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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Library Media Specialists Training

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Library Media Specialists Training Workshop

On Wednesday, November 8th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Liaison from the Babbidge Library, Zach Claybaugh met with participating ECE library media specialists for a professional development training. The group met virtually and heard from content specialists from the library.

  • Literature Resources and Tools for Research: Collections & Humanities Librarian, Richard Bleiler, will walk participants through a variety of UConn Library resources that support literature-focused research. The session will highlight resources available for locating primary texts and secondary (critical) materials, starting with the databases and concluding the LibGuide(s).
  • Information Literacy Tools: An Introduction: This session, led by UConn Health Science Library’s Associate Systems and Technology Administrator Jason Nicosia, will provide an overview of the many guides, tutorials, modules, and other learning objects the UConn Library offers. These objects have been developed to support the information literacy and critical thinking skills of your students. A select group of these tools will be demonstrated live during the session. Helpful tips for integrating these valuable resources into your instructional sessions will also be shared.
  • Intro to STEM Resources and Databases at UConn Library: In this workshop, STEM Librarian Renee Walsh will focus on literacies needed for the successful searching of science topical databases. For example, what is the difference between searching for information in Google versus a database with a controlled vocabulary? Finally, I will introduce the most important topical databases at UConn Library for research in science, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
  • Intro to History Resources: In this workshop, history liaison David Avery will familiarize participants with the range of resources available from UConn Library to support historical research and inquiry.

The training has been recorded and will be available to for reference at: https://guides.lib.uconn.edu/ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Sociology Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Sociology Workshop

On Friday, November 3rd, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Sociology, Ingrid Semann met with certified Sociology Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. After some general introductions and a discussion of the successes and challenges instructors have in their UConn courses the group heard from a panel of UConn faculty. Fumilayo Showers, Kim Price-Glynn, and Noël A. Cazenave comprised the panel.

Dr. Showers' research focuses on the social organization of health and long-term care; health professions; care work; and immigrant workers. Her book, Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in US Health Care, documents the experiences of recent West African immigrants in a range of health care occupations in the US. In another project, Post-Mortem of a Pandemic: A Temporal Frame of Work, Life, and Death in COVID-19, she is conducting interviews among frontline health care workers to trace a history of loss, vulnerability, stress and burnout, moral injury, occupational inequality, racism, coping strategies, and unanticipated opportunity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Price-Glynn’s research interests center on gender, labor and carework. She is co-editor of the volume, From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID and Pathways to Change. Her current study (under contract with Rutgers University Press) explores the direct and indirect care of parenting groups that demonstrate both barriers and solutions to more equitable and transformative care practices. Professor Price-Glynn's past research addresses diverse settings including strip clubs, nursing homes, and home health care. Her book, Strip Club: Gender, Power, and Sex Work, examined the processes through which men and women wield, negotiate, and contest power in a gendered organization.

In addition to numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other publications, Professor Cazenave coauthored Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card against America’s Poor, which won five book awards; and has since then published Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs; The Urban Racial State: Managing Race Relations in American Cities; Conceptualizing Racism: Breaking the Chains of Racially Accommodative Language; and Killing African Americans: Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism. His most recent book is Kindness Wars: The History and Political Economy of Human Caring.

To end the meeting the group shared helpful resources with each other and mentioned possible topics for future workshops.

 

UConn Sociology courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Human Rights and Genocide Studies Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Human Rights and Genocide Studies Workshop

On Thursday, October 26th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, Sandra Sirota, EdD met with certified HRTS Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. The ECE meeting was held in conjunction with UConn’s Human Rights Summit. Details about the summit can be referenced at: https://summit.humanrights.uconn.edu/2023-summit/. Instructors listened to the Keynote Address by Oleksandra Matviichuk a Ukrainian human rights and civil society leader based in Kyiv. They also heard from a panel of speakers as they discussed "Legacies of Babyn Yar: Preserving Memory and Identity in Ukraine" among other sessions

UConn Human Rights courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE European History (HIST 1400) Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE European History (HIST 1400) Workshop

On Thursday, October 26th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for European History (HIST 1400), Prof. Tom Maulucci met with certified HIST 1400 Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. Prof. Elizabeth Della Zazzera (UConn History Department), shared her talk “How to be Modern in Post-Napoleonic France,” followed by questions and comments from the Instructors. Later, the Instructors shared their insights from the assigned readings and videos on the 1848 Revolutions by Christopher Clark and Jonathan Sperber with Prof. Maulucci. Zach Claybaugh (UConn Library) also joined the group to share resources for the 1848 Revolution available through the UConn Libraries. To end the day everyone participated in a conversation about AI and it’s implications in the history classroom.

