College of Education
Eastern Michigan University

Issue No: 561
June 30, 2003

We impact the way America learns.

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EMOND NAMED "MISS MICHIGAN"

Madonna Emond of Livonia, a prospective teacher of French and physical education, was recently crowned "Miss Michigan" for 2003.  She has received a $12,000 scholarship for this recognition, in addition to $15,000 in scholarships received for winning other related competitions.  She has worked closely with Special Olympics.

Eligible now for the Miss America competition, she will postpone her schooling temporarily while preparing for that event and performing other duties expected of "Miss Michigan."

Terri Sue Liford, the 1992 "Miss Michigan," and Laura Welling, the 1998 "Miss Michigan," both came through the EMU teacher preparation program.

FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES

Jeff Armstrong was mentioned in the June 23 issue of the New York Times in connection with his research on dietary supplements.

Lidia Lee is the  author of  "Evidence of Acclimatization in Person with Severe-to-Profound Hearing Loss" in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology.

Ian Haslam is in Salzburg, Austria this week, attending the meeting of the European College of Sport Medicine.

Lidia Lee has been invited to present "Subjective Perception on Audio Distortion" at the October conference of the Audio Engineering Society.

Cristina Jose-Kampfner's project, "Si, Se Puede," an after-school program designed to encourage Latinas to reach for careers in mathematics and science, and conducted at Detroit's Academy of the Americas and Cesar Chavez High School, was recently featured on the EMU web site home page.

Lidia Lee recently completed the ICCI and WAC conferences, sponsored by the EMU World College and EMU Academic Affairs, respectively.

Jerry Robbins conducted performances of the Ypsilanti Community Band on Memorial Day and last Thursday evening.

Adjunct faculty member Marcia Mardis recently published "Stop Me If You've Heard This One: Media Specialists and Active Learning" and "More than Classroom Resources: The Back Alleys and Dark Corners of Michigan Teacher Network," both in Media Spectrum.  She also published (with L. Zia) "Leading the Wave of Science and Mathematics Learning Innovation: NSDL Resources" in Knowledge Quest: The Journal of the American Association of School Librarians. 

Mardis also served, for the second year, as a peer reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education's Improving Literacy Through School Libraries grant program.  She chaired a panel on handicap-accessible design for web-based learning at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Houston.

Q.S. Samonte (emeritus) is serving on a doctoral committee in the Department of Leadership and Counseling.

Patricia Morgenstern (executive director), Cecilia Dove (project associate), and Catherine Hoffman (graphic designer) will occupy offices in Porter 313 on and after July 1, as the official office for the Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology (COATT) moves to EMU from Merit Network at the University of Michigan.  They are supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.  COATT is a state wide consortium of universities and K-12 organizations that was started with the assistance of Senator Carl Levin.

STUDENT NOTES

David J. Maile will defend his dissertation "An Investigation of Formative Evaluation Practices for Teacher Evaluation in Selected School Districts in the State of Michigan" on July 14 at 10:00 a.m. in Porter 301 B/C.   William Price is the chair.  The public is invited.

The Winter 2003 Dean's List includes 879 students from the College of Education, including 132 from HPERD, 178 from Special Education, and 569 from Teacher Education.  Each person received a letter of commendation and a certificate from Provost Paul Schollaert.

ALUMNI NOTES

Tom Rashid '77 is the Catholic High School league athletic director and was named "Athletic Director of the Year" by the Michigan Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

Brian Schad '78, '87 is a third-grade teacher at Lawton Elementary in Ann Arbor.  He and his students won third place in a NASA-sponsored national contest.

Leanna Soltis '78, '89 is assistant principal at Milan High School.

Steven Gilzow '79 is a fourth-grade teacher at Paddock Elementary in Milan.  He has worked in the district for more than 25 years.

Jean Britton '80 is the director of the South and West Washtenaw Consortium.  She was formerly an assistant principal at Saline High School.

Nancy Walz '80 is a second-grade teacher at Turrill Elementary in Lapeer.  She has been teaching for more than 30 years.

Daniel Wayne Adams '86, '91 is a fourth-grade teacher at Paddock Elementary in Milan.  He started his career in Milan as a student teacher.

Scott Buchler '95 is assistant principal at Northwest High School.  He formerly taught special education at Jackson High School.

Julie Everly '95, '00 has been promoted to principal of Rainsville Elementary School in Monroe.

Vicki Juback '98 and Amy Grant '99 shared the "team teaching" award of the Michigan Association of Middle Schools.  They teach at Mill Creek Middle School in Dexter.

Jason Camis '00 is president of the Southwest Metropolitan Recreation Executive Group, a regional group of the Michigan Recreation and Park Association that serves about 35 communities in/near Wayne County.

Kristine Henry '00 is a seventh-grade teacher of English and social studies at Beach Middle School in Chelsea.

