2009 Stinnett Award

11/3/09Kristin Huggins, a doctoral candidate in public school administration at Texas A&M University, will receive the T. M. Stinnett Academic Fellowship Award at the 2009 Administrative Leadership Institute (ALI). Prior to beginning her pursuit of a doctoral degree, she was a secondary language arts teacher for 11 years in both urban and suburban schools in Oklahoma and Texas. While pursuing her doctorate, Kristin has worked as a graduate assistant researcher in the Aggie-STEM Center at Te ...

2009 Hensarling Award

11/3/09Robin McGlohn, a doctoral candidate in public school administration at Texas A&M University, will receive the Paul R. Hensarling Distinguished Graduate Student Award at the 2009 Administrative Leadership Institute (ALI). As the coordinator for the Staff Development Department in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, Robin is responsible for the New Teacher Induction Program, Teacher Leadership Academy and other professional leadership initiatives. She was nominated for ...

EAQ Editorship

10/26/09 The public school administration faculty in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development in the College of Education and Human Development was selected to serve as the editorial team of Educational Administration Quarterly by the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA).In a recent newsletter, UCEA announced that Linda Skrla, professor of K-12 administration, will serve as the executive editor of the one of the premier journals of research on ed ...

Hanks Hoyle Award

10/19/09 The 27th Annual Administrative Leadership Institute (ALI) will honor Jeffrey Hanks, superintendent of Burnet Consolidated Independent School District (CISD), with the John R. Hoyle Award for Educational Leadership on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009.Hanks, a 27-year veteran of public education, has spent the past 17 years as an administrator in three school districts. Prior to his current position, he was a high school principal in Palestine and Cayuga ISDs. When he took on the role of superin ...

Scheurich AERA Council

10/15/09 Jim Scheurich, professor of public school administration in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, is a nominee for the office of Member-at-Large of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Council.The council is the legislative and policy-making body of AERA, with the power to review and direct the general affairs of the association. A 20-year member of AERA, Scheurich has been highly involved in the organization, from participating in ...

Thompson Golden Deeds

10/19/09 John David Thompson III, a partner in the law firm of Thompson & Horton LLP, will be honored with the Golden Deeds Award from the Administrative Leadership Institute (ALI) in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University.Thompson, who specializes in school law, has been representing school districts, colleges, universities and other educational entities for more than 30 years. He attended law school at the University of Texas School of Law, where he wor ...

China Conference

10/15/09 The United States and China share some of the same difficulties in educating their young people, says Roger Goddard, professor of K-12 administration in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development. "Both countries face similar challenges in serving populations of students that have been traditionally disadvantaged in school settings," Goddard says. "In China, it might be rural migrant workers coming into urban centers, such as Beijing, Shanghai or Tianji ...

Disaster Recovery Report

10/15/09 The Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning (TCALL) in the College of Education and Human Development released the final report for the Disaster Recovery Grants Project.Funded by the Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy, the Disaster Recovery Grants were one-time awards to help Texas literacy programs affected by a series of extraordinary natural disasters in 2008.These grants covered specific costs related to or caused by the disasters, such as replacement o ...

TCALL Star Report

9/24/09 The Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL) published a report titled "STAR Pilot Report: Evaluation of the STAR Training Initiative and the Applicability of Its Content for Texas Adult Basic Education."The report describes the Student Achievement in Reading (STAR) professional development training series on evidence-based reading instruction for adults.Written by Ken Appelt, TCALL program manager, and graduate assistants Donna Mancuso and Juanita Garcia, the r ...

TCALL Workforce Project

9/16/09 With support from the Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy, the Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL) has developed the new Workforce ESL Curriculum Support Project.The project will widen the availability of the Texas Industry Specific ESL (TISESL) curricula, a rich instructional resource for introducing adult English language learners to vocabulary used in the workplace, particularly in the healthcare, sales and service, and manufacturing industries. ...

Headphones 4 Hope

9/15/09 In the same spirit of Farm Aid, The Concert for New York and Live 8, a new student group coordinates benefit concerts in Aggieland for people in need around the world."Headphones 4 Hope is a student organization that we’re hoping to make into an actual nonprofit at some point," says Chris Thomas, a technology management major in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development. "We do benefit concerts for nonprofit organizations, charities and other caus ...

Torres Publication

9/14/09 Mario Torres, assistant professor of K-12 administration in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, published an article in the current issue of Educational Administration Quarterly.Titled "Demographics and Police Involvement: Implications for Student Civil Liberties and Just Leadership," the article focuses on the amount of law enforcement participation in public schools and its effect on student civil liberties.The article was published in the Augu ...

New EAHR Head

9/4/09 "I am because we are." Fredrick Nafukho lets this concept of Ubuntu, a philosophy of human connectedness, guide him as he steps up to his new role as head of the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development."This philosophy reminds us of the essence of what it means to be human and promotes the spirit of togetherness," Nafukho says. "It also emphasizes the importance of interdependence and connectedness of people working cooperatively and collaboratively in the ...

TCALL 20th Anniversary

9/24/09 The Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL) will hold a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, to combine the celebration of the center’s 20th anniversary and its annual welcome for new fellowship recipients. At the reception, six new Barbara Bush and TCALL Fellows for 2009-2010 will be introduced. TCALL will offer refreshments and a tour of the center. The Board of Regents created TCALL in 1989 for the purpose of helping to reduce adult illiterac ...