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COE faculty awarded $1.9 million grant to support ESOL teachers in urban schools  Three College of Education faculty are working to offer on-site training and mentorship to support students in the college's Urban Accelerated Certification and Master's Program (UACM) and other teachers in their first years of their careers, thanks to a five- year, $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Early Childhood Education faculty members Diane Truscott, Nancy Schafer and Laura May received the grant for their Quality Instruction for English Learners (QuIEL) project, which prepares teachers to serve English language learners through site-based development, professional learning opportunities and mentoring. "One key activity of the grant is to develop a Professional Learning Site with DeKalb County Schools to help bridge theory and practice for preservice and inservice teachers," said Schafer, project director and co-principal investigator for the QuIEL project. "This grant will allow us to better support first-year teachers as they transition from apprentice to teacher of record." More specifically, the teacher professional development will focus on literacy and language development with an infusion of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities, such as summer workshops, new curriculum and technology for language acquisition and online professional learning communities. To read more about the QuIEL project, click here. Photo caption: Drs. Laura May, Diane Truscott and Nancy Schafer received a grant for their Quality Instruction for English Learners (QuIEL) project, which prepares teachers to serve English language learners.
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Upcoming Events in the College of Education
Research Wednesdays Speaker Series
January 18, 2012
12 p.m. 
College of Education, room 1030
30 Pryor Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
Presenter: Jerome Morris
Topic: "Social and educational inequalities and their implications for schools, communities, families and youth"
Jerome Morris, professor in the College of Education and research fellow at the William A. & Barbara R. Owens Institute for Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia, studies social and educational inequalities and their implications for schools, communities, families and youth. As a social scientist, Morris has researched black schooling in poor and urban settings in major cities such as Atlanta, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Nashville, as well as middle class and suburban contexts in metro Atlanta. His investigation of how the southern black suburban context frames the academic experiences of black students is unique, given that most studies on the achievement gap have been based in black urban and low-income settings or in predominantly white, middle class settings.
Research Wednesdays is held every Wednesday of the month. A light lunch will be provided for those who confirm their attendance to Erin Whitney in the COE's Educational Research Bureau at (404) 413-8090 or ewhitney@gsu.edu.
For more information about Morris or the Research Wednesdays Speaker Series, click here.
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Why I Give to the COE...
Valerie Manson
Alumnus and Donor
(Ph.D. '96)
"I give to the College of Education because my experiences there shaped my career and life. Giving is a way of paying it forward to help shape the careers and lives of future educators."
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