The School of Education aggressively seeks ways to provide unique opportunities for students wishing to become educational professionals. Students experience a variety of educational environments as they go through the program, though the undergraduate program in the SOE is heavily field-based.  Over the course of the last thirty years the SOE has obtained several grants in bilingual education that provided opportunities for many future teachers to become excellent bilingual/dual language teachers.

Through a partnership with Rice University and with HISD, the SOE has been able to create many on-line courses that give students advanced skills in technology and provide an alternative delivery system for some courses. The SOE has received a grant from the Houston Endowment to establish a Dual Language Center to research and promote the benefits of maintaining two languages. The SOE offers a degree in dual language education on both the graduate and undergraduate levels.  

Currently the SOE is administering a program to teach elementary education teachers to work with a diverse population. This graduate program develops advanced skills in working with Multicultural, Urban Special Education (MUSE) populations, so that teachers are qualified to teach all children.   

A new graduate program currently recruiting is directed at training education and non-education majors to teach in Catholic schools. Students accepted into the Gulf Region Academy for Catholic Educators (GRACE) will earn a master’s degree and teacher certification in two years while teaching in a Catholic school, living in community, and working on spiritual growth. For more information follow the link above.