged to ask questions during the event.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Listening Sessions
2020-11-20 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-11-13 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-11-06 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-10-30 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-10-23 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-10-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
The sessions are offered to allow community members to share concerns and input that will be used in forming a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion plan for the School of Education. Watch for emailed Zoom invites.

Ed.D. in Educational Leadership Info Session
2020-11-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Take the first step towards earning a doctorate degree in educational leadership by attending an online information session. During these web-based presentations, School of Education faculty and recruitment staff will cover how the Ed.D in Educational Leadership can help you advance your career and achieve your goals by honing in on your leadership skills and acquiring the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective school leader. There will also be an opportunity to discuss the application and admissions process as well as ask any further questions that you may have. All you will need is a computer with internet access and a phone.

Master of Arts in Educational, Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Info Session
2020-11-04 18:00 | Online
Take the first step towards earning a Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (MEITE) by attending an online information session hosted by UNC’s School of Education. During this web-based presentation, School of Education faculty and recruitment staff will cover how the MEITE program can help you advance your career and achieve your goals by honing in on your creativity and acquiring the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective leader in educational innovation. There will also be the chance to discuss the application and admissions process as well as ask any further questions that you may have. All you will need is a computer with internet access and a phone.
Register here.

School Counseling Info Session
2020-11-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Take the first step towards earning a Master of Education in School Counseling by attending an online information session. During this web-based presentation, School of Education faculty and recruitment staff will cover how the M.Ed in School Counseling can help you advance your career and achieve your goals by honing in on your leadership skills and acquiring the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective school counselor. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the application and admissions process as well as ask any further questions that you may have. All you will need is a computer with internet access and a phone.
Register here.

#BlackOutLoudUNC Talk
2020-10-29 18:00 - 19:00
The Ida B. Wells Symposia, a series of talks sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South, is holding a series of events during the month of October.
On October 29th at 6pm, SoE doctoral students Cortland Gilliam and Jerry J. Wilson along with undergraduate De’Ivyion Drew, will overview the genesis and development of their #BlackOutLoudUNC arts exhibition project and then discuss the project’s relationship to the anti-lynching work of Ida B. Wells. In addition to a discussion of their work, the presentation will include a screening of their short documentary and photography of some of the work showcased on the night of the original exhibition (9/25/2019).

Master of Arts in Teaching Info Session
2020-10-29 18:00 - 19:00 | Online

Teaching Fellows Info Session
2020-10-28 17:30 - 18:30 | Facebook Live

Teaching with the ‘Light of Truth’ in the K-12 Classroom
2020-10-27 18:00 - 19:00
The Ida B. Wells Symposia, a series of talks sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South, is holding a series of events during the month of October.
On October 27th at 6pm, “Teaching with the ‘Light of Truth’ in the K-12 Classroom” will include a panel discussion sharing challenges and strategies for teaching “hard history.” SoE faculty member Brian Gibbs will be one of the presenters. The discussion will be oriented toward K-12 teachers. More details and a registration link are here

Master of School Administration Info Session
2020-10-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Take the first step towards earning a Master’s in School Administration by attending an online information session. During these web-based presentations, School of Education faculty and recruitment staff will cover how the MSA program can help you advance your career and achieve your goals by honing in on your leadership skills and acquiring the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to become an effective school leader. There will also be an opportunity to discuss the application and admissions process as well as ask any further questions that you may have. All you will need is a computer with internet access and a phone.
Register here.

Human Development and Family Studies Career Connections Series
2020-10-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Facebook Live

Black Innovation Matters
2020-10-22 19:00 - 20:30
The third annual Black Innovation Matters conference will be held on Thursday, October 22nd.
The theme of this year’s event is “Amplifying Ideas and Inspiring Action.” Several dynamic local and national innovators will be highlighting and celebrating Black innovation and entrepreneurship. The event is virtual. Please register in advance of the event. For more information, see Patricia Harris at patricia.harris@unc.edu
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