M. Smith Griffith Auditorium
Georgia Museum of Art

A reception will be held from 4-5 p.m.
M. Smith Griffith Grand Hall
Georgia Museum of Art

Area school administrators, curriculum directors, technology coordinators,and teachers are encouraged to attend this conference to learn practical, personal perspectives on how to initiate, implement and maintain Moodle for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Speaker: David Millians

Georgia Center for Continuing Education

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Vagle

The Introduction to Phenomenological Research will offer qualitative researchers, instructors of qualitative research methods and graduate students insights on the philosophical and methodological foundations of phenomenology, practice with the core methodological techniques commonly used in descriptive and interpretive phenomenological research and discussions about the presenter’s post-intentional phenomenology.

Instructor: Mark Vagle
Associate professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Minnesota

Georgia Center for Continuing Education

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Gassner

Nearly 200 speech language pathologists, audiologists, educators and students from across the state will hear about the latest research and best practices in their fields at the UGA College of Education’s fifth annual Communication Sciences and Special Education Summer Institute. The keynote speaker will be Dena Gassner.

The Missing Link: Helping Students with Asperger’s to Embrace and Integrate Self-awareness as a Foundation for Personal Advocacy and Growth

Dena Gassner
Program director and owner the Center for Understanding
Nashville, Tenn.

Georgia Center for Continuing Education

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Hamilton

This three-day workshop on the design, implementation and analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) is designed as an introductory session for people with an interest in trials, but with limited experience in undertaking them in educational settings. The goal is to increase the capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions.

Instructor: Jennifer Hamilton
Senior Study Director
Westat

Georgia Center for Continuing Education

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The event kicks off with a reception at 6 p.m. with refreshments provided by local restaurants Five & Ten, The National and Farm 255. The screening of the film will begin at 7:30 p.m. A panel discussion will follow. Panelists include Hugh Acheson (chef, author, restaurateur), Paula Farmer (Clarke County School District Nutrition Director), Spencer Frye (Georgia House Representative, District 118), and Erin Barger (Director, Action Ministries and Our Daily Bread Kitchen). Admission is $20, with the proceeds going to the Athens Farmer’s Market’s Double SNAP Program that doubles the “food stamp” benefits of low-income residents at the Athens Farmer’s Market.

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Reception begins at 6 p.m.
Film Screening — 7:30 p.m.
Panel discussion follows

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The film investigates incidents of hunger, as experienced by millions of Americans, and proposes solutions to the problem. Filmmakers Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush focus on the lives of three people who wage a daily struggle against hunger, and speak with various experts about the possibility of ensuring that every American is well fed. Despite the fact that the nation has the means and resources to feed every hungry mouth, it’s estimated that one in four American children doesn’t get enough to eat. The film asks if we possess the capability to provide these starving children with a nutritious diet but fail to do so, what does that say about us as a society?

The event kicks off with a reception at 6 p.m. with refreshments provided by local restaurants Five & Ten, The National and Farm 255. The screening of the film will begin at 7:30 p.m. A panel discussion will follow. Panelists include Hugh Acheson (chef, author, restaurateur), Paula Farmer (Clarke County School District Nutrition Director), Spencer Frye (Georgia House Representative, District 118), and Erin Barger (Director, Action Ministries and Our Daily Bread Kitchen). Admission is $20, with the proceeds going to the Athens Farmer’s Market’s Double SNAP Program that doubles the “food stamp” benefits of low-income residents at the Athens Farmer’s Market.

The UGA students worked with community residents and businesses on the event as part of a Hunger in Our Schools, anew service-learning course focused on issues of food security as they relate to young people’s experiences in schools that was developed by Kathy Thompson, a clinical associate professor and Jennifer James, an associate professor, both in the UGA College of Education’s department of educational theory and practice.

Partial funding for this event came from a grant from the UGA Office of Service Learning.

For more information on the movie, visit:
www.takepart.com/place-at-the-table

Visit the event’s facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/452062751554729/

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They included:
Brandon A. Mitchell, (EdS ‘09, MEd ’07, BSEd ’04), a physical and environmental science teacher at Winder-Barrow High School in Barrow County;

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Shannon Pollitz,  (BSEd ’01, EdS ’00, MEd ’00),  and eighth grade Gifted English Language Arts teacher at Pepperell Middle School in Floyd County; and

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Tanya Smith,   (MS ’06, BSEd ’98) a physical science and gifted/accelerated chemistry teacher in Wayne County High School in Wayne County.

Jemelleh Coes, a special education English language arts and reading teacher from Langston Chapel Middle School in Statesboro, was named the 2014 Georgia Teacher of the Year at the annual Georgia Teacher of the Year banquet held May 3 at the Georgia International Convention Center. As Georgia Teacher of the Year, Ms. Coes will serve as an advocate for public education in Georgia.

“Jemelleh Coes is going to be a wonderful representative of the teaching profession in Georgia,” said State School Superintendent John Barge (EdD ’04). “As the daughter of immigrants from Guyana, Ms. Coes worked hard to become a teacher and make a difference in the life of a child. Now she will have the opportunity to share her story and passion with many others.”

Driven by wanting a career that would help others,  Coes became a teacher at Langston Chapel Middle School after graduating from Georgia Southern University. She has spent her entire career at Langston Chapel and is currently teaching English Language Arts, Resource Language Arts and Remediation English Language Arts.

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Two University of Georgia College of Education graduate students—Tobie Bass Trudeau and Lindy Johnson—received the 2013 Bulldog Vision Award for their work in creating an inaugural international conference in language literacy education.

Out of 692 student organizations on the UGA campus, one Bulldog Vision Award is given each year by the H. Gordon and Francis S. Davis Student Organization Achievement & Recognition (SOAR) Award program to a student or group that has demonstrated outstanding leadership and vision. The award recognizes a student or group that has helped their organization and community envision the future, identify paths to success, and implement their vision for the betterment of their organization and community.

Johnson, a third-year doctoral student from Provo, Utah, and Tobie Bass Trudeau, a second-year doctoral student from Columbus, both majoring in language and literacy education, were recognized for conceptualizing and creating the Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JoLLE)’s inaugural national conference last spring.

The pair focused the first JoLLE Conference on the theme of Activist Literacies. More than 120 people participated in the conference with presenters coming from Australia, Canada and across the United States. The conference was deliberately linked to community organizations and activists from outside the scholarly community, and included classroom teachers and K-12 students.

The two visionaries also collaborated to create the Spring issue of JoLLE. They reviewed submissions, designed and produced an online issue that represented and perpetuated the rich flow of ideas and interactions that happened during the 2013 JoLLE “Activist Literacies” Conference. The issue will be published in May and will feature three keynote speakers from the JoLLE Conference. It will also include reflections from practicing members of the local community and selected papers from the many breakout sessions at the conference.

Johnson taught high school English in Boston Public Schools before coming to UGA. Her research focuses on helping teachers integrate new media literacies into their classrooms. Currently, she serves as Principal Editor of JOLLE.

Trudeau served as co-conference chair at the JoLLE 2013 Spring Conference.

The award was presented at the group’s annual award dinner April 10.