“Finding Joy in Diverse Backgrounds: The Role of the University” at the Georgia Center, Master’s Hall, 6-7pm.  

Tuesday, February 19th 

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GECAT is a five year Title III federally funded initiative begun in summer 2012. It is a partnership between the TESOL & World Language Education Program at the University and the Barrow County Schools, Habersham County Schools, and Hall County Schools.

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1) increase the number of ESOL-endorsed educators in Georgia schools

2) adapt and improve the ESOL endorsement curriculum for Georgia in-service educators

3) through this professional development, improve the academic achievement of English learners in Georgia

We provide ESOL endorsement courses to teachers in our partner districts. Classes are FREE to teachers—tuition and books are provided by the GECAT Program, and participants receive a small stipend for each course. Courses are offered on-site at partner schools. Teachers will earn UGA graduate credit.

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The next cohort begins in spring 2014. Contact us today to receive more information or to enroll.

Pubs Crawling: A Thematic Overview

Smagorinsky—Current Projects  (MS PowerPoint Format)

Smagorinsky—Current Projects (PDF Format)

Faculty Awards and Leadership Positions in the Areas of Research, Teaching, and Service.

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, an associate professor in language and literacy education,  has begun a new blog to promote her work and that of her students titled,  “Teachers Act Up!”

11/3 Thursday Reading: 7pm Ciné, 234 West Hancock Avenue

Description: Waldman will present a range of her own poetry in performance. She draws on ideas of “modal structure” and Sprechstimme (speak-singing) in performance.

11/5 Friday Athica
Socratic Rap:  & Q&A
A presentation on collaborations with visual artists.
AW has worked with visual artists for a number of years, and produced collaborations with George Schneeman,Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Elizabeth Murray, Susan Rothenberg,  Kiki Smith, Donna Dennis,
Richard Tuttle, and Pat Steir. She will read from the work, and talk about the process. Her most recent collaboration is with painter at Steir entitled “CRY  STALL GAZE” which is being produced by the Brodsky Center at Rutgers University. Her SOLDATESQUE  (“Soldiering”) with friezes by Noah Saterstrom will be on view at the Poetry Ceter in Tucson, Arizona this fall. SOLDATESQUE is being published by BLAZEVox  (2011)in conjunction with this show. The celebrated GRANARY BOOKS has produced the editions with Schneeman, Rothenberg and Dennis.

11/7 Monday Lecture 4pm, The Art Museum

Lecture Title:  Outrider: The Role of the Poet as Activist

Description: A talk or “feminafesto” about the role of the poet, drawing on Waldman’s investigative studies, her performative poetry and creative work in “public space”. And her poetics of empathy in the Manatee/Humanity project and her anti-war Iovis epic. She proposes notions of “gift exchange” for artistic cultures and the practice of “sousvelliance”.

With Q & A.

Both Writing in the Dialogical Classroom: Students and Teachers Respond to the Texts of Their Lives (NCTE) and Teaching for the Students: Habits of Heart , Mind, and Practice in the Engaged Classroom (Teachers College Press) focus on the possibilities and complications of teaching in dialogical ways within literacy classrooms.