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Khristian Flowers and Sarah Dill were among Clinton educators visiting Mississippi College for Friday's district convocation. Both women are counselors with the Clinton public schools.
Keynote Speaker, Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth, Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Professor Dede discussed how virtual world immersive education benefits students.
A steady stream of more than 500 applicants flowed through the Community Choice Convention Center, from 8 to noon Saturday morning for the the annual Educator Career Fair. Interviews for high demand positions took place throughout the event, and more than 100 educators will be hired for the 2017-18 school year.
ADAMS, MARY ELECTA, educator and poet; b. 10 Nov. 1823 in Westbury, Lower Canada, daughter of Rufus Adams and Maria Hubbard; d. 5 Nov. 1898 in Toronto.
Of New England descent, Mary Electa Adams moved with her family to Adamsville (Acton), Upper Canada, when she was two years old. There she grew up, receiving tuition from her parents before starting her formal schooling in 1840 in her mother’s home town, Montpelier, Vt. A year later she transferred to the Cobourg Ladies’ Seminary in Upper Canada and stayed as a teacher after acquiring her diploma of mistress of liberal arts. Adams moved to Toronto in 1847 with the school, henceforth known as the Adelaide Academy, but a year later accepted the position of lady principal of the Picton Academy. Resigning on grounds of ill health in 1850, she then spent four years as a teacher and administrator at the Albion Seminary in Michigan. She returned to British North America in the spring of 1854, and that August took up the position of chief preceptress of the newly established “female branch” of the Wesleyan Academy at Mount Allison in Sackville, N.B. [see Charles Frederick Allison*].
As chief preceptress, Adams occupied the highest administrative office in the school open to a woman. She functioned essentially as a principal even though nominally reporting to Principal Humphrey Pickard*, whose main duties were at the adjoining institution for boys. Women, Adams believed, should be offered a rigorous academic education in a Christian setting and Mount Allison became a testing-ground for these principles. Although she accepted that social convention dictated most educated women would make their contribution to society as wives and mothers, she was impatient with the notion that their education should be limited to “ornamental” subjects of study. “The introduction of the abstruser sciences into a course of study for females,” argued an editorial in the Mount Allison Academic Gazette of December 1855 (unsigned, but clearly bearing Adams’s imprint), “is of the highest utility.” Both in the curriculum of the new institution – which included courses in mathematics, the sciences, Latin language and literature, and moral philosophy, as well as the possibility of studying music and fine arts – and in the advice and example she offered to students, Adams sought to advance the principle that intellectual vigour, artistic achievement, and moral strength should be inseparable as characteristics of the educated woman.
The death of Adams’s father in May 1856 led her to contemplate leaving Mount Allison to assist in caring for her ageing mother at her home in Upper Canada. Yet a strong sense of service to “the cause of female education” and to Methodism led her to retain her position for another year. “I dread the idea of living uselessly,” she wrote in her journal on 20 July 1856. She did resign in the summer of 1857 to return home but her retirement from her profession lasted only four years. In the autumn of 1861 she became the first principal of the Wesleyan Female College in Hamilton. During her seven years there, despite financial problems faced by the institution and the difficulties of teaching in an imperfectly converted hotel building, Adams established a high academic reputation for the school. Her scholarship and her administrative abilities were, reported Hamilton’s Canadian Illustrated News in June 1863, “the life of the institution.” Having developed a curriculum based upon her experience at Mount Allison, and possibly influenced also by her visits to women’s schools in Great Britain during the summer of 1862, Adams bequeathed to her successor, Samuel Dwight Rice*, in 1868 an institution that would continue to prosper for almost 30 more years.
