School of Education

Baylor School of Education prepares leaders for a changing world, offering degrees at every level for a range of careers focused on education, leadership, and human development. Known for a distinctive blend of theory and clinical experiences, the School’s programs have earned national recognition for exemplary preparation of research scholars, educational leaders, innovators, and clinicians.

Apr. 15, 2025
SOE Graduate Students Honored

Three School of Education (SOE) graduate students were honored with awards from the Baylor Graduate School. The Graduate School honored 14 students university wide with research, instruction, and dissertation awards.

Beatrice Ruiz, a PhD student in the Department of Educational Psychology received the Research Award for the Social Sciences. Ruiz’s research focuses on creative achievement and creative education, including studies on the relationship between attention control and creative achievement.

Maggie Bryant and Elizabeth (Liz) Harrelson Magill, both PhD students in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, were honorees for their teaching. Bryant received the award for a course she taught in fall of 2023 and, in her teaching evaluations, students have praised her as wise, passionate and engaging always, and wise. Magill received the award for a course in spring of 2024, and her mentor said he admires the breadth and depth of her expertise, the inventiveness of her teaching, and the ethic of care that animates her interactions with students and colleagues.

Apr. 9, 2025
Baylor Senior Named Most Outstanding Clinical Teacher for SCANSUP

Caitlin Casassa, a senior at Baylor School of Education, received the 2025 Most Outstanding Clinical Teacher Award from the South Central Area Network for School-University Partnerships (SCANSUP).

Casassa is teaching in a third-grade classroom at Woodway Elementary in Midway ISD for her senior student-teaching year. The award recognizes her teaching skills, classroom strategies, and commitment to creating an inclusive and engaging learning environment for her students.

Mar. 6, 2025
SOE Professors Part of Interdisciplinary Research Team for $4.71 million Grant

Three Baylor School of Education faculty members in the Department of Educational Psychology — Dr. Erik Carter, Dr. Sarah Mire, and Dr. Terrill Saxon — are co-investigators on an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers that will conduct a mixed-methods longitudinal study on patience. The researchers will study patience in people who experience adversity, and the SOE team’s research will focus on families raising adolescents who experience intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Mar. 3, 2025
Baylor SOE PhD Students in School Psychology Continue 100% Match for Internships

For the fourth year in a row, 100 percent of the Baylor University School of Education’s school psychology Ph.D. students have “Matched” for pre-doctoral psychology internships accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). The Match, run by the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC), is highly competitive, and APA-accredited sites are the most competitive placements.