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<title>McKay School Of Education News Feed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest from the McKay School of Education Public Relations Department]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:14:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Joe Matthews Publishes Book on Principalship</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news628.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Research shows that professional learning communities improve student learning, and effective principals have crucial roles in developing them, according to Joe Matthews, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations. He and a colleague, Gary M. Crow, recently published a book titled The Principalship: New Roles for a Professional Learning Community.
The book explores the roles of a principal in developing professional learning communities (PLCs). &ldquo;These PLCs highlight a more collaborative nature of teaching,&rdquo; Matthews stated. For example, he explained that a child may not have just one fifth grade teacher, but a group of fifth grade teachers and administrators who all take responsibility for his/her learning.
Matthews and Crow define eight roles of school principals helping to build PLCs. &ldquo;We have not found an effective PLC without a good principal leading the way,&rdquo; Matthews stated. The eight roles are as follows:

A principal is a learner....]]></description>
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<title>Sterling Hilton Appointed New EDLF Chair</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news630.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Several years before earning a PhD in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University, Sterling Hilton of the Educational Leadership &amp; Foundations (EDLF) Department&nbsp; was working as a young intern at the US Consulate in Bilbao, Spain, preparing for what he thought would be a life in the foreign service.&nbsp; His plans changed though; in Spain Hilton realized that what he wanted was found elsewhere. Today, years later, Hilton is the newly appointed chair of the EDLF Department.
Hilton was originally hired at BYU as a statistics professor.&nbsp; He taught in that department until he moved across campus to the McKay School of Education in 2003.&nbsp; Hilton made the change so that he could apply his experience and knowledge of statistics to the field of education and to develop research opportunities in the teaching and learning domain.
The EDLF Department helps graduate students become leaders in school administration, such as principals or superintendents.&nbsp; The department offers...]]></description>
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<title>McKay School VISTA Volunteers Involve the Community in Education</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news624.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dedicating a year of service to the their country, McKay School Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) personnel form the connection between university and community. The mission of the AmeriCorps VISTA program is to involve communities in the fight against poverty. McKay School VISTAs are part of the VISTA School Improvement Project, which is based on the belief that education removes social barriers to economic opportunities. McKay School VISTA personnel work with three initiatives: the Positive Behavior Support Initiative (PBSI), Systematic and Engaging Early Literacy (SEEL), and the Arts Reaching and Teaching in Schools (A.R.T.S) Partnership.
Positive Behavior Support Initiative (PBSI)
PBSI works to improve schools in Utah County through a variety of programs including the Nebo Legacy Mentoring Program, which is funded by a three-year grant that just began its second year. PBSI staff are currently working to get the funding grant renewed for an additional three years.
Mentors currently...]]></description>
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<title>Lehi&acirc;s Emily Grover: A Contender for the Nation&acirc;s &acirc;Top Young Scientist&acirc;</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news625.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[12 year-old Emily Grover from Eaglecrest Elementary flew to New York City (all expenses paid) in late September to compete as one of ten finalists in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge &ldquo;I was extremely excited,&rdquo; Emily reported. &ldquo;I think being one of ten in the nation is amazing.&rdquo; Emily received $1,000 as well as other prizes for participating in the challenge.
Emily qualified for the Discovery Challenge by first winning her school&rsquo;s science fair in January, which automatically advanced her to the Alpine District Science Fair. All students in grades 5-12 who had been winners in their district fairs were invited to participate in the regional science fair, the Central Utah Science and Engineering Fair (CUSEF), sponsored jointly by the BYU-Public School Partnership and the McKay School of Education.
&nbsp;Emily&rsquo;s project examined ingredients in lotions and compared ways they help skin retain moisture. She found that cocoa and shea butters...]]></description>
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<title>Physical Education and Coaching Program Moves to the McKay School of Education</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news622.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The College of Health and Human Performance was dissolved September 1, although its four departments&mdash;Dance, Exercise Science, Health Science, and Recreation Management and Youth Leadership&mdash;were relocated to various other colleges on campus. The physical education teaching and coaching program within the Department of Exercise Sciences has relocated to the David O. McKay School of Education along with associated faculty who will retain their offices in the Smith Fieldhouse.
