Regents Professor Megan R. Gunnar of the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development will discuss her research to explore the impact of abuse and neglect on child development. She is particularly interested in following the development of international children adopted from institutional (orphanage) care. Her talk is part of the School of Social Work’s Research in Progress series. It will be Thursday, November 18, 2-3:30 p.m., Peters Hall, Room 39. If you have questions, contact Victoria Van Slyke, (612) 624-3676.
Kinesiology Ph.D. student wins Best Student Paper at SMA conference
Megan Shreffler, Ph.D. student in Kinesiology with an emphasis in sport management, won Best Student Paper at the 8th Annual Sport Marketing Association Conference last week in New Orleans, LA. The paper, entitled “The Socialization of Chicagoans into Baseball Fandom,” won this prestigious award, which is the association’s highest honor for graduate students. Ms. Shreffler is advised by Prof. Stephen Ross.
Kinesiology’s Magnuson presents at Saturday Scholars
Dr. Connie Magnuson, lecturer in the School of Kinesiology‘s recreation and outdoor education programs, is giving a presentation on “The Gopher Adventure Race: An academic experience” at this year’s Saturday Scholars program at Coffman Memorial Union on Saturday, November 6.
Williams quoted in Star Tribune about north Minneapolis violence study
Oliver Williams, School of Social Work professor and director of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC), was quoted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about a report he coauthored on violence in north Minneapolis. NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center enlisted the help of IDVAAC to write the report. The goal was to analyze the impact of crime and violence in the community and to provide prevention and intervention recommendations. The report’s findings were presented at a public meeting on October 30.
Karate instructor Robert Fusaro awarded 8th Degree Black Belt
Robert Fusaro, instructor for PE 1035, Karate, and PE 1135, Intermediate Karate, has been awarded the level of 8th Degree Black Belt by the International Traditional Karate Federation (ITKF). Mr. Fusaro, who has been teaching Karate at the U of M since 1965, is 77. He began his training in 1955 while stationed in Japan during the Korean War and obtained his 1st Degree Black Belt in 1959. This award makes Fusaro one of the highest ranking non-Japanese to achieve this black belt level.
“Sensei Fusaro has been a mentor to thousands of Traditional Karate students throughout the years,” said Richard Jorgensen, chair of the ITKF. “He is an outstanding instructor and role model.”
Fusaro was the first to propose that women should be allowed to compete in Kumite (sparring) tournaments. Until the late 1960s, women were allowed only to take karate classes. Fusaro trained Nina Chenault, the first woman to compete in tournaments in the United States. Along with his many other activities related to karate, he is an instructor for the Shotokan Karate Sport Club at the U of M Recreation Center.
Diversity Dialogues Present Jarrett Gupton
Postdoctoral Fellow Jarrett Gupton, Ph.D., explores the educational and life experiences of homeless students. His current research focuses on improving educational access, equity, and opportunity for those furthest on the margins.
Gupton, from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, will address the ways in which homeless youth have come to define themselves and how they transverse educational systems to gain access to postsecondary education.
Date: 10/28/2010
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: 48 Peik Hall
Cost: Free
Please bring a bag lunch if you like.
Weiss publishes in American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Maureen Weiss, professor in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, along with former doctoral student Cheryl Stuntz, St. Lawrence University, published a state-of-the-art review that highlights the psychological and social predictors of physical activity among youth. The pathways to enhancing physical activity motivation and positive health outcomes include four ingredients: perceptions of competence, sense of choice or autonomy, supportive relationships, and enjoyment of participation. The full reference of the article is: Stuntz, C.P., & Weiss, M.R. (2010). Motivating children and adolescents to sustain a physically active lifestyle. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 4(5), 433-444.
New York Times quotes CEHD student about Jimmy John’s union drive
College of Education and Human Development student Emily Przybylski was quoted in the New York Times about the campaign to unionize Jimmy John’s workers. Przybylski, who is taking coursework in Family Social Science and Youth Studies, is a bike delivery worker at Jimmy John’s. “A union in fast food is an idea whose time has come… There are millions of workers in this industry living in poverty, with no consistent scheduling, no job security and no respect. It’s time for change,” Przybylski is quoted as saying in the Oct. 20 article. Read the article on the Times Web site.
The Tucker Center’s Fall 2010 Distinguished Lecture Archived
An archive of the Tucker Center’s Fall 2010 Distinguished Lecture is available online.
