Passport to Success

The 2012 Annual Report of the College of Education and Professional Studies

CONTENTS Dean’s Message...... 2 Robotics Team...... 3 JSU Graduates the First Elite Scholar...... 4 Mr. Jerry Chandler...... 6 Campus Videos...... 6 JSU Teacher Hall of Fame...... 7 T/LC turns Thirty...... 8 Dr. Glacio Scremin...... 10. Grant for Both TCEN and the In-Service Center...... 10. Dr. Jeff Chandler’s Textbook...... 11. CEPS Alumnus Wins Award from Alabama Power...... 11. Dr. Denise De Vito Named Head of SecEd...... 12. WLJS receives FCC Renewal...... 12. Ms. Matthews Named Employee of the Month...... 13. Ms. Townsel Awarded Grant...... 13. Retirees...... 14. Plays with Thoughtful Humor...... 15. Educational Resources...... 16. Co-Teaching Pair’s Workshop...... 25. Get Healthy JSU...... 26. A Challenge from HPER...... 26. Dr. Tommy Bice Speaks to Educators...... 27. CORE...... 28. CONTACTS Dr. John B. Hammett, II Dean [email protected] Dr. Jordan Barkley Associate Dean [email protected] Ms. Ronda R. Ray Director, Clinical Experiences [email protected] Dr. Kingsley O. Harbor Department Head, Communication [email protected] Dr. Jordan Barkley Acting Department Head, Curriculum and Instruction [email protected] Dr. Tommy Turner Department Head, Educational Resources [email protected] Dr. Debra Goodwin Department Head, Family and Consumer Sciences [email protected] Dr. T. Jeff Chandler Department Head, Health, Physical Education, and Recreation [email protected] Dr. Kelly Ryan Acting Director, JSU In-Service Center [email protected] Dr. Kelly Ryan Director, Teacher Service Center [email protected] Mr. Terry Marbut Department Head, Technology and Engineering [email protected] Mr. Mike Hathcock Director, Television Services [email protected] Dr. Denise De Vito Department Head, Secondary Education [email protected] Mr. Mike Zenanko Director, Instructional Services Unit [email protected]

CREDITS Articles for the annual report are provided by the Publication Committee of the College of Education and Professional Studies. 2011-2012 Committee members are: Mr. Mike Stedham, Dr. Donna Herring, Dr. Dana Ingalsbe, Ms. Abby Fleetwood, Mr. Keith Thomas, Ms. Robbie Boggs, Dr. Sheila Webb, and Mr. Mike Zenanko.

Thanks to Mr. Steve Latham and Ms. Angie Finley for the photos that they shared. Also, thanks to Ms. Mary B. Smith and the JSU Marketing Department.

The readers and text editors were Dr. Patsy Lowry and Mr. Bill Hubbard Editor and Layout: Mr. Mike Zenanko

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John B. Hammett II, Ph.D. Dean’s Greeting Dean, College of Education & Professional Studies

Welcome to the 2012 publication national accreditation bodies in Alabama made the top 100, and of the Passport to Success. As the 2012. FCS was also reviewed by the that was Auburn University. dean of the College of Education American Association for Family Lastly, I would like to & Professional Studies, I want to & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) acknowledge the faculty achieving take this opportunity to express my for initial accreditation. Each promotions and/or tenure in 2012. pride and admiration in the faculty, site review was successful, so we Dr. Noureddine Bekhouche professor, staff, and students who make up the are expecting full accreditation Department of Technology and college. Our students are excelling in from all three organizations. Engineering; Dr. Kory Hill, associate their programs of study; our faculty In other accreditation news, the professor and tenure, Department are continuously improving academic Department of Communication of Health, Physical Education, programs; and our staff work very is currently working on their and Recreation; Dr. John Ketterer, hard to provide effective support for reaffirmation self-study for professor, Department of Educational both faculty and students. When the Accrediting Council on Resources; Dr. Linda Mitchell, I sit back and think about what Education in Journalism and Mass associate professor and tenure, all the faculty and staff do for JSU Communications (ACEJMC). In Department of Secondary Education; and its students, I am truly amazed. addition, Dr. Jordan Barkley (associate Dr. Charlie Notar, professor, When I talk to employers of our dean) is leading education faculty department of Secondary Education; graduates, it is obvious to me that in preparation for reaffirmation and Dr. Gena Thornburg, professor, the professionals we are developing by the National Council for the Department of Curriculum and are making a difference in society. Accreditation of Teacher Education Instruction. Congratulations to all of Those of you who are alumni and (NCATE). Both site visits will occur these most deserving professionals. friends of the CEPS have a right in fall 2013. I am confident each visit to be proud of the educational will result in full re-accreditation. I hope you enjoy this publication quality provided in YOUR college. I want to share with you one of the 2012 Passport to Success. This year has been extremely final piece of information regarding busy with national accreditation/ program quality. US News & World reaffirmation self-studies. Two of our Report recently ranked our Online departments, Family & Consumer professional educator preparation Sciences (FCS) and Technology and programs 75th in the country among Engineering (TCEN) conducted all Online educator programs. John B. Hammett II, Ph.D. reaffirmation, self-studies for their Only one other university in Professor & Dean 2 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Robotics Team: Winners in National Competition At the 2012 conference of the By Dr. Dana Ingalsbe, Association of Technology, Manage- Associate professor in the Department of Technology and Engineering ment, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) in Nashville, Tennessee, the JSU ATMAE Robotics Team won first place in the nation with a perfect score during the robot competition. The team members were Mr. Sam Thompson, Ms. Jessica Civitello, Ms. Tina Civitello, Mr. Jonathan Thompson, Mr. Benjamin Ledbetter, Ms. Aimee Montgomery, Mr. Morgan McDonald, and Mr. Slayton Acker. The faculty sponsors are Mr. Phillip Dean and Mr. Earl Bonds. The team was made up of students from different academic majors. Students majoring in design and applied manufacturing engineering and applied electronics engineering took care of the robot building and programming, while there was an art student who made the poster. The students presented appropriately named “Anita Wynn.” their posters to the judges, and also At the conference, the students had to provide a detailed write- had the opportunity to participate in I'm proud of the accom- up documenting their project. professional development and sit in on plishments of our robotics The task for the ATMAE Robot several of the breakout sessions where “ teams. We fielded our first competition was to remotely drive they learned about current trends the robot into a ten foot circle in in applied engineering education. team in 2010 and have been the conference hotel ballroom, then The JSU Robotics Team won fortunate to have some autonomously (without human for best electronic controls, best extremely talented and control) go to a table and pick-up fabrication, and had a perfect score motivated students involved thirty-six Ping-Pong balls (red, green, during the competition phase. each year since. The excitement blue, and yellow) and back out of To see the competition phase go generated by those first teams the circle. The team received one to http://youtu.be/TX4dX9hc6Ag laid the foundation for the point per ball. The robot, sorted the or http://youtu.be/cDQ8Xb59bOs. success we had this year in balls by color as it backed-out of the winning the championship. circle. Last, the student controller one thing I am particularly reestablished remote control and pleased with is that the drove the robot to four different judges consistently point out drop off points. The team received the features in our robots two points for each ball correctly dropped off in the designated that incorporate industrial color area. Blue balls dropped off standards. It's just another correctly were worth four points. indication of the effectiveness This was the third year JSU’s of our efforts to provide team had entered the robotics contest. students in our programs with The first year the robot won its the skills needed by industry. first round of competition but was ” disqualified in the second round Mr. Terry Marbut, head of the Department due to complications following a of Technology and Engineering. battery failure. Last year the team was second. This year’s winning robot was 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 3 JSU Graduates the First Elite Scholar Whitton serves as the director of the JSU Honors Program and is professor of English, and Ms. Janet Whitmore serves as the JSU Honors Program coordinator. As director, Dr. Whitton coordinates courses among the participating academic departments. He chairs the Honors Board consisting of faculty, staff, and administrators. The current members of the board include Dr. Aaron Garrett, assistant professor of computer science; Mr. Andrew C. Green, director, Enrollment Management; Dr. Gordon Harvey, department head, History and Foreign Languages and professor of history; Ms. Allison L. Clark in 2012 Dr. Teresa Reed, professor of English; Ms. Allison L. Clark in 2009 and Ms. Lisa Williams, associate dean, Ms. Allison L. Clark is the first College of Arts and Sciences; as well honors graduates, including our first person to graduate from Jacksonville as Dr. Whitton and Ms. Whitmore. group of Elite Honors Scholars who State University’s Elite Honors They established all aspects of the started as freshmen four years ago. Program. Clark, a secondary program, from the mission to the The Honors Program continues to education major, received her objectives to scholarship and service leave its mark through contact with Bachelor of Science in Education— opportunity requirements. The newly JSU students and extracurricular Mathematics on December 14, 2012, established JSU Honors Program activities. Even as the first group of and earned summa cum laude honors. began accepting students for the Elite Honors Scholars departs, the A graduate of Clay-Chalkville High 2009 Fall semester, including eight Honors Board will be reviewing School with an Advanced Academic Elite Honors Scholars. The Elite applications for next year’s group Diploma, Ms. Clark said from the Honors Scholarship recipients receive of incoming freshmen. The JSU time she was in middle school, she tuition, room and board, textbook Honors Program membership knew she wanted to be math teacher. funding, and a laptop computer. increases each academic year, as “I am very blessed to be the first Elite “This year I get to cheer on all does enrollment in campus-wide Honors Scholar to graduate and to be Honors courses,” said Dr. Whitton. doing what I love. I am eager to begin Ms. Janet Whitmore works teaching and changing the lives of my very closely with the Elite Honors students. I hope to get a job teaching Scholars, too. She says, “Their middle school in a small town.” dedication to personal and academic Associate Vice President for growth is admirable. The excitement Student Affairs, Dr. Timothy King, with which they approach their believed that to attract academically educations is contagious. Part of my gifted high school students, JSU job is to track their academic progress, needed to offer a scholarship and an and I am never surprised to see them honors program that was extremely on the Dean’s List or the President’s attractive. This was part of JSU’s List each semester. As a part of their five-year plan overseen by Dr. Alicia scholarship requirements, they select Simmons. Dr. Earl Wade, dean of and carry out a major service project the College of Arts and Sciences, each year. They continually go was instrumental in initiating the above and beyond what is expected new JSU Honors Program. of them by giving back to the The JSU Honors Program university and the community.” provides support for students from Dr. Steven Whitton, professor in the Department of The academically gifted students a variety of majors. Dr. Steven English and director of the JSU Honors Program accepted into the JSU Honors 4 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Program have an enriched educational www.jsu.edu/cas/honors/index.html). diverse range of courses that foster experience and even in many regular When Alabama State independent, critical thinking, and courses are offered an Honors Superintendent of Education, Dr. effective communication. The JSU component. Current JSU students Tommy Bice, spoke to faculty of the Honors Program has been designed may also apply for admission to the CEPS in October 2012, he challenged to support students fulfilling their JSU Honors Program (see http:// the CEPS to bring into the teaching potential in their chosen fields, while profession the most gifted teachers. preparing them to meet the challenges Through the JSU Honors Program, and responsibilities of becoming academically gifted students have citizens with global perspectives. an incentive to come to JSU and In the Fall 2012 semester, over prepare for their chosen professions. 400 seats in Honors classes were The JSU Honors Program spread over 13 departments. There attracted Ms. Allison Clark, are currently 144 members of the nonetheless she lists three factors JSU Honors Program. Each year, 32 that helped her to choose JSU. of those members will be awarded the Elite Honors Scholarship, JSU’s • My grandparents top academic scholarship. In the graduated from JSU. Spring of 2013, two more CEPS • JSU has an excellent students from the first group of teacher education program. Elite Honors Scholars are working • I was blessed with the towards graduating, Mr. Jansen highest scholarship available. Harmon in secondary education with a concentration in history and While the students in the JSU Ms. Kristin Hays in early childhood Honors Program work toward and elementary education. Ms. Janet Whitmore, honors Program Coordinator their individual degrees, they take a 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 5 Jerry Chandler: Recognized Expert on Air Traffic Safety By Mr. Keith Thomas Production coordinator in the Department of Television Services Television Services recently hosted visitors from National Geographic. Story Editor/ Associate Producer Ms. Claire McNabb, Cameraman/Director of Photography Mr. Mark Caswell, and Sound Recordist Mr. Adrian Tucker traveled to Jacksonville State University from Canada to interview Assistant Professor of Communication, Mr. Jerry Chandler. Mr. Chandler was chosen to be interviewed by National Geographic because of his vast experience, publications, and expertise concerning air travel safety. The program is called “Air Crash Investigation.” Mr. Chandler was questioned concerning the ValuJet story. The interview was taped in the Self Hall studio. Mr. Jerry Chandler, assistant professor in the Department of Communications

