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| Taipei Municipal University Newest KDP Chapter |
| KDP Welcomes Taipei Municipal University of Education Kappa Delta Pi installed a new chapter at Taipei Municipal University of Education in Taipei, Taiwan, on Saturday, September 25. Society President Dr. Nathan Bond represented the organization at the event and helped to initiate 115 preservice and in-service teachers into KDP. Dr. Wendy Wang and Dr. Li-Hua Chen, the chapter’s co-counselors, planned and coordinated the daylong ceremony.  One reason for this lengthy initiation was because it was part of the university’s larger all-day event to honor the best teachers across Taiwan. This special event began with welcoming speeches by dignitaries from the national, county, and city ministries of education to the more than 250 teachers, family members, and friends in attendance. Taiwan’s Minister of Education Dr. Ching-Ji Wu spoke eloquently about KDP’s values of knowledge, duty, and power. Society President Bond delivered the keynote address, which focused on KDP’s history, the upcoming centennial celebration, and the Society’s ideals. After initiates received their membership certificates, the ceremony was temporarily halted for family members and friends to take pictures with Dr. Bond and the education ministers. A lot of time was allowed for this “photo shoot” because taking pictures is an important part of Taiwanese culture. Also important to the Taiwanese is education. The “teachers of the year” honored that day had traveled by train and car from all parts of Taiwan, a country 89 miles wide and 245 miles long, to participate in the event. Immediately following the ceremony, the new KDP members ate a catered celebratory lunch and participated in their first chapter meeting. President of Taipei Municipal University Dr. Lin worked with the local chapter president to approve chapter bylaws and review the semester’s upcoming events. KDP welcomes and congratulates its newest international chapter! Taipei Municipal University of Education hosted a wonderful event that truly honored the best and brightest in education. Submitted by Nathan Bond |
Pictures from the Taipei Chapter Installation |
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Pictured are members of the Taiwan Ed Ministry of Education (L to R): Dr. Jung-Chung Richard Hsu, Professor, Department of History, Taipei Municipal University of Education; Dr. Chang Ming-Wen, Director, Department of Secondary Education, Taiwan’s Ministry of Education; Dr. Lee Rong Huei, Principal, Taipei School for the Hearing Impaired; Dr. Nathan Bond, President, Kappa Delta Pi; Dr. Ching-Ji Wu, Taiwan’s Minister of Education; Dr. Kang Jeong-huu, Commissioner, Department of Education, Taipei City Government; Dr. Lin, President, Taipei Municipal University of Education; Dr. Chung-Rong Liu, Vice President, Taipei Municipal University of Education; and Dr. Chen Li-Hua, Dean, College of Education, Taipei Municipal University of Education. |
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Charter members of the Taipei Chapter at Taipei Municipal University of Education valued having their pictures taken at the chapter’s installation. |
| KDP Moving Forward as NGO |
Kappa Delta Pi at the United Nations  Kappa Delta Pi’s decision to affiliate with the United Nations as a non-governmental organization (NGO) came to fruition January, 11, 2010, when Faye Snodgress signed an agreement after Kappa Delta Pi’s application for Association with DPI was accepted. Each NGO identifies only one interest on its accreditation application. KDP designated Education from 46 categories, including children, youth, women, families, conflict resolution, social development, poverty, and human rights.KDP joining the NGO community at the UN is a major step in globalizing its’ impact on educational settings around the world. Since establishing its first international chapter in Canada in 1981, KDP has expanded its resources to provide services to chapter counselors and members throughout the world. The recent survey to identify members’ experiences and dispositions regarding global education is another step toward internationalizing KDP. As an NGO affiliated with the UN and the Committee on Teaching about the UN (CTAUN), KDP is positioned to raise awareness and collaborate for global learning. UN-affiliated NGOs send their representatives to weekly UN briefings, large forums organized by the UN Department of Public Information (DPI). Information may be accessed at www.un.org/dpi/ngosection. Briefings consist of four or more panelists from around the world with experience and expertise on the currency and history of the topic. Participants can listen in English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian, the six official languages of the UN, and are provided with panelists’ biographical information and a summary of the topic. After hearing panelists’ multiple perspectives on the topic, NGO members engage in an extensive question-and-answer period with the panelists. |
| Summary report of the Kappa Delta Pi NGO Representatives to the UN for the period of June 30, 2010 – June 30, 2011. |
| Dr. Kathryn De Lawter and Dr. Margaret Vallone Gardineer began KDP NGO representation at weekly UN briefings in January 2010. They have served on the Committee on Teaching About the UN (CTAUN), and were pleased to welcome in the Fall of 2011, Ms. Christina Ferrari, as the first KDP UN NGO Student Representative to the United Nations. Ms. Christina Ferrari is an active member of the executive council of the Mu Sigma Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi at Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York. Ms. Ferrari was selected based on her application and criteria in a review by Kathryn, Margaret, and Faye Snodgress in her capacity as leader of the KDP NGO. Student/youth representation is a new initiative of the UN Department of Public Information (DPI) Non-governmental Relations Cluster. Enthusiasm for youth representation stems from the UN observance of the International Year of Youth – August 2010 – August 2011.
Highlights of KDP’s second year at the UN include:
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The UN DPI-NGO Briefings and Events Calendar is Fall/Winter (October – December, 2010) and Winter/Spring (January – June, 2011). The following topics represent the briefings this year. (For information on these briefings, contact Kathryn.)
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These UN briefings have a profound impact on how we think about the world, how we teach, and the choices we make. We hope that you will look to the UN as a resource. Most importantly, we urge you to get to know the NGOs that are working in your communities for it is through collaborative efforts that we can make change. As a part of KDP’s International Initiative, we intend to facilitate making the UN an invaluable resource. We welcome any queries you may have. We will do our best to answer them. You may reach us at kdelawter@pace.edu and mgardineer@verizon.net. |
| KDP Charters First Chapter in Asia |
| The newly chartered chapter at City University of Hong Kong represents two firsts for Kappa Delta Pi. It is the first chapter in Asia—which inducted 23 educators during a formal initiation ceremony in September 2009. In another first, Sir David Santandreu Calonge, an educator from this same chapter, was KDP’s first international recipient of the Teacher of Honor award (see story immediately below). Read more >>> |
| First International Educator Selected as Teacher of Honor |
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 Kappa Delta Pi is pleased to announce its first international Teacher of Honor award recipient—Sir David Santandreu Calonge, all the way from City University of Hong Kong! Serving as the Senior Education Development Officer of the Education Development Office, David is among a select group of educators to earn the Teacher of Honor designation this year. Read more >>> See what international press is saying about David and Kappa Delta Pi! CityUNewsCentre Sing Pao Limited |
| If you are interested in establishing an international KDP chapter, please contact us at membership@kdp.org for information and assistance. |
