Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Anna K. Fridley, Distinguished Teaching Award (Non-Tenure Track): Marcie Reuer, Founders Day Faculty Awards, Academic Year 2024-25. Portrait of Marcie Reuer.

Marcie Reuer

Marcie Reuer, associate teaching professor in the Department of Education in the College of Education, Health and Human Development, has won the 2025 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Anna K. Fridley Distinguished Teaching Award. The award is given to a faculty member whose accomplishments with students reach beyond the classroom and the library. It is sponsored by the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and carries a $1,000 honorarium. 

Reuer, who is also the department’s director of outreach and engagement, is known as a dynamic, innovative instructor who has transformed existing undergraduate and graduate classes to reflect cutting-edge knowledge. 

As an instructor in the Master of Arts in Teaching program, Reuer has challenged students to think creatively about science content, to take appropriate risks with their lesson planning and delivery, and to explore formative assessment options, according to her nominator. She also coordinated faculty efforts to tie program assessments to course learning outcomes and assignments.  

Reuer also teaches undergraduate science methods courses where she models best practices, including differentiation, scaffolding concepts and technology integration. Reuer cultivates a classroom environment that honors varied learning experiences, her nominator wrote, and as a result, students leave her classroom feeling confident and ready to employ new understandings to their teaching experiences. 

In addition, Reuer provides extensive professional development offerings on science learning topics to educators across the state and at national educator conferences. She also developed a bridge to college program and a summer camp experience to support first-generation high school students transitioning to college. 

Importantly, Reuer is also committed to K-12 school partners in rural communities. As co-leader of MSU’s Rural Teacher Pathways program, Reuer works closely with school districts and community stakeholders to ensure that the program meets their needs and that it prepares students to serve in rural communities. Now, many graduates of that program work in schools in rural areas of the state, and “their success is, in large part, due to Dr. Reuer, who has equipped them with the necessary skills to be effective 21st century educators,” the nominator wrote.