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Volume 11 Edition 27
February 15, 2019
Two STE On-Line Courses Award-ed High Quality Badges
Article by Roberts, Kaczmarczyk and Allee-Herndon in “Marshall Memo”
Nuance in the Noise: The Complex Reality of Teacher Shortages
TAG Townhall II Well Attended at Orlando’s Hope Church
LMA Grad Builds Minority Interest in STEM Jobs
STE is Well Represented at the Teaching Tolerance Workshops
KnightEd Talks Announcement Registration is Now Open!
Calendar of Events
Two STE On-Line Courses Award-ed High Quality Badges
Two STE courses,
EDF4467 and EDG6415,
were evaluated and re-
ceived the HQ designa-
tion. The HQ Badge is
displayed in online
course sections that
have met the standards
of High Quality based on
a High Quality Online
Course Review process
at UCF. The aforementioned courses are shepherded by Rob-
erta Ergle, and the courses awarded the HQ Badge. For more
information about high quality courses go to: https://
cdl.ucf.edu/services/instructional/ucf-quality-initiative/.
https://cdl.ucf.edu/services/instructional/ucf-quality-initiative/https://cdl.ucf.edu/services/instructional/ucf-quality-initiative/
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Nuance in the Noise: The Complex Reality of Teach-er Shortages
National dialogue
about teacher
shortages is
skewed by a
flawed view that
the issue is one
generic problem.
Reports in the
1980s and ’90s
predicted a na-
tional teacher
shortage crisis,
but since then, teacher supply has actually kept up
with student enrollment, creating a much less dire
situation across subject areas. Today, shortages
are a more localized issue.
In “Nuance in the Noise: The Complex Reality of
Teacher Shortages,” Kaitlin Pennington McVey
Kaczmarczyk, A., Allee-Herndon, K., & Roberts,
S. K. (2019). Using Literacy Approaches to
Begin the Conversation on Racial Illiteracy, The
Reading Teacher, January/February, (Vol. 72,
#4, p. 523-528), https://bit.ly/2FOXgSA.
(Continued on page 3
Article by Roberts, Kacz-marczyk and Allee-Herndon in “Marshall Memo” Kim Marshall lauded the article of Annemarie Kacz-
marczyk, Karyn Allee-Herndon, and Sherron Kill-
ingsworth Roberts published in The Reading
Teacher and she summarized it in Marshall Memo,
a newsletter she sends to subscribers in the U.S.
and around the world.
In the article Addressing “Racial Illiteracy” in Ele-
mentary Classrooms in The Reading Teacher, An-
nemarie Kaczmarczyk, Karyn Allee-Herndon, and
Sherron Killingsworth Roberts (University of Cen-
tral Florida) suggest ways that elementary educa-
tors can use literacy strategies to address “racial
illiteracy” (which they define as avoiding authentic
dialogue across racial lines and not acknowledging
implicit bias). The authors believe it’s important for
educators to be “willing to be uncomfortable, to
listen, to check our assumptions, to take risks, to
speak up, and to teach all students about racism.”
Teachers can make significant contributions by
sharing appropriate picture books, facilitating liter-
ature circles, and using dialogue journals (informal
written conversations between students or be-
tween student and teacher) and other student
writing.
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and Justin Trinidad analyze the U.S. Department
of Education’s national data on teacher shortage
areas reported by individual states and territories
between the 1998-99 and 2017-18 school years.
While their analysis confirms the existence of cer-
tain national trends, the data also show that there
are significant differences in teacher shortages by
subject area and across states due to a mismatch
between teacher supply and demand.
(Nuance in the Noise: The Complex Reality of Teacher
Shortages continued from Page 2)
TAG Townhall II Well At-tended at Orlando’s Hope Church On January 30, 2019, the UCF/Florida TAG team
hosted the second in a series of Town Hall meet-
ings and open forums near downtown Orlando, at
the Hope Church. Advocating for Educational Eq-
uity in Central Florida, the TAG team under the
leadership of Martha Lue Stewart held this event
focused on “Ensuring Every Student has an Op-
portunity to Succeed.” Bishop Wiggins (Pastor)
and Mr. Glenton Gilzean (President of the Central
Florida Urban League) co-convened the event.
Townhall II began with a special presentation
from students at the Hope Charter School. Dean
Sissi Carroll brought greetings from the University
of Central Florida (UCF), College of Community
Innovation and Education. An esteemed panel of
professionals enlightened nearly 100 participants
on ESSA and the impact of parental involvement
and community engagement on student achieve-
ment. The panel was facilitated by Mr. Gilzean and
included Ms. Sonya Hill (Director, of Head Start,
Orange County), Dr. Judy Levin (UCF faculty in ear-
ly childhood education and development); and Dr.
Phil Hissom (Founder/Director, POLIS Institute).
The event culminated with an interactive table
topic conversation for attendees to demonstrate a
greater awareness of ESSA and their potential
roles as advocates.
The Town Hall and open forum series are funded
by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and di-
rected by Dr. Johni Cruise Craig, Director of the
Delta Research Educational Foundation (DREF),
Washington, DC. The first townhall meeting was
held on Wednesday, August 29, 2018, at the
Morgridge International Reading Center (MIRC).
