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Parents Plus: Language Coach

Oct 22, 2016

Brook Sawyer, assistant professor of Teaching, Learning and Technology, received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to develop and assess the promise of Pa…

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, …

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,…