Events Calendar

     Employees interested in taking advantage of the Work at Home Program should complete the Microsoft Work At Home Rights Form (available on the ICT Web site) and submit it to the ICT Help Desk in EJW B-13 with payment of $10.

Summer Reading Clinic on Campus

Are you looking for enriching activities for your children this summer? Would you like the activities to be FREE? The School of Education’s Summer Reading Clinic is open to children, ages 5–12, who need help with reading and writing or just want to have fun and maintain or improved their skills over the summer break. The clinic runs July 11 to 26 and meets from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The children will be taught by Master Reading Teachers completing their master's degree in reading in Texas Wesleyan’s Graduate Education Program. Depending on the number of children in the program, instruction will vary from one to three children per teacher. 

     The teachers will conduct a variety of assessments on the children and then plan lessons accordingly.  Texas Wesleyan students conference with the parents in order to determine their concerns for their children.  The focus of the clinic is on reading and writing, and with the main purpose that it be FUN for the children!  The clinic concludes with an "Author's Tea" on July 26. Families are invited to attend this important event, a time to showcase the children's work. They will read stories, poems they've written, and books they've read. For more information or to sign up your child, please call Lisa Dryden at (817) 531-4961.  

In the News

Dana Schultes, BFA '98, was featured in Sunday's edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Schultes is directing Lee Blessing's Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music, a Stage West production which runs June 1-23 at the Tarrant County College Northwest Campus. To read the full article, click here. To learn more about Stage West and its productions, click here.

School of Education News

Texas Wesleyan alumna Kary Johnson, MEd '03, and Sheryl Kuehl, master's candidate, were chosen by Texas Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TexTESOL) conference attendees as having the best presentation at the 2006 TexTESOL V Fall Conference. They will now be automatically included in the 2007 State Conference, to be held in October in Galveston. Johnson and Kuehl were also highlighted in the January/February TexTESOL V Newsletter. Their presentation was titled “Reading and Science Integration for ELLs.”

Aileen Curtin, assistant professor of early childhood education, was awarded a McCann scholarship to take five School of Education SEA student members (Shannon Phelps, Jamie Turner, Nicole Gilmore, Sarah Hoverman, and Hollie Hilton) to the Student Education Association State meeting held recently in Austin. Jamie Turner was elected District II president for the coming year and Hollie Hilton, State secretary. In fall 2008, Texas Wesleyan will host the District II conference.