The Department of Television Services Source of Campus Videos

The Department of Television Services completed thirteen new videos for Distance Education. These videos will be used to enhance the capability of the JSUMobile app for iOS, Android, and Blackberry mobile devices. The video clips will lead the application users on a virtual tour of the campus, where they both see and hear about the main campus buildings and become acquainted with campus services. Television Services will be including additional campus buildings in the near future. Television Services has been creating a documentary-style video about JSU to submit to the Ohio Valley Conference. The video will highlight the strengths of JSU. The video will be built around a mix of interviews, scenic shots of JSU’s campus and action shots or footage to be used in conjunction with the interviews. JSU’s Bibb Graves Hall by Mr. Steve Latham, campus photographer

6 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & JSU Teacher Hall of Fame Banquet

Ms. Katherine Pickens, inductee in the JSU Teacher Hall of Fame Middle School Division, Dr. Tommy Bice, Superintendent of Alabama Schools, Ms. Stephanie Matthews, inductee in the JSU Teacher Hall of Fame Secondary Division, and Ms. Katie Oliver, inductee in the JSU Teacher Hall of Fame Elementary Division

The forty-fourth Annual Teacher Hall of Fame was founded Jacksonville, Alabama; Dr. Jeff Jacksonville State University in 1969 by then university president, Goodwin, superintendent of Oxford Teacher Hall of Fame banquet was Dr. Houston Cole. Dr. Cole created City Schools in Oxford, Alabama; held on May 11, 2012, to honor this award to honor teachers, who Dr. Gena Riley, professor in the the fifteen nominees and three not only teach, but also exemplify Department of Curriculum and inductees into the Jacksonville State the profession. Jacksonville State Instruction; Dr. Kelly Ryan, director University Teacher Hall of Fame. University and Dr. William A. of the Teacher Service Center; and The speaker was the Alabama Meehan, the current president, are former Teacher Hall of Fame inductee, Superintendent of Education, Dr. proud to carry on this legacy. Ms. Dilhani Uswatte (2008-09). Tommy Bice. Dr. Rebecca O. The process of selecting the The 2011-12 inductees Turner, provost of Jacksonville State candidates involves every school were: in the Elementary University, announced that a $1000.00 district in Alabama. Each school Division, Ms. Katie Oliver, stipend for use by the inductees system may nominate teachers Memorial Park School, Jasper City to enhance their professional from three divisions: elementary, Schools; in the Middle School development was mailed to the middle, and high school. From all Division, Ms. Katherine Pickens, principal of their respective schools. the nominations, fifteen candidates Greenville Middle School, Butler Mr. Jerry Burfitt, president of the are interviewed by the selection County School System; and in Scottish Rite Foundation of Alabama committee in Birmingham, the Secondary School Division, made a presentation of a certificate Alabama. Here the selection is Ms. Stephanie Matthews, White of recognition by that organization narrowed to the three inductees. Plains High School, Calhoun and also indicated that a check The selection committee County School System. would be mailed to the inductees. members were: Mr. Lamar Sims, The Jacksonville State University vice president of Cheaha Bank, 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 7 The Teaching/Learning Center Turns Thirty One Mother’s Experience By Ms. Andrea MacArgel Coordinator of the Teaching/Learning Center We have been involved in tutoring for several years with my old- tutors to demonstrate their passion er daughter at one point and now, my younger son. As a working for teaching, learning, and problem mom, the tutoring services at Jacksonville State University have solving. It helps them develop insight been so helpful and I only have positive things to say about our into what it is to teach. It allows the experiences. My son loves going because the tutors really take the practicum tutors to develop a work ethic, that includes patience, open- time to help him study for tests, finish homework, or answer any mindedness, willingness to listen, to questions that he may be having some difficulty in. Jackson loves to follow up tutee academic questions, go and get his homework done and out of the way, so this program and other attributes that help them has worked out so well for us, I never hear "Mom, I don't want to prepare for the teaching profession. go," which tells me that this program really is a positive tool for The tutors guide the activities and him. All of the tutors that he has had have been so helpful and ex- keeps the focus on the teaching tremely kind. It certainly is a blessing to know that this is an avail- process. It differs from whole class able source in Jacksonville and we have had the best experiences instruction in that if they have a with the program. I'm very thankful that this was something that problem it is with only one student,” my children were able to utilize and I'm very glad that Jackson- said Mr. Mike Zenanko, director of the Instructional Services Unit. ville State University offers this program to our children. It means The T/LC has been called the so much to me as a parent to know that this was available and it “Center for Two Learners” because was an extremely huge help for us! Thank you for all you do! local school students and JSU pre- service teachers make significant Thanks, academic and personal progress. Katie Stacey Burell Atkins, an elementary/early childhood education major and former T/LC 2012 marked the thirtieth during the last semester of the tutor remarked, “My tutoring year of operation for the senior year. In 1982, the Alabama experience has made a great impact Teaching/Learning Center State Department of Education on me. At first, I didn’t expect for it to (T/LC). The T/LC is an on-campus, increased the number of hours have helped me as much as it has. It after-school, one–to–one tutorial required for teacher certification. has tested me, challenged me, and site housed in Jacksonville State The T/LC was part of the response encouraged me. There were times I University’s College of Education by Jacksonville State University was not sure if I could teach a whole and Professional Studies in the to meet the requirement. classroom of children. There were also Department of Instructional Services. The T/LC’s continuing goal is times I felt overwhelmed, tired, and at Established in 1982 by Dr. Elsie to aid the College of Education and the end of my rope. However, all of Wright, the T/LC provides students Professional Studies in providing these feelings are worth experiencing in the College of Education and qualified teachers who are creative, in the end. There is nothing better Professional Studies an opportunity reflective decision makers. The than knowing you’ve helped children to work with children in a supervised practicum student experiences with one of the most important setting. Area school students in being an instructor through things in their life.” grades K-12 can benefit from the tutoring and develops the capacity JSU classroom concepts are put to assistance of JSU education pre- for self-direction. The tutoring use daily as the prospective educator service teachers as one-to-one tutors. practicum supports a change in prepares to become a creative decision One parent, Tracy Champion, stated the practicum student’s frame of maker. The T/LC is an invaluable that her son “has gained so much reference through reflection about practicum, as it provides a close confidence since coming to the T/ the tutoring sessions. The tutoring replica of service learning within a LC. All the tutors have been great and practicum promotes personal self College of Education and Professional have exceeded [her] expectations!” improvement for both the tutor Studies framework. Local legislators Prior to the founding of the and the tutee. All of which occurs have proclaimed this to be one of T/LC, the only pre-service through the social action of a tutorial. the community’s greatest “natural experience for teachers was student “The tutoring practicum provides resources” and community outreaches. teaching/internship, which occurred an experience that requires the In 1991, JSU developed a five 8 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & level Clinical Experiences Program. One Mother’s Experience In the Level I experiences, micro- teaching, project/unit development, We have been involved in tutoring for several years with my old- subject matter portfolios, group tutors to demonstrate their passion er daughter at one point and now, my younger son. As a working research, and presentations are the main focus in the classroom for teaching, learning, and problem mom, the tutoring services at Jacksonville State University have solving. It helps them develop insight coursework. Level II provides been so helpful and I only have positive things to say about our opportunities for one-to-one tutoring into what it is to teach. It allows the experiences. My son loves going because the tutors really take the practicum tutors to develop a work and mentoring through the T/LC time to help him study for tests, finish homework, or answer any ethic, that includes patience, open- and the JSU Child Development mindedness, willingness to listen, to questions that he may be having some difficulty in. Jackson loves to Center for JSU students and area follow up tutee academic questions, go and get his homework done and out of the way, so this program children. The College of Education and other attributes that help them has worked out so well for us, I never hear "Mom, I don't want to in collaboration with area schools prepare for the teaching profession. go," which tells me that this program really is a positive tool for provides the Level III