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SED Science Educator Shares Lessons Learned from B.U. MobileLab Program in Hong Kong
April 27, 2009 - SED Professor Don DeRosa (Science Education) and Director of the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) Mobile Laboratory Program, recently traveled to Hong Kong to deliver a keynote address and present a workshop on biotechnology education for science teachers at the inauguration of the Sik Sik Yuen MobileLab. Boston University has been a leader in mobile laboratory programs for science education in the United States since the establishment of the BUSM MobileLab in 1998 by Dr. Carl Franzblau, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Sciences at the School of Medicine. Boston University's MobileLab has served as a model for similar programs throughout the country and was a key player in the establishment of the Mobile Laboratory Coalition, which includes approximately 20 mobile laboratories dedicated to science education throughout the nation. The Hong Kong MobileLab, founded by Dr. William Mak, is the latest of several mobile laboratories inspired by the Boston University MobileLab program. Hong Kong Representatives from the Ministry of Education expressed interest in having Professor DeRosa return to conduct more teacher training workshops and share ideas about science education with educators in Hong Kong.
Date Added: 2009-04-27

First International Conference on Islam and Multiculturalism
SED alumnus Dr. Ali Jabareen is among the organizers of The First International Conference on Islam and Multiculturalism: Appreciating the Past, Living the Present and Challenging the Future, at Al-Qasemi Academy in Israel, in April 2009. Two of the plenary lectures will be by School of Education faculty: Professor Michael Aeschliman on "Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Allies in the Critique of the Hegemony of Scientific Materialism?" and Professor Charles Glenn on "Policies Toward Islamic Schooling in France, the Netherlands, and the United States."
Date Added: 2009-04-15

Boston University Welcomes the Sixth Annual Summer Poetry Institute for Educators
Daily poetry readings open to the public When: July 16-20, 3:45-4:30p.m. Monday, July 16 Mark Doty Tuesday, July 17 Heather McHugh Wednesday, July 18 Frank Bidart and Robert Pinsky Thursday, July 19 Gail Mazur Where: Sargent College Auditorium 635 Commonwealth Ave. Co-hosted by the Favorite Poem Project (http://www.favoritepoem.org) and the Boston University School of Education.
Date Added: 2007-07-16

Former SED doctoral student Larry Weinberg delves into religious charter schools in Education Week
"What about opening and funding religious charter schools? How would localities handle the many complexities of funding charter schools that have a religious, social, and cultural mission?" Former SED doctoral student Larry Weinberg along with Bruce Cooper explores the possibility of religious charter schools in his Education Week commentary. Weinberg's forthcoming book Religious Charter Schools: Legalities and Practicalities offers historical perspective on funding charter schools with a religious mission.
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Date Added: 2007-06-21

Upward Bound begins six-week residential program
Starting on Sunday, June 24, Boston University's Upward Bound program welcomes high school students to a six-week summer academic program. Student receive academic instruction during the day and engage in social activities in the evenings, with a chance to receive homework help. This Sunday through Friday program includes MCAS and SAT preparation assistance.
Upward Bound is a college preparatory program for potential first-generation college and low-income Boston Public High School students. It is a federally funded TRIO program that serves 85 low-income and first generation college students who join in either ninth and tenth grade and participate until high school graduation. Students must be enrolled in the Boston Public Schools and either attend one of three target high schools (Brighton High, English High, or Snowden High) or live in one of five target neighborhoods (Allston, Brighton, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, or Mattapan). Program Services include afternoon classes and tutoring during the school year and a residential six-week summer academic program.
Date Added: 2007-06-21

CAEC 2007 South Carolina Department of Education Teachers Academies
The Center for the Advancement of Ethics & Character (CAEC) will conduct three simultaneous, five-day Academies in South Carolina, through the sponsorship of the South Carolina Department of Education. An intellectual retreat for educators, the Teachers Academy invites participants to engage in dialogue, reflection, and writing about selected great texts and to apply them to curricular and school-wide character education. June 11-15, 2007 Hartsville, SC; Beaufort, SC; Orangeburg, SC
Date Added: 2007-06-11

