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FACULTY/STAFF NOTES
Valerie Polakow is the author of "Homeless Children and Their Families: The Discards of the Postmodern 1990s" in Educational Studies. Rebecca Martusewicz is the co-editor of this issue.
Georgea Langer (with Amy Bernstein Colton, Education Development Center) presented "Collaborative Analysis of Student Work: A Valuable Tool for Teacher Growth" at the ASCD "Travel to New Horizons" conference in Atlanta, GA on October 17.
Julianne O'Brien Pedersen performed with the Peter Sparling Dance Company on October 17-18 as part of Bowling Green University's New Music and Art Festival. The residency included two youth performances followed by a performance for the general public.
This week Ron Williamson will be in Washington, D.C. where, at the annual conference of the National Middle School Association, he will present "High-Performing Middle Schools: Meeting Community Standards and Expectations" and "Breaking the Time Barrier: Schedules for Improved Student Achievement."
This past week Ron Williamson, working with other authors, wrote a training module on collaborative leadership for the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform. The project is cosponsored by the Galef Institute and the National Staff Development Council. Williamson will present the module to the Southern Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform in Jackson, MS in January.
David Anderson (with Joyce Logan, University of Kentucky, Leonard Burns, Eastern Kentucky University, Bill Bozeman, University of Central Florida, and Katherine Graham, New Mexico State University) will present "How Are Educational Leadership Programs Preparing Future School Administrators to Understand Information Technology?" at the University Council for Educational Administration convention in Cincinnati later this week.
John Tonkovich surveyed an outpatient medical rehabilitation facility in Urbana, IL for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. Tonkovich also was recently in Rockville, MD, chairing the subcommittee on motor speech disorders in children and adults for the program committee of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
David Anderson has been involved with a Ford/UAW project-a collaboration among Macomb Community College, Owens College, and EMU. Anderson has been involved in preparing a train-the-trainers workshop and he (with Roger Bober, MCC, and Linda Stacey, Owens College) will be involved in delivering the first set of workshops.
Ellen Hoffman conducted a workshop last week on technology planning and COATT for Wayne RESA's technology coordinators meeting. Hoffman also chaired a meeting called by the Michigan Department of Education to review the entry-level standards for Michigan teachers in technology (the "seventh standard") to bring the Michigan standards in closer alignment with the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers.
Suzanne Zelnik recently attended the Michigan Dance Council (MDC) board of directors meeting and the statewide MDC "Dance in Michigan . . . the Real Concerns" conference, cohosted by the University Musical Society, the MDC, and ArtServe Michigan. Zelnik serves MDC as the Washtenaw regional representative.
Jerry Robbins conducted a concert of the 90-piece Barnhill Concert Band in Pease auditorium on October 18. On October 26, he was guest conductor for one number on a concert of the EMU Orchestra.
Patricia Pokay and Kaia Skaggs have been awarded $2,987 through Graduate Studies and Research to study "Critical Thinking Dispositions of Teacher Candidates."
Roberta Faust presented "New and Junior Faculty Mentoring at EMU" as part of a recent FCIE program.
Students from Russ Olwell's (History) methods course, with support from the Halle Library staff, worked with the sixth grade gifted and talented class at North Middle School (Belleville) in a unit on research in a technologically advanced library. A celebration and poster session were held last Wednesday in the Halle Library.
Kay Woodiel and George Barach are the COE representatives for the program development committee of EMU's American Humanics initiative.
Recent service anniversaries included Merri McClure (33 years) and Kathleen Kootsillas (15 years).
STEVEN PRESS NAMED AS DIRECTOR OF COE CLINICS
Steven E. Press of Ann Arbor has been named as the director of the College of Education Clinics. He is presently clinical manager and staff psychotherapist at the Huron Valley Consultation Center. He holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and the M.S.W. and M.A. from the University of Michigan.
Press will begin his duties on a part-time basis in the next few days and assume full-time responsibilities in a few weeks. The COE clinics include those for speech and hearing, counseling, and reading.
SPOTLIGHT ON RON WILLIAMSON
Ron Williamson joined the Department of Leadership and Counseling in fall 2001 as an associate professor in leadership. He was born in southern Ohio but spent most of his professional life in southeastern Michigan. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and did all his graduate work, including the Ed.D., at Eastern Michigan University.
Williamson most recently worked as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he coordinated their leadership preparation program. He most recently served as interim department chairperson. Prior to working at UNCG he served as executive director of the National Middle School Association and as a principal and central office administrator in the Ann Arbor Public Schools.
Williamson is working with the Galef Institute in Los Angeles as part of their U.S. Department of Education grant for comprehensive school reform in middle schools. He is coordinating leadership development for the project and works closely with fifteen middle schools in New York City, Houston, Louisville, and Southern California. The central focus is on improving the instructional leadership of principals in challenging settings.
Additionally, Williamson has published extensively. He is the author of three books with a fourth to be published early next year. He presents regularly at professional meetings and is the chair of the publications committee for the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration.
Williamson currently resides in Saline with his wife Marsha.
