👏👏👏 Assistant Professor Kay Ramey received a 2025 James N. Murray Faculty Award. The award honors a nontenured faculty member with less than six years of UI service, who demonstrates outstanding rapport with students and creates an exemplary classroom atmosphere.

🎓 “I want students to feel loved, seen, and like they belong.” Emily Mozena, Spring 2025 @UIowa Education grad, is ready to inspire the next generation.

👏 Congrats to Clinical Associate Professor Erin Barnes on being named Faculty Fellow for Faculty Development with the Office of the Executive VP and Provost!

Congrats to Allison Rowe & Katie Broton, recipients of the Collegiate Teaching Award! 🏆 They represent the very best of our College of Education—innovative, inclusive, and student-centered. 👏

From Decorah to IC, Brynn Storhoff is embracing new challenges— 📚 Counseling & Behavioral Health Services major 🚣‍♀️ First-year rower for @IowaRowing 🎓 Future school counselor Brynn proves that stepping outside your comfort zone leads to growth—on and off the water. #Hawkeyes

🖤💛New job? Promotion? Award? Cool new project? We want to hear about it! 🙌

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ⭐️ Meet Rebecca Stai, our go-to expert for coordinating commencements and graduate exams at the College of Education. Her passion for organization and celebration shines through in every commencement event she orchestrates.

🤝 Meet Chuck Xander, veteran & embedded counselor at University of Iowa, providing vital mental health support to our military-connected students through IVETS. His dedication ensures those who've served receive the care they need.

✍️ Shoutout to Liz Corson, clinical assistant professor, for leading the launch of the IYWP Short Story and Poetry Contest! Her partnership with IYWP is giving young writers across southeast Iowa the chance to be heard. 👏

👏 Hats off to our Department of Teaching & Learning Student Research Award recipients! 🏆 Bing Gao & Alison Warren 🎓 Runners-up: Colleen Kollasch & Li Zhu From acculturation to machine learning in math ed, their work pushes the boundaries of educational research.

🎉 Kudos to EdD student Andrew Armstead on becoming superintendent of Estherville Lincoln Central School District! His journey through our Educational Policy and Leadership Studies program has helped him reach this milestone.

👏 Congrats to Dave Tingwald, licensure and standards coordinator, on receiving a Board of Regents Staff Excellence Award! He was selected in April and recently presented with his award. Well done, Dave!

Understanding what dyslexia is and how to recognize it in students is the first step to supporting students with this reading disability. Our Dyslexia Overview eLearning module is free to all Iowa residents and covers foundational concepts about dyslexia: irrc.education.uiowa.edu/professional-s…

Happy Juneteenth! Today, we commemorate the day when enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas were informed of their freedom on June 19, 1865. We celebrate the values of freedom and justice for all.

Congrats to Noah LeFevre! 🎓 Awarded a Fulbright ETA, he’ll teach English & lead debate clubs across Panagyurishte, Bulgaria in 2025–26. We’re excited to see Iowa’s Social Studies Ed alum impact global classrooms! 🌎

Wishing all the best to Amanda Haertling Thein as she begins her new role as dean at @CUBoulderEd! 🎓 We’re thankful for her remarkable leadership at Iowa—as associate provost, dean, professor, and former associate dean. Congrats, Amanda! 🖤💛

Two College of Education faculty have stepped into new interim leadership roles at University of Iowa: 🎓 Dr. Saba Rasheed Ali is now interim associate provost & dean of the Graduate College 🔬 Dr. Ariel Aloe is interim associate dean for research in the College of Education

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲! 🎆🎇 We hope you have fun and stay safe.

🌿 After 40+ years in education, Lisa Kieffer-Haverkamp has retired! From teacher to AEA leader to higher ed faculty, she’s nurtured generations of educators—most recently as clinical instructor in our Ed Leadership program. Thank you, Lisa!

🚨 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐲 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐬! As Educational Licensure Specialist, Betsy is the “end of the train” in our Teacher Education Program—making sure future teachers are ready to be licensed in Iowa. Also? She 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘬𝘺. 💛