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Welcome to new PUPP Counselor QuinnShauna Felder-Snipes comes to us from Raleigh, NC, where she most recently served as Assistant Director of Academic and College Counseling at Saint Mary’s School, a college preparatory boarding and day school for girls. Prior to her work at Saint Mary’s, QuinnShauna served as the Associate Director of Admissions and Coordinator of Multicultural Recruitment at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC. QuinnShauna earned her B.A. in English from the College of Charleston and her M. Ed. in School Counseling from North Carolina State University. She has volunteered with several college preparatory programs that serve low-income and first generation students, as well as students of color. Having been a part of a college preparatory support program herself, QuinnShauna values the opportunities such programs provide and is excited to take on the role of PUPP counselor and to serve in this capacity full-time. QuinnShauna replaces Michael Hannon who served as PUPP Counselor from 2007-2010 and recently began his doctoral studies in School Counseling at Penn State. QuinnShauna can be reached via email at qfelder@princeton.edu.
We are pleased to welcome teachers back to the Teachers as Scholars program at Princeton University. The 2010-11 Teachers as Scholars brochure describes the seminars and faculty. Participating teachers agree that "TAS allows me to meet other people and hear their ideas about how to teach; this has had a huge impact on my teaching. TAS has given me lots of teaching applications and gotten [my] students to a higher level of thinking.”
Education in Challenging Times: Vouchers, Charters, Standards and Races to the Top
President Tilghman’s page in the November 4 issue of PAW, Teachers in the Nation’s Service, was devoted to the Program in Teacher Preparation highlighting the cutting edge work of several Teacher Prep alumni. Five of those featured alumni will come together as a panel to discuss some of the most crucial issues in education today and offer their perspective on directions and next steps for our nation’s schools. A reception will follow the panel presentation in the Banana Gallery.
Stefanie Lawlor ’04
Stefanie is currently working at Ewing high school teaching mathematics, coaching two sports, and advising the senior class and the student government.
Jason Griffiths ’97,
Jason is the founding head master of The Brooklyn Latin School, a selective New York City public school modeled on the 375 year history of the Boston Latin School.
David Hill ’00,
David was the founding head of Soulsville Charter School, Memphis, TV. He now leads the Memphis City Schools District's new Teacher Effectiveness Initiative, which is a bold and transformative reform effort in significant partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Jennifer Jennings ’00
Jen was the author of the blog, Eduwonkette, prior to becoming a research fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Population and Development Studies Center. In 2011, she will join the Sociology Department at New York University.
Christopher Shepherd ’98
Chris was formerly an education advisor for USAID in Afghanistan and is currently a doctoral candidate in International Educational Development and International Education Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Date and Time: Friday, May 28, 2010 at 3:00
Location: Computer Science Building, Room 104
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PUPP 2010 Graduation Ceremoney
The PUPP Graduation ceremony will honor and celebrate the seventh class of graduating seniors, Class of 2010, and the PUPP alumni who have earned college degrees this year. The Graduation will be held on Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101.
Teacher Preparation Graduate Dr. Jennifer Jennings '00 Honored
This year's recipient of the American Educational Research Association's 2010 Division L (Educational Policy and Politics) Outstanding Dissertation Award is Teacher Preparation graduate Dr. Jennifer Jennings '00 for her dissertation, Accountability and Inequality in American Education. Dr. Jennings is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University and is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at Harvard University.
President Tilghman
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
At the 2010 AERA meeting, Dr. Catena will participate in a panel discussion with teacher education researchers from the Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education, including Brandies College, the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College. The panel presentation "The Promise of Induction: Individual Development and School Change" will address how the K-12 school context influences induction design, access and effectiveness. Catena will discuss factors that contribute to and inhibit new teachers’ use of induction programs. Panel participants’ research findings argue for the value of induction but raise the need for additional research to investigate how both within and out of school induction programs can work to meet teachers' needs.
31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
Dr. Anne Catena will participate in a four person panel presentation titled Telling Cases: Leadership and the Practice of Inquiry which will address the importance of practitioner research in teacher education and leadership. While there is a significant body of literature about evidence-based and data-driven decision making, much of that discourse focuses on quantitative research. There is considerably less literature about local inquiries that are conducted by educational leaders in their own settings. Catena and three other educators will explore the ways in which practitioners engage in research and how they develop as practitioner-scholars broadly, and specifically in the areas of leadership and practice-based inquiry. She will discuss the possibilities of practice-based inquiry for leaders and the relationship of inquiry dissertations to one’s ongoing work. Specifically, the panel will address to what extent the experience of engaging in practitioner research shapes one’s stance on practice and conceptualization of oneself as a leader.
Daily Princetonian Article The Daily Princetonian devoted a front page article on Teacher Prep and factors influencing students in their decision to teach.
Princeton Alumni
The University very generously supports Princeton undergraduate and graduate alumni who wish to return for a 9th semester for student teaching or who wish to change career paths and take the entire Teacher Preparation program. Courses are deeply discounted from the $4,418 rate charged by Continuing Education to only $736 per course. Typically, returning alumni take two to four courses during the fall semester and then student teach (taken as two additional courses) during the spring semester. Students who received financial aid as undergraduates can receive a comparable level of support, and those seeking certification in the high need areas of math and science are eligible for additional financial support. Please contact Todd Kent, Associate Director, or John Webb, Director, for more information.
Career Choices
In 2007 and 2008 Teacher Prep surveyed 401 alumni about their professional activities after completing the Program. We found that more than three quarters of our graduates teach in K-12 schools in 33 states throughout the US and internationally. Alumni who are currently teaching tell us the most important influences on their career choice are the meaningfulness of their work, opportunities for learning and growth, and the challenges and reward of working with their students. More than 60% of our former teachers moved into employment within education. Seventy three percent of all alumni who were not employed as teachers found their work in Teacher Prep helpful in their current job, citing improved communication and motivation skills. For more information, please contact Anne Catena.
