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  • Research Spotlight: Jennifer Gallo-Fox and Dorit Radnai-Griffin

    May 2, 2025

    UD Associate Professor Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Lab School Director Dorit Radnai-Griffin and their co-authors show how laboratory schools respond to challenges in early childhood education More than 100 years ago, laboratory schools—like University of Delaw …

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  • In Bloom in Delaware

    April 2, 2025

    In celebration of its 90th anniversary, the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development’s Lab School will host the prestigious In Bloom conference in partnership with Antioch University. The event will take place from 8:15 a.m. to …

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  • In Memoriam: Cynthia Paris

    October 31, 2024

    Campus community remembers professor emeritus, former director of the Lab School Cynthia Paris, professor emeritus of human development and family sciences and former director of the University of Delaware Lab School in the College of Education and Hum …

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  • A UD student teacher reads to a group of children at CEHD’s Lab School in the 1950s.

    90 Years of Excellence in Early Childhood Education

    October 17, 2024

    UD’s Lab School celebrates 90 years as a teacher education laboratory This fall, the University of Delaware’s Lab School celebrates 90 years of pioneering excellence in early childhood education, research and innovation. Housed on the College of Educat …

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  • Graphic image of child's legs with muddy boots walking in the rain.

    Lab School 90th Anniversary Celebration

    June 26, 2024

    Lab School’s 90th Anniversary Celebration Honoring the Legacy of Former Director Alice Eyman Saturday, September 14, 2024 6 to 8:30 p.m. Audion, STAR Tower, UD STAR Campus Newark, Delaware The Lab School invites you to a memorable evening of great food …

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  • A University of Delaware student and a child interact in the Lab’s School’s outdoor mud kitchen, located on the College of Education and Human Development’s Children’s Campus.

    Learning in Nature

    May 31, 2024

    UD’s Lab School helps children, teachers and community members learn in and from nature For nearly 90 years, the University of Delaware’s Lab School, housed within the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), has served children from the age …

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  • Leaders in Nature-Based Education

    March 18, 2024

    The Lab School receives exemplary partnership award from the Delaware Association for Environmental Education With a new award from the Delaware Association for Environmental Education (DAEE), the Lab School, housed within University of Delaware’s Coll …

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  • Three Blue Hens Honored for Green Efforts

    September 21, 2023

    UD Office of Sustainability recognizes student, staff and faculty member Three Blue Hens with strong commitments to the health of Planet Earth have won 2023 Green Hen Awards, selected by the University of Delaware’s Office of Sustainability. Each winne …

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  • A preschooler learns about butterflies with a UD student outside at CEHD's Lab School.

    Learning in Nature

    March 30, 2022

    “Dressing for the weather” takes on a literal meaning for parents who drop off their preschoolers at the University of Delaware’s Lab School, located on the College of Education and Human Development’s (CEHD) Children’s Campus. Taking their cue from th …

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  • Join us for the 2022 In Bloom Conference

    January 10, 2022

    In Bloom in Delaware Promising Practices in Nature-based Early Childhood Education Saturday, April 2, 2022 9:00am – 4:00pm Audion at STAR Tower, University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware Registration for the Delaware conference will open in mid-Januar …

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