2012 DCoE Magazine

AddingValueUsing collaboration, innovation

and professionalism to add value

to the lives of our students

Dear Alumni and Friends,

Greetings from ODU! I am writingto share with you our latest editionof "Adding Value" magazine, an an-nual publication of the Darden Col-lege of Education at Old DominionUniversity.

It’s been a busy and productiveyear in the Darden College of Edu-cation at Old Dominion University.This year we have spent a greatdeal of time charting the future ofthe college by engaging our fac-ulty, staff, students, alumni andexternal stakeholders in a Strate-gic Focusing process. The conceptof strategic focusing goes beyondconventional strategic planning toprovide a strategy for positioningDarden competitively.

The Darden College of Education iscommitted to excellence in teach-ing, scholarly activities and serv-ice. We will continue to prepareoutstanding professionals for workin the region as well as provide re-search for the advancement of ed-ucation and its related professionsat this critical time in the Com-monwealth of Virginia, the nationand the world.

I am pleased to share with you thatour counseling program is ranked18th in the country!

I am also pleased to announce thedevelopment of a new unique, in-terdisciplinary initiative of TheCenter for Educational Partner-ships called TEAMS-Teaching, Edu-cation and Awareness for Military

Students. The vision of the pro-gram is for every military-con-nected child to attend a school inwhich the faculty and staff areaware of and prepared to effec-tively respond to their unique edu-cational and social-emotionalneeds. TEAMS is working towardthis vision by developing compre-hensive and coordinated supportsfor schools that will ensure thateducators and other professionalshave the awareness, knowledge,and evidence-based competenciesnecessary to maximize learning forstudents of military families.

The college is committed to the in-tegration of courses with field ex-periences and relationships withcommunity partners to enrich theeducation we provide to students.With our combined effort, energyand passion, the college's reputa-tion will be enhanced and your de-grees will be even more valuable.

As you read through our magazine,please take note of the outstand-ing accomplishments of your col-leagues and classmates, formerinstructors and our current stu-dents. If the college can be ofservice to you in any way, pleasedon’t hesitate to contact me.

With Warmest Regards,

Linda Irwin-DeVitis, Ed.D.Dean and Professor of Teaching andLearning

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Adding Value is published annually foralumni, friends and supporters of the ODUDarden College of Education.

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IN THIS Issue

4 Outstanding Alumni

11 Exceptional Students

26 Darden Making a Difference

30 Nationally Recognized Faculty

38 Friends of Darden

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OUTSTANDING Alumni

Alumna Receives Division’s Top Teacher AwardODU alum Courtney McCalley reflected on her first classroom experience--an internship a few yearsago that involved teaching kindergartners. That day, a young boy raised his hand--a positive sign tothe young educator that she was getting through to her class. "All right, he's listening, he's got it," Mc-Calley recalled thinking. But the boy's question wasn't what she expected. "Why is it all hot underyour arms?" he asked, referring to McCalley's nervous sweating.

McCalley's story evoked laughter from the hundreds of teachers present at the Frederick County Pub-lic Schools convocation, held Aug. 17, 2011, at Millbrook High School in Winchester, Va. They werethere to watch as McCalley, 30, now a guidance counselor at Greenwood Mill Elementary School, tookthe stage as the division's 2012 Teacher of the Year.

Twenty teachers were nominated for the award. McCalley was one of three finalists. McCalley re-ceived a gold signet ring, a notebook computer, an HP printer and $3,000, which could be used for in-structional materials, supplies or travel.

Adapted from Winchester Star, written by Rebecca Layne

The Darden College of Education on Nov. 15 recognized theachievements of six graduates who have gone “above and beyondtheir duties” during the Alumni Fellows awards luncheon. The an-nual event, part of the college's observance of American EducationWeek, was held at the Ted Constant Convocation Center.

The Darden College of Education Alumni Fellows program honorsthe outstanding efforts of one graduate from each department.This year's fellows – Sabrina Carnesi, Mark Clemente, Bainy Cyrus,Ed Lee, Alfred Roberts and Lisa Waldbaum – were nominated bytheir academic departments and selected by the education col-lege.

"The charge of providing quality education to American children isnot an easy one. Often, those who dedicate themselves to this en-deavor go unrecognized and at times fade into the background.Old Dominion believes that it is important to identify and recog-nize those individuals who have made this commitment," saidLinda Irwin-DeVitis, dean of the college.

In addition to being honored, the new class of fellows shared theirlife experiences with students and faculty during scheduled ses-sions throughout the day.

Darden Alumni Fellows 2011-2012


One Building Project at a Time,Alumni Couple Making a Difference

A Darden education is the beginning of a lifelong journey ofbeing committed to enhancing the world around you. Two gradu-ates, Charles and Carole Purser, are doing that in grand fashion,educating young people and operating a home building company atthe same time!

Carole also frequently collaborates with her husband’s stu-dents on projects. Recently, the two collaborated to begin an out-door classroom for their students to learn architectural design.They were able to complete phase 1 and are seeking grant fundingto finish the project.

Carole has a B.S. from ODU with an art concentration and amaster’s degree in elementary education. She teaches at HertfordGrammar School in Perquimans County, N.C. She is thankful for herDarden education and said that “The Darden College of Educationprepared me to become the educator and teacher leader in bothmy undergraduate and graduate studies. ODU’s Darden College ofEducation provided me with the tools to understand the nature ofcurriculum through sound pedagogical and content knowledge,how literacy is an integral part of teaching and the importance ofa professional community. This understanding allowed me to dif-

ferentiate between what it means to be a good teacher and a bet-ter teacher.”

Charles has a B.S. with a concentration in technology educa-tion from Darden. He credits his ODU education for teaching himthat persistence pays off. Charles teaches architectural technol-ogy at the College of the Albemarle and exposes his students tomany real-world work environments and competitions. Lastspring, the students held an open house for their renovated designlab. The students also have helped build Habitat for Humanityhouses under Charles’ leadership and this year helped when Ex-treme Home Makeover came to North Carolina!

Charles and Carole also own and operate Purser HomeBuilders and recently built their first Energy Star home. Theymake a great team; Carole does the “fun stuff like [selecting]paint colors, cabinets and appliances while Charles deals with thestructure and design of the home.”

The Darden College of Education is honored to have the Purs-ers as a part of our distinguished group of alumni who are usingtheir Darden education to make a difference in the lives of others.

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PROFILES of 2011 Darden Fellows

Sabrina CarnesiSabrina Carnesi is a librarian at CrittendenMiddle School Library in Newport News.

She has been active in the Virginia Educa-tional Media Association (VEMA). She pres-ents annually at the VEMA conference on avariety of topics, and her PowerPoints areposted on the Internet. She served as theregional director of the York regional sec-tion of VEMA in 2009-10. In that position,she was in charge of the regional confer-ence. Working closely with the library pro-gram faculty at ODU, a partnershipbetween ODU and York region was formedand the conference was held at the Vir-ginia Beach Higher Education Center.

Carnesi is also active professionally in theAmerican Library Association, where sheserves on numerous committees. Throughher work with the 2008 Best of the Bestfrom the University Presses Committee,she was featured on C-SPAN. She alsohosted a national chat session for ALAConnect on Oct. 6, 2010.

Carnesi is also a published author, withfour articles in national journals for prac-ticing school librarians.

Mark Clemente (M.S.Ed. '96)Mark Clemente has been a chemistry

teacher in Virginia Beach for 15 years. Hisfirst teaching assignment was at OceanLakes High School where he taught first-year chemistry, Advanced Placementchemistry, and semester chemistry elec-tives in organic and analytical chemistryas part of the Math and Science Academy.

After 11 years at Ocean Lakes, he was"loaned" to the National Institute of Aero-space and was part of the K-12 EducationOutreach team. In this capacity, he devel-oped both technology-based and NASA-based classroom materials to supportSTEM education. He also conductedteacher professional development classes.He served in this capacity for three years,returning to the classroom in September2011. He is currently teaching first-yearand AP chemistry at Kellam High School.

Clemente served active duty as an officerin the U.S. Navy for six years and was un-sure what he wanted to do next. "My lastduty station was Dam Neck and one of mycollateral duties was running the Adopt-a-School program between Dam Neck andBirdneck Elementary. I both ran the pro-gram and volunteered at the school. I en-joyed my volunteer time very much anddecided to investigate teaching as a ca-reer," he said.

“From there, everything just seemed tofall into place,” Clemente said. Further-more, he believes that "teaching has defi-nitely been the most enjoyable, rewardingexperience" of his life.

Bainy Cyrus (M.S.Ed. '04)Bainy Cyrus has worked as a job coach for

Hired Hands and Associates since 2006, as-sisting people with disabilities in competi-tive employment.

Cyrus was born in Norfolk with a severe-to-profound hearing impairment and at-tended Clarke School for oral education atage 5. After seven years there, she camehome for good and attended regularschool without mainstreaming. With thehelp of note takers and private tutors, shegraduated from Virginia Tech in 1985 witha bachelor's degree in landscape horticul-ture.

She worked as a landscape designer fornearly 20 years before deciding to changecareers. In 2004, Cyrus earned a master'sdegree in counseling from ODU. Cyruslives in Norfolk with her hearing husband,Steve, sharing their interests in hiking,biking, gardening and RVing.


Ed Lee (B.S. '82)Ed Lee serves as senior district vice presi-dent for the YMCA of South HamptonRoads and executive director of theBlocker Norfolk Family YMCA, one of thelargest downtown YMCAs in the country.

Lee was born in Philadelphia, and becausehis father was a career Marine Corps offi-cer, his family moved up and down theEast Coast until he was 14, which waswhen his father was stationed in Norfolk.He received a B.S. degree in leisure stud-ies and services from ODU in 1982 afterswitching from business and physical edu-cation programs. As a part of his major re-quirements in leisure studies, he did aninternship with the Downtown NorfolkYMCA in 1981 and has remained with theorganization.

Lee began his professional career as pro-gram director for the Mt. TrashmoreYMCA, and from there became fitness di-rector of the Downtown Norfolk YMCA.Later he became the executive director ofthe Suffolk Family YMCA, and then to hiscurrent position managing the BlockerNorfolk Family YMCA and supervising theexecutive directors at the Suffolk, Effing-ham (Portsmouth), Taylor Bend (WesternBranch) and J.L. Camp (Franklin) familyYMCAs.

He has many fond memories of the timehe spent at ODU which includes meetinghis wife of 28 years, Rose Riggs Lee, whowas a manager on the Lady Monarchs bas-ketball team when they won the nationalchampionships in 1979 and 1980. He alsoenjoyed taking courses taught by MelWilliams, who was an inspiration to him.Lee says that he is very thankful for therole ODU played in helping him find a ca-reer with the YMCA.

Alfred Roberts (Ph.D. '09)Alfred Roberts is provost of the John H.Daniel Campus of Southside Virginia Com-munity College.

Born and raised in Greensville County, Va.,he received a B.A. in communication artsfrom Michigan State University and anM.Ed. in educational media from VirginiaState University. He was a member of thesecond cohort in the ODU doctoral pro-gram in community college leadership,and received his Ph.D. in 2009. His disser-tation is titled "Institutional Factors Sup-porting the Enrollment and Persistence ofAfrican-American Males in Virginia Com-munity Colleges."

Roberts joined Southside Virginia Commu-nity College in 1995 as a student develop-ment counselor. In 1998, he started asuccessful program designed to increasethe number of African American male stu-dents attending the college and to im-prove the retention and graduation ratesfor African American males.

