“The Hough Post”
March 8, 2019
Volume 7, Number 12
COE Receives Grant
On Wednesday of this week, the College of Education was notified that our proposal titled “Choosing Education as a Career” was approved by the Provost. The award is in the amount requested, $83,060 to extend, expand, and develop marketing and recruitment activities at the College level. The goal is to encourage more students to become educators or specialists in fields that support families, children, and schools. Following is the proposal:
Call for Students, Alumni & Friends
The COE Faculty Advisory Council invites faculty and staff to forward names of students, alumni, and friends who would be good spokespersons for the MSU COE. We would like to produce videos for use on our web to promote programs. Please send names and contact information to Dr. K, Rose, Sharon, and Dean Hough any time before April 15th. Your department heads and FAC members should be able to explain this initiative in more detail. Also, please review the FAC notes of March 7, 2019, where this idea originated.
Ozarks Science & Engineering Fair – Volunteer Public Affairs Opportunity
It’s time once again for the Ozarks Science & Engineering Fair to request student volunteers to help set up, administer, and take down the Fair. Missouri State University faculty have always been the backbone of the Fair, and we’re hoping you will help us again this year by encouraging your students to sign up to volunteer. Here’s what you need to know:
- The Fair takes place March 26 – March 28, 2018, at Hammons Student Center (right next door to the Arena).
- Volunteer time slots start as early as 9 AM and generally end by 10 PM on Tuesday, 6 PM on Wednesday, and 10 PM on Thursday.
- Students can sign up on their own at our SignUp Genius page – this allows students to pick the times they want to work, and adjust their schedules as needed. Please emphasize the following to your students:
- Time slots are set up in ONE HOUR increments. It’s okay if they need to come in a little late or leave a little early – they just need to sign up for the time slots that most closely meet their availability.
- They should ONLY sign up for the slots they actually want to work – we have had students sign up for every POSSIBLE time slot, when they really only want to work a few of those hours. This created a lot of confusion and other problems.
- If they sign up for a spot, they need to SHOW UP. We plan jobs and tasks based on how many students we expect to show up – please tell your students we will report anyone who signs up and then fails to appear to either their instructor OR their student organization, whichever is applicable.
- Encourage your students to share this opportunity with their friends – in the past, we’ve been approved as a service hours opportunity, and we are also a great public affairs opportunity for students who want to acquire those hours as well. We also accept volunteers from the community – they just need to be a minimum of 18 years old.
- We will CLOSE the SignUp Genius page as of midnight, Sunday, March 24th, so they need to sign up sooner rather than later – the later they sign up, the fewer time slots will be available.
Any questions you may have, please feel free to contact me.
Sue McCrory, MBA, Coordinator, Meyer Library Testing Center
(417) 836-6120 (voice) – SueMcCrory@missouristate.edu
Invitation to Community Engagement Conference
Faculty who may be interested in service-learning and/or collaborating with community agencies for research, grant writing, student learning opportunities and more are invited to attend MSU’s Community Engagement Conference. This event is sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement & the Office of Public Affairs Support. You are welcome to attend all or any part of the conference. There is no charge for attending and includes lunch.
Community Engagement Conference: ‘Collaborative Connections for a Resilient Future’
Connecting our MSU resources to our community!
- March 28, 2019 [Thursday]
- 8:00am – 1:30pm [8:30am welcome by Clif Smart]
- PSU Ballroom West
- Please pre-register online, even if attending a portion of the conference
Thank you for your consideration and assistance. Please contact me with any questions.
Stacey Trewatha-Bach
Coordinator, Office of Public Affairs Support
Phone: 417.836.8832 | Fax: 417.836.6048
www.publicaffairs.missouristate.edu
2019 Curtis P. Lawrence Award for Excellence in Advising
Congratulations to COE academic advisor, Jessica Bendure! Jessica was selected to receive the 2019 Curtis P. Lawrence Award for Excellence in Advising. A recognition ceremony will take place on Thursday, March 21st, 4:00 p.m., PSU Ballroom.
2018 FCTL Teaching Award Recipient
Congratulations to Dianne Buatte, supervisor of clinical experiences, Childhood Education and Family Studies, who was one of three MSU personnel to receive the 2018 FCTL Teaching Award! Dianne has been working MSU since 1979. She currently supervises university students during their student teaching experience in early childhood education. She enjoys seeing MSU students get offered their first teaching contract to begin their long-awaited career. Dianne was thrilled and surprised to learn of her award. In her free time, she enjoys seeing her grandkids and spending time at Table Rock Lake.
