In this newsletter:

• Happy New Year!
• International Education Student Orientation
• Graduate Students Association Newsletter
• Lost Binder.  Reward Offered!
• Home and School Association Workshops
• Hurrahs

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We would like to extend our wishes to all our readers for a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year.  Happy 2015 everyone!

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INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION STUDENT ORIENTATION

The Faculty of Education currently has 30 international students in the MEd and BEd programs, and 10 of them have just arrived in Charlottetown.  An orientation session for these students has been arranged on Thursday, January 8th, 2015 in Memorial Hall.  Orientation will kick off with a pizza lunch for the international students only.  Faculty and staff are welcome to drop by to meet and greet the international students during their welcome luncheon (1-2pm) in the Education Student Lounge.

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GRADUATE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

Congratulations to the Graduate Students Association (GSA) on putting together their first ever newsletter.  (You can read it here).  Their goal is to publish a new issue each month, and you will find them here as they become available.

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LOST BINDER. REWARD OFFERED!

Julie Gagnon has misplaced an important red binder that she is anxious to have returned.  If you happened to have found a mysterious red binder but did not know where to return it, please contact Julie.  She is offering sugar pie as a sweet reward.

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HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION WORKSHOPS

The PEI Home and School Association are holding a series of three workshops bringing together home and school members and other educational stakeholders to work together to identify issues in education that would benefit from attention. The meetings will begin with a brainstorming session to identify the range of issues of concern, and will then collectively select a subset of those issues and break into small groups to identify possible actions, resolutions, or projects that can help to address them.

The workshops will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. as follows:

• January 26 at Montague Consolidated School
• January 27 at Elm Street Elementary School in Summerside
• January 29 at Spring Park Elementary School in Charlottetown.

Interested parties are welcome to attend.  (The Dean will be attending the Charlottetown session).  A report of the issues identified at these workshops will be circulated in February.  If you have further questions, please contact Peter Rukavina, president of the PEI Home and School Association.

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HURRAHS

PUBLICATION BY DR. LYNDSAY MOFFATT

Congratulations to Dr. Lyndsay Moffatt on the publication of a new article:

I Hope it Still Counts as Reading: The Cultural Production of Reading(s), Social Relations and Values in a Research Interview

The article was published in The Journal of Language and Literacy Education

PUBLICATION BY DR. SEAN WIEBE

Congratulations to Dr. Sean Wiebe on his new publication (with Craig Macdonald):

Intensification and Complexity in Teachers’ Narrated Worklives

The article was published in the Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l’éducation.