While receiving several promotions withinthe administration at SVCC, he has beenable to maintain and expand his interestin African American male recruitment andretention programs.

Lisa Waldbaum '95 (M.S.Ed. '97)Lisa Waldbaum is an assistant principal atSycolin Creek Elementary School in Lees-burg, Va.

Waldbaum earned two degrees from OldDominion and worked for many years as aspeech-language pathologist in the schoolsand as a clinical faculty member at theODU Speech and Hearing Clinic.

Recently, she was one of a select group ofcandidates identified for educationalleadership graduate studies throughGeorge Mason University. Her knowledgeand expertise in the area of speech andlanguage development combined with herstrong leadership skills make her an assetto the Loudoun County Schools and a per-fect choice for this year’s Alumni FellowHonors.

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Elena Agaragimova ’11, a master’s graduate inhigher education with a concentration in interna-tional leadership, recently took a position at theSaudi Arabian Cultural Mission, which is part of theRoyal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, working in the Eng-lish Language Institute.

Dr. Jeff Pittman ’03, a Ph.D. graduate in higher ed-ucation and an associate professor of education atRegent University, received the Robert F. NewtonAward for Distinguished Service from the NationalAssociation of College Auxiliary Services. Thisaward recognized his dedication to the organizationand the field of auxiliary services.

Brandon Burdick ’07, a graduate in early childhoodelementary education, has been honored as Teacherof the Year for the entire district of PortsmouthPublic Schools.

Anita N. Colburn ’11, alumna with a Ph.D. alumnain counselor education, is the new Chi Sigma Iota In-ternational Counseling Honor Society’s faculty advi-sor at Regent University.

Cheryl Neale-McFall ’11, a Ph.D. in counselor edu-cation, accepted a faculty position at West ChesterUniversity in West Chester, Penn.

Sabrina Scott ’11, an M.S.Ed. graduate in counsel-ing, will begin the doctoral program in counselingpsychology at Howard University in fall 2012.

Tamekia Bell ’12, a Ph.D. graduate in counselor ed-ucation, accepted a tenure-track position as assis-tant professor of counseling in the Department ofAdvanced Educational Studies at California StateUniversity, Bakersfield.

Tiosha Macklin, M.S.Ed. alumna, accepted the in-terim educational assistant position with the Officeof Educational Accessibility at ODU.

Sharon l. Hatfield ’10, who earned a Ph.D. in com-munity college leadership, won the DistinguishedPaper Award from SACCR and has been nominatedfor the Distinguished Dissertation Award from VERA.She has also taken a part-time position as vice presi-dent of institutional planning and development forBarber-Scotia College in Concord, N.C.

Eric Hoffman ’03, a graduate of the higher educa-tion program, was selected to join the Law Reviewfor the Georgia State University College of Law.

Yi-Fang Chan ’03, a higher education program grad-uate, is a Ph.D. student at the Education Institute,Sun Yet-sen University, Taiwan, and is beginningwork on the dissertation process.

Nicole Barowy Houle ’04, a graduate in higher edu-cation, and her husband, Philippe, along with bigsister Natalie, welcomed Conor Joseph to the worldon July 25, 2011.

This past year Tambre McClenny (Anderson) ’06with an M.S.Ed. in higher education, transitionedfrom admissions counselor for Regent University‘sSchool of Education to program advisor. She advisesall master‘s level students in Regent‘s special edu-cation, reading specialist, and educational therapyprograms. This past June, she and her husband wel-comed their son, Peyton Marshall McClenny, intotheir family.

Natasha Plumb ’08 a higher education graduate, isnow assistant director for student activities andcampus organizations at North Carolina Central Uni-versity.

Joe Durso ’08, a graduate in higher education, lefthis position at William Paterson University in Wayne,N.J., and started a new position as area coordinatorat the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. He be-lieves it has been a wonderful career choice as ithas offered some outstanding opportunities in di-rectly supervising multiple graduate assistants, alarge RA staff, and an overall staff of approximately50 people.

Kelly Reed ’08, alumna in higher education, andher husband, Craig, proudly announce the birth oftheir daughter. Finley Belle Reed was born Sept. 1,2011, in Virginia Beach.

Morgan Morrison ’08, a higher education graduate,received the National Academic Advising Associa-tion’s 2011 Outstanding New Advisor Award in Octo-ber 2011.

Megan Spencer and Richard Brammer, who eachearned an M.S.Ed. in higher education in 2009, be-came husband and wife on Dec. 17, 2011.

Patricia L. Talley ’08, a graduate from the highereducation program, is now the academic support co-ordinator at Tidewater Community College.

Kate Bourdow Juhl ('09 Ed.S.) recently started anew position as a program director/career counselorwith the University Career Center and The Presi-dent's Promise at the University of Maryland.

Chris Davis ’12, was appointed registrar at the U.S.Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., effective Aug. 1,2011. He worked at ODU for 11 years in the Univer-sity‘s Budget Office and the Office of Development‘salumni records area as a database analyst. Heearned his master‘s degree in computer science fromODU as well an Ed.S. and Ph.D. in higher education.

Elena Agaragimova

Jeff Pittman

Brandon Burdick

Tamekia Bell

Nicole Houle

Tambre & Family

Kelly Reed Family

ALUMNI News


Desiree Ellison ’10, a graduate in higher education,was installed as a national officer for Sigma SigmaSigma as a regional support team member workingwith the Northeast region collegiate chapters.

Rachel Hartley ’10, a graduate of ODU’s higher ed-ucation program, was featured along with her pic-ture in a lead article, “More Students Migrate Awayfrom Home,” on the front page of the Nov. 4, 2011,issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. She is arecruiter in California for the University of SouthCarolina.

Josh Ferrari ’10, a higher education graduate, is anarea coordinator for residential education at Van-derbilt University. He will also present his capstonecourse research with several other ODU master’sstudents at ACPA and NASPA, titled “Engaging Staffin Effective Models of Student Employment.”

Kristi Marsh ’11, a graduate in higher education, isnow a regional chapter operations/advisor specialistfor Pi Beta Phi.

Lauren Eldridge ’11, a graduate of the higher edu-cation program, currently serves as a residence di-rector at Coastal Carolina University.

Brandon Brown ’12, a higher education graduate, isnow assistant director for residence life in the His-toric West District and Multicultural Center at ElonUniversity.

Kimberly Bellamy ’12, a higher education graduate,accepted a position as a student success coordinatorat Barton College in Wilson, N.C.

Patti Horne ’10, a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruc-tion, was named the 2012 Outstanding Faculty ofthe Year at Averett University, where she is an assis-tant professor.

Noura Allen ’12, accepted a position as residencehall director at Syracuse University after graduationfrom the higher education program.

Steven Kendrick ’12, an M.Ed. graduate in highereducation, accepted a position as residence hall di-rector at Stony Brook University, in Long Island, N.Y.

Ashley Jarrett ’12, a higher education M.Ed gradu-ate, accepted a position at George Mason Universityas assistant director of career services in the Schoolof Management.

Meredith Redinbaugh ’12, a graduate from thehigher education program, is currently working asan admissions recruiter for Tidewater CommunityCollege in Norfolk.

Hara Charlier, an ODU distance learning alumna ofthe Community College Leadership Ph.D. Program,was promoted to vice president at Virginia HighlandsCommunity College.

Sonya Ford, a school counselor at North Point HighSchool in Waldorf, Md., was recently named to theCollege Board’s National Office for School CounselorAdvocacy advisory team, one of 25 school coun-selors selected nationwide. The team promotes thevalue of school counselors as leaders in school re-form, student achievement and college readiness.During her three-year term, Ford will focus on pro-fessional development for school counselors andareas for research. Ford began her career withCharles County Public Schools in 2008 at North Pointand was a 2011 nominee for the American SchoolCounselor Association’s School Counselor of the Yearaward. She is a faculty member at the AmericanPublic University and Walden University and holdsnational board certification for counselors.

Jessica Larsen ’11, M.S.Ed. in early childhood ele-mentary education, was hired to teach first grade atLee-Jackson Elementary in Mathews, Va.

Jennifer Link and Robert Haslip were married Sept.17, 2011, in Hampton. They currently reside in New-port News. Jennifer received her B.S. in interdisci-plinary studies and early childhood elementaryeducation in 2007 and her M.S.Ed. in early childhoodelementary education in 2009.

Krista Harrell-Blair, a recent Ph.D. graduate inhigher education, has been hired as the associatedean of students at the University of South Alabamain Mobile. She will oversee the student center, uni-versity programs, student activities, fraternity andsorority life, the card center, and Title IX functionson campus and will teach classes in the First YearExperience program.

Morgan Morrison

Patricia Horne

Sonya Ford

Krista Harrell-Blair

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Rebecca Michel receives AADAJournal Excellence AwardRebecca (Becky) Michel, who graduated with her Ph.D. in counselor education in May, receivedthe AADA Journal Excellence Award for an article she co-authored. The Association for Adult De-velopment and Aging (AADA) is a division of the American Counseling Association.

Natalie Harder Chosen to Lead SouthLouisiana Community College The Louisiana Community and Technical College System board of supervisors announced that Na-talie Harder, Ph.D., will serve as the chancellor of South Louisiana Community College and in-terim director of Acadiana Technical College. Harder is currently the vice president at PatrickHenry College in Martinsville, Va.

Harder earned her Ph.D. in community college leadership from Old Dominion University. Sheholds an M.S. in public policy and management from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon Univer-sity and a B.A. in economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

ALUMNI News

Greg Hutchings Named New Directorof Alexandria Middle Schools Gregory Carl Hutchings Jr. ’00 has been named the new director of middle schools for AlexandriaCity Public Schools, a new position. Hutchings will oversee the operations, instruction and cur-riculum at the five middle schools. Hutchings received his B.S. in interdisciplinary studies andteacher preparation from Old Dominion University. He received a doctorate in educational pol-icy, planning and leadership from the College of William and Mary and an M.S.Ed. in educationalleadership from George Mason University.

In addition to being named Middle School Principal of the Year in 2009, Hutchings was honored asthe Environmental Educator of the Year in Prince William County in 2004. He is on the Mayor's Ad-visory Council on Special Education in Nashville and is a fellow in the Urban Leadership Instituteat Harvard University. He is recognized as a transformational leader, and he has experience lead-ing an International Baccalaureate school in an urban setting.

Adapted from http://www.acps.k12.va.us/news2011/nr2010111901.php


EXCEPTIONAL Students

Dr. “Woody” Schwitzer worked with JayneSmith, Sean Hall and Kurt Hooks (counsel-ing doctoral candidates and students atODU) to develop a clinical training seriesfocused on psychopharmacology, brain andbehavior, personality disorders, andschema-based cognitive therapy for theODU Counseling Clinic at the Norfolk Com-munity Services Board (CSB). The five-week series was piloted during scheduledstaff training and meeting times from Jan-uary to March 2012. The first session pro-vided a basic overview of personality

disorders, etiology, and treatment, includ-ing medication, counseling, and a combi-nation of both. The next session focusedon schema-based cognitive therapy, an ev-idence-based counseling intervention. Thethird and fourth sessions focused on thefunctions of the brain, interaction be-tween neurotransmitters, personality andbehavior, and psychopharmacologicaltreatments for common mental health dis-orders. The last session emphasized coun-selors’ role in treatment teams, advocacyand assessment, and allowed time to

break into small groups for case consulta-tion.

This field-based training series shows theinnovation and creativity of students inCounseling and Human Services at Darden.This opportunity demonstrates Darden’scommitment to service learning and com-munity outreach. This partnership under-scores the Counseling and Human Servicesfaculty commitment to stay current andgo above-and-beyond for student success.

