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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT NEWS  Volume XIV, Spring 2003  Second to Last Week of Spring 2003 Classes – April 28 Edition best viewed at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/030428.html on the WWW; for past issues   Ed. Dept. News Index - http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/newsindex.html

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Words of Inspiration
the collection appears at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/words.html

Round the Maypole: Celebrating May Day

http://www.umkc.edu/imc/mayday.htm

Come all ye lads and lassies
Join in the festive scene
Come dance around the maypole
That will stand upon the green.

Posted on April 28, 2003.

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Announcements

1) The following students received memberships into Who's Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges: Bethany Champagne, Brandon Bilodeau, Susan Leser, Amy Niblett, Sarah Ververis, Kathryn Balkan, and Maureen Morse. The Awards Ceremony celebrating their achievement will take place on Wednesday, April 30, 4 pm in the Betty Tipton Room.

2) Outstanding Student Teaching Award for the Spring 2003 Semester:

Vicki Buchanan, Graduate Elementary Education
Henry Kydd, Undergraduate Secondary Social Studies
Jason Ladegard, Undergraduate Early Childhood Education
Kristine McQuarrie, Undergraduate Secondary English
Angela Puccia, Undergraduate Early Childhood Education
Laura Quarticelli, Graduate Elementary Education

3) Education Department Faculty Meeting, Thursday, May 1, 2003, 12:30 - 1:45 in Webb Hall 115

 Tentative Agenda Items -

1) Announcements

2) Approval of the Minutes of April 3, 2003

3) Planning for departmental/unit retreat on Friday, May 9, 2003

4) Units report

5) Committee reports - including online course, program development;  GPA waiver for graduate and certification program;

6) Planning for Summer 2003 - annual report, institutes, coursework

7) Scheduling for Fall 2003, Wintersession 2004, Spring 2004

8) Enhancing departmental communications and leadership

9) Other items

Please contact David to add to the agenda.

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New faculty photo at

http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/faculty.html

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University Open House - April 27, 2003

Thirty-eight high school students attended two introductory sessions on teacher education at Eastern CSU, facilitated by Ingrid Enniss, Delar Singh, Dan Thompson, and David Stoloff.

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Announcement from Dean Kleine – April 16, 2003 –

ANNOUNCING A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY LEADERS

Linking Family and School Literacies: 
The Critical Connection for Student Success

Wednesday, May 28, 2003
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Radisson Hotel in Cromwell
No registration fee

Featured Presentations

"Connecticut's Changing Demographics and the Impact on Family Literacy"
Dr. Harold L. Hodgkinson
Director of the Center for Demographic Policy at the Institute for Educational Leadership
and one of the nation's leading educational demographers

"Making a Difference for All Young Children, Not Just the Lucky Few"
Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates
Professor in the College of Education at Michigan State University and leading scholar on the influence of culture, class, gender, and SES on literacy development and access to literacy learning in schools

Connecticut Commentators
Dr. Janice M. Gruendel
Co-President and Senior Policy Fellow                  
Connecticut Voices for Children

David M. Nee
Executive Director
William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund

Register by May 12, 2003

For program information:                                               
Judy Carson (judy.carson@po.state.ct.us or 860-713-6576; or                    
Harriet Feldlaufer (harriet.feldlaufer@po.state.ct.us or 860-713-6579)
For registration questions:
EASTCONN Conference Office 860-455-0707

Please complete the following registration information:

Name:
Title: 
Organization: 
Street Address:                                
Town:                                                   Zip:           
Phone:                                                  Email:

Send completed registrations to EASTCONN Conference Office, Windham Mills Bldg. #1, 3rd floor, 322 Main Street, Willimantic, CT  06226; or fax to 860-456-9407; or email to conferenceoffice@eastconn.org <mailto:conferenceoffice@eastconn.org>. 

You will receive written confirmation and directions by mail if your registration is accepted.  You must be preregistered to attend this event.

Hosted by the Connecticut Family Literacy Initiative - A Project of The Connecticut State Department of Education

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A message from Professor Ross E. Koning, PhD
Chapter President ECSU-AAUP
Biology Department - Goddard Hall
email: Koning@EasternCT.edu
http://Koning.EasternCT.edu/

Greetings ECSU-AAUP Faculty, 

I am pleased to announce that our on-line (html) version
of the 2002-2006 CSU AAUP-BOT Collective Bargaining
Agreement is on-line at the usual URL: 

http://www.easternct.edu/aaup/cba.html

This version is, of course, unofficial...but we have worked
hard to make it identical with the printed version in content,
and have hopefully corrected most of the printed version's
flaws. 

We encourage you to try it out.  All internal and some external
references are linked so navigation is better than in the print
version. You can also use the find and find-again feature of
your browser to search for words in the contract...so finding
items is perhaps easier.  On the down-side, the contract is now
in a single file that is sometimes slow to open if you are on a
modem connection...but we think your patience will be rewarded. 