UConn History courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Economics Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Economics Workshop

On Wednesday, October 25th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Economics, Prof. Natalia Smirnova met with certified ECON Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. Presentations by a UConn ECE Instructor Ian Tiedemann (Greenwich High School), Scott A. Wolla, Economic Education Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Ariel Slonim, Curriculum Designer, Marginal Revolution University (MRU) made up the day. Presentation topics are below:

  • Success Sharing: Journal of Future Economists -- 2023 -- Greenwich HS (page 78) Teacher: Ian Tiedemann, Greenwich HS.
  • Teaching Market Structures with Gum (Active Learning), Scott A. Wolla, Economic Education Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Bio: https://research.stlouisfed.org/staff/wolla
  • Supply, Demand, Action! Harnessing interactive tools to teach supply and demand. (Active Learning), Ariel Slonim, Curriculum Designer, Marginal Revolution University (MRU).  Aiel Slonim is sharing her passion for economics literacy by helping to improve resources for economics education in the US. Prior to joining MRU, Ariel taught economics to 8th grade students in Brooklyn and taught as an adjunct at the King's College, NYC. Ariel has a Masters in Economics from GMU.
  • Monetary Policy has Changed. Has Your Teaching? (Active Learning), Scott A. Wolla, Economic Education Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  • Cracking the Code: Understanding GDP and Inflation through interactive tools. (Active Learning) Ariel Slonim, Curriculum Designer, Marginal Revolution University (MRU).
  • Teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Topics in Economics, Natalia V. Smirnova, UConn

For more information see the Department of Economics post about the event at ECE Economics Workshop 2023 | Department of Economics (uconn.edu)

 

UConn Economics courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Physics Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Physics Workshop

On Monday, October 23rd, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Physics, Dave Perry met with certified PHYS Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. Dr. Perry shared a program overview and discussed labs and exams with the Instructors. Later the group heard from ECE Instructor Alina Britchi (Daniel Hand High School) about her CERN experience this summer and from Keynote  speaker Heather Osborne, Lab Technician/Curator from Wesleyan University regarding “Playing Science”.

    

UConn PHYS courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Philosophy Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Philosophy Workshop

On Wednesday, October 18th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Philosophy, Prof. Mitch Green met with certified PHIL Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. Prof. Green spoke with instructors about grading student essays. Each instructor provided three anonymized graded samples of student essays for the conversation.

Later, Prof. Green led a discussion on “post-truth” epistemology after instructors watched, a Ted Talk by UConn Professor Michael Lynch(below): “How to See Past Your Own Perspective and Find Truth.”.

UConn PHIL courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Marine Science Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Marine Science Workshop

On Friday, October 13th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Marine Science, Prof. Claudia Koerting met with certified MARN Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. The purpose of the day’s workshop was to familiarize teachers with both old and new equipment used to sample and analyze water quality and to make connections among faculty new to the ECE program and veteran Instructors.

The group of 13 ECE Instructors set out on a boat and enjoyed the scenery while becoming acquainted. They gathered at the Sabino dock to board the “Mystic Seaport Express” captained by Liz Sistare (UConn ’13), Waterfront Operations Supervisor. Participating instructors represented 5 of Connecticut’s counties.

The breezy but sunny day began with a trip through the Mystic Drawbridge. After passing the railroad bridge they found a site by channel marker 30 in the Mystic River to make their first set of measurements using instruments that measure salinity, oxygen, and temperature. They deployed a water sampler to retrieve water samples near the bottom and used a simple bucket for surface water samples. They performed two plankton tows and brought those samples back for microscopic evaluation. Two more sites were chosen: one nearer to the mouth of the river and the other closer to the outflow for the treatment plant. Water samples were returned with the group to the seaport sailing center where they tested for chlorophyll content using a fluorometer and performed a light/dark experiment with water from two sites. Conversations were held about how these samples could inform scientists and regulators about policy guiding water use in the river. Comparisons were drawn with boat trips teachers have made all along the Connecticut shoreline.

After lunch at the sailing center the group ran their analysis, looked at the plankton tow and compared oxygen uptake in the light/dark bottle experiment. The day ended with Instructors learning a new method, learning a new instrument, or walking away with new connections and ideas.