In the Higher Education Capstone class,second-year master’s students completeevaluation projects comprised of a se-ries of assessments. The results are in-tended to address a specific issue ortrend within Old Dominion University.The course is designed to integrate theknowledge gained through the programand apply it to complex issues of policyand practice in higher education.

This spring semester’s projects in-cluded: Facility Trends for the Univer-sity Center, an Assessment of ParentEngagement, Student ProgrammingNeeds at the ODU Regional Higher Edu-cation Centers, Promoting Study Abroadat ODU, and Increasing Recruitment, Re-tention, and Graduation Rates of Minor-ity Ph.D. Students.

Ashley Jarrett, along with her col-leagues Kyonna Withers, Jelisa Sinn-

Braswell and Kimberly Bellamy, choseFacility Trends for the University Cen-ter for the ’20 Teens as their project.They worked night and day to makesure students, faculty and staff wereable to voice their ideas for the WebbCenter through their capstone experi-ence. Their project identified the stu-dent of 2020 and current and futuretrends in technology, space design andutilization, amenities, furniture andsustainability; and deciphered whatstudents, faculty and staff look forwithin a student union space.

“The course allowed my group and methe experiences needed to be successfulhigher education professionals. We weregiven the chance to work with an officedifferent from our graduate assistant-ships to create recommendations thatmay be used in the future,” shared Jar-rett.

For many in the Higher Education pro-gram, capstone is the students’ chanceto work as a paraprofessional and applytheory to practice. As a requirementfor graduation, the students anticipatetaking the course and understand thereal-life experiences they will receive.

Students Engage in Real-World Projects for HigherEducation Capstone Course

ODU Faculty & Doctoral Students Partner to offer a Clinical Training Series at the CSB: Psychopharmacology, Brain & BehaviorBy Jayne E. Smith, Reflections co-editor, Ph.D. Candidate

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Higher Education doctoral students KimSibson, Dave Thomas and Brian Kurisky,along with graduate program directorDennis Gregory, traveled to the 2012World Universities Forum (WUF) held atthe University of the Aegean, Rhodes,Greece. The title of the conference was,“Fifth World Universities Forum: Rein-venting the University in a Time of Crisis.”

The World Universities Forum has devel-oped into a key site for academic discus-sion on the current state and futurepossibilities of the university. Through-out the years, WUF has welcomed dele-gates from dozens of countries aroundthe world, numerous academic disci-plines, and a range of professional areas

including research, university adminis-tration, business, and policy-making.Now in its fifth year, the World Universi-ties Forum maintains its commitment toa broad examination of the university,and invites paper proposals on a rangeof relevant topics.

Sibson, Kurisky and Thomas wereawarded the prestigious GraduateScholar Award, which is only awarded toseven students from around the world.The award is given to students who ex-emplify scholarship on the internationallevel and have done research that hasbeen accepted for presentation at theWorld Universities Forum.

Higher Education Students Honoredat International Conference

ODU Students Pitch AppIdeas at Start Norfolk Start Norfolk is a unique event founded by entrepreneurs ZachMiller and Brennan Dunn. Its intent is “to bring together indi-viduals of different mind and skill sets, such as entrepreneurs,engineers, developers, designers, and business people, withthe goal of building a viable startup business over [the courseof] a weekend.” Participants pitch their ideas, and those whomake the final cut collaborate with experts in the field to de-velop their business plan. The winner’s prize is to begin theirjourney the following Monday, with an office space and supportto market. This year’s Start Norfolk contenders included ambi-tious ODU students Robert Romm and Daniel Waters.

Robert Romm, a senior biology student at ODU, pitched his freesmartphone app, called “What’s the Fix.” “What’s the Fix”eliminates the “check engine” light confusion by providing ve-hicle owners with a diagnosis in layman’s terms, and then as-sists them with scheduling appointments with local, trustedservice facility partners. Daniel Waters, a sophomore majoringin political science and philosophy, pitched his smartphone

app, called “Safe Square.” “Safe Square” is designed for ODUstudents to alert the campus police when they’re in an areathat feels unsafe. Police can then track these spots and com-pile statistical data on where to increase police presence.

Both students attribute their participation in this event toSTEM110T: Technology and Your World, a course at the DardenCollege of Education. They are grateful for the encouragementthey received from instructor Michael Willits, a Ph.D. studentstudying instructional design and technology at ODU. “I wouldnot have known about this competition, nor would I have hadthe motivation to compete, if it were not for Mr. Willits. His in-spiration and wisdom have been key to my many successes thissemester,” said Romm. Waters added, “Mr. Willits has a way ofgetting students to think out of the box, which was the catalystfor my idea.”

This article, by Laura Viviana, was adopted from Alt Daily, alocal newspaper.

EXCEPTIONAL Students


The Higher Education Student Association (HESA) was very busythis past fall preparing for the incoming class of master’s stu-dents. HESA created and implemented a new mentor programfor first- and second -year master’s students. The goal of theprogram is to promote engagement and enlightenment aboutthe higher education program. In addition, the program also al-lows opportunities for the second-years to share experiencesabout the program thus far. Mentor/mentee pairs meet on aregular basis to discuss coursework, internship opportunitiesand experiences, as well as any other topics they desire to dis-cuss. The program has received a great deal of feedback fromthe participants, and many feel it has been beneficial to stu-dents.

According to the committee, the program works very well whenthere are dedicated participants. First-year student Cara White

was paired with second-year student Jerrica Washington. Bothreflected on the experience and what they enjoyed most aboutit. White said, “I enjoyed having Jerrica as a mentor becauseshe really took the program seriously and put forth the effort tomeet with me on a consistent basis. She gave me advice andhelped me prepare for several opportunities, such as internshipinterviews and conferences.”

Washington stated that she was excited about participating inthe program, primarily because she would have the opportunityto serve as a resource and guide to an incoming first-year,which was not an option when she entered the program. “I be-lieve the HESA mentoring program is beneficial because it notonly allows networking opportunities, but it is really a greatsupport network outside of those only in your cohort.”

Stephanie Hathcock, a doctoral student in science education inthe department of STEM Education and Professional Studies, isneither an oceanographer nor a marine scientist, the kinds ofresearchers you would expect to find aboard an ice breaker/re-search vessel traversing the rough and icy seas near Antarctica.But the New Year found her on just such an expedition, to-gether with ODU oceanography faculty members John Klinckand Peter Sedwick, and several of the university's oceanographystudents. Hathcock's job was to blog about the expedition asscience outreach for laymen, and her work can be found athttp://www.steminaction.org/blog.

The ODU oceanographers involved in this research project fo-cused on inputs of minute quantities of the micronutrient iron

to surface waters of the Ross Sea offAntarctica. Their work, which is supportedby awards totaling $700,000 from the Na-tional Science Foundation, reflects howclosely scientists are watching Antarcticaand the surrounding Southern Ocean be-cause of rising levels of carbon dioxide inthe atmosphere, and anticipated climatewarming and related environmental changes.

Hathcock's outreach also involved audiovisual communicationbetween the scientists on the cruise and school children inPortsmouth and Norfolk.

What’s it like to be on a Research Cruise near theSouth Pole? ODU Bloggers Tell All

HESA’s New Mentorship Program Makes Differencefor Higher Ed Students

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Professors Garrett McAuliffe and Ted Remley and research asso-ciate professor Suzan Thompson, from the Department ofCounseling and Human Services, led participants from aroundthe country on the annual 10-day Institute on Diversity andCounseling in Ireland this spring.

The institute was located at Trinity College Dublin, and in-volved seminars on Irish counseling, language and culture andother diversity topics, led by McAuliffe, Remley and Thompson,as well as seven ODU doctoral students.

The cultural immersion also involved field visits to Irish coun-seling agencies and learning about oneself through risk-takingand group process.

The Diversity and Counseling Institute in Ireland was organizedto intentionally expand students' lenses on social issues and

counseling approaches in other countries. It aimed at helpingAmericans know themselves better by knowing others. Facultyhoped that students would more deeply understand the paral-lels around bias, discrimination, conflict, opportunity, and so-cial solutions.

Recreation Students Engage inCommunity OutreachLast fall, students from the Clinical Aspects of TherapeuticRecreation class organized and ran a Fall Festival for the Nor-folk Therapeutic Recreation (TR) Center. Planning for theevent began in class in September. The students were re-sponsible for planning all of the activities and securing dona-tions to assist with the cost. Service learning is an excellentopportunity to provide students with a hands-on experiencewhile also serving the local community. Thirty teens andadults with developmental disabilities participated in the FallFestival. The TR students ran six games, two craft projects,and assisted with a hay ride. They also served lunch andhelped make caramel apples. Everyone enjoyed the day andthe participants loved interacting with college students!

Counseling Program HoldsDiversity Institute in Ireland By Brendan O'Hallarn


Counseling students Matthew Portner and Rebecca Michel, fromOld Dominion's Darden College of Education, won both of thetop national awards for graduate students in this year's ChiSigma Iota competition.

An international honor society for more than 78,000 profes-sional counselors, counselor educators and students, CSI pres-ents only one award in each category each year. Portner andMichel were recognized at the American Counseling AssociationAnnual Conference in March in San Francisco.

Portner, who graduated in May with an M.S. Ed. in counseling,was honored as the Outstanding Master's Student. In addition tohis strong academic record, Portner gained a wide range ofclinical experiences as a mental health counselor intern at apsychiatric facility, at a residential facility and as a volunteerfor Camp Lighthouse, a grief counseling camp.

"What truly makes him special is his work with our chapter ofCSI. Since the time he was eligible to join CSI, Matt has gone

over and beyond what might be expected of a new graduatestudent entering the counseling profession," said Danica Hays,associate professor and chair of the Department of Counselingand Human Services.

Michel was honored by CSI as the Outstanding Doctoral Student.Michel is an emerging scholar in counselor education. Currently,she has four publications, four manuscripts under review, 29conference presentations and 13 newsletter articles to hercredit.

"Becky has also worked with the ODU Women's Center to offerdating violence prevention workshops to college students, aninitiative geared toward adolescent and young adult popula-tions," Hays said. In addition to her clinical experience over thepast seven years, Michel has supervised and taught or co-taughteight courses. This fall, she will be as an assistant professor atGovernors State University outside Chicago where she will becloser to family.

For years, it was assumed that a student with physical orlearning disabilities would not be college-bound after highschool. That mindset is changing, and the program “Say YES toCollege” is playing a significant role in that change. The let-ters Y-E-S are an acronym for “Your Education Solution.” InMay, when Old Dominion University students left the campusfor the summer, 34 high school sophomores, juniors and seniorsarrived for a two-night stay in the dorms and classrooms atODU.

ODU hosts one of the few overnight experiences available tostudents in Virginia. Students attended workshops, ate in theuniversity cafeteria and spent the night in the dormitory withroommates. Parents were encouraged to attend and were in-volved in separate activities from their sons and daughters.The participants were divided into small groups led by college-age mentors who are also identified as having disabilities andwho have successfully transitioned from high school to college.Mentors must be comfortable talking about their individual dis-abilities in front of a group, since they are responsible forleading some of the sessions. In addition to the mentors, theprogram also employs a full-time nurse to assist students withmedications and health concerns, as well as security guards toensure student safety in the dorm at night.

“Say YES to College” fosters growth, as students relate topeers who have disabilities. There is an atmosphere of accept-ance and empathy. All of these young people have faced sig-nificant challenges and obstacles throughout their lives. Theprogram provides the information and inspiration to help theseexceptional young people achieve their educational goals.