block The tutors guide the activities and him. All of the tutors that he has had have been so helpful and ex- practicum experiences. Level IV is student teaching. Level V provides keeps the focus on the teaching tremely kind. It certainly is a blessing to know that this is an avail- process. It differs from whole class support services for first year able source in Jacksonville and we have had the best experiences teachers. The College of Education instruction in that if they have a with the program. I'm very thankful that this was something that problem it is with only one student,” and Professional Studies clinical my children were able to utilize and I'm very glad that Jackson- said Mr. Mike Zenanko, director of experiences meet requirements of the Instructional Services Unit. ville State University offers this program to our children. It means accrediting agencies that include The T/LC has been called the so much to me as a parent to know that this was available and it SDE, SACS, and NCATE. “Center for Two Learners” because was an extremely huge help for us! Thank you for all you do! Community children in grade local school students and JSU pre- K-12 receive approximately twenty service teachers make significant Thanks, hours of free, one-to-one tutoring in academic areas designated by academic and personal progress. Katie Stacey Burell Atkins, an elementary/early childhood their parents and/or teachers. JSU education major and former T/LC students work in collaboration with tutor remarked, “My tutoring the student’s parents and teachers to experience has made a great impact diagnose learning needs and identify on me. At first, I didn’t expect for it to age and subject-level appropriate have helped me as much as it has. It materials for use with students in an has tested me, challenged me, and individual instructional setting. Upon encouraged me. There were times I successful completion, JSU students was not sure if I could teach a whole demonstrate understanding of the classroom of children. There were also appropriate skills and knowledge times I felt overwhelmed, tired, and at required to work successfully in an the end of my rope. However, all of individual instructional setting. these feelings are worth experiencing As of Fall 2012, the T/LC in the end. There is nothing better has supervised over 13,000 JSU than knowing you’ve helped children education students who provided with one of the most important the community with more than things in their life.” 135,000 hours of free tutoring. More JSU classroom concepts are put to than 8,000 students from area public, use daily as the prospective educator private, and home schools have prepares to become a creative decision participated in the tutoring program. maker. The T/LC is an invaluable The T/LC is the only free afterschool practicum, as it provides a close tutoring program in Calhoun County. replica of service learning within a For more information on the College of Education and Professional Teaching/Learning Center, you Studies framework. Local legislators can visit its website at https://sites. have proclaimed this to be one of google.com/site/jsututoring/ or the community’s greatest “natural like us on Facebook at https:// resources” and community outreaches. www.facebook.com/jsututoring. In 1991, JSU developed a five 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 9 Dr. Glacio Scremin Receives Recognition from BlackBoard Dr. Glacio Scremin’s course, Law and Ethics in Physical Education and Sport Management, received a 2012 Blackboard Exemplary Course Letter of Recognition. Along with this letter, received a complimentary conference pass to BbWorld’12, and he was also invited to take part in the Blackboard Catalyst Awards Luncheon for winners and evaluators. Dr. Scremin was recognized at BbWorld’12 as an Exemplary Course winner. BbWorld’12 is the annual Blackboard user conference. The conference was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in July. Dr. Scremin joined a select group of faculty and course designers from around the world whose courses have earned this designation. Dr. Glacio Scremin is shown here receiving the 2009 Outstanding Teacher Award from Dr. William A. Meehan, president of Jacksonville State University

JSU Receives a Grant that Involves Both The CEPS’ Department of Technology and Engineering and the JSU In-Service Center

The Alabama Math, Science, and and mathematics (STEM) faculty effective teaching strategies and Technology Initiative (AMSTI) at • in-service activities with provides opportunities to read and JSU’s In-Service Center received teachers of math and science; study current research. The math $235,936 from the Mathematics and • Improve and expand training of professional development will focus Science Partnership grant program. math and science teachers, including on implementing strategies from The grant award period is from training such teachers in the the Ongoing Assessment Project October 1, 2012, to September effective integration of technology (OGAP). Math teachers from 30, 2013. The AMSTI initiative into curricula and instruction; and partnering schools will participate is funded through the Alabama • Mentoring instructors in additive reasoning, multiplicative State Department of Education. as they begin to use this reasoning, and fractional reasoning The goals of this project are to: technology in their lessons. or proportional reasoning sessions • Expand math and science AMSTI JSU will collaborate according to their grade level. professional development with school personnel to determine The first year of the partnership opportunities and instructional specific instructional needs and will focus on eighth grade students support services provided within develop a framework for addressing at high needs middle schools the AMSTI JSU In-Service Region; these needs through mentoring, and will be open to all schools • Provide experiences in in- professional learning teams, and/ wanting to participate in a robotics service education that model or professional development program. The goal of the program effective teaching strategies to designed to improve and sustain is to inspire students to pursue be used by teachers in grades instructional skills. AMSTI JSU will careers in engineering, science, K -12, and to promote an use videoconferencing to bring technology, and math through awareness of and an interest in STEM faculty and math/science participation in a sports-like science- current educational research; teachers in Grades K-12 together to and engineering-based robotics • Provide a strong collaboration and increase the teachers’ subject matter competition. Student interns from instructional involvement between knowledge and improve instructional JSU’s Technology and Engineering colleges/departments of education skills. AMSTI JSU will provide Department will be paired with and with individuals from the math professional development teachers as the eighth grade students science, technology, engineering that provides experiences in learn about building robots. 10 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Dr. Jeff Chandler’s Conditioning Book in Second Edition T. Jeff Chandler, EdD, CSCS*D, strength and conditioning professional new, please see: for e Books http:// NSCA-CPT, FNSCA, FACSM serves everything needed to train athletes bit.ly/K38tY4; for purchase or as a professor and department head for maximum performance. The rental http://bit.ly/JYTCjp; or in Health, Physical Education, and book also prepares the reader for purchase. http://amzn.to/L4EEuh. Recreation. He has served JSU as a certification by the National Strength Dr. Chandler received his BS faculty member and administrator and Conditioning Association. in recreation administration from since 2006. When he teaches The book covers the basic Auburn University; his MEd in Advanced Anaerobic Conditioning, science underlying strength and exercise science from Georgia State he uses a text that he and a colleague, conditioning training. It also contains University; and his EdD in exercise Dr. Lee E. Brown, co-edited. practical application chapters on how physiology from Auburn University. The second edition of these concepts can be implemented His other publications include “The Conditioning for Strength and Human in practice. The book provides squat exercise in athletic conditioning: Performance has been cited as being examples and instructions on testing, A position statement and review of a clearly written text on strength assessment, exercise technique, and the literature” and “Tennis Training: and conditioning filled with special program development. Conditioning Enhancing On-court Performance.” instructional features. The work for Strength and Human Performance Lee E. Brown, EdD, CSCS*D, includes multiple decision-making also provides guidance on injury FNSCA, FACSM is director of the and hands-on training activities. The prevention and rehabilitation. Center for Sport Performance and a purpose of this text is to provide the Additionally the book contains professor of strength and conditioning resources including video laboratory in the Department of Kinesiology at assignments and case studies. California State University, Fullerton. “With the second edition we have incorporated new findings and techniques that not only keep this as the most comprehensive, but the most up-to-date text available. New chapters in the second edition include topics such as evidence- based practice, the female athlete, and periodization of training,” said Dr. Chandler. The book is published by Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins as a hardcover textbook. Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance second edition is available from the publisher at http://bit.ly/L5OkUz. For other sites that carry his book to purchase Dr. T. Jeff Chandler, professor and department head of Health, physical Education and Recreation as an e-book, to rent, or to purchase

