In my post series about text sets, I’ve outlined research on text sets from cognitive, disciplinary, and critical perspectives.  Each of these perspectives offers specific aims for what a literacy unit’s texts might look like. But how might a teacher bring them together?

Welcome to ESS Office Hours! In this first episode, Education, Schooling, and Society Professor Mike Macaluso sits down with senior neuroscience majors Devin Diggs and Matthew Nguyen to discuss why they chose ESS as a minor and how their ESS experiences will help them in their future endeavors.  

This is the first blog in the mini-series “Honoring and Leveraging Students’ Home Languages in the Classroom.” In this blog, I introduce some core concepts underscoring the importance of cultivating multilingual classroom spaces. I Am My Language

This is the second blog in the mini-series “Honoring and Leveraging Students’ Home Languages in the Classroom.” In this blog, I introduce language and culture portraits as a method for learning about and affirming students’ diverse linguistic and cultural identities. Language and Culture Portraits

A team including Nicole McNeil, a professor of psychology and the director of the Education, Schooling, and Society program at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a four-year, $2 million grant to leverage technology to improve children’s understanding of mathematical equivalence.

While digital access and literacy are becoming increasingly necessary, 3.7 billion people, most of them women and people living in low-income countries, lack internet access (UN). Globally, internet access runs the gamut from 14.3% of people in Africa to 76.4% of people in Central Asia (Brookings).

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Clemens Sedmak, professor of social ethics in the Keough School of Global Affairs, has been named director of the University of Notre Dame’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

We hear the term quite frequently: positive parenting. But what does it actually mean? Parents and caregivers are a child’s first teachers, and they play an important role in their child’s development from the very start.