Speaking My Language
Oct 13, 2016
As she conducted classroom observations on preschool language and literacy instruction, Brook Sawyer often noticed that the students who did not speak English proficiently would sit alone, …
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Civic Hacking: Creating Change
Oct 5, 2016
"Knowledge," said the Greek philosopher Plato, "is the food of the soul." Lehigh students who participated in a summer civic engagement project now know first-hand that knowledge can also feed hungry…
Promoting School Readiness
Oct 1, 2016
Robert Fulghum penned the best-selling credo "Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten," but, as the interdisciplinary group of Lehigh faculty that launched the Early Development and Educa…
Shaping Geometric Knowledge
Sep 22, 2016
Can virtual building blocks help young children develop geometric and spatial skills? A Mountaintop team, led by Robin Hojnoski, associate professor of School Psychology, and Michael Spear,…
Reducing Problem Behaviors
Sep 19, 2016
Lee Kern, director of the Center for Promoting Research to Practice and professor of Special Education, received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to adapt Tie…
A Smarter Way to Work
Sep 2, 2016
Inside the cool, cavernous interior of Bay 2 on Lehigh's Mountaintop Campus, six students studied flowcharts and scrawled notes on whiteboards. Outside their roomy, makeshift cubicle, a fluorescent s…