ECE Program Nationally Recognized
The Early Childhood Education Program has achieved recognition by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. This recognition is in place until the next CAEP accreditation cycle at Missouri State. The ECE program submitted its self-study in March 2017 and was designated “nationally recognized with conditions”. The report was re-written and resubmitted in September 2018 and is now designated “nationally recognized” by NAEYC.
International Travel/Study Away Programs
A meeting of administrators and faculty was held on March 7th to “take stock” of COE individuals involved in international travel and study away programs. The meeting produced an inventory of activities in these two categories, as individuals shared information regarding their travel and ideas regarding opportunities for students and other faculty.
Those in attendance included: David Hough, Chris Craig, Tami Arthaud, Ximena Uribe-Zarain, Sascha Mowery, Michelle Satterfield, Gilbert Brown, James Satterfield, Denise Cunningham, Emmett Sawyer, Alex Jean- Charles, and Stephanie Huffman via ZOOM. Eight faculty across the COE will attend the AERA conference in Toronto, Canada in early April. They applied for and received international travel money to support their presentations at the annual meeting.
Highlights of COE Study Away programs in China; Mexico; New York City; and Birmingham, Alabama were presented to the group. Faculty leading study away programs and/or taking international travel are asked to identify outcomes for the program and, upon returning, report how these outcomes were met. Ideas regarding other potential sites for study away and/or international travel include Japan, Australia and Scandinavia.
COE Transfer VIP Day
From Juli Panza:
“A HUGE thank you to everyone who participated in the COE Transfer VIP Day last Friday. It was a great success! This is my favorite undergraduate recruitment event and 2019 did not disappoint.
Thirty students registered for the event and 30 showed up (in the rain, too!). Many students brought parents, friends and/or siblings. The Education Advisement Center was able to release ten of the thirty students for fall 2019 registration. Most of the remaining 20 students were able to schedule future advising appointments.
Our student panel was exceptional this year. Many visiting students told me that the panel was their favorite part of the day. Great job, COE students!
The Mini Majors Fair was full of excitement. Thank you for being so willing to promote our programs!
See Twitter for pictures.
Please let me know if you are willing to help follow up with our visiting transfer students. Each little contact from the COE is helpful!
Thank you!”
Study Away Haiti App Available from Apple App Store
Alex Jean-Charles, Assistant Professor, RFT, designed an app for the Study Away Haiti group on Campus in Summer 2018. The final version of the app has been published on the Apple App Store. Students will use the app when they travel to Haiti for their Study Away program.
This free app was designed for the Study Away Haiti Program at Missouri State University. The MSU students will be traveling to Northern rural Haiti in the spring. The study away participants will be working with Haitian patients and students who are seeking help for a variety of vision concerns. The app provides common phrases translated from English to Haitian-Kreyol with both an audio and phonetic translation. Dr. Alex Jean-Charles, is a native speaker of the Haitian-Creole language who is familiar with the dialect of Northern Haiti. The app will enable the users to communicate terminology that is difficult to translate using other traditional translation resources. The study away students will have the app installed on their iPhone through the Apple App store to better assist the patients and students they will be serving. The region where the students will be traveling is a rural area of Northern Haiti where there is no access to the internet. The app is streamlined in order to maintain functionality even when Wi-Fi access is limited as is frequently the norm in many areas of Haiti.
Bull Mills History
Sharon Lopinot is the contact person for anyone or any group of individuals who would like to learn more about the Bull Mills property. Please work through Sharon rather than contacting the owners directly until such time as the property transfer is complete. Dean Hough would be delighted to work with interested individuals or groups as COE develops a management plan to coordinate utilization of this amazing tract of land.
Below is a brief historical timeline of the Bull Mills property. Bob & Barb Kipfer provided this information to COE department heads during a meeting at the property last month.
- Approximately 10,000 BC the last glaciers start to melt. Bull Mills is a boreal forest. Any remaining megafauna such a short faced bears, giant beavers, mammoths and mastodons have gone extinct.
- 10,000 BC First humans enter the valley
- 8,000-1,000 BC Earliest lithic artifacts (PPK- Spear/Atlatl/hafted knife points) have be collected and identified from registered sites on both sides of the creek.
