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The August 2018 edition of the Academy Newsletter

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All the latest news!

The Academy Board has regular meetings that welcome all members. If you cannot attend a meeting and still want to stay informed, then visit the forums where the meeting minutes are posted:

www.processeducation.org/moo/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=30

There you will find all the most recent documents and discussions. If you ever have any questions or concerns you can voice them there or contact our president, Matthew Watts, by emailing him at mwatts@tcc.edu

The Academy and Social Media

	Follow the Academy of Process Educators on Twitter (@AcademyProEd) And tell everyone about how you’re using Process Education in your classes, in 140 characters or less! Tweet with tag #AcademyOfProcessEducators Missed the tweets from the Conference? Search #2018AcadProEdConf Looking forward to the next Conference? Search #2019AcadProEdConf
	If you are interested in joining our group on LinkedIn, see https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12108331. This is a private group at this time so you have to ask to join. I will approve you within 48 hours. If I am slower, please e-mail me at cwoodbridge@ggc.edu. Everyone is approved to post — please feel free to contribute items of interest!
	You can also find our first public footprints on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AcademyofProcessEducators/. This is our 'official face' on Facebook. But we also have a private group, available at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/academyofPE/ This is a closed group and you must request to be added. Please do! The Facebook pages are run, more or less, by Denna. She hasn't done much with them yet but hopes to change that in the near future. If you'd like to lend a hand with administering either site, PLEASE let her know: denna@processeducation.org

We're wondering what YOU, an Academy of Process Educator member, would like to see and hear on social media. Please take a moment and let us know!

Jan 3 & 4, 2019 8 am – 5 pm

Description

Faculty members throughout higher education are being asked to become better researchers of their own practices—whether it be in disciplinary context, teaching, or other areas of (faculty) performance. Since scholarly effort is a component of most faculty members’ tenure, promotion, and merit systems, it is important that individuals receive credit for additional research that is not published in discipline journals.

In response to these increasing research demands, this institute focuses on helping faculty members further develop their scholarly efforts, as it pertains to their role as an educator. Participants will gain a greater sense of confidence and professionalism with respect to researching about the scholarship of teaching and learning.

This event provides an excellent opportunity to network with faculty committed to their professional performance, especially as it pertains to teaching and learning in the classroom.

Between 20 and 40 faculty members from various institutions across the country are expected to attend. Those attending will bring years of experience and expertise with advancing the practices of teaching and learning. Specific areas of interest and expertise include: mentoring, student-centered learning, student success (increasing performance of the "at-risk" students), instructional design, effective use of technology, assessment, and evaluation.

As a result, there will be many opportunities for participants to collaborate in grant writing, the writing of papers, and sponsoring collaborative research.

Agenda

how to conduct a research design around learning outcomes and specific to environments in which one is involved
how to effectively make use of appropriate tools for data collection
how to properly identify the appropriate audience related to the research being performed
how to perform peer review of scholarship
exploring the process of classroom research
determining the criteria for high quality qualitative research
developing ideas for a research program in teaching and learning
developing collaborative relationships
effectively integrating peer review into the rewriting of proposals and papers
complementing disciplinary research with scholarship on teaching and learning
building credibility with respect to one’s own scholarship

IJPE Deadline Reminders!

September 1: Submit paper for review
December 1: Submit final paper for technical editing

Join the 2019 PE Conference Team!

First and Third Mondays of every month
at 6 pm EDT, 5pm CDT, 4pm MDT, 3pm PDT

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
https://zoom.us/j/617925166

Or iPhone one-tap: US: +16468769923,,617925166# or +16699006833,,617925166#
Or Telephone: US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID: 617 925 166

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

Come join in discussing strengths, improvements, and insights

that we will incorporate in our conference planning.

Professional Development Workshop

The PE Academy Professional Development Workshops series continues to be met with open arms by Academy members. Available the second Tuesday of each month this series provides Professional Development for serious faculty focused on student self-growth and success. Our first offering of the fall 2018 semester is now available for your registrations. The September 11^th (6pm EST) workshop topic is:

Take action, do research, change yourself ― using Action Research in PE

Tuesday, Sept 11, 2018 6pm Eastern, 5pm Central, 4pm Mountain, 3pm Pacific

Facilitated by David Leasure, Research Director, Academy for Process Educators

Description: Research within Process Education often involves change within an organization. An especially useful tool that is evidence-based is Action Research. It is a framework for managing and researching change: study the change that is needed, make the change, measure it, and repeat as needed. Along the way sort out what works, what doesn't, and why, as well as making changes within the change agents (researcher and participants).