“Say YES to College” receives funding from the Virginia De-partment of Education, as well as Training and Technical Assis-tance Centers at both ODU and the College of William andMary.

Teens with Disability ‘Say Yes to College’ By Joann Ervin

Counseling Students Selectedfor National Awards

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STUDENT News

LaShauna Dean, acounseling Ph.D. stu-dent, received a gradu-ate student scholarshipfrom the InternationalAssociation of Addic-tions and Offender

Counselors, a division of the AmericanCounseling Association.

Keith Harkins a studentin the Community Col-lege Leadership Ph.D.program, was namedexecutive director ofVirginia Technical Insti-tute. Keith writes, “Iam excited to begin a

new challenge with VTI, and I look for-ward to working with area businesses,educational institutions, school dis-tricts, and students to fill the need forqualified craftspeople in Virginia. VTIwill provide state-of-the-art facilitiesand instructors with real-world experi-ence to ensure the finest educationalexperience.”

Brian Kurisky, a doctoral candidate inhigher education, was awarded a presti-gious Golden Key Graduate ScholarAward.

Bobak Kasrai, a sec-ond-year master’s stu-dent in highereducation, was ac-cepted into the NASPAGraduate AssociatesProgram and served as

the NASPA representative to ODU.These associates inform the campuscommunity about NASPA events, publi-cations and membership.

Mark Lawrence’sessay, “FishbowlBlues,” was acceptedby The Journal ofThought, a peer-re-viewed publication ineducation and philoso-

phy. Lawrence, an M.S. student in thehigher education program, wrote theessay last spring as part of Dr. Joe DeVi-tis’s course, Academic Issues in HigherEducation.

Ana McConnell, a stu-dent in library science,won the Virginia Hamil-ton and Arnold AdoffCreative Outreachgrant. There are onlytwo grants awarded

each year by the Virginia HamiltonLegacy, based at Kent State University.Ana's grant to create a multicultural lit-eracy and cultural celebration at Cen-terville Elementary in Virginia Beach isthe first awarded in Virginia.

Pietro Sasso, a doc-toral candidate inhigher education, willhave an article pub-lished in an upcomingissue of Oracle: TheResearch Journal of

the Association of Fraternity/SororityAdvisors. The article, titled "Toward aTypology of Fraternity/Sorority Stan-dards Programs: A Content Analysis," es-tablishes the first typology ofcommunity standards programs for col-legiate fraternal organizations.”

Jayne Smith, a Ph.D. candidate in coun-selor education, was selected as theProfessional Advocacy Heroine winnerfor the Omega Delta chapter of ChiSigma Iota.

Recreation and TourismStudies Majors Club winsEnvironmental Award

Dr. Eddie Hill and the Recreation andTourism Studies Majors Club won the2012 Environmental Stewardship Awardfrom the Keep Norfolk Beautiful Pro-gram. The RTS Majors Club adoptedNorthside Park several years ago.Under Hill's leadership, the studentsclean the park four times per year.

Sport Management graduate students took a trip toNew York City this spring. The students toured a numberof sport facilities in NYC and New Jersey and visited the9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero, the madness of TimesSquare, and pizza tasting in Little Italy.

The Student Council for Exceptional Children(SCEC) raised over $800 for Heart and Homes,a nonprofit organization in Virginia Beach thatprovides full-time residences to adults with se-vere to multiple disabilities.

Teachers of Promise InstituteThis year, six students from the Darden College were honored at the Teachers of Promise Institute. Students are selected from each university to represent Virginia’s most promising and gifted pre-serviceeducators. Honorees display a strong commitment to the teaching profession and exemplify the traitsnecessary for an exceptional career in public education. They spent two days at VCU and the Museumof Science in Richmond, attending educational seminars led by nationally recognized educators.

As grants go at colleges and universities these days, the$1,215 and $1,000 awards won by the Old Dominion chapter ofthe Student Virginia Education Association would be consideredsmall potatoes. But for the students who helped prepare theNational Education Association grant applications, they are abig deal.

"Most of us would consider these mini-grants," said JodySommerfeldt, the lecturer of teaching and learning in ODU'sDarden College of Education who advises the university SVEAchapter. "But for my students, they were colossal grants. Theywere student-initiated and student-led, and the activities willbe student-run. I'm just so proud of them."

SVEA board members wrote the grant proposals and devel-

oped budgets for the activities. It was their first attempt atgrant writing, Sommerfeldt said.

For the $1,000 CLASS (Community Learning through Amer-ica's Schools) grant, SVEA members developed and presentededucational activities for students in grades K-5 who attend theafter-school program at Young Terrace Community Center inNorfolk.

The "Educating the Whole Child" program started in Febru-ary and focused on a different type of activity one day eachmonth through the end of the spring semester – music, art, ac-ademics (with learning stations for science, language arts, his-tory and math) and sports/physical activity.

The ODU students, all of whom are future teachers, alsopartnered with Granby High School's Future Teachers of Amer-ica organization and Trinity Presbyterian Church in offering theactivities.

The other NEA award won by the ODU chapter was a SOAR(Student Organizing and Assistance Resources) grant, which isaimed at helping build membership in the student organization.With the grant money, the chapter, whose current membershipis 82, will conduct a marketing campaign to attract more fresh-men and sophomores. This will entail creating a brochure aboutthe organization and developing a mentorship program withGranby High School, as well as making presentations on campusin education classes and during Preview and Parents Weekend.The goals are to increase freshmen and sophomore membershipby 50 percent, and overall membership by up to 75 percent.

Katherine McCarthyElementary Education PreK-6 Graduate

Scott CrockerUndergrad Special Education General Curriculum K-12

Federico LandaetaUndergrad Spanish K-12

Dr. Leigh ButlerAssitant Dean

Cherie ShilligUndergrad Special Education General Curriculum K-12 (distance learning)

Karen GormanUndergrad Health andPhysical Education K-12

Sarah EulittChemistry 6-12 Graduate

ODU’s SVEA Chapter Awarded NEAGrantsBy Steve Daniel


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Educational Foundations and LeadershipOutstanding Education Specialist Graduate Student in EducationalLeadership: Darwin Barker

Outstanding Graduate Students in Higher Education Administra-tion: Mayura Christian, Bobak Kasrai and Jerrica Washington

Outstanding Education Specialist Graduate Student in Higher Education: Mike DeBowes

Outstanding Doctoral Students in Higher Education: Lisa Duncan-Raines and Brian Kurisky

Outstanding Doctoral Student in Educational Leadership: Lorena Kelly

Outstanding Master’s Student in Educational Leadership: Edmund Leclere

Higher Education Program- Most Important Contribution: Pietro Sasso

Communication Disorders and Special Education Communication Disorders and Special Education Outstanding Stu-dent in Special Education (Early Childhood/Severe Disabilities):Tiffany Hillegass

Outstanding Undergraduate Student in CDSE: Meredith Laverdure

Outstanding Student in Special Education (Mild Disabilities): Sarah Phillips

Outstanding Graduate Student in CDSE: Stacy Simone

Martha Mullins-Callender Award: Amber Ward

Kimberly Gail Hughes Research Award: Colleen Wood-Fields

Counseling and Human ServicesOutstanding Master’s Student in Counseling – NCI Martinsville Campus: Annette Alston

Outstanding Doctoral Students in Counseling: Tamekia Bell and Rebecca Michel

Outstanding Master’s Student in Counseling – Norfolk Campus:Christianna Bialas

Outstanding Human Services Student: Christopher Parkin

At the end of the academic year,

Darden College of Education recognizes

students for their contributions to the

ODU community. Award winners are

nominated by faculty for their out-

standing leadership and scholarship.

Alumni Association Outstanding College ScholarAward: Meredith Laverdure

Virginia Scholars Award-Delta Kappa Gamma Societyfor Women in Education: Karen Gorman

STUDENT Award Winners


Human Movement SciencesGraduate Award for Academic Excellence in Health and PhysicalEducation Curriculum and Instruction: Jayson Basanes

Academic Excellence in Exercise Science: Christopher Futrell

Academic Excellence in Sport Management: Corry Gross

Michael A. Dean Academic Excellence Award in Health and PhysicalEducation Teacher Preparation: Dustin Harris

Academic Excellence in Therapeutic Recreation: Matthew Janson

Rachel E. Scher Service Award in Sport Management: Alysse Maynard

Academic Excellence in Recreation and Tourism Management:Debra McDuffie

Graduate Award for Academic Excellence in Exercise Science andWellness: Chelsea Moore

Graduate Award for Academic Excellence in Sport Management:Rebekah O'Connor

Graduate Award for Academic Excellence in Athletic Training: Jeffrey Paszkewicz

STEM Education and Professional StudiesMandell Prize in Science Education: Sarah Eulitt

Technology Education Award for Academic Excellence: Catherine Jones

Outstanding Industrial Technology Student Award: Lorie Lyons

Outstanding Training Specialist Award: Seth Miller

Outstanding Marketing Education Undergraduate Award & W. LeeBullard Prize Endowment for Marketing Education: Briana Owens

Mandell Prize in Instruction Design and Technology: Gary Roemmich

Outstanding Technology Education Graduate Student: Jason Thomas

Outstanding Fashion Merchandising Graduate: Rebecca Pfister and Kyle Wayne Taylor

Teaching and LearningOutstanding Military Career Transition Program Award: Theresa Green

Outstanding Graduate Student in PreK-6 Education: Rebecca Weil

Betty Yarborough Outstanding Graduate Reading Student: Michele Fulkerson

Outstanding Graduate Student in Early Childhood: Courtney Townsend

Carol DeRolf Early Childhood Education Award: Lindsay Marie Fischer

Outstanding Graduate Student in Library Science: Kirsten Falk

Outstanding Student Virginia Education Association Student Award:Katherine McCarthy

Outstanding Social Studies Student Award: Ian Tobey

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The mission of the ODU Center for Educational Partner-ships (TCEP) is to identify regional educational priorities anddevelop partnerships to address those priorities. The center isalso committed to leveraging university resources to serve his-torically underrepresented kids. Since its reorganization in2010, John Nunnery and the TCEP team have been committedto fulfilling this mission and have enjoyed the success thatcomes with hard work and dedication to the goal.

Since 2010, the center has received nearly $30 million infederal and state aid through grants and contracts while focusingon three main strategic areas: the education of military con-nected children; career and college readiness; and utilizing datato inform decision making and results in educating students.

Nunnery notes that one of the most rewarding parts of his

job as executive director is seeing the growth and developmentof teachers and students. “Having the opportunity to engagethe college of education’s outstanding faculty directly withschools to make educational improvements for student learningis what the Center for Educational Partnership is all about.”

“The Center for Educational Partnership is all about meet-ing the needs of the community. We are fortunate to have theteam in TCEP engaging with Darden faculty to make a differ-ence in Hampton Roads, in the commonwealth and beyond,”said Darden Dean Linda Irwin-DeVitis.

The center has many projects going on in its first two yearssince reorganization. On the following pages, we have high-lighted some of them.

The Center for Educational PartnershipRaises Nearly $30 Million in 2 Years


$25 Million to Improve MathEducation

This spring, TCEP was awardeda $25 million scale-up grant fromthe U.S. Department of Educa-tion to improve mathematicsachievement and enhance ac-cess to challenging mathe-matics courses for high-needmiddle school students. Morethan $1 million will be allo-cated to support math instruc-tional improvements in the threeVirginia school divisions that areofficial partners in the pilot imple-mentation of the ODU project.

