Designing the Next Big Thing in Education
As a teacher, Erika Murray knew how hard it was working in a classroom. As a student, she’s doing something about it. “Teachers need help!” Murray said. “Teaching is extremely rewarding, but it is also exhausting.” Murray, who taught for seven years in kindergarten, and first- and fifth-grade classrooms, is now a student in the…
After teaching for four years, Alexandra Lewis wanted to deepen her impact on students’ lives. After working as a teacher overseas and in a small school in Durham, Michael Berro was driven to learn how to scale up educational innovations to help more young people. They found their way to the UNC School of Education’s…
Moise Khayrallah, who earned his doctorate in educational psychology at the School of Education before embarking on a career in pharmaceutical development, has donated funds to establish a fellowship program for master's degree students at the School. Khayrallah's gift will establish the Moise A. Khayrallah Innovation Fund, which will support selected students in the Master…
The School of Education has started its transformation of our off-campus educational center into a group of high-tech learning spaces that will provide educational researchers, graduate students and others opportunities to work with state-of-the-art educational technologies and learning innovation design. Learn more about the ImagineLab camps Watch a video from Week One of 'ImagineLab' The…
