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COEHDnews -- Week of Fri, March 10, 2017
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In Memorium
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Michael
S. Brock |
Michael Brock, senior systems analyst for the College of Education and Human Development, passed away earlier this week at the age of 45. Michael had been a member of the COEHD IT team since 2010.
Vistation services will be held at Finch Funeral Chapel in La Vernia, Texas, from 5 – 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 12, with a rosary recitation at 7 pm. Funeral services will be held on Monday, March 13, at 10 a.m. at St. Ann Catholic Church in La Vernia, Texas.
His internment will be held on Friday, March 17, at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. For additional information about these services, visit the Finch
Funeral Chapel, L.L.C.website.
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Three
students receive Martinello research awards |
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by DR.
BEKISIZWE NDIMANDE, DEPARTMENT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING AND TEACHING| Pub: 03/07 |
 Sara
Albers, Shareese Nicole Coleman, and Mary Ellen Gebhard, students from the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching, each received a 2017 Martinello Award for their research projects during the IDS Colloquium. |
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Daylight
Saving Time begins this Sunday |
This Sunday, March 12 marks the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. At 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, clocks will be set forward one hour.
Employees whose work schedules fall within the time change will lose one (1) work hour. Supervisors and employees should work together to determine how to best accommodate this time change so employees are credited for working a full 40 hour workweek, to include
flexing work schedules, allowing employees to make up the time, or using available leave time within the same workweek. For more information, visit the HR website. |
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Opportunities
for students to showcase community impact projects-Cash Prizes! |
Roadrunners Engaged: is a photo contest that closes on March 31st, we are encouraging all UTSA students/ student organizations/ faculty/ staff to
upload a photo that reflects community impact to social media and tag us by using #UTSAengaged or @UTSAengaged. There will be five cash prizes, and awards are up to $100, for more information visit bit.ly/UTSAengaged
Engaged Scholarship Poster Contest: All undergraduate students are invited to submit a poster that reflects service-learning or community-based research projects by April 1st. Cash prizes will be awarded, including
a $150 cash award for best individual project and a $300 award for best group project. To enter this contest, go to bit.ly/posterUTSA |
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External News
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FRANKLIN
ES TEACHER NAMED AMONG THE BEST IN STATE |
by NORTHSIDE
ISD - Northside ISD | Pub: 03/09
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Georgette Carrasco, a fifth grade Special Education Collaborative teacher at Franklin ES, is a finalist for the prestigious H-E-B Excellence
in Education Awards, recognizing her as one of the best educators in Texas.
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Senate
Does Away With Obama Teacher-Prep Regulations |
by ALEX
ARRIAGA - The Chronicle of Higher Education | Pub: 03/09
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Congress, in an effort to limit federal involvement in higher education, has voted to eliminate Obama-era regulations on teacher-preparation
programs.
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Schools
Are Falling Short for Many English-Learners |
by COREY
MITCHELL - Education Week | Pub: 03/08
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Schools often provide substandard instruction and social-emotional support to the nation's English-learners—and fail to properly train
the educators who teach them. Those blunt findings—from the prestigious National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—are in a new study that explores why limited English skills remain a substantial barrier to academic success for roughly 5 million
children. "These children are here. If we don't educate them and prepare them for being future citizens and part of our communities, we're doing a disservice to our country," said Harriet Romo, the director of the Child and Adolescent Policy Research Institute
at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a member of the Committee on Fostering School Success for English Learners, the group that produced the report.
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City
begins improvements to stretch of Frio Street near UTSA downtown campus |
by CHRIS
SHADROCK - KSAT | Pub: 03/08
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Several blocks of Frio Street will be a little hard to navigate over the coming months as the city makes improvements they say will increase
safety. The improvements will run along Frio Street from Cesar Chavez to Houston streets near the University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus. The $5 million project will add bike lanes, wider sidewalks, a safer crosswalk for students and other traffic
signal improvements. Because the area is designated a cultural zone, there will also be additional streetscaping to promote foot traffic.
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Community
garden brings new growth to UTSA |
by COURTNEY
CLEVENGER - UTSA Today | Pub: 03/07
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The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is extending its sustainability focus with the new UTSA community garden. Student groups,
faculty, staff and alumni can now grow their own fruits and vegetables to eat, share and reproduce.
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Oregon
Educator Chosen as 2017 Superintendent of the Year |
by DENISA
R. SUPERVILLE - Education Week | Pub: 03/06
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Matthew Utterback, a superintendent in Oregon, was named on Thursday as the 2017 National Superintendent of the Year at the annual gathering
of school superintendents and district leaders in New Orleans.
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Rainy
day doesn’t stop Woman’s Day March downtown |
by JENNIFER
HILLER - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 03/06
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At the end of the route, as people gathered to hear speakers, archivists from the University of Texas at San Antonio held their own signs:
“Donate Signs Here UTSA Archives.” “Even if they’re wet, we’ll take them,” project archivist Leah Rios told people as they traded their posters for small fliers about how UTSA wants to document social and political events and actions in San Antonio. UTSA started
gathering protest signs from recent marches and other materials such as buttons, signs, fliers and stickers in January. “Every single march, we hit,” Rios said. “We think it’s going to be a busy year.”
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Central
Library’s Latino Collection is finally getting its due |
by ELAINE
AYALA - San Antonio Express-News | Pub: 03/06
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Established in 1995, the Latino Collection was sequestered on the sixth floor of the downtown library in what can only be described generously
as an afterthought. “It was just to appease us,” said Ellen Riojas Clark, a UTSA professor emerita, recalling a library board that “was not supportive at all.” It even attempted to evade Latino activists by switching the site of public meetings. She recalled
a remarkable meeting when a teen Marisa Bono, now Southwest regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, spoke before the board and advocated for the creation of a Latino Collection. Its volumes were placed in a 2,000-square-foot
area in a seldom-trafficked spot on the sixth floor.
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Dr.
Pedro Reyes named interim president of UTSA |
by UNIVERSITY
COMMUNICATIONS - UTSA Today | Pub: 03/06
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Acting UTSA president Dr. Pedro Reyes has been named Interim President following today's announcement by Dr. Ricardo Romo that he is retiring,
effective immediately. Reyes will hold the position until a new permanent president is named for UTSA, prior to the start of the fall 2017 semester.
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Publications
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Working
with English Language Learners in the Mainstream English Language Arts Classroom… |
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DR.
MARGO DELLICARPINI - Bicultural-Bilingual Studies | Teaching English Language Arts to English Language Learners: Preparing Pre-service and In-service Teachers: 01/20 |
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DelliCarpini, M. & Gulla A.N. (2016). Working with English Language Learners in the Mainstream English Language Arts Classroom Through Collaboration and Two-Way Content-Based Instruction. In L.C. de Oliveira & M. Shoffner (Eds.), Teaching
English Language Arts to English Language Learners: Preparing Pre-service and In-service Teachers (pp. 79-105). London, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
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ATE’s
Lideres Avanzando |
National Council of La Raza
Submitted:
$17,000 Other Academics
PI: Lorena Claeys Other Academics
CI: Margarita Machado-Casas Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
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Externships
for Teachers 17-18 |
Alamo Workforce Development
Submitted:
$8,000 Other Academics
PI: Lorena Claeys Other Academics
CI: Effie Mata Other Academics
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