Department of Education Monday Minutes

Here are your Monday Minutes for March 8-12, 2021. 

From the Department Head 

Dear Students and Colleagues,

Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 14 (remember to spring forward) and I thought I’d share some Montana history about its adoption. Here is a note in the MSU Exponent from February 1976. Enjoy!

Daylight Savings Time extension to be voted on. The Senate will consider legislation this week to extend Daylight Savings Time (DST) by two months. Under the new legislation, DST would extend from the first Sunday in March to the Second Sunday in November. Presently DST begins April 25 and ends in late October. Supporters of the bill see a one percent energy savings, 50 fewer traffic accidents, and a 10 to 13 percent drop in street crime. Though supporters are confident it will pass in the Senate, there is substantial opposition in the House. A House committee does not intend to start hearings on the matter until April 7, 1976, which will ruin any chances of passing the measure by March 7. The Exponent.

Take good care,

 Ann Dutton Ewbank's signature 

Dr. Ann Ewbank

News and Announcements

  • Our next department meeting is Tuesday, March 23, 12:15-1:30 in Ann’s WebEx room. The main topic will be doctoral course methods rotation, with general announcements and discussion at the beginning. Feel free to attend part or all of the meeting dependent on your interest.
  • Please save the date for our Teacher Education Program Induction and Student Teacher Sendoff on April 5, 5:30-6:30pm. Our keynote speaker is Marilyn King, Deputy Superintendent of Bozeman Public Schools.

Micki's Desk

This week’s workshops offered by the Graduate School:

ETD Workshop

March 10 from 9am-10am
Where: WebEx

Are you writing a thesis or dissertation? Whether your are just getting started, or are in your last semester, join a discussion with the MSU Library, the Graduate School, and the Writing Center to learn about the ETD writing and submission process, and how your research is archived at the Library and other library data services. Join us on our ETD Virtual Workshop.

Intermediate R

Wednesday, Mar 10 from 3:10-5pm
Where: Online

Extend your knowledge of R with relational and logical operators, conditional statements, loops, and functions. These concepts will be first presented conceptually, with computational practice afterward. Register at montana.edu/datascience/training. The Online R Workshops are co-organized by the Library, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Statistical Consulting & Research Services.

CFE Event: Social Media Visibility & Research Practice

Wednesday, Mar 10 from 1-2pm
Where: WebEx

Social media networks can extend the visibility of your research, can be used to identify interdisciplinary research partners, and can communicate your research to audiences beyond those in your field for broader impact. Blogs, podcasts, data visualization, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn are just some of the tools and networks that can be used to incorporate social media into research practice. This Social Media Visibility workshop will provide practical examples of proactive ways to communicate and share your research in social networks for increased visibility and impact.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources

Creating the Beloved Community. Spring Symposium. March 15 & 16, 2021.

  • Beloved Community is a spring symposium open to interested educators. The keynote speakers' presentations and breakout session topics connect to her own research findings and passion: In order for schools to become safe, loving spaces so that all children may grow, educational institutions must be transformed into “beloved communities,” a philosophy rooted, in part, in the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Professional Development & Engagement Opportunities

  • Call for presenters: The Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association (NRMERA), the regional affiliate of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is calling for 2021 conference proposals. While our membership draws mostly from among researchers and educators in the Rocky Mountain West, we welcome all researchers and educators to be a part of our organization. We host a yearly conference as well as publish a peer-reviewed journal Educational Research: Theory & Practice (more information: https://www.nrmera.org/). The deadline to submit proposals is JUNE 30th, 2021. See attached flyer.
  • Call for research participants: please see the attached flyer from Dr. Shannon C. Mulhearn (University of Nebraska at Kearney who is conducting a research study to learn about university students who are preparing to become teachers and their experience with mindfulness practices. Dr. Mulhearn is inviting teacher candidates to participate which includes completing an electronic questionnaire and attending weekly 60-minute mindfulness sessions (via Zoom) for 8 weeks during the Spring semester.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Art Bangert (Retired)

    • Managing Human and Organizational Capital

Shihua Brazill

    • Culture and Forms of Capital in Navigating Postsecondary Education
    • Highlighting the Value of Faculty and Staff Interactions for College Students

Lauren Davis, Alex Aylward

    • Community-Based Participatory Research in the Rural Educational Setting: A Trauma-Informed Pilot Study

Elizabeth Green Graduate Student in Curriculum & Instruction, Sarah Pennington

    • Inquiry in the Early Years: Examinings in Elementary and Early Childhood Teacher Education
    • What Texts Are We Valuing? A Systematic Review of Recent Literacy Research

Hailey Hancock, Christine Stanton

    • Discussions of Equity: Critical Race Theory, Culturally Responsive Schooling, and Identity Issues in Social Studies Education

Carrie Myers, Shihua Brazill, Catherine Johnson, Scott Myers

    • Culture and Forms of Capital in Navigating Postsecondary Education

Craig Ogilvie, Colter Ellis, Kelly Knight

    • Graduate Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences, Mental Health, Support, and Marginalization

Bill Ruff, Shihua Brazill

    • Creating Brave Space Using Transformational Classroom Leadership

Rose Vallor

    • Science Teaching and Learning: Socioscientific Issues (SSIs)

Bryce Hughes, Shihua Brazill, Jayne Downey, Allison Wynhoff Olsen

    • Session chairs, discussants, journal representative
  • 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. 

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