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MONDAY REPORT HITS 500!
This is the 500th issue of Monday Report. The first issue, front and back of a single page, appeared on September 9, 1991 and the newsletter has been issued most Mondays since that time. The first issue announced that Margaret Moore had received the Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award and included articles about the forthcoming statewide teacher testing and the prospects for a new building.
Substantial departures from the usual format occurred on April 20, 1998 under the headline "NCATE Reaccreditation Received" and on July 19, 1999 under the headline "COE Occupies John W. Porter Building."
For the past several years, Monday Report has been issued to COE faculty/staff and selected university administrators not only in hard copy but in an email edition as well. All previous issues of the newsletter are posted on the COE web site and the web version is often used for historical background on a variety of topics.
In the early years, many issues were two pages in length. The largest issue (to date) was eight pages. Recent issues have often consisted of four to six pages, as more and more news about accomplishments of faculty, staff, students, and alumni has become available.
POLAKOW TO RECEIVE DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARD
Valerie Polakow is slated to receive the 2001 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Scholarly/Creative Activity Award. The award will be presented in ceremonies to be held on March 20, 2002, at 3:00 p.m. in the McKenny Union Ballroom. The public is invited to the ceremony.
The Scholarly/Creative Activity Award is one of four "Distinguished Faculty" awards made each year by the University, with recipients recognized as part of the Celebration of Faculty Excellence. The award carries with it a $3,500 cash prize and a commemorative plaque.
Polakow's research and writing on topics related to poverty have won numerous national and international awards and recognitions. For example, Lives on the Edge was named by Kappa Delta Pi as its 1994 "Book of the Year."
FACULTY/STAFF NOTES
Jerry Robbins was one of about 150 persons participating in last Tuesday's White House Conference on Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers, convened by First Lady Laura Bush. Other participants included President George Bush, Secretary of Education Rod Paige, Mrs. Dick Cheney, Senator Edward Kennedy, other members of Congress, and a variety of educational personnel from across the country. About a dozen colleges/schools of education were represented.
Christine Karshin (with Judith Vicary) published "College Alcohol Abuse: A Review of the Problems, Issues, and Prevention Approaches" in the Journal of Primary Prevention.
Ron Williamson presented "Building Leadership Capacity in Comprehensive School Reform Schools" and "Breaking the Time Barrier: Schedules for Improved Student Achievement" at the recent convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Williamson has also been selected as a reviewer for the NASSP Bulletin.
Pat Williams-Boyd presented "Instructional Strategies for the Heterogeneously Grouped Classroom: A Place Where All Kids Succeed" at the annual conference of the National Middle School Association, held in Washington, DC.
Sherry Jerome and Julianne O'Brien Pedersen taught master classes at the American College Dance Festival a few days ago. Jerome presented "To Have and to Hold" for adjudication. O'Brien Pedersen's work "See/ Saw/ Heard" was presented at the informal concert. She also performed as part of the Dance Technology Concert with the Peter Sparling Dance Company.
Kay Woodiel and Jeff Schulz will present "Using Music to Narrow the Generation Gap" at the Pride Youth Programs National Conference in Cincinnati next month.
David Anderson and Don Staub attended the national conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in Orlando, FL last week. They presented a paper on the issue of policy development in bilingual education and its impact at the local effort. Anderson and Staub were instrumental in securing EMU as the host site for the 2003 Midwest Regional Conference of the organization. This will be held in early November of that year.
Judy Williston and Sue Grossman presented "Speaking and Listening to One Another: Developing Professional Partnerships" at the annual training conference of the Michigan Head Start Association, Inc., held in East Lansing.
Sally Rae is now the Past Vice President for Physical Education of the Michigan Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Gloria Neve has been appointed as chair of the Constitution Committee and as a member of the Historical Records Committee for MAHPERD.
Lynne Rocklage will present "The ACE Project: A Multi-University Approach to Training Special Education Teachers to Serve K-12 Students with Autism" at the Behavior Analysis Association of Michigan (BAAM) conference later this week.
Pat Williams-Boyd was the keynote speaker and a workshop presenter on the subject of "Effective Teams in Middle Schools" for the Southeast Region Middle School Association. She has also presented workshops in Warren, Detroit, Grayling, Kalamazoo, and South Redford, as well as in Toledo, OH, on various middle level topics. Williams-Boyd was the keynote speaker on "Differentiated Instruction" for the Michigan Rural Consortium of Middle Schools.
Lynne Rocklage is in Lansing today participating in a meeting of the Autism Collaborative Education Project.
Kay Woodiel has been selected as a "Woman of Excellence 2002" by the EMU Women's Center.
George Barach, Lynne Rocklage, Alane Starko, Geff Colón, and Kathleen Conley were among the COE faculty members who participated in the February 16 "Explore Eastern" activity. Jerry Robbins spoke to prospective students and parents who had expressed an interest in programs of the College of Education.