UConn MARN courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Environmental Science Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE Environmental Science (NRE) Workshop

On Thursday, October 12th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Natural Resources & the Environment, Prof. Morty Ortega met with certified NRE Instructors for their annual professional development workshop. The workshop was held at Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area in Burlington, CT. Presentations by the Sessions Woods staff included:

  • The private life of bears – Melissa Ruszczyk (DEEP)
  • The private life of bobcats – Jason Hawley (DEEP)
  • Habitat – Peter Picone (DEEP)

The presentations were well received by the teachers, and they had many questions for each of the presenters.

UConn NRE courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE Sustainable Plant and Soil Systems (SPSS) Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE SPSS Workshop

On Wednesday, October 11th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for SPSS, Julia Kuzovkina met with certified ECE SPSS Instructors at this professional development workshop at Southington High school.  This year the group implemented a different approach: instead of UConn faculty developing a program, the teachers designed their own workshop to provide them with relevant experiences.

The workshop included diverse activities: during a field practicum Brian Bostrom explained how to analyze the soil for specific purposes (photo 1); a representative from academia Nick Goltz provided a recent update on plant diseases; an owner of a landscape company Nicole Ali described new trends in the landscape industry;  a presentation by Dustyn Nelson, past president of the Connecticut Nursery and Landscape Industry, discussed  students preparation for future careers in the Green Industry (photo 3). In addition, there was a Hands-On Floral Workshop, run by a practitioner Paul Lumia from Nyren's of New England, where teachers were introduced to beautiful fall arrangements which can be introduced in the ECE Floral Art courses at schools (photo 2).

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UConn SPSS courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE American Studies Workshop

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE American Studies Workshop

On Wednesday, October 11th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for American Studies, Laurie Wolfley met with certified ECE AMST Instructors at this professional development conference.

Instructors received a copy of Ann Petry's The Street which they read beforehand. Shawn Salvant, Professor of English and Africana Studies (UConn) shared his presentation "Ann Petry's The Street: Revisiting a Classics" and discussed how curriculum can be designed around the text.

Later groups of Instructors worked together to develop lessons, gather resources and share teaching strategies. Materials will be posted to the ECE American Studies HuskyCT site for reference.

 

   

UConn American Studies courses offered through ECE.

Fall 2023 UConn ECE English Conference

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Fall 2023 UConn ECE English Conference

On Friday, October 6th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for English, Profs. Scott Campbell and Jason Courtmanche, and GA Adam McLain met with certified ECE English Instructors at this professional development conference.

The theme was “Salutations, Congratulations, and Critiques”

The conference built on the work of Deonna Smith on joy and the anti-racist classroom, Gholdy Muhammad on cultivating genius and unearthing joy, and Felicia Rose Chavez on the anti-racist writing workshop in a series of workshops that brought together the community of ECE English teachers to share in the delights and failings of giving feedback.

For additional details see: https://ece.english.uconn.edu/fall-2023-conference/.

 

UConn English courses offered through ECE.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE LLAS Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE LLAS Workshop

On Thursday, May 22nd UConn Early LLAS (Latino and Latin American Studies) Instructors met on the Hartford campus with UConn ECE LLAS Faculty Coordinator, Anne Gebelein for their annual professional development workshop.

Instructors heard from guest speaker, Dr. Rodolfo Fernandez on "Liberalism and Neocolonialism in Latin America 1870-1920". After lunch ECE Instructors Bonnie Nietupski (Glastonbury High School) and Dan Marak (Manchester High School) shared resources with the group. Bonnie spoke about Developing Latin America-centered Curriculum and Dan spoke about Tobacco Cultivation and Latin American Migration. Prof. Gebelein also shared additional materials with the group for teaching about Caribbean migration and Tobacco.

UConn LLAS courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE EDCI & EDLR Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE EDCI & EDLR Workshop

On Thursday, May 18th UConn Early College EDCI (Education Curriculum and Instruction) and EDLR (Educational Leadership) Instructors met virtually with UConn ECE EDCI and EDLR Faculty Coordinators, Tom Levine and Danielle Derosa for their annual professional development workshop.

Instructors discussed the concept of justice as it relates to equity, within education specifically, and society broadly. In preparation for this portion of the workshop, instructors read “Justice a Short Story” by Mariame Kaba and engaged in a restorative justice workshop as a group. Later in discipline specific breakout sessions, instructors discussed effective instruction specific to the course taught.

UConn Education courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE Statistics Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE Statistics Workshop

On Wednesday, May 10th UConn Early College Statistics Instructors met with UConn ECE Statistics Faculty Coordinator, Prof. Nalini Ravishanker for their annual professional development workshop.

