Institute for Teacher Education Volume I, Issue I College of Education ITE Secondary Newsletter June 2015 Important Dates Aloha! Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Institute for Teacher Education (ITE) Online Teaching Tools: Secondary Program newsletter! Thank you for taking the time to read about Hands-on Workshops the current events of the ITE Secondary program. The goals of creating our June 18 and 25, 2015 ITE Secondary Newsletter can be summarized into three parts: 1) to highlight 12:00 p.m. Kuykendall 106 Events and share what is going on in the ITE Secondary program, 2) to share Room upcoming events and activities, and 3) to inspire continued partnership between faculty, students, staff and community members to promote KIDS FIRST! Film Festival excellence in secondary education. Our goal is to produce three issues June 7, 14 and 28, 2015 3:00 p.m. (August, January and June) per year in an effort to share events and Art Auditorium accomplishments related to the ITE Secondary program. New Student Orientation This inaugural newsletter includes: August 28, 2015 • Did You Know? (pg. 2) UH-Mānoa Time and Room TBD • Student Spotlight (pg. 3) • Faculty Spotlight (pg. 4) • Featured Stories (pg. 9) After reading the first issue, please feel free to provide your suggestions using the following link: http://bit.ly/review-this-newsletter. Your feedback will guide the development of future issues. Thank you for your support of the ITE Secondary program, our students and secondary education. Mahalo, Tara O’Neill, Director Institute for Teacher Education Secondary Program UHM College of Education 1776 University Avenue, Everly 226, Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-4241 Did You Know? The Institute for Teacher Education (ITE) Secondary Program continues to offer both the Bachelor’s (BEd) and Post-Baccalaureate Certification (PBCSE, also offered Statewide) pathways towards initial teacher licensure. In this section of each newsletter, we will highlight fun facts about our program. • In May 2014 and 2015, ITE Secondary celebrated 141 new alumni from around the state. • ITE Secondary offers teacher education licensure programs in the fields of Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, World Languages, Social Studies, Music and Art. • Fall 2014 represented a time of change for the ITE Secondary program. • During the 2014-2015 academic year, ITE partnered with 38 public, private and charter schools from across the state. Mahalo to all of our phenomenal partners. For a list of our partner schools, please see page 8. • In August 2014, ITE Secondary welcomed Tara O’Neill as the new Director. • Congratulations to the former Director, Jeffrey Moniz who has taken reins of the Doctorate of Education (EdD) program as their new Director. • The more things change the more they stay the same — congratulations and thank you, Elaine Mezurashi, for your 40 years of service to the COE and the ITE Secondary Program. 1776 University Avenue, Everly 226, Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-4241 Student Spotlight John Sandvig, a previous student teacher, was Kornelia Thomas was awarded a prestigious fellowship awarded the Donna Russell STEM Teacher as one of the first recipients for the PNSB Fellowship Scholarship sponsored by the Hawai‘i Chapter of the Award Program (FAP) for summer 2015. By receiving Armed Forces Communications and Electronics this scholarship, the Republic of Palau hopes to Association (AFCEA), which was under the umbrella encourage all young Palauans to consider returning to of the AFCEA STEM Teacher Scholarships. He was Palau after college. awarded $5,000, with three additional $1,000 grants that can be utilized once he starts teaching as a full- time teacher. Kimberly Corbin, Student Teacher Supervisor for ITE, supervising five student teachers who have done amazing work and have a passion for education. She is proud of their hard work and for going above and beyond to make sure they deliver solid lessons to their students. Photo Above from Left to Right: Jessica Liggon, Hakipuu Learning Center Stephen Ansley, Campbell High School Jared Lee, Kaimuki High School Lucy Alexander, Aiea High School Leah Joseph, Kailua Intermediate 1776 University Avenue, Everly 226, Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-4241 Faculty Spotlight Dr. Amber Strong Makaiau is currently the Director of Curriculum and Research at the University of Hawai‘i Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education. She has a BA in Psychology and Education from the University of California (1999), a Masters in Education and Teaching from the University of Hawai’i (2001), and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Hawai‘i (2010). She taught social studies at Kailua High School in the Hawaii State Department of Education from 2001 to 2011. Dr. Makaiau