On March 20, the following COE persons will be recognized for years of service to the university. The event will be held from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. in the McKenny Union Ballroom. Marvin Johnson (40), Nora Martin (35), Dale Rice (35), Jean Rauch (30), Roberta Anderson (25), Mary Bigler (25), Gayle Nash (25), Helen Ditzhazy (15), Sylvia Jones (15), Martha Kinney-Sedgwick (15), Yvonne Callaway (10), Vic Chiasson (10), Jane Gordon (10), Marina McCormack (10), and Jackie Tracy (10).
Emeritus professor Scott Street and his wife, Mickey, were featured recently in the Ann Arbor News, with an emphasis on their social activism in the community.
Applications are being accepted for the position of COE Assistant Dean (Advising) through March 15. Interested parties should contact Carolyn Finch for additional information.
LINDSAY NAMED OUTSTANDING SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER
Andrew Lindsey '94, '97, who teaches eighth-grade social studies at the Van Buren district's South Middle School, received the Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year Award from the Michigan Council for Social Studies. The award is open to elementary, middle school, high school, and university educators who promote excellent social studies in the classroom, school, and community.
According to South Middle School principal William Houston '66, '92, Lindsey "not only has a very, very good handle on how to work with adolescents, he is very innovative." He is a student in the EMU master's program in middle level education and is the author of a chapter in a forthcoming book edited by Pat Williams-Boyd.
Lindsey received the state's Outstanding First Year Teacher of the Year Award in 1998.
ALUMNI NOTES
Joyce E. Kenne '59, age 64, died recently in Amherst, New Hampshire. She was a former elementary school librarian and had at one time served as a lecturer in the EMU College of Education.
Thomas W. Porter II '68, age 76, died recently in Texas. He was a former science teacher in the Ann Arbor and Willow Run schools.
James Panzenhagen, age 29, of Grosse Pointe Park, died recently of cancer. He was a physical education teacher and basketball coach at Clark Elementary School. Formerly, he had taught and coached at Lake Shore and Pioneer High School.
DANCE CONCERT
This past weekend's Dance Concert, "Real-ing," was presented in celebration of the 50th year of the dance program at EMU. Proceeds from the concert went to the Linda Crum Hemmelgarn scholarship fund.
The excerpts from Cinderella were danced by Amy Smith, Lisa Desy, Erin Quellhorst, Tia Garcia, and Tamara Pogue. "To Have and To Hold" was performed by Crystal Trongo and Ross Oliver.
"Pil-E.M.U.," which received its premiere performance, was danced by Lauren Deak, Mat Laffey, Shannon McHale, Ross Oliver, Erin Quellhorst, and Sara Rzeppa. Suzanne Willets Brooks, Emily Coccia, Tia Garcia, Amanda Iannitti, Kelly Kissner, Maria Oriti, Suzy Tebeau, Crystal Trongo, and Meghan Wirick were the performers in "Time to Love," which was also a premiere performance.
"See/Saw/Heard" was danced by Megan Collins, Shannon McHale, and Erin Quellhorst. The premiere performance of "Power Shift" was performed by Audrey Ayala, Amanda Iannitti, Mat Laffey, Amanda Melzak, Sara Rzeppa, Suzy Tebeau, and Veronica VonMatt.
STUDENT NOTES
Graduate Research Fair. The Graduate Research Fair will be held on March 18 in McKenny Union. Presenters from the COE include:
(Tower Room, 3:20 and 3:40 p.m., respectively; both sponsored by Helen Ditzhazy.) Patricia Devlin, "The Effects of Continuous Improvement and Training for Teacher/Paraprofessional Teams on Interaction and Engagement of Special Education Students in General Education Classrooms." John Barrett, "The Transition from Middle School to High School: Practices and Perceptions."
(Reception Room, 4:50 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., respectively.) Edward Collins, "Storytelling as a Healing Art," sponsored by Yvonne Callaway. Shelley Walker, "High School Geometry: Real World Activities," sponsored by Georgea Langer.
ACDF. Sixteen EMU students attended the American College Dance Festival over spring break. Nicole Manvel presented her work, "Bittersuite," for adjudication. This was the first time that an EMU student's work had been so presented.
SPONSORED PROJECTS
As of the end of February, COE faculty and staff members had submitted 28 proposals, exactly double the number submitted by the same time last year. To date, 18 awards have been received, a 38% increase over the same time last year. To date, the COE has received $1,657,895.
DEVELOPMENT NOTES
The Gae E. Amorose Memorial Endowed Scholarship has been established with memorial contributions and a forthcoming gift from her estate.
Gae Amorose '69 was a special education teacher who worked at the Children's Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Michigan, as a teacher consultant at Haisley Elementary School, and as the first elementary supervisor of special education in the Ann Arbor Schools. In 1987, she became principal of Ann Arbor's Pattengill Elementary, where she remained until she took a medical leave of absence in May 2000. She was assigned as the principal of Wines Elementary in the fall of 2001, but was unable to fulfill that responsibility due to her death from cancer on September 22, 2001.
