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Summer Residency Public Readings Schedule

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:54:46 +0000

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STONECOAST MFA in CREATIVE WRITING

SCHEDULE FOR SUMMER 2013 RESIDENCY

Unless otherwise indicated, evening events will occur at The Inn at Brunswick Station.

FRIDAY, JULY 12

7:30 p.m. Welcome Remarks and Faculty Introductions

Annie Finch, Director

The Inn at Brunswick Station

7:45 p.m. Flash Faculty Readings

Faculty Flash Readings I: Faculty members will share three minutes of their work.

Rick Bass, Sarah Braunstein, Susan Conley, Ted Deppe, Barbara Hurd, Cait Johnson, Michael Kimball, Debra Marquart, Alexandra Oliver, Dolan Perkins-Valdez, Elizabeth Searle

The Inn at Brunswick Station

SATURDAY, JULY 13

7:00 p.m. Faculty Reading/Questions and Answers

Marjorie Liu (Michael Kimball)

The Inn at Brunswick Station

SUNDAY, JULY 14

7:00 p.m. Faculty and Guest Readings

Megan Frazer Blakemore (Karen Bovenmyer) and Jaed Coffin (Elizabeth Searle)

The Inn at Brunswick Station

MONDAY, JULY 15

Join us for the readings at the Stonecoast Summer Residency! Readings will take place during the evenings of July 12th - July 20th at The Inn at Brunswick Station.

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Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing

Chinese Teacher Education Program

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:16:24 +0000

The Chinese Teacher Education Program for K-12 educators will provide an opportunity for K-12 educators to become proficient in Mandarin Chinese, earn K-12 World Language Teacher Certification, and to use that coursework as a concentration in a 33 credit master’s degree program for teachers or a 30 credit post-masters Certificate of Advanced Study.

UPCOMING INFORMATION SESSION: June 26; 5-6:30pm; Lee Community Hall, Wishcamper Center, USM Portland Campus

Teacher Education

Now accepting registrations for the 2013 PBIS Conference!

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:02:29 +0000

Registration materials are now available for the upcoming 4th Annual PBIS Conferece at the Augusta Civic Center, Tuesday, November 5, 2013.

For more information please visit:
http://www.usm.maine.edu/pdc/pbis-conference

Registration materials are now available for the upcoming 4th Annual PBIS Conferece at the Augusta Civic Center, Tuesday, November 5, 2013. For more information please visit: http://www.usm.maine.edu/pdc/pbis-conference

Professional Development Center

Maine Arts Commission funds Voix Franco Americaines/Franco-American Voices

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:49:42 +0000

The Franco-American Collection at Lewiston-Auburn College will host an education series entitled voix Franco-Americaines: Franco-American Voices from May 25, 2013 - July 31, 2013. The series will illuminate themes of creativity, identity and self-expression in the Franco-American Community in New England.

The project will provide a stage for the art form of story-telling, and will embrace the humanities in examining the relationship between story-telling and Franco-American identity. Finally, the display of the Collections' own oral histories will focus on those stores which were gathered in the early days of the Collections, in the 1970s, and will bring audiences into the lives of the subjects in the late 19th and earl 20th centuries.

Franco-American Voices will promote the unique character of Franco-American storytelling, and emphasize its importance in understanding Franco culture more generally.

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Chinese Teacher Education Program

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:12:17 +0000

UPCOMING INFORMATION SESSION:

June 26, 2013
5:00pm-6:30pm
Lee Community Hall, Wishcamper Center
USM Portland Campus

For more information about the program please click here.

For information about the upcoming fall 2013 course please click here.

UPCOMING INFORMATION SESSION: June 26; 5-6:30pm; Lee Community Hall, Wishcamper Center, USM Portland Campus

Professional Development Center

USM Composer Daniel Sonenberg Receives Provost's Research Fellowship

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:10:10 +0000

Daniel Sonenberg, USM associate professor of music and resident composer, recently was awarded the Provost’s Research Fellowship allowing him to work on the orchestration of his opera “The Summer King.” He is a resident of Portland.

