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Native and Indigenous Showcase Nov. 12

Join us noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, 218 MSU, for our Native and Indigenous Showcase. There will be guest speakers, food, art, culture, opportunities to learn, films and much more. The Native and Indigenous Showcase is celebrated to recognize the history, culture and contributions of Indigenous peoples, as well as the challenges they continue to face. Our goal is to honor, revere and respect those who paved the way for us. We use both the words Native and Indigenous, since they have slightly different meanings but are commonly seen as exchangeable. The word Native is used to describe a group of people who occupied their land. One example of this is the Lenape tribe, who inhabited lands in the Delaware valley. The word Indigenous is more global and inclusive and is used to describe people who are descendants of the people who inhabited America, the Pacific and parts of Asia and Africa prior to European colonization.

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Angelica Mishra, Multicultural Center

College of Education Faculty and School Partners Present at PAC-TE Conference

Faculty from the College of Education, along with partners from the Schuylkill Valley District and Reading School District, attended and presented at the fall Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators (PAC-TE) conference, Oct. 23-25, Harrisburg, Pa. Key presentations included:
 - Dr. Rebecca West Burns, Dr. Cathy Taschner, Dr. Jennifer Murray and Ms. Jennifer Rexrode discussed collaboration between school districts and colleges to address the teacher shortage.
 -  Burns, Taschner and Murray presented on high-impact school-university partnerships as a solution to the teacher shortage.
 - Dr. Thomas Conway facilitated the PAC-TE business meeting.
 - Faculty members, including Dr. Tracy Keyes and Dr. Christopher Weiler, presented on transforming teacher education and practice-based teacher education.
 - Dr. Catherine McGeehan, Murray and Julianne Kline discussed improving instruction through systemic and sustainable literacy leadership.
 - Dr. Meganlyn Norris, Dr. Jennefer Gehringer and others presented on the Teacher Leadership Academy for Literacy.
 - Faculty members, including Dr. Deborah Sailsbery and Keyes, discussed the impact of sketch-noting as a note-taking strategy for college students.
 - Dr. Carol Watson facilitated a pre-conference session for the Pennsylvania Association of Middle Level Education.
 - Dr. Michele White presented on the impact of the Master of Education Initial Certification PreK-4 program.
 - Dr. Mark Wolfmeyer, Dr. Andrew Miness and Conway presented during the journal session for "The Pennsylvania Teacher Educator."
These presentations highlighted various initiatives and research efforts aimed at improving teacher education and addressing the teacher shortage.

Rebecca Burns, College of Education

Faculty First Thursday Presentation

Through the collaborative lens of the "Marks and Stitches" exhibition, Jayne Struble and Liz Hamilton Quay intertwine the realms of drawing, projection, soft sculpture and material exploration at the Faculty First Thursday Presentation 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, 120 Sharadin. Refreshments will be served at 10:30 a.m. Hear about how they organically discovered and made connections in their work during the isolation of the pandemic and how it grew into a full exhibition. Their work is an exploration of the invisible ties that bind us, highlighting the beauty of interconnectedness and the delicate balance of patterns in nature and the complexities of human anatomy. "Marks and Stitches" began from a place of isolation and developed into a cohesive and experimental body of work.

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Josie Wynter, Dean's Office/Visual and Performing Arts

CEL Lunch Bunch No. 3

Join us noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, CEL Office, 6 Rohrbach Library, for a brown bag lunch. Bring an interesting new idea or a sticky problem. We'll chat and share ideas with our colleagues; and yes, there will be cookies.

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