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Mike Berenstain is not “Brother Bear,” a character from the Berenstain Bears children’s book series created by his parents. As Berenstain likes to joke, having an older sibling makes him “Sister Bear.” It was that kind of humor that marked Berenstain’s visit this week to Â鶹ÊÓƵ, where he told stories of his parents, Stan and Jan, while sharing with his audiences what the future holds for the furry family from Bear Country.

Author and illustrator Mike Berenstain, whose parents, Stan and Jan, created the iconic children's literature series The Berenstain Bears, visits Â鶹ÊÓƵ this week for a public lecture that will explore the importance of early literacy and the art of writing and editing for children.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Teaching Fellows hosted a panel discussion on March 10 where past students shared their professional pathways and explained how they had achieved their places of leadership.

Assistant professor Jean Rattigan-Rohr made a trip this month to Portland, Ore., to observe Concordia University’s replication of a research project she developed at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ senior Tyler West won 3rd place in the educational/instructional category of the student competition in the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts for a four-part series of videos on the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy’s “Go-4-College” program.

Mark Enfield, Assistant Professor of Education, and Bird Stasz, Associate Professor of Education, had an article published in the January edition of the Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Quilted artwork by an Â鶹ÊÓƵ junior was unveiled on Feb. 17 in a School of Education afternoon reception featuring the student and the Winter Term instructor who inspired her project.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ faculty members Carolyn Stuart and Mary Knight-McKenna, along with Â鶹ÊÓƵ special education majors Jordan McNeill and Kristen Marcickiewicz, made a presentation on Feb. 3 at the North Carolina Council for Exceptional Children (NC-CEC) conference.

An organization that represents private colleges in North Carolina has awarded Â鶹ÊÓƵ a grant of nearly $15,000 to fund a summer program for students about to graduate from local high schools and who make up the inaugural class of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Academy college access program.

There may be no better way of encouraging children to read than by allowing them to choose a stack of new books for their home collections. On Wednesday evening, with the help of Â鶹ÊÓƵ students, that’s just what 22 elementary school students did with their tutors from the School of Education.