"Alan Brown" Archive

Birds of a feather learn together

When first-graders at Brunson Elementary were learning about birds, 17 Wake Forest students visited their classrooms to connect the biology lessons with the arts by exploring how birds move and leading bird-themed creative projects.

“The students used poetry, dance, visual art and music to help anchor the lessons,” said Christina Soriano, associate provost of the arts and associate professor of dance who co-taught the class Integrating Arts and Movement into the Elementary Curriculum with associate professor of education Alan Brown.

“They always asked when our ‘Wake friends’ were coming to visit,” said Lauren Hicks, one of four first-grade teachers who collaborated with the students.

The students had originally scheduled five visits to Brunson, but could only come twice before the coronavirus pandemic changed everyone’s plans.

We had to reimagine our plans due to remote teaching, but we have been excited to find new ways for Brunson and Wake Forest students to engage from afar,” said Brown. It took about a week of figuring it out and a couple of Zoom class meetings to decide how to keep the collaboration going.

The entire story about Wake Forest’s collaboration with Brunson Elementary is available here.

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Office of Civic & Community Engagement reflects expanded Pro Humanitate commitment

There’s no mistaking the purpose of the Office of Civic & Community Engagement as Wake Forest’s central hub for community-based activities, including service, teaching and research. 

The recently reconfigured office combines the spirit of Wake Forest’s beloved Pro Humanitate motto with a new name, website and physical footprint that reflect its mission to engage community partners, faculty, staff, and students to affect meaningful social change.

“The Office of Civic & Community Engagement builds on the work of generations of Wake Forest students, faculty and staff by maintaining our philanthropic and service traditions, supporting new and existing community partnerships, and refining our commitment to civic learning and social justice education,” said Marianne Magjuka, executive director of the Office of Civic & Community Engagement and Assistant Dean of Students. 

The rollout is the culmination of a yearlong community engagement mapping project to better understand how Wake Forest is engaged beyond campus. Faculty and staff identified 86 distinct programs, initiatives or projects supporting community-based service, engagement, research or teaching. 

More information available here.

CEL recognizes Brown as innovative leader

Wake Forest education professor Alan Brown poses in the education department library in Tribble Hall on Monday, March 4, 2013.

The Conference on English Leadership (CEL), a forum for literacy leaders within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), has recognized Alan Brown, assistant professor of English Education, with the Innovative Leadership Award.

Brown will be honored at the Nov. 22 opening session of the 2015 CEL Convention.

The CEL Innovative Leadership Award recognizes an early- or mid-career leader and NCTE member who has shown innovative leadership at the local, regional and/or national level.

Brown is a former high school English teacher and basketball coach who works regularly with secondary and college students as well as middle and high school teachers and coaches to examine critically the culture of sports in schools and society while connecting contemporary literacies with students’ extra-curricular interests. To learn more about his work with various intersections of sports and literacy, particularly through the use of young adult literature, see Brown’s sports literacy blog.

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January 2012 comings & goings

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