2011 Fall - Saint Joseph's College

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SERVICE
Joint Symposium to be held at
Siem Riep, Cambodia, January 2-4,
2012.
KAREN VENDITTI, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor of Education, is currently
working on a project through
the Early Childhood Leadership
Institute of the University of the
District of Columbia. Between
June 19 and June 30, Venditti,
along with two public school
colleagues, offered workshops
in an Early Childhood Reading
Academy, which was conducted
in Washington, DC. Venditti
and colleagues presented to
approximately 100 preschool
educators and administrators on
the use of research-based reading
instruction to maximize student
achievement. They have been
requested to follow up with select teachers through on-site
observations to provide feedback on the implementation
of these methods in order to develop exemplars for use
in future training sessions. Also, Venditti presented three
workshops to teachers and administrators of Geminus/
Headstart of Lake County in May and August. These
workshops were titled: “Scaffolding Early Readers for
Optimal Comprehension”; “Vocabulary Extension in the
Early Childhood Setting: You Get What You Give”; and
“Response to Instruction—The Impact on Early Childhood
Educators.” She presented “What’s New in Children’s
Literature” to the Kankakee Valley Reading Council on
Vendetti receiving the Curtis Osburn Distinguished Service
Award from ATE-I President-Elect Jane Riehl.
Zier’s charcoal drawing, “Fixing Time,” at Prophetstown, Ind.
September 27. Venditti also won two awards from the
Association of Teacher Educators - Indiana (ATE-I): the
Duaine Lang Research Award, which is a $500 mini-grant
for proposed research that Dr. Jennifer Barce and Venditti
are developing; and the Curtis Osburn Distinguished
Service Award, given to one member annually who has
contributed a great deal to ATE-I.
DANA ZIER, Instructor, is one of
four resident artists chosen to
represent historic Prophetstown
Dana Zier
near Battleground, Ind., for the year
2011–12. She was chosen as one of
10 Indiana Artists in 2011 to represent,
paint, and benefit the “Naturally
Inspired” event for the Indianapolis
Zoo. Zier’s oil paintings and Rena
Brouwer’s renowned watercolors of Carroll County Indiana
were in a show October 1–30 at the Opera House Gallery
of Contemporary Art in Delphi, Ind. Opening reception was
October 7.
BONNIE ZIMMER, Associate Professor of
Art and Assistant Professor of Education,
showed her artwork at an exhibition
entitled “In Harmony with Nature”
on September 16. The exhibition was
presented by the Prairie Arts Council in