Thank You

I just want to thank all of you for a GREAT semester! I really enjoyed working with each and everyone of you as well as getting to know you personally. Each of you have unique gifts and talents that you contributed to our learning community. At the beginning of the semester I was concerned about whether we would be successful at blending the two sections of 205 but through a variety of experiences and encounters I believe we made it. I have learned so much from you this semester and I hope you learned more about becoming an Effective Educator Committed to Professional Growth and School Reform this semester. Good luck to you as you head into blocks III & IV and I look forward to connecting with again in block V.

A Social Event

If you would like to celebrate the end of the semester on Tuesday, May 5th from 4-7 pm Dr. Pratt's band Common Denominator will be performing at the Crossroads Lounge in Westville. You must be 21 to attend the event.

Congratulations Block II

On behalf of SEA, I want to congradulate BLOCK 2 for winning this year's Penny War competition by a landslide!!!
Block one= 0.00
Block two= POSITIVE $21.93 WINNER
Block three= -.15
Block four= 5.76
Block five= -.44
Staff= -11.55
Pre-block= -4.47
Total Raised: $71.58.
SEA will be sending adding a few extra dollars so that we can send an even $75.00 to the Outreach to Teach Committee. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PARTICIPATING!!!
Please Contact Michelle Ossmann at mossmann@pnc.edu in regards to having a spot in the display case dedicated to you!!!
Thank you again,
Tracy Wylie--SEA President

PLAYCE Needs Volunteers

The PLAYCE (Purdue Learning About Young Children in Education) club is looking for volunteers to help with a project they have designed for preschool children.

On Monday, April 27 they are having a Safety Carnival from 8:30 am - 4:00 p.m. for preschool children here at the PNC campus. If you can help by volunteering for a part of this day please contact Sandy Chambers at schamb00@pnc.edu and let her know what time you can volunteer.

All volunteers will need to wear their PNC ID.

People are needed for various duties:
popcorn machine
DJ
moonwalks
face painting
games.

Response to Intervention (RtI)

Kappa Delta Pi will be conducting an Orientation Meeting on Thursday, April 16, 2009 from 5-6pm in Tech 134. Come and find out what Kappa Delta Pi's education club is all about.

The meeting will also feature a presentation by Professor Pratt and student teacher Karen Rolfe on Understanding the Elements of RtI.

Hope to see you there.

Best Practices in Writing

Based on the feedback from Agnieszcka and Laurel's presentation on Best Practices in Writing they have supplied us with the youtube link for writing. I have added it under video clips or you can access it from this post http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=099AAE0AB5AC9182
It is called Peer Review for Writing.

Maymester

If you are considering taking a Maymester course I would like to suggest the following courses:

EDCI 27000 This class meets from 10:00-11:50 MTWR and is taught by Dr. Pratt
EDCI 27100 This class meets from 8:00-8:50 MTWR and is taught by Dr. Pratt
EDST 20000 This is a hybrid class and will meet online TWR and on campus each F