CEPS Alumnus Wins Award from Alabama Power Ms. Jakea “Jake” Griffith was classroom materials and supplies. Leigh Perry, president of the awarded a grant from the Alabama This was presented at the March Alabama Power Foundation said, Power Service Organization (APSO). teachers meeting at John Jones “The Alabama Power Foundation APSO awards grants to new public Elementary in Rainbow City. believes that a good education is school teachers who attended a “The Alabama Power Service essential to continued growth and four-year state funded college. The Organization prides itself in helping improving the quality of life in 2011-2012 winner, who attended to make our state better,” said Carla Alabama. Students will be well JSU, was Ms. Jakea Griffith. She Roberson, manager of Education and prepared for the future because these received a $1,000 grant to buy Volunteer Services for Alabama Power. teachers are in the classroom.” 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 11 Dr. Denise De Vito New Head of Secondary Education

Denise De Vito, PhD, is the head novel develops throughout the plot. of the Department of Secondary The story is complete in itself and Education in the College of does not need several successive parts Education and Professional Studies published separately to complete at Jacksonville State University. the action,” explains Dr. De Vito. When asked what she was looking Maus, a Pulitzer Prize winning forward to most at JSU, she responded graphic novel, is an example of this “I am impressed with the CEPS’s narrative form. Art Spiegelman, the fifth year program as alternative author, uses animals to represent education programs are gaining different human races as he shares national recognition. Most of all I am the holocaust survivor experiences looking forward to having colleagues of his parents and his experiences and discussing with secondary as a resident of present day New education faculty the challenges that York. Some of Dr. De Vito’s face today’s secondary teachers.” articles on sequential art have been Dr. De Vito says that she has a published in the Arizona Reading passion for secondary education. Journal, MiddleLink, and in the “Lots of people I speak with don’t international journal Fonelex. “Some like the adolescent students and I Dr. Denise Devito, department head of Secondary of my favorite graphic texts are thoroughly enjoy them.” She taught Education anything by Chris Thompson or in the fifth largest school district in Guy Delisle, City of Glass, The the United States for eight years. States. “There is a long history Arrival by Shaun Tan, Golem’s Mighty She recalled that one semester she of dismissing anything viewed as Swing, Persepolis, American Born faced having eighty-four students in ‘comic’ in the United States,” said Chinese… I could list so many.” a tenth grade honors class. Luckily, Dr. De Vito. “Since sequential art Dr. De Vito holds a BA, MA, as the semester went on the number contains both prose and pictures, MEd, and a PhD from the University dropped to around forty. She has also vocabulary acquisition may be of Nevada in Las Vegas. She holds taught college at the University of increased when reading.” Dr. De Vito a dual undergraduate degree in Maine, where she worked primarily has completed a quantitative study English and philosophy and a PhD with first generation college students. to measure vocabulary acquisition in curriculum and instruction with Currently, her research interest and reading comprehension utilizing cognates in technology and in ethics. examines young adult literacy graphic fiction. She said, “The She taught secondary English eight acquisition with graphic texts. research participants were eleventh years in the Clark County School Sequential art, or graphic fiction graders and the text was American district in Las Vegas, Nevada. She links both prose and graphic Born Chinese, by Gene Yang.” served two years at the University representations to unfold a narrative. “Unlike comic books, graphic of Maine, at Farmington, Maine She explained that for many nations novels follow conventional prose and six years as an assistant professor in South America, the Mid-East, novels by being formatted spatially and secondary education master’s Asia, and Europe, the sequential art or chronologically. Graphic novels program director at the University of form maintains a more respectable have a beginning, middle, and end. Arizona South in Tucson, Arizona. presence than it does in the United The main character in a graphic WLJS Receives FCC Renewal Ever since it first signed on university and the surrounding the air in 1975, Jacksonville State community,” said Mike Stedham, University’s radio station WLJS has manager of student media at been required to renew its broadcast JSU. “We’ve got great things license with the FCC. The FCC planned with the help of our officially renewed WLJS’s broadcast WLJS Board of Advisers. license for another eight years. As we say in the radio business, “We’re glad to continue the stay tuned for more details.” station’s tradition of serving the 12 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Ms. Kathy Matthews Named JSU Employee of the Month

Mrs. Kathy Matthews has been efficient atmosphere for departmental named JSU Employee of the Month operations. Her abilities and for June, 2012. Ms. Matthews works attitude are outstanding. She is well in the Department of Technology respected and genuinely liked by & Engineering. She has worked in students, faculty, and co-workers. the Department of Technology and Our technology students know Engineering since August, 1992. and rely on her. Her knowledge of Ms. Matthews is originally from the department and our programs Bowling Green, Kentucky, where is a real asset,” said Mr. Terry she attended Western Kentucky Marbut head of the Department University. She is married to Mark of Technology and Engineering. Matthews, Acting Director of Telecommunications, and they have one daughter, Kelsey. Kelsey will be a senior at Jacksonville High School this fall. Ms. Matthews and her family are very active at Jacksonville First United Methodist Church. “Ms. Matthews could be employee of the month every Ms. Kathy Matthews, secretary in the Department month. She fosters a cooperative, of Technology and Engineering

Townsel Awarded PDK Grant

Ms. Kim Holdbrooks Townsel Townsel conducted a brief survey to was awarded the Past President find out if a movie has ever increased Emery Stoops Graduate Scholarship sensitivity in diversity. An astounding 2012 from PDK International percentage of respondents indicated Fellowships for Graduate Programs. that movies had, and specific movies The application required letters were frequently mentioned. She used from supervisors and colleagues, as that information to conduct a small well as a statement of research goals interview set to collect data on how and proof of a high GPA. For more and why movies might help teachers information, visit http://www. better understand their students. The pdkintl.org/awards/graduate.htm results and her conclusion led to Ms. Townsel’s interests in Ms Townsel collecting data on how research are centered on pre-service three specific film clips about real-life teachers and education professional teachers from the South who were development. As a lover of film, Ms. teaching “out of their comfort zone” Townsel believes that film can be dealt with issues as perceived by pre- used as a vicarious experience to service teachers. Ms. Townsel hopes help teachers develop sensitivity to to turn one of the initial studies into diversity issues, explore variety in a dissertation and will continue with teaching strategies, and examine the this line of research during her career. emotional and social issues affecting both teachers and students. Ms. Ms. Kim H. Townsel, instructor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences

7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 13 Retirees

Dr. Patricia K. Lowry, professor in the Department of Dr. Ronnie Harris, professor in the Department of Ms. Paula Napoli, instructor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction Health, Physical Education and Recreation Family and Consumer Sciences On May 31, 2012, Dr. Patricia courses for both undergraduates in thirty-seven Peachtree 10K Road Kramer Lowry retired from the and graduates in the EED program Races held in Atlanta, Georgia, on Department of Curriculum area. Those are the courses she the Fourth of July. “It is amazing to and Instruction, the College of ended with upon her retirement. be running with sixty thousand other Education and Professional Studies, In almost every elementary runners down the middle of Peachtree and Jacksonville State University. school she enters today, there is at Street in Atlanta,” said Dr. Harris. She had served the university for least one teacher or several teachers Dr. Harris says. “JSU has been more than twenty-five years as an that she has taught. A smile comes wonderful for me. I received an assistant professor, associate professor, to her face when they remember education where I experienced great department head, and professor in something special from her classes. teachers and coaches. Now I am the Department of Curriculum and Dr. Ronnie Harris has retired ready to enjoy the grandchildren Instruction. She had taught most from Jacksonville State University and serve as taxi service for Raine, of the courses, both undergraduate after forty-six years of service to the Ryleigh, and Carson. I will also and graduate, in all areas – social university through the Department do some adjunct teaching.” studies, science, mathematics, and of Health, Physical Education, and After twenty years of service general methods - except those Recreation. Dr. Harris started as to Jacksonville State University, in reading and language arts. a JSU student in 1960 where he Ms. Paula Napoli, director of the She was assigned to the basement earned his BS and MS. As he worked Dr. Cynthia H. Harper Child Study of Ramona Wood the first several at JSU he also completed his EdD Center, has retired. Ms. Napoli came years. The joke was always when at the University of Alabama. to the JSU Child Center in 1992 and you needed Dr. Lowry she would Dr. Harris started teaching was promoted to director in 2002. be in the basement. Of course that in the Department of Health During her tenure, Ms. Napoli taught is where most of her classes were and Physical Education in 1966. over two hundred pre-school children taught in Ramona Wood Hall. After teaching for five years, Dr. and instructed more than two Her favorite years of teaching Harris became department head thousand college students. Ms. Napoli came during the time that she taught in 1971. He served as department will truly be missed but her influence the undergraduate science methods head for seventeen years. and contributions in the area of courses and the graduate mathematics Dr. Harris has taught subjects child development will continue methods courses. She loved to be that he loved and his guidance has through decades. She and her husband up walking around the classroom, touched thousands of students. It Vince, avid travelers, plan to spend setting up experiments for the is not unusual to see him running, some of their retirement time with science class, or demonstrating how riding a bike, doing the martial art their three young grandchildren, to use specific math manipulatives of Aikido, and teaching line dancing, Maria, Turner, and Helena. in teaching. Toward the end of her folk dancing, square dancing, or career, she taught general methods swing dancing. He has participated 14 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Plays with Thoughtful Humor

