Neal Nickerson, professor emeritus in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (educational administration), received the Champions of MESPA Award of the Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association at the MESPA Institute 2010, held on February 15, 2010.
Graduate receives AERA Dissertation of the Year award
Mary Denton, who received her Ed.D. in educational administration in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, has been awarded Dissertation of the Year by the American Education Research Association (AERA) in Division A [Administration, Organization, and Leadership ] for her study The Lived Experiences of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Educational Leaders. Mary will receive her award at the annual AERA conference in April.
Gunnar discusses the effects of stress on infant brain development on “Good Enough Moms” show
Megan Gunnar, PhD, professor in the Institute of Child Development (ICD), was the featured guest on Good Enough MomsTM, a weekly talk show hosted by Marti Erickson, PhD, a former Adjunct Professor in ICD who retired from the U of M in 2008, and her daughter, Erin Erickson, MPH. Megan discussed the effects of stress on the brain development of infants and young children and the importance of sensitive, responsive relationships with parents and other caregivers as a buffer against stress. A podcast of the show will be available beginning February 22 at www.goodenoughmoms.com. Good Enough MomsTM is distributed through a partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education and the nonprofit Working Family Resource Center.
TERI Update for the Week of February 15th, 2010
Welcome to the third 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. This update is particularly long since three weeks have passed since the last update in January.
Spring / Summer Working Dates Set
Please hold the following dates on your calendar as TERI working dates. These are not over-night retreats and the location will be announced soon.
May 17 and 18
June 10 and 11
During these working dates, we will bring task groups, program area faculty and staff, and school partner representatives together to share progress, examine proposals from task groups, and work together on details of the partnerships. We understand that licensure program orientations are on the 18th and we will be working around that schedule, planning some large group updates and report outs along with some smaller working group and program area-specific time. Please let us know if you have ideas for what you would like to see designed for this time together.
Welcome Kathy Byrn as Partnership Coordinator
Kathy Byrn has been hired as the temporary partnership coordinator. We are very excited to have her expertise and passion!! The position description for the partnership coordinator has been posted and we plan to have a full time person in place this summer. If you are interested in this position posting, please contact Carole Gupton at cgupton@umn.edu
Partnership Meetings Set
Three meetings with partnership districts have been set. Kathy Byrn is coordinating these meetings and will be sending out additional information to program areas.
Meeting 1 – To define the range of Professional Development School (PDS) partnerships
The meeting will take place Tuesday, February 23, from 10am-12pm, and Forest Lake will host this first meeting in their District Board Room at 6100 N. 210th Street, 55025
Meeting 2 – To determine the criteria for selecting school sites
The second meeting will be Thursday, March 4, from 10am-12pm and Minneapolis will host at the Webster Complex, room 221 B, located at 425 5th St. NE, 55413.
Meeting 3 – To determine the criteria for selecting cooperating teachers
The third meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 10, from 11am-2pm (box lunches will be provided). This is a longer meeting and one where we think attendance of teachers will be vital. Details on the location will follow.
Program Area Support for TERI Curriculum Development
The Curriculum and Assessment Task Group has been working hard on developing an overarching teacher licensure structure with some new configurations for common content knowledge, core performance assessments, and flexibility for program areas. We should have the overall structural elements designed by the end of spring semester and opportunity for broader review and input at the May working session. We would like to give program areas opportunities to spend time during the summer 2010 to take up program-specific curriculum planning with support from the TERI grant. Each program area will have access to up to $5,000 of support for curriculum development activities (e.g., individual’s time, new resources, group meetings, cross-program collaborations) contingent on work plan proposals that will be specific to the program area needs. Program areas can start to plan ahead now for time in the summer. Details about the work plan proposals to receive the funding will follow soon.
LSP Discusses Professional Development School Models
At the February 1 Licensed School Professional meeting, Julie Kalnin and Misty Sato led the group in a discussion about professional development school models. If you are interested in this discussion, please see the LSP meeting notes at http://intranet.cehd.umn.edu/lsp/calendar.html. The case study we read and the NCATE Standards for Professional Development Schools is posted on the TERI NING site.
CEHD Chairs Briefed on TERI
On February 11, Misty Sato from C&I, Peter Demerath from OLPD, and Margaret Kelly from PSTL briefed the CEHD Department Chairs and Dean about TERI progress based on the retreat and ongoing conversations about institutional issues that have been brought out in discussions (see below). The Chairs actively took up the discussion and pointed out that some of the same issues are coming in the 2020 Vision planning. Several of the Chairs will receive a copy of the book, Preparing Teachers for a Changing World, at their request.
Questions Presented to the CEHD Department Chairs for Discussion
What are the implications of TERI for work across the departments in the college? What considerations can be made for the following points?
What are the ramifications of changing our teacher preparation program structure to one that is more integrated in school sites or increases the clinical work expected of candidates?
How should we recruit candidates?
