Announcements
Student Announcements
UTRGV CEP Student Conference - Registration is Now Open
Join us on Saturday, April 20th for the UTRGV CEP Student Conference from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM on the Edinburg Campus Education Complex.
- Free Registration
- Learning Opportunities
- Student Platform (Undergraduate, Master's, Doctoral Students)
- Professional Development Certificate
- Free CEP T-Shirt, Lunch, and Prize Giveaways
- UTRGV Shuttle Transportation Available
UTRGV Preschool Teacher Conference - Registration is Now Open
The Second Annual UTRGV Preschool Teacher Conference is now open for registration until April 17th. Join us on Saturday, May 4th from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM for a variety of breakout sessions. Dr. Gilberto Soto, Texas A&M Internation Univeristy, Department of Fine and Performing Arts will be our keynote speaker. View the conference schedule at a glance.
Brownsville Review Sessions - Early Childhood PK-3 TExES 292 Certification Exam
Join us for the Spring 2024 Early Childhood PK-3 TExES 292 Certification Exam review sessions on the Brownsville campus. On Wednesdays February 7 (BINAB 2.219), March 6 (BMSLC 3.126), and April 3 (BINAB 2.219) from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM. Hosted by Dr. Julia Cuevas-Guerra and Dr. Irasema S. González from the Department of Human Development and School Services.
Edinburg Review Sessions - Early Childhood PK-3 TExES 292 Certification Exam
Join us for the Spring 2024 Early Childhood PK-3 TExES 292 Certification Exam review sessions on the Edinburg campus. On Tuesdays February 6, March 5, and April 2 at the Education Complex Borderlands room (EEDUC 3.204) from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM. Hosted by Dr. Julia Cuevas-Guerra and Dr. Irasema S. González from the Department of Human Development and School Services
2024 - 2025 Charles Butt Scholarship for Aspiring Teachers Application
The Charles Butt Scholarship is exclusively for students committed to a teaching career in the Texas public school system in either a Title 1 school or in a shortage subject area (math, science, bilingual, or special education). The competitive selection process includes an application, pre-screening by UTRGV College of Education and P-16 Integration teams, and an individual interview.
Applicants must be either high school seniors or UT RGV freshman at the time of application in either Year-Long Residency or STEP UP Program. For questions, reach out to Dr. Criselda Garcia.
Faculty Announcements
UTRGV receives AACTE Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology
Help us congratulate UTRGV CEP’s Leticia De Leon, Ed.D., Rene Corbeil, Ed.D., and Maria Elena Corbeil, Ed.D., who received the Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology at AACTE’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Aurora/Denver, Colo.
- Video Announcement: https://bit.ly/3uD4Co8
- Article Announcement: https://bit.ly/3NYZFfZ
Congratulations, Dr. Jacbo W. Neumann!
Please help me congratulate Dr. Jacob Neumann for his book on How power works in schools and why it matters for maximizing students' learning. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Below is more information about his work.
People typically misunderstand how power works in schools. Common thinking says that things like high-stakes testing, school reform efforts, and political mandates exert the most power on schools. The reality, however, is that power comes from everywhere. It isn’t a thing that only certain people possess, nor does it operate linearly, as in simple actions and reactions. Instead, power acts more like a web: if you exert power in one part of a school, the effects often spread across the rest of it. The usual emphasis on big, easy-to-see influences causes schools to focus on the wrong concerns instead of the ones which make the most impact. How Power Works in Schools and Why It Matters for Maximizing Students’ Learning examines everyday phenomena inside schools to reveal the complexity and nuance of power and makes practical suggestions for how schools can manage power more effectively to maximize students’ learning.
Congratulations Dr. James C. Jupp
Please help me congratulate Dr. Jim Jupp for his edited book on Iterant Curriculum Theory: Decolonial Praxes, Theories, and Histories. This edited volume provides a compendium of recent work on critical curricular pedagogical praxes via itinerant curriculum theory (ICT). Section one focuses on emergent praxes using ICT in specific contexts. Section two focuses on theorizing that advances ICT as a conceptual-empirical approach to thinking and doing curriculum studies. Section three focuses on ICT’s counter-narrativized curriculum genealogies that inform institutional interventions and social movements. Overall, this volume advances ICT as a transnational-local way of doing critical curricular-pedagogical praxes, up-frombelow, within bioregions. For those interested in doing critical pedagogy from an historicized, transnational, yet local perspective, this book is indispensable.
College Announcements and Accolades
2022 to 2023 SBEC Commendations Awarded to UTRGV's EPP
The State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) approved the 2022 to 2023 Educator Preparation Program (EPP) commendations during their February 9, 2024 meeting.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Educator Preparation Program was recognized for commendations in two areas. Category 1 rigorous and robust preparation first test pass rate in teacher shortage area, Special Education, and category 2 preparing the educators Texas needs percentage of prepared teachers who identify as teachers of color, Hispanic/Latino.
Please join us in celebrating UTRGV's Educator Preparation Program. View UTRGV's EPP SBEC Commendations.
UTRGV EPP CAEP Accreditation Certificate
The UTRGV Educator Preparation Program is now nationally accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) meeting the rigorous CAEP Accreditation Standards to better prepare the teachers of tomorrow to succeed in a diverse range of classrooms.