The day included STAT 1100 content and problem discussions with presentations by fellow ECE Instructors. After a break the group took part in a virtual presentation by Dr. Bonnie K. Ray, VP of Data at Chartbeat: "Using statistics to measure engagement with the news". Dr. Ray provided examples of fairly basic statistical procedures that are used in the Chartbeat product to identify spikes in engagement on a story, benchmark engagement, and other factors.

  

UConn Statistics courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE HDFS Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE HDFS Workshop

On Tuesday, May 9th UConn Early College Experience Human Development and Family Sciences Instructors met with UConn ECE HDFS Faculty Coordinator, Shannon Weaver and ECE HDFS GA Jessie Gentilella for the Spring UConn ECE HDFS Workshop.

The day included a celebration of past year successes, program updates, and a keynote presentation:

“Covid Three Years Later: Implications for Individual and Family Development and Well-being from a Longitudinal National Study and Human Development”

  • Shannon E. Weaver, Ph.D., Associate Professor Human Development & Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
  • Carol A. Johnston, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
  • Eboni Baugh, Ph.D., Associate Professor Human Development & Family Science, East Carolina University
  • Dana Weisser, Associate Professor Human Development & Family Sciences, Texas Tech University

After a break, the group reconvened to share ideas for teaching challenging topics in their classrooms and a panel discussion.

“Learning from Our Experience: Veteran Instructor’s Answers to Common Course Questions and Issues” occurred.

The panel included ECE Instructors:

  • Rebecca Daddio, Cheshire High School
  • Diane Richards, Trumbull High School
  • Martha Goldstein-Schultz, Ph.D., Coordinator for Youth Development, Education, and Language and Literacy Programs, Student Activities Community Outreach, University of Connecticut
  • Amanda Stirgwolt, Ph.D. University of Connecticut

UConn Human Development and Family Sciences courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE French Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE French Workshop

On Friday, May 5th Early College Experience French Instructors participated in their annual professional development workshop. The day included the following sessions:

Podcasts in French: UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for French, Professor Florence Marsal, spoke to teachers about different podcasts in French, and brainstormed ideas for activities in the classroom. Examples of interesting podcasts: « L’Heure du Monde », « une vie une œuvre », « French voices », « pile ».

Multimedia Medievalisms, Elisabeth Buzay, Visiting Assistant Professor in French: Elisabeth talked contemporary adaptations of medieval stories in a variety of media, and how they can be integrated into the second language classroom.

“La laïcité” Mary Beth Allen, Visiting Assistant Professor in French: Mary Beth talked about the concepts of secularism and multiculturalism in France.

“Booktube”, Nada Elshabrawy,Teaching Assistant - Graduate Student in French: Nada talked about the differences between Booktube channels in the US and in France, common topics found on Booktube, and how to employ Booktube/Booktok techniques in the French language classroom.  

Participants also received e-copies of “La bande dessinée” by Annie Baron-Carvais, and “Le Multiculturalisme” by Patrick Savidan.

UConn French courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE Biology Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE Biology Workshop

On Thursday, May 4th Early College Experience Biology Instructors visited the Storrs campus for a professional development workshop. Instructors worked with UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator, Dr. Tom Abbot, Dr. Chris Malinoski, and Rebecca Newcomer on a laboratory exercise where Instructors received hands on experience. Instructors performed a colorimetric assay allowing them to observe the activity of the mechanism that yeast use to import maltose.

 

UConn Biology courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE Allied Health Sciences Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE Allied Health Sciences Workshop

On Tuesday, May 2nd Early College Experience Allied Health Instructors visited the Storrs campus for a professional development workshop. After a welcome by Allied Health Sciences Department Head, Dr. Justin Nash, the group introduced themselves and discussed AH 4092: EMT Training, AH 1100: Introduction to Allied Health Professions, and AH 2001: Medical Terminology in roundtable sessions discussing best practices and strategies for engaging with students.

UConn Allied Health Sciences courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE Earth Sciences Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE Earth Sciences Workshop

On Wednesday, April 26th UConn Early College Experience Earth Science Instructors met with faculty from UConn’s ERTH Department. ECE Faculty Coordinator for ERTH, Dr. Robert Thorson led a walking tour around campus. After leaving Rowe, they headed east to Augustus Storrs Hall, the oldest masonry building on campus, which set the precedent for the campus layout in 1906 to follow the glacial grain. Crossing Swan Lake, they examined in sequence: the Stone Pavilion, a rubble of glacial slabs, the local bedrock (the Paleozoic Hebron Gneiss), and ended the walking tour with a walk up to experience the view from Horsebarn Hill. Returning to the center of campus, the group stopped in Beach Hall—home to UConn’s Earth Sciences Department. They toured the building, visited teaching labs for introductory geoscience courses, research labs, and met with Department Head, Tracy Frank.  After lunch the group engaged in presentation by Prof. Thorson on the Connecticut Landscape. Thor shared an article from CT insider that he wrote and highlighted the Climate Underground podcast.

