Fall 2008
Volume 2, Issue 1
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
PREPARING SELF-RENEWING, CARING, AND INNOVATIVE LEADERS
DEDICATED TO EXCELLENCE IN SERVING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES
In This Issue:
• Publications
• Events
• Conferences/
Presentations
• Inside Story
• CEOL Learning
Community Initiatives
Publications
Tom Harvey publishes
ninth book on resistance
to change. Co author is
Elizabeth Broyles. The
publishing date is JanFeb by Rowman and
Littlefield.
are Competence,
Communication, Care,
Character, Community
and Chemistry. The
article will appear in the
California School
Counselor (Winter 2008).
Robert Hansen coauthors article with Linda
Hansen to describe The
Six C’s: Framework for
Conducting Better,
School Counselor
Interviews. The Six C’s
“The Emotional Impact
of High Stakes Testing on
Students and Teachers:
A Holistic, Culturally
Contextual Case Study
of One Group of High
Risk Students and Their
Events
“The pen is the
tongue of the
mind.”
--Miguel
de Cervantes
Jackie Allen, Patt
Ensey, Sonja Lopez and
Mark Matzaganian are
certified CTC
Accreditation Team
members and will be
reviewing local
universities this spring.
Their training took
place this summer in
Sacramento.
The Institute for Early
Childhood Education
will be hosting 40 early
childhood professionals
for a workshop day on
Friday, November 14
from 9AM to 3PM with
Susie Koon. The title of
Ms. Koon’s workshop is
“Building a cohesive,
competent and caring
adult community
through effective
leadership.” The
leadership skills
professionals will
develop are designed
to improve quality in
the ECE classrooms.
This day is planned and
supported by Barbara
Nicoll from the
University of La Verne,
Carolyn Perry of Citrus
Community, and Holly
Reynolds from the Child
Development Center at
the Fairplex.
University of La Verne
Literacy Center
receives a literacy
grant of $24,500 from
Verizon. “Service is a
fundamental tenet of
our mission at the
University of La Verne,”
said university president
Steve Morgan. “And I
can think of no better
way to serve the
community than to
Teachers,” is a recently
published book by
Laurie Schroeder and
available on
Amazon.com.
provide young people
the opportunities
available to them here
at the Literacy Center.”
One of the success
stories who appeared
at the ceremony was
Kenne Beamon, an Alta
Loma High senior, who
came to the center
with failing grades and
is now on the honor roll.
“When you look at
statistics like 7 million
individuals in this
country can’t read,
said Gary George,
Verizon’s director of
governmental and
external affairs, “This
center is dedicated to
turning those numbers
around and has proven
it has what it takes to
make it happen.”
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Conferences/Presentations
Sonja Lopez presents
her views of living and
working in Italy,
Germany and Turkey at
the California Council
on Teacher Education in
San Diego. She is also
chairing two panels at
the Alliance for
International Education,
Istanbul Turkey. Panels
are: “To EU or not EU:
Changes in Turkish
Primary Education” and
“National/Multicultural/
International: The
Misunderstandings of
American and Turkish
Teachers Using the
International
Baccalaureate
Organization’s Primary
Years Program.”
Additionally, she works
on an innovative, online
MAT (Masters of Arts in
Teaching) redesign
team.
La Verne in Viet NamPeggy Redman and Larry
Machi provided
leadership training to
future leaders and
decision-makers in Viet
Nam University settings.
Their work with the
University Administration
has set the stage for
future work in the
summer of 2009. The
emphasis of the summer
2008 event was to begin
planning for a continuing
relationship with CEOL
faculty and Viet Nam.
Ainsworth, Margaret
Lynch, Shawn Judson,
Anita Flemington, Phil
Linscomb, John Cruz, Art
Delgado, Ken Noonan,
Larry Kemper, Gary
Thomas, Joe Ovic, Jay
Hoffman, Bonnie Drolet,
and Nancy Hogg on
October 8th to support a
purpose and mission for
the center. The center is
designed to elevate the
discussion of local
educational policy and
bring information and
research to bear on
issues of importance to
local K-12 policy makers.
A Think Tank meeting is
scheduled for November
14th with approximately
35 educational leaders.
Jan Pilgreen’s graduate
students, Brenda Burt,
Shayna Caraway, Sarah
Eichen, Catherine Fair,
Candice Gallego-Cory,
Chris Jimenez, Julie
Kawai, Erica Perez,
Sean Smith and Misty
Tabon will present at the
CATESOl Conference at
Biola University this
October.