“I started directing dinner have murdered people,” Mr. Stedham theaters for the Anniston Junior said. “Each of the suspects in that League about ten years ago,” Mr. show is already a murderer, so that Stedham said. “They were buying makes it harder to solve the case.” the rights to scripts that weren’t very This summer, two of Mr. funny, so the cast and I had to add Stedham’s plays are being produced. a lot of jokes and physical humor The Heflin Arts Council is reviving A to make the shows enjoyable.” Brush With Death, and the Community The Junior League was Actors Studio Theater is producing making a lot of money from the Murder On The Set at Garfrerick’s productions, but Stedham said he restaurant in Oxford. Stedham plans knew they could be doing better. to have a new script ready for the “I told the Junior League that Junior League by next spring. I could write a script for them that Mr. Stedham is setting up a would be twenty-seven percent web site in an effort to market funnier than the ones they had these scripts to theater groups and been using. That led to my first charities that want to produce them. play, A Brush With Death.” “I hope other folks can have Each year since then, Stedham as much fun with these shows as Mr. Mike Stedham, instructor in the Department of Communication, Full-time Manager of JSU Student has produced a play for the we have,” Mr. Stedham said. Media, Part-time Instructor, Communication & Junior League. The scripts have English also been used by other local From: Parole Models During the week, Mr. Mike organizations such as the Red Cross, by Mike Stedham Stedham is manager of student media the Homebuilders Association, ACT 1 at JSU, serving as faculty adviser to the and two area high schools. campus newspaper and radio station. All of the shows follow a Percy, a state psychologist, is On the weekends, he’s traditional murder-mystery pattern: introducing Honey to the halfway involved with murders. A group of eccentric characters house where she will be living These murders take place as is introduced, one of them is for six months. It’s designed for part of the murder-mystery dinner murdered at the end of Act 1, and women who have been convicted theater production he has been the suspects are questioned by of murder and who are nearing writing and directing for local police in Act 2. The audience gets the end of their sentence charities and other organizations a chance to solve the case, and the since 2006. So far, he’s written five guilty party is revealed at the end. PERCY: scripts, each of which has been “My most recent script is Welcome to your new home, produced several times throughout Parole Models, which takes place at Honey. I bet you’ll like it a lot Calhoun and Cleburne counties. a halfway house for women who better than the state prison.

HONEY: Don’t call me Honey. Everybody in the joint calls me Killer.

PERCY: Forget your prison nickname. This is a halfway house – a place of change, a place of second chances, a place for new lives to be forged from the broken wreckage of the past. We believe everyone who comes here can make something of herself, and you don’t have to be trapped by your old labels. (Pause) Besides, we already have two other women here named “Killer.” 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 15 Department Profile: Educational Resources

The Department of Educational Mission Statement particularly is not insignificant that all faculty Resources (EDRS), housed in the emphasizes educational technology members in the instructional College of Education and Professional and school improvement. In response leadership area must have had local Studies (CEPS) seeks to do exactly to that mission, and in response to the school administrative experience what the name implies: provide international trend toward distance (e.g., principal, superintendent, cutting-edge programs and other (online) educational opportunity, all other school administrator) support for the entire educational of the degree programs in EDRS since the implementation of enterprise. EDRS seeks to model except the Master’s in Counseling No Child Left Behind. collaboration, communication, crea- are offered in a totally online format. The newest EDRS degree tivity, and critical thinking to students, Students continue to be attracted program, the Educational Specialist partner schools, local agencies, as from our primary service area in in Library Media, is also totally well as to the entire CEPS and to Northeast Alabama and West Georgia, online, and has a heavy emphasis the university community at large. but also from more distant locations on contemporary technology EDRS is composed of nine throughout the Southeast and beyond. applications in the school setting. graduate degree programs in three Just a few years ago, the Alabama All media specialists in the public primary areas. Master’s degrees are State Department of Education schools have at least a master’s degree. offered in Instructional Leadership, required a re-design of traditional School media specialists are often Library Media, School Counseling educational administration programs, the go-to persons when it comes to and Community Counseling. effectively eliminating new enrollees technology know-how in the school. Sixth-year degrees (Educational from those programs. Enrollment Both of these factors make the EdS Specialist) are offered in Instructional went from over four hundred at the in Library Media especially attractive. Leadership, Teacher Leader, Library peak, to an enrollment of zero in just In seeking to model 21st Media, School Counseling, and a few months. Under the leadership Century skills, faculty members Community Counseling. In of the program faculty, Dr. William from EDRS have collaborated not addition to these degree programs, Kiser, chair of the master’s program only with each other in a variety the department offers a significant in Instructional Leadership emerged of ways, but also with faculty across number of courses in Instructional first, and the Educational Specialist the college, providing educational Media (technology) required of programs in Instructional Leadership resources in a number of areas of various programs across the college. and Teacher Leader followed. These expertise and experience. Teaching The department is responsible for totally online programs are project- modules on bullying and classroom a number of foundations courses, based, with immediate application management, assertive leadership such as Research, Principles of required in the real world of local and advocacy, law and ethics, have Learning, Leadership, and Diversity. schools. Enrollment in all three been shared in a number of courses. The Educational Resources programs is building momentum. It 16 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Ms. Bohannon explained, “In addition to assisting faculty and the department head, I work with students to resolve problems with registration and basic questions regarding programs in Educational Resources. If I don’t know the answer myself, I typically know who to call to get the answer. I don’t like to see students transferred from office to office to get assistance. If I can’t solve their problem, I try to determine who can before sending them in another direction. Sometimes it just takes a phone call … thirty seconds of my time. I also want students to know we are happy to see them when they walk through the door of our office. A student should never feel we are Ms Deanna Bohannon, secretary in the Department Ms. Kristen Magourik, graduate assistant in the of Educational Resources too busy to assist them. Students are Department of Educational Resources why we exist in the first place.” Ms. Deanna Bohannon has been Ms. Bohannon was selected Ms. Kristen Magouirk received employed at JSU thirteen years. She JSU’s Employee of the Month for her BA degree in Psychology with a has more than twenty-eight years of November, 2005, and she feels she minor in Human Development from secretarial experience. She received works in the best department on The University of Alabama. She then an associate’s degree from Gadsden campus. “Our faculty and students worked for Project Rebound as a State Community College and a are high quality. I enjoy my job Crisis Counselor for those affected secretarial/stenographic degree from and the people I work with.” by the tornado in April, 2011. She Ayers State Technical College. Her Ms. Bohannon and husband serves as the graduate assistant for earlier work experience includes Gordon live in Anniston and have the Department of Educational fourteen years with USDA/Rural three grown children. Being proud Resources. Ms. Magouirk is a graduate Development as a loan technician and parents of a U.S. Army veteran student in the Counselor Education two years with BellSouth Mobility with one tour in Iraq, they are Program with a focus on Community as an administrative assistant. fierce supporters of our military and Agency Counseling. She plans Ms. Bohannon views her and wounded warriors and are on receiving her EdS in Counseling position as secretary in EDRS members of the Patriot Guard Education and one day becoming to be that of a problem-solver Riders. (www.patriotguard.org). a licensed professional counselor. for students and faculty.

While it is evident that the Department of Educational Resources is “positioned to grow into the future and make a significant impact on all constituents, it remains committed to remain ‘ahead of the curve’ in the development of educational leaders and counselors who can meet the needs of today, and will be able to master the challenges of tomorrow. This we will do!” Dr. Tommy Turner, department head of Educational Resources

7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 17 Educational Technology and Library Media