Faculty Advisory Committee
Two faculty members, Daphne Brooks and William Bialek, have joined the program’s Faculty Advisory Committee beginning this fall. Professor Brooks is an associate professor of English and African-American studies. Professor Brooks teaches courses on African American culture, performance studies, critical gender studies, and popular music culture. Professor Bialek is the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics, Associate Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, and a Faculty Fellow in the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.
PUPP College Tour
The Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) will hit the road the first week of November for our annual fall junior/senior college tour. This year, the group will head north with 40 juniors and seniors from the partner high schools. The tour will make stops at some of the nation’s most selective (and most supportive) institutions of higher education, including: Connecticut College, Brown, Providence College, Holy Cross, Boston College, Tufts, Emerson College, Harvard, MIT, Amherst, Smith, Mt. Holyoke and Wesleyan. Along the way, the group will catch up with PUPP alumni at Brown and Wesleyan. The goal of the tour is to provide PUPP scholars with a broad range of options for their college search.
QUEST & CONNECT-ED
QUEST and CONNECT-ED teachers in grade 3-12 are invited to attend a November 11, 2009 seminar entitled, "How Do You Make A Star?: professional development in cosmology and alternative energy.” This seminar is presented by Dr. Andrew Zwicker from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and is offered at no charge. Teachers will receive professional development certificates. The seminar announcement (PDF format) contains details and registration information.
Administrators as Scholars
The Program in Teacher Preparation is pleased to offer an Administrators as Scholars seminar focusing on the racial achievement gap. Professor Angel Harris will lead a discussion on Oppositional Culture and the Racial Achievement Gap, Monday November 16, 2009, from 9 am until noon at Prospect House on the Princeton University campus.
Dr. Harris joined the faculty of Princeton University’s Sociology Department in 2007 and is a faculty associate in the Office of Population Research, Program in Social Policy and Sociology, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, and Center for Migration and Development. His research on the racial achievement gap is a most timely topic for all educators to consider. For more information see Teachers as Scholars and view the Administrators as Scholars brochure. Lunch and readings are included in the $75 per person registration and the seminar will conclude around 1 pm. Any school or district administrator interested in participating may contact Anne Catena at acatena@princeton.edu or Barbara McCormack at bmccorma@princeton.edu no later than October 15, 2009.
Phi Delta Kappa International Summit on Quality Educator Recruitment and Retention
Dr. Anne N. Catena, will present her dissertation research, An Analysis of Career Choices among Teachers of High Academic Ability at the Phi Delta Kappa International Summit on Quality Educator Recruitment and Retention. The research conference will take place in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 15-17, 2009. Dr. Catena will speak about the influences on career choices and issues of retention for teachers of high academic ability prepared between 1970 and 2008 within programs at Barnard College, Bryn Mawr/Haverford Colleges, Princeton University, Swarthmore College and Vassar College. Discussion will include the perceptions of the graduates and program administrators regarding their liberal arts education as it relates to teaching. A comparison of the United States’ national population of teachers and teachers within the sample population will serve to further an understanding of the influences impacting career choices and subsequent retention of teachers in the classroom.
PUPP alumni join director at International conference on college access in Toronto
Two graduates of the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP) will join director Jason Klugman at the Prepared Minds, Prepared Places conference in Toronto October 25-27, 2009. Chelsea Jones, a 2006 graduate of Trenton Central High School and current senior at Howard University, and Jasmine Little, a 2007 graduate of Trenton Central High School and current junior at Lafayette College, will both make the trip to Toronto to present on the challenges of preparing low-income, high-achieving students for selective college success.
Their 90-minute workshop - Opening Doors and Paving the Way: Innovative Approaches to Developing College Access, Readiness and Resilience among Under-Represented Students -will provide highlights from a white paper on increasing college access and success for talented low-income students developed from a national forum hosted by Princeton University in 2006. A broad description of the challenges faced by high-potential students on their pathway to college will be discussed, along with the range and variety of strategies employed to help guide them through the admissions process and into their early college years.
Princeton University Distinguished Secondary Teaching Awards Princeton University honored four outstanding New Jersey secondary school teachers at its 2009 Commencementon Tuesday, June 2.
This year's honorees were (pictured above with Teacher Preparation Proram Director John Webb from the left) Martin Shields, Pascack Hills High School, Montvale; Katherine O'Neil, East Brook Middle School, Paramus; James Danch, Colonia High School, Colonia; and Rebecca Strum, Bergen County Academies, Hackensack.
The teachers were selected for the award from 81 nominations from public and private schools around the state. Each teacher will receive $5,000 as well as $3,000 for his or her school library.
"This year's awardees offer us a splendid portrait of excellence in teaching. The most important ingredient for student success is a good teacher, and these four teachers epitomize the very best of the profession," said John Webb, director of Princeton's Program in Teacher Preparation, which administers the awards. "They are deeply passionate about what they do each day, in some cases even after decades in the classroom. They sincerely care about young people, and their students return that affection with their trust and admiration, the greatest of all tributes."
The staff of the Program in Teacher Preparation selected 10 finalists, each of whom was visited at work by an observer. Finalists were selected by a committee chaired by Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and included Webb, two Princeton professors and two external education professionals.
Princeton has honored secondary school teachers since 1959. The University received an anonymous gift from an alumnus to establish the program. Information about submitting nominations for the Distinguished Secondary Teaching Award and all related materials are mailed to principals/heads of all New Jersey middle and high schools, public and independent, in early October.
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