Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education News
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Current Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education News
Joseph Simmons Jr. leads the way as UNLV’s first Black male Ph.D. in special education.
The College of Education's National Institute for the Advancement of Education awarded four faculty research grants that will explore potential solutions for retaining Nevada's teachers.
MGM Resorts International helps UNLV resolve bottlenecks in internships for future practitioners.
The U.S. Department of Education administrator has built a career in supporting public school students and adults with disabilities.
The program provides elementary and second-level teachers with tools and strategies to support the learning, content, and language development of students from multi-ethnic communities.
Massive expansion will double capacity and alleviate two-year waitlist.
Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education In The News
CCSD is working with UNLV to fill nearly 200 special education teaching vacancies that existed at the beginning of the school year through a specialized endorsement program. Nevada Collaborative for Autism and STAR Endorsement program has already placed more than 100 additional teachers in autism and STAR classrooms across the district.
Clark County School District announced Friday a collaboration with UNLV to address special education staffing. This collaboration has resulted in the placement of more than 70 teachers in special education classrooms around the district. The highlight of the announcement is a new graduate certificate program called the Nevada Collaborative on Autism and STAR endorsement. This program is a partnership involving CCSD’s Student Services Division and the UNLV Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education.
Teachers from across the Clark County School District are receiving specialized training at UNLV to better support local students who speak English as a second language through a program designed to help both students and teachers succeed.
Being kind never gets old and it is the simple things that can make it better for everyone. A preschool is teaching kindness to educate little learners about the harms of bullying. The hope is that they use this practice to build social bonds.
Being kind never gets old and it is the simple things that can make it better for everyone. A preschool is teaching kindness to educate little learners about the harms of bullying. The hope is that they use this practice to build social bonds.
If Lake Elementary School had looked only at the student’s math assessment in English, teachers would have worried about him. But when he took the same exam in Spanish, Principal Paola Elena Zepher said, he “blew it out of the water.”