Nancy Walker will
present two papers for
the National Reading
Conference in Orlando
in December: Exploring
Two Content Area
Teachers’ Creativity
and Use of Multiple
Resources to Enhance
Student Comprehension
in English and History.
Constructing Harmony:
Does Teacher
Knowledge Effect
Change in Adolescent
Reading Motivation?
Inside Story
“One must prepare
himself for what he
wishes to be
tomorrow.
Preparedness is
better than hope”
--Alexis Lawrence
Romanoff
The California
Educational Policy
Center at the University
of La Verne is launched
with an initiative by
Homa Shabahang, Tom
Harvey and Mark Goor.
An exploratory meeting
was held on July 9th
followed by a meeting of
Board Members, Pat
Teacher Leadership
Institute provides
leadership for twenty
teacher leaders from
Bonita, Pomona and
Corona Unified School
Districts. These Teacher
Leaders represent
elementary, middle and
high schools. Each
group identified a
change to be addressed
in the upcoming
academic year 20082009. Since its inception
in 1994, the Center for
Teacher Leadership
maintains three goals: (1)
To collaborate with local
school districts in
identifying teacher
leadership training
needs, (2) To identify
existing and emerging
teacher leaders, (3) To
provide training and
support for teacher
leaders. Tom McGuire
and Peggy Redman
have provided
leadership for the Center
since its initial offering of
support for teacher
leaders.
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CEOL Learning Community Initiatives
“I do not fear
computers. I fear
the lack of them.”
--Isaac Asimov
“Time is an
orchard. Every
moment is ripe with
opportunity.”
--Noah Benshea
Professors As Writers
group will meet to build
on the research that
was presented at the
CEOL college wide
meeting held in
September. Laura Hyatt
presented findings from
a survey highlighting the
Faculty Research
Culture. An interesting
and affirming statistic is
the 87.5% of
Organizational
Leadership Faculty
published in the prior 2
years and 29.1% of the
Education Faculty
published in the prior 2
years with a combined
percentage of 46.7.
Additionally 60% of
faculty have presented
at academic
conferences in the prior
2 years accounting for
39 conference
presentations. The PAWs
group is the product of
Dean Goor’s invitation
to work on
collaboratively creating
a colloquium for faculty
scholarship. The group
will meet October 29th to
identify agenda
preferences and a book
review.
Partnerships developed
with Hesperia and
Pomona Unified School
Districts include
placement of student
teachers, collaboration
with the Literacy Center
and Ed.D. Research
opportunities. Watch for
more news about these
very exciting initiatives .
Teacher Education,
Special Education, and
School Counseling
Programs, the Regional
Campuses
Administration, and the
Wilson Library are
developing a
Professional
Development School
partnership with
Hesperia Unified School
District Charter School,
La Verne Elementary
Preparatory Academy.
Members of the PDS
Steering Committee are
Marsha Soboh
(Development) Jennifer
Scully (Curriculum Lab),
Emily Shoemaker, Peggy
Redman, Ingrid Carruth,
and Steven Lee
(Teacher Education),
Patricia Taylor (Special
Education), Laurie
Schroeder, and Thierry
Kolpin (School
Counseling), Donna
Bentley and Shelly
Urbizagastegui (Wilson
Library), Judy Henson
and Renee Rivera
(Regional Campuses
Administration).
Open College/Social
Justice is a group of two
dozen faculty members
working on the initiative
to discuss issues related
to creating a college
wide climate and
culture of Social Justice.
Bill Bearley has created
a Blackboard site for our
activities. Faculty are
invited to send Bill
electronic copies or links
that they think are
appropriate for reading
and resources regarding
social justice and
related topics. They will
be added to our
Blackboard to stimulate
discussions and for use
with our students.
Technology that
enhances
communication with our
broader CEOL
Community is being
presented and
implemented through
faculty course
development, blended
teaching approaches
and CTL presentations.
Faculty and CTL
combined their
experiences and
resources on October
29th to share their
learnings about creating
Blackboard and WebCT
course delivery.
A Whole New Mind
written by Daniel Pink
was the topic of small
group faculty discussions
during July, August and
September. These
discussions were
summarized by faculty
at the September
College wide meeting.
Discussion Groups
presented their creative
interpretation of the key
ideas they will focus on
during the academic
year. The Ed.D. program
will use this same book
as their common text for
a leadership assignment
as they begin their new
year of studies.