Program Area Meetings Still Underway
Martha Bigelow and Misty Sato have been meeting with program areas to discuss current practices that we can build on in the TERI work and ongoing developments in TERI. So far, they have met with Social Studies, Second Languages & Cultures, Culture and Teaching, Mathematics, Music, Family Youth & Community. The meetings have been generative in connecting current program practices with new structures (e.g., partnerships, performance assessments, integrating common curriculum throughout a candidate’s experience).
Research Task Group Update
The Research Task Group met on February 9. They are continuing to develop a logic model that encompasses the long-term and short-term goals of TERI and how the planned activities flow toward those goals. The group is currently planning to structure the model so that a variety of research perspectives / approaches will be honored as individual and collective research opportunities are identified. Contact Lori Helman for more information: lhelman@umn.edu
Curriculum & Assessment Group Update
The Curriculum & Assessment Task Group met on February 15 and has been actively using the NING site. Building off of the year-long integrated model of teacher preparation that emerged from the retreat, the group discussed a potential model from providing program area flexibility while integrating common content throughout the teacher candidate’s experience. Martha Bigelow characterized the model as vertically (program area content and common content) and horizontally (across time) integrated.
Memorandum of Understanding with Bush Foundation
The TERI Leadership Team has been actively working on the memorandum of understanding between the U and the Bush Foundation. This document establishes our benchmarks for the coming year and the release of funds from the Bush Foundation to support those goals. Task Group Chairs have been updated on the timelines for this work. We are still moving toward the following overall timeline:
Design
Jan–May 2010: Task Groups and LSP developing recommendations for recruitment & admission, curriculum & assessment, partnership development, and research processes and structures.
May 17,18 and June 10, 11: TERI work days for reviewing task group recommendations and refining plans brought forward by Task Groups.
May–August 2010: Program areas have access to support for program-specific curriculum and assessment development and cross-program common assessment development.
Pilot, Test, and Build
2010–2011 Academic year: Professional Development Schools begin some placements of candidates; piloting common assessments; test out and refine new curricular structures/ content; course approval processes.
Launch
May 2011: Launch new teacher education design with partnership districts and schools
TERI External Advisory Board
The External Advisory Board for TERI met on January 27. The TERI Leadership Team provided an update and summary of the retreat held in January. The discussion question posed for the Advisory Board was centered on communications – how we can better communicate the strengths of our programs publicly while still engaging in ongoing continuous improvement to make our teacher preparation programs even greater and to better serve Minnesota’s children. The Advisory Board took this conversation on vigorously, pointing out that the world has changed and so must education–at all levels. We must be proactive and not reactive to changes happening around us and we should communicate that this change is not a result of broken programs, but an effort to do what we do best even better. They also pointed out that stories have power in communicating ideas and ideals.
Resources
Two new resources have just been released and might be of interest:
1. Educator Preparation: A Vision for the 21st Century is a white paper from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education that is currently circulating in draft form: http://aacte.org/email_blast/president_e-letter/files/02-16-2010/Educator%20Preparation%20and%2021st%20Century%20Skills%20DRAFT%20021510.pdf
2. Mary Kennedy has edited a new handbook titled Teacher Assessment and the Quest for Teacher Quality (2010) published by Wiley. http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/dt/books/forthcomingTitles/ED00/0-470-38833-1/?sID=bn4f4e9ljkhsbbv8p02jsooii3
TERI will have a few copies of this book to circulate to those who are interested.
On a roll: programming for soccer coaches in Uganda
Jens Omli, a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Child Development, is building on the understanding of sports psychology he gained during his doctoral program in kinesiology and his understanding of child development gained as a postdoctoral student at the Institute of Child Development, to coordinate the training of more than 2,000 soccer coaches in Uganda.
The International Sport Connection Soccer Coach Education program that Omli and Kinesiology associate professor Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, developed, has received a two-year $212,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs in support of international diplomacy and outreach.
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Benish appointed to University of St. Thomas alumni association board of directors
Amy Benish, associate director of undergraduate studies at the Institute of Child Development, was appointed to the University of St. Thomas alumni association board of directors, and will begin her term on March 6, 2010. Amy completed her bachelor’s degree at St. Thomas in 1999. Congratulations, Amy!
LaVoi to discuss benefits of sport for girls on WTIP radio
On Friday, February 19, at 5:45pm, Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center Associate Director and Lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, will be a guest on The Roadhouse Radio Show on WTIP, a community radio station broadcasting on the North Shore of Lake Superior. LaVoi will discuss the benefits of sport participation for girls.
Alum teaches marathon training course featured in Minnesota Daily
The Minnesota Daily published a feature on a popular PE course taught by CEHD alumni and adjunct instructor, Chris Lundstrom (M.Ed., ’07). The course is offered through the School of Kinesiology.
PE 1262 Marathon Training, offered each Spring Semester, prepares students for running a marathon by the end of the semester. What’s unusual about this course is that students are logging data as they are training which may contribute to the research on the physical effects of long-distance running. Dr. Stacy Ingraham, Kinesiology lecturer and exercise physiologist, is heading up the research component of the class. Read the complete article here.
