The July 2018 edition of the Academy Newsletter View online
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Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
25 Years of Process Education!

Wade Ellis and Dan Apple, as editors of the special edition of IJPE celebrating 25 Years of Process Education, volunteered to do bi-weekly sessions (every other week) to address the key topics in the journal article. The average size of each topic is 3 to 4 pages. The participants pre-read this section in preparation of a discussion which has a different facilitator for each discussion session. The facilitator takes online requests for discussion points, questions, and reading issues. The facilitator will put together an agenda and facilitate a 60 minute discussion in that specific area where a recorder has been already picked and ready to record any valuable meaning produced from the discussion.

The first recording of session 1 (Process Education) has been posted. The location of this series in on the Academy Member Site under Professional Development (general) called the 25 Years of Process Education. There is one standard ZOOM meeting ID located there. There is room for up to 100 participants (the first session had 22 participants so there's still room for your involvement). Keep in mind these workshops are always on Thursdays and scheduled for 6 pm Eastern.

The Upcoming Topics Include:

July 12th Learning to Learn (1990) Learning to learn focuses on improving the performance of learning through increasing the ownership, capacity, and efficiency learners demonstrate when constructing, using, and validating knowledge. At the heart of PE is Learning to Learn — come and discover through this reading why the growth of learner performance is so significant in the scholarship and practice of PE.

Zoom Session 7/12, 6:00 EDT (5:00 CDT 4:00 MDT 3:00 PDT)
https://zoom.us/j/495790450
iPhone: +16468769923,,495790450#    Telephone: +1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID: 495 790 450

July 26th Learning Process Methodology (1990) The Learning Process Methodology is a 14-step model of the learning process that is the cornerstone for both learning to learn and Process Education. As such, the Learning Process Methodology is nearly omnipresent, with particularly obvious utility in activity design, facilitation, assessment of learning performance, measurement of levels of learning, and implementation of learning skills within the learning process.

Aug 9th Classification of Learning Skills (1992) The Classification of Learning Skills contains more than 250 transferable skills organized into cognitive, social, affective, and psychomotor domains. They are called learning skills because as these skills improve, so does learning performance.

The Academy is currently working on an operational plan. If you would like to help steer the activities for the next year or find an activity to participate in then contact the President, Matthew Watts (mwatts@tcc.edu).
NEW Positions

The Academy is pleased to acknowledge two new appointed positions:
David Leasure is serving as the Academy Research Director. The research director bears responsibility for organizing scholarship initiatives for Academy members including the recovery course research collaboration with Pacific Crest. To get involved with an existing research project or start a new one contact David Leasure (davidleasure@gmail.com).
Joyce Adams (jbadams@hindscc.edu) is serving as the Academy Communications Director. The communications director is responsible using communications effectively to strengthen community interactivity, ensure that all stakeholders have equal access to information and to increase participation in activities through blogging ongoing events, preparing a monthly newsletter, and disseminating information as requested by the Board.

Join the 2019 PE Conference Team!
An enthusiastic group of process educators have begun meeting every other Monday (at 6 pm Eastern) to build on successes from the 2018 PE Conference and plan for the next national conference in June 2019 at the University of South Alabama (located in Mobile).

This month, our goal is to get an initial website up and running, establish the plenary sessions around a general theme of 'Reaching All Learners', craft a call for workshop / research / paper submissions, and fill remaining conference roles. You will find that there are a variety of conference roles that synergize with diverse personal interests. All roles involve opportunities to collaborate with other thoughtful, creative, and energetic process educators across the disciplines and who can enrich your professional life.

If you would like to join our conference team send an email to Steve Beyerlein (sbeyer@uidaho.edu) and Joyce Adams (jbadams@hindscc.edu).

Our next conference planning session is Monday, July 16th. As part of this meeting we will be reviewing assessments of different dimensions of our recent 2018 Conference in Erie, PA.

Come join in discussing strengths, improvements, and insights
that we will incorporate in our conference planning.
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Do you want to be part of ongoing research?
The following PE scholarship topics were identified for development for possible publication in the 2020 issue of IJPE. Please consider joining one of these teams that captures your interests or forming another team around a teaching/learning topic close to your heart. David Leasure, Academy Research Director, is facilitating the formation of teams for article submission for the 2020 IJPE issue, including draft papers for presentation/discussion at the 2019 PE Conference. If you have an interest in becoming part of the author team please contact him at davidleasure@gmail.com. Significant time will be set aside at the 2019 Winter Meeting in Atlanta for providing feedback to authors of these and other PE scholarship papers.

