Meetings this week - Full Education Department meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 5, 12:30 - 1:45,
WH 115.

Tentative Agenda

Revision and Approval of Minutes of 9/7/00 meeting

Review of the Departmental Goals listed below

Unit News

Departmental Committee Reports
    CARE
    Graduate Studies
     PDS Committee
    NCATE Writers
    EEC
    Library Builders
        Other reports
            CEASP

Review of Dept. By-Law

Time Certain - 1:45 - Search Committee News.

Time Certain - 2 - DEC Committee Meeting.

Please send David other items for the agenda.

Review and Additions? to Departmental Goals for 2000-2001

1. Revise and implement all of the Education Department programs in alignment with NCATE and
national, professional organizations standards and changes in certification regulations.

2. Explore, enhance and develop Professional Development School (PDS) formal agreements with 2 to 4
regional school districts.

3. Fully develop portfolio assessment in all programs that are aligned with national teaching standards and
the Connecticut Common Core of Teaching.

4. Enhance technology applications within the Teacher Education and graduate studies program.

5. Enhance the quality of the field experience using new supervisory models.

6. Develop MS in Education in Children’s Literature, Mathematics, and Educational Technology and begin
the development of an MS in Special Education.

7. Recruit students that better represent the diversity of the state’s population.

8. Refine policies and processes for admission and retention of students in the teacher education programs.

News from Richard Reynolds and Marge Cambre in Australia appears at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/australia.html .

Please review the Frequently Asked Questions website at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/questions.html
for revisions.

1) Multi-media lecterns have been placed in Webb Hall 113, 114, 215, 216, 313, 315, Media 103, 145,
Goddard 202, Shafer 209, Sports Center 221, Media 203, Shafer 113.  If you are planning to be teaching in
these rooms and don't plan to use technology, please let me know so that we might arrange a room
exchange.  If you would like to be scheduled in these rooms, please let David know also.

Please consider participating in the Open House for New Students and their families on Sunday,
October 8, 1 - 3 in the Student Union.   More information to follow.

Please consider participating in the Open House for Prospective Students on Sunday, October 22,
1 - 3 in the Student Union.  Join Joan Culpin, our new UA for CARE, and David to meet and greet parents
and students interested in entering the class of 2005.

Please consider joining the University Hour Committee - the committee that plans the University Hour
presentations, usually on Wednesdays, 3-4 pm.  Please forward your nomination or self-nomination to
David so that he might forward the name of our department representative to Ms. Kathy Atkinson in
Academic Affairs by October 1, 2000.

David Stoloff and family will be participating in the Relay for Life, a fund-raiser for the American Cancer
Society on Saturday-Sunday, October 14-15, 2000 at Windham High School.  If you would like to contribute
to this fund-raiser, please talk with David.

The Stoloff Boys will also be participating in the ECSU Bowlathon on Saturday, November 4 at 2 pm.
Please consider contributing to the ECSU Foundation for Scholarships by supporting the team.

1) Danbury Schools Recruitment

A message from Pat Martin:

"Dan Rothermel is having Jim Daniels speak in class on choosing a district. Would you have interest in
having a day to visit, if we got a van, make the arrangements etc. it would prob be with one of the
sophomore level courses? We can involve Phys Ed too. All grade levels and interest. Let me kwow. Jim
said that Eastern was one of five school that he wants to focus on."

2) Charter Schools Presentation

From Meredith Gavrin and Greg Baldwin
Project Managers

Connecticut Charter Schools Network
171 Willow Street
New Haven, CT  06511
(203) 787-7819 phone
(203) 787-1658 fax
mgavrin@aol.com / gbaldie@aol.com

"We are the Project Managers for the Connecticut Charter Schools Network.   As
part of our outreach efforts this year, we are interested in addressing
students and faculty from education departments around the state to answer
questions about the charter schools in Connecticut, to present information
about the charter school movement both in this state and nationally, and to
answer some of the common questions about charter schools (How are charter
schools funded?  How do they differ from other public schools?  How do they
differ from vouchers?).

We would very much appreciate an opportunity to speak with interested
students and faculty at  Eastern Connecticut State.    We can also bring or
send a packet of printed information, and our website
(www.ctcharterschools.org) provides some basic information as well.

Please feel free to contact us, via email or phone, at your earliest
convenience -- or we will call you within the next week.  We look forward to
speaking with you."

1)  Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium conference on Friday, October 6 at Manchester
(CT) Community College - for more information, please see http://www.ctdlc.org/faculty/index.html

2)  Connecticut Campus Compact on Service Learning conference, Sacred Heart University,
October 13, 2000.  David has reserved a car and will be leaving from campus at 7 am.

3) MEDIA, CHILDREN AND CULTURE
A one-day conference at Quinnipiac University, Saturday, October 21st, 2000
For more information about this conference please call 203-582-8313 or
email  Rebecca.Abbott@quinnipiac.edu

4) "Engaging Learners" - Connecticut Consortium for Enhancing Learning and Teaching
conference, Friday, October 27, 2000, Waterbury, CT, for more information, please email Jerry Allen,
UNH, allen@charger,newhaven.edu.  David has reserved a car and will be leaving from campus.

5) Connecticut Educators Computer Association conference on Monday, November 6 in
Cromwell, CT - for more information, please see http://www.ceca-ct.org/CECA2000/index.html .

Milne, A.A. (1926) Winnie-the-Pooh.  New York:  Puffin Books. (used to illustrate models of learning and
teaching - particularly the Guiding Partner Model)

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (2000).  Engage discoverers:  Kids constructing
knowledge with technology.  Austin, TX.  A VIDEO.

Gibson, G. W. (1992) Good start:  A guidebook for new faculty in liberal arts colleges.  Bolton, MA:  Anker
Publishing Co. (gift from the Center for Educational Excellence - thank you, Dr. Rhona Free)

The Education Department has been authorized to begin the process of searching for 3 tenure
track faculty members in Early Childhood Education, Science Education, and Special
Education, for Fall 2001.  The announcements for these positions are posted at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/search01.html.

The second meeting of the NCATE Writing Group was held on July 18, 1-2:30 in WH 159;
notes on that meeting may be found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/ncate718.html.

Notes on the first NCATE organizational meeting - Wednesday, June 21, 12 - 2, in WH 159 may be found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/ncate621.html .

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) Preliminary ThinkQuest Implementation plan
 http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/thinkquestplan8200.html

b) 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 .

c) 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 .

d) 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

Excellence that Delivers - the 2000 ECSU Viewbook and Application - featuring Jeff Trawick-Smith and
Wendy Ernst.

Notes from the 2000 Creative Advance - "Attracting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest in a Public
Liberal Arts University for the 21st Century."

Self-Study for Reaccreditation, NEASC Report.  Fall 2000.

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@easternct.edu if you have any questions or
comments on this newsletter.