Department of Education Monday Minutes

Here are your Monday Minutes for January 19-22, 2021. 

From the Department Head

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, 

I’ve been thinking about my why lately. I’d encourage you to think about this as well. If we know our why, this helps us to lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilled lives. For more information see Simon Sinek’s TED Talk.

Diagram. Golden Circle. Center. Why? Why do you do what you do? What's the purpose? Middle ring. How? How do you do what you do? Outer ring. What? What the hell do you do? Idea: Simon Sinek.

Take good care,

 Ann Dutton Ewbank's signature 

Dr. Ann Ewbank

News and Announcements

  • Faculty Annual Review should be completed in Activity Insight. Tenurable/tenured faculty please submit to workflow and complete the attached workload template reflective of AY 20-21. NTT faculty 0.5 FTE complete in Activity Insight but do not submit to workflow. Please have your materials completed or submitted by 1/22/2021. 
  • If you have students who are under-performing in your courses, not meeting academic requirements, or have disappeared, please refer the student to early alert. Our department’s Student Success Team is also able to provide support for instructors of graduate and undergraduate students. 
  • Bi-weekly payroll is coming in March! Please familiarize yourself with the new process. 
  • EHHD is hiring a licensure/permit technician in the Office of Field Placement and Licensure. Please encourage interested candidates to apply.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

  • Congratulations to Ann Ewbank for the publication of her article Place Consciousness: A Narrative Inquiry of the Advocacy Practices of Five Rural/Frontier School Librarians in Library Quarterly! 
  • Our department’s success is determined by our collective accomplishments. Share your own accomplishments with pride! Or if you hear of a colleague or student’s accomplishment, please share. Please send accomplishments and kudos to ann.ewbank@montana.edu. 

Professional Development & Engagement Opportunities 

  • Please join us February 2nd at 6pm MST for the next Library Media Certificate Webinar. This month Laura Trapp, LMC mentor and elementary school librarian, will present “Collaborate with your Specialist Colleagues.” Consider collaborating with your music and physical education colleagues for a fun school-wide week of activities!  Laura will share details from her elementary school experiences.Click here to register for the webinar. Feel free to forward this announcement to your friends and colleagues. Thanks, and hope to see you there! This would be a really great opportunity for our pre-service teacher and school leader candidates. 
  • Please see the attached flyer for information about CBME’s Spring 2021 virtual Tuesday Programming.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Opportunities

  • Teach for America offers a workshop Decolonizing Towards Indigenizing Education on Tuesday, January 26th, from 5:30-7pm MST. representation in education and dismantle systemic inequities to expand opportunities for children. Participants will receive a $10 Grubhub gift card.
  • Please join the Center for Bilingual and Multicultural Education for the Indigenous Language Preservation/ Revitalization/ Maintenance webinar series.  Biskane Mishtadim Ikwe, Jill Falcon Mackin, Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe, will virtually present Wearing our Ancestral Heritage January 27th from 2:00-3:30.
    • Description: So much was lost so fast through the process of colonization--people, language, and knowledge--leaving us without connection to the very essence of what is to be who we are. Re-indigenization, living our ancestral heritage, is a messy and sometimes conflicted process. Cultural knowledge and identity has often skipped generations in our families. We can heal, identify, pick up the teachings, bundles, songs, ceremonies, and language that is our ancestral heritage. The time is now. Please join this conversation about cultural knowledge recovery and identity

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