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Welcome to College of Education
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CENN, Spring 2007 Week of February 5
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Welcome to the College of Education
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Research Presentations

• February
• February 8, 330 p.m., Room 423 Carothers Hall,
  Martina Nieswandt, Ph.D.
• February 9, Noon, Room A211, New Psychology
  Building, Nicole Fenty
• February 13, Noon, Room A211, New Psychology
  Building, Sheri Berkeley
• February 20, Noon, Room A211, New Psychology
  Building, Ramona Pittman

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Female Leadership in Science

• The goal of this workshop is to illuminate the
  skills needed for leadership in the scientific
  community.
• The three faculty panelists will provide guidance
  for developing these leadership skills, discuss
  the importance of becoming a leader, and relate
  their own challenges and experiences as
  professionals.
• The panelists will also provide suggestions for
  gaining the support of colleagues.
• February 6, 2007 400 p.m. Student Life
  Building, Rm. 101A

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Two lectures by Dr. Alan C. Acock

• Growth Curves with Binary and Count Data
• Wednesday, February 7, 300 - 500 p.m., Sandels
  203
• Where have all my numbers gone? Dealing with
  Missing Data
• Thursday, February 8, 300 - 500 p.m., Pepper
  Auditorium
• Dr. Acock is Professor of Sociology and Human
  Development in the Department of Human
  Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State
  University. Dr. Acock's substantive research has
  been on the effects of family structure on the
  well-being of family members and on
  intergenerational relations. His methodological
  research has focused on structural equation
  modeling, missing values, and growth curve
  modeling. He is currently investigating the
  effects of fathers returning to families after
  incarceration. He is a Fellow of the National
  Council on Family Relations and a winner of the
  prestigious Reuben Hill Award. Dr. Acock has held
  elected offices in the American Sociological
  Association and the National Council on Family
  Relations. Examples of his most recent
  publications include "A gentle introduction to
  Stata" (2006) and "Contemporary and emerging
  methods in studying families" (2005).

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Constructing Identity, Constructing Community
Book Clubs with Urban Adolescent Families

• Jody Polleck
• Thursday, February 8 at 200 p.m.
• Room 302 Carothers Hall
• Abstract The lives of inner-city teenagers are
  complex and multi-faceted.  Urban schools,
  burdened by overcrowding and budget deficits,
  struggle to increase the literacy skills of this
  population and address their social and emotional
  needs. This dissertation confronts both issues
  simultaneously by documenting and analyzing the
  experiences of 12 urban females of color who
  participated in book clubs for one year. The data
  included transcripts of 46 book club sessions,
  pre- and post-interviews and surveys. The girls
  read adolescent literature and met weekly to
  discuss the texts and how they connected them to
  their own experiences.
• This study, in contrast, highlights the girls'
  normative issues and captures their experiences
  their textual interpretations and their
  understanding of themselves, each other and the
  world.

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Examining Prevention and Intervention Strategies
for Students with Reading and Behavior Problems

• Nicole Fenty
• Friday, February 9, Noon
• Room A211 New Psychology Building
• Nicole Fenty, M.Ed., graduated with a bachelor's
  degree in psychology from the University of South
  Florida and a master's degree in special
  education from the University of Florida. She has
  taught for several years in resource and
  inclusive settings in both Alachua and
  Hillsborough counties.
• Nicole's research interests include prevention
  and intervention strategies for struggling
  readers and students with behavior difficulties,
  as well as the use of technology as a method for
  increasing reading achievement and reducing
  behavior problems.

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Creating New Spaces Investigating Opportunities
of Identity Exploration in a High School English
Classroom

• Amy Vetter
• Monday, February 12 at 1030 a.m.
• Room 302 Carothers Hall
• This five-month qualitative study examined the
  ways in which the identities of three students
  shaped, and were shaped by, literacy practices
  that provided them opportunities to explore their
  identities in a high school English classroom.
• Findings suggest that students were engaged in
  opportunities of identity exploration because
  these occasions opened spaces for students to
  choose the content and structure of their
  assignments and examine issues related to their
  everyday lives. In addition, data found that
  these opportunities enabled students to reshape
  how they positioned themselves as readers,
  writers, and researchers in a classroom.

