A reflection on the Capstone process by a current resident relating to employing culturally relevant teaching helps to build student self-efficacy and how that can increase students’ ability to write fluently and proficiently....
Author: David Montague | MTR President An encouraging post from MTR’s President, David Montague I think it is most appropriate to recognize, particularly as Memphians, April 4th as an important and shaping date in our nation's history. Forty-nine years ago today, Dr. King was shot and...
A week ago MTR held their first ever Vision Banquet at Autozone Park. All MTR Classes and staff were invited to this event, which means we had graduates from the Class of 2010 to the current residency Class of 2017, with over 300 people in...
How did Jesus enter His classroom as a beginning Teacher? Find out how in Luke 2: When Jesus came to bring glory to God and peace to others He began with quiet demonstrations of HUMILITY and LOVE, dignifying and identifying first with the marginalized....
Happy entrée into 2017. I hope you all had a wonderful and restful holiday season. I'm sure you will start the day with mixed emotions...
Christian life is, in part, coming to God humbly in His word to find out what it is that he loves and what it is that he hates. Then we take on his loves and hates as our very own. And when we do, we...
David Montague shared this email with the MTR family this week. We hope that you will find encouragement in it....
Teaching and coaching in an underprivileged community can be tough and discouraging. I can remember driving home many nights after a long day of teaching thinking to myself, “There is no way I can go back to school tomorrow."...
Dr. Tom Rosebrough, Dean of the Education Department at Union University, announced his pending transition from the role of Dean to professor in the Fall of 2017. We are particularly grateful for Dr. Rosebrough's generous support...
Education is the breath of the civil rights movement. It allows conversations to come alive, conversations that need to happen to provoke change. As an educator...