&ldquo;Since it began as a college of physical education, the college has grown and changed dramatically,&rdquo; reported the Academic Vice President John S. Tanner. &ldquo;This growth and shift in focus have resulted in overlap with other academic colleges.&rdquo;
Now, what once began as a college of its own, the physical education teaching and coaching program (PETE) has merged with the Department of Teacher Education at the McKay School. The program is for those who want to teach and/or coach in elementary...]]></description>
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<title>Choosing to Bless: the Fritz B. Burns Foundation Scholarship</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news619.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Patricia Moses attends BYU with her daughter, Courtney. But when her husband unexpectedly lost his job in February, Patricia worried how they were going to find funds to continue both her own and Courtney&rsquo;s education.
Jesi Fiso faced a different situation but the same underlying problem when she discovered she was pregnant. She and her husband&mdash;both current BYU students&mdash;stressed over funding their educations as well as the new addition. &ldquo;We would not be able to accomplish this without financial assistance,&rdquo; Jesi wrote on her Fritz B. Burns scholarship application. And when that assistance was provided, Jesi and many other students like Patricia and Courtney struggled to find words for their appreciation.
&ldquo;It is truly an answer to my personal prayers,&rdquo; wrote Karen Nichols when she received notification that the scholarship would help pay for her education while her father continued his schooling and her mother cared for Karen&rsquo;s dying grandmother.
Kris...]]></description>
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<title>Acquiring Tools for Success Through Mentored Research</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news620.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Presenting at national conferences, publishing peer-reviewed research, and writing grants for educational funding are not typical undergraduate experiences. Mentored research assistantships are opportunities that Brigham Young University is pleased to offer undergraduates. Students who work alongside faculty members in the McKay School of Education enhance their resumes and prepare to become better educators through mentored research opportunities.&nbsp;
Maren Dennis, a senior in English education, accepted a research assistantship with Betty Ashbaker, a professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education. Three years later, she has written grants, presented at several conferences, and is working on publishing an article that explains their research.
Although Dennis is not sure she wants to make research her career, the skills she has learned from participating in research are valuable for life. &ldquo;Grant writing can be a useful skill for a teacher,&rdquo; Dennis...]]></description>
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<title>Improving The Learning Experience Through Study Guides</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news615.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Roni Jo Draper, associate professor and graduate coordinator for the Department of Teacher Education, participated in a two-day faculty teaching improvement conference for the Undergraduate Education Academy.&nbsp; Draper gave her presentation, entitled &ldquo;Creating and Using Reading and Study Guides to Promote and Assess Learning&rdquo; both days to full rooms as GE professors from all over campus took notes in order to improve their teaching skills.
Draper centered her instruction on improving the effectiveness of course study guides.&nbsp; Many study guides can often be too easy, allowing students to effortlessly breeze through material that should otherwise be helping them obtain a more well-rounded understanding of the subject.&nbsp; Draper believes that professors should take the time to create meaningful, thought-provoking study guides that will engage the student with material that needs to be learned.
Effective study guides will prompt students to think about and understand...]]></description>
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<title>Student Research Tackles Bullying in Utah schools</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news616.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[School bullying is not new or unusual. Almost 30 percent of youth in the United States participate in bullying either as a bully, a target of bullying, or both. Of the 70 percent of students not involved in bullying, all have seen or heard of someone they know being bullied.
Studies on the effects of bullying show that being bullied can disrupt a child&rsquo;s ability to concentrate in class and even lead the child to avoid attending school. The National Education Association estimates that 160,000 children miss school every day because they fear an attack or intimidation by other students. When continuously bullied, a child can suffer extreme and sometimes long-term effects including social isolation, depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Despite such detrimental effects, bullying in schools sometimes goes unpunished&ndash;not at the fault of teachers or administrators, but because the act can be hard to catch or even recognize.
In their research with School Tipline, a Web site created...]]></description>
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<title>Setting our CITES on a New Structure </title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news617.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With the goals of reaching out to the community and increasing the extent and efficacy of education research, the Center for Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling (CITES) is undergoing a structural renovation. As of July 1, the office of CITES has three divisions: Education Support, Education Research, and Professional Development.
CITES Director Steven Baugh believes the change better aligns the CITES Department with the entire McKay School. &ldquo;The Dean has communicated to us his vision that the McKay School become the best for the world,&rdquo; Baugh said. &ldquo;We hope to contribute to this vision.&rdquo; The new structure will allow increased involvement in education research as well as in community service. &ldquo;We believe we can provide some important services to families and we can partner more effectively with community leaders in government and business,&rdquo; Baugh explained.&nbsp;
Baugh will be leading the Education Support division under the new structure....]]></description>
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<title>Inspiring Students to Obtain Higher Education: Hispanic Teens Learn to Teach and Mentor Younger Students</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news612.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Motivating youth to prepare for college is a challenge, especially when students lack role models who have completed high school or obtained higher education.&nbsp; In a survey of Hispanic students from local schools, Betty Ashbaker, a professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education, found that the average highest completed grade levels among Hispanic parents were 10th grade for mothers and 11th grade for fathers. Many of the children of these parents do not pursue higher education because they do not believe they are capable of succeeding. Ashbaker believes otherwise.