The Library Media Program them to be technology savvy leaders hold a master’s degree in library at JSU is part of the Educational in their schools. For that reason, media to become more proactive Resources Department in the students in the program learn to use leaders in their school districts, to College of Education and Professional spreadsheets for budgeting, design be technology innovators, and to Studies. Two degrees are offered library media facilities, use Shelfari© be designers of Online instruction as part of the program: a master’s to encourage student reading, work for classroom teachers. A future level degree and a EdS Degree. within iTunes™ university to access projection of the jobs of media The program has been innovative videos for the program, plan videos specialists in schools predicts that in changing the delivery of content using Evirx©, prepare PowerPoints© they will become online instructional since it began. In the last six years showing research in the library media designers for K-12 schools. the master’s level program has gone field to share with administrators, from teaching traditional courses, study new technologies that are Oo to hybrid (meaning part face-to- appropriate for media centers, and use Dr. Jimmy Barnes began his face and part online) and then the virtual library as a mentoring tool. career in education immediately to teaching all online courses in Courses are delivered on Wimba© and after graduating from Berry College 2011. The program expanded its Livetext© is used to store artifacts of in Rome, Georgia, in November offerings by implementing an online assignments completed by students. of 1976 with a BA in mathematics EdS program, Library Media & The master’s level curriculum is and a minor in secondary education. Educational Technology in Fall 2012. designed to allow media specialists to He accepted a position with the The library media courses are be leaders in working collaboratively Chattooga County Schools as a taught primarily by Dr. Betty J. with classroom teachers, to be math teacher where he taught all Morris, program chair; however, instructional designers through levels of high school math and the EdS program is taught by core assisting teachers to design best physics for fourteen years. While at education faculty, Dr. Donna Herring, practices teaching strategies, to be Chattooga High School, Dr. Barnes Dr. Jimmy Barnes and Dr. Betty leaders in curriculum development, continued his education earning Morris. Adjunct faculty are asked to and to be strong administrators in his MEd in mathematics from West teach when there is faculty overload. managing the media center, evaluating Georgia College and then his EdS The faculty works hard to offer automation systems, and integrating in secondary education math from technology innovations to students technology into classroom instruction. Jacksonville State University. taking the programs because their The EdS curriculum allows In 1987 Dr. Barnes enrolled jobs as media specialists require library media specialists who already in the doctoral program at Nova 18 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & University located in Ft. Lauderdale, Regional Educational Service MLS degrees from the University Florida. He earned his EdD in Agency. She also served as the of Alabama and a BA degree from the summer of 1990 and began director of technology for Calhoun University of North Alabama. Under teaching at Floyd College located in City Schools in Calhoun, Georgia her leadership as program chair, an Rome, Georgia. At Floyd, Dr. before becoming the director of the EdS degree program in Library Media Barnes taught math and computer Educational Technology Training and Educational Technology was courses at the community college Center in Rome, Georgia. She retired offered for the first time in Fall 2012. level. He was solely responsible for from Georgia public education after Her educational career began as designing and implementing the thirty years and is in her eleventh year an elementary librarian at Eastwood college’s Information Technology with Jacksonville State University. Elementary School and later she Program which he chaired for five Dr. Herring has spent the last moved to Decatur High School in years. During this time he not only two years implementing a robotics Decatur City schools in Alabama. served as the program chair but program in grades three, five, six, Prior to working at JSU, her higher also taught courses in computer seven, and eight in the Chattanooga education teaching career included programming, network design, County School System as a result the Palmer School of Library & web design, project management, of a STEM grant. She provides Information Science at Long Island and database administration. professional development for teachers University (C.W. Post Campus) and Dr. Barnes came to Jacksonville and helps facilitate robotics education the University of West Georgia.

Dr. Jimmy Barnes, assistant professor in the Dr. Donna Herring, associate professor in the Dr. Betty Morris, professor in the Department of Department of Educational Resources Department of Educational Resources Educational Resources State University in 2007 as an in classrooms. She presents frequently She served as a adjunct professor assistant professor of instructional at international, national, regional,and at the University of Alabama technology in the Educational state conferences. Dr. Herring and Florida State University. Resources Department. teaches the graduate EIM classes Additionally, she worked with at JSU, provides LiveText support thirty-five Dade County schools in Oo to faculty and students, and assists Florida as the Library Power Director Dr. Donna Herring serves as professors with online course design. to bring school reform to over three the program chair for instructional hundred schools in the school district. technology. She has degrees from Oo This national initiative, funded Auburn University, West Georgia Dr. Betty Morris is a professor by Reader’s Digest and the Wallace College, Jacksonville State University in library science at JSU where she Foundation, was designed to promote and NOVA Southeastern. She serves as the program chair for the collaboration as a team approach spent sixteen years as a high school Library Media Program. The courses between library media specialists, mathematics/gifted education teacher in the program have changed from classroom teachers, and principals before leaving the classroom to serve traditional classrooms, to hybrid to to increase student achievement. as a technology and mathematics totally Online since her arrival on Dr. Morris was invited to consultant with Northwest Georgia campus. She holds PhD, EdS and work at Libraries Unlimited as 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 19 an acquisitions editor and later at Media Connection, and School Libraries England. Recently, she received Linworth Publishing where she Worldwide. Dr. Morris was one of the an invitation to attend and present sought authors to write books in the writers for the QEP proposal that a paper at the Belize Symposium school library media profession. As was chosen to be implemented at JSU. on Education in January of a result, over 160 professional books Dr. Morris was invited in 2011 2013 at Belize City, Belize. were published. She serves as a peer to participate in the Oxford Round reviewer for Teacher Librarian, Library Table at Oxford University in Oo Instructional Leadership

The Instructional Leadership encourage a professional commitment the next six years. During this Program at Jacksonville State to collaborative democratic and time, she obtained an EdS in University offers three Online inclusive models of practitioners instructional leadership from JSU. degree programs of study. The MSEd who are creative decision makers. Upon the completion of her and EdS programs in Instructional The program’s vision is to EdS, Dr. Allen accepted a position Leadership are designed to prepare develop leaders who are able to as an assistant principal in Jackson candidates to become effective improve the quality of education County and began working on her principals, superintendents, and other for all stakeholders based on EdD in instructional leadership district leaders. The EdS Teacher moral and ethical practices. from the University of Alabama. Leader Program prepares candidates She accepted her first principalship for teacher leadership, preparing Oo at a K-8 school in Jackson County. reading coaches, academic coaches, Dr. Linda Allen began her Several years later, she was offered instructional leaders, grade-level career as an elementary teacher after a K-4 school and she worked there lead teachers, department heads, and completing her BS in elementary for four years before coming to other roles in teacher leadership education (1-6) from the University JSU as an assistant professor in the within the school or district. All of Alabama at Huntsville. She worked Instructional Leadership program. courses are project-based to provide as a third grade teacher in Dade Dr. Allen commented on her time students with authentic activities County, Georgia, for four years. She at JSU, “I am so happy to be at JSU connected to their schools. continued her education by earning and working with such an outstanding The program’s mission is to a MS in elementary education from group of people in the CEPS. It is my prepare effective leaders of learning Alabama A & M and then added joy to be a part of the JSU faculty.” through the development of a broad certifications in library media and Dr. Allen has been married to knowledge base grounded in theory, instructional leadership from JSU. her husband, Dennis, for forty years. reflection, and applied leadership. Dr. Allen continued her career They reside on the Tennessee River Professors and Local Education as a teacher and media specialist in Scottsboro, Alabama. They are Agency (LEA) partners seek to in Jackson County, Alabama, for blessed to have two daughters, Ms. 20 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Dr. Linda Allen, assistant professor in the Dr. William Kiser, associate professor in the Dr. Mary Montgomery-Owens, associate professor in Department of Educational Resources Department of Educational Resources the Department of Educational Resources

Barbara Kilgore and Ms. Mandi Allen- director of performing arts, assistant Dr. Mary Montgomery Owens, Bell. Ms. Kilgore teaches online and principal, and principal. After retiring Associate Professor in Instructional blended courses in art for two colleges in 1999, he became the director of Leadership,began her teaching career while raising her two sons, Christian the Woodland Performing Center in in junior high English at the age and McGee, with her husband Cartersville, Georgia, where he served of nineteen in Richmond, Virginia, Travis. Ms. Allen-Bell is a family as artistic director and taught theatre after graduating summa cum laude medical physician in Scottsboro. arts in the International Baccalaureate from Brenau College in Gainesville, She and her husband, Jason, are Program until 2005. He has directed Georgia. Her father signed this first very busy raising their son, Bryce. over fifty theatrical productions and contract, promising to report to Dr. Allen said, “You are rich performed in more than twenty plays teach if she did not. She continued if you have a family that loves in college, community, church, and teaching literature and writing us, faults and all, and a profession summer stock theatrical companies in public schools in Florida and that is fulfilling and challenging. In addition to chairing the Indiana, earning an MS in English I am fortunate to have both.” Instructional Leadership Program at from Indiana State University. JSU, Dr. Kiser serves as lead evaluator In Boston, she entered school Oo for school and district SACS/CASI administration, becoming a co- Dr. William A. Kiser is an accreditation external teams for director of a learning center serving associate professor of instructional AdvancED. He has chaired school learning disabled students who leadership and serves as chair of the visits and served on district teams lived on Boston’s North Shore. She Instructional Leadership program. for schools and districts in Alabama, continued her career as an adjunct He received a BA degree in speech Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. professor of language development and theatre from LaGrange College Dr. Kiser received several awards for the College of Grayslake, in 1969; a MEd degree in guidance for outstanding teaching during his Illinois, and finally as consultant for and counseling from West Georgia career. He was STAR Teacher for Cass the State of Illinois in developing College in 1974; and an EdD degree High School, and STAR Teacher for literacy materials for Adult Basic in educational leadership from the Bartow County School System. Educational and GED preparation. Nova Southeastern University in In 2000, Dr. Kiser received the Joseph Her family was then transferred to 1991. Prior to joining the faculty B. Whitehead Educator of Distinction Valencia, Spain, for three years. at Jacksonville State University Award for Exemplary Dedication to In Spain, Dr. Owens first became in 2005, he retired from Bartow the Field of Education presented by interested in English as Second County Schools in Cartersville, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Language research and instruction, Georgia, after completing thirty-six and taught ESOL college students years as a high-school speech and Oo at Georgia Institute of Technology theatre teacher, guidance counselor, (Southern Tech campus) and 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 21 Georgia State University while Lamar County Schools, Barnesville, practices for developing educational earning her PhD in management Georgia. She ended her career in leaders. She presents at regional and and school administration at Georgia public education as Lamar County national conferences frequently and State University. Before moving to Superintendent of Schools. was invited to the Oxford University Jacksonville, Dr. Owens served for As a JSU faculty member since Round Table in the summer of twenty years in public education in 2000, Dr. Owens has collaborated 2011. She plans to continue to Georgia first as a consultant for the with colleagues to develop new collaborate with this group of State of Georgia in developing its programs within educational and thirty-five international colleagues beginning teacher support programs instructional leadership, incorporating again in the spring of 2013. and finally as an administrator in the technology and research in best Oo Counselor Education

