Au-Some Events are private activities held in local venues, which are open to families with children with autism spectrum disorder or other sensory concerns and their invited guests. Exceptional Education department faculty and teacher candidates are proud to participate in these sensory-friendly, recreational events for children and young adults.
Bengals Passionate about Education (BPE) is a student led club that provides volunteer opportunities, social events, and informational workshops for all education majors and those interested in education. BPE provides opportunities to volunteer with, and learn about all students, including those with exceptionalities.
Best Buddies provides opportunities for BSU students to be matched in a one-to-one friendship with individuals who have intellectual disabilities. College chapters are active on 298 campuses worldwide. The Exceptional Education department organizes activities for learning, networking, gathering, raising money and having fun!
The Career and Professional Education Center (CAPE) provides comprehensive services to matriculated undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, employers, and faculty/staff. The center's staff assists students and alumni with career exploration and decision-making, gaining valuable experience, job search preparation, finding jobs and internships, and selecting and applying to graduate schools.
The Global Book Hour (GBH) provides weekly book-hour sessions that integrate geography, music, visual arts, and healthy eating. Teacher candidates facilitate the program with read-alouds and reading strategies and activities for families. GBH is part of the School of Education's Global Literacy initiative, which promotes family literacy and global understanding for students and community members.
The Global Literacy Channel is made up of videos created by faculty and students in the School of Education to help parents, caregivers, teachers and teacher candidate work with the young readers and writers in their lives. This project was supported in part by the SUNY Buffalo State Institute for Community Health Promotion Collaborative Research Initiative.
The Horace Mann Graduate Research Symposium provides an opportunity for graduate-level teacher candidates in the Exceptional Education Department to showcase their research projects and share effective practices with colleagues and community educators. It is held at the end of every spring and fall semester.
The School of Education's International Professional Development Schools (IPDS) Consortium provides teacher candidates with experiences that prepare them to thrive as globally-minded educators who meet the needs of today's children and classrooms. Current international collaborations have been developed in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Honduras, Italy, Rwanda, Spain, Turkey, and Zambia.
The JIAE is a peer-reviewed online journal seeking to highlight collaborative research undertaken by university faculty and partner school teachers.
The Kappa Delta Pi (KDP), International Honor Society in Education, was founded in 1911 to foster excellence in education and promote fellowship among those dedicated to teaching. The Buffalo State Elementary Education Department maintains an active chapter of KDP.
The School of Education Literacy Center offers diagnosis and tutoring for K-12 students who need help with literacy skills. Tutors in the program are graduate students completing their Literacy Specialist certification and/or master’s degree in education, and work under the guidance of experts in the reading field.
Buffalo State serves as a regional host campus for New York State’s Master Teachers Program, which rewards the state’s highest performing teachers, ensures that the best and brightest stay in education, and encourages teachers to share their expertise with peers. Master Teachers engage in peer mentoring, attend and create intensive content-oriented professional development opportunities, and work closely with preservice and early-career fellows in their regions.
The Professional Development School (PDS) Consortium is a collaboration between Buffalo State and participating schools. College faculty, school administrators, and practicing teachers explore effective practices to (1) cooperatively supervise preservice teachers and provide closer connections to classroom practice; (2) promote professional development for inservice teachers; (3) improve student learning; and (4) research the problems of educational practice.
For parents and guardians, and anyone else caring for and educating children. The School Away from School website has a multitude of links, resources, lessons, activities, guidance and ideas gathered from the direct expertise, experiences and recommendations of our faculty, staff, students, and school partners as well as from community members and readers.
TLE TeachLivE™ is a computer-simulated, immersive, mixed-reality classroom that provides teachers the opportunity to develop their pedagogical practice in a safe environment that doesn’t place real students at risk. Teachers step into TeachLivE™ virtual classroom and experience immersion and suspension of disbelief, allowing them to rehearse high-leverage teaching practices. Buffalo State is the only college in the SUNY system currently using this unique environment to prepare or retrain pre-service and in-service teachers.
In 2002, Buffalo State received a $1 million gift from Eleanore Woods Beals, a 1950 graduate, and her husband, Vaughn Beals, which was used to establish the first endowed chair in the 130-year history of the institution. Jevon Hunter, has developed several iniatives as the endowed chair - Urban Youth Scholars, Student Research, Urban Teacher Collaborative, and Urban Education Speaker Series.