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STE is Well Represented at the Teaching Tolerance Workshops
Doctoral Candidate Karyn Allee-Herndon, Dr. An-
nemarie Kaczmarczyk, Dr. Nicole Damico, and Dr.
Martha Lue Stewart represented UCF at the
Teaching Tolerance workshops held in Orlando, FL
this past weekend. The workshops, Social Justice
Teaching 101 and Facilitating Critical Conversa-
tions, provided strategies and tools for bringing a
social justice lens to our classroom instruction. In
the first workshop Dr. Kaczmarczyk, Ms. Allee-
Herndon, and Dr. Damico learned ways to incorpo-
rate the four domains of social justice (Identity,
Diversity, Justice, and Action) into their own class-
LMA Grad Builds Minority Interest in STEM Jobs
Minority
males
make up
3 percent
of jobs in
the engi-
neering
industry. Gary Poole, a graduate of the Lockheed
Martin/UCF Academy for Mathematics and Sci-
ence and a Jones HS teacher, is working to build
interest in the field and recruit students into the
National Society of Black Engineers. Gary formed
a junior chapter of the national Society of Black
Engineers at Jones High School so that students
interested in building things and solving prob-
lems have a student organization the begins
them on the pathway to becoming an engineer.
For his good work, Vanessa Nichols and Martie
Salt, news anchors on WFTV, highlighted the en-
gineering program at Jones in an effort to sup-
port his good work. Juli Dixon provided this
memory of Gary, “Gary is enthusiastic and is on
an important mission to bring opportunities to
young African American men. More importantly,
he is taking bold steps to do so.”
(Continued on page 5)
Nicole Damico, Karyn Allee-Herndon, and Annamarie Kaczmarczyk
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KnightEd Talks Announce-ment Registration is Now Open!
The KnightEd Talks Stu-
dent Showcase 2019
registration is OPEN and
the deadline to submit
proposals is FAST AP-
PROACHING! This is a
fabulous opportunity for our students to build
their confidence presenting to their peers. Past
SCPS TOYs Samantha Neff and Chris Pombonyo
will be on hand to INSPIRE our teacher candidates.
Please encourage your students to submit a pro-
posal and/or attend the showcase taking place on
Friday, April 5, 2019. Visit: https://ccie.ucf.edu/
knighted-talks/#showcase for details.
Questions? Contact Drs. Spalding or Wenzel at
[email protected] or [email protected]
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shops continued from Page 4)
room instruction. They also discussed ways to aid
preservice teachers in including these in their own
lesson plans for their future classrooms. During
the second workshop Dr. Kaczmarczyk, Ms. Allee-
Herndon, and Dr. Stewart reflected on implicit bi-
as and practices for anti-bias education. Strategies
for engaging in conversations around race and
other difficult topics were shared. They all came
away with a greater understanding of incorporat-
ing social justice into instruction and many won-
derful, accessible resources. If you would like
more information on what they learned, feel free
to reach out and ask. They would love to share
what was learned and can help you access Teach-
ing Tolerance’s amazing resources.
https://ccie.ucf.edu/knighted-talks/#showcasehttps://ccie.ucf.edu/knighted-talks/#showcasemailto:[email protected]:[email protected]://ccie.ucf.edu/knighted-talks/#showcase
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FEBRUARY
February 15 Association of Teacher Educators and National Association for Professional Development
Schools Conference in Atlanta
February 18 SNEA Meeting: Professional Development- Resume’s with Dr. Kelley ; TA 130; 6:00-7:00pm
February 19 FTCE Mathematics Workshops TA 201, 4:00-5:30 pm
February 21 -22 ISSS Conference
February 25 Kappa Delta Pi Recruitment Social
February 26 FTCE Mathematics Workshops TA 201, 4:00-5:30 pm
February 27 CCIE Graduate School Open House; MIRC; 3:00-6:00pm
MARCH
March 1 13th annual Public Administration Research Conference (PARC); Fairwinds Alumni Center
March 4 SNEA Meeting; Professional Development- Teacher/Principal panel with Dr. Spalding; TA 130;
6:00-7:00pm
March 5 FTCE Mathematics Workshops TA 201, 4:00-5:30 pm
March 6 Pasco County River Ridge High School is scheduled to bring 52 Teaching Academy students to UCF
March 11-16 Spring Break
March 18 SNEA Meeting; Professional Development- Teacher/Principal panel with Dr. Spalding; TA 130; 6:00-
7:00pm
March 18 Kappa Delta Pi Member Meeting
March 19 FTCE Mathematics Workshops TA 201, 4:00-5:30 pm
March 26 FTCE Mathematics Workshops TA 201, 4:00-5:30 pm
APRIL
April 1 SNEA Meeting; General Meeting with Dr. Kelley; TA 130; 6-7pm
April 5 KnightEd Talks Student Showcase; MIRC; 9:00am– 3:00pm
April 8 Kappa Delta Pi Member Meeting or Social
April 10 Supporting High Needs Populations/Urban Education SIG Meeting; ED 306
April 15 Kappa Delta Pi Member Meeting or Social
April 15 SNEA Meeting; Last meeting/Pot luck/Elections with Dr. Kelley & Dr. Spalding ; TA 130; 6-7pm
April 20 Kappa Delta Pi Initiation/Cording Ceremony