What's Going On: November 2008

Presentations

Lane Clarke will present “Turn Around Pedagogies: Rethinking Reading and Reading Instruction” at the annual meeting of the National Council on Teachers of English in San Antonio, TX next November.

Kimberly Code presented “Sprouts: Developing Economic Understandings in Young Children” at the National Association for the Education of Young Children's annual conference in Dallas, Texas.

Janene Grodesky presented the paper “Is Service Learning Meaningful?” at the Kentucky Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (KAHPERD) fall conference in October.

Alar Lipping presented “The Gary Plan, Progressive Education, and the Inclusion of Physical Education” at the Mid Western Educational Researcher Conference from October 15 to 18, 2008.

Publications

Doris Rhea Coy recently had a chapter, “Time Management and the School Counselor,” published in the book, Empowering the 21st Century Professional School Counselor. This is the fifth chapter and two books that Dr. Coy has had published since arriving at NKU.

Accomplishments

Lenore Kinne and the Council on Post Secondary Education were awarded $1.1 million from the Improving Educator Quality grant program to improve teacher quality in Kentucky.  This the 2nd year renewal request for the IEQ grant.  Congratulations!

Janene Grodesky has been appointed to a two-year term on the KAHPERD honors committee.

Joseph Hacker, Athletic Training Student, just received a Student Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award from the Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation for $600 to complete his project “Glenohumeral internal rotation deficit in high school baseball and softball athletes.”  Thomas Palmer will sponsor him throughout this process.

Questions, Comments, Opinions…

Please email any news, announcements, or accomplishments to Liz Osborne at osbornee1@nku.edu.  We appreciate any suggestions, comments, and opinions.