SCHOLARSHIP TOPICS
  • 50 Steps to Success in Self-Growth
  • Learning to Learn STEM
  • Power of an Assessment System and an Annual Assessment Report
  • Measuring Effectiveness of Learning to Learn Experience with the Tri-Square Method
  • Relationship of Increased Key Characteristics to Reduced Risk-Factors
  • Designing a Performance Measure
  • Writing to Think — a Learning Camp By-Product
  • Cultivating a Basic PE Skill Set
  • What Makes PE Transformational?
  • PE Research Process (toolkit for turning action research into scholarship)
  • Best Practices in Interpretation of Feedback: critical to quality assessment

Enrollment is Open until August 31st: No-cost Professional Learning Community to Build Professional Self-Growth Characteristics for Faculty and Leaders

  • Do you want to enhance your professional standing in your institution?
  • Build a roadmap to sharpen your self-growth skills?
  • Get support from a Professional Learning Community to discuss challenges and solutions?
  • Participate in building a model for developing Professional Characteristics for Faculty and Administrators?
  • Unleash your unlimited potential
  • Earn a free copy of Apple, Ellis, & Leasure's new book, The Professional's Guide to Self-Growth?
Ongoing Research Meetings

Start: July 18, 2018
Schedule: monthly on the first and third Wednesdays
Time:   Eastern 6 to 730pm, Central 5 to 630pm, Mountain 4 to 530pm, Pacific 3 to 430pm

Registration link: https://goo.gl/forms/E6Bl5Ybk6CLtAr2O2
Note: If you signed up at the 2018 PE Conference, we need you to sign up again so we have the physical address to deliver your book.

At the Research Day following the 2018 PE Conference, the following 18 month IJPE article development cycle for submission to IJPE was affirmed:

  • Generate research ideas during the PE Conference and Research Day
  • Collaborate and develop the ideas during the summer
  • Submit Paper Abstract to the PE Conference by December 1st
  • Bring outline, methodology, and preliminary results to receive feedback at Mid-winter Meeting in January
  • Submit Paper for PE Conference by March 1st
  • PE Conference – receive feedback on the paper that will enrich IJPE submission
  • During the summer address/amplify article discoveries derived from PE Conference
  • Submit Full Paper for IJPE Peer Review by September 1st
  • Reviewer Feedback by October 15th
  • If accepted, final IJPE submission by December 1st
  • Respond to questions by IJPE senior editor and technical editor as needed
  • Article publication in IJPE before PE Conference

Additionally, Steve Beyerlein volunteered to help recruit and facilitate article development for the upcoming IJPE issues. He will be coordinating with the IJPE Editor, Kathy Burke and communicating with each team leading author over the next six weeks to help them meet the September 1st deadline for submitting a completed article for IJPE peer-review. The potential research for the 2019 issue of the IJPE includes:

  • Annual research report (guest editorial) - A 2-page annual summary of PE scholarship outside IJPE
  • Methodology for Generalizing – A 2018 PE Conference paper to be revised/expanded for IJPE submission
  • Self-Growth Papers - A 2018 PE Conference workshop that will incorporate an analysis of self-growth papers from a variety of Recovery Camp courses
  • Grand Valley State University process documentation surrounding the Recovery Camp
  • Nursing Recovery Course –An award winning 2018 PE Conference paper that will be submitted to IJPE
  • College Readiness profiles - The highly interactive session involving both faculty and students in the final plenary session at the 2018 PE Conference, will be converted to a paper that will benchmark a typical profile of entering college students as well as a profile of a successful college student
  • Classification of Learning Skills – An early version of this paper presented at the 2018 PE Conference will be expanded to include a rationale for updates to each of the skill domains and a comprehensive, user-friendly listing of learning skills
  • Meta-Analysis of PE Scholarship - A need for an analysis that maps PE to other major scholarship movements was underscored in the Sunday research meeting and there was broad-based interest in accelerating development of this article for IJPE submission.
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