Read for the Record is Back to UCF for the

8th Year

RTP3 Grad is Teacher of the Year at FLVS

Teacher Ed Students Wanted for Pilot Test

of Reading Exam

KnightEd Offers Another Informative Slate

of Workshops

Florida Association of Professors of

Educational Leadership (FAPEL)

Program Quality Is Enhanced by Library

Collections

Calendar of Events

Read for the Record is Back to UCF for the 8th Year

Dr. Lee-Anne Spalding

will once again be

hosting 150 primary

aged children in the

Education Building,

Torchy Clark Gymnasium for Read for the Record.

Jumpstart’s Read for the Record® is a national campaign

that was launched over a decade ago to address the

educational inequities that leave too many children

unprepared for kindergarten. On Thursday, October 27,

2016 at 10:30 AM, children and adults will gather to

learn, laugh, and read this year's campaign book, The

Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach.

Teacher Ed Students Wanted for Pilot Test of Reading Exam

The Florida Department of Education and

Evaluation Systems group of Pearson are offering

an important pilot test opportunity. Pilot testing is

designed to collect information about the

performance of new test items to ensure that they

are appropriate for use.

This pilot testing for the General Knowledge Test

(GK): Reading Subtest will provide your

students with an opportunity to view and respond

to test items that may appear on future versions of

the test.

Registration is at: http://www.pearsonvue.com/

espilot/ftce_reading.asp

Computer-based pilot tests will be offered at

Pearson Professional Centers throughout Florida

from October 21, 2016 – November 10, 2016

(registration open NOW).

Advantages of Pilot Test Participation:

(There is no cost to participate in the pilot test.)

For each test form completed, participants will receive $50 cash in the form of a check (mailed to the address provided).

Participants will respond to items that may appear on future versions of the General Knowledge Test (GK): Reading Subtest examination.

Participants will gain practical testing experience.

RTP3 Grad is Teacher of the Year at FLVS Andrew Shepherd (’12, ’13), Lead Teacher in Earth

Space Science at FLVS, is the Teacher of the Year

in his school at the Florida Virtual School (FLVS).

FLVS is not just a school, it is a Florida school

district organized into 14 schools.

Andrew received his bachelor’s degree from UCF

in microbiology/chemistry and received the MAT

in Science Education through the recently

concluded RTP3 funded by a grant from the Race

to the Top program. Throughout the program, he

prepared himself to become a teacher at

FLVS. Currently, Andrew is conducting research

on the implementation of the digital high schools

and sponsored by OCPS administrators Harold

Border and Rob Bixler. He also in the Executive

Ed.D. in Educational Leadership program working

on his third UCF degree.

Florida Association of Professors of Educational Leadership (FAPEL)

Drs. Lee Baldwin, Walter Doherty, Jerry Johnson

(In-coming President) Barbara Murray, Kenneth

Murray, Valerie Storey (President), and

Rosemarye Taylor (a Past President) attended the

Fall meeting of the Florida Association of

Professors of Educational Leadership held at the

Morgridge International Reading Center. The

meeting was well attended with representation

from all higher education institutions in Florida

with a FLDOE accredited, master’s program in

educational leadership.

The theme of the meeting was “Innovative

Educational Leadership Program Design.”

Nicholas Pelzer outlined the current educational

leadership goals of the Wallace Foundation to

transform the way principals are recruited, trained

and professionally developed. School District

representatives from Hillsborough and Broward

described how grant support from the Wallace

Foundation has enabled them to further develop

university and district partnerships focused on

preparing school leaders for success.

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KnightEd Offers Another Informative Slate of Workshops

"Paper to Digital: LiveText & TESOL Notebook" will

be held from 4:30-5:30pm on Tuesday, October 25,

2016 in TA 130 on the Orlando Campus. Presenter:

Huiyuan Luo, UCF College of Education and

Human Performance. This workshop is geared

toward all students.

"Literary Devices, Poetry, and Pop Culture:

Engaging Students in Language Arts" will be held

from 4:30-5:30pm on Wednesday, October 26,

2016 in TA 130 on the Orlando Campus. Presenter:

Dr. Norine Blanch, UCF College of Education and

Human Performance. This workshop is geared

toward all students.

