Faculty achievements
Elizabeth
Canon was a panel speaker at the International Student Services event, "A
Day With An Accent."
Marianne
Kunkel has had two poems accepted for publication in bosque. The poems, "Scraps" and "Sariah Complains
over Lunch," are from her new manuscript-in-progress.
Mary
Stone recently had three poems published at the Barrelhouse Blog for
their "Weird Love" series, including: “Jennifer Gets Over her Ex.”
Read them here:
http://www.barrelhousemag.com/blogall/2016/1/30/weird-love-three-poems-by-mary-stone
http://www.barrelhousemag.com/blogall/2016/1/30/weird-love-three-poems-by-mary-stone
She
also has poems forthcoming is these magazines: Moonsick Magazine, Decomp, Cahoodaloodaling, I-70 Review, and Tinderbox.
Claudine
Evans participated in the Immersion Day for French Teachers held at Rockhurst
University, in Kansas City. She made a presentation on the French Territorial
Reform. The event was organized by the Greater Kansas City Area Chapter of the
American Association of Teachers of French (AATF).
Kay
Siebler's article, "The Politics of Birth Control and Abortion in
China" has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed,
scholarly Journal of Modern
Education Review.
PLWP Teacher Consultants Present at
Write to Learn Conference
Several
PLWP Teacher Consultants also gave presentations at the Write to Learn
Conference held at Osage Beach, Mo., Feb. 25-27.
Elisabeth
Alkier (SJSD) and Susan Martens (MWSU): “Passion Blogs and Partnerships: Real
Writing for Real Audiences”
Misty
Burright and Jerri Fischer (SJSD): “Writing Creatively across the Common Core.”
Tori
Grable and Christine Diehl (Smithville): “Using Technology Tools to Support the
Reading Process”
Vickey
Meyer (SJSD): “We’re All Covered in Skin, and That’s Worth Knowing: An
Exploration of Beauty and Radical Self-Acceptance”
Speak!
On
March 8th English and Modern Languages and the MAA in Written Communication
hosted Speak! Faculty and students presented their favorite speeches,
which included selections ranging from the poetry of Elizabeth I and Baudelaire
to movies including A Time to Kill, Network, and Halloween to
three generations of feminists to courtroom arguments to Harry
Potter. Thank you to student participants Roxanne Chase, Samantha
Fidler-Newby, Brandon Herring, Sarah Hatten Weaver, and Tracy Whorton and to
faculty participants Kaye Adkins, Dana Andrews, Stacia Bensyl, Michael
Charlton, Susie Hennessy, Marianne Kunkel, and Gaywyn Moore.
Krystal Hicok wins Greef Award for
Outstanding English Education Students
BSE
major Krystal Hicok was awarded the Robert J. Greef Award for Outstanding
English Education Students by the Missouri Council of Teachers of English at
the Write to Learn Conference held at Osage Beach on Feb. 26.
Krystal
is an active member of the MWSU campus community as a leader in Alpha Omega—a
Christian sorority—and in the honors organization Kappa Delta Pi. She was
also an outstanding workshop leader in MWSU’s developmental writing program,
has been on the Dean's List and President's Honor Roll, and was a
volunteer guide at this year’s Tunnel of Oppression sponsored by the Center for
Multicultural Education. The daughter of Karla and Floyd Stansberry and
the late Burt Hicok, Krystal was born and raised in DeWitt, Nebraska, where she
first developed a passion for small schools and tight-knit
communities.
Krystal
is currently student teaching at Mid-Buchanan High School and will graduate in
May. She hopes to teach in a rural school where her passion can ignite a
love for English in her students. In her philosophy of teaching
statement, Krystal writes, “Literature stretches the mind by planting seeds of
critical thinking. When a person looks at literature—at art—they see life.
Then, with gentle prodding and steadfast instruction, critical thinkers become
critical writers.”
Community outreach--High School Writing
Day
The
Prairie Lands Writing Project hosted High School Writing Day on March 3,
drawing approximately 200 high school students and their teachers from 14 areas
schools to MWSU for a day of writing and sharing. PLWP Co-Director Amy
Miller (MWSU) coordinated this event emceed by PLWP Teacher Consultant Terrance
Sanders (Frontier STEM High School in KC). Students attended an opening
session, two different workshops, a lunch session, and an Open Mic.
Many
thanks to PLWP Graduate Assistant and TC Roxanne Chase and to undergraduate
English education students Garrett Durbin, Taylor Allen, Lauren Bacon, Ali
Chesney, Stephaney Ferguson, Jaylynn Hoffman, Maddie Marx, Kirsten Melkowski,
Clarissa Peterson, Morgan Rathmann, Kelly Rhodes, Alex Steilen, and Taylor
Summers for assisting with the event.
A
special thanks goes out to MWSU faculty members and PLWP TCs who led
student workshops: Meredith Katchen, Bill Church, Misty Burright, Vickey
Meyer, Brooksie Kluge, Mary Stone, Marianne Kunkel, Dana Andrews, Michael
Charlton, Bob Bergland, Susan Martens.
Check
out these videos documenting the day, created by students in Bob Bergland's
Convergent Journalism workshop:
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