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Examining the Effects of Reading Comprehension
Strategy Instruction with Attribution Retraining
on Reading Comprehension, Meta-comprehension
Strategy Use and Attributional Beliefs of
Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities

• Sheri Berkeley
• Tuesday, February 13, Noon
• Room A211 New Psychology Building
• Sheri Berkeley is a doctoral candidate at George
  Mason University. The research projects that she
  has worked on to date have focused on students
  with high incidence disabilities, reading, and
  the efficacy of teaching learning strategies for
  a variety of public school settings. 
• Prior to pursuing a career in higher education,
  Ms. Berkeley has special education teaching
  experience in a variety of roles at every level
  pre-K through secondary school, including serving
  as an LD resource teacher, self-contained reading
  teacher, team-taught English teacher and a
  reading focus teacher (coach) for other special
  education teachers.

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Free Workshops

• The University Counseling Center of FSU is
  offering free workshops this semester on the
  topics of
• Stress Management
• Time Management
• Study Skills
• Please call 644-2003 for info.

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Congratulations!

• The following faculty members earned a promotion
  and/or tenure this year
• Promotion to Professor Frances Prevatt, EPLS
• Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
• Stephanie Al Otaiba, CERDS and Aubteen Darabi,
  EPLS
• Tenure Bob Eklund, EPLS and Shouping Hu, ELPS

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COE is the BEST!

• COE had a record number of faculty and
  instructors recognized by outstanding teaching
  evaluations in the fall semester.
• These 44 faculty members were included on the
  Provost's 90 percent list, meaning that 90
  percent or more of the students rated the
  instructor as Excellent on SUSSAI Question 8.
• CERDS Angie Fiske, Debbie Floyd, Mary Frances
  Hanline, Vickie Lake, Amy McKenzie, Susan Miller,
  Diana Rice, Kimberly Galant, Carie Huling, Connie
  Koenig, Virginia Plott, Melanie Presnell
• ELPS Bev Bower, Patrice Iatarola, Laura Lang,
  Tom Luschei, Linda Schrader, Rita Conrad, Michael
  Dwyer, Laura Osteen
• EPLS Aki Kamata, Carol Painter, Gary Peterson,
  Jeannine Turner, James Ingrisone
• MSE Sarah Drake Brown, Kathy Froelich, Bob
  Gutierrez, Debbie Hasson, John Lunstrum, Shari
  Steadman, Susan Wood, John Phillips, Matt
  Robinson
• SMRMPE Cheryl Beeler, Donna Fletcher, Tom
  Ratliffe, Jacqueline Richards, Andy Rudd, Taesoo
  Ahn, Pamela Jameson, Dong-Won Kim, Michelle
  Pouzol, Eric Robinson

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Important!

• Grant Writing Selected faculty will discuss the
  steps in proposal writing, funding sources, the
  major steps that should occur prior to writing
  the proposal, the narrative and budget sections,
  effective writing techniques, and the FSU Office
  of Contracts and Grants and Office of Sponsored
  Research.
• February 14, 2007
• 1230-200 p.m., brown bag
• Student Life Bldg. - Rm. 101A

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2007 Florida Reading Research Conference

• The Florida Center for Reading Research at
  Florida State University and the College of
  Education at the University of South Florida are
  co-sponsoring the 2007 Florida Reading Research
  Conference.
• April 5-6 at USF in Tampa
• The major goal of the conference is to facilitate
  networking among Florida professionals conducting
  research in reading, reading instruction, text
  processing, reading assessment and related areas.
  The conference will include general session
  presentations by internationally recognized
  speakers, research presentations, and poster
  sessions. Florida's university faculty,
  post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students are
  invited to attend and submit proposals.
• Conference registration deadline March 1, 2007
• For more information, see the attached flyer and
  go to the conference website at
  http//sss.usf.edu/frrc/.

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Library Reference Hours

• Every Thursday
• 230-430 pm
• 124 B STB
• Come to learn about new resources, databases, and
  get assistance with your research projects. 

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News Needed!

• Any news, achievements, announcements?
• See them at CENN!
• Contact Dr. Dina Vyortkina for details
  dvv5017_at_fsu.edu