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Exercise your privilege to select KDP Executive Council officers!
Be sure to vote for your choice of Executive Council members who will provide the leadership and vision for Kappa Delta Pi during the 2010-2012 biennium. Review the candidates
and select representatives who share your thoughts and ambitions for the Society.
Make your voice heard. Vote by April 9.
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Do You Deserve Recognition?
Kappa Delta Pi values its members and all of their accomplishments. Are you aware that KDP honors these accomplishments with individual and chapter awards? To find out more information, please visit KDP's Recognition awards page
. You also may contact Donna Hubbard (donna@kdp.org) for Chapter Award inquiries and Brad Jones (brad@kdp.org) for Individual Award inquiries.
Chapters applying for the ACE Award, look for a checklist in the April 15th Leader!
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Better World Books
Through Book Drives for Better Lives, chapters can conduct a fund-raiser and service project that is free, easy, and fun! Select one of Better World Books' nonprofit literacy partners and BOTH the partner and your chapter earn money for the collected books. You can even support Kappa Delta Pi's Literacy Alive!
Click on the graphic or e-mail campus@betterworldbooks.com.
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2009-2010 Kappa Delta Pi/Association of Teacher Educators
National Student Teacher/Intern of the Year Award
This annual award recognizes a student who has demonstrated exemplary classroom management skills, knowledge of current educational issues and practices, and reflective analysis of his or her own teaching and learning processes.
The recipient receives a $900 award. The recipient, nominating sponsor, and education program also receive national recognition. Visit
www.kdp.org for eligibility criteria, guidelines, and an application.
Applications are due May 7, 2010.
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"[Receiving] the award definitely helped me get my position here at Lamar High School, for it decorates my résumé like a diamond."
- Jason Spencer, 2008-2009 Student Teacher of the Year |
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Do you need an inspiring speaker for your chapter initiation?
Would you like to host a memorable event for your college of education peers and colleagues?
Just turn to the National State Teachers of the Year
! These master teachers from your state are eager to share their passion for teaching, as well as practical classroom tips and strategies that work. NSTOY speakers have always been the highest-rated speakers at KDP regional I Teach conferences.
Contact: Kathy Weber, NSTOY Speakers Bureau Coordinator
kwpuppets@hotmail.com, 618-656-8594
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Call for Authors, Special Centennial Project
Laureate Dr. O.L. Davis, Jr. (Former KDP President and Professor Emeritus of The University of Texas at Austin) and Dr. Mindy Spearman (Assistant Professor, Clemson University) are co-editing a book featuring biographies of all former KDP Presidents, and they are seeking chapter authors.
The book, with an anticipated publication date of September 2011, will be featured at KDP's Centennial Convocation (November 3-5, 2011), with royalties from the sale of the book to be donated to the KDP Educational Foundation and earmarked for the Presidents' Scholarship Fund.
Learn more and get contact information.
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Congrats to Kristen Sowden, President of the College of New Jersey, who won this month's Leader prize - an honor cord and stole - just for opening the March 15th issue of The Leader!
Make sure your officers are receiving The Leader! To receive this essential KDP information, officers must be listed on the Officer Report through the
Web Portal. If necessary, please forward The Leader to the appropriate officers.
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