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MSU Students, graduates and beginning teachers in elementary education are invited to participate in a tryout of an innovative new assessment involving Modeling and Explaining Content, Leading a Classroom Discussion and Eliciting Student Thinking tasks designed for the new ETS® National Observational Teaching Exam (NOTE). This tryout offers an opportunity for participants to join with ETS and be at the forefront of developing a new, innovative teacher licensure assessment. Participants will be compensated $100 for completing a 2.5-hour session.

Those who want to participate in the tryout should:

• email collaborate@ets.org indicating their interest in participating; and
  

• report to an on-campus tryout location.

Participants will receive task-specific directions on-site as they complete the tryout. Scores will not be provided. Send an email to collaborate@ets.org with “NOTE Tryout” in the subject line to partner with ETS for this important assessment. Participation in this research is voluntary, and there is no penalty for choosing not to participate.

More information is provided in the attached flyer. NOTE is being designed to evaluate prospective teachers’ ability to elicit student thinking and assess teachers’
ability to facilitate a class discussion.

The College of Education and Human Services is hosting a panel discussion on April 13, entitled

Public Education in the Trump Era: A Panel Discussion.
Please save the date!
Date: Thursday, April 13
Time: 5:30 - 8:00
Place: 7th Floor Conference Center, University Hall

The election of Donald Trump has led to a dramatic shift not only in this country's leadership, but also in perceptions of some of our key democratic institutions.  Among those institutions are the media, the courts, and public education. 

Given our unwavering belief in the critical role of public schools in sustaining our democracy, we are sponsoring a panel discussion to examine the implications of the Trump administration for public education in the U.S.  Speakers will discuss the role of education in a democracy and explore the particular roles of education at national, state, and local levels.  They will consider the current and anticipated impacts of policies and actions of the Trump administration for education in national, state, and local contexts and point to ways we can support public education as a pillar of democracy.

The panelists will be Zoe Burkholder, Educational Foundations Department; Stan Karp, Education Law Center; Monica Taylor, Secondary and Special Education Department; and Leslie Wilson, History Department.

We hope you can join us.  An RSVP request will follow soon.

Dear Network Member:
I would like to request your participation in a research project. Drs. Helenrose Fives and Nicole Barnes from Montclair State University are interested in understanding teachers’ beliefs about motivation and the purposes of assessment. They are attempting to gather responses from practicing teachers to better understand these beliefs.
Please follow the link below and respond to the questionnaire about your beliefs about motivation and assessment. The questionnaire is 60 items long and should take you about 10-20 minutes to complete. The questionnaire is completely anonymous and all findings will be reported in summarized form.

Link to questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TeachersBeliefsAboutAssessment

Please take the time to support this work. Thank you!
Sincerely,
MSUNER

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MSU Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project | NJ Commission on Holocaust Education

2016 Annual Conference of the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER) 

Hosted By: University of Texas Arlington

October 27-29, 2016

Arlington Sheraton Hotel, Arlington, Texas

Keynote Speakers:

  Dr. George Wright, President of Prairie View A & M University and Noted Historian

Shanna Peeples, 2015 National Teacher of the Year

Now accepting conference proposals associated with one of the four conference strands:

1. Partnering through Collaboration 2. The Agenda for Education in a Democracy 3. Leadership and Policy

4. Instruction and Assessment 

The Call for Proposals deadline is June 30, 2016 

For more information, go to:

http://www.nnerannualconference.org

Please click on the link below to access the 2014 MSUNER Summer Conference Program

2014 Summer Conference Program.pdf

UPDATED: Rick Wormeli 2017 MSUNER Summer Conference Keynote 6/26/17

RELG 273                         

HOLOCAUST:  RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES                    

Wednesdays  5:30-8:00pm - January 18 - May 10, 2017

Dr. Kate Temoney, specialist in genocide studies, Department of Religion at Montclair State

This course examines the preconditions, perpetration, and prosecutions of the systematic extermination of Jews by the Nazi regime in Germany, 1933-1945.   The class will explore intimate portraits of both Holocaust survivors and the perpetrators of violence during this unprecedented period of human destruction.  Students will examine historical scholarship on the religious, psychological, and legal aspects of these mass killings. 

There are still available seats in the course and the Department would be happy to provide permits for visiting students to take it. See flyer below for further information. 

For pre-req or permit info, email religiondept@mail.montclair.edu

INFORMATION SESSION ON edTPA

FOR COOPERATING TEACHERS

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

3:45 - 5:00 PM

University Hall, Lecture Hall Room 1050

This session is an opportunity for you to learn about this new NJDOE assessment requirement for certification for all student teachers in New Jersey.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Introduction to the edTPA
• NJDOE Timeline for Implementation
• Acceptable forms of support from Cooperating Teachers
• Video Recording Safety and Security
• Your questions and concerns

 Dr. Connie Donvito, Director of the MSUNER and Samantha Romano, edTPA Teacher Assessment Coordinator, will be facilitating the session.

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Rooted in the initial struggle of community members who staged a successful hunger strike to secure a high school in their Chicago neighborhood, David Omotoso Stovall’s Born Out of Struggle focuses on his first-hand participation in the process to help design the school. Offering important lessons about how to remain accountable to communities while designing a curriculum with a social justice agenda, Stovall explores the use of critical race theory to encourage its practitioners to spend less time with abstract theories and engage more with communities that make a concerted effort to change their conditions. Stovall provides concrete examples of how to navigate the constraints of working with centralized bureaucracies in education and apply them to real-world situations.

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BORN OUT OF STRUGGLE: An Evening with David Stovall, Ph.D.
MARCH 23, 2017
6:00-8:00 PM
The Center for Environmental and Life Sciences, Room 120

Co-sponsored by: African American Studies, Center of Pedagogy, Early Childhood, Elementary and Literacy Education, Montclair State University Network Educational Renewal, Newark Montclair Urban Teacher Residency, Woodrow Wilson Fellows Program