Ashbaker&rsquo;s recent presentation at the National Paraprofessional Conference entitled &ldquo;Seamless Transition from High School to University: Success for Hispanic Youth,&rdquo; outlined a program in which Hispanic students in grades 10 through 12 are trained to be paraeducators. The students recruited to participate in the training generally do not consider themselves college bound. &ldquo;This...]]></description>
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<title>Students Choose Ellie Young as School Psychology Professor of the Year</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news613.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last spring, students graduating in the Education Specialist Program chose Ellie Young as School Psychology Professor of 2009.&nbsp; Both students and faculty alike agree that Young&rsquo;s exceptional teaching and her many efforts to promote and strengthen the school psychology program at BYU qualify her for this award.
Young has always had a strong interest in psychology; she loves working with people and being a small part of the process of change.&nbsp; Additionally, she developed a respect for the school setting thanks to the influence of her grandmother, a former teacher.&nbsp;&nbsp; Naturally, Young realized early in life that her future was in school psychology.
After receiving undergraduate and specialists&rsquo;s degrees from BYU, Young spent ten years in Kansas and Missouri as a school psychologist before returning again to school to receive her PhD at the University of South Florida.&nbsp; Having taught at BYU for the past nine years, Young has become a respected and influential...]]></description>
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<title>Professors Research Implications of Food Stress on the Family</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news614.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Since 1998, Erin Whiting from the McKay School and Carol Ward from the Sociology Department have been traveling together to a Native American reservation in southeastern Montana to conduct research on poverty and food security. For the fifth time, their research is about to be published. The latest article, &ldquo;Food Provisioning Strategies, Food Insecurity and Stress in an Economically Vulnerable Community: The Northern Cheyenne Case,&rdquo; is expected to appear in an early 2010 edition of Agriculture and Human Values.
Although being food insecure&mdash;not having consistent access to food&mdash;is stressful in itself, Whiting and Ward&rsquo;s article focuses primarily on the added stress that comes with trying to provide food for an entire household when there are not enough resources to do so adequately. In their research, Whiting and Ward explored different food provisioning strategies used by some, such as relying on family and friends, hunting, gathering road kill to eat, church...]]></description>
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<title>EIME PhD Program Celebrates a Successful First Year</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news610.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dean Richard Young welcomed incoming and returning PhD students of the Educational Inquiry, Measurement, and Evaluation (EIME) program at the group&rsquo;s opening social held the first week of fall semester. &ldquo;I hope this program is all that you hoped it would be,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Unless you hoped it would be easy.&rdquo; He went on to explain that the EIME doctoral program is designed to be rigorous enough to produce competitive graduates who are highly skilled in research; know how to ask hard, important questions; and are able to find answers to those questions in order to improve education.
Going into its second year, the McKay School&rsquo;s EIME program is growing and evolving. Three new courses are being added, two of which begin this fall, one taught by Robert Bullough and one by Andy Gibbons. Additionally, a literature review is scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month as part of the EIME seminar series, and an opportunity is being provided for students to participate...]]></description>
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<title>Michelle Marchant Selected as Special Education Coordinator</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news604.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the McKay School, faculty members are often asked to sacrifice personal and academic interests to serve in positions which focus on a wider group of students and involve administrative roles. Michelle Marchant of the Department of Counseling Psychology and Special Education has been selected to serve as the department&rsquo;s special education coordinator.
Marchant, a busy teacher and researcher, says she is happy to serve her department fulfilling her new responsibilities, even though it means a sacrifice in teaching fewer classes and having less time for research. As special education coordinator she will direct student support and advisement services, handle course scheduling, and oversee the department&rsquo;s fieldwork, including summer practicum and student teaching. She will also be responsible for coordinating the program structure with various committees of the BYU Educator Preparation Program and accreditation requirements.
