Monday Minutes

Here are your Monday Minutes for January 19-22, 2021. 

From the Department Head

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, 

I’ve been thinking about my why lately. I’d encourage you to think about this as well. If we know our why, this helps us to lead happier, healthier, and more fulfilled lives. For more information see Simon Sinek’s TED Talk.

Take good care,

Dr. Ann Ewbank

Micki's Desk

Spring 2021 Graduate Student Food Security Support application
https://montana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8q5hFYIf0FtQt3T
If you are a graduate student with barriers to accessing enough nutritious food, please consider applying for Food Security Support. This application is open until Jan 25, 2021. This Graduate School scholarship will be a 25-meal pass voucher (in the form of a commuter meal plan) to the MSU dining halls to eligible students across campus.  QR Code attached 

Confirm your MSU Tuition Bill Deadline

Students who have not confirmed their bill (paid fees) will be dropped from their Spring 2021 classes at 4:30 p.m. on February 1, 2021.   Please see the attached pdf to confirm/pay your bill.  If you need to set up a payment, please contact Student Accounts and be held in your classes.

Spring 2021 Bill Confirmation (Fee Payment) Deadlines:

The MSU Writing Center is ready to support graduate student writers both online and in-person.

Please see the attached pdf for information.

• The MSU Writing Center facilitates online writing groups, called studios, for graduate students who want to learn more about writing and improve their own writing at the same time. 
• Focus Friday is an opportunity for graduate writers to participate in an online writing community and to connect with other graduate students working on major writing projects.

Graduate School Workshop:  Introduction to R

Wednesday, Jan 20 from 3pm-5pm
Where: Online with the MSU Library

This workshop will start with the building blocks of creating and exploring the data structures available in R. Then we'll learn some basic tools for inspecting, extracting, manipulating, summarizing, and visualizing data. We will also discuss accessing and using R packages, and how to use R's built-in help interface. The workshop will be presented online. Once you sign up for the R workshop, the Library will follow up with details. 

Upcoming Deadline:

• If you need to add a course, please email me at edgrad@montana.edu
• February 1^st is the last day to drop a course without receiving a W (withdraw) grade.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

• Congratulations to EdD candidate Corrine Thatcher Day, for the publication of her article Expectancy Value Theory as a Tool to Explore Teacher Beliefs and Motivations in Elementary Mathematics Instruction in the International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education ! 

• The Science Math Resource Center was the broader impacts partner for the USDA-funded project Understanding and Addressing Research Fatigue in Rural Communities: Lessons for the Social Sciences from Energy Boomtowns (Julia Haggerty, Earth Sciences – P.I.). Below are the products generated from the project:
• Engaging in Energy Communities: The Role of the Researcher workbook
• Online Course: Energy Impacts Research Coordination Network 
• Suzi Taylor was also lead author on an article about the outreach tools in Society & Natural Resources
• PI Julia Haggerty was interviewed briefly about the topic of Research Fatigue in WIRED magazine 

• Congratulations to Ann Ewbank for the publication of her article Place Consciousness: A Narrative Inquiry of the Advocacy Practices of Five Rural/Frontier School Librarians in Library Quarterly! 

• Our department’s success is determined by our collective accomplishments. Share your own accomplishments with pride! Or if you hear of a colleague or student’s accomplishment, please share. Please send accomplishments and kudos to ann.ewbank@montana.edu. 

Professional Development & Engagement Opportunities 

• Please join us February 2^nd at 6pm MST for the next Library Media Certificate Webinar. This month Laura Trapp, LMC mentor and elementary school librarian, will present “Collaborate with your Specialist Colleagues.” Consider collaborating with your music and physical education colleagues for a fun school-wide week of activities!  Laura will share details from her elementary school experiences.Click here to register for the webinar. Feel free to forward this announcement to your friends and colleagues. Thanks, and hope to see you there! This would be a really great opportunity for our pre-service teacher and school leader candidates. 

• Please see the attached flyer for information about CBME’s Spring 2021 virtual Tuesday Programming.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Opportunities

• Teach for America offers a workshop Decolonizing Towards Indigenizing Education on Tuesday, January 26th, from 5:30-7pm MST. representation in education and dismantle systemic inequities to expand opportunities for children. Participants will receive a $10 Grubhub gift card.
• Please join the Center for Bilingual and Multicultural Education for the Indigenous Language Preservation/ Revitalization/ Maintenance webinar series.  Biskane Mishtadim Ikwe, Jill Falcon Mackin, Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe, will virtually present Wearing our Ancestral Heritage January 27^th from 2:00-3:30.
• Description: So much was lost so fast through the process of colonization--people, language, and knowledge--leaving us without connection to the very essence of what is to be who we are. Re-indigenization, living our ancestral heritage, is a messy and sometimes conflicted process. Cultural knowledge and identity has often skipped generations in our families. We can heal, identify, pick up the teachings, bundles, songs, ceremonies, and language that is our ancestral heritage. The time is now. Please join this conversation about cultural knowledge recovery and identity