By Stefanie Malinoski

 

Robert Ford, a UConn Early College Experience American Studies (2013) and English (2007) Instructor at North Branford High School, was published in February in the National Council of English Teachers English (NCTE) Leadership Quarterly. His publication titled Adventures in Gamification and Personalized Learning: A Case Study in Game-Based Course Design is based on a gamification project he designed for his AMST 1201 course. You can connect with Rob on twitter at @robdford.

 

Katie Boland, a UConn Early College Experience Political Science Instructor (2011) at Trumbull High School, shared the success she and her students had as Connecticut State Champions at the We the People: The Constitution and the Citizen competition. She and her students then went on to rank 9th in the nation at the national competition in April.

 

Trumbull High School We the People: The Constitution and the Citizen team at Nationals

 

 

Do you have accomplishments you’d like to share with the Early College Experience community in a future Magazine? We are always incredibly proud of our Instructors and their effort and the creativity they apply every day to their UConn courses and look forward to sharing more news of the successes of our Early College Experience community members.

 

Please share with us at ece@uconn.edu.

 

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