Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faculty and Staff News

Paulette Mares is taking a medical leave of absence from January 15, 1999 to Februrary 1, 1999.   Paulette
had surgery on Jan. 15 and will be recuperating at home during the following two weeks.  Our thoughts
are with her during this time of recovery.

Lorie Griffin will be staffing the Education Department office during Paulette's absence.  Ms. Griffin is a
graduate of Morse School of Business and has much experience as a medical assistant and receptionist.
Please welcome Lorie to the department.

Winter Institute for Future Teachers - Highly Successful, Despite the Weather

The 2nd annual Winter Institute for Future Teachers convened on Saturday, January 9, 1999 from 9 am to
4 pm in the Classroom Building.   Over 83 high schools students, their teachers, and parents  from
throughout Connecticut participated in 16 workshops in "A Taste of the Teaching Profession."

Sponsored by the Capitol Region Education Council's Minority Teacher Recruitment Program and the
Education Department at ECSU, and organized by Education Dept. faculty members Elsy Negron-Wrang, David Stoloff, Debbie Salih, and Jesse Turner, Carole Mulready, CREC's Director of the
Minority Teacher Recruitment Program, undergraduates and graduate students in Ed. Dept. programs,
and returning Summer Institute for Future Teacher students, the conference featured workshops on
Teaching with Passion
Hot Rods
Early Years are Learning Years
Responding through the Arts to Children's Literature
Who's in the Mirror
WWW for Future Teachers
Ho-Hum Crashers
Multicultural Voices
SIFTing through Your Choices
Take a Challenge and Turn it into a Reward
College Battlezone
Murder Mystery
Multiple Intelligences.

The conference was a day of learning and fun for people interested in teaching and learning.

For more information, please contact Dr. Elsy Negron-Wrang at (860) 465-4554 or Dr. David Stoloff at
(860) 465-5501.

Grant Opportunities

United States Department of Education Upcoming Request for Proposals

>From Dr. Jack Flynn, Academic Grants Officer

for additional information, please connect to FORECAST OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES UNDER
THE DEPARTMENT OFEDUCATION DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAMS FOR THE
REMAINDER OF FISCAL YEAR (FY) 1999.
http://ocfo.ed.gov/grntinfo/forecast/forecast.htm

or a completer version of the following notes from Dr. Flynn:
 

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UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT GUIDELINES - 1999 COMPETITION
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The University Grants Committee invites full-time faculty to apply for a grant under Article 9.10 of the CSU-AAUP Collective Bargaining Agreement.  Grant applications are due no later than 5:00 p.m. on February 16, 1999 to the campus representative listed in the guidelines, which may be
found at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/CSUgrant99.html.

Requests for Proposals were also mailed out to all faculty at the end of December.   David Stoloff would
copy his RFP for you.

Submit proposals to

ECSU, Dimitrios Pachis, Pachis@easternct.edu

or faculty representatives:

Elena Tapia, Tapiae@ecsu.ctstateu.edu
5-5078, Linguistics (English)

Leslie Ricklin, Ricklinl@ecsu.ctstateu.edu
5-5229, Education  [Congratulations and thanks on your service on this committee.]

IN THE CHAIR'S OFFICE

Received from Dr. Hilary Freedman, State Department of Education, at 12/18 CACUTE meeting -

National Standards for Quality Teaching --
from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education(NCATE),
Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC), and
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)

Assocation of Teacher Educators' (ATE) DRAFT Assessment System to Identify Accomplished Teacher
Educators

and other related materials from the NCATE, ATE, and AACTE sponsored meeting of the National
Academy on the Alignment of Standards and Teacher Development for Student Learning, June 4-6, 1998.

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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.