Dean Donald Easton-Brooks chats with students before final exams.
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Greetings,
With 2018 coming to a close, I have been reflecting on the outstanding accomplishments of students, faculty and staff over the past year.
Our students held leadership positions and participated in competitions at conferences like the Education Association Student Leadership Conference and the Sport Entertainment and Venues Tomorrow Conference. They founded new student organizations, joined honor societies, hosted winter clothing and food drives, managed athletic events, successfully defended dissertations and became published authors.
Our faculty and staff were invited to speak about their work on podcasts, television and radio. They published research, joined review boards, hosted gifted camps, received grants, spoke at conferences and inspired K-12 students at schools across the state.
We cannot possibly catalogue the entirety of our year in this monthly newsletter; however, a summary of 2018 reveals the consistent excellence of our community in the School of Education. We certainly have much to look forward to in 2019.
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Dean Donald Easton-Brooks, Ph.D.
University of South Dakota School of Education
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Summer and Fall Graduates
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On December 7, the USD School of Education recognized graduate students who are moving on to the next stage in their journeys. Thank you to keynote speaker Lisa MacFadden, Ph.D., of Sanford Sports Science Institute and Sanford Orthopedic Research for sharing inspiring words with the leaders graduating from our programs.
Graduates, we are proud of you, and we are confident that you will continue to impact lives for the better. Congratulations on your accomplishments!
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Technology to Improve Learning Final Presentations
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In the TET 200 - Technology to Improve Learning course, USD students work with elementary school students every week, leading a variety of lessons in science, technology, math and engineering. Students in TET 200 concluded their semester by sharing interactive presentations with teachers and School of Education faculty and staff in the Jolley Elementary STREAM Lab.
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School Psychology Association Winter Clothing and Food Drive
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The school psychology program successfully hosted a winter clothing and food drive. The program's chapter of the School Psychology Association distributed the collected donations to local schools and the Vermillion Food Pantry.
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Jing Williams, Ph.D., has received Chiesman Research Grant funding to publish a second book after the success of
Hometown's Fallen: Discovering the Human Aspects of Wars
. The new book will include research by students and will feature ten more Clay County fallen veterans. The book will also include updates from several authors who contributed to the first book and continued their research after publication.
Williams has also been elected the president of the International Assembly, an associated group of the National Council for the Social Studies.
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Jerry Rasmussen, David De Jong, Fred Aderhold
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Congratulations to Jerry Rasmussen, Ed.D.,
David De Jong, Ed.D., and Fred Aderhold, Ed.D., on their most recent publication. Their manuscript, "Comparing Perceptions of Dual-Role Administrators and Teachers Regarding the Effectiveness of Dual-Role Administrators in a Rural State," was based on Rasmussen's dissertation and has been published in
Education Leadership Review
. Rasmussen, who is an adjunct instructor in the School of Education, graduated with an Ed.D. from the Division of Educational Leadership and is the superintendent of
Dakota Valley Schools
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School of Education post-doctoral researcher Craig McGill, Ed.D., has been appointed to the editorial board of the
Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition.
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Congratulations to Cody Lukkes
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who earned B.A., M.A. and Ed.S. degrees at USD and also teaches as an adjunct instructor in the School of Education
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for receiving the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the USD Sanford Medical Center's Center for Disabilities.
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ukkes said, "As an educator, my goal is just teaching people that, because you have a disability, it doesn’t make you different than anyone else and that we all need to be treated fairly."
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School of Education doctoral student Christian Pirlet presented at the National Council for the Social Studies conference on December 2. His presentation, "Lakota Winter Counts: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," demonstrated the interactive and reflective process of creating personal Lakota winter counts. Congratulations, Christian!
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Congratulations to kinesiology and sport management major Darin Greenfield for earning Al
l-American honors for the second season in a row. In three seasons at USD, Greenfield has totaled 141 tackles with 19 sacks and 41 tackles-for-loss. He has the fourth-most sacks in program history and ranks sixth in tackles-for-loss.
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School of Education Online Apparel Store
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The USD School of Education now has an online apparel store! Whether you are an alum interested in representing your alma mater or a student looking to expand your wardrobe for the upcoming semester, we hope you wear our school logo with pride.
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If you have a news item that you'd like to submit for an upcoming issue of our newsletter, please reach out to Bailey at [email protected]
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