The Counselor Education accreditation in October, 2009. In • LPC licensure application in Program at JSU was initiated in January of 2010, the Council for Alabama and Georgia; and/or the late 1960s. Hundreds of alumni Accreditation of Counseling and • continued progress toward are successfully serving across the other Related Educational Programs a terminal degree in southeast and beyond, as school (CACREP) gave unqualified, Counselor Education.”; counselors and in many and varied maximal accreditation to both The mission of the School agencies and institutions, including programs. CACREP accreditation Counseling Program states “the focus private practices. The prognosis for is a great accomplishment and is to educate school counselors and vocational opportunity as a counselor recognition, and provides additional enable them to address elementary continues to be very good. Overall opportunity and benefit to graduates. and secondary students’ needs in employment of counselors is expected Excerpts from the Mission the areas of academic, career, and to increase by twenty-one percent Statements of the Community personal and/or social development.” between 2006 and 2016, which is Agency Counseling and School An educational specialist much faster than the average for all Counseling Programs underscore degree is also offered in both occupations (see http://job-outlook. the primary goal and focus of each: school counseling and community careerplanner.com/Counselors.cfm). The mission of the Community counseling. As of Fall, 2011, both of After many years with a high Agency Counseling program “is to these 30-semester-hour programs are quality program that equipped prepare graduate students from the available in a totally online format. graduates for productive careers, Jacksonville State University service The department has a goal of the master’s programs in School area for success as they move toward: enrolling an average of fifteen to Counseling and Community Agency • counseling positions in twenty new students each term, Counseling were submitted for community agencies; totaling forty-five to sixty per year. 22 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Oo Dr. Kiser is grateful that the to the campus to pay a brief visit Dr. Jerry D. Kiser received Graduate Counseling Program to long-time friend, Dr. Marvin his BA degree in psychology at Jacksonville State University Jenkins. During that brief visit, Dr. and secondary education from is Council for Accreditation of Jenkins asked me to remind him of Christopher Newport College, his Counseling and Related Educational my educational background. I did; MS Ed degree in secondary school Programs (CACREP) accredited. then he told me about a posting for counseling from Old Dominion “The program has provided an assistant professor in counselor University, and his EdD degree in me opportunities for research and education. I was immediately agency counseling from The College teaching with excellent colleagues interested, applied, was interviewed, of William and Mary. Dr. Kiser serves and students,” said Dr. Kiser. and began teaching in the summer as a professor in the Department of of 2003. Having been brought up in Educational Resources, and teaches Oo Jackson County in northeast Alabama, a variety of counseling courses Dr. Todd McGahey holds a BA most all my teachers in grade school within the counseling program. from the University of Georgia, a were JSU graduates. I thought of However, his favorite course to MEd from Augusta State University, JSU as a teaching institution, and teach is the theories of counseling an EdS from Georgia Southern I knew I could teach and wanted class. Dr. Kiser has worked in University, and an EdD from Auburn to be in an institution that placed private practices that specialize in University. Dr. McGahey’s research the greatest priority on teaching.” marriage and family counseling. focus centers on emotions and the Dr. Turner graduated from He has experience from his work oceans, four-day school weeks, home- Pisgah High School in Pisgah, for the Commonwealth of Virginia based counselors, and immigration Alabama. He attended North Florida Attorney’s Office in cases involving laws and education. He spent Junior College in Madison, Florida, rape, child sexual abuse, and domestic several years teaching English and on a basketball scholarship, then violence. Dr. Kiser also has counseled psychology, and then seventeen years transferred to Samford University the families of murder victims. as a high-school guidance counselor in Birmingham. He received his Dr. Kiser taught at Montana in various Georgia public schools. undergraduate degree from Samford State University Northern before He spends time volunteering for with a double major in mathematics joining the faculty of Jacksonville mentoring and relief organizations. and religion. He also received a State University in 1997. MA from Samford in religion and Dr. Kiser’s research interests Oo philosophy. Still later, he received include ethical reasoning regarding Dr. Tommy E. Turner, head a master’s of divinity degree from physician-assisted suicide, career of the Department of Educational New Orleans Theological Seminary, counseling, uniting spirituality Resources, came to Jacksonville and eventually gained the PhD in and sexual counseling, and uniting State University in the summer of educational psychology, community spirituality with counseling theory. 2003. Dr. Turner states: “I had come counseling, and statistics, from

Dr. Jerry D. Kiser, professor in the Department of Dr. James T. McGahey, assistant professor in the Dr. Tommy Turner, department head and associate Educational Resources Department of Educational Resources professor, in the Department of Educational Resources 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 23 the University of Alabama. His dissertation and early research was in the area of classroom management and adolescent psychopathology. He lives in and commutes from Boaz, where he lives with his wife, Linda, a pharmacist. Dr. Turner’s interest and connection to education has continued over the years. He originally taught secondary math in Birmingham after graduating from Samford, while serving a small church in DeKalb County as a bi-vocational pastor. Later, he moved to Pell City, serving a church there for seventeen years, but also serving a five-year term on the local school board, including two years as chairman. In the following years Dr. Dr. Melanie Wallace, assistant professor in the Dr. Priscilla Wilson, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Resources Department of Educational Resources Turner taught as an adjunct at Central Alabama and Snead State Community healing power of the creative arts. Dr. Priscilla Wilson, received Colleges, Samford University, and To that end, she employs a variety her BA from Tulane University the University of Alabama. of expressive arts modalities in both and her MS in counseling from Since coming to JSU, Dr. teaching and working with clients. Jacksonville State University. Dr. Turner has been active in the Dr. Wallace’s professional Wilson received her PhD in counselor Alabama Counseling Association, involvement has been extensive at education from the University serving as chair of the Professional both the state and national levels of of Alabama in May of 2009. Standards Committee. His the American Counseling Association Dr. Wilson worked in the field professional presentations at the (ACA). Currently she is serving as of social services starting in 1996 local, state, and national levels, the 2012-2013 past president of the working at Family Services Center of include subjects ranging from Alabama Counseling Association Calhoun County, Inc. as a community bullying to childhood grief to (ALCA) and president elect of the enabler developer. She then worked mentoring. He has co-authored Alabama Association for Counselor in the mental health field beginning published works on the union of Education & Supervision. Dr. in 2001 working as a child/adolescent spirituality and sexual counseling. Wallace cites the most valuable therapist at CED Mental Health Dr. Turner says, “I find a great lesson learned during her ALCA Center in Gadsden, Covenant Services deal of satisfaction in serving on presidential tenure in 2011-2012 in Anniston, and Indian Rivers college and university committees was the fundamental importance of Mental Health Center. She served as that deal with vision and growth - professional advocacy. The absolute the mentor match specialist with the the Strategic Planning Committee, necessity of acquiring legislative Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP) the Graduate Recruitment literacy skills necessary to effectively at the University of Alabama and Committee, and others. JSU is a communicate with elected officials at as a project coordinator/counselor great place to work and serve!” the state and national levels is vital in with the School-Based Student Drug establishing professional credibility. Testing Program in St. Clair County. Oo Areas of research interest include Dr. Wilson’s research focus is Dr. Melanie Drake Wallace clinical supervision, wellness and on sexual identity construction and has been an assistant professor in wellbeing, the study of hope theory, what factors shape how individuals counselor education since 2007. and the role of emotional intelligence formulate their identity. Dr. Dr. Wallace served as the clinical in training future professional Wilson is also applying for a Ford coordinator for counseling practicum counselors. Outdoor photography is Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. and internships until 2012 when she one of Dr. Wallace’s passions and she The proposed project will focus on became the program chair for school is always on the lookout to capture beliefs about HIV/AIDS prevention and community counseling programs. fleeting moments of natural beauty. methods on the variables of age, With a background in music, Dr. Oo gender, race, and sexual orientation. Wallace strongly believes in the 24 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Co-Teaching Pairs Workshop By Dr. Nina King Associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Jacksonville State University’s the Pairs Workshop, is an important teachers were beginning to form College of Education and Professional element of training because it matches relationships that would clearly pave Studies held a Pairs Workshop the intern and cooperating teacher in the way for better understanding and at the Houston Cole Library on role-playing and planning for effective cooperation in teaching together September 27, 2012, as the last phase collaboration and communication, this semester. For both the seasoned of training in a new JSU initiative: both essential skills for achieving classroom teacher and teacher The Co-Teaching Institute. success in this pedagogical model. candidate, this is a very good thing. Co-teaching as an instructional Ninety-six practicum students The CEPS, always on the methodology is not new. It has its and cooperating teachers were invited leading edge of teacher education, roots in special education but has to participate in the Pairs Workshop. continues to find and implement recently been receiving recognition Some activities brought laughter best practices in preparing as best practice among general while some required quiet discussion, candidates for the challenges of educators, as well. Last spring, a but it was evident that serious work teaching in the 21st Century. group of CEPS instructors, local was going on here. These interns and school faculty, and administrators took part in a two-day training workshop on co-teaching held in Stadium Towers and led by workshop founders Nancy Bacharach and Teresa Washut Heck from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The JSU CEPS has begun piloting this method of instructional delivery in some practicum placements in the Fall, 2012 semester and will continue into spring internship. In preparation, training has been ongoing for all college faculty as well as participating practicum students and cooperating teachers. The initial phase of instruction shared the theoretical foundations, research findings, and information about each of the seven strategies of the co- teaching model. The second phase, 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 25 Get Healthy JSU By Mr. Keith Thomas Production Coordinator, Television Services and physical activity. This peer leaders in the new initiative. unique project allows students Your mission is to involve students, from these varied disciplines staff, and faculty to get healthy.” to assist each other while This introductory video was meeting course objectives. played before an estimated eighty TV Services visually students involved in this collaboration. documenting this process. All students (from nutrition, opera/ Hopefully the research and voice, and Health, Physical Education documentation will allow and Recreation) met on September for future exposure of JSU’s 14, 2012, in the Performance success in wellness ideas Auditorium at Mason Hall to and open opportunities formally start this event. TV Services Get Healthy JSU is a collaborative for grant funding. visually documented the program. project aligning voice/opera students So far, TV Services has from the Music Department; students produced an introductory from the Department of Health, video featuring Ashley Physical Education, and Recreation; Cofield, Morgan Cox, and and students from the Family and Kevin Ward. These student Consumer Sciences nutrition program leaders in their disciplines to encourage each other in making were videotaped doing a and sustaining healthy choices. The spoof of crime/spy thrillers project involves a commitment to where a student presses a meet, assess, and follow through with tape recorder to listen to nutrition choices, strength, flexibility, “You have been selected as

