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Jazzing Up Teacher Education Programs in Community Colleges
Please Join Us at a new conference location for Jazzing Up Teacher Education Programs in the Community College an extraordinary conference sponsored by the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs, March 17-19, 2006, at the beautiful Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.Experience Southern Hospitality in an elegant setting located in downtown Atlanta. Discover the potential for community colleges to energize programs that provide leadership and support equity, diversity, and excellence for future generations of educators. Come explore programs built on tradition that integrate modern practices and methods.
NACCTEP will co-host an evening Reception with the Community College Baccalaureate Association (CCBA) in Atlanta, Georgia March 17, 2006, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. NACCCTEP and CCBA both hold national conferences before the League for Innovation’s 2006 conference.
The Community College Baccalaureate Association strives to promote better access to the baccalaureate degree on community college campuses and to serve as a resource for information on various models for accomplishing this purpose. Read more about this exciting Association at www.accbd.org.
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Sunday Session
A New Vision for Preparing Teachers
As you know our 2006 conference was moved from New Orleans to Atlanta due to the devastating damage cause by Hurricane Katrina. Before floodwaters devastated New Orleans, 60,000 students were enrolled in the city’s public schools. By the 2007 – 2008 academic year only 25,000 public school students are expected to return. This month, 17 public schools will be open with a capacity for only 12,000 students, and three other schools plan to open in the fall. Are we preparing teachers equipped to handle these emotionally charged circumstances? Our mission is to recruit, prepare and retain effective teachers. Is there a larger agenda reflected in higher education for future teachers? Are we teaching them today to be prepared for tomorrow? As we consider the interdependence of our world, let us also consider the social implications of generations to come.
Sunday, March 19, 2006 will explore this important concept and consider our social responsibility as preparers of future teachers for our nation.
Leroy Little Bear, Professor, a graduate of the University of Lethbridge (1971) and researcher and faculty member at the institution since 1975, is a member of the Small Robes Band of the Blood Indian Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He was born and raised on the Blood Indian Reserve (now known as the Kainai First Nation) an 8,500 member community located approximately 70 km west of Lethbridge, Alberta.
(by Video) – A New Vision for an Interdependent Planet Peter Senge, author, strategist, visionary, believes a learning organization is a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create and has been deeply influential in his involvement in the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a Cambridge-based, non-profit membership organization. Peter Senge is its chair and co-founder. SoL is part of a ‘global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants’ dedicated to discovering, integrating, and implementing ‘theories and practices for the interdependent development of people and their institutions’.
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Gordon Vernick Trio to perform Friday at the Reception
Dr.Gordon Vernick is an Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Georgia State University. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY; a Master of Music in Education from the University of Miami, and a Doctor of Arts in Trumpet Performance and Jazz Pedagogy from the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.As a professional trumpet player, he has performed in all musical mediums from symphony orchestra to jazz quartet and has freelanced in Miami, New York, Denver, Kansas City, and the Caribbean Islands. He is currently active in the Southeast United States as a clinician, an adjudicator, and as a freelance trumpet player. As a jazz educator he is the past president of the Georgia Association of Jazz Educators, past chair of the International Association of Jazz Educators Curriculum Committee and was recently appointed as the Southeast Coordinator of that organization. He was the Director of the NARAS Georgia Grammy High School Jazz Band from 1994 to 1999. He is the co-editor of the book Teaching Jazz: A Course Of Study, published by MENC. He recently co-wrote the college textbook, Jazz History Overview, published by Kendall-Hunt which has been adopted by numerous universities around the country. He is director he GSU Faculty Jazztet which performs regularly in Atlanta area schools and has appeared at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, the Brasstown Music Festival, Oxford University Music Series and many other venues in the southeast. He has performed with such world-renown jazz artists as Kenny Werner, Clare Fischer, John Hart, Kevin Hays, Conrad Herwig, Marc Copland, Randy Brecker, Paul McCandless, and many others. The Jazztet was twice invited to perform in San Jose, Costa Rica by the Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano. During the summer of 2001 the Jazztet performed in Moscow, Russia at the Tribute to Willis Conover Jazz Festival and in March 2003 performed at Capitol University in Beijing, China. The group was invited to perform this November in Florianopolis, Brazil at the Curso e Colegio Bardal.
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Like each of you, we too are greatly saddened by the tremendous loss and hardship resulting from Hurricane Katrina. It is with heartache that we watch the news and see the devastation of the Gulf Coast.
We encourage you to support the Community College Hurricane Relief Fund, coordinated by the American Association of Community Colleges.
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