Kappa Delta Pi

Your Connection to Colleagues across the Country

Welcome to Kappa Delta Pi’s eChapter! It’s easy and convenient to be a part of eChapter. Simply “attend” the topical, one-hour Webinars that are right for you by registering for the events of your choice! Gain information, share with other participants, ask questions, and earn a certificate of participation for attending the event.

Whether you are a new teacher, K–12 veteran or a professor, you have a KDP home here. What’s more, eChapter allows you the additional luxury of participating where you are, as you are—at your desk or your easy chair, in business suit or pajamas.

It doesn’t matter, because learning from and supporting one another is what counts. Enjoy this year’s events!
Brian

Brian Rothenberger
eChapter Counselor & Event Facilitator
Contact me: br2395@sccoast.net

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Winter, Spring 2010 eChapter Events Calendar
What a line-up! Mark your calendar and register through the link provided to participate in any of these 1-hour Webinars. You will receive follow-up information via e-mail and a certificate of participation following the event.

More Events Coming! Please revisit this calendar and check your Inbox for KDP eChapter Webinar messages.

March 10— 8p.m. EST
Who is that person teaching my students?
Angela Lupton and Catherine Hagerman Pangan

Reconnect with your professional philosophy to transform your teaching, student learning, and educational policy. If you are a passionate teacher looking to reconcile your professional philosophies with the current educational climate to create more student-centered instruction, this Webinar is for you.

Through a lens of Asset-Based Thinking, the presenters will guide you in reconnecting with your beliefs about teaching and learning and developing strategies—including the power of teacher as researcher—to transform your classroom and persuade school climate and educational policy.

During this hour-long session with Q&A time, participants will:

•	hear an overview of Asset-Based Thinking and gain resources for further understanding of this concept.
•	examine personal core values related to students and teaching practices and how they may be applied in any classroom setting.
•	consider ways to advocate for the classroom, school, and education policies.

About the presenters
Angela Lupton, co-counselor of the Gamma Nu Chapter, serves as Assistant Dean in Butler’s College of Education. She loves to help students find their passion, and then watch them enter the profession believing they can transform education.

Dr. Catherine Hagerman Pangan is an Assistant Professor at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, and co-counselor of KDP’s Gamma Nu Chapter. Her interests include educational policy, informal education settings, and the importance of building community in classrooms.

March 24— 8 p.m. EDT
Data-Driven Decision Making
Gary Wallyn

Data often determines next steps and ultimate decisions. Find out how to take data and make the best decisions for your students, school, teachers, and district. Learn about data collecting methods and data application that work in the real world. Discover how to interpret data and use it effectively. Gain tips on how to make data and subsequent data-driven plans make sense to stakeholders.

About the presenter
Through his work at the Indiana Department of Education for more than 13 years, Gary Wallyn helped schools across the state in using data to inform their decisions for school improvement. His experience and expertise ranges from reviewing school improvement plans to assigning accreditation to more than 2,300 public and non-public schools. He also developed the Indiana Accountability system for Academic Progress (ASAP) Web site that became a national model for state-level accountability sites.

More Events Coming! Please revisit this calendar and check your Inbox for KDP eChapter Webinar messages.