COE CREDIT HOURS
As of March 7, all COE credit-generating units were ahead of last Winter's final figures for the unit. Overall, the COE was 6.73% ahead of last Winter's final counts. For the fiscal year to date, the COE is 6.39% ahead of the same time last year, including an 11.6% increase in Student Teaching, a 10.1% increase in Teacher Education, a 4.56% increase in HPERD, a 0.04% increase in Special Education, and a 0.15% decrease in Leadership and Counseling.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
April 9. The "Day in the Life of the COE" photography event and competition needs volunteers for the organizational aspects and needs numerous participants to provide still and video photographic coverage of a "typical" day in the life of the COE- both in the Porter Building and elsewhere. For information, contact dayinthelife@online.emich.edu.
COE WEB PAGE
During a recent one-month period, the COE web site main page was accessed, on average, 99 times a day. Other daily averages for pages included Teacher Education, 62; COE Office of Academic Services, 31; Leadership and Counseling, 27; Special Education, 26; and HPERD, five. Other average daily counts included the page for prospective post-baccalaureate students-41, access to the undergraduate catalog via the COE web site-17, access to the graduate catalog via the COE web site-12, current student information-9, and prospective student information-8.
SHORT NOTES
FCIE. FCIE presents a discussion of Talking from 9 to 5: How Women's and Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work, by Deborah Tannen. The panelists include Chris Wood Foreman and Dennis P. Grady. The session will be held in the Multicultural Lounge, King Hall, March 13, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Showcase. The deadline for the Teaching and Learning Showcase-Asking the Big Questions, Understanding Teaching and Learning at EMU has been extended to March 15. The event will be held on April 12, 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., April 12. For additional information, contact jceaglin@online.emich.edu.
ICET. The International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) is accepting abstracts of proposals for presentations until March 16. The ICET meeting will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on July 3-7. For information, see www.nl.edu/icet.
Book Fair. Five major publishers will be represented in the Book Fair to be held on the second floor of the Porter Building on March 18 and 19, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Banner Day. "Banner Day" has been rescheduled to April 4. Sessions will be held in G03 Halle (Auditorium) from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. The campus community is invited to see "a demonstration of the seamless, single sign-on web environment that EMU is creating to deliver services, information, campus communications, and academic resources."
"Faculty will be particularly interested in how this partnership will make it easier to offer our students the highest quality educational experience while supporting diverse teaching styles and students' learning needs. Post your syllabus online, welcome students to your class automatically when they register, easily create a web presence for your class, incorporate electronic discussions and whiteboards, incorporate email, and automatically report grades."
Call for Reviewers. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has issued a call for reviewers of papers for the 2003 AACTE annual meeting. Forms are available in each COE office or from AACTE Reviews, 1307 New York Ave., NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005-4701. The deadline for submission is May 17.
Call for Papers. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has issued a call for papers for the 2003 annual meeting, to be held in New Orleans, LA. The deadline is June 3. For additional information, see www.aacte.org.
AACTE participation is strongly encouraged. The dean's office will cover the travel expenses to the 2003 AACTE convention of one person per accepted presentation.
OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunties.html)
March 11-ORD's "Introduction to the World of Grants," 11:00-11:45 a.m. For information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
March 11-The dissertation defense previously announced for 1:00-3:00 p.m. has been postponed.
March 12-COE International and Global Education Project brown-bag discussion session, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Porter 320. For information, donald.staub@emich.edu.
March 12-ORD's "The Evaluation Process," 9:30-10:15 a.m. For information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
March 13-COE Council, 2:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
March 13-ORD's "Professional Writing Tips," 9:00-9:45 a.m. For information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
March 14-Basic Programs Committee, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
March 14-COE Research SIG, Noon, Porter 301 B/C.
March 14-ORD's "Developing the Budget," 11:00-11:45 a.m. For information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
March 14-15-Michigan Association of Middle School Educators conference, L'Anse Creuse Middle School-East. For information, Patricia Rabenburg at 586.783.6430.
March 15-Lunch with the Arts, 12:30 p.m., McKenny Union Ballroom. Tickets: $15. For information, Campus Life, 734.487.3045.
March 15-ORD's "The Essential Elements," 10:00-10:45 a.m. For information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
March 16--Explore Eastern. Recruitment opportunity.
March 16-19-Council of Great City Schools, including Great City Colleges of Education, meeting. Washington, D.C. For information, 202.393.2427.
March 18-EMU Graduate Research Fair, McKenny Union, 1:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
March 18-19-COE Book Fair, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day, second floor, Porter Building. Featuring items from McGraw-Hill, ITP, Prentice Hall, Allyn & Bacon, and Houghton Mifflin.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)
March 13-Application deadline for FIPSE Comprehensive Program. For information, see http://www.ed.gov/FIPSE.
March 15-preproposals for Research Excellence Fund due to Graduate Studies and Research. For information, see www.gradord.emich.edu/downloads/ord_files/ref_guide.pdf.
March 15-deadline for Kappa Delta Pi Record articles on arts education.
March 15-extended deadline for participation in EMU "Teaching and Learning Showcase." For information, jan.collins-eaglin@online.emich.edu.
March 16-deadline for submission of abstracts of papers for the International Council on Education for Teaching world assembly. For information, www.nl.edu/icet.
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