Remembering SED Emeritus Professor Thomas Culliton
[The Reading Clinic's first adult student] had left school in the tenth grade and somehow had never learned to read. We agreed to take him on. I administered an IQ test, and he scored well above average, so I said to to him, 'At least we know that you have the potential to learn.' And with that he broke down and cried and said 'I always thought I was stupid.' Over a six-week period, one of the things we'd been working on was the o-y/o-i letter combinations. And one day after he left class, he was in his car at a red light at the corner of Exeter and Boylston (he had his license because he had taken an oral exam). Looking up and noticing the street sign for Boylston, he saw the o-y combination, and right there to himself sounded out the word. And when he said it, he knew that he had actually read a word. All of a sudden cars began honking their horns. At first he thought, in his joy, that they were all honking because he had read, but then he realized their impatience at being held up at a light. Today, he is a retired Massachusetts prison official. During his employment there, he had been a real advocate for prisoner reading. He realized the disability had affected a number of men there and had determined in a great part their being there in the first place. — Thomas Culliton, SED Professor of Education, on a student whose life he touched In a 2001 interview, SED Professor Emeritus Thomas Culliton (DGE'53, SED '55, '58, '61) said he strived to help people to be better. "I like to help people to be... better able to help themselves. I take pride in that," he explained. And that's exactly the legacy Culliton leaves behind. Culliton devoted his entire professional life to the reading and language learning difficulties of individuals of all ages, having directed both SED's Educational Clinic and its Reading and Study Skills Clinic with dedication, support, and compassion. These clinics, the oldest of their kind, still exist today as the Donald Durrell Reading Clinic and serve as a model for similar clinics. "The Educational Clinic was the first to take up the medical model, as in taking training doctors into the wards and having them put into practice what they've learned in the classroom. We did that with our teachers," described Culliton, who not only directed the clinics after working with mentors and reading pioneers Donald Durrell and Helen Murphy but rolled up his sleeves teaching teachers how to teach. But his impact did not stop with teaching. As Culliton gave of himself to others so often, he reached well beyond the walls of his classrooms. Jeanie Ferguson, SED'01, remarked that Culliton's high standards, support, and guidance impacted her education. "[His students] feel they can improve themselves as educators and have fun doing it. He enjoys... hearing about the growth of his current and former students," said Ferguson.
Culliton passed away in his home on May 29, 2007. A well-known figure at many Boston-area schools, where he supervised student teachers, Culliton belonged to several reading organizations, received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Boston Higher Education Partnership, and was past president of the Greater Boston Council of the International Reading Association and the New England Reading Association. He was a native of Lynn, Massachusetts and taught there while studying for his doctorate at BU. Culliton taught for three years at the University of Illinois and then returned to BU to permanently teach for more than forty years. At BU, Culliton served on the Alumni Board, supported the Consortium, and served as faculty advisor for Pi Lambda Theta, an honors organization that recognizes excellence in teaching. The funeral will be held on Monday, June 4, 2007, 11a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 174 Humphrey Street, Swampscott, Massachusetts. Visiting hours will be held on Sunday, June 3, 2007 from 4-8p.m. at the Solimine, Landregan and Rhodes Funeral Home, 67 Ocean Street, Lynn, Massachusetts.
Date Added: 2007-06-04

Pedagogical Day Address
On May 29, Dr. M.D. Aeschliman, Professor at Boston University and the University of Italian Switzerland and Curriculum Advisor to the TASIS Foundation (Switzerland), delivered the Pedagogical Day Address to several hundred teachers on two campuses of the International School of Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in 1924, the International School of Geneva has 4,000 students and 150 nationalities.
Date Added: 2007-06-04

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