The lecture, “Reducing Obesity among Minority Females: The Critical Role of Physical Activity”, featured three U of M scholars: Beth Lewis, Ph.D., Daheia J. Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D.
Register for Saturday Scholars 2010
The CEHD Alumni Society invites you to get your mind in gear with Saturday Scholars 2010, a day of informal learning at Coffman Memorial Union on Saturday, November 6 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Your half-day workout will consist of stretching the limits of your intellect and bulking up with knowledge you can apply. Come hear riveting presentations from esteemed faculty on timely topics related to education and human development. Faculty presenters, presentation topics, and an event timeline are listed on our website.
Please register by November 1. Just download the registration brochure and mail it in today. Registration includes breakfast, lunch, and a college-branded giveaway. Please note, there will not be a docent led tour at the Weisman Art Museum this year, as it will be closed for renovations from mid-October 2010 through October 2011.
Save the date and we’ll save you a seat at Saturday Scholars 2010!
Recreation, Park, and Leisure students host Gopher Adventure Race
Students from the Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies Program will host the first “Gopher Adventure Race” for students from 1 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22. The racecourse begins at Bierman Athletic Field and features highlights found throughout the East Bank, West Bank, and St. Paul campuses.
Modeled after the popular television show, “The Amazing Race,” the Gopher Adventure Race will pair U of M students in teams of two, competing to become the Ultimate Gopher Adventurers. The teams will complete a variety of mental and physical challenges that will test their knowledge and navigation of the campus as well as their adventurous spirit, including climbing a boulder wall and navigating the Mississippi River by canoe. The event will be accessible to people of all abilities.
“Other universities’ adventure races are more about who’s faster, who’s stronger, and who can bully their way through,” said race coordinator Connie Magnuson in a Pioneer Press story. But in the Gopher competition, she said, “If you can’t figure out the clue, somebody else is going to pass you by.”
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Excitement builds for Gopher Adventure Race
The Gopher Adventure Race, conceived and organized by Dr. Connie Magnuson, lecturer in recreation and outdoor education, is featured in the St. Paul Pioneer Press today. Read about how this adventure race, the first at the U of M, is different from others, and the excitement it’s generated over the last few weeks. The race will be held this Friday, October 21, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. It starts on the U of M’s East Bank.
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The first-ever Tucker Center Film Festival, presented with U of M Athletics, will take place on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, in conjunction with the the 25th Annual National Girls & Women in Sport Day. More details regarding the event to come soon! TERI Update
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Konczak inducted as Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology
Juergen Konczak, professor of biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology, was inducted October 9 as a Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology (formerly the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education) at the organization’s 80th annual meeting in Williamsburg, VA.
The National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK) is an honorary organization composed of Fellows who have made significant contributions to the field through scholarship and professional service. Konczak joins School of Kinesiology colleagues Mary Jo Kane, Arthur S. Leon, Tom Stoffregen, Michael G. Wade, and Maureen Weiss, who are also NAK Fellows. Congratulations, Professor Konczak!Prof. Stephen Ross discusses Brett Favre off the field on Fox 9
Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor in sport management in the School of Kinesiology, was interviewed for Fox 9 News by Maury Glover regarding the recent news of Brett Favre’s off-the-field incidents and the allegations that he sent inappropriate text messages. Ross discussed the impact that the allegations might have upon the endorsement power of Favre, and the effects of the incident related to marketing the athlete’s future.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/favre-endorsements-in-jeopardy-oct-19-2010FYI students make 2,000 sandwiches to feed the hungry
Students in Jill Trites and Kris Cory’s section of PsTL 1525W: First Year Inquiry (FYI) class made 2,000 sandwiches to feed the hungry on Oct. 20. In FYI, students focus on the question “How can one person make a difference?” The 2,000 sandwiches were donated to 363, a grass roots organization created by Allan Law, with the mission of feeding 2,000 homeless people in Minneapolis every day.
Law, a retired Minneapolis school teacher, spoke to the class about the level of poverty and homelessness faced in Minneapolis and his lifelong commitment to helping those in need. His message is: Treat people well, don’t worry about what you can’t control, and there are no excuses for not getting your work done.Dr. Jo Ann Buysse publishes with graduate student Bria Borcherding
Dr. Jo Ann Buysse, lecturer in Kinesiology, has published a journal article with Kinesiology master’s student Bria Borcherding:
Buysse, Jo Ann M., & Borcherding, Bria. Framing Gender and Disability: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Photographs From the 2008 Paralympic Games. Full Text Available. International Journal of Sport Communication, Sep2010, Vol. 3, Issue 3, p308.Tucker Center Film Festival Date Set
For additional information regarding the festival or to submit a film, please contact Austin Stair Calhoun. Update for October 19, 2010
15 October 2010
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/teri/
Welcome to the sixth installment of the TERI Update. We hope to use this regular email communication as a way to keep all of us informed about works in progress, deliberations, decisions, and events related to the Teacher Education Redesign Initiative.