ALUMNI NOTES
Helen Oltmanns '54, '61 died recently in Naples, FL at the age of 70. She was a teacher of the year for the Lincoln Schools and a regional finalist for Michigan Teacher of the Year in 1988, the year she retired.
Garvin Smith '66, '71, '81 is the fire chief for Superior Township. He has been with the department for 45 years and was recently featured in the Ann Arbor News. He also had a career with the South Lyon schools as elementary physical education teacher, junior high school health teacher, high school history teacher, and assistant principal of South Lyon High School.
Nathan Dobert, 28, is in his seventh year of teaching performing arts at the Lowery School in Wayne County. He was recently named in the Detroit News as "Wayne Teacher of the Week."
Patricia Chapman, who attended EMU, a teacher at Walter White School for kindergartners and pre-schoolers in River Rouge, was recognized in September as one of the nation's 100 most outstanding educators in the 2001 Education's Unsung Heroes Award program, sponsored by ING Northern Annuity. She received a $2,000 award.
ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT
Evgeny Knyazev, Vice Rector for International Relations, Kazan State University, Tatastan, Russia, was on campus last week. He is interested in cultivating relationships between the two universities. Jerry Robbins and Bill Shelton were among the COE faculty members who had an opportunity to interact with him during the visit.
Leah Adams (emeritus) will host a meeting in Ann Arbor of the executive board of OMEP, the world early childhood education organization, in March. This will bring to our area world-wide leaders in the field of early childhood, from such countries as Chile, Great Britain, Nigeria, Singapore, Switzerland, and Columbia. Adams is an international officer in the organization.
STUDENT NOTES
Rick Pierce, a music teacher at Bryant Middle School in Dearborn and a master's student in music education, was recently named by the Detroit News as "Wayne Teacher of the Week."
Harold D. Larsosa, 19, died this past summer. He was intending to become a secondary teacher of history and he was a member of the Theta Gamma chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. In his memory, the chapter has established a memorial scholarship fund, the proceeds from which will go to support prospective secondary teachers. Donations may be made to Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and sent to McKenny Union, Box 140, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.
STUDENT STATS
This semester, there are 3,714 undergraduate students attributed to the College of Education. This includes 2,467 in the Department of Teacher Education, 654 in Special Education, and 593 in HPERD.
The largest major is TE01 Elementary Education-Intent (958), followed by TE31 Three Minors (568), TE37 Language Arts (323), TE33 Elementary Science (265), PE31 Physical Education (229), PE07 Sports Medicine Intent (227), TE02 Secondary Education Intent (218), and SP33 Mentally Impaired (203).
Among the COE students, the highest mean high school grade point average is in sports medicine (3.3588). This group also maintains the highest mean EMU GPA (3.4422) and the highest mean ACT score (22). The highest mean SAT score (1205) is found among students in recreation and park management.
COE HOLIDAY PARTY
Mark your calendars! Plan to attend. There will be a COE Holiday Party on December 5, 301 Porter Building, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Watch for additional information.
COE COUNCIL MEETING
The College of Education Council met on October 24. In the absence of the chair, Martha Kinney-Sedgwick, Jerry Robbins presided.
Upon the recommendation of the Professional and Affiliated Programs Committee, the Council endorsed the following curricular changes: change prerequisites for CADM 211; change the title and the description for CADM 324; proposed new course NURS 280 Pharmacology for Sports Medicine; and proposed new course ET Mechanical Vibration.
An action of the Basic Programs Committee concerning the publicizing of information about the initial programs conceptual frameworks was distributed.
The Head of the Department of Teacher Education proposed several amendments to the recently-approved minor in Language Arts. These included moving LITR 207 to be with RDNG 300, RDNG 310, ENGL 307, LING 201; 2) removing RDNG 220 from the minor, and adding CTAO 210 to
be with CTAR 222, CTAR 322, CTAR 323, and CTAR 324.
Various reports were received, including a presentation by Don Staub on the work of the COE Office of Collaborative Education.
SHORT NOTES
The Provost's Office is accepting proposals for freshman seminars to be offered in Fall 2002. For additional information, contact elisabeth.morgan@emich.edu.
There will be a grant writing workshop for graduate students on Wednesday, November 28 at 4:00 p.m., 302 Halle Library. For additional information, contact deb.delaski-smith@emich.edu.
The Michigan Journal of Race & Law will sponsor a symposium on "Separate But Unequal: The Status of American Public Education" at the University of Michigan on February 8-9. For information, call 734.763.7245.
Those interested in participating in today's FCIE on-line workshop will need to log on at http://webcaucus.emich.edu. The conference name is FCIE on-line discussion workshop. (Be sure to hyphenate "on-line"). You can then read, post, and respond to messages generated by other participants. For information, jan.collins-eaglin@emich.edu.
