Partnerships and Service
| Arkansas Leadership Academy | |
| A statewide coalition of universities, professional associations, corporations, educational cooperatives, and the Arkansas departments of education. | |
| Little Rock School District | |
| Education Renewal Zone | |
| In 2003 the Arkansas General Assembly established Education Renewal Zones across the state to promote collaboration among public schools, education service cooperatives, colleges and universities, as well as parents and community members. | |
| The Renaissance Group Web Site | |
| UALR was Invited to Join National Education Consortium. The Renaissance Group, a national consortium of leading universities known for strong colleges of education and university-wide commitment to the preparation of educators, has invited UALR’s College of Education to join the group. UALR is the 36th institution of higher learning to be invited to join, and the first in Arkansas. | |
| Teachers of Tomorrow (TOT) | |
| The primary purpose of the TOT program is to increase the number of secondary students interested in entering the teaching profession. TOT Clubs exist in several of the middle schools and high schools in the Little Rock School District, North Little Rock School District, and the Pulaski County Special School District. TOT programs offer classes for secondary students interested in becoming teachers. Scholarships have been provided to former club members who pursued careers in teaching by enrolling in teacher preparation programs.
UALR is one of four universities in the state that collaborates with the TOT programs in the state. For more than a decade, UALR has been an active partner with school districts’ TOT programs. Faculty members from UALR have served on the governing committees for TOT. In addition, they have been involved in the preparation of a specialized curriculum for secondary students interested in becoming teachers, evaluated the effectiveness of the TOT program, and developed a strategy to link TOT alumni to the Student National Education Association. Presently, the UALR College of Education hosts a TOT website and online database for clubs in local school districts. Development of the website was supervised by the Director of the College of Education’s EAST lab (Environmental and Spatial Technology) and completed by students who were awarded EAST scholarships to attend UALR. |
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| Distance Learning Summer Institute | |
| The Distance Learning Summer Institute is held annually and is hosted by the UALR CyberCollege. The Institute provides technology training in the area of distance education for Arkansas’ Math and Science teachers (predominately from schools in the Delta area). The College of Education EAST lab participated in the training by offering seminars on grant-writing, online resources for teachers, integrating technology into classrooms without a computer, and the EAST initiative. | |
| The GLOBE program | |
| GLOBE is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. UALR’s GLOBE partnership involves the pairing of faculty and staff from the Colleges of Education and Science & Mathematics.
GLOBE is a cooperative effort of schools, led in the United States by a Federal interagency program supported by NASA, NSF, EPA and the US State Department, in partnership with colleges and universities, state and local school systems, and non-government organizations. Internationally, GLOBE is a partnership between the United States with over 100 other countries. |
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| Dean’s Symposium | |
| The Deans’ Symposiums of Arkansas were begun in 1994 as a partnership between public schools, institutions of higher education (schools of education), and the Arkansas State Department of Education. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Education has been an active member since its inception. | |