To learn more and register for this workshop visit: http://www.processeducation.org/2018_w5.html

This series of synchronous 90 minute online workshops use Process Education principles to share ideas for strengthening the practice in our classrooms. The Learning Process Methodology is fully implemented in the workshops; as participants experience pre-workshop reading and reflection, in-workshop presentation followed by group reflection and assessment of the ideas generated and shared Similar to our work with students the workshop participants are actively engaged in their learning and challenged to push their knowledge to new levels. Post-workshop assessments show that those participating are growing and learning each time they chose to attend. The workshop are free to PE Academy members and their guests.

Meet Thomas Nelson, Academy Marketing Director

Greetings Process Educators!

My name is Thomas Nelson and I am your new Director of Marketing. Thank you all for your vote of confidence in me. It is my intention to do the best job that I can to grow our membership and participation. As a first step, I’d like to share with you my brief experience in a recently launched program, “The Professional Community for Self Growth”.

Our first ‘assignment’ was to prepare a Risk Reduction Roadmap (RRM). I’m sure many of you are familiar with the tool, but I was not. I was surprised at some of the things I discovered about myself by using this tool. There were areas of my professional life where I felt I was quite competent that need a lot of work. The RRM helped me to organize my individual areas for improvement and I created a plan for improvement. Second, we all worked for two weeks on our skill with the SII (strengths, improvements, insights) tool, because the SII is foundational to the rest of the process. Finally, we all began working on the individual professional characteristics indicated by our individual RRMs. My first one was procrastination.

My results with this program have been better than I anticipated. Applying the SII to my writing productivity during the first two weeks. I greatly increased both my productivity and my understanding of the SII. I’m still in the second cycle of the program and working on procrastination. I’m not sure how it’s going to turn out, but I’m finalizing this column ahead of the deadline, so I think it might be working.

I share all of this in order to invite you to the be a part of The Professional Community of Self Growth. We meet twice a month, on the first and third Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. There is still room for you to participate. We’d love to have you. Feel free to invite non PE members as well. We only ask that they buy a copy of the book. PE members receive the book for free. Please contact David Leasure for more information.

Rethinking the Academy Website

While the Academy website has been useful, the truth is that we've outgrown its original design. In an effort to better tailor the site to the NEEDS and WANTS of the Academy, we'd like to know what ACADEMY MEMBERS want the website to offer and contain. And in that spirit, we hope you'll take just a moment to let us know YOUR preferences and thoughts. Thank you!!

Upcoming Workshops in the 25 Years Series:

Aug 23 — Methodologies Presenter: Steve Spicklemire spicklemire@uindy.edu

Sept 6 — Learning to Learn Course Presenter: David Leasure davidleasure@gmail.com

Sept 20 — Assessment vs. Evaluation Presenter: Tris Utschig tutschig@kennesaw.edu

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ALL workshops in this series start at 6:00 EDT (5:00 CDT 4:00 MDT 3:00 PDT)
Join us! https://zoom.us/j/495790450
iPhone: +16468769923,,495790450#
Telephone: +1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID: 495 790 450

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?

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

Call for Proposals

This is the 12th annual Process Education Conference organized by the Academy of Process Educators. The goal of these conferences is to share teaching/learning practices that support active learning and student-centered practices in higher education, to disseminate educational research on the impact of these practices, and to stimulate collaboration among a growing, interdisciplinary, and diverse community of educators committed to Process Education principles. Please scroll down on this page for additional information about each type of presentation. Select proposals (papers) may be invited for publication in the International Journal of Process Education. (Conference Co-Chairs: Steve Beyerlein & Dan Apple)

You are invited to visit the Presenters page on the website for the 2019 PE Conference. There you will find a form for submitting your proposals, as well as the submission timelines (which are also listed below). Additionally, there are TEMPLATES for Workshops, Posters, and Papers!

