The next meeting of the NCATE Writing Group is scheduled for July 18, 1-2:30 in WH 159.  Notes on NCATE organizational meeting - Wednesday, June 21, 12 - 2, in WH 159 may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/ncate621.html .

Points to discuss at this Tuesday meeting include -

1) support needed to complete first drafts by end of August,

2) statistics needed for these reports,

3) planning for data collection - decision-making on admission and retention, relationships of admissions requirements to candidate success, candidate assessment and assessment of unit operations for program improvement

United Technologies Corporation in Hartford has awarded the Education Department at ECSU a grant of over $175,000 to collaborate with the Hartford Public Schools and its Early Childhood Education Division on the implementation and evaluation of computers in three pre-schools in Hartford.  Congratulations to the grant proposal writing team of Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, Sudha Swaminathan, June Wright, and Dean Kleine for this groundbreaking, signature project for ECSU, the Hartford Public Schools, and UTC.

Summer Institute for Future Teachers, July 4 - 28, 2000 began well with 47 high school students from throughout Connecticut.  See David or Dina Wright, Project Director this summer, often found in the Ed. Dept. Office, for more details.

Diane Cerreto has accepted a one-year appointment in Early Childhood Education.   Diane has been an adjunct faculty member in ECE at ECSU and a veteran teacher in the Windham Public Schools.  Congratulations and thanks for all of their efforts to the search committee - Jeff Traw, Ann, and Sudha.

Julie Alexandrin has accepted the one-year appointment in Special Education, starting in August 2000.  Ms. Alexandrin has been an adjunct faculty member in our department, teaching EDU 200, and is a doctoral student at UCONN.  Congratulations and thanks for all of their efforts to the search committee - Ann Gruenberg, Chair;  Sudha Swaminathan, Mitch Sakofs.

Ed. Dept. in a Consortium received PT3 Catalyst Grant
The Education Department is part of a consortium with the City College of New York, the University of the Pacific, Western Michigan University, and ThinkQuest [http://www.thinkquest.org/] that was awarded a US Dept. of Ed. - Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Program (PT3) of over $600,000 per year for the next three years.  ECSU's component will be about $10,000 for initiating the use of ThinkQuest in regional schools and in our teacher education programs.

A press release announcing our partnership with ThinkQuest may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/thinkquest622.html .  More information on this project from David, particularly after the project organizational meeting in late July.

Ed. Dept. Annual Report available on web and on paper
I have placed a paper copy of the draft Annual Report in the position announcement folder outside my door - WH  129 and have shared a copy with the faculty.  A WORD draft document may be downloaded from

http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/dept9900.doc

2)  Special Section - How we spent our summer vacations

A selection of documents describing how we spent our time during the summer vacations.  Faculty, students, and staff are invited to send in items to be posted in this seasonal news setting.

a) Notes on the STEP/CAP Program and the Education Department's involvement this summer may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/stepcap062600.html .

b) Notes on the visit of Ed Harris, Superintendent of Schools, Region 11 - Chaplin, Hampton, Scotland - on Wednesday, June 28, 11 - 2 may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/region11062800.html .

c) Notes by David Stoloff on a visit to Louisiana Tech University may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/latechvisit.html .

3) Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office

Jonathan Kozol's Ordinary Resurrections (departmental gift to the Chair's Library - thank you).

Other available documents are listed on the Education Department Documents page at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/documents.html
 

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Please contact David Stoloff at (860) 465-5501, email: stoloffd@ecsu.ctstateu.edu if you have any questions or comments on this newsletter.