The grant’s focus is on providing studentsin high-need middle schools with increased access to rigorous and engaging course-work in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) via scaled-up im-plementation of a proven cooperative learning model in mathematics instruction.

John Nunnery points out that “most underserved populations have studentswho drop out of math and science in middle school which leaves them unpreparedfor high school and college-level math and science.”

That model to be employed is STAD-Math, an innovative, high-quality, multi-tiered approach to professional development that employs school-based mathcoaching, an online platform, and teacher-made videos of their own practices.Nunnery noted that technology will play a key role in providing professional devel-opment to rural and urban areas in a highly cost-effective way.

"The intervention and associated professional development are designed to im-prove the mathematics achievement of middle school students in general, andspecifically the achievement of sub-groups of students that are traditionally under-represented in STEM fields," Nunnery said.

The interventions to be implemented via the ODU project are designed to helpschools turn this trend around, boost student achievement in STEM subjects, in-crease access to rigorous STEM curricula for all students and increase participationin advanced STEM learning.

The project is designed serve 135,000 students in 185 high-need middle schoolsacross the United States over five years.

"Mathematics achievement is a key predictor of success in high school and col-lege. This project will raise achievement. More important, this work will changelives by providing wider opportunities for students in underperforming schools,"said Linda Irwin-DeVitis, dean of the Darden College of Education at ODU.

The project goes live this fall in eight schools including Halifax County, WatersMiddle in Portsmouth, Blair, Norview, Lafayette-Winona, and Rosemont AcademyMiddle in Norfolk, Kirby Middle in San Antonio, Texas, and Great Bend Middle inGreat Bend, Kan. Over the next five years, 185 school partners will be added.

Official partners for the proposed project include Johns Hopkins University, theSuccess for All Foundation and a number of local educational agencies (LEAs). LEApartners in the project's pilot group include Norfolk, Portsmouth and Halifax (Va.)public schools, Judson (Texas) Independent School District and Unified School Dis-trict 428 (Great Bend, Kan).

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TEAMS Unite for Military Children and Families

One of the first initiatives of the newunit was the development of TEAMS(Teaching, Education and Awareness forMilitary Students), a unique, interdisci-plinary program based in the DardenCollege of Education at Old DominionUniversity. Because Hampton Roads issuch a transient place with so many mil-itary installations, the college wantedto immediately begin to make a differ-ence in the lives of military families andmade this a cornerstone goal of its com-munity engagement and outreach toschools.

“Anyone who visits this area knows it isrich with military families. We oftensay how much we appreciate the workof our service men and women, but howoften do higher education institutionscreate genuine services to aid them?Military life is challenging; we wantedto create a way to help families facethe challenges,” said Linda Irwin-DeVi-tis, dean of the Darden College since2009.

The vision of the program is that everymilitary child will attend a school inwhich staff are aware of and preparedto effectively respond to their uniqueeducational and social-emotional needs.

Military children have a unique life;they are constantly adjusting to changeas a result of moving frequently, andhaving deployed parents who are awayfrom home for extended periods oftime. In addition to having to meetnew friends, and live in a new house ina new city every few years, they alsofrequently have to adjust to new teach-ers. Shifting schools usually meanschanging school districts with differentfocuses, teacher methods, values, grad-ing scales and priorities, not to mentionthe social and emotional aspects ofbeing constantly in transition from cityto city and sometimes country to coun-try.

“Schools must meet a wide array of ac-ademic, social and emotional, and orga-nizational challenges to effectivelyeducate military-connected studentswho are experiencing transition or de-ployment of a family member,” saidPamela Arnold, TCEP research assistantprofessor and member of the TEAMSstanding committee. Often teachersand counselors must address the conse-quences and behaviors of studentswhose parents are deployed or whohave experienced a transition into thenew school.

Critical areas of responsibil-ity include the need to pro-vide remediation fortransition-related gaps inlearning, the need to preparestudents for mandated stateand district-wide assess-ments for which requisiteknowledge may be lacking,and the need to undertakecomplex grading, retentionand placement decisions fortransitioning students.(Taken from TCEP TechnicalReport “Needs of Military-Connected School Divisionsin South-Eastern Virginia”written in September 2011)

It is this need that created the TEAMSinitiative which has several projectsunder way to address these needs inHampton Roads.

In December 2011, TCEP, in conjunctionwith Newport News Public Schools, wasawarded $2.5 million from the U.S. De-partment of Defense Education Activityto create “Boosting Students' Mathe-matics Achievement and Promoting Posi-tive Social Connections forMilitary-Connected Families.” Thefocus of this grant is improving mathscores while helping families deal withthe challenges of relocation and deploy-ment. The Newport News area has amilitary-rich population as a result ofthe Fort Eustis Army base located there.The project added six counselors in mil-itary populated schools to reduce coun-selor-to-student ratios. Thesecounselors, along with those currentlyin the schools, underwent a counselorinstitute last fall (see “TEAMS GroupHosts Institute Counselors of Military-Connected Students”). In addition, thegrant provided funding to hire four newmath coaches to help raise standardizedmathematics test scores. The TEAMS initiative has also imple-


mented the ODU Military Child and Fami-lies certificate program for teachers thatprovides educators with specialized ex-pertise in meeting the academic, socialand emotional needs of military-con-nected PreK-12 students. Teachers, coun-selors, school leaders and other serviceproviders in this program take three se-quential courses for a total of 12 credithours of course and service learning work.The program was taught this summer byODU Darden College of Education faculty.

The TEAMS interdisciplinary approach isalready showing progress and garneringsupport throughout the commonwealthand the nation.

This spring, Dr. Jill Biden, wife of VicePresident Joe Biden, came to NewportNews to celebrate the one-year anniver-sary of Operation Joining Forces (an ini-tiative created by Dr. Biden and First LadyMichelle Obama to support military fami-lies) by visiting the students of Lee HallElementary, one of the first schoolsadopted by the TEAMS Initiative. Biden

noted that “the work happening at OldDominion is so important.”

The TEAMS project is truly an exemplarymodel for how higher education institu-tions can form partnerships with schoolsto address the unique needs of militarydependent children, Biden emphasized inher remarks.

“One of the best parts of my roles as Sec-ond Lady is spending time with so manyveterans and military families. I’ve trav-eled to bases across this country and theworld, and I’m always inspired by thestrength, the resilience and the pride ofour military families. But they have alsoshared with me their challenges – how dif-ficult it can be to have a parent in harm’sway, or the stress of a mom or dad doingthe job of two parents while one is de-ployed.”

Lee Hall was an ideal venue for the Join-ing Forces anniversary event, where 42 percent of the school’s 700 students aremilitary-connected.

Nunnery, executive director of the Centerfor Educational Partnerships at ODU andleader of the TEAMS initiative, said,“TEAMS started as just a few people atOld Dominion who wanted to make a dif-ference for children of military families. Alittle more than a year ago today, Dr.Christine Ward and Dr. Kathleen Lev-ingston, ODU faculty who are both Navyspouses with young children, planted theinitial seed of inspiration that has growninto a major effort involving many part-ners.”

The TEAMS project is living proof of an-thropologist Margaret Mead’s famousquote: “Never doubt that a small group ofthoughtful, committed people can changethe world. Indeed, it is the only thing thatever has."

For more information on the programsand services of the TEAMS project pleasevisit education.odu.edu.

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TEAMS Group Hosts Institute for Counselorsof Military-Connected StudentsBy Steve Daniel

The TEAMS group in Old Dominion's Dar-den College of Education joined forceswith the Child and Youth Programs atCommander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic,to host a Transition Counselor Institutelast fall.

TEAMS (Teaching, Education and Aware-ness for Military-connected Students) isan interdisciplinary group that promotesthe interests of military-connected stu-dents and their families. Kathleen Lev-ingston, an ODU assistant professor ofcounseling and human services who isinvolved with TEAMS, worked closelywith Marian Leverette, the Navy Mid-At-lantic Regional School liaison officer, tocoordinate this event (see photosabove).

This phase 1 training took place on theODU campus, focused on the military-connected child's experience with tran-

sitions. Military lifestyle and culture,school transition perspectives and iden-tifying local transition challenges wereamong the topics addressed.

The U.S. Navy, through its Child andYouth Programs, funds the Military ChildEducation Coalition (MCEC) to presentthe training, which is then offered at nocharge for those who attend. TheMCEC's Transition Counselor Institute(TCI) is targeted to area public, private,parochial, and home school and Depart-ment of Defense guidance counselorsand other educators, as well as installa-tion and community leaders, transitionspecialists and military parents.

Linda McCluney (‘76, ‘84), a member ofthe Norfolk School Board, DCOE AdvisoryBoard and academic dean of the JointForces Staff College, and Command Mas-ter Chief David Carter of Naval Station

Norfolk were both on hand to show sup-port of the initiative. Levingston andChristine Ward, a fellow ODU assistantprofessor of counseling and human serv-ices, presented an overview of the ODUTEAMS project during the lunch on Fri-day.

"Dr. Levingston and Dr. Ward have pro-vided extraordinary leadership to theTEAMS initiative, and this demonstrationof mutual commitment between Old Do-minion University, the Military Child Ed-ucation Coalition and the Commander,Navy Mid-Atlantic Region, to ensure thatwe have military-conscious schools inour community is just one example ofthat," said John Nunnery, executive di-rector of The Center for EducationalPartnerships (TCEP).

Command Master Chief David Carterof Naval Station Norfolk welcomesinstitute participants.


Partnership with Virginia Beach SchoolsHelps Students Connect with Sciences

TCEP Hosts Forum to AddressDropout Prevention

Last fall, TCEP held a dropout prevention event in conjunctionwith Regional Education Laboratories and Resources. The eventwas held to help educators, administrators, faculty and educa-tion policy advisors work together on ways to discourage youthfrom dropping out of school. The local school divisions sent rep-resentatives and engaged in a day full of presentations, as wellas small group and panel discussions on strategies for dropoutprevention. The day concluded with a presentation on key re-search findings that will help educators face the challenges ofpreventing high school dropouts.

This past fall, TCEP wasawarded $250,000 from theVirginia Department of Edu-cation to manage a math sci-ence partnership withVirginia Beach City PublicSchools (VBCPS) and Tidewa-ter Community College calledLearning Enhanced throughthe Nature of Sciences(LENS). LENS began this sum-mer with an institute for sci-ence teachers and willcontinue this fall with profes-sional learning opportunitiesfor teachers. Classroom expe-riences with students will be tracked with cornerstone assess-ment for the high school science program in Virginia Beach.

Melani Loney, coordinator for instructional services and acad-emy programs with VBCPS, said “The LENS project will provideVirginia Beach City Public Schools teachers with an enhancedunderstanding of the interconnectedness of scientific concepts.This understanding will provide VBCPS students with instructionthat transfers scientific understanding from unit to unit andcourse to course.”

The core goals of the LENS project are:

1. To increase the pass rate and advanced proficiency of stu-dents taking the Earth Science End of Course test in grade9.

2. To develop an interdisciplinary Earth Science unit that canfacilitate transfer of learning from grade 9 into higher gradescience courses.

3. To develop cornerstone assessments that will assess studentgrowth in all high school science disciplines (Earth Science,Biology, Chemistry, Physics).

4. To engage teachers in a series of professional developmentand learning opportunities that will promote reflection andthe analysis of teaching and learning in high school science.

