Book Award

Book Award

The Alexandria Award

Alexandria AwardThe Alexandria Award recognizes a middle-grade or young adult novel written within the past 5 years that advances Gospel values and tenets of Catholic Social Teaching while portraying adolescents who espouse St. Catherine of Alexandria's brave tenacious character. The award recognizes the powerful value literature can have in classrooms across the country, particularly Catholic middle and high school classrooms, for inspiring belief and a virtuous life and addressing injustices in the world.

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Samay Mehra
Samay Mehra
Student Intern
Literacy scholar Ernest Morrell elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ernest Morrell, the Coyle Professor in Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers.
Ashwin Raghuraman
Ashwin
Student Intern
University of Notre Dame Hosts Consultation with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education
On May 6, the Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic (led by Professor Diane Desierto) and Education Law Project (led by Professor Nicole Stelle Garnett) welcomed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Pakistani sociologist Farida Shaheed, during her first official vi
G. Alex Ambrose
G. Alex Ambrose
Program Director of Assessment and Analytics, Notre Dame Learning's Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence; Professor of the Practice, Education, Schooling, and Society; Computing and Digital Technologies
Youth Need Every Teacher to Be a Civics Teacher Today - Here’s Why (and How)
Dr. Nicole Mirra is an Associate Professor of Urban Teacher Education, Learning & Teaching at Rutgers University in the Graduate School of Education. Dr.
Matt Kloser Named Editor of Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Matt Kloser, the director of the Notre Dame Center for STEM Education, together with Edna Tan (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Dana Vedder-Weiss (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), have been named the incoming Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching
Ana Lopez
Ana Lopez
Student Intern
Mr. Feldmann's Summer Reading Recommendations
When asked to make book recommendations, Daniel offered 5 titles along with how and why he finds these texts valuable. We hope you will read them for your own enjoyment and perhaps find ways to share with the young readers in your life!