Sigma Bulletin, November 27-December 3, 2006

A. DEAN'S UPDATES
B. CALENDAR
C. LOOKING AHEAD

A. DEAN'S UPDATES

1. One of the walls on the first floor of West hall has been designated as a
"poster wall" for those of you who are interested in showing work you are
presently doing in your project or program. Posters will full color, 24" x 48" in size and will be created by the communications group design team.

If you would like a poster created for your group, please make your requests by going to: http://www.soe.umich.edu/printproject
Please include all text, logos, photos, graphs or any art images that you would like to have on the poster. Text in Word format and images in jpeg formatare best. If you have questions, please contact ypappas at umich.edu. On your approval of the poster design, we will prepare it for presentation for the poster wall.

2. Elizabeth Moje will be this year's Thurnau Professor Honors Convocation speaker. Honors Convocation, held Sunday, March 18, in Crisler Arena, is a lovely campus-wide ceremony honoring undergraduate students at all levels for their academic accomplishments. Several thousand students, faculty, and family members typically attend. Congratulations, Elizabeth!

3. Professor Carol Lee from Northwestern University will present "The Practice of Teaching and Its Implications for Teacher Education" at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday in the Tribute Room. Professor Lee's work is unusual in her close attention to two key elements of teachers' work -- considering students' cultural practices and resources and the connections of those to disciplinary knowledge and skills. She also concentrates on teaching practice itself. These are issues important to our work in teacher education. This presentation is part of the Teacher Education Seminar Series, "Teacher Education: Considering the Past to Build the Future," sponsored by the Teacher Education Initiative.

There will also be a special discussion on Friday, December 1, facilitated by Magdalene Lampert in which participants will talk about the issues that Carol raises in her seminar. This special discussion will take place from 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon, in the Brownlee Room. Please contact Francesca Forzani ( fforzani@umich.edu) to sign up - a few places remain.

B. THIS WEEK'S CALENDAR
- November 28: Graduate Brown Bag: Joan McCoy and Brian Jones Question/Answer session: “Navigating the Road to Completion of Your Graduate Program,” 12:00 - 1:30 P.M., Room 2327 (Brownlee). Email your question or topic to Joan ( jemccoy at umich.edu) prior to the event.

- November 28: Third video analysis session: Roy Pea of Stanford University via videoconference. 12:00-1:00, Room 4212. RSVP Orrin Murray omurray@umich.edu

- November 28: Life Sciences & Society Colloquium: “Student Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in the Classroom and Beyond: How Do Instructors Respond?” 3:00-5:00, CRLT Seminar Room, 1013 Palmer Commons. Information: http://lss.sph.umich.edu/

- November 29: Quantitative Research Methods faculty candidate Daniel McCaffrey Pedagogical Talk (title to be announced), 12:00 - 1:00, Brownlee (2327).

- November 29: CPEP Colloquium: AnneMarie Conley, "Patterns of motivation-related beliefs: A person-centered approach to understanding students' motivation to learn," 12:10 - 1:00, 1322 SEB (Tribute Room)

- November 29: The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) dialogue with Dr. Kenneth Burnley, Senior Resident Fellow and former Chief Executive Officer of the Detroit Public School System: NCLB Discussion, 12-1:30, Dean's Conference Room (1211) RSVP for lunch: Marika McCann, katzma@umich.edu

- November 29: Training in the use of the School of Education's identity package (letterhead, name badges, posters, etc.) by Chris Myers. 1:00-2:00, Whitney (1309).

- November 30: Quantitative Research Methods faculty candidate Daniel McCaffrey, Research Presentation, "An Expanded Class of Multi-Membership Models Applied to the Estimation of Teacher Effect." 12:00 - 1:00, Tribute (1322).

- November 30: Second seminar in the Teacher Education series: Dr. Carol Lee of Northwestern University, 2:00 pm, Tribute (1322).

- November 30: National Center for Institutional Diversity's Critical Issues Forum, "Diversity Issues in Health Disparities and Urban Poverty," 3:15-4:45, Brownlee Room (2327). Information: Valerie Johnson, vnjohnso@umich.edu

- December 1: TEI small discussion session facilitated by Magdalene Lampert to talk in more depth about the issues Dr. Lee raises. 10 a.m., Brownlee Room. Participation in the discussion is limited to 25. If you are interested in attending the discussion, please send an email to Francesca Forzani ( fforzani@umich.edu).

- December 1: Diane Larsen-Freeman presentation: "On systematicity and variability in second language development," 3:00 at the English Language Institute, 401 E. Liberty
St., Third floor.

- December 2: Michigan Interscholastic Forensic Association (MIFA) Novice Preliminary Tournament and the Pentathlon Tournament at Dexter High School. Information: Linda M. Martini, 734/764-1131, lmartini@umich.edu

C. LOOKING AHEAD

- December 4: Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) Distinguished Lecture: Patricia Gumport, “Organizational Studies in Higher Education: Insights for a Changing Enterprise,” 4:15 PM in Whitney Auditorium. Information: http://www.soe.umich.edu/cshpe/50th/index.html.

- December 4: Deadline to submit a complete application to Educational Studies (room 1225) for the Barbour Scholarship for 2007. Information: Pat Natalie, pnatalie@umich.edu.

- December 6: CPEP Colloquium: Nick Ellis, "Language use, language change, language acquisition and language instruction: The dynamics of SLA," 12:10 p.m.-1:00 p.m., Room 1322 (Tribute). Information: frodrig@umich.edu or 647-0626

- December 7: Anarcha Project (Black culture and disability culture activists) Anita Gonzalez, Carrie Sandahl, Tiye Giraud, and Petra Kuppers: The Anarcha Project. A Collaborative Lecture, 7:00-9:00, Michigan League: Henderson Room. Information: Petra Kuppers, petra@umich.edu.

- December 8: Educational Studies Colloquium: Geoff Williams, "Semiotic tools for exploring texts with young children," 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room 1322 (Tribute). Information: mjschlep@umich.edu or 647-2449

December 9 and 10: The Anarcha Project. Open Workshops and Performance Sharing
open workshops for students, community members and anybody interested. Free, and no acting/writing/dancing experience required. Bring comfy clothes, pen and paper. The workshops are fully accessible. Saturday, 9th: B222, Theatre Department, North Campus, 1.00-5.00; Sunday, 10th: Studio Two (Room 1435), Theatre Department, North Campus, 1.00-4.00; Sunday 10th of December, Studio Two, 2006, 3p.m.: public sharing of workshop results and audience discussion. Please register for these workshops at petra@umich.edu.

- December 14: Educational Studies Colloquium: Jeffrey Stanzler, “Serious play: Using simulation to create compelling contexts for thinking,” noon-1:00 p.m., Room 2327 (Brownlee).

- January 12-14, 2007: 4th International Conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice, University of Illinois-Chicago, U.S.A. Information: http://antioppressiveeducation.org/2007conference.html

- January 14, 2007: Winter Reception to be held at Cobblestone Farm, 3:00-6:00 p.m. Details forthcoming.

- March 16-17, 2007: Educational Studies Campus Visitation Days for newly admitted PhD students.

- Commencement is on Saturday, April 28, 4-5:30ish, Hill Auditorium.

- Fall Re/Connection
will be on Thursday, August 30.

- October 20, 2007: Graduate Information Day.