- 1819, January 4 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft returns from the future Springfield down Bull Creek valley and up Peckout Hollow to Swan Creek. (see map)
- 1833 Greene County authorized the building of the Springfield-Forsyth road, the “Ozark Mail Trace. Grist mill established by James Kimberling. Richard and Elizabeth Jones arrive.
- 1840 Bull Mills Post Office established and “Richard Jones operating a saw and grist mill. Built by Kimberling.
- 1841 Joel McCoy and family with son John arrive.
- 1844, Aug 6 Captain John McCoy marries Elizabeth Jones in the Richard Jones Cabin. They have 3 children by 1851 when they move to Newton County, Ark.
- 1847 James McCoy operating the mill
- 1860 The Missouri State gazetteer and business directory of 1860 described Bull Mills as being a post village 10 1/2 miles from Ozark, with a population of about 20. Professional men at that location included William Busby, chair maker; Albert Bray, lumber dealer; James Cary, chair maker; William Cook, Justice of the peace and hide and leather dealer; Robert Cook, justice of the peace; George Gideon, Cooper; Jackson Gideon, cooper; John Haslip, Chairmaker; ? Lanes, grist Mill; ? McCoy, Gristmill; and Davis Wald, coal dealer
- 1861 July 22, Monday (the week before Wilson’s Creek,) General Sweeney leads 1,200 men down the Mail Trace Road to “break up a secession camp at Forsyth. 1st Iowa Inf., 2nd Kansas Inf., CoC and D Us Dragoons
- July 23rd Tuesday the 23rd they return through the valley, returning to Springfield. “Halted at 6:00 for the night at a fine stream. Distance marched today 15 miles (Distance to Forsyth- Wilkie Journal)
- 1862, April 16-20th The 59th Illinois Infantry Regiment camps at Bull Mills after coming up the Bull Creek Road, crossing the creek 15 times. Mossman, Boyer diaries
- 1862, August 1 Capt. Milton Burch and 80 troops pursued Col Lawther who had attacked Ozark from Forsythe. Returned from Forsyth to Ozark August 4. Bushwacker Pursuit
- 1862 Aug 7-9 Scout from Ozark to Forsyth and Skirmish Ingenthron
- 1862 August 14-17 Expedition from Ozark to Forsyth Ingenthron
- 1862 October 12-19 Expedition Ozark to Yellville? Ingenthron
- 1863? Henry Shipman’s GF Carver killed on upper BC by Rebels who “rode down BC” pursued by Union soldiers who followed them to Taney County cave where they “smoked them out and got them all”. 100 years p. 130
- 1863 January 8 Rebel General John S. Marmaduke sent1600 men under Col. Shelby up Mail Trace to attack Ozark before the Battle of Springfield.
- 1863 February Alf Bolin’s head travels the road from Forsyth to Ozark.
- 1863 April 22nd 19th Iowa and 9th Wisconsin Inf (General Francis Herronn’s army of the Frontier) camped at Bulls Mill.
- 1864, Feb 6 Samuel E. Tucker, Captain Co. D, Sixth Cav. Regt. Mo. State Militia, returned Forsyth to Springfield.
- 1864 April 28-May 7 Scout Springfield -> Yelleville Ingenthron
- 1865 March 28 Skirmish on Bull Creek Ingenthron
- 1867? Captain John McCoy returns, establishes a gristmill out of wood, a blacksmith shop and makes linchpin wagons. He had chaired the 1864 Arkansas Constitutional Convention freeing the slaves.
- 1867 Abraham Shaffer accidentally kills his son Simon, mistaking him for a turkey.
- 1872, March 25 Abraham Shaffer patents our land. Had married Matilda in 1868, *1870 census- blended family = ABRAHM 50, Matilda 27, John 15, Joseph 13 Martha 10/12
- 1890 Elizabeth (Jones) McCoy dies, buried at Cobb-Keeton
- 1898 Bud Meadows kills three Bilyeus 4 miles down stream. Brother CC Meadows lives across from our barn.
- 1903 Captain John McCoy dies.
- 1908 J.J. McCoy dies of a steam saw mill explosion.
- 1912 Our land owned by Winnie Cobb and J. B. Anderson
- 1915 Red bridge built over Bull Creek
- 1938 Mrs. Lilly buries her infant George Ray in Cobb-Keeton Cemetery
- 1978- 1985 House built by Gary and Shelly Wood, raising cattle.
