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| ELPA sponsored the 2008 Wisconsin Idea Leadership Academy conference, "Strategies for Doubling Student Performance," held July 7-10, 2008, at the Fluno Center on the UW-Madison campus. Presentations from the 2008 conference are available for viewing. |
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ELPA student Gareth Diaz Zehrbach is this year's recipient of the George Tipler School Law Study Program grant. The grant is administered by the Wisconsin Association of School Boards and the Wisconsin School Attorneys Association. Zerbach will study how and why dual language charter schools operate. The George Tipler family has funded an annual grant to be given to a student in the administrator preparation program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Mr. Tipler was the former Executive Director of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.
Dr. Merle Strong, professor of educational administration and director of the Center on Education and Work from 1968 to 1990, passed away on July 23, 2008 at home in Madison.
Over his 41-year career in education, including 20 years at UW-Madison, Dr. Strong provided exceptional leadership service for the field of vocational and technical education.
This year, ELPA students created two awards to recognize outstanding work by ELPA faculty. At the year-end ELPA celebration on May 19, student representatives presented the inaugural Teacher of the Year award to Prof. Clif Conrad and the Mentor of the Year award to Prof. Jerlando Jackson.
Congratulations to Julie Mead on her promotion to full professor and to Richard Halverson on his promotion to associate professor with tenure.
Professor Julie Mead's new course, Legal Rights and Responsibilities for Teachers, debuts in Fall of 2008 as a 502 workshop which addresses the legal aspects of the work of teachers and other public school employees. The course is designed for undergraduate students training to be teachers and other school personnel. For more information, click here. With space limited, early registration is encouraged.
No GRE for master’s degree admission. Applicants will not be required to submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores for consideration, through the November 2009 application deadline.
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The 2009 Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies and International Education Annual Conference will be Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at the Madison Marriott West in Middleton, Wisconsin. Click here for more information.
Keynoters. Brian Steidle, co-author of The Devil came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur (also a winning documentary at the Sundance Film Festival) and Jeremi Suri, author of the award-winning book, Kissinger and the American Century.
Presenters.The deadline for proposals will be January 7, 2009. Watch this website for updates or contact Melissa Collum (wcss2009@gmail.com) or Dean Bowles (bdbowles@wisc.edu). |
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