"Decoding the Facts: FTCE SAE (K-6) Social Science

Review" will be held from 4:30-5:30pm on

Thursday, October 27, 2016 in TA 117 on the

Orlando Campus. Presenter: Kelsey Evans, UCF

College of Education and Human Performance.

This workshop is geared toward the K-6 education

level.

Program Quality Is Enhanced by Library Collections

Every STLL program is enhanced by the quality of

the collections in the John C. Hitt Library. Terrie

Sypolt, the CEDHP Librarian, works miracles with

a limited budget to keep our collections current.

One standout is the the Mathematics Education

library collection which is second only to MIT. This

and many of the other STLL program collections

are well respected by other institutions. We can

thank the long term efforts of Dr. Rita Buchoff and

Dr. Will Russell for their faculty roles as library

representatives.

Dr. Nicole Olcese was recently appointed as

Faculty Library Representative for the School of

Teaching, Learning & Leadership. Her

responsibilities include working with Terrie Sypolt

and colleagues to evaluate current library holdings

and soliciting and collecting purchase

recommendations for the faculty. Faculty are

invited to send any titles that they’d like to be

considered for acquisition to her at

nicole.olcese@ucf.edu.

(Florida Association of Professors of Educational

Leadership Continued From Page 3)

FLDOE first made a presentation on current FELE

data and second, led an interactive session on Rule

Development 6A-5.081, Approval and Continual

Approval of School Leadership programs. These

two themes were continued into the afternoon to

ensure that FAPEL (on behalf of members) is able

to contribute to the public request for feedback to

the proposed rule changes.

“Education is the

most powerful

weapon we can

use to change the

world” -Nelson Mandela

OCTOBER

October 20-22 Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA) Annual Conference, Embassy Suites—Buena Vista South, Kissimmee, FL

October 20-22 Florida Association of Science Teachers; Doubletree Hilton Orlando

October 20-22 64th Annual Conference for the Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics, “Imagine the Possibilities…Mathematics…to Infinity and Beyond,” at Doubletree by Hilton at SeaWorld

October 20 Women in STEM, “AIM HIGHER”, Pegasus Ballroom, Student Union, 5:00-9:00pm

October 21 Elementary Education Program Meeting, TA 130, 10:00am-12:00pm

October 27 Read for the Record 2016; Torchy Clark Gym; 10:30am

NOVEMBER

November 4-6 The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Conference, Disney World

November 10 Integrating Computer Science in the Classroom Workshop: Teaching Mathematics Through Robotics; MIRC, 8:00am-5:00pm

November 12 UCF Football vs. Cincinnati, TBA

November 13 2016 NYCC Composium, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Walt Disney Theater

November 18 Elementary Education Program Meeting; TA 130; 1-3:00 pm

November 19 UCF Football vs. Tulsa, TBA

November 20 Kappa Delta Pi Induction Ceremony, 4:30-7:30pm, MIRC Global Communications Room

November 29 Integrating Computer Science in the Classroom Workshop: Teaching Science Through Robotics; MIRC, 8:00am-5:00pm

DECEMBER

December 2 Proposal Deadline: International Conference on Doctoral Education Organizational Leadership and Impact

December 12 Integrating Computer Science in the Classroom Workshop: Robotics Interventions for Special Populations; MIRC, 8:00am-5:00pm

December 16 CEDHP Fall Commencement, 9:00am in CFE Arena

JANUARY

January 12-14 Annual International Conference of the Association for Science Teacher Education, Des Moines, IA

January 24-25 FLDOE Continued Program Approval Site Visit

January 28 KnightEd Talks Student Showcase

FEBRUARY

February 1 CEDHP Faculty Meeting , 1:30—3:00pm, Student Union, Key West Room 218AB

February 9-11 Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators 21st Annual Conference

February 10-14 Association of Teacher Educators, Orlando Caribe Royal

February 23-24 International Society for the Social Studies Conference, Orlando, FL

MARCH

March 2-4 AACTE Annual Meeting: Acting As One, Tampa, FL

March 16-18 Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Orlando Airport Marriott Lakeside, Orlando, FL

March 21-23 International Conference on Doctoral Education Organizational Leadership and Impact, UCF Main Campus

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