achieved National Board Certification in 2006, the Hawaii International Education Week, Honolulu Advertiser 2004 Outstanding Global Educator Award, the Oceanic Outstanding Educator Award in 2005, and the 2011 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching. Her current projects include designing and researching a brand new Philosophical Inquiry course, experiments with deliberative pedagogy, a philosophy for children Hawai’i (p4cHI) international self-study research collective, and innovations in research ethics education. Dr. Charlotte Frambaugh-Kritzer is an Assistant Professor in the ITE Secondary Program in Secondary Reading. As a former middle school teacher, she strives to bridge the gap between theory and practice into her literacy courses. She has taught many classes, including ITE 399, 401, 402, 404, and EDCS 646, 647, 605 and 690. In 2015, she was named the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award Nominee for the College of Education. Her research interests include: Disciplinary Literacies, Adolescent Literacies, New Literacies, and Teacher Education. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Language and Literacy Education, Action in Teacher Education, Middle School Journal, and Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association. Her recent publications focused on how teacher professionalism and disciplinary literacies are more realized via the interdisciplinary instructional approach in secondary education. Dr. Kirsten Mawyer is an Assistant Professor in the ITE Secondary Program and works with aspiring science teacher candidates. She earned a BA in Geology and English from Amherst College and a PhD in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University. Over the last 20 years she has worked in the field of education in many capacities. She got her start in education as a biology and English teacher at Punahou Academy. She also worked at The Field Museum as the Senior Education and Media Project Developer where she designed e-fieldtrips and interactive online and print curriculum materials. She served as the Associate Director of the Teacher Leadership Program at Northwestern University where she was also an adjunct faculty member in the Master of Science in Education Program. Her research interests include teacher thinking and learning, teacher professional development, preservice teacher education, literacy in the context of science, and curriculum design. 1776 University Avenue, Everly 226, Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-4241 Dr. Jeffrey Moniz is a former schoolteacher who is now an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He currently serves as Director of the Doctor of Education (EdD) Program in Professional Educational Practice. Jeff earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Beloit College in Wisconsin. He also earned Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Education from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He teaches and writes about matters of race, ethnicity and culture and espouses a pedagogy grounded in multiplicity. Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, he savors life on his home island with his wife and two sons. Dr. Joseph M. Ruszkowski is currently the music Student Teacher Supervisor at UH. He is the former Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Hawaii Pacific University. Dr. Ruszkowski was Assistant Professor of Music Technology at the University of Hawaii, and has been an instructor in various capacities, including Student Teacher Supervisor and Assistant Director of the Jazz Band at UH since 2003. Dr. Ruszkowski taught at Honolulu Waldorf Schools from 2004-2012, and taught at Kamehameha Schools Performing Arts Academy from 2007 to 2010. He has an extensive body of scholarly writing in the fields of music technology and music education, as well as several journal publications in the field of music and medicine. He is also an active music producer, engineer and clinician, and his works have received numerous awards, including the 2009 Hawaii Music Awards Classical Album of the Year as producer and engineer. Before moving to Hawaii in 2001, Dr. Ruszkowski was the Director of Bands at Ocean City High School in New Jersey where he taught a variety of grades 9-12 classes including marching band, concert band, jazz band, jazz improvisation, music theory, music appreciation, piano, and recording. Prior to this, he was the Director of Music at Manchester Township High School in Lakehurst, New Jersey, where he was director of bands, choir director and director of musicals. He is a 1990 graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia with a Bachelor of Music Education degree, a 1993 graduate of the University of Wyoming with a Master of Music degree, and a 2006 graduate of the University of Hawaii with a Ph.D.