Marchant looks forward to serving as coordinator....]]></description>
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<title>Strong Start Program Helps Social and Emotional Learning in Second Grade Students </title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news606.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Using an innovative intervention, McKay School researchers have made significant improvements in the social-emotional well-being of at-risk children while preventing problems in these students&rsquo; peers. McKay faculty member Paul Caldarella and administrator Lynnette Christensen teamed up with Kalli Kronmiller, a local elementary school arts teacher and part-time research faculty member, and Thomas Kramer, an incoming doctoral student in counseling psychology, to implement a social and emotional learning (SEL) program in a second grade classroom. Their findings were recently published in the Early Childhood Education Journal, as an article entitled &ldquo;Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in Second Grade Students: A Study of the Strong Start Curriculum.&rdquo;
Kronmiller initiated the study after noticing social-emotional problems in her own students. &ldquo;Our goal was to foster social and emotional competence in second grade students,&rdquo; Caldarella stated. The SEL program...]]></description>
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<title>New Students Take First Steps Into McKay School Programs</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news602.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Incoming freshmen to BYU&rsquo;s McKay School took their first steps toward becoming great educators as they enjoyed New Student Orientation on August 27.&nbsp; The event gave students a comprehensive view of what the McKay School offers and what they can expect in upcoming years of study.
After being greeted by stacks of free posters and promotional materials for the school, students listened to Brad Wilcox of the Department of Teacher Education talk about his own experience choosing a major as a young college student.&nbsp; He related that after serving a mission for the LDS Church he switched through countless majors until he reluctantly took a career exploration class that helped him discover the profession of teaching, which has been his life&rsquo;s work ever since.
Wilcox commented on the profound effect teachers can have on their students.&nbsp; &ldquo;Teaching allows me to make a difference,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp; Influential teachers who will uplift and enable students are what...]]></description>
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<title>McKay Professor Co-authors a Self-Study of Poverty PhDs</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news603.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ramona Maile Cutri grew up keeping secrets about her home life&mdash;an environment in which she coped daily with poverty, heroin addictions, and mental illness. Today Cutri has earned a PhD and is a professor in the Department of Teacher Education in the McKay School. Recently Cutri conducted a self-study that she integrated with the experiences of Jill Manning and Marc Chun, fellow PhDs from poverty backgrounds. The experiences of all three and conclusions derived from them are explained in &ldquo;Poverty PhDs: Funds of Knowledge, Poverty, and Professional Identity in Academia.&rdquo;
In the paper, the experiences of the &ldquo;Poverty PhDs&rdquo; challenge the idea that children from poverty backgrounds &ldquo;bring little to the classroom from their backgrounds that will help them succeed in school.&rdquo; Rather, Cutri, Manning, and Chun demonstrate how specific skills and knowledge they attained from their backgrounds led to their success in higher education. &ldquo;Funds of knowledge&rdquo;...]]></description>
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<title>McKay School Receives TEAC Accreditation</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news597.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) officially announced on September 15, 2009 that the Educator Preparation Program submitted by Brigham Young University has been granted accreditation with no stipulations or weaknesses. According to the announcement, the accredited status is effective from September 11, 2009 through September 11, 2014. TEAC (http://www.teac.org/) provides accreditation for undergraduate programs, and is dedicated to helping educator preparation programs improve and be accountable for their quality.
Nancy Wentworth, associate dean of the McKay School of Education, organized and led the TEAC accreditation process, though many members of the faculty made significant contributions. &ldquo;It is important for BYU to have accredited programs because this is critical for our students as they move into their professions,&rdquo; Wentworth stated. She explained that the TEAC process not only supports the McKay School and the BYU Educator Preparation Program in...]]></description>
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<title>Christopher Dromey Becomes New ComD Department Chair</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news599.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[McKay School of Education Dean K. Richard Young announced the appointment of Christopher Dromey, a professor in the Department of Communication Disorders, as the department&rsquo;s new chair. Dromey, who has taught at BYU since 2000, looks forward to serving in a new capacity. &ldquo;I am profoundly grateful to our past department chair, David McPherson,&rdquo; Dromey said. &ldquo;He has been so helpful and has really set the tone within the department. To take over from someone so experienced gives me pause.&rdquo; &nbsp;Dromey explained how his colleagues have consistently supported him as well.
Dromey is interested in fostering collaboration and reconciliation if issues arise. &ldquo;I think I have the ability to see both sides of conflicts and issues,&rdquo; he added. He explained that his two-year service as chair of the university&rsquo;s institutional review board helped him strengthen his ability to empathize with people, even when he does not agree with them.
