TED Newsletter

Issue 1

Science Fairs Looking for Judges

Please pass this along to your students.... The Mission Achievement and Success Charter School (located nearby on Yale close to Gibson) is in need of Science Fair Judges. The competition takes place on Thursday, April 25. Please ask those students interested to contact Melissa Galetti at melissa.galetti@mascharterschool.com.

February 20, 2013

In this issue:

Science Fairs Looking for Judges

Agenda

SR Marmon is looking for for volunteer

judges for May 2nd. We would love the opportunity to bring in students and/or faculty from the science branches as judges. If any of you know of a group of scientists (or scienceheavy fields) who need volunteer hours or may be willing to help out, please let Ashley know! please contact Ashley Vaughan at avaugh28@unm.edu

TeacherCorps 2 Teacher Candidates Present at National Conference

Announcements

Dissertation Defense

Spring break facts

AG E N DA
March 6, Wednesday TED Department Meeting 10:00am -12:00pm in TEC230 March 7, Thursday SED Faculty Meeting 11:00am 12:30pm HH 200

March 6, Friday ELED Reading MA files (online)

Spring break is from March 10-17

TeacherCorps Teacher Candidates Present at National Conference on Community Engagement

The IMPACT Conference on Community Engagement was held at UNM on February 21-24. Seven UNM College of Education teacher candidates in the Elementary and Secondary Education Programs who are members of TeacherCorps presented information on their student teaching experiences in local schools. Sandra Gutierrez, Jessica Mohr, Samantha Vollmar, and Ashley Vaughan presented Overcoming Challenges in the Teacher Education Profession. Their conversation engaged their participants in a dialogue about major challenges teachers encounter in the teaching profession and ways the national standards and accountability movements have placed extraordinary demands on schools. They shared specific examples of their own servicelearning activities in their student

teaching classrooms that meet student-identified community needs and also connect to the curriculum. Julia Lucero, Tasha McWilliam, and Vanessa Sisneros presented Connecting Community Schools to Community Gardens. In this session, the TeacherCorps members provided an overview of the community schools model and shared strategies of implementing community gardens in schools. The conversation included specific curricular connections teachers can make between community gardens and the content standards. Participants also planted seeds in soil trays to be donated to a local school for its own community garden.

Announcement of Dissertation Defense

To: Dean, College of Education Associate Dean, COE Graduate Programs Dissertation Committee Members Program Faculty (posted for Graduate Students) COE Graduate Committee Chair Department Chairs, COE Ed. Leadership, Dr. Arlie Woodrum, ELOL Chair Dissertation Defense TEC 260
Location

From: Subject:
Candidate

James Lujan March 13, 2013

Date

2:00 PM
Time

Title of Dissertation: Committee Members:

Engagement of Mexican Immigrant Families in Schools: Educational Impact of School Reform Graduate Unit: ELOL ELOL UNM Student Affairs Field Expert

Dr. Alicia Chvez, Chair Dr. Richard Kitchen Dr. Eliseo Torres Dr. Lillian Marie Torrez

9 Facts about Spring Break 1. 1.5 million students go on spring break every year and collectively spend over one billion dollars. 2. The number one U.S. spring break destination is Daytona Beach. 3. On average, college students consume six drinks per week. On spring break, men and women consume at least 10 drinks per day. 4. Last year more than 10,000 high school and college students signed up to spend their spring breaks building houses with Habitat for Humanity. 5. With all-you-can-drink specials and a low legal drinking age, Cancun attracts over 100,000 young spring breakers each year. 6. Hurricane Katrina jump-started a big volunteer oriented spring break fad. Approximately 35,000 U.S. youth participated in an alternative/ service oriented Spring Break in 2006. 7. In addition to beach trips, many sport and travel agencies offer deals for college students to spend spring break on a ski or snowboard trip. 8. You can participate in an alternative spring break here in the United States! Last year ten U.W-Superior students spent Spring Break building houses in Denver, CO. 9. Every year at least one spring breaker dies from falling off a balcony.

Be safe and enjoy your break!!!