I also encourage you to right-click (PC USERS) or click-hold-drag
(Mac USERS) on the CBA link on the home page to DOWNLOAD
the contract to your hard-drive for improved loading times.  Our
home-page is: 

http://www.easternct.edu/aaup

Best wishes for the fall semester.

ross

Professor Ross E. Koning, PhD
Chapter President ECSU-AAUP
Biology Department - Goddard Hall 

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                              Call for Graduating Senior Information 

A request from Institutional Research - 

Please share news about the plans of graduating seniors. 

If they are going on to graduate school, please provide the graduate's name, undergraduate major,
graduate university, location (city, state), field of study and degree program sought, and any information
on scholarships and/or fellowships. 

If they have been accepted for employment positions, please provide the graduate's name,
undergraduate major, company, location (city, state), position, salary. 

Please email the information to David, who will compile it for the department.  Thanks. 

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                       ECSU - ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers Projects 

Faculty members and students from Eastern Connecticut State University are participating in a US Department of Education grant to Prepare Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology with ThinkQuest
[ http://www.preservice.org/] and 13 other universities throughout the US.  This project's homepage may be at http://www.preservice.org/ecsu/ . 

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Long Term Announcements

Alumni news may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html.

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Planning
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Past surveys of our graduates are available on the WWW  - 

an analysis of the survey of teacher education program graduates 1996-98
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/survey9698.htm

results of the survey of teacher education program graduates - 1996-1998 -
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/surveyresults9698.htm,  and 

results of the survey of teacher education program graduates - 1998-2000 -
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradsurvey2001.htm

survey of interests in graduate programs -1999,
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradinterestsurvey1999.htm

survey of interests in graduate programs - 2001
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradinterestsurvey2001.htm

Planning forms for field experiences and student teaching for Spring 2003 are now posted at 

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

and

http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/stpreferencefall2003.doc

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Research and Creativity Activities
 chronicling the ongoing progress of the Education Department at Eastern Connecticut State University 
                   also found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/rca.html

Seventh Report - November 15, 2002

During Career Day at Putnam High School, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2002, David Stoloff met with 41 students to discuss their interests in teacher education. Of this group, 12 were interested in Secondary Education, 8 in Elementary Education, 7 in Early Childhood Education, 1 Elem/ECE, 6 in Special Education, 2 in HPE, 1 in Music, 1 in Art, and 3 were undecided.

Sixth Report
October 20, 2002

Results of the Open House – Sunday, October 20, 2002

Leslie Ricklin, Richard Reynolds, Delar Singh, Cathy Tannahill, and Ingrid Enniss and David Stoloff met over 121 students interested in coming to Eastern for teacher certification on Sunday, October 20, 2002 at the Fall 2002 University Open House.

The majority expressing interest in elementary education (68), early childhood education (17), secondary education (24), special education (3), and middle level (2), with the remainder uncertain.

Another 15 students/family may not have signed in but received information about the programs. The information sheet at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/questions.html was distributed.

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Searches
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searches pending approval - we  had request an additional faculty member in Elementary Education. 

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Jamie Hendricks shared this link to the Mansfield Schools employment website -
http://www.mansfieldct.org/MBOE/Employ/docs/Web%20Posting%206.02B.doc

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Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office or on the Web 

Kushner, Harold S.  (2001)  Living a life that matters.  New York:  Anchor Books. [holiday gift from the Education Department]

Rothermel, Dan (1996).Starting points: How to set up and run a writing workshop - and much more!   Columbus, Ohio: National Middle School Association. ISBN 1-56090-109-8

Wynn, Charles M. & Wiggins, Arthur W. (1997).The five biggest ideas in science.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-13812-6.

Jacobik, Gray (2002). Brave disguises.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-5788-4

Mama, Raouf & Romney, Mary (2001).Pearls of wisdom. Brattleboro, VT: Pro Lingua Associates. ISBN 0-86647-134-0

Folios from the NCATE Professional Development Workshops, sponsored by CT State Dept of Ed. – Fall 2003

Connections between K-12 Student Standards and Teacher Preparation Standards. 

CAPT Test handbooks in Science, Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum, and Mathematics.

Graduate Elementary Education Program Self-Study for NCATE visit.

Teaching Our Youngest:  A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child-Care and Family Providers.  (2002) Early Childhood-Head Start Task Force, US Dept. of Education and US Dept. of Health and Human Services. 

America's Children:  Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2002.  Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. 

Notes from the 2002 Creative Advance - "Creativity Through Diversity" - Thursday, August 22, 2002, Eastern Connecticut State University. 

Evaluator's Report on the May State On-Site Review of ECSU's Teacher Education Programs.  Received May 31, 2002. 

Institutional Overview and Response to Standards, Self-examination report on Teacher Preparation
Programs at ECSU, March 2002. 

Portfolio Responses for BEST program, 2001-2002. 

Precondition Report for the Education Unit - April 2002, NCATE document 

General Education Committee's General Education Program Proposal 

Wednesdays - A Compilation of Short Stories written by Eastern Connecticut State University
Graduate Students 

Faculty Handbook. 

Our Reading/Language Arts room, Webb Hall 113, has been enriched with past issues of Phi Delta Kappan, Academe, Syllabus, Converge, Governmental Technology, Journal of Teacher Education, and other resources.  Please feel free to use and encourage your students to use these materials. 

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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.   Please invite others to receive this newsletter and be added
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