UMBC Department of Education

An update and reminder, Newbery Honor Award Author, Andrea Wang will be giving a presentation next week (April 15) from 5:00-6:00PM the location has changed to Fine Arts room 118 please see the full event details on MyUMBC.

https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/educ/events/151786

Professor Francis Hult in collaboration with the Center for Global Engagement, Bwtech at UMBC Research & Technology Park , and the World Trade Center Institute hosted a delegation from International Visitor Leadership Program sponsored by the US Department of State. The delegation included 20 English language educators and ministry of education officials from 17 countries who engaged with Prof. Hult about language education policy and curriculum planning. They will continue a three-week tour visiting with experts at universities across the country.

Please see attached a flyer and join us for the Newbery Award Honor Author Andrea Wang's talk at UMBC on April 15, sponsored by the Department of Education and the Global Asias Initiative.

Besjanë Krasniqi’s article “Revisiting the Home Literacy Environment in the Digital Age: Insights from a High-SES Context” was chosen as the cover article for volume 16, Issue 2 of Education Sciences. Congratulations Besjanë!

The article can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/16/2/247

MA TESOL alumna Rida Neuhoff ('22) just published an article based on her master's thesis together with Prof. Shannon Sauro. The article appears in CALICO Journal, an international scholarly journal focused on language learning and technology, and is titled "Willingness to Communicate in the Digital Wilds: A Case Study of a Gamer Writing Fanfiction". Congratulations, Rida!

https://utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3138/calico-2025-0006

Join us for UMBC's 18th Annual Arts Integration Conference: Threads of Creativity: Weaving the Arts into the Fabric of Your School. Saturday February 21st 10:00AM-4:00PM. For more information visit out website: education.umbc.edu/aic/

Please check out the following webinar "Teaching in the Age of AI" being led by Shahin Hossain

Congratulations to Chantal Suter, Business Services Specialist for the Education Department, on completing the Aspire Leadership Development Program.

Aspire is a comprehensive leadership development program designed to nurture desire for leadership through a structured and engaging curriculum.

UMBC hosted the MDTESOL annual conference last weekend. It was a great success! We learned many new ideas to implement in our practice including from presentations by our own students, faculty, and alumni. It was also exciting to meet new friends. A wonderful time was had by all!

UMBC Alumni Association Maryland TESOL

Congratulations to Shahin Hossain on the recent publication of his Op-Ed in The Baltimore Sun, “What the War Over AI in Schools Is Really About,” which focuses on teachers’ concerns around authorship, trust, and what authentic learning should look like.

What the war over AI in schools is really about | GUEST COMMENTARY With the rise of AI in education, “teachers are testing ways to make AI a case study rather than a shortcut.”

Professor Francis Hult will be giving the Hugo J. Mueller Lecture at American University this week. The annual lecture was established in the 1970s in honor of Dr. Hugo J. Mueller, who founded the Department of World Languages and Cultures at AU in 1959.

Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Rakes who worked as a guest editor for a special issue of Education Sciences, that special issue "Innovations in Mathematics Education: Evaluation, Research, and Practice" has just come out as a reprint edited book.