Mary Dockery and Kara Bollinger, Instructors of English,
presented their own poetry at the Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, KS, November 8. Mary presented her poetry at The Writer's Place in Kansas City and read with poets Walter Bargen
and DaMaris Hill.
Exhibitions/Publications/Peer Review
Mary Dockery, Instructor of English, published her second
collection of poetry, One Last Cigarette, with Honest Publishing. Mary received
a Pushcart Nomination from the journals Menacing Hedge and Stirring,
for poems published previously this year.
Robert Nulph, Assistant Professor of
Journalism, had 16 photos on exhibit at the Mitchell Park Plaza Gallery in St.
Joseph the month of November with a reception held Saturday, November 9th from
3-6pm. The gallery has asked Dr. Nulph to extend his
exhibit through the month of December.
Praire Lands Writing Project
Several
Prairie Lands Writing Project Leaders and Teacher Consultants made
presentations at the Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of
English and at the Annual Meeting of the National Writing Project, held jointly
in Boston on November 20-24.
·
Terri McAvoy (St. Joseph School District, retired) and
Christie Leigan (Hall Elementary School, St. Joseph) presented a session called
“Teaching Opinion Writing: Experiencing the Possibilities.”
·
Rebecca Dierking (Truman State University) and Janet
Jelavich (Maryville High School, retired) presented a High School Matters
roundtable session called “'Nooking'
Reluctant Readers.”
·
Valorie Stokes (Platte
County High School), Michelle Irby (Orrick High School), and Lynn Tushaus (Savannah
School District, retired) presented a session with the Missouri Writing
Projects Network called “From ELA Teacher to Literacy Expert: Re-imagining Our
Roles.”
·
Susan Martens (MWSU) made
a presentation called “When the Fantasy Teaching Bubble Breaks: ‘Outrospection’
in a Reading Methods Course” as part of a session about partnership programs
between pre-service teachers and high school students.
***
Terri McAvoy also presented two-days of model
lessons in grades 3, 4 and 5 at Pickett Elementary School in St. Joseph on Nov.
12th and 13th as part of PLWP’s SEED 2 Professional
Development in a High-Need Elementary School Grant.
While at the NWP Annual Meeting, McAvoy and Prairie
Lands director Susan Martens and co-directors Tom Pankiewicz (MWSU) and Christie
Leigan (Hall Elementary School) participated in an NWP SEED 2 lunch during
which sites shared their work this year with the grant’s control schools and
met with sites beginning year-long professional development work at high-need
elementary schools.
McAvoy, Martens, Pankiewicz and Leigan attended a
presentation by SRI International representatives revealing preliminary results
from last year’s SEED 2 study. The results, unfortunately, are aggregated,
studying the effect of the PD programs in all 44 selected schools. No site
knows the impact its work had on an individual school.
***
Jane Frick (MWSU retired), Tom Pankiewicz
(Instructor of English), Kathy Miller (West Platte School District), and
Valorie Stokes attended several i3 College Ready Writers Program sessions at
the National Writing Project Annual Meeting. On November 19, they participated
in a conversation with leaders from other i3 sites to share their successes and
challenges in offering the program. Several workshops over the next day
directed related to i3 work. Pankiewicz also took part in a focus group that
examined key challenges and obstacles sites face in their work.
In
other i3 work, Pankiewicz and Janet Jelevich presented model lessons at Braymer
High School while Kathy Miller and Lynn Tushaus presented model lessons at
Breckenridge High School.
Pankiewicz,
Jelavich, Tushaus, Miller, and Jane Frick developed and presented Professional
Development workshops throughout the month. Two hour PD sessions were held in
Braymer on November 6 and at Breckenridge and Hamilton on November 8.
Pankiewicz also led a book study group at Hamilton on November 11.
Appointments
Jeanie
Crain, Professor of English, is involved in a Systems Portfolio for AQIP
through February.
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