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Examining ecologies, partnering with practitioners, improving lives

Professor Mike Barnett works with students

Faculty accolades, research, and news

First-generation college student Bryan Paula Gonzalez ’19 wants to empower others through education.

Meet Marianne Riggio ’75, M.Ed. ’76, advocate for the world’s deafblind.

Education at BC

New Campus School director

Barbara J. Cataldo, former superintendent of the Cohasset Public Schools, will assume her new role at the special needs school on July 9.

Testing the tests

A media-driven focus on country rankings in student tests can be misleading, argues the Lynch School's Henry Braun.

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Five win AERA awards

Lynch School of Education faculty and alumni are honored by the American Educational Research Association

Justice in Action

Education in emergency – Students study after class in Yambio, South Sudan, where outbreaks of violence have deterred many from enrolling in school.

Educating refugees

A Lynch School of Education professor aids a global initiative for displaced children.

Leading the way for new English learners

Dual-language learning thrives at the Lynch School

Partners in economic growth

Boston College and the City of Newton announced plans to address economic disparity in the city with the establishment of a research partnership that supports “Economic Growth for All.”

Learning Sciences

Learning Sciences at the Lynch School

Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach is the way Lynch School faculty advance the field of learning sciences. Professors Jim Slotta, G. Michael Barnett and Associate Professor Katherine McNeill explain their research.

Science through theater

Working with fellow faculty, a local playwright, and the Watertown Children's Theatre, Mike Barnett has overseen the creation and production of the one-act play "The Important Thing About Earthquakes."

Lynn Sejour, a sophomore at the West Roxbury Education Complex, Yaderiz Mendez, and eighth grader at the James A. Hennigan K-8 School in Jamaica Plain, and Bryonia Brown, who will attend Brockton High School this fall, prepare a presentation for a project they completed during a two-week STEM workshop held on campus in July.

A STEM summer

Students from China and Boston Public Schools connected at a STEM workshop on campus.

Developing the Whole Person

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Video: Whole Child, Whole Person Summit

Boston College researchers partner with ASCD to encourage educators to think broadly about educational change and to tap into their aspirations for better schools and a better society.

The whole person: One vision, three events

The Lynch School hosts three pioneering conferences on student development across intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and ethical dimensions.

A 'whole child' focus

Three groundbreaking Lynch School conferences redefine education to address the whole child.