“One of the key components of the partnership is to helpteachers see the connections within the science discipline…thiswill help them help their students recognize these connectionsas they move from one science course to the next. Earth Sci-ence, Biology, Chemistry and Physics all have common elementsthat unite them; we want to help students see the connec-tions,” said Joanne Garner, TCEP research assistant professorand co-PI on the grant project.

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Ted Remley, the Batten Endowed Chair in counseling and the gradu-ate program director of the master's and Ph.D. programs in coun-seling at Old Dominion, led a delegation of 12 counseling universityprofessors and doctoral students in fall 2011 in the country ofBhutan.

Remley and the other delegates provided counseling services toBhutan residents for three weeks during October. The institute inBhutan was sponsored by ODU and supported by the National Boardof Certified Counselors (NBCC), which is headquartered in Greens-boro, N.C.

Bhutan is a small country located between China and India thatpurposefully isolated itself for the past century in an effort to pre-serve its heritage and culture. The fourth king of Bhutan allowedtelevision in the country in 2000 and introduced the Internet in2004. He also created a parliament and democratic form of govern-ment with elected officials, and abdicated the throne in 2004. Hisson is now the fifth king of Bhutan. The young king, now 31, wasmarried to his 21-year-old queen while the institute was held inBhutan and some of the ODU institute delegates attended the wed-ding celebration.

The government of Bhutan, with support from the royal family, hasmade a commitment to establishing the profession of counseling inthe country and has enlisted the help of NBCC and ODU. Counselinguniversity professors from throughout the United States, under thedirection of Remley, will be making annual orientation trips toBhutan. These visits will be similar to the recent institute and theirpurpose will be to recruit people willing to donate a semester ormore of their time to teach counseling in programs at the RoyalUniversity of Bhutan and provide counseling services in schools,community counseling agencies and the hospital in Bhutan. Coun-seling professors will utilize sabbaticals from their universities, re-

tirement earnings and grants to fund their semester-long stays inthe country.

ODU counseling doctoral student Susan Lester received a scholar-ship from NBCC, which paid all expenses related to her participa-tion in the institute. She provided professional services at RENEW,a women's center established by one of the queens of Bhutan. ODUcounseling doctoral graduate Sonja Lorelle, who currently teachesat the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, worked at a highschool as a counselor in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan.

“Having the opportunity to take doctoral students to Bhutan andexpose them to the rich culture here is very important to their de-velopment as counselors and researchers,” said Remley.

It is anticipated that ODU will sponsor these orientation institutesin Bhutan and that the university will continue its partnership withNBCC in supporting the development of the counseling profession inBhutan.

DARDEN Making a DifferenceDarden College Presents PartnershipAward to TNCCThe Darden College of Education honored Thomas Nelson Commu-nity College with its Darden Strategic Partnership Award thisspring. John Dever, TNCC president, accepted the award on behalfof the school during a luncheon program at ODU’s Baron and EllinGordon Art Galleries.

The ODU doctoral program in community college leadership (CCL)annually presents the award to an institution or group that sup-ports academic research on the community college level and en-courages students to pursue doctoral degrees in community collegeleadership.

“TNCC advances this work by encouraging TNCC employees to par-ticipate in the doctoral program, providing senior administrators,including President John Dever, as guest lecturers in doctoral

courses, allowing ODU doctoral students to complete internships onthe TNCC campus and allowing ODU faculty to serve as presentersin the TNCC Presidential Leadership Institute,” said MitchellWilliams, interim director of the ODU graduate program.

ODU's doctoral program in community college leadership was es-tablished in 2003 to meet the executive leadership workforceneeds of Virginia's community colleges. The program supports theuniversity's commitment to technology-delivered learning. Classesare provided through ODU's distance learning delivery systems, in-cluding satellite, streaming video and video-conferencing. Thesemodalities enable students to meet their personal and professionalneeds through accessible graduate education.

ODU’s Remley Leading Effort to EstablishCounseling Profession in Bhutan

Dr. Janice (Jan) Todd, professor at the University of Texas atAustin, gave the Warren Stewart Lecture in Exercise Science thisspring. Todd, the Roy J. McLean Fellow in Sport History, is a sporthistorian and a well-known expert on strength training. She haswritten two books, “Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Pur-posive Exercise in the Lives of American Women” (1998), and “LiftYour Way to Youthful Fitness” (1985). In addition, Todd has writtenmore than 100 articles in popular and scholarly journals on variousaspects of strength training and exercise.

She presented a historical/sociocultural perspective about womenand weight lifting. She is a former power lifter herself and duringher peak competitive years, was considered “the world’s strongestwoman.” Check out her website: www.starkcenter.org/

The Warren Stewart Lecture is possible through generous contribu-tions of Dr. Warren Stewart (‘75). Stewart is former superintend-ent of Goochland County Schools and currently serves on theNorfolk Public School Board and is an active member of the DardenCollege of Education Advisory Board.


Education Wins First College Recycling Challenge

The Darden College of Education took home the trophy—literally--in the Facilities ManagementDepartment's first College Recycling Challenge, a friendly contest that pitted the staff and fac-ulty from each of ODU's academic colleges against each another to see who could do the most re-cycling during October.

The Darden College of Education won with a recycled weight per capita of 20.47 pounds.

World’s Strongest Woman Gives the2012 Warren Stewart Lecture

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ODU Education Prof Meets withIstanbul Education DirectorLea Lee, an associate professor of teaching and learning in the Darden College ofEducation, met recently with Muammer Yildiz, national education director for Is-tanbul, Turkey, to share information about ODU's teacher training programs anddiscuss the possibility of pursuing scholarly research exchanges and opportunitiesfor Turkish teachers to study abroad.

"This diplomatic visit and contact with Dr. Yildiz began a conversation about fu-ture possibilities for scholarly research as well as study abroad programs with theDarden College of Education," said Charlene Fleener, the chair of ODU's Depart-ment of Teaching and Learning.

Oral Preschool Program Partneringwith Norfolk Public Schools

The Oral Preschool Program in the ChildStudy Center is now partnering with Nor-folk Public Schools to offer services topreschoolers (age 2-5) who are deaf. Theprogram will also train professionals in ed-ucation, special education, and communi-cation disorders; provide dailyauditory-verbal services to the childrenand their families; and conduct research.The classroom is located in the Child StudyCenter in a classroom which has beenacoustically designed to create the bestlistening environment to facilitate thechildren learning oral language and to de-velop their listening skills.

“This new partnership is a terrific trainingopportunity for students in the undergrad-

uate and graduate special education andcommunication disorders programs. Ourstudents are being given the opportunityto use technology and strategies that arejust being introduced at the state level asmore children who are deaf receivecochlear implants and their families wantthem to become oral speakers,” saidSharon Raver-Lampman, coordinator of theearly childhood special education pro-gram. “The progress the children in theclass make is so rewarding. Through ourshared missions of serving children, train-ing professionals and conducting research,this program will have a mutually positiveimpact on the Darden College of Educationand Norfolk Public Schools.”

Children in the oral preschool have regularinteraction with peers with typical hearingeach week when they participate in inclu-sion activities at the center. The childrenreceive speech-language and audiologicalservices from the Old Dominion UniversitySpeech Clinic. The teacher in the class-room is licensed in deaf education as wellas in listening and speech by AG Bell. Theclassroom is staffed by two para-educatorswho are special education and/or speech-language pathology majors.

Families of the children and professionalsworking in the field are offered trainingthrough the “Coaches Corner workshops,”structured sessions offered multiple timesa year. The model program is dedicated tooffering pre-service and in-service trainingin the oral approach to professionalsthroughout Virginia. The Virginia Depart-ment of Education, Norfolk Public Schools,the Scottish Rite, CHEAR (Coalition forHearing Education and Research) and OldDominion University are funding this col-laborative project.

Ava Shannon (5) and London Griffen (3) pictured in Oral Preschool Classroom


ODU associate professors Amy Adcock and Ginger Watson joined faculty from commu-nications and theatre arts and oceanography to put together a Science Alliance Liveevent in fall 2011.

Science Alliance Live’s premier event featured hands-on science activities for thewhole family, staged readings of two new plays about scientific research at ODU,puppets, snow cones, and live music. Events were included in a documentary filmabout science education.

The free event is funded through the Old Dominion University Initiative on ClimateChange and Sea Level Rise.

Adcock served as the educational consultant and instructional designer for the sup-plemental educational materials on the event. “I enjoyed designing and implement-ing the online game hosted on the Science Alliance Live website. Seeing youngpeople connect with science early is an important part of their development. I enjoyworking on these kinds of projects and collaborating with my colleagues across cam-pus,” said Adcock. As the project continues, she will develop instructional materialsfor teachers and home school parents to use the information from the play to teachabout climate change.

Science Alliance Live strives to connect scientific research to local communitiesthrough the arts. Scientists, artists and educators collaborate to create events thatinspire kids, families and communities to engage in science and scientific research.

Events combine innovative interactive theater, hands-on science activities, and on-line games and simulations to promote scientific literacy in an inclusive family-friendly environment.

A series of experiments related to surgical smoke and its effects isone of the latest collaborations between Old Dominion Universityand Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Petros Katsioloudis, ODU assistant professor of STEM education andprofessional studies and director of the department's IndustrialTechnology Program, has teamed with Dr. Kal Sakhel, assistant pro-fessor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and coordi-nator for the Institute for Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery at

EVMS, to study the production of surgical smoke by various instru-ments during operations, and to analyze the content of the smoketo determine what health risks this may pose to surgeons.

Once phase one is concluded and all the data are analyzed – possi-bly by the end of the fall semester – the two researchers plan tosubmit an article to a medical journal, and perhaps an engineeringjournal as well.

Darden Faculty Collaborate with theArts to Enhance Science Education

ODU Professor and EVMS Surgeon Look at Potential Health Risks of Surgical Smoke

Amy Adcock

Ginger Watson

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AACTE announced this spring that its2012 Best Practice Award for theInnovative Use of Technology will goto the University of Central Florida(UCF) College of Education, an honorthat ODU will share through itsinnovative practices as a partnerinstitution in UCF's TLE TeachLive Lab.

The TLE TeachLive Lab providesopportunities to develop the skills andcraft of teaching in a virtual teachingenvironment, allowing pre-service andin-service teachers to correct errorsas they master routines, experimentwith new teaching ideas and developcontent area and pedagogical skills in

a way that will transfer to a realclassroom situation without negativelyimpacting the learning of realstudents.ation programs.

Darden College Initiatives ReceiveRecognition at AACTE Meeting

Sheri Colberg-Ochs,professor ofexercise science inthe ODU DardenCollege ofEducation, is awell-known author,

exercise physiologist, and expert of diabetes research.

Colberg-Ochs has committed her career to improving thehealth and quality of life for people with diabetes. She haswritten more than 8 books and 11 book chapters and over50 refereed journal articles on the topic. Additionally, shehas been involved in research projects totaling more than$2.4 million to further the study of diabetes and treatmentmethods involving exercise and physical activity.

In addition to her many credentials, including working as anexercise specialist in a diabetes treatment center andconducting exercise-related research on people withdiabetes, Colberg-Ochs has over 44 years' worth of practicalexperience as a (type 1) diabetic exerciser and personliving with diabetes.

She headed up the revision of a position stand on "Exerciseand Type 2 Diabetes" jointly for the American College ofSports Medicine and the American Diabetes Association(ADA) in 2010, as well as represented the ADA as an

organizational partner to implement the National PhysicalActivity Plan for Americans. She also serves on the Centerfor Global Health Task Force for Old Dominion Universityand the ADA's Prevention Committee (to prevent type 2diabetes). Recently she wrote the Diabetes PreventionManual, Exercise and Diabetes that will be used exclusivelyby the American Diabetes Association.