UConn Earth Sciences courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE Art Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE Art Workshop

On Wednesday, April 26th, UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for Art, Prof. Cora Lynn Deibler, met with ECE Art instructors for their virtual professional development session. Dr. James J. Hughes was invited to speak with the group about AI in the art world. Dr. Hughes is an American sociologist and bioethicist. He serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and as Associate Provost at UMass Boston. He is the author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future, co-edited Surviving the Machine Age, and writes and speaks often on topics of bioethics, technology, and Buddhism. Dr. Hughes holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he served as the assistant director of research for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Hughes lives in Willington CT with his wife, UConn professor of art Monica Bock.

The group listened to Dr. Hughes’ presentation and engaged in a lively conversation discussing the rise of technological art-generating tools that use artificial intelligence. While students are interested in new AI tools, established artists are skeptical – even fearful. The group discussed strategies for talking about, contextualizing, and using or discouraging use of AI artmaking in our classrooms.

 

UConn Art courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE Environmental Science Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE Environmental Science (NRE) Workshop

On Tuesday, April 25th UConn Early College Experience Environmental Science Instructors met with faculty from UConn’s NRE Department. ECE Faculty Coordinator for NRE, Dr. Morty Ortega invited Dr. Cynnamon Dobbs to share her talk, “Urban Forests for a Resilient Future” with the group.

Dr. Dobbs is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Community Forestry with University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on urban forest ecosystem services and its link to the sustainability and resilience of urban areas. She uses quantitative data from biophysical and social factors to distinguish drivers of change, and to produce evidence for improving urban decision making. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Ecology at the University of Melbourne, Australia; her MS degree at the University of Florida; and her BS at the Universidad de Chile, Chile. Dr. Dobbs has a large number of publications in scientific journals, book chapters, and extension journals. As a teacher, she has instructed courses such as Forest and climate change, Urban ecology, Landscape ecology, and many others.

After the presentation, the group discussed class activities to teach about Urban Forest and their courses as they are dealing with post-covid student behavior and other struggles.

UConn NRE courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE English Conference

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE English Conference

On Tuesday, April 18th, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for English, Profs. Scott Campbell and Jason Courtmanche, and GA Maddie Gehling met with certified ECE English Instructors at this professional development conference.

Topics for the day included, reading in ECE English, using UConn library resources, and building text into the course inquiry. After a working lunch a brief Q&A period occurred before the day concluded.

For additional details see: https://ece.english.uconn.edu/spring-2023-conference/

UConn English courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE Medieval Studies (HIST 1300) Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE Medieval Studies (HIST 1300) Workshop

On Monday April 3rd, UConn Early College Experience, and the UConn ECE Faculty Coordinator for HIST 1300, Prof. Sherri Olson met with certified ECE History Instructors for their annual professional development conference.

Guest speakers: Professor John Sexton, Bridgewater State University and Professor Andy Pfrenger, University of Mississippi presented to the group on “The Viking Sagas – and Board Games”.  They spoke about the game hnefatafl and its history and place in Viking culture and the sagas. Later the group learned how to play using gameboards and pieces.

After lunch, Prof. Olson led a discission on the stories of Ragnar Loðbrok with focus on the folkloric elements of Ragnar's saga; the historical elements embedded in the text (and how to read such a text for historical reconstruction); the place of hnefatafl in the story; and some of the historical details buried in the stories, especially the Krakumal, a poem supposedly recited by Ragnar at his death c. 900.

To learn more about Profs. Sexton and Pfrenger and their podcast Saga Thing see: Saga Thing | a podcast by Saga Thing (podbean.com). 

UConn History courses offered through Early College Experience.

Spring 2023 UConn ECE Educational Leadership Workshop

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Spring 2023 UConn ECE Educational Leadership Conference

On Tuesday, April 4th, UConn Early College Experience and the faculty from Educational Leadership met with EDLR 2001 Contemporary Issues in Sport Instructors for a virtual professional development meeting. UConn Adjunct Faculty member, Doug Glanville, discussed contemporary issues in sports and held a short question and answer period with participants. Later the group discussed EDLR 2001 and course updates.

UConn Educational Leadership courses offered through Early College Experience.