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Member News --December 6, 2016
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Submit a Proposal for Our DC Conference
A Clear Voice, A Collective Vision
Specifically, the committee is seeking proposals for 45-minute sessions that will
actively engage participants and
model one of our four conference strands, or themes.
Proposals must be submitted by
5:00 PM ET January 16 to be considered.
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Washington Update
Jane West
This week's highlights.
Jane West's letter to members this week covers a number of important items, including her take on the President-Elect's
Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVoss
; the likelihood of a
temporary funding bill
being passed by Congress; and central
features of
the recently-released
ESSA Accountability Regulations
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West also provides insights into the
Trump Transition Team
for education.
Advocacy Resource.
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has launched an Action Alert system as a part of its new Advocacy Center. Anyone can sign up for the alerts. The alerts will let you know about issues related to teacher preparation as they come up on Capitol Hill and with the Administration. They will provide an easy way to make your voice heard. Use this link to sign up.
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Getting Closer to $5,000!
Help US Meet Our Annual Giving Goal
Thanks to all of you who have already contributed toward the NNSTOY annual
 giving campaign! Now that we
no longer charge membership dues, we count on your unrestricted donations to help us with expenses that are not tied to specific grants.
Member
donations made through December 15 will be matched by the NNSTOY board (up to $5,000). So please
donate now.
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Supporting Colleagues Building
Equitable Learning Environments
Inward and Onward Webinar #3
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Join us for the third in a series of deep-dive discussions about educational
equity.
This webinar will explore strategies educators can use to support their colleagues as they work to create equitable classrooms and schools.
Our webinar features Racial Equity Coach Lee-Ann Stephens (Minnesota 2007) and our series team, including Monica Washington (Texas 2014), Daniele Massey (DoDEA 2013) and Jemelleh Coes (Georgia 2014).
Register
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Participants' Homework!
Do you have a question, problem or scenario you want to pose to the group about how you can support your colleagues' work to improve equity in the classroom, school or community?
Email us your questions, problems or scenarios (a brief description) no later than 3:00 pm EST December 12 to
[email protected] We will choose a few to discuss during the webinar.
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Meet Eric Isselhardt
NNSTOY's New VP and COO
Dr. Eric Isslehardt joined NNSTOY last week as our new Vice P
resident and Chief Operating Office, taking the place of Brad Hull. He will work out of the NNSTOY office in Arlington, Virginia.
Isslehardt is a
senior executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in both non-profit and for-profit education venues. He has taught elementary and university students, led independent and charter schools, led a large non-profit education services organization,
and engaged in pedagogical reform and design, including leading a team to reinvent a small country's elementary system. Recently, Eric led a mid-sized education company as it created a unique virtual and blended inquiry-based pedagogy, a new high school curriculum, and the technological applications of those programs for both private and public users around the world. Learn more at our website.
Feel free to reach out to him:
[email protected],
but be gentle until he cuts his teeth with us. (Any guesses as to how long that will take?)
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4 Things Every Teacher Should Do to Help Students Move Forward Post Election
By Brittny Ray-Crowell and
Monica Washington (Texas 2014)
(from Education Post)
This election season was loud. It was polluted. It was a cacophony of sound that, despite all of our best efforts, could not be avoided. We shuddered at what we saw, and we winced at the language. And we wondered, as parents, how to frame for our children what was happening.
We wondered, as teachers, how the noise pollution, how the dust would settle on our students. What would be our role as adults, as parents, as teachers to wade through it all and reassure students who were uneasy that all would be fine in the end? (
Continue reading.)
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New Ways to Engage
Plug into teacher leadership outside of your school
Share your StoryCorps videos.
If you or your class participated in the toryCorps Great Thanksgiving Share, please remember to:
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Remind your students tag interviews with the keyword "NNSTOY" or "National Network of State Teachers of the Year"
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Share your favorite student stories (and classroom photos) with the StoryCorps production team by emailing them to [email protected]. Every year a few get chosen to be produced for radio!
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Contribute to the NNSTOY community by sharing your story with the NNSTOY communications team at [email protected]
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New & Noteworthy
Tools and opportunities to support #TeachersLeading
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Kudos, Shout-Outs & Accolades*
News from the NNSTOY community
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Peggy Jackson (New Mexico 2010
) has been named as the President of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).
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Leticia Guzman
(DoDEA 2016) earned a lot of press coverage over her writing about her annual Thanksgiving dinner for immigrants. In this piece published by Scholastic, she describes how she and her colleagues approach to helping English learners to accelerate their learning and close gaps, while honoring their cultures and their intellectual capabilities.
An interview
with Nate Bowlng
(Washington 2016) was published by Robert Kaplinsky as part of a series about teacher observation.
Seven NNSTOY members who teach for the Department of Defense were awarded NNSTOY Level Three badges after going through training using NNSTOYs Teacher Leadership Modules. The educators developed their own plans to improve learning in their schools using the NNSTOY Change Protocol. They include:
Ashley Melton (USA);
Gariann Wrenchey (Germany);
Sarah Loomis (Germany);
Rich Dysinger, (Germany);
Kathy Holley (USA);
Lisa Reed (USA); and
Carmen Veray (Puerto Rico).
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