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The Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching (CEUT) was created to train and support teachers in applying proven culturally relevant pedagogical practices in urban and urban-like schools to promote increased educational success for all youth in Minnesota.
CEUT seeks to provide support for teacher candidates within and after earning their initial licensure. Scholarships and mentoring are available for aspiring teachers who are people of color or indigenous or American Indian.
Mission
Provide educational interventions and resources that develop the cultural competencies for under-prepared students to achieve success.
Vision
Be the national expert in critical urban education programs, practices, and strategies. CEUT Website
A Personalized Educational Experience
A Personalized Educational Experience
Dr. Rebecca Neal
Dr. Rebecca Neal
Executive Director
Executive Director
Dr. Rebecca A. Neal is a Professor of Educational Foundations for the Teacher Education Department at Hamline University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in special education from Hampton University, master of arts degrees in special education from the College of William and Mary and the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a special education and culturally responsiveness concentration from Arizona State University.
Dr. Neal’s research centers on the emotional and behavioral ecology of general and special education settings. Deeply embedded within her scholarship and practice is working toward increasing social-emotional learning opportunities for students, particularly youth who have been traditionally marginalized within society and school systems. A strand of Dr. Neal’s work focuses on understanding how teachers’ and students’ conceptualizations of behavior mediates classroom interactional processes.
In addition to having over a decade of experience as a special education practitioner in urban school districts,
Dr. Neal maintains her teaching license. She is also the recipient of several honors and awards.
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