Mark your calendars: December 3, 2010 and January 28, 2011
Location: TBD
We are planning for two new TERI working days in the coming months. Friday Dec. 3, 2010 will be focused on curriculum development, including deliberations about common content. January 28, 2011 will focus on assessment within our licensure programs and may include an opportunity to work with the Value-Added Research Center on data reporting models. Mark your calendars now and more details will follow.
Welcome Elizabeth Finsness as Curriculum & Assessment Coordinator
After a broad search that brought many applicants, Elizabeth Finsness was hired in August as the Curriculum & Assessment Coordinator. Lisa will be working with licensure programs to develop procedures and curriculum for the Teacher Performance Assessment pilot this year, she is co-chairing the Common Content Task Group with Martha Bigelow, and she will provide coordination for common assessments we will be developing and piloting in the coming years. Elizabeth comes to us from Minnesota State University-Mankato, having earned her PhD in the OLPD Dept. here at the U in 2008. Elizabeth will be located in the Educator Development and Research Center on the second floor of Peik Hall. Welcome, Elizabeth!
Welcome new members to the TERI Leadership Team
The TERI Leadership team coordinates the work of TERI and acts as a liaison group to the Bush Foundation. The current team includes:
Ken Bartlett, Associate Dean
Martha Bigelow, C&I
Peter Demerath, OLPD
Stacy Ernst, Partnership Coordinator
Elizabeth Finsness, Curriculum & Assessment Coordinator, EDRC
Jane Gilles, Coordinator for Accountability and Accreditation, Educator Development and Research Center
Carole Gupton, Director, Educator Development and Research Center
Lisa Jones, Executive Director, Educator Development and Research Center
Annie Mason, GA
Andrea Raich, Student Services
Misty Sato, TERI Director, C&I
Kathy Seifert, Special Education
See the TERI Governance Map on the next page for a snapshot of how the TERI leadership team interfaces with other parts of the college and advisory groups.
TERI Governance Map 2010-11
TERI Milestone Review with the Bush Foundation
On September 9, the TERI Leadership Team held a conference call with the Bush Foundation to review progress toward the milestones that we set for ourselves in our memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the foundation. For details, this review can be found on the TERI website and was distributed at the September Licensed School Professional meeting. This assessment of our progress gave us a great sense of pride in moving forward quickly on complex work while engaging more than 80 different people from across the college and among our school partners.
Program summer engagement
Thank you to the ten licensure programs who worked this summer with TERI funds to re-think their programs in relationship to clinical placements, the TPA, and other possible changes related to our ongoing discussions the past 9 months.
Common Content Task Group
Martha Bigelow and Elizabeth Finsness are co-chairing a Common Content Task group this semester. This group is charged with identifying how the current foundations of education courses will be redesigned to more strongly link to program-specific course work and assignments, to re-think the curricular experiences of our candidates within these courses, and to propose some structural / scheduling suggestions delivering common content courses / modules / clinical experiences.
October 1 Work Sessions review
More than 60 people attended the October 1 working session. At this meeting, we reviewed the redesign principles and the non-negotiable elements that we have agreed upon. Program areas led discussions on their progress in taking information about new clinical placements, partnerships, the Teacher Performance Assessment, and beginning to redesign their programs. A special thank you to Elementary Education, Agricultural Education, English Education for their presentations and to everyone else who brought out important elements from their own program work into the conversations. The core of the discussion brought out ways that common content courses can link more strongly to program-specific work and assessments. The group also examined the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) and identified strategic ways that elements of the TPA can be embedded into existing common content and program-specific experiences. We also reviewed the 4 common assessments proposed in May by the Curriculum & Assessment Task group and gathered input from programs about how to move forward strategically with their development.
