ULM School of Education

🍎✨ Educators, this is YOUR moment! ✨🍎

The 4th Annual 2026 NELA Teacher Symposium is coming to Monroe, LA, and we are ready to INSPIRE, ENGAGE, and EMPOWER educators from across the region!

Join fellow teachers, administrators, and education leaders for a day filled with:
📚 Practical strategies
💡 Innovative ideas
🤝 Meaningful connections
🎤 Dynamic keynote speakers
🎉 Encouragement and motivation for the school year ahead

Whether you attended in previous years or this will be your first experience, this symposium is designed to pour back into the educators who pour so much into others every single day.

🗓 Thursday, July 16, 2026
📍 Bayou Pointe at ULM | Monroe, LA
⏰ Registration begins at 7:30 AM

🎟 Early Bird Registration ends April 30, 2026
Seats are limited, so register today!

PREP summer has begun! Our first group of pre-educators got their orientation to the SOE by our own Dr. Ann Marie Hancock. Welcome to the Bayou!

The Best is on the Bayou!

Engineering Little Blueprints Summer Camp

35 students participated in our summer camp with five pre-service teachers Three SOE faculty members, one K-12 teacher, and all the administrative team was on board for a great week.

The students participated in hands-on STEM activities in a multitude of areas.

The BEST is truly on the BAYOU!

As the past-president of LACTE, the Louisiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Dr. Myra Lovett was honored to represent our state’s teacher preparation programs at AACTE’s Washington Week- Day on the Hill, joining teacher preparation leaders from across the country to support educators and the students they serve.

The Best is TRULY on the Bayou!

Brandi Paine and Dr Tia NeaI hanging with Ace at the ULM booth at Teacher Leader Summit in New Orleans.

The Best is truly on the Bayou!

Dr. Leigh Ann Moore successfully completed her Ed.D. in Curriculum & Instruction. She successfully defended her capstone research, Determining the Impact of a Collegiate Corequisite Model on Student Success at a Community College: A Practical Action Research Study, with support from her committee: Dr. Myra Lovett, Dr. Amy Weems, & Dr. Ashley Schulte. Congratulations, Dr. Moore!

The Best is truly on the Bayou!

Congratulations to Dr Joelle Raynes for graduating this month.

She successfully defended her capstone, “Examining Instructional Routines to Support Oral Reading Fluency through Differentiated Instruction and Phonics Strategies”

The Best is truly on the Bayou!

Congratulations to our very own educator extraordinaire, Dr Jessica McAllister. She completed her doctorate this May while coordinating our MAT program and teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses. We are so proud of you!

Her dissertation was titled, A Phenomenological Study of Middle School Teachers’ Perspectives for State-Mandated Trauma-Informed Best Practice.

The Best is truly on the Bayou!