The conference is an active learning conference where the choices of venues align with the idea that interactivity, learning, and growth are part of the overall conference experience.

The choices for offering your experience and expertise include:

Practitioner-oriented workshops that explore and disseminate best practices in teaching/learning aligned universal design and ways to increase student engagement. These workshops should present a learning experience that can be transferred to participant campuses. The workshop experience should model PE principles and be designed so that participants can facilitate a similar workshop on their own campus.
Scholarship-oriented workshops that support research on teaching/learning methods and tools aligned with improving the design. You will facilitate a 90 minute exploration of some current research where the participants will engage in advancing the research associated with this research endeavor—leading to additional projects, collaboration and publication
Poster sessions where you will interact with the conference attendees for 45 minutes to discussion your innovation and ideas for future development
Paper discussion sessions where you will be one of three papers selected around a particular theme where a 10 minute update of your paper (conference participants will be expected to have pre-read your paper) and then a facilitated 60 minute discussion with between authors and session participants
Symposium panelist for one of two symposiums – Innovative Institutional Programs and Innovative International Organizations. The Institutional panel will feature programs that involve universal design or propagate universal engagement. The international panel will explore the same idea but across institutions around the world. You will provide a 2-page description for the conference proceedings and then the facilitator of the panel will initiate a discussion involving the four panelists to bring out discoveries and insights to help other colleges explore adoption the innovations.

1. Workshops

Your proposal should include an abstract that explains the nature of the workshop, intended outcomes, and how those outcomes will be realized. If accepted, you will also need to submit a facilitation plan for inclusion in the program binder, along with all workshop materials. The workshop should be designed to accommodate up to 50 participants who will be sitting at tables of 6 to 8 participants each. Consider using elements of cooperative learning by inquiry, reflection, ongoing assessment, and discussion.

Practitioner-oriented workshops that explore and disseminate best practices in teaching/learning aligned universal design and ways to increase student engagement
Scholarship-oriented workshops that support research on teaching/learning methods and tools aligned with improving the design

Title/Facilitator/Abstract/Outcomes Submission	Acceptance of Workshops	Draft Facilitation Plan	Feedback on Facilitation Plan	Final Facilitation Plan Submission
October 15th	November 1st	December 15th	January 15th	March 15th

2. Posters

The Poster Sessions at the Process Education Conference are a venue for sharing specific innovations that apply certain principles of Process Education. Clearly identify your innovation to ensure it fits into the context of Process Education and the conference theme. You can prepare handouts or other resources for participants who visit your poster.

Title/Author/Abstract Submission

March 15th

3. Symposium Panelist

For each of the Symposium topics, a facilitator will provide the opportunity for each panel member to present a 5-minute overview of their Big Idea (which will already be available in the program binder). After these overviews, there will be a lively 60-minute facilitated discussion among the panel members, with the goal of expanding understanding, challenging assumptions, and making new discoveries.

Write 2 pages, sharing the essence of your Big Idea. Explain what it is, how it is or should be implemented, and any future expectations or additional information.
Expect to...

introduce yourself to session the session moderator or few audience members, etc.
provide the audience and other panel members with a brief overview (no more than 5 minutes) of your Big Idea (do not read or reproduce parts of your paper for the audience)
invite fruitful discussion regarding certain elements of your Big Idea
engage in a lively discussion with all other members of the panel, as well as the symposium facilitator
think on your feet, consider new ideas, share on-the-fly assessment feedback, and engage with humor and scholarly good will

Title/Presenter/Abstract Submission	Page Overview
October 15th	December 15th

4. Paper

The conference offers an opportunity to share and obtain feedback on work-in-progress that you may want to elevate to a peer-reviewed venue such as the International Journal of Process Education (IJPE). Papers should follow guidelines for IJPE submission. Papers will be made available electronically to conference participants ahead of the conference. Authors will be given an opportunity to do a 10 minute update/overview of their work, following by a facilitated discussion of paper details and cross-cutting themes across three related papers.

Title/Facilitator/Abstract Submission	Paper Acceptance	Draft Paper Submission	Feedback on Draft Paper	Final Paper Submission
October 15th	November 1st	December 15th	January 15th	March 15th

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