Thirty North Carolina Educators Selected for 2025-26 Kenan FellowshipsRALEIGH, N.C. — The Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership at N.C. State University announced its 2025–26 cohort of Kenan Fellows in recognition of National Teacher Day.This year, thirty teachers representing 24 counties across North Carolina will embark on a transformative year of professional development. These fellows bring expertise from diverse subjects, including STEM, humanities, and special education.… read more about Kenan Fellows Program Welcomes New Teacher Leader Cohort »
The inaugural Southern Roots: Growing University-Assisted Community School Partnerships symposium, held over two days in mid-April at North Carolina Central University and Duke University brought together nearly 200 public school practitioners, community-based partners, and higher education students, faculty and staff from across the U.S. South. Participants engaged in dynamic workshops, site visits, student-led research and movement building, and focused on established and emerging… read more about Inaugural ‘Southern Roots’ Symposium Brings Together Public-School Educators, Community-Based Partners and Higher Ed »
Samantha Bernier Bermudez is a Trinity senior graduating in 2025 with a major in Mathematics and minors in Education and Cinematic Arts. What is a favorite tradition or experience that makes Duke special to you? One thing about Duke is their traditions. Whether it’s burning a bench after beating UNC at home or attending seniors-only midnight breakfast on east campus, Duke really tries its best to be one-of-a-kind (and I think it succeeds.)Who is someone from your undergraduate… read more about The Student Becomes the Teacher: How the Program in Education Prepared a Trinity Major for the Classroom »
Senior Faculty at the Duke Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Professor of the Practice in Education at Duke UniversityDavid Malone, PhD, joined the Cook Center in 2014, when it first originated as the Duke Consortium on Social Equity. He is currently the Co-Director of the Working Group on Educational Equity & Policy at the Cook Center and a Professor of the Practice in Education. With almost 40 years of experience in leadership, teaching, and research at Duke, Dr… read more about A Q&A with Senior Faculty David M. Malone »
Carter Zenke ’20 was initially drawn to Duke because of its interdisciplinary strengths. He began his academic journey in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, focusing on electrical and computer engineering. But he quickly realized his interests were much broader. Zenke moved to Trinity and created his own interdisciplinary major through Program II, an individualized degree program for students whose interests cross departmental boundaries. read more about Carter Zenke Shares His Journey Through Interdisciplinary Education at Duke »
All five university and community leaders honored at the annual Samuel DuBois Cook Society award ceremony Thursday night had the same message: When we embrace difference, we achieve excellence.Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper received the Cook Society’s Distinguished Service Award, given each year to a leader whose service reflects Cook’s social activism and leadership.“It has been said often that my cabinet and staff were by far the most diverse in state history,” Cooper said. “It has also been said that they were the… read more about Cook Society Awards: Five Campus & Community Leaders Who Built a ‘Beloved Community’ »
Duke + Durham: Empowering Students for Bold Thinking and Big FuturesThe February edition of Durham Magazine features Duke TeachHouse as part of an article about Duke's work with local students.https://issuu.com/shannonmedia/docs/_dmfm25_issuu/35 read more about Duke TeachHouse Featured in Durham Magazine »
The Bass Connections team hosted a series of six Teach In sessions at Duke TeachHouse. Educators, students, researchers, stakeholders, and community members had the opportunity to learn about and visualize the Community School Strategy. Sessions included panels, informational sessions, engaging activities, and reflective journaling prompts. Student researchers collected data at the first and last sessions in order to determine how teachers' attitudes and understanding of community schools had changed over time. … read more about University-Assisted Community Schools Teach Ins at Duke TeachHouse »
Ask Deja Simms, a sixth-grade English Language Arts teacher at Durham’s Neal Middle School, about her class’s Friday learning sessions with Duke students, and she’ll say: “We usually have low attendance Fridays, but now no student is missing. They’re like, ‘The Duke students are coming?’ They’re excited.” The lessons were part of education professor Kisha Daniels’ Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop class, where her students worked with the sixth graders on exploring how social issues are connected to musical genres. The class… read more about Hip Hop in the Classroom »
Students in Duke’s Program in Education were recently given scholarships from two different awards. Nine students were awarded scholarships from the North Carolina Governor’s Emerging Teacher Leadership Award, a project developed Iby TeachNC and Governor Roy Cooper's office. Founded in 2019, the goal of TeachNC is to change how people see educators while enhancing the numbers, caliber, and diversity of educators joining North Carolina's educational landscape. The scholarship will support students as… read more about Program in Education Receives Two Awards »
Assistant Professor of the Practice Kisha Daniels is on a mission. As the new director of Duke’s Secondary Teacher Preparation Program, her job is to let students know that on a campus full of emerging consultants, engineers, and doctors, there’s also a pathway to becoming a teacher. While many departments at Duke are highly visible, the Program in Education still flies under the radar. It offers a minor for undergraduates who’d like to become elementary and secondary teachers and a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) for… read more about Inspiring Change: Students in the Program in Education Find Their Calling to Make a Difference in Education »
Growing up in the Bronx only three blocks from Yankee Stadium, it’s no surprise that baseball is in Harris Cooper’s DNA. So much so the retired dean of social sciences and chair of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke found a new lab for his tireless study of people: Working as an usher at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. “One night game, I saw a guy who had on a shirt that said ‘Rebel Scum,’” Cooper says. “He had on baggy camo shorts, a scruffy beard, hat backwards. He walks by me and a little later, another guy walks… read more about Harris Cooper: Psychology, Baseball and the History of Whiskey »