Faculty, staff featured at Denver first-year experience event
Postsecondary teaching and learning instructors and Student Services staff were presenters at the 29th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience in Denver Feb. 13-14. Associate professors Amy Lee and Irene Duranczyk, and Rhiannon Williams, graduate research project assistant, presented on “Excellence for All: Integrating Student Learning and Development.” Associate Professor Murray Jensen, Assistant Professor Michael Stebleton, and Senior Teaching Specialist Gary Peter discussed “Food for Thought and Action: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the First-Year Inquiry.” Associate Professor Catherine Wambach, Senior Teaching Specialist Jill Trites, and Students Services staff Ann Mraz, Anthony Albecker, and Carole Ann Broad addressed “Making the Connection: Improving Collaboration between Academic and Student Affairs.”
Star athlete and student Angela Ruggiero in her 4th Winter Olympics
Angela Ruggiero, known to the world as a star player on the Olympics women’s ice hockey team (and a contestant fired on “The Apprentice” who was later offered a job by Donald Trump), has a U of M connection. She is pursuing her M.Ed. degree in Sport Management from CEHD/School of Kinesiology. Her adviser is Brandi Hoffman, coordinator in the School of Kinesiology.
Ruggiero was featured last week in an online article for Team USA Ice Hockey.
PE Marathon class featured in MN Daily
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The Minnesota Daily published a feature on a popular PE course last week offered through the School of Kinesiology.
PE 1262 Marathon Training, offered each Spring Semester, prepares students for running a marathon by the end of the semester. What’s unusual about this course is that students are logging data as they are training which may contribute to the research on the physical effects of long-distance running.
The class is taught by adjunct instructor Chris Lundstrom. Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., Kinesiology lecturer and exercise physiologist, heads up the research component of the class.
Leon named a top cardiologist in Minneapolis by the International Association of Cardiologists
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Dr. Arthur Leon, exercise physiology professor in kinesiology, this month was named a “Top Cardiologist in Minneapolis, MN” by the International Association of Cardiologists (IAC). The IAC highlights and profiles the world’s top cardiologists who have demonstrated success and leadership in their profession. Dr. Leon will be spotlighted in The Leading Physicians of the World. This publication is considered a prime resource for potential patients who are looking for a top cardiologist in their area.
Congratulations, Dr. Leon!
Community integration expert testifies before Minnesota House committee
Amy Hewitt, Ph.D, of the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the Institute on Community Integration, testified on consumer-directed community supports for people with disabilities before the Minnesota House Health and Human Services Policy and Oversight committee on February 9.
Altman presents at assistive technology conference
Jason Altman of the National Center on Educational Outcomes at the Institute on Community Integration presented “Exploring Assistive Technology Issues in the Instruction and Assessment of Students with Visual Impairments” at the Assistive Technology Industry Association’s annual conference in Orlando, January 28.
Thailand institute awards honorary Ph.D. to professor emeritus
Gary N. McLean, Ed.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, and now senior professor and executive director of international human resource development in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development in the College of Education and Human Development, Texas A&M University, received an honorary Ph.D. in human resource development from the National Institute for Development Administration (NIDA) in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 6, 2010.
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LaVoi quoted in New York Times on benefit of sports to girls
Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center Associate Director and Lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in the New York Times in an article on the benefit of sports to girls entitled “As Girls Become Women, Sports Pay Dividends,” by Tara Parker-Pope.
Ph.D. student Chiteng Kot receives scholarship award
Felly Chiteng Kot, Ph.D. student in higher education in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, has received a scholarship award from The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Minnesota. The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America actively promotes our national heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service, and educational projects. The NSCDA, founded in 1891, is an unincorporated association of 45 corporate societies with over 15,000 members. Chiteng Kot is conducting his doctoral research on the topic of university partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa.
Kinesiology’s LaVoi interviewed on FoxTV on basketball fight
Nicole LaVoi, Tucker Center associate director and lecturer in the School of Kinesiology, was interviewed by FoxTV on a fight that broke out among parents at a recent Burnsville, MN, 6th grade basketball tournament. LaVoi talks about sporting situations that can result in parents fighting.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/fight-breaks-out-at-basketball-tournament
Ross quoted in MPR story on Olympic athletes’ funding challenges
Stephen Ross, Ph.D., associate professor of sport management in Kinesiology, was quoted in a recent Minnesota Public Radio story about Olympic athletes and the trials and tribulations of funding their dream. Local Olympic contenders who are less visible than the Ohnos and Vonns can’t give up their day jobs to train for the opportunity of a lifetime–but they make it happen through determination and creative financing.
Barr-Anderson featured on National Physical Activity Plan Web site
Daheia Barr-Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in Kinesiology, is featured as a “Voice of the NPAP” on the National Physical Activity Plan (NPAP) Web site. The NPAP is a growing collection of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing a plan that will empower all Americans to be physically active every day, with the ultimate goal of increasing physical activity nationwide.
Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Prevention Research Center at the University of South Carolina are providing the organizational infrastructure for the NPAP.