Following her mother’s death in 1868, Adams spent two years in Italy, travelling with her sister and professional colleague Augusta Minerva. On their return to Ontario, they settled in Cobourg, and in 1872 opened the Brookhurst Academy for female students on a site close to Victoria College. Started with the intention, as Adams reflected in her journal eight years later, “of having only an advanced class of students and such as may seek university privileges,” Brookhurst functioned in close cooperation with Victoria. Brookhurst students attended classes at Victoria, and in 1877 Mary Crossen became the first such student to have her diploma of mistress of English literature jointly awarded by the two institutions. Financial difficulties caused the closure of Brookhurst in the spring of 1880, before Adams could realize her ambition of seeing women graduate from Victoria with full academic degrees. Mount Allison, drawing on the tradition she had established, had graduated its first woman, Grace Annie Lockhart*, in 1875. None the less, Nathanael Burwash*, later president of Victoria, would praise Adams’s pioneering work at Brookhurst as “the first step towards the opening to the daughters of the Province of all the privileges of a full university course.”
The last 12 years of Adams’s professional career were spent as lady principal of the Ontario Ladies’ College in Whitby. Despite her disappointment at having to accept employment at a school that she had regarded as a major competitor of Brookhurst, and despite early disputes with the president, John James Hare, to whom she reported, Adams strove at Whitby to advance her characteristic principles of systematic and rigorous instruction in a Christian environment. When she retired in 1892 she was almost 70 years of age, but nevertheless she spent her remaining years assisting Augusta and their nephew Lucius Coleman in establishing cattle ranches at Morley (Alta) and on the nearby Red Deer River. She died in late 1898, while visiting relatives in Toronto.
During her life Mary Electa Adams had been a determined and effective advocate of academic education for women. A painter and poet in her leisure time, she exemplified that combination of trained intellect and creative artistry which, always in the context of her Methodist faith, she endeavoured to foster in her students. Her efforts bore fruit not only in their effect on individual students but also in advancing the general cause of women’s education in New Brunswick, in Ontario, and in British North America as a whole.
Dozens of educators, energy managers and facility directors from across the U.S. recently visited the HVACR lab at College of DuPage for a tour of the College’s state-of-the-art HVACR training labs.
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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Bornschein,
Here are some illustrations from the American Educator. They aren't anything special, but I love their friendly "oldness".
People in every part of the province have more opportunities to train for a career as an early childhood educator (ECE), creating career paths for students and providing much-needed relief for families seeking child care, with new seats at post-secondary institutions opening this fall.
Twelve public post-secondary institutions will add a total of 314 student spaces in early childhood education programs, ranging from part-time certificates to full-time diplomas. About two-thirds of the new student spaces are designated for institutions serving rural and remote communities.
Learn More: news.gov.bc.ca/20520
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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A steady stream of more than 500 applicants flowed through the Community Choice Convention Center, from 8 to noon Saturday morning for the the annual Educator Career Fair. Interviews for high demand positions took place throughout the event, and more than 100 educators will be hired for the 2017-18 school year.
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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Nature's Educators brought various raptors to teach about wildlife. The crowd favorite? Eastern Screech Owl.
Photo: Cindy Souders / USFWS
Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000605309/catalog
Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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ATI Nurse Educators - Integration Specialists, and our leader, Sheryl Sommer, taken in Leawood at our retreat in June 2016.
A wonderful group of ladies to be affiliated with!
Marine Educators Colin Young and Marty Momsen enjoy the deck of the R/V Thomas G. Thompson, as we set sail, 11 June 2013.
Credit: Ocean Networks Canada
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
A steady stream of more than 500 applicants flowed through the Community Choice Convention Center, from 8 to noon Saturday morning for the the annual Educator Career Fair. Interviews for high demand positions took place throughout the event, and more than 100 educators will be hired for the 2017-18 school year.
A steady stream of more than 500 applicants flowed through the Community Choice Convention Center, from 8 to noon Saturday morning for the the annual Educator Career Fair. Interviews for high demand positions took place throughout the event, and more than 100 educators will be hired for the 2017-18 school year.
Early childhood educators (ECEs) who provide vital services to BC children will be better supported by a new recruitment and retention strategy as part of the Province’s ChildCare BC plan.
Read more: news.gov.bc.ca/17948
A steady stream of more than 500 applicants flowed through the Community Choice Convention Center, from 8 to noon Saturday morning for the the annual Educator Career Fair. Interviews for high demand positions took place throughout the event, and more than 100 educators will be hired for the 2017-18 school year.