- 1995, Dec 29 Kipfers buy Bull Mills Chain of Title
Retirement Party for Teresa Steele
Personnel Updates
Our candidate for the associate dean position, Dr. Barri Tinkler, will be back on campus March 18 – 19 to meet with the CAEP team and others to learn more about our data management systems and offer input regarding ways to build cultures of assessment at the program, department, college, and unit levels. We should know by the end of March whether or not Dr. Tinkler will be able to join the MSU family.
The search committee charged with vetting candidates for a foundations position in the Department of Reading, Foundations & Technology has completed its work. We have made a verbal offer and hope to be able to make an announcement soon after Spring Break.
One search committee in the Department of Childhood Education and Family Studies has completed its charge and another is nearing completion. We will be making an official announcement after Spring Break on at least one of those searches.
The Department of Counseling, Leadership & Special Education’s special education search committee has completed it charge, and we expect to receive a signed appointment letter any day.
ATLL Workshops
You are welcome to attend any of the workshops below. For questions, contact Joi Hook at joihook@missouristate.edu
| Date | Workshop | Location | Start | End |
| Tuesday, March 12, 2019 | Missouri Model Districts MLDS (Missouri Leadership Development System) Session 3 March 12th | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 1:00 |
| Monday, March 18, 2019 | Comprehensive Support and Improvement Orientation / Readiness Seminar – Springfield 03/18/2019 | PCOB 112 | 9:00 | 2:00 |
| Wednesday, March 20, 2019 | Southwest Regional Science Collaborative Cohort | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 3:00 |
| Thursday, March 21, 2019 | Best Practices in Social Studies Instruction | PCOB 112 | 9:00 | 2:00 |
| Friday, March 22, 2019 | Statewide Teacher Academy 2018-2019 Cohort – Springfield | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 3:00 |
| Monday, March 25, 2019 | Invitation Only: Southwest Regional Teacher Leader Cohort 2018-2019 | PCOB 250 | 5:00 | 7:00 |
| Monday, March 25, 2019 | Transition Academy: Charting the Course for the Future | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 12:30 |
| Tuesday, March 26, 2019 | Creating Standards Based IEPs | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 2:30 |
| Wednesday, March 27, 2019 | New Special Education Teacher Academy 2018-19 | Holiday Inn – Glenstone | 8:30 | 3:00 |
| Thursday, March 28, 2019 | English Language Teacher Ambassadors (ELTA) | PCOB 204 | 9:00 | 3:00 |
| Friday, March 29, 2019 | English Learner Professionals of the Southwest Collaboration | PCOB 204 / 233 | 12:30 | 3:30 |
| Monday, April 1, 2019 | Mentor Training | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 3:00 |
| Tuesday, April 2, 2019 | The Skills That Matter – Teaching Assertiveness in Any Classroom | PCOB 112 | 9:00 | 2:00 |
| Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Creating routes and instructions using book apps (book creator, story creator, pictello) (iTunes card) | PCOB 112 | 9:00 | 12:00 |
| Friday, April 5, 2019 | Becoming Trauma Informed and Trauma Sensitive Schools | PCOB 112 | 9:00 | 2:00 |
| Tuesday, April 9, 2019 | Professional Development Committee (PDC) Training | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 3:00 |
| Tuesday, April 9, 2019 | WISC-V: Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation | Holiday Inn – Glenstone | 8:30 | 3:00 |
| Wednesday, April 10, 2019 | WISC-V: Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation | Holiday Inn – Glenstone | 8:30 | 3:00 |
| Thursday, April 11, 2019 | Southwest Regional Science Collaborative Cohort | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 3:00 |
| Monday, April 15, 2019 | BTAP – Beginning Teacher Assistance Program – Cohort 1 – Springfield | PCOB 112 | 8:30 | 3:00 |
Upcoming Meetings/Events
Spring Break March 11 – 15 (offices open)
CAEP Conference March 18 – 22
MASA March 27-29
MACTE March 25-27
2019 Spring COE Graduation Reception
May 17, 2019
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
PSU Ballroom
2019 College Meeting
Friday, August 16, 2019
8:00 – 11:00 a.m.
University Plaza Hotel, 333 John Q Hammons Pkwy – Oklahoma/Illinois Rooms – Enter North Doors
CAEP Onsite Visit: November 3-5, 2019
All notes/minutes from meetings are on the COE website: https://education.missouristate.edu/
| Keep Calm and March on, |
