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.
The School of Education’s nationally recognized program of teacher preparation uses a model of deep clinical training, coupled with expert faculty guidance, that prepares educators to impact the world.
A robust graduate program offers master’s, specialist, and doctoral degrees for aspiring educators, clinicians, K-12 and higher education leaders, sports administrators, and researchers and faculty members.
School of Education global programs offer opportunities on several continents for research and study, exploring comparative education and other disciplines and helping students develop cultural understanding.
Departments/Programs
The Department of Curriculum & Instruction prepares professional educators for transformative leadership in research-based teaching practice and student learning.
The Department of Educational Leadership prepares exemplary leaders and researchers, offering programs in K-12 and higher education leadership and sport management and an undergraduate program in leadership.
Through academic programs and associated research centers and clinics, the Department of Educational Psychology prepares leaders for high-quality research and training in areas including exceptionalities, learning and development, school psychology, and quantitative methods.
Baylor University’s award-winning Doctor of Education in Learning and Organizational Change (EdD) online program empowers experienced professionals and industry leaders to shape the learning experience in any setting.
Centers & Outreach
The Baylor Center for Developmental Disabilities invests in research, training, outreach, and clinical services that promote the flourishing of people with disabilities, their families, and communities.
Baylor’s Center for School Leadership strives to be the most effective leadership catalyst for educators worldwide and to empower educators to live a life of justice, kindness, and humility as they equip students to flourish.
The Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development is committed to transforming potential into excellence through innovative educational opportunities, research, and outreach.
News
See More NewsThree 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.
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.
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).
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.