Dromey understands...]]></description>
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<title>McKay Grad Student Receives Fritz B. Burns Scholarship</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news592.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although she considers herself a &ldquo;California beach bum&rdquo; at heart, something keeps bringing Julia Helzer back to BYU, and her dedication is paying off in the form of a scholarship from the Fritz B. Burns Foundation (http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/byu/news-features/the-fritz-b-burns-foundation.html). According to an article on the LDS Philanthropies Website, the Fritz B. Burns Foundation is involved in various financial undertakings across the BYU campus,. In 2009 the Foundation donated more than $1.8 million to BYU, with more than half going to student scholarships. For students like Julia, these scholarships can make an educational program possible. &ldquo;Before receiving the scholarship, I wasn&rsquo;t entirely sure how I was going to manage to pay for school next year,&rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;This scholarship has perfectly answered my needs, and I feel extremely blessed to receive it.&rdquo;
Julia received a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in psychology from BYU in 2006,...]]></description>
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<title>David McPherson Completes Service as Comm D Department Chair</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news596.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly 13 years after becoming an independent department, the Department of Communications Disorders is experiencing a change of administration. David McPherson has completed his service as department chair and will pass the responsibility on to a new chair this fall semester.
McPherson, who has watched the department progress from its inception, credits the students and faculty for the advancements. &ldquo;The quality of any program is based upon the quality of the faculty. What a department chair does is act as a facilitator to the faculty and students,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;Doing so helps them see that they have the resources needed to become excellent.&rdquo;
In the last 12&frac12; years the department has come to be ranked in the top 100 programs in the United States. &ldquo;That has been quite a challenge,&rdquo; McPherson said, &ldquo;but that again is to the credit of the faculty.&rdquo; Statistics show that since the department was formed, 100% of its graduate students...]]></description>
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<title>Pledge My Ride</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news591.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sarah Culp, a graduate of the McKay School of Education with a degree in elementary education, teaches 5th grade at Claremont Academy, a K-8 school in South Chicago under the Chicago Public School system. Her class is progressing despite the challenges they face in an area with extreme economic challenges. Even so, up-to-date technological upgrades are badly needed in the low-budget school.
To raise the needed money for their classroom upgrades, Culp and her colleagues&mdash;two of whom are also BYU alumni&mdash;have organized a charity bike ride. The ride, detailed on the group&rsquo;s blog, Pledge My Ride, will last two weeks as riders make an arduous 1,000-mile journey around Lake Michigan. They hope to raise $5,000 dollars to purchase digital cameras, printers, web cameras, projectors, and overhead document cameras.
&ldquo;I hope that [this event] will inspire people to give,&rdquo; Culp stated, &ldquo;and help make them aware of some of the disparities in education.&rdquo; She explains...]]></description>
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<title>IP&amp;T Student Published in Prominent Online Community</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news588.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Web site described as &ldquo;an invaluable resource for information&rdquo; recently accepted and published an article written by Cahlan Sharp, an Instructional Psychology &amp; Technology student in the McKay School of Education. InsideRIA is an online community developed by O&rsquo;Reilly, sponsored by Adobe Systems, where users can find articles about the design and development of rich Internet applications (RIAs). Mike Downey, former senior product manager and platform evangelist for Adobe Systems, praised Sharp&rsquo;s article with a tweet that called it&nbsp; &ldquo;a good, quick primer on Web analytics and Flash/Flex&rdquo;.
Sharp&rsquo;s article, &ldquo;Intro to Web Analytics and Flash/Flex-driven RIAs: The Whys and the Hows&rdquo;, was designed to teach developers the basic ideas behind Web analytics and help them incorporate it into their content. Sharp believes that Web analytics can provide a valuable well of information for developers, designers, and marketers. &ldquo;They...]]></description>
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<title>Tim Morrison Asked to Serve as Associate Editor</title>
<link>http://education.byu.edu/news/news589.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tim Morrison of the Department of Teacher Education has been selected to serve as an associate editor for the Yearbook of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers. He will serve a four-year term as one of four editors, each of whom will serve as chief editor for one year.
Morrison has had experience with editing. &ldquo;About ten years ago I served as associate editor for the College Reading Association&rsquo;s main journal, Reading Research and Instruction,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;I have also served as a member of the editorial review board for that journal for the last ten years.&rdquo; One of the three associate editors who will be serving with Morrison is currently serving as an associate editor. &ldquo;I think the level of our group&rsquo;s experience had an impact on why we were chosen,&rdquo; Morrison said.
The Yearbook of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers is a volume that contains papers taken from presentations made at the annual ALER conference....]]></description>
<author>mckaypr@byu.edu (McKay School PR Department)</author>
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