Alpha Alpha State Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International
 Alpha Alpha State Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International
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Alpha Alpha State News & Dates
   
 

Dates to Remember
 
September 25, 2010


West Fall Area Conference
Union Area Middle/Senior High School
New Castle, PA
 
October 16, 2010


East Fall Area Conference
Radisson Penn Harris Hotel & Convention Center
Camp Hill, PA
 
June 10-12, 2011

State Conference
State College, PA
 
July 20-24, 2011
NERC, "Take 5" in Hershey, PA
     
 

Be Part of the Passion: Delta Kappa Gamma Leadership
 
It is now time to apply for a position as a state officer and for membership on the Finance and Nominations committees. The deadline has been extended to October 20, 2010. Chapter Nominations Chairmen are responsible for seeking qualified members to be placed into nominations for these important roles. Nominations are requested for the following positions:
 
 
2-year Terms
4-Year Terms
 
  • President
  • 1st Vice-President
  • 2nd Vice-President
  • Recording Secretary
  • Corresponding Secretary
  • Nominations Committee
  • Finance Committee
  Download a State Nomination Form
   
 

Use Research to Rekindle the Passion

  Two of the goals of the Alpha Alpha State Research Committee have been to assist chapters in maintaining their membership profiles and demographic information and to compile a database of workshop presenters. The articles in this column throughout the year have addressed these items in detail. The gathering of this data and then analyzing what the information reveals about the members, will help to develop an action plan to maintain and rekindle members’ passion for the Society. The following items are in need of immediate attention in order to implement the action plan in the decision-making process.
  • Chapter Demographic Forms are to be sent to the state research committee chairman on or before October 1, 2010. Forms are needed from all chapters except Phi and Kappa who have already submitted their forms. Chapters and state can utilize this valuable information as a way of addressing membership needs such as determining gaps in membership in terms of age, area of expertise, educational environment, and school districts represented. The information along with the chapter profile will also help to make decisions about program planning and to continually reevaluate ways to rekindle the members’ passion for the Society.
  • State Forms for Workshop Presenters . The goal of this project is to compile an on-going database of chapters and members willing to present personal and professional workshops which addresses purpose #3 of the Society. Once it is compiled, the information will be easily accessible on the state website. Individual members, chapters, state, and international will find the information an excellent resource in planning meetings, workshops, conferences, and conventions.

These forms as well as the newly designed Research Brochure were distributed at the State Convention, will be available at the Fall Area conferences, and can be downloaded from the Alpha Alpha State website, deltakappagamma.org/PA under forms.

In preparation for the possibility of The Research Committee being eliminated in the committee restructuring by International, the present committee has worked to help other committees to be aware of ways that they can utilize research to drive decisions and for planning purposes in their committee work. A business card has been designed and distributed with The Decision-Making Process Steps that all committees and members can use. It, too, can be downloaded from the website.

So help your chapter complete and submit its demographic form, become a part of the database of workshop presenters, read the Research Committee’s Brochure, and find ways of utilizing the Decision-Making Process. These are all items which will help you personally rekindle your passion.

Alpha Alpha State Brochure   For an overview of Alpha Alpha State chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, please download a copy of the Alpha Alpha State Brochure.
 

Let's Support the Northeast Regional Conference

  Please check back often for more news detailing the 2011 Northeast Regional Conference, hosted by Alpha Alpha State.
Northeast Regional Conference
     
   
 

CATUN CONFERENCE
Committee for Teaching about the United Nations
January, 2010
 

It was a cold brisk January day on the campus of Rutgers University.

It was the CATUN Annual Conference, also known as The Committee for Teaching about the United Nations. The theme this year was, “Developing Global Literate Students: 21 st Century Skills, Emerging Technology and the United Nations.”

It was a day of networking opportunities with other Delta Kappa Gamma Sisters and other teaching professional. We heard inspirational stories and learned about progressive teaching strategies for the 21 st century student.

It was also a day to meet several exhibitors that offered international opportunities for educators as well as for students in grades Kx-12 and college. It was also only a few days after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. And it was a day of fortitude for Gillian Martin Sorensen, Senior Advisor for the United Nations Foundation who held back tears as she related to us that over 1,000 peacekeepers from the UN project workers were, on that day, considered unaccounted for!

She lost many friends in the Haiti earthquake. Mrs. Sorensen, married to Ted Sorensen, shared with us that the UN, now 65 years old, evolved because of a vision President Roosevelt had, to create an organization whose mission was peacekeeping for the world.

It was also a day to hear Heidi Hayes Jacobs, whose book released this year entitled, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, is being used in Australia and in other countries in some schools in the United States. She told us that we as educators must “get it” that our students today are wired differently than students in the past and until we meet them with creative instructional strategies and the lasts in technology, “we’ll be speaking an old dead language to them.”

It was a day we were entertained by Molly McCloskey from ASCD, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum. Molly is the Managing Director of “The Whole Child’ initiative at ASCD. She made us laugh but empowered all of us with offerings by ASCD and various other websites to help us teach students today.

And it will be a day not to be missed in January or February 2011. The plan is to return the CATUN Conference to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City where it had been held previously, except for 2010 because of renovations being done at the UN.

Additionally, I found out by talking to Phyllis Hickey at DKG Headquarters in Austin, earlier in the week that a CTAUN conference will take in conducted in Austin at the LBJ Library and also Indianapolis. These are exciting opportunities for all of us!

I plan to be at the CTAUN Conference this winter, 2011? Will you?


For more information, contact Liz Brewer.

     
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