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Patricia May Grambeau '42 recently died suddenly.  She attended Roosevelt High School and was a former teacher of mathematics and English at Mt. Clemens High School.

SPONSORED PROJECTS

Ellen Hoffman has received $100,000 from Spring Arbor University for "Developing an Ecology for Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers for Technology, Year 3 Supplemental Funding."  This continuing project will develop an ecology for preparing teacher candidates who teach excellently with technology.  The candidates will be teamed with cooperating teachers and university supervisors.  An increasing percentage of the teams will involve school districts that are technologically under-served.  This supplement is intended to provide interim funding for three project staff members who will move to Eastern from another collaborating organization.  Additional funding is expected.

SHORT NOTES

The COE Office of Collaborative Education has submitted forms to all COE faculty/staff members requesting information for the "Outside the Classroom" resource publication.  The deadline for responding is September 12.

The call for nominations for awards from the Association of Teacher Educators has been issued.  Nomination deadlines are at various times, depending on the category, in July. 

Award categories are "distinguished research in teacher education" (contact catsls@Mail1.Hofstra.edu), "distinguished clinician in teacher education" (contact jsnyder@coe.wayne.edu), "distinguished teacher educator" (contact johnm@siu.edu), "distinguished dissertation in teacher education" (contact ckelly@mail.uccs.edu), and "distinguished program in teacher education" (contact jreinhartz@uta.edu).

An archaeological dig at the corner of Morgan and Thomas roads in Pittsfield Township has investigated the site of a 1852 school building.  This building was demolished c1895 when a replacement building was constructed nearby.  The 1895 building was moved to the EMU campus in 1987.  The major find of the dig was to determine exactly where the original building stood.

A garage sale, organized by the Department of Teacher Education and conducted on June 21, for the benefit of Jon Margerum-Leys' family, netted more than $700.

DEVELOPMENT NOTES

Delores (Soderquest) '52 and William Brehm of McLean, VA, through the Fuller Foundation, have made a generous gift to support scholarships in special education.  The estate of the late Nancy Haynes '59, '64 provided for $25,000 for the EMU College of Education.  The money has been divided among 10 scholarship accounts such as to increase the principal of each.  Haynes was a teacher in Flint who had lived in California in more recent times.

Net available proceeds for the COE from telephone and direct mail solicitation will be about $5,000 more in FY04 than in FY03.

EMU NEW TEACHERS

The fact that EMU is the nation's largest producer of educators (total of new teachers, advanced credential teachers, administrators, counselors) is often mis-quoted as "EMU produces more new teachers than any other institution."  Not so, even though we are one of the largest producers of new teachers.

For the decade 1993 through 2002, inclusive, according to the data in the annual AACTE Directory, these are the numbers of "new teachers" produced during the decade by the large producers of new teachers:

Brigham Young University	10,096
Wayne State University	10,003
University of South Florida	9,807
Indiana University	9,559
Pennsylvania State University	8,681
CSU, Dominguez Hills	8,338
CSU, Fresno	8,217
Eastern Michigan University	8,216
Western Michigan University	7,163
University of Texas, Austin	7,086
University of Central Oklahoma	7,032
Illinois State University	6,938
The Ohio State University	6,900

OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS

(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunities.html)

July 30-COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Porter 301B/C.

September 2-COE Fall Conference, Eagle Crest, all day.

CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS

(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)

The Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership seeks cases. Information: gcrow@gse.utah.edu.

July 1-deadline for Principal Leadership articles on community partnerships.  Deadline for articles for The Educational Forum on "theoretical aspects of educational leadership."  Deadline for nominations for ATE's distinguished research in teacher education award.  For information, catsls@mail1.Hofstra.edu.  Deadline for nominations for ATE's distinguished dissertation in teacher education award.  Information: ckelly@mail.uccs.edu.

July 15-deadline for nominations for ATE's distinguished clinician in teacher education award.  For information, jsnyder@coe.wayne.edu.

July 18-proposals due for annual Academic Chairperson's Conference, Orlando.  For information, sharonb@ksu.edu.

July 25-deadline for nominations for ATE's distinguished teacher educator award.  For information, johnm@siu.edu.

July 30-deadline for manuscripts for Scholar-Practitioners.  For information, Pjenlink@sfasu.edu.

August 1-deadline for Principal Leadership articles on safety and discipline.  Deadline for articles for Educational Forum on theoretical aspects of educational leadership.  For information, www.kdp.org. 

Deadline for proposals for American Educational Research Association annual meeting. Also deadline for reviewers, discussants, chairs, and mentors.  For information, www.aera.net/meeting.

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THEME STATEMENTS

Caring professional educators for a diverse and democratic society. (CPED²S) (Initial program)

Inquiry, advocacy, and leadership in education for  diverse and democratic society. (Advanced programs)

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