Spring 2015 | Volume 8, Number 3
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Preparing Leaders, Impacting the World, Shaping the Future

INSIDE

  • It's Complicated
  • 'Campus' Life
  • Alumni Profile: Whitney Crews
  • News Briefs
  • Lasting Legacy

Spring 2015

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The Sports Management Master's Program is now part of the Educational Administration Department, but will continue its emphasis on training students for exciting careers in sports and education.

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It hardly seems like a year since Dr. Jon Engelhardt announced his retirement, but here it is almost time to go. Dr. Engelhardt reflects on the past year and his experience at Baylor.

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Dr. Grant Morgan is into latent variable modeling, but don't worry — he can explain. A popular classroom teacher, Dr. Morgan embodies the ideal of a teacher-researcher.

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SOE professors who serve as university liaison to a local Professional Development School spend most of their time on a campus other than Baylor. Share a "day in the life" of a faculty member on a PDS campus.

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Meet Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year, SOE grad Whitney Crews, a sixth-grade social studies and science teacher in Lindale ISD. She says a love of learning is not enough to be a great teacher; it takes a passion to pass it on.

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If you really want to know all about Whitney Crews, 2015 Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year, read this article that her daughter wrote for the Lindale High School Eagle.

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Baylor names a new dean for the School of Education; the SOE launches a new EdD in K-12 Educational Leadership; there's a new U.S. News ranking out; plus staff, faculty, student and alumni honors.

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The retirement of Dean Jon M. Engelhardt has inspired a scholarship for SOE undergraduates. The Dean's Advisory Council, SOE faculty and staff have contributed enough to endow the program, with the first recipient in fall 2015.

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Several Baylor School of Education (SOE) graduates are serving as elected president or president-elect of statewide associations that serve educators or educational administrators.