Remember Who You Are
Read Time: 2 minutes
In this issue you’ll learn a bit more about me and also about a few of the important ways members of the McKay School community are using their individual interests and perspectives to lighten others’ burdens.
School News
Read Time: 3 minutes
Sarah Clark and Charles Graham are the McKay School’s new associate deans, bringing exceptional talents and strong commitment to the dean’s office.
Working in Hope
BYU Professors Conduct Groundbreaking Research to Serve the Polynesian Community
Read Time: 5 minutes
Gancinia is a member of the Pasifika community. Despite their unique cultures, history, language, and spiritual practices, Pasifika, or the people of the Pacific Islands, often find themselves lumped into an unwieldy demographic category with Asian, Asian American, and other cultural groups. This makes it difficult to understand the unique needs of Pasifika, particularly in areas such as mental health.
Kendra Hall Kenyon Walks Life's Labyrinth
As she sits in the dean’s office of the BYU David O. McKay School of Education, the labyrinth of Kendra Hall-Kenyon’s life is not obvious: on view is a highly respected academic, a longtime leader, a dedicated teacher, and a loving and beloved daughter, sister, wife, and mother. Although little of her life has happened in the ways Hall-Kenyon expected, she knows the winding path she has taken is the one God meant for her.
The Voice of the Teacher Within
Read Time: 3 minutes
Kendra Hall-Kenyon’s time as a scholar has taken unexpected turns: from studying reading comprehension in children to teacher well-being to supporting families. As she sees it, it’s all serving the same goal.
Facing Female Autism
New Book Illuminates "Nuanced" Autism in Girls and Women
Dirty Dishes and Field Trip Fails: Tales of Classroom Disasters
Read Time: 4 minutes
Teachers are experts at making lemonade when life gives them lemons. And based on the responses when the McKay School asked on social media for stories of classroom disasters that teachers can laugh about now, teachers are also good at making lessons out of distractions, bonding out of wandering, or making closer connections out of showing up to an unexpected parent meeting in neon clothing and pigtails.
Alumni Happenings
Read Time: 3 minutes
McKay School Magazine helps connect you to your former classmates and teachers.
Singer, Mathematician, Pageant Queen
A Doctoral Student's Quest For Meaning Has Led Her In Surprising Directions
Read Time: 2 minutes
Sampson, a native of France with roots in Malta and Italy, is a lyric singer, a mathematician, a new wife to an American husband, and a doctoral student in the McKay School’s Department of Educational Inquiry, Measurement, and Evaluation.