Penn State SPLED

Our students have MasterED it! Congrats to our 27 students who graduated this weekend from our residential Master’s in Special Education program! This cohort has been beyond amazing over their time here at PSU. We have 9 BRITE Students who graduated, 5 students who came from outside of education, and 13 who came to us from an undergraduate program in general education. We are so proud of each of them and cannot wait to see all of the amazing things they accomplish! Congrats to: Katie, Fatima, Amanda, Rebecca, Bella, Alexis, Carolina, Ally, Kelly, Alicia, Sophie, Jung Ju, Vivian, Jake, Kaylee, Frankie, Devon, Sidney, Emily, Ainsley, Gabrielle, Kelsey, Mackenzie, Hope, Misha’el, Derek, & Miaan! 💙🎓🫶🏼💐

We are proud to officially welcome our newest Special Education alumni- the class of 2026! 🎓💙 Caps off to our 13 undergraduate students: Audrey, Aaliyah, Justine, Grace, Sloane, Kieran, Melanie, Keira, Kaleb, Jen, Marni, Sophia, & Sarah who graduated with a bachelors of science in Special Education today! We are so unbelievably proud of you- and we know your impact is only going to continue to grow from here! We Are- Penn State Proud of you! 🫶🏼 🦁

Tonight we celebrated all of our 2026 graduates at the 2nd annual EPCSE Hooding & Pinning Ceremony! All of our students received a special pin while our Master’s students were officially hooded with the their light blue (education) blue & white (for PSU) hoods. Our very own Shi Richardson (MEd) gave an incredible speech about the difference we can make as special education teachers- empowering our students to use their voices 🩵 We love any opportunity to celebrate our phenomenal grads and can’t wait to see them walk across the stage at graduation this weekend!

Congratulations to Sharon Redmon who successfully defended her dissertation today. Dr. Redmon is headed off to UWSP in the fall and we could not be prouder! 💜💛

We had a kicking time celebrating our graduating seniors this week with a taco party. 🌮 But the highlight of the evening was the Cozad Kickball game: team Dexter vs. Team Kaleb. It was a close game but team Kaleb came back from a 11 run deficit to win the game! Lots of laughs and grass stains were had. We are grateful for a group who knows how to have fun! Leaders in the field! ☄️🎓

Presenting our cohorts of the class of 2026! Tonight we officially welcomed our students into the Alumni network in the College of Education with a pinning ceremony where mentors and supervisors pinned their student teachers. We are truly so proud of our students accomplishments, grateful beyond words to our incredible mentor teachers, and lucky to have such supportive supervisors! What an incredible group of educators! 🍏 Cheers to our undergraduate and masters classes of 2026! 🎓

Caps off! 🎓📄 Our Master’s students successfully presented their capstone and writing projects today! We are so very proud of their hard work- and it was an honor to see how much their students had grown due to the interventions they provided. Today marked their last official class as a masters student- and next weekend they will walk across that stage as official graduates!

Tonight our undergrad cohort finished their very last class here at PSU 🥹 They presented on two different students that they worked with during student teaching and shared the incredible lessons they have learned throughout their program along the way. This sweet throwback picture was taken on their very first day- before they knew how close they would become as a cohort, how much work they would be putting in, and how much of a difference they were going to make. We are so unbelievably proud of them and are looking forward to celebrating them over the next few weeks and seeing them continue to make an impact as they begin their careers! 💙

Some advice Kieran shared that felt so impactful to all of us- “Our progress may not be the loudest or the most obvious, but the smallest wins are the best ones.”