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Education Division Faculty Meeting On Tuesday, September 26 our faculty meeting was dedicated to professional development. Dr. Susan Hladky presented some procedures that should be followed when using the Chromebooks and cart and shared how she has used them in her classroom. Dr. Diana Dell, Director of the MET Program, taught us about Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Forms and engaged all of us to experiment with each of these formats. We will be utilizing Google in upcoming faculty meetings and our goal is to become totally paperless. Thank you to these two ladies that graciously shared their knowledge and love for learning with us. Music Education Jordan Cox submitted the following: On Wednesday, September 20, Dr. Carol McDowell presented a workshop to our music students. She took volunteers to demonstrate a mock lesson for an elementary music classroom highlighting great instructional strategies, tools for assessment, and transition activities. She also...

The Greatest Team on Earth! These people are the most amazing, hard-working, student-centered people I know! If you look closely you will notice Flat Christine and Flat Melanie. Thanks, Nancy, for making sure we made it in the picture. Women in Leadership Networking & Breakfast Students Ashley Bachman and Madeline Smith, in addition to faculty members Tammy Cox and Mary Ann Bouas were in attendance. Tammy Cox was motivated by the following quote and was reminded that mentoring is important - "Never fail to Be mentored - Never fail TO mentor." Social Media Meeting Ricki Roth, Nancy Sickler, Coral Christopher and others from the Communications Department met this week to discuss increasing our presence on social media. Ricki Roth will be monitoring our new Education Instagram account. Be on the lookout for more information on how to follow our new presence on Instagram. We have adequate presence on Facebook, but this generation of students is using Instagram...

Special Recognition During our faculty meeting, Dr. Dkystra joined us and presented a 20-year service pin to Dr. Mary Ann Conaway. He asked Mary Ann to tell us about all of the different jobs she has had during her 20 year stint at MBU. She has been an important asset in every position and we wish her many blessings for the future. Education Division Faculty Meeting The faculty met on Tuesday, September 12 and discussed SWOTS. Alicia Noddings led the group and everyone worked on reviewing the 2016 SWOTS and offered any changes/suggestions that were needed. A group discussion was held after the individual work time. These discussions are always helpful. We are doing great as a division, but there are always ways to improve. President's Chapel President Lacey spoke on grace and humility at his final fall President's Chapel. We are such a blessed university community to be led so well by President Lacey. Thank you Dr. Lacey for your leadership! Imag...

Fox PD Offerings One of our excellent school district partners is the Fox C-6 School District. They have invited any MBU faculty in the Education division to attend any of their professional development opportunities for free! This is an incredible blessing to each of you not only because it is offered at no cost, but more importantly because the PD is being offered to ensure that teachers (and the future teachers we train) are learning best teaching practices and specific content. Fox's Beginning Teaching Assistance Program (BTAP) document above describes the workshops designed to be brief meetings to learn about best practice related to instruction to help support new teachers. Amy said, "We would love to see students leaving university with some background knowledge in any of these topics so we would love for your professors to attend." Alicia Noddings, Susan Hladky, Tammy Cox, and Teresa Tesreau-Boggs attended a Google PD opportunity at Fox this summer and will be...

Counselor Education Student Orientation The first student orientation for our new CACREP aligned program was held by the Counselor Education Division on Saturday, August 24, 2017. There was an awesome turnout and a Student Scavenger Hunt. Everyone had a great time and had the opportunity to meet others while learning about the program requirements. Directors' Meeting Our first Directors' Meeting of the year was held Tuesday, August 29. We invited the advisors to the meeting and they had a chance to talk to the Program Directors about issues and strategies to improve. I also shared the theme of the year with them: Review, Revise & Reflect. We reviewed and reflected on the CAEP MoCA data. MBU Alum is Candidate for Missouri Teacher of the Year Ed Kappeler earned his Master's degree at MBU and teaches high school English at Meramec Valley R-3 in Pacific. He was selected as one of two South Central Teachers of the Year, which makes him eligi...