Wichita State School of Education

04/26/2025

Our fabulous WSU student teachers are attending the 2025 Kansas Leads Conference this weekend! Time to re-energize!

04/25/2025

Well now. This sounds like fun.

04/25/2025

Great job Dr.Sun Young Lee. We’re so proud of you!!

Congratulations to Dr. Lee on her Outstanding Research Paper Award!

04/23/2025

CAS will be well represented at the 2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, with faculty and student scholars sharing research, leading presentations and earning national recognition. The conference begins today, April 23, and runs through April 27 in Denver, Colorado. The AERA annual meeting is one of the largest gatherings of scholars in the field of education. 📚

Student scholars presenting are: Hollie J. Weatherburn, Shelly Coleman-Martins, Van Williams, Tamara Huff, Rachael Webb, Kiela Wood, Kayla Day and Kurt Siklar.

Faculty scholars presenting are: Sun Young Lee, Victoria Koop (Sherif), Heidi R. Stinchcomb, Angela Beeler, M. Patricia Hernandez-Nuhfer, Lakaya Bieker, Kristin Sherwood, Valerie J. Thompson, Beata M. Latawiec, Christie Henderson and Jennifer Ingrid Friend.

Dr. Sun Young Lee, assistant professor in the Wichita State School of Education, will receive the 2025 Early Career Award from AERA’s Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies (CICCS) Special Interest Group. The award will be presented Friday, April 25.

Read more about the presentations at wichita.edu/aera2025

04/22/2025

We’re so proud of Dr. Sun Young Lee, Robin Folkerts, Sherri Holle and Maria Wehby and all they accomplished during the academic year. These are just a few of our many faculty and staff members in the School of Education 🖤🖤💛💛

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04/18/2025

04/17/2025

We had a wonderful visit with the Kansas Teacher of the Year team this week. Great conversations at lunch and tours of the Student Success Center and all of the resources that are available to students. We ended a fun filled day with a KTOY Keynote to our Core 4 student teachers and our 2025 Mentor Teacher winners.

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04/16/2025

This is your spring semester reminder to show yourself kindness, ask for help and remember that your best is going to feel different every day. You got this. Go Shockers! 💛

04/16/2025

Congratulations to our 2025 Elementary Mentor Teachers of the Year! We are beyond grateful for the dedication and heart these educators bring to mentoring the next generation of teachers. Their commitment to growing the profession and shaping future classrooms is truly inspiring! 💛🖤💛🖤 Join us in celebrating:
🍎 Mr. Mario Flores
🍎 Ms. Rhiannon Bishop
🍎 Ms. Jenny Burrus (not pictured, but celebrated just as proudly!)

04/16/2025

04/09/2025

Shout out to Cindy Elledge Malcolm for visiting with Megan Sauer's FACS class at Maize High School about Emerging Literacy to teach about the importance of guiding the brain development in Early Childhood and PreK students. Wichita State would be lucky to have these Maize students in the School of Education!

04/08/2025

No matter the ups and downs of the day we should always choose kindness.
Kindness to others, Kindness to ourselves.

JUST KINDNESS 💛💛🖤🖤

04/08/2025

Looking forward to the 2025 conference is becoming more and more exciting as each day passes. As of current, breakout session proposals are now being accepted, registration is open, and the Keynote...

04/07/2025

Registration for summer and fall 2025 classes is now open! Go to the MyClasses tab in your myWSU portal and find "Student Registration" to begin registration. Learn more at wichita.edu/registration.

04/05/2025

04/04/2025

Are you a junior or senior who has experienced unexpected hardship? We hope to alleviate some of your stress with the Healy Foundation Scholarship.

Apply at their website https://www.healyfoundation.org/ or using ScholarshipUniverse https://wichita.scholarshipuniverse.com