University of Chicago Urban Teacher Education Program
Posted July 30, 2019
How Do We Bring Magic Into the Classroom? Georgia’s New Teacher of the Year Shows the Way.
For 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year Tracey Nance Pendley, the road to teaching was not easy. Pendley’s mother was a drug addict who was…
Posted Nov. 21, 2017
It’s Not Enough to Know the Content, Teachers Also Need to Know the Context of Their Students’ Lives
The debate about how to best prepare K-12 teachers in the U.S. over the last 50 years has largely centered on whether theory- or practice-based…
Posted Jan. 25, 2017
Coffee Break: Chicago Principal Sonia Wang on How Community Context Makes a Difference in the Classroom
Sonia Wang is an educator on the South Side of Chicago who began as a literacy and writing teacher at a district elementary school. She…
