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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

spalding@ucf.edu or Taylar.wenzel@ucf.edu

(STE is Well Represented at the Teaching Tolerance Work-

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:spalding@ucf.edumailto:Taylar.wenzel@ucf.eduhttps://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