Friday Memo: February 9, 2018
CAEP Update
Hallelujah! We submitted our Formative Feedback Report Addendum and 78 additional evidence pieces to CAEP on Tuesday evening. The team now has our materials and will review them for the next few weeks. The team will be here on Saturday, February 24th and will be on campus Sunday, February 25th and Monday, February 26th. Thanks in advance to those of you who have played or will soon play a role in this site visit. I would like to give a special shout out to Alicia Noddings, David Collum, Nancy Sickler, and Genise Collum who have been working overtime to get the addendum submitted and now with the planning of the visit. The logistics of organizing a site visit for 8 people, 5 from out-of-state and 3 from Missouri, are extensive. Pray for a smooth visit, but more importantly pray that these 8 guests would see the light of Christ shining from the moment they encounter MBU.
I encourage you to take a look at the addendum I attached to the email today. This will give you an indication what the team will be looking for when they arrive. If you are scheduled to be interviewed by the team, you might want to review the addendum. However, please do not feel that you need to prepare or rehearse anything in particular for your interview. You will simply answer their questions and tell of your experiences working in the Education division at MBU. They are not trying to catch us doing anything wrong. The team is simply listening to make sure that what we have claimed is really what is happening here at MBU.
Fundraiser for Student Organizations
Ricki Roth would like to share the information about the Student Organization fundraiser. She is hoping you can take a moment to help raise funds for a great cause. It's a win-win; you order beautiful products & Missouri Baptist University Education Division Student Organizations meets their fundraising goal. Every order counts, and supporting them is easy. Click here to shop online
and place your order by March 2. Please share this information with your students, family, friends, and coworkers.
There is a paper catalog in Nancy Sickler's office if you would like to look at it.
Happy Shopping!
Speaking of Student Organizations, the group met January 29, 2018 to talk about planning for the ASCD conference in Boston, March 23–26, 2018. This meeting is for education students who are part of one or more of the following professional organizations: SASCD is the student chapter of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; SMSTA is the pre-professional organization for Missouri State Teachers Association; and KDP is Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education.
Upcoming Meetings
February 13: Education Division Faculty Meeting at 10:15 a.m. in FLD 115
February 13: Education Job Fair
February 24-27: CAEP Visit
Closing Thoughts
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. I Thessalonians 4:11-12
We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. I Corinthians 5:20a
Seeking accreditation resembles the words of this first passage. As we strive to win the respect of outsiders, we will demonstrate to the CAEP team the good work we do here at MBU as we prepare the next generation of educators. But we must remember that at the end of the experience our ultimate responsibility is to be Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. My sincere hope and prayer is that the team members will sense the Holy Spirit often while they are here. They may not be able to articulate what makes MBU shine, but they should notice that there is something uniquely different and better.
Hallelujah! We submitted our Formative Feedback Report Addendum and 78 additional evidence pieces to CAEP on Tuesday evening. The team now has our materials and will review them for the next few weeks. The team will be here on Saturday, February 24th and will be on campus Sunday, February 25th and Monday, February 26th. Thanks in advance to those of you who have played or will soon play a role in this site visit. I would like to give a special shout out to Alicia Noddings, David Collum, Nancy Sickler, and Genise Collum who have been working overtime to get the addendum submitted and now with the planning of the visit. The logistics of organizing a site visit for 8 people, 5 from out-of-state and 3 from Missouri, are extensive. Pray for a smooth visit, but more importantly pray that these 8 guests would see the light of Christ shining from the moment they encounter MBU.
I encourage you to take a look at the addendum I attached to the email today. This will give you an indication what the team will be looking for when they arrive. If you are scheduled to be interviewed by the team, you might want to review the addendum. However, please do not feel that you need to prepare or rehearse anything in particular for your interview. You will simply answer their questions and tell of your experiences working in the Education division at MBU. They are not trying to catch us doing anything wrong. The team is simply listening to make sure that what we have claimed is really what is happening here at MBU.
Fundraiser for Student Organizations
Ricki Roth would like to share the information about the Student Organization fundraiser. She is hoping you can take a moment to help raise funds for a great cause. It's a win-win; you order beautiful products & Missouri Baptist University Education Division Student Organizations meets their fundraising goal. Every order counts, and supporting them is easy. Click here to shop online
and place your order by March 2. Please share this information with your students, family, friends, and coworkers.
There is a paper catalog in Nancy Sickler's office if you would like to look at it.
Happy Shopping!
Speaking of Student Organizations, the group met January 29, 2018 to talk about planning for the ASCD conference in Boston, March 23–26, 2018. This meeting is for education students who are part of one or more of the following professional organizations: SASCD is the student chapter of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development; SMSTA is the pre-professional organization for Missouri State Teachers Association; and KDP is Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education.
Upcoming Meetings
February 13: Education Division Faculty Meeting at 10:15 a.m. in FLD 115
February 13: Education Job Fair
February 24-27: CAEP Visit
Closing Thoughts
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. I Thessalonians 4:11-12
We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. I Corinthians 5:20a
Seeking accreditation resembles the words of this first passage. As we strive to win the respect of outsiders, we will demonstrate to the CAEP team the good work we do here at MBU as we prepare the next generation of educators. But we must remember that at the end of the experience our ultimate responsibility is to be Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. My sincere hope and prayer is that the team members will sense the Holy Spirit often while they are here. They may not be able to articulate what makes MBU shine, but they should notice that there is something uniquely different and better.
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