Upcoming+Events

= Newsflash! Dr. Ernie Bond will be joining us on February 23rd to share about ECED chilren's Literature for Diverse Children. =

= Dr. Diallo Sessoms will be presenting on Technology of Early Childhood Education and Diverse Children on January 26, 2013! =

=December 1, 2012... Introducing Mary Cowhey! =

Mary Cowhey currently teaches Title 1 Math and has taught first and second grade at Jackson St. School in Northhampton, Massachusetts for fifteen years. She is the author of Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades, winner of the 2008 National Association for Multicultural Education Phillip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award and the 2007 Skipping Stones magazine Multicultural Book Award. She was a community organizer for fourteen years before becoming a teacher. She has received numerous awards for her teaching and activism, including the Milken National Educator Award, the Anti-Defamation League World of Difference Award, a National League of Women Voters Award, University of Massachusetts Distinguished Alumni Award, the Massachusetts Agricultural Science Excellence Award, and the Massachuseets Public Health Association Frontline Award. Her essays and articles have been published in numerous books, journals and magazines about teaching. She is a co-founder of Familias con Poder/Families With Power, a grass roots organizing effort among low-income families of color, using a popular education approach.

__**December 1st Session Overview:**__ Morning: TETC 185 9-9:30: WIKI catch up (Lauren); journal assessments (Amanda); Kid Writing successes (Patty) 9:30-10:15 Book Club-//Little Kids// Ch., 4 & 5; Book Club-Schools that CARE Section II 10:15-10:30 Report key discussion points to whole group 10:30-11:30 Book Club, small groups for //Black Ants////and Buddhists// -Prologue, Ch. 1, 2 Book Club: Urban, Foreword, Intro, Ch. 1, 2 11:30-noon Groups report to whole group their key discussion points. Lunch break Afternoon: TETC 153 1-4:P.M. **Mary Cowhey, author of Black Ants and Buddhists**

Presenting Dr. Robert Simmons on November 3, 2012

Robert W. Simmons III is an assistant professor in the School of Education at Loyola University Maryland, an associated faculty member of African and African American studies. Robert’s K-12 teaching experiences include being a middle school science teacher and elementary teacher in the Detroit Public Schools. With additional teaching and administrative experiences in the Dominican Republic and Minnesota, and in the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program, Robert was nominated twice as the Walt Disney National Teacher of the Year and once for the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Foundation Outstanding Educator Award. Robert has been a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation and participated in the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund. Robert is currently working as a co-PI on an NIH funded grant that focuses on the development and study of virtual science labs in secondary classrooms.

__**November 3 Session Overview:**__ 1. **Robert Simmons** 9-noon, Auditorium Wicomico Board of Education building. 2. Lunch, then return to Media center at Board for debriefing Simmons and Book Clubs.. 12:30: Simmons discussion 1:P.M. Kid Writing questions and comments. Bring work to share. 1:15-2:15 Book Club: //(Little Kids// Chapter 1 review; discuss Chapter 2 and 3) (//Creating Schools that CARE//, Section I) 2:15-2:30 Each book club share with whole group key discussion points;