Major Accomplishments  by TNPI MetLife Fellows

Conferences and Workshops at which the MetLife Fellows
Have Recently Presented and/or Participated

• Advanced Placement English Literacy Conference (MetLife Fellow Tory Babcock), Santa Barbara County (CA)

• Annual Statewide [Illinois] Conference for Teachers of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students (MetLife Fellow Lois LaGalle).

• Annual WyTriad State Conference (Wyoming MetLife Fellows)

• Assessing Arts Products Presentation (MetLife Fellow Sheryn Northey), Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio

• Bridging the Gap Conference—North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (MetLife Fellow Anna Wythe)

• California Association of Bilingual Educators’ Conference (MetLife Fellow Sandra Bravo)

• California Writing Conference (2 Santa Barbara MetLife Fellows), Orcutt and Santa Maria (CA)

• Charlotte Mecklenburg National Board Certification Support Process Conference (MetLife Fellow Barbara Temple)

• Charlotte Reads Symposium (MetLife Fellow Sheryn Northey)

• Chicago Foundation for Education’s Creative Classrooms Workshop: “Everybody Reads: Literacy Throughout, Success Within.” (Chicago TNPI MetLife Fellows)

• Chicago Teachers’ Union’s Quest Center Conference—Panel discussion with all Chicago MetLife Fellows on how action research informs and improves instruction

• Choices and Consequences in History (MetLife Fellow Chris Mullin)—California History Social Science Summer Institutes

• Closing the Gap Symposium (MetLife Fellow Juan Carlos Aguilar), Fayette County, KY

• Connections between the National Board Certification Process and the North Carolina

• Performance-based Licensure Process (MetLife Fellow Barbara Temple), University of California at Santa Cruz New Teacher Center Mentoring Symposium

• Critical Thinking Workshop—sponsored by the MetLife Fellows of Lexington, Kentucky (over 200 persons attended)

• Critical Thinking Workshops (7)—local and national (MetLife Fellow Anne Buchanan)

• Curriculum, Community, Collaboration & Celebration—A Conference for New York City Educators (New York City MetLife Fellows), Annual conference attended by 400 participants; the MetLife Fellows facilitate workshops such as: 1) “Ensuring Teacher Quality Through Collaboration;” 2)“Teachers Taking Action: How to Get Involved;” 3) “Campaign for Fiscal Equity: A Teach-In on Equity & Activism;” and 4) “No More Groaning: Taking Control of Professional Development”

• Facilitator Training for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (MetLife Fellow Sheryn Northey)

• Florida Partnerships in Education Conference (MetLife Fellow Barbara Hampton), Miami

• Florida Department of Education— Adult Literacy Conference (MetLife Fellow Barbara Hampton), Miami

• Florida State Legislature (MetLife Fellows Claire Price, Barbara Hampton, Steven Payne, Janie Glueck, and Patrick Williams)—arranged meeting with several state senators and representatives to introduce the work of the TNPI MetLife Fellows

• Miami Central Feeder Pattern (MetLife Fellow Lois Magnus)—presentation of action research to area principals

• Microgravity Major Impact—National Science Teachers Association Convention (Chicago MetLife Fellow Joy Reeve), San Diego (CA)

• National Board Certification—An Overview (MetLife Fellow Betty Rhodes), Fayette County Education Association; and, Kentucky Education Association

• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Invitational Research Conference (MetLife Fellows Sheryn Northey, Barbara Temple, and Sheila Oates)

• National Conference of Teachers of Mathematics (MetLife Fellow Brenda Jackson)

• National Council for Teacher Education Conference (Wyoming MetLife Fellows), Washington, DC

• Presentation to the Executive Council of the West Mecklenburg Collaboration for Education Reform Initiative (MetLife Fellow Katherine Pope)

• Release of the MetLife Survey of the American Teacher (MetLife Fellow Jeremy Copeland)

• School Improvement Conference—North Central Association and the Wyoming Department of Education (Wyoming MetLife Fellows), Casper (WY)

• The Status of Education in the United States (MetLife Fellow Linda Wiezorek), Presented at Embassy Art Center, Ghana, Africa

• Teachers Network Legislative Breakfast for New York City and State Policymakers (note: annual event attended by state senators, Assembly members, City Council members, Borough Presidents, Deputy Mayor of New York City, etc.)

• Urban Ethnography Conference (MetLife Fellows Susan Browne, Judi Fenton, Mark Grashaw, Sarah Picard, Joe Rafter, and Denise Watson), University of Pennsylvania

• What Goes Around Comes Around—AT&T Emerging Technology Conference (Chicago MetLife Fellow Joy Reeve), Washington DC

• Winter Conference on Literacy 2002 (MetLife Fellows Chris Mullin and Tory Babcock), University of California at Santa Barbara

• Wyoming Statewide Standards Dialogue (Wyoming MetLife Fellows, by invitation)—among business, education, and policy leaders throughout the state