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SOE Featured Faculty
Sept. 23, 2013 – Wow Hokies, from across the School of Education there is so much great work going
on with teaching and learning, leading and discovery. Here is a mere snapshot.
Dawn Knight Congrats to the team that was awarded the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship
grant, "Virginia Teach, Phase II: A Community-Based Approach to Serving Mathematics Students in
Need," in the amount of $800,000. Katy Ulrich is the PI. Other faculty from the Department of Teaching
and Learning, Professor Jay Wilkins and Associate Clinical Professor Betti Kreye are co-PIs, with
contributions from colleagues in the Department of Mathematics. This was one of about 20 Noyce Phase
II grants funded out of a total of 103 proposals!
Katy Ulrich Assistant
Professor
Jay Wilkins
Professor
Betti Kreye
Associate Clinical Professor
David Hicks, Associate Professor of History and Social Science Education, has exciting news. This is
part of the official press release for the ABMC Transatlantic Scholar Program.
ABMC Announces New Education Partnership with University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and
Virginia Tech
ARLINGTON, VA -The American Battle Monuments Commission announces a new partnership with the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) and Virginia Tech (VT) to create a World War I-focused,
education program developed by teachers that will help students better understand the service,
experience and sacrifice of Americans that served and died during the Great War.
With the approach of the World War I centennial in 2014, this partnership, a first-of-its-kind for ABMC,
creates a teacher-scholar program that helps teachers create and develop lesson plans for fellow
teachers. "The ABMC was created because of World War I, a war that changed not only the history of
our country, but the history of the world," said ABMC Secretary Max Cleland. "This is a great opportunity
to introduce American children to all those we honor at our World War I overseas cemeteries." The team
of education experts from three universities and colleges, and twelve middle and high schools will lead
the effort to create a hands-on curriculum using the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in Verdun,
France. "The Transatlantic Teacher Scholars Program: Change Over Time and Place in the MeuseArgonne American Cemetery and Memorial is a very exciting and innovative collaboration that will serve
as a powerful educational portal into America's forgotten war," said Carol Mullen, Director of the School
of Education and Associate Dean for Professional Education in the College of Liberal Arts and Human
Sciences at Virginia Tech. "The program reflects the School of Education's commitment to facilitating
inquiry-based digital history/humanities professional development initiatives that are designed to
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ultimately maximize students' opportunities for authentic learning. I am also thrilled to see two of our
School of Education alumni - Chris Bunin and Patrick Touart - involved in the leadership team and
transatlantic teacher-scholars program respectively."
This experiential professional development program, based on a contract award of $357,298.00, will
provide the resources, support and opportunities for teachers across the country to craft inquiry-based
units and lessons that are grounded in best practices as well as Common Core and state standards. This
curriculum will also be supported by emerging instructional technologies, including geospatial and
augmented reality tools. "This partnership between universities and K-12 educators demonstrates the
power of bringing together teacher-scholars, higher education faculty, and digital technologies to
produce opportunities for students to develop a deeper understanding of key historical events - in this
case, World War I," said Dr. Bill McDiarmid, Dean of the School of Education at UNC - Chapel Hill. "We
are grateful to the American Battle Monuments Commission for providing the resources to support
teachers in creating the kind of powerful learning experiences that we want for all our students."
By fall 2014, lessons plans and teaching materials created during this teacher-scholar program will be
publicly available online and free to download. The education experts and the teacher-scholars who
have been selected to develop these materials are:
University Education Team:
Nicole Bauer, Graduate Assistant, LEARN NC/Department of History, UNC
Chris Bunin, Assistant Professor of Geography, Piedmont Virginia Community College-Albemarle
High School, Albemarle County Public Schools
David Hicks, Associate Professor of History and Social Science Education, School of Education,
Virginia Tech
Joseph Hooper, Graduate Assistant, LEARN NC/School of Education
Andy Mink, Executive Director, LEARN NC - Principal Investigator
Todd Ogle, Senior Director, Networked Knowledge Environments Technology-Enhanced
Learning & Online Strategies, Virginia Tech
Danielle Parker, Graduate Assistant, LEARN NC/School of Education
Lisa Pennington, Graduate Assistant, School of Education - Virginia Tech
Lynn Rainville, Research Professor in the Humanities, Sweet Briar College
The participating Teacher Scholars are from different counties
ABOUT ABMC: Established in 1923, ABMC commemorates the service, achievements and sacrifice of
the U.S. Armed forces. ABMC administers 24 cemeteries and 25 monuments, memorials and markers
overseas. www.abmc.gov[1] Facebook: www.facebook.com\abmcpage[2]
Joan Hirt, Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, offered her first session today in a
series of workshops to pre-tenure faculty about the P&T process. Her hope is "to bring together pretenure faculty at all levels so we can demystify the process as much as possible and prepare our
colleagues for each step in the 6-year path to P&T review." We have scheduled all sessions in 216 E.
Eggleston so we can teleconference in participants.
Session 1: What matters in the tenure review process?
Monday, September 23, 12:00-1:30, 216 E. Eggleston
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Kami Patrizio, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Northern
Virginia, participated in the workshop and had this to say about it:"Joan, thank you for taking the
time to present such a clear view of the tenure process to SOE pre-tenure faculty P&T info
session today. I appreciate any opportunity that I am given to hear from senior colleagues about
the P&T process. When those opportunities are as well organized and productive as today's
meeting, they are time well spent. I'm grateful for the thought and effort that went into the
planning."
Session 2: How can I be sure I am focusing on what matters in P&T
Monday, October 14, 12:00-1:30, 216 E. Eggleston
Session 3: How can I organize the materials that matter in P&T?
Monday, November 4, 12:00-1:30, 216 E. Eggleston
SOE faculty presented at the European Conference on Educational Research 2013, sponsored by the
European Educational Research Association, in Istanbul, Turkey, September 10-13, 2013. Elizabeth
Creamer, Nancy Bodenhorn, Penny Burge, and Joan Hirt all offered sessions as other VT folks from
the Office of Assessment and Evaluation (Ray van Dyke, Steve Culver, & David Kniola) so we were well
represented. Topics of presentation included the challenges that women administrators in higher
education face. Joan co-presented with an HED alum who is on faculty at Rowan University in NH (Ane
Johnson).
Links
[1]. http://www.abmc.gov/home.php
[2]. https://www.facebook.com/abmcpage
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