Alumni Speak
My story can best be described as a 'double shot at love' with the School of Education. I'm a product of the undergraduate elementary education licensure program and a current student in the masters program in special education.
Esther (Bunny) Akers was named the 2011 recipient of the Clinical Partnership Award. "When you combine Bunny's own teaching with the teaching careers of her former student teachers, Bunny will have touched the learning of more than 230,000 middle and high school students."
Ginger holds two degrees from William & Mary and was recently named vice president for student affairs.
Laura Bagbey '11 is the 2011 recipient of the VACTE Scholarship. She remarked in her application, "Teaching means striving everyday to understand my students and help them to believe that their opportunities in life are limitless."
Clint Calzini Ph.D. '11 (EPPL) now serves as the principal of the secondary school at Westlake Academy, Westlake, Texas. Calzini has a master's degree in school leadership from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in secondary education with biology and psychology from the University of Vermont.
Dr. Joy L. Davis, Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette has written a new book, Bright, Talented and Black; A Guide for African American Gifted Learners.
Dr. Shannon Chance shared the significance of LEED certification in university buildings at the Graduate Research Forum featuring the new School of Education facility. Student researchers demonstrated their findings with members of the Virginia General Assembly. The Virginia Council of Graduate Schools conducts it annually at the Library of Virginia.
Billitta Jallon Brown Croskey '96 serves as the Director of Academics at the SEED School of Maryland. This fall sixth grade girls were welcomed to "William and Mary Hall," filled with college paraphenalia.
Loury Ollison Floyd, Ph.D. '04, Associate Professor & Assistant Dean for Teacher Education at the School of Education at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, has been elected Vice President of NC-ACTE.
David Gaston '88, M.Ed. '90, (secondary education) and Ed.D. '05 (Educational Planning, Policy and Leadership) has been selected to serve in the Williamsburg James City County Public Schools central office.
On Feb. 5 during Charter Day weekend, School of Education graduate, Sue Hanna Gerdelman ’76, will be among five honored by the William and Mary Alumni Association with the Alumni Medallion.
Ann Gillespie Gray, M.Ed. '00, Ed.S. '03, a member of the School of Education Development Board, chose to enter William & Mary School of Education in mid-career only to find a very supportive environment for learning and balancing family life.
Daina Henry spoke at the Philippine Association for Institutional Research to serve as keynote speaker at its August conference.
A 1971 graduate of the Elementary Education program, Jill Sivertsen Hunter, Ed.D. now served as the chairperson of the School of Education Development Board.
Antonis Katsiyannis, a professor of special education at Clemson University for the past 13 years, was named an Alumni Distinguished Professor in the fall of 2010.
Truly, it is the people within the School of Education at the College of William and Mary that make the program both outstanding and unforgettable.
Tracey F. Jones, has been named the assistant principal at Toano Middle School, Dr. Stacia M. Barreau has been named principal at James River Elementary and Joy E. Martin will serve as assistant principal at Rawls Byrd Elementary.
Sara Miller was recently named a finalist for the International Reading Associations's Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award.
Steve Staples '76, M.Ed. '82 served for 17 years as superintendent of York County School Division, one of the highest performing school systems in the Commonwealth. For his leadership within the division and state, Steve was named Superintendent of the Year.
I am a recent graduate of the Counselor Education and Supervision program. When I was applying for graduate programs, I did a national search to find the program that was the best fit for me and could offer the experiences I wanted and needed.