A Challenge Opportunity from Health, P. E., and Recreation By Ms. Abby Fleetwood Instructor in the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation

Up for a Challenge? Look at the challenge. “Groups come,” he says, part in the challenge course, JSU Challenge Course, located on “to learn how to work together please contact Mr. Allen Gilbert campus between the Stone Center by coming up with strategies that at (256) 782-8012 or agilbert@ and Rowe Hall. The Low Ropes ultimately help them to complete jsu.edu. You can also find some Challenge Course has been a part the challenges they face as a team.” great video of the JSU Challenge of JSU for the past four years and If you would like to learn more Course on YouTube by clicking has been very popular among or how your office, department, the video link under Challenge various groups on campus. or group organization can take Course on the HPER homepage. Mr. Allen Gilbert is the challenge course coordinator and has done an excellent job with the design and upkeep of the challenge course. Mr. Gilbert and his team work with group leaders beforehand to identify the desired goals and objectives for their groups and create a series of activities that enable participants to succeed in meeting them. Mr. Gilbert says often times members get frustrated with each other when working to complete a 26 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & Dr. Tommy Bice Speaks to Educators

listen to a three-year experience be as flexible and as innovative as working at an alternative school in any charter school, if we are willing Birmingham. There he listened to to create a policy and budget students that had no security in basic environment that promotes such an care (food, shelter, and clothing), approach. He said that if there was any students that were denied social current rule or regulation that stands services because of bureaucracy, and between a student and his or her students who had no voice in their success then he wants to know about education. This experience helps it so it can be addressed. The current him keep his perspective of the state school board and legislative diversity of student needs. He said he leadership are keenly interested in hoped that each school year teachers creating such an environment. The would take the time necessary to get only rule he held was the six and a to know the challenges that their half hour school day and 180 days students faced before they began or equivalent to the school year. to focus on a student’s academic The time of day, the meeting place, growth. Dr. Bice indicated that he and the days of the week can all be travels to an Alabama school every adapted to meet student needs. Alabama State Superintendent of week to see the approaches and The vision that Dr. Bice has Education, Dr. Tommy Bice, spoke successes of Alabama schools. for the Alabama State Department Tuesday, October 30, at JSU for Dr. Bice said that this was an of Education is for every Alabama two addresses, the first to education exciting time as he forecasts that the child to graduate and every child majors, potential teachers, and teaching profession will experience a to be prepared. As superintendent, local school administrators, and the retirement bubble. To future educators he has reduced the Alabama State second to CEPS faculty, additional this increases their employment Department of Education’s staff local administrators, and members opportunities and to the education sections from twenty-four to four. of the College of Arts and Sciences. profession this is an opportunity He is forming teams with customized Dr. Bice was Alabama’s deputy state to shift the way things are done. support to handle challenges. He superintendent of education for His goal is for the educational expressed that the schools were instructional services; superintendent system to unlock the potential of here to serve the children not a of the Alexander City School Alabama children through these system. He said that when he spoke System, high school principal, career change agents. Dr. Brice said that with business leaders they were tech director, alternative school testing and graduation rates did not looking for employees that can teacher/director, special education/ necessarily mean that every child work collaboratively, be responsible, residential school director, early was prepared to the best of his/her be problem-solvers, and be critical childhood teacher/parent trainer; intellectual capacity for their next thinkers; and that these expectations and began his career as a teacher at step in life. Whether it was trade were in line with his goals. the Alabama Institute for the Deaf school, vocational school, two-year or Dr. Bice wants the Alabama State and Blind. In both addresses at JSU four-year college, he wants Alabama Department of Education to provide he alluded to his experiences in the students to possess the knowledge, teachers with resources, support, and education profession—he can share skills, and dispositions to succeed in effective professional development. He experiences from a bus driver to state a credit bearing curriculum without would like to see four-year college superintendent— as helping him the need for remediation. Students scholarships provided to the brightest to develop a unique perspective on should also be able to apply core students, who are willing to commit education. Dr. Bice said, “I learned academic skills learned, to collaborate, four years to the teaching profession. from my past experiences and I will and to problem solve—with precision, He would like for each of the one build on those to shape the future of punctuality, and the desire to learn. hundred and thirty-four Alabama education in Alabama. I am open to The legislative move last year to school districts to provide mentoring any change in the current system that approve charter schools in Alabama, to first and second year teachers. He can answer one question adequately. he felt was a learning experience is also looking at creating professional What value does your request bring with some very valuable takeaways. pathways for current teachers to to the children of Alabama?” He said that there was no reason that continue their life-long learning. He credited his willingness to the current Alabama schools cannot 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & 27 CORE

Dr. William A. all the time and everywhere, Meehan, president and communication of Jacksonville State to and by the students University welcomed the through visual and written participants to the CORE media. For students this Partnership Building implementation gave Workshop on November them permission to think 1, 2012. He said that critically, to think on their the goal of creating a own, and to find different seamless partnership ways to an answer. They of P-20 schools to expressed that technology educate students will was not the focus, learning be a change that can is, and that technology only benefit students. is just the current tool Dr. Rebecca O. to facilitate learning. Turner, JSU provost and vice Mr. Matt Akin explained to President for Academic Affairs, then for Aid to Education, The School the audience that CORE meant spoke about how partnerships like Superintendents of Alabama, St. Collaborate Regional Education. this one fit directly into the Red Cloud State University, Blackboard, His goal was for CORE to hold Balloon strategic plan outcomes of Pivot Point, and Apple Computers. four workshops a year, where local JSU. The Red Balloon project asked The first speakers at the CORE systems get support for their one to that JSU faculty and staff think about Partnership Building Workshop one technology initiates, and provide what we can do differently, do more were Dr. Billie McConnell and a forum to discuss solutions and of with less, and do better to meet Mr. George Saltsman, from Abilene challenges that the schools faced. the needs of today’s students. The Christian University. They spoke Dr. John Hammett, dean of the Red Balloon project members gave from experience and helping other College of Education and Professional time and thought to understand implementations of iOS in schools Studies stated, “CORE is an exciting and research what students bring They had data from the restructuring way that JSU through their resources to a learning centered campus. at ACU that occurred when the and grantsmanship can effect a The CORE project she felt was a ACU became an iOS university four positive change in the education logical part of JSU’s strategic plan. years ago and have used iPads since of many students from preschool Dr. Alicia Simmons, executive 2010. The restructuring affected through graduate studies. The CEPS is director of Institutional Planning the formal learning on campus as proud to be a partner and a facilitator and Research, shared how Mr. Matt instructors took on a facilitator incorporating new agreed upon Akin, superintendent of Piedmont role, the informal learning as the teaching methodologies and strategies City Schools came to her asking technology allowed students to learn into the preparation of teachers.” for JSU’s help in transitioning to a different teaching paradigm gave birth to the CORE project. Since then Dr. Simmons has worked to fund through grants the project and structure the first year activities. The CORE Partnership Building Workshop is the first CORE event this year. Three more workshops are planned as well as a state-wide CORE Academy conference for teachers and administrators. She said that currently seventeen school systems are involved along with JSU, ALSDE, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the Council 28 7JSU College of Education and Professional Studies Passport to Success 2012 & o n a n d P r You Can Supportc thea t i CEPS Througho f e s Your Donations d u s i o Be part of the future-let your fname E live on while you contribute to the growthn a of the College of Education and Professional Studies. o Ramona Wood Hall has served the college for manyl years. Improvements will ensure the needs of future graduatese of Jacksonville State University are adequately Smet.t It is not about money, it is about what gyou choose to do with your money. An investment in the CEPSu affects JSU e d students and the students thatl l they in turn have. Your action will be making a difference globally.i Today your College of oEducation and Professional Studies encourages your direct supporte to continue preparing s students. Challenges that theC CEPS faces include in the demanding space and technological demands that are needed. The CEPS can offer naming rights that acknowledge a generous donation. There are computer laboratories, a library, classrooms, even classroom chairs, that can be purchased and hold a placard acknowledging your gifting.

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