Welcome to Sixth Week of the Summer 1999 Sessions.

A Summer Task
Please send a listing of your 1998-99 publications to email:  schroederka for inclusion in the President's Annual Summary Report.

Faculty Opportunities

A stipend is available for faculty interested in participating in a summer curriculum project to develop School-to-Career curriculum for high school students interested in becoming teachers.  Please see David for details.

Upcoming Events

Opening Celebration of the Summer Institute for Future Teachers III.
Monday, July 5, 5:30 -8, greetings and picnic on the field south of Webb Hall.  Please see Elsy or David for details.

Student/Professional Opportunities (Please see David for details.)

American Association for University Professors - Connecticut State University
Research Project in Developing Online Courses for PK-12 Schools

Seeking a diverse group of ten PK-12 teachers, representing a variety of grades and subjects taught, to develop collaboratively month-long courses that they would plan to implement in their classrooms during the 1999-2000 academic year.  These courses would focus on a curricular topic that would be enriched through the integration of at least 100 links to websites woven into the course’s narrative and activities for learning.  This project will examine the factors influencing the effectiveness of curriculum supported by web-based resources.

 Qualifications:  experience teaching in a PK-12 school, coursework in curriculum development.  Willingness to develop in webpage development.

 Participants will receive a stipend of $300.  They may either work on their own with collaboration with the project director via email or attend workshops during July 1999 at ECSU.  They may also earn graduate credit for their participation by enrolling in an oncampus or online educational technology workshop.

 For more information, please contact Dr. David Stoloff, Education Department Chair, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT 06226, email:  stoloffd@ecsu.ctstateu.edu, tel. no. (860) 465-5501, or visit  http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/stoloff/su99project.html .

Recently acquired media

At the PDS Forum, Jackie Bowman bought

Johnston, M. (1997) Contradictions in collaborations.  NY:  Teachers College Press.

Levine, M. & Trachtman, R., ed. (1997)  Making professional development schools work.  NY:  Teachers College Press.

Please see Jackie if you would like to borrow these books, which were purchased with the support of the Technical Assistants  in the P-12 Schools project.

David Stoloff has the proceedings of the "In Praise of Education" conference in his office.  Also, Learn and Live, a video from the George Lucas Educational Foundation.

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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.