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“The joy in the room was apparent. It felt like an authentic opportunity for teachers to connect and learn together,” said Susan Devetski, director of the Robinson Community Learning Center and participant in the 2025 Unlocking Literacy Symposium at the University of Notre Dame. This annual...

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), part of the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) at the University of Notre Dame, has secured a $1.5 Million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) to launch a two-year initiative transforming education in the Central...

What happens when school principals and parish pastors trade meetings, emails, carlines, and recess duty for prayer and pilgrimage? In late October, 16 Holy Cross pastors and principals from across the United States found out as they traveled together to the Saint Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal to...

This article was originally published by Frederick LaBrecque on University Strategic Framework news on November 12, 2025. How do family dynamics, schools, and the justice system shape inequality across generations and communities? These are the kind of questions that drive Anna Haskins’s research...

The separation of families during armed conflicts, a persistent global tragedy, was the subject of a recent cross-disciplinary fireside chat hosted by the Notre Dame Law School and the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), part of the Institute for Educational Initiatives...

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has named Ernest Morrell, Coyle Professor of Literacy Education; associate dean for the humanities and faculty development in the College of Arts and Letters ; and director of the Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education in the Institute for...