“The Summer King” details the life of Negro League baseball player Josh Gibson who played from 1930-1946. Gibson, who was known as the “Black Babe Ruth,” died three months before the integration of baseball in the Major Leagues.

Sonenberg describes his work as a labor of love that has taken eight years to conceive and create. Portland Ovations has included a May 8 concert performance premiere of the opera in its upcoming 2013-2014 season.

The USM Provost’s Research Fellowship is designed to allow the recipient, who must be a tenured professor, the opportunity to spend time on activities related to research, creative work and scholarly attainment. Recipients are chosen through a competitive process.

Sonenberg was also awarded the Trustee Professorship which is given by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees to reward excellence among faculty members at University of Maine System campuses.

Daniel Sonenberg, who was recently named USM's 2013-2014 Provost Fellow will orchestrate his opera "The Summer King."

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Spanish Table and Tutor for the Summer

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:41:14 +0000

There will be a Spanish Table held every Wednesday this summer from 6:00-8:00 pm in South Portland. Please contact christopher.sutherland@maine.edu for details or for tutor availability.

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Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Faculty Member Alexs Pate Implements the Innocent Classroom in Partnership with the Minnesota Humanities Center

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:56:03 +0000

A year ago, Stonecoast Faculty member Alexs Pate founded Innocent Technologies LLC to develop and deliver a new teacher training process called the Innocent Classroom which helps to bridge the achievement gap between white students and students of color.

After a year of implementation in Omaha, NE, and in partnership with the Minnesota Humanities Center, the program has seen early success. Says one teacher of the program, "Attending Innocent Classroom sessions has opened my eyes to many things. I’ve learned that I can be the change in a child’s life that they are looking for. I can be the positivity that they need to grow and learn. I can be the one who loves them unconditionally and my classroom can be their safe place." Students are also benefitting from the program. As told to a teacher one student says, "I just feel like coming to this school, and working with you guys, and getting to do things like this have made me a kid again."

The program's curriculum is based on an approach facilitated by Pate and conceived from Aristotle's philosophy of goodness, "the thing for which all other things are done.” Pate's program constructs an Innocent Classroom through six stages: Understanding, Recognizing, Valuing, Engaging, Nurturing, and Protecting and Advocating. This environment then allows teachers to recognize what Pate calls the child's "unique and innate innocence."

"Without (innocence)," Pate says on the program's website, "guilt is (a child's) only reality. What I call guilt is the consequence of the negative stereotypes that have come to generally define young people of color; especially black children."

For more information about the Innocent Classroom visit http://innocentclassroom.com/.

After a year of implementation in Omaha, NE, and in partnership with the Minnesota Humanities Center, the Innocent classroom is seeing early success.

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Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing

Al Bean Named Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:26:02 +0000

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) announced that USM Director of Athletics Al Bean is among the 28 winners of the Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year Award.

Bean has been associated with USM since he was a student athlete in the 1970s. He also has served USM as an assistant coach, sports information director, and assistant athletic director. He was named director of athletics in 1995.

The former Windham High School teacher and freelance sportswriter holds a B.A. in history and a master’s in education from USM.

Visit Southern Maine Huskies for more information.

Congratulations to USM Director of Athletics Al Bean who is among 28 winners of the Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year Award!

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Geo-Anthro students earn summer internships with NASA

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:24:12 +0000

Geography-Anthropology students Paul Bourget and Tony Cole have earned summer internships with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Working out of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, respectively, Paul and Tony will assist NASA scientists in research that uses satellite imaging and geographic information systems techniques to examine critical global climate and landscape change issues.

The internship will be Paul’s second at the Goddard Center, and both students follow on the heels of other Geography-Anthropology students who have completed internships at NASA centers.

The Geography-Anthropology program offers a specialized curriculum in geospatial technologies and routinely engages undergraduate students on projects funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation.

They will work with NASA scientists on research that uses satellite imaging and geographic information systems techniques to examine critical global climate and landscape change issues.

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