Research
The Educator Development and Research Center, the college home for TERI, will begin coordinating research around various parts of the TERI work. Part of this coordination will be to seek additional grant funds for large-scale as research in partnership with our Professional Development Schools. Watch your email for an invitation to the TERI research roundtable discussions to be held on Fridays later in the semester. We are developing a research “map” that will help us to locate research on educator development within particular contexts of the educational system. We are seeking to support multi-disciplinary research on educator development. For now, four concepts have emerged as particular focal areas for research specifically related to TERI: partnerships, assessment-driven approaches, adaptive expertise (enduring dilemmas, uncertainties in practice), and transformation.
AACTE Proposal Accepted
The annual American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) conference to be held Feb 24-27, 2011 in San Diego, CA. A group (Misty Sato, Cassie Scharber, Martha Bigelow, Lori Helman, Stacy Ernst, and Michelle Gabrielli) submitted a joint proposal titled: Teacher Education Redesign Initiative: Preparing teachers with adaptive expertise.
TERI team attends Bush Summit
The Bush Foundation hosted a two-day summit on October 14 and 15, 2010. We had a team of 16 people attend, including 8 representatives from our partner districts and Professional Development Schools. We learned a lot from our colleagues across the state and gained some perspective from the national advisory committee.
District and School Partner Development
District partnership development moved forward with leaps and bounds this summer. We now have Memorandum of Understanding signed by four school districts that agrees to continue to planning with us to develop stronger partnerships for transforming educator development: Forest Lake, White Bear Lake, East Metro Integration District, and Brooklyn Center. Within these districts, three high schools, one middle school, and six elementary schools have been identified as future Professional Development Schools. Licensure programs are beginning to meet with school level leadership to work out arrangements for clinical placements in the coming year. Faith Clover from Art Education has already begun an innovative partnership in Forest Lake in which art teaching candidates co-develop an art lesson with an elementary teacher. The lesson integrates art with content area learning, providing children of Forest Lake schools with high quality art learning experiences while our candidates get practice teaching experiences.
Saturday Scholars
TERI leadership members Carole Gupton, Jane Gilles, and Stacey Ernst are the keynote presenters for the UMTC CE&HD Alumni Societies Saturday Scholars event on Saturday, November 6, 2010. This well attended event attracts alumni and friends who are interested in being current in education policy, programs and initiatives.
TERI Timeline
March–December 2009 Proposal to Bush Foundation
Convened CEHD and School representative Task Groups around essential curriculum in teacher education and school partner development. Proposed Professional Development School model of redesign to bush Foundation and received funding.
January–May 2010 Design Phase
Convened Task Groups to make recommendations for recruitment & admission, curriculum & assessment, partnership development, and research processes and structures related to teacher preparation and development. Began identifying district partners through series of meetings and retreats.
June–September 2010 Focus on Partnership Development
Identified and signed Memoranda of Understanding with 4 school district partners: Brooklyn Center, Forest Lake, White Bear Lake, East Metro Integration District. MOUs with districts focus on planning for teacher development (pre-service and in-service) together.
Across the partner districts, 7 schools have been identified as Professional Development Schools. Partnership development is proceeding differently with each school district, with priorities on professional development school identification, developing models for teacher preparation and development that aligned with school and university needs, and preparing teachers for mentoring student teachers.
September 2010–May 2011 On the Ground Design Phase
University curriculum and assessments begin to be restructured and new field placement arrangements with Professional Development Schools in partner districts are tried out. Roles for district partners in teacher preparation are identified and roles for university staff in schools are identified. New district partnerships continue to be developed and formalized. Identification of new Professional Development Schools continues.
May 2011 A New Beginning
The first candidates enroll in the “redesigned” teacher licensing programs at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in partnership with school districts. New district partnerships continue to be developed and formalized. Identification of new Professional Development Schools continues.
June 2011–May 2012 Working Out the Details Phase
Close monitoring through data collection and feedback from candidates and schools drive ongoing refinement within the redesigned programs. New district partnerships continue to be developed and formalized. Identification of new Professional Development Schools continues.Kane quoted in New York Times article on new espnW network
Mary Jo Kane, professor and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, is quoted in “ESPN Introducing a Digital Presence for Women,” an article on ESPN’s new brand marketed to female sports fans. Kane and others comment on the challenges facing the coverage the media platform promises.Stoffregen, doctoral advisee publishing in Journal of Motor Behavior
Tom Stoffregen, along with his graduate student, Yawen Yu, and colleague Benoit Bardy, has had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Motor Behavior: The paper is titled “Influences of head and torso movement before and during affordance perception” and Ms. Yu is the lead author. The article is based on a study that is part of Ms. Yu’s doctoral dissertation project.