Colberg-Ochs has also been an American College of SportsMedicine fellow since 1997. She earned her undergraduatedegree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from theUniversity of California, Berkeley.

In 2012, she received both the Old Dominion UniversityFriends of the Library Achievement Award, which is given toa member of the university community who has consistentlyexcelled through writing in his or her discipline for a spanof years, and the Faculty Research Award, in recognition ofher distinguished research career.

A frequent lecturer on diabetes and exercise across thenation to both professional and lay audiences, Colberg-Ochsis also a reviewer for many scientific journals, grants andbooks; a member of several diabetes publications’ advisoryboards; a columnist and medical advisory board member fordLife; and a frequent columnist for Diabetes In Control. Shehas been quoted as an expert in the Los Angeles Times andReader’s Digest, Men’s Health and Prevention magazines.

Darden Researchers Excel inDiabetes Education and Research

NATIONALLY Recognized Faculty


University Awards

ODU Annual Research Award winner:Sheri Colberg-OchsThe 28th ODU Annual Research Award win-ner is Professor Sheri Colberg-Ochs of theDepartment of Human Movement Sciences,Darden College of Education. She is an ex-pert in public health issues related tohealthy lifestyles in general and diabetes inparticular and is an elected Fellow of theAmerican College of Sports Medicine. Sheauthored eight books, 11 book chapters,

and over 52 peer-reviewed articles, and has been interviewed,quoted or featured in over 185 local, national and internationalvenues including WebMD, USA Today, US News & World Report,Reader’s Digest, AARP Bulletin, Parents, Men's Health, Forbes,International Herald Tribune, ABC News, CNN Radio, Los AngelesTimes, and many others. Her research attracted funding fromthe American Diabetes Association, National Institutes ofHealth, and others.

Teaching with Technology Award:Jennifer KiddJennifer Kidd has served as lecturer in theDepartment of Teaching and Learning since2007. Prior to that, she had many roles atODU including graduate student, graduateassistant, adjunct faculty, and projectmanager for a $1.4 million grant from theU.S. Department of Education. She taughtfifth grade in public schools in NewportNews, Virginia and in Chicago, and kinder-

garten in an international private school in Budapest, Hungary.She also served as the education director at the school in Bu-dapest and was responsible for the staff, curriculum, assess-ment and all day-to-day operations.

FACULTY News

David Swain, professor of human move-ment sciences, has developed a section inone of his classes on alternative medicine,describing how one can decide if the “al-ternative” is valid based on supporting evi-dence. The students are asked to decidefor themselves about the validity of thetreatment, to give them the confidence toextend this to consulting their own clientsin the future. In his graduate classes,

Swain teaches students to critique research articles from theapproach of a professional reviewer. These skills are then putin place on their theses. Swain insists that a thesis be done asa potentially publishable research project, not just an educa-tional exercise.

William Owings, professor of educationalfoundations and leadership, was invited todevelop a proposal to study the effective-ness of Troops to Teachers (TTT) in winter2004. TTT provides funds to educate retiredmilitary individuals to become teachers.Owings and two other collaborators designeda teacher quality rubric of teacher behaviorsclosely connected with increased studentachievement. After performing field tests

and conducting reliability and validity studies, Owings felt con-fident that it efficiently measured teacher quality. He sent therubric to all the TTT’s principals, and found that supervisorsrated TTT individuals significantly higher than traditionally pre-pared teachers in all of the rubric's dimensions.

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Retiring Faculty

Liz Dowling, associate professor of humanmovement sciences, received her bache-lor's and master's degrees from VirginiaCommonwealth University, and her doctor-ate from the University of Virginia. Sheserved as the chief graduate program di-rector for the department as well as theExercise Science and Wellness Program.Her main teaching responsibilities included

exercise physiology and research methods at both the under-graduate and graduate level. Her primary research interestsfocus on the physiological effects of exercise in women and theelderly.

Joan Hecht, senior lecturer of teaching and learning, receiveda Ph.D. from Old Dominion University, an M.A. from HofstraUniversity and a B.S. from State University Colleg –Buffalo. Shebegan her teaching career as a special educator in New York.Later in her career, she developed and implemented mentoringand parenting programs for the Tidewater Community CollegeWomen’s Center and coordinated postsecondary programs forpeople with disabilities for Old Dominion University. As directorof a National Securities Education Programs grant, VietnamProject at TCC, Hecht led students and faculty to explore theculture and language of the Vietnamese people, followed by astudy abroad to Vietnam. In 2003 Hecht was appointed by ODUand Thomas Nelson Community College as a joint faculty mem-ber. In this position she was an active member of many com-mittees, including the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, andpresented at state, national and international conferences.One of her greatest accomplishments was “First Steps,” an ini-tiative designed specifically for paraprofessionals, alreadyhired by the public school system, to complete coursework forlicensure and become teachers.

Cheryl Latko, Counseling and Human Serv-ices,Latko was a member of the Dardenfaculty for 6-1/2 years.

Don Myers received a B.A. in history and government from theUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha and an M.S. and Ph.D. in edu-cational administration from the University of Chicago. Myers’career as an educator extended over 50 years and included po-sitions as a teacher, principal and assistant superintendent toprofessor, department chair and dean. He served as dean ofthe College of Education at the University of Nebraska beforejoining ODU in 1985 as dean of the Darden College of Educa-tion. Myers joined the Department of Curriculum and Instruc-tion in 1993 where he has worked diligently with the HamptonRoads education community. Besides his teaching and research,he served as director of the Hampton Roads Institute for theAdvanced Study of Education from 1995 to 2001. During his ca-reer he held positions on the National Commission on Stan-dards for the American Federation of Teachers and served onthe board of the National Standards for Education for the Na-tional Education Association. Myers has authored severalbooks, book chapters and journal articles.

Promotion and Tenure

Ginger Watson was granted tenure as anassociate professor in the Department ofSTEM Education and Professional Studies.

Tammi Milliken was approved for promo-tion to the rank of associate professor andwas granted tenure in the Department ofCounseling and Human Services.

Mitchell Williams was recently approvedfor promotion to associate professor andwas granted tenure in the Department ofEducational Foundations and Leadership.

FACUTLY Briefs


ElectionsDanica Hays, associate professor of counseling andchair of the Department of Counseling and HumanServices, was elected president of the Associationfor Assessment in Counseling and Education, whichis the national division of the American CounselingAssociation.

Tami Al-Hazza, associate professor of language, lit-erature and culture in the Department of Teachingand Learning, was elected to the board of directorsof the Association of Literacy Educators and Re-searchers. This association is an educational, non-profit organization devoted to fostering andpromoting--directly or indirectly--the growth anddevelopment of the teaching and learning processesrelated to literacy at all levels.

Radha Horton-Parker, associate professor of coun-seling, has been elected president of the Associa-tion for Adult Development and Aging, which is thenational division of the American Counseling Associ-ation.

New Journal EditorsLynn Ridinger, associate professor of sport manage-ment, was recently named the associate editor ofthe Sport Management Educational Journal. This isthe official educational journal for the North Amer-ican Society for Sport Management.

Recognition for Published WorksJesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research

Shana Pribesh, Karen Gavigan, andGail Dickinson won the 2012 JesseH. Shera Award for DistinguishedPublished Research. This award wasgiven by the American Library Asso-ciation for their paper, “The AccessGap: Poverty and Characteristics ofSchool Library Media Centers.”

The article reports on disparities in school library media centers'services for children and young adults based on differences in theeconomic health of their communities. The awards committee saidthe study and resulting article are well-grounded in contemporary li-brary practices/principles, and the authors have been able to suc-cessfully balance their awareness of the limitations of their studywith the acute urgency to research the issues faced by schools andschool library media centers. The nature of the findings requires theauthors to be precise yet unapologetic in their analysis, particularlywhen the evidence showed the profession's cherished assumptionsabout providing equitable access to information are not necessarilymet in practice.

Associate professor of school librarianship in theDepartment of Teaching and Learning, Gail Dickin-son’s co-authored manuscript, “Competing Stan-dards in the Education of School Librarians,” wasaccepted for publication in JELIS, a top tier journalin the library science field. Dickinson was alsoelected president-elect of the American Associationof School Librarians.

Petros Katsioloudis, assistant professor of industrialtechnology, and his co-author received one of theBest Paper Awards from the Division of Experimen-tation and Laboratory Studies for a proceedingspaper on an existing TUES grant.

New BooksEducation Professor’s New Books Exemplify the Life of the PublicIntellectual

Two new texts by Joe DeVitis, visiting professor ofeducational foundations and leadership at Old Do-minion University, express his fervid belief as apublic intellectual that scholars should addresspressing public problems and engage in social andpolitical life. The books are "Character and MoralEducation" and "Critical Civic Literacy" (see coversbelow).

Published this month by Peter Lang, the books are written for thoseinterested in creating more just, equitable communities in schoolsand society. It is DeVitis' contention that our political "order" is indesperate peril and in need of broad-sweeping changes.

DeVitis, Joseph L.

Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader (2011)

"Critical Civic Literacy," edited by DeVitis, hasbeen called a must-read for those interestedin civics, social studies, social education, so-cial foundations of education and educationalpolicy studies. Affording an evocative conver-sation on civic literacy in America's publiclife and schools, it challenges us to reflectupon what is democracy and democratic ed-ucation and to put our critical deliberation

into enlightened practice.

Devitis, Joseph L.

Character and Moral Education: A Reader (2011)

"Character and Moral Education" (co-editedwith Tianlong Yu, of Southern Illinois Univer-sity) offers comprehensive perspectives onthe controversies in the popular charactereducation movement, challenges the scien-tific and positivist treatment of moral de-velopment and education, and advances acontextualized examination of the social,cultural, political and pedagogical issues in

moral education in our troubled world.

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Danica Hays is Lead Author of New Book on Qualitative ResearchProcess

Hays, Danica

Qualitative Inquiry in Clinical and Educa-tional Settings (2012)

In her new book, Danica Hays demystifiesthe qualitative research process – andhelps readers conceptualize their ownstudies – by organizing the different re-search paradigms and traditions into co-herent clusters.

Hays, associate professor of counselingand chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Services,along with co-author Anneliese Singh of the University of Georgia,offer real-world examples and firsthand perspectives to illustrate theresearch process. Instructive exercises and activities build on eachother so readers can develop their own proposals or reports as theywork through the book.

Published by Guilford Press, the book has already received critical acclaim.

Hays, Danica

Mastering the NCE and CPCE (2011)

Specifically designed to help studentspreparing for the National CounselorExam (NCE) or Counselor PreparationComprehensive Examination (CPCE), andprofessional counselors preparing totake the NCE as a licensure exam, thispractical guide provides numerous sam-ple questions and four full-length prac-

tice exams. It offers pertinent informationabout the NCE and CPCE, including discussion of its rationale, struc-ture, format, and scoring procedures. Fully aligned with CACREPstandards, the Study Guide for the NCE and CPCE features essentialinformation on important topics from the various branches of knowl-edge comprising the counseling profession, aggregated into the eightCACREP and NBCC core knowledge areas: human growth and devel-opment, social and cultural foundations, helping relationships, groupwork, career and lifestyle development, assessment, research andprogram evaluation, and professional orientation and ethics. (Co-au-thors: Efford, B.T., Crockett, S. and Miller, E.)

