College of Education

GCU alums keep piling up Milken Educator Awards

Allie Galas on Tuesday became the seventh Grand Canyon University alumnus in four years to win the Milken Educator Award in a surprise ceremony at […]

COE is showing up big at national conferences

At times, Dr. Meredith Critchfield looks around a conference hall and marvels. “The level of Grand Canyon University participation in these major national educator preparation […]

Kozimor family finds love, faith and teaching at GCU

Photos by Ralph Freso Steve and Jamie Kozimor stood by the bench where, a lifetime ago, everything changed. The bench on Grand Canyon University’s campus […]

To GCU alumnus, national award is from putting kids first

Luke Kanine is the kind of small-town educator who not only teaches middle school P.E. and Spanish but serves as the behavior interventionist. He also […]

Virtues can deflect stress of divided times, guest speaker preaches

There's no definitive list of virtues. But there are plenty that serve as positive character traits, according to Dr. Michael Hahn, assistant dean of the […]

GCU College of Education adjuncts 'on fire' for new academic year

For the first time, the College of Education kicked off the academic year with a faculty conference for adjunct faculty members, and they were enthused […]

Prevailing to teach: 'I am a strong woman'

Elizabeth Kuehne was born deaf. But after encouragement from her late adoptive mother and from a GCU university counselor, this summer she began work online […]

A paraprofessional finds understanding among differences

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of three stories on paraprofessional students. Click here for the first in the series. Lyretha Abu-Shanab never gave it a […]

The world was not handed to them, but at GCU they raised a hand to teach

They often didn't have it easy in life, yet classroom paraprofessionals help the most vulnerable of K12 students. And GCU is helping those paraprofessionals, including […]