CaseNEX and the National Association of Elementary School Principals invite faculty and students to participate in an interactive webcase on Friday, November 2, 3:00 p.m. on "Case Analysis and Critical Perspectives on Best Practice." Panelists will include Fred Brown, John English, and Barbara Dezmon. For information, go to http://www.casenex.com/casenet/novbroadcast.html
COE WEB SITE USE
Use of the COE web site continues to expand at a rapid rate, especially by prospective students. For the September 25-October 25 period, there were 3,072 hits on the COE main page. The Department of Teacher Education page received 2,012 hits.
The COE Office of Academic Services received 808 hits, with the post-baccalaureate student information page close behind with 793 hits and the post-baccalaureate procedural steps page receiving 645 hits.
Use of other department first pages and of various specialized pages in many instances doubled over the hits of the previous one-month period.
COE ADVISORY BOARD MEETS
The College of Education Advisory Board met last Saturday morning in the Porter Building's Mott-Manley Conference Room. The agenda focused on university updates, COE strategic initiatives, advisory board activities to support the initiatives, and the COE 01-02 fund-raising plans. Following the meeting, the members enjoyed a tailgate party in the Convocation Center atrium and attending the EMU football game. Jerry Robbins and Alice Preketes met with the group.
PDK OFFICERS
This year's officers for the EMU chapter of Phi Delta Kappa include, president, Mark Sharp; vice president for programs, Jeanette Bartz; co-vice president for membership, Curtis Bartz; treasurer and delegate, Mary Anne Homann; secretary, Cynthia Williams-LaNier, newsletter editor, Chun-Mei Lee; advisor/1st alternate, Irene Allen; advisor, Helen Ditzhazy; and past president, Billie Rohl.
FROM "THE SCHOOL THAT WENT TO COLLEGE" By Ruth B. MacFarlane
(Continued from previous issues)
Reaching beyond EMU's campus, a first One-Room Schoolhouse Conference was held in May of 1993, which resulted in the establishment of a state-wide Michigan One-Room Schoolhouse Association to be administrated by the Historical Society of Michigan at its Ann Arbor headquarters. The HSM adopted a drawing of the Town Hall School as its logo for the Center for the Teaching of Michigan History, a program designed to assist teachers throughout Michigan in the preparation and presentation of classes in state and local history.
On campus, the school falls under the jurisdiction of the College of Education (Dean's office, 310 Porter Bldg., EMU, Ypsilanti, MI 48197). Classes in the history of education meet occasionally in the building. School children come to visit. Former students stop back to take pleasure in finding the old school there. The EMU chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, An International Society in Education, has taken a particular interest in the school.
"As part of EMU's heritage as an education college and the heritage of the Town Hall School," says Kadelpian Valerie Long, "Kappa Delta Pi has adopted Bellevue Elementary School in Detroit. Every year for nearly a decade, the fifth graders have come to EMU on Homecoming Day and had a tour of campus and enjoyed the activities. They are served a light lunch in the schoolhouse and many of our activities as a chapter take place there as well, things like lesson plan swaps, special speakers from the education field, etc." Valerie is the granddaughter of John Burgar, who attended the Town Hall School in the 1920's. (To be continued)
OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunities.html)
October 29-ORD's "Identifying Funding Sources," 10:00-10:45 a.m. To enroll, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
October 29-FCIE's online workshop, "Crafting Effective Questions for Online Discussions." Log in to Caucus, the "FCIE Online Discussion Workshop." For additional information, Jan Collins-Eaglin, 734.487.1386.
November 1-deadline for submitting Provost's Travel Award application for January through March, 2002 travel.
November 2-3-CaseNEX and the National Association of Elementary School Principals interactive webcast sponsored by American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education on "Case Analysis and Critical Perspectives on Best Practice" 3:00 p.m. For information, go to http://www.casenex.com/casenet/novbroadcast.html.
November 2-3-- EMU conference on "Integrity and Inclusion: Diversity and Curriculum in Academia and Beyond," McKenny Union. The registration fee is waived for EMU students, faculty, staff, and administrators. However, registration is required, and may be accomplished through www.emich.edu/aaccd/conference. For information, contact Liza Cerroni-Long or Ronald Woods. The College of Education is a financial supporter of the conference.
November 3-MACUL's SIG Gig, Delton Kellogg Schools. Hands-on technology workshops. For information, http://www.macul.org/siggig.html.
November 5-University of Michigan "On Leadership" session, with Robert Kahn, professor emeritus, co-founder, Institute for Social Research, UM-AA. 1:00-3:00 p.m., Tribute Room, School of Education. For additional information, jcamburn@umich.edu.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)
November 1-deadline for spring/summer seminars in Germany, Korea, and Japan for international educators and academic administrators and for the summer German Studies Seminary. For information and online application, www.cies.org.
November 1-deadline for non-themed issue of Kappa Delta Pi Forum.
November 1-proposals for Sabbatical Leave due at department level.
November 1-Nominations due for $200,000 Grawemeyer Award in Education. For information, see http://www.louisville.edu/ur/onpi/grawemeyer/graweduc.html.
November 1-proposals due for "20th Century Fantasy from Beatrix to Harry: Interdisciplinary Contributions to 20th Century Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults." For information, bice@ashtabula.kent.edu or cook@ashtabula.kent.edu.
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