Warner School Education

Nearly 50 years after its founding, the Warner School of Education has a home to call its own. Learn more »

A series of events in April will look at the tough road that students with emotional and behavioral problems face in school and spark new conversations about an education revolution that empowers emotionally and behaviorally challenged youth. Learn more »

Professor designs partnership between master’s and doctoral students and the SouthWest Area Neighborhood Association in Rochester. Learn more »

The Warner Graduate Student Association hosted a multicultural event that was aimed at celebrating cultural diversity and multilingualism. Learn more »

Learn about full and partial tuition scholarships at the Warner School. Learn more »

Second Annual Young Writers Summer Camp scheduled for August. Learn more »

Warner School Commencement will be held on May 18 at 2:30 p.m. Learn more »

Horizons at Warner, a six-week summer enrichment program, hosted 81 city school students this year, up from 62 last year. Learn more »

Chelsea Audin ‘11, was in the Guaranteed Rochester Accelerated Degree in Education Program, otherwise known as GRADE. GRADE students enter the University as freshmen with a guaranteed admission to the Warner School of Education. Learn more »

Pack-4-Success, a non-profit founded June 2011 by University of Rochester graduate Matthew Cohen ’11, ’12W (MS) and his sister Emily Cohen ’07, has raised $2,500 this past year to help alleviate the financial burdens associated with back-to-school time for families. Learn more »

Heather Hostuttler has taken her love for reading and writing to Henry W. Longfellow School 36, where she is among other Warner graduate students working at the school to build and strengthen children’s literacy skills through Project READ. Learn more »

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Warner in the Media

Curry on Fulbright Grant in Campus Times

Education Week Blog Highlights Warner Study on College Student Motivation and Academic Success

Warner Study on Motivation, Student Success Featured in Inside Higher Ed

Larson, Hursh on the Teaching Profession in City Newspaper

Doctoral Student Anthony Cook Named New Catholic Schools Superintendent

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News at Warner

Rochester Area Colleges Continuing Education Association Honors Warner Student
In recognition of academic achievement and commitment to education, Warner School of Education doctoral student Kristen Love is one of this year’s recipients of the Outstanding Adult Student Award given by the Rochester Area Colleges Continuing Education (RACCE) Association.
Making the Connections
Wei Yang is among others in a cohort of master’s students in human development who are wrapping the theories they’ve learned in Warner classrooms around practices in the broader Rochester community. Through their coursework at Warner, human development students come to construct their own theory about how people change and learn over the life course. They then take these evolving theories off to real-life experiences.
Science STARS Debut Film Aimed at Educating Others on Healthy Food Choices
As part of a several month exploration of science in the urban community, 12 girls from East High School devoted their afterschool time this school year to investigating food, where it comes from, and the choices people make about eating. And, they are now eager to share their findings with the community in an attempt to help others make smarter decisions about food.
Reasons for Attending College Affect Students’ Academic Success, Study Finds
Researchers at the Warner School of Education found that student motivation for attending college is related to academic success. And, they uncover unique relationships that exist between the different types of student motivation—as conceptualized by Self-Determination Theory (SDT)—and academic achievement and persistence. The study is the first to look at the academic outcomes of college students driven by relationship motivation.
Warner School Professor Named Fulbright Scholar
Associate Professor Mary Jane Curry has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research next year in Chile. Curry’s award will take her to Universidad Mayor in Santiago for the spring 2014 semester to teach in the Department of English Language Teaching in the School of Education. While in Chile, Curry will conduct research on the experiences of Chilean scholars writing for publication in English.

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