Dissertation Defense
Ashlie Beals Arkwright has successfully
defended her dissertation, “Fourth and
Eighth Grade Students’ Conceptions of
Energy Flow through Ecosystems.” Beals
Arkwright completed her undergraduate
degree in middle school education at UK
with a focus on science and social studies.
She also completed her Master of Arts in
Education at UK in the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction with a focus
on science education. She has worked at
the School for Creative and Performing
Arts in Lexington for the past 14 years
as the science teacher for sixth through
eighth grades.
Kentucky River
Watershed Follow-Up
Teacher Workshop
Drs. Becky Krall and Jennifer
Wilhelm (UK College of Education
STEM Department), Dr. Carol Hanley
(College of Agriculture, Food and the
Environment) and Dr. Stephen Testa
(Department of Chemistry) hosted
a follow-up workshop in September
to prepare teachers to implement
project-based watershed investigations
with their students. Teachers from
Fayette, Jessamine, Henry and Grant
counties participated in a Council on
Postsecondary Education-funded grant
project this summer to learn about the
ecology and geology of the Kentucky
River Watershed. Units they develop
combine project-based investigations with
community learning experiences. A subset
teachers also will present their projects at
the upcoming Kentucky Science Teachers
Association annual meeting.
Project-based Investigations on Water
Quality in the Kentucky River Watershed
is a two-year, $260,000 project designed
to improve middle school teachers’
knowledge of the watershed, ecological
concepts, and develop their skills in
creating and implementing project-based
units. Dr. Laurie Henry from the UK
College of Education Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, and Bethany
Kellersberger and Dr. Jessica Hearn from
the Evaluation Center, are partners in this
collaborative project.
EARLY CHILDHOOD, SPECIAL
ED & Rehab counseling
International Division of
Early Childhood Conference
Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown and the Early Childhood Laboratory staff
(Charlotte Manno, Rebecca Crawford, Christy Kaylor, Kim Nicholas and
Mary Beth Caldwell), along with Kristie Pretti-Frontczak (B2K Solutions,
Ohio) and Lynn Sullivan (Region 11 Education Service Center, Texas),
presented a preconference workshop at the International Division of Early
Childhood Conference recently in St. Louis. The title of the presentation was
“Practices to Support Inclusive Early Childhood Programs.” Staff of the Early
Childhood Lab staff members talked about their model for delivering a high
quality curriculum framework to all children in early childhood settings.
Grisham-Brown and graduate student
Alicia Bauchmann gave a presentation
on the International Division of Early
Childhood’s Monograph 16 titled
“Blended Practices for All Children,” coedited by Grisham-Brown. Bauchmann,
along with students Corey Gannon and
Dorothy Mitchell, co-authored an article
with Grisham-Brown titled “Delivering
Individualized Instruction During
Ongoing Classroom Activities and
Routines” for the Monograph. See http://
bookstore.dec-sped.org/product-p/16.
htm for details.
Lane Highlighted by University of Georgia
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