Adapted from www.amazon.com/Textbooks

Neukrug, Ed

Counseling Theory and Practice (2011)

This text provides a unique, in-depthpresentation of all the major theories ofcounseling and psychotherapy. It dis-cusses 12 theories that cover four broadconceptual approaches: psychodynamic,existential-humanistic, cognitive behav-ioral, and post-modern. The text effec-tively demonstrates how counseling

theories are applied in real counseling settings.


Osborne, Jason

Best Practices in Data Cleaning: A Com-plete Guide to Everything You Need to DoBefore and After Collecting Data (2011)

This book provides a clear, accessible,step-by-step process of important bestpractices in preparing for data collec-tion, testing assumptions, and examiningand cleaning data in order to decreaseerror rates and increase both the powerand replicability of results.


Owings, William A.

Leadership and Organizational Behavior inEducation (2011)

The authors put theory into practice in areadable, teachable, relevant, and timelylook at actual leadership behaviors throughnumerous case studies and personal expe-riences. Readers get a firm understandingof the information and how to relate it totheir own personal experiences or transfer

it to new situations. (Co-author: Kaplan, L.)


Owings, William A.

American Education: Building a CommonFoundation (2011)

This text provides a comprehensiveoverview of the foundations of modernAmerican schooling. The book's premise isthat education in the 21st century mustfacilitate more complex, deeper, andmore varied learning that will enable allcitizens to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world. With the overarching

goal of furthering higher-order thinking, the authorsmodel the principles of evidence-based practice and the critical-thinking process by examining issues and controversies in depth andpresenting supporting research to validate their conclusions. Thisthought-provoking new text provides a timely and insightful perspec-tive of American education. (Co-author: Kaplan, L.)



Revised BooksFleener, Charlene E.

Reading to Learn in the Content Areas(2011)-8th edition

In this text, future educators discoverhow they can teach students to use read-ing, discussion, and writing as vehiclesfor learning in any discipline. The bookexplores how the increased availabilityof computers, instructional software,social media, and Internet resourceshave affected the ways children learn

and create meaning from their world. A reader-friendly presentation, balanced approach, strong research base, andinclusion of real-life examples from a variety of subject areas andgrade levels have helped make this resource one of the most popularand effective books on the market. (Co-authors: Richardson, J.,Morgan, R. F.)


Manning, Lee

Multicultural Counseling and Psychother-apy: A Lifespan Perspective (2012)-5thedition

This text explores the lives and potentialcounseling problems of African Ameri-can, Hispanic American, Asian American,European American, and Native Ameri-can populations. It considers the pow-

erful influences of a client's developmentalstage and cultural background. It maintains that integrating multi-cultural and lifespan considerations are crucial to counseling effec-tiveness. It includes coverage from counseling specific groups duringvarious lifespan stages, professional issues, and future directions ofthe multicultural counseling field.


Manning, Lee

Teaching in the Middle School (2012) - 4thedition

Based on the belief that effective middleschool teaching practices must be devel-opmentally responsive, this text providesan insightful introduction to young ado-lescents ages 10 to 15, and to the middleschool and middle school movement.

Coverage balances the practical and the theoretical to provide all ofthe essential knowledge today's middle school teacher needs con-cerning the development and characteristics of adolescents. Thetext emphasizes the diversity of adolescents in development, cul-ture, gender, and sexual orientation and the importance of these dif-ferences for educational experiences and guidance efforts.


Neukrug, Ed

The World of the Counselor (2012)-4thedition

This comprehensive introductory textgives students an unparalleled look intothe practicalities of the counseling pro-fession by providing a broad overviewof the field, including a firm founda-tion in the skills, theories, and day-to-day realities of the job. Thorough andresearch-based, the book presents the

key concepts and material about the counseling professionwith great clarity and insight, while keeping readers engagedthrough the many illustrative case examples and personal narratives.This text is structured around the eight core CACREP curriculumareas, while enhancing this discussion with important issues such asspecializations within counseling, finding a counseling job, and fu-ture trends in counseling.


Remley, Theodore P.

Ethical and Legal Issues in School Coun-seling (2011)-3rd edition

The authors approach each professionalissue in counseling from both an ethicaland a legal point of view, offering read-ers a complete, integrated explorationof all facets. Difficult issues are ad-

dressed in a straightforward manner, and practical, realistic advice isproffered through vignettes that showcase typical situations anddilemmas faced by practicing counselors. (Co-authors: Hermann, M.A., Huey, W.C.)


Remley, Theodore P.

Ethical and Legal Issues in the Practice ofMarriage and Family Therapy (2011)-5thedition

This text examines the classical and con-temporary issues in marriage and familytherapy. The text considers the legal,ethical, and professional issues that mar-riage and family therapists face each day

as well as the best strategies for navigating these issues.The new fifth edition includes a number of new topics, includingmulticultural issues reflecting institutional oppression; boundary,competency, and liability concerns associated with technology-basedclient care; the significance of supervision in both skill acquisitionand professional acculturation in one’s early career; nontraditionalfamily care; conflicts between legal and ethical obligations; emerg-ing issues in MFT licensure; and ethical and empirical considerationsrelated to evidence-based care. (Co-authors: Wilcoxsin, S.A.,Gladding, S.T.)


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Awards and RecognitionTimothy Grothaus, associate professor of coun-seling, has been named the 2012 VirginiaSchool Counselor Educator of the Year. He hasworked for over 20 years as a school counselor,teacher, therapist, coordinator of youth lead-ership development programs, campus minis-ter, and youth minister. Grothaus is currentlyco-chair of the ASCA Position Statements Com-mittee, a RAMP reviewer, co-author of the Vir-

ginia Professional School Counseling Program Manual, and is on theProfessional School Counseling editorial board.

Andrea DeBruin-Parecki, associate professor ofteaching and learning, is the 2012 recipient ofthe Children’s Harbor annual Safe Harbor An-chor Award. The awards go to individuals ororganizations making a difference in the livesof Hampton Roads children.

Appointments/Fellowships

Bonnie Van Lunen, associate professor ofhuman movement sciences, has been selectedas a 2012 Fellow by the National AthleticsTrainers’ Association.

Shanan Chappell Moots, advanced research de-sign and analysis instructor, was named a Na-tional Dropout Prevention Center Fellow. Thegoal of the NDPC Fellows is to contribute tothe National Dropout Prevention Center atClemson University and the National DropoutPrevention Network’s mission to increase highschool graduation rates through research andevidence-based solutions.

John Nunnery has been named senior researchconsultant, CNA (formerly the Center for NavalAnalyses). CNA research consultants are asmall number of nationally recognized scholarsin various disciplines that assist CNA in devel-oping partnerships and research agendas toprovide timely information to decision makersin the military, public policy, and educationarenas.

Xihe Zhu, assistant professor of human move-ment sciences, has been elected a Fellow forthe Research Consortium in the American Al-liance for Health, Physical Education, Recre-ation and Dance.

Service AwardsThe following faculty members were recognized this spring for theiryears of service.

40 YearsDana BurnettEducational Foundations and Leadership

35 YearsJohn RitzSTEM Education and Professional Studies

20 YearsRadha Horton-ParkerCounseling and Human ServicesM. Lee ManningTeaching and Learning

Milliken Awarded Grant to Expand CARE NOW Program in NorfolkPublic SchoolsTammi Milliken, assistant professor of counseling and human servicesat Old Dominion, in collaboration with the city of Norfolk's Bureau ofYouth Services, has received a $199,807 21st Century CommunityLearning Centers grant from the Virginia Department of Education toexpand her work in Norfolk Public Schools.

The funds will allow her to introduce the Character and ResilienceEducation program (CARE NOW) at Lafayette-Winona Middle School.She has successfully implemented the program for several years atBlair Middle School, providing important academic, clinical andtraining opportunities.

CARE NOW is a collaborative prevention program aimed at promotingthe character, resilience and academic achievement of students inHampton Roads. Milliken developed the program with Eddie Hill, as-sistant professor of human movement sciences, to provide a seam-less approach to in- and after-school support services.

This program has brought together community organizers, adminis-trators, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, teachers fromNorfolk and Hampton public schools, the Norfolk Bureau of YouthServices and different programs in ODU's Darden College of Educa-tion.

"The in- and after-school programming is facilitated by ODU studentAdvocates, as they are called. Thus, the model provides a prime op-portunity for experiential learning for the ODU participants, whileapproximately 1,000 middle school and high school students obtainbenefits-based programming," Milliken said.

GrantsThe Darden College of Education ranks 20th in the country in fed-

erally funded grants! DCOE is the only academic college at ODU

nationally ranked in the top 25 in this category for its discipline.

Burnett Ritz Horton-Parker Manning


Largest Grant Award and Most Collaborative GrantAward: John Nunnery and co-PIs Pamela Arnold, LindaBol, Gary Morrison, Shanan Chappell, and Melva Grant

Principal Investigator John Nunnery, and co-PIs Pamela Arnold, LindaBol, Gary Morrison, Shanan Chappell and Melva Grant, are this year’swinners of both the Largest Grant Award and the Most CollaborativeGrant Award. The $24.9 million grant was awarded through theUSDOE’s Investing in Innovations program, and was the largest givennationally in the 2011 competition. The project focuses on providingstudents in high-need middle schools with increased access to rigor-ous and engaging coursework in science, technology, engineering andmathematics. It incorporates an innovative approach to professionaldevelopment, and the use of technology will play a key role in itsimplementation. The project is designed to serve 135,000 studentsin 185 high-need middle schools across the U.S. over five years. Theproject will place DCOE in the top 25 colleges of education for edu-cational research and development expenditures for the next fiveyears.

Publications Award: Bonnie Van Lunen Last year Bonnie Van Lunen co-authored 11published articles. She currently has an-other article in press, and two more thathave been accepted and are pending publi-cation, totaling 14 publications for the aca-demic year. She has been published in eightdifferent journals ranging from the Journalof Athletic Training to the Clinical Journalof Sports Medicine. In addition to these 14articles, Dr. Van Lunen created and posted10 online educational modules for athletic

trainers with the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, which is theonly online resource available to the profession within the area ofevidence-based practice and clinical decision making.

Instructional Publications Award: Garrett McAuliffeGarrett McAuliffe has received the 2012 In-structional Publications Award from the Dar-den College of Education. Over the last fiveyears, McAuliffe has published 10 instruc-tional units, training videos and educationalmodules. One of the more prominent publi-cations is the “Handbook of CounselorPreparation,” which is now considered alandmark for guiding the preparation of fu-ture counselors. McAuliffe has also estab-lished himself as a primary scholar in

multicultural counseling, primarily through his instructional publica-tions.

Service Award: Ed Gomez Edwin Gomez has a long list of service activ-ities. At the university level, he is active onthe QEP, W-courses, and internationalizationcommittees. At the college level, Gomezwas the faculty governance chair, held thecoveted position of HSR chair, and served onthe futures committee. He also served onthree departmental committees. While nota requirement for receiving this award,Gomez has also led many community serviceinitiatives, among them, serving as volun-

teer coordinator for the Freedom Hall Half Marathon in Norfolk andproviding more than 100 of his department’s majors an opportunityfor professional experiences.

DARDEN Faculty Awards 2011-2012

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$10,000 and aboveAphasia FoundationCharles P. Wildermann ’73

$2,500 to $9,999Linda Z. Bamforth ’64Warren A. Stewart ’75

$1,000 to $2,499Debora J. Bergfield ’82 David E. Buckingham ’75 Leigh L. Butler ’99Jeanne R. Greif ’72John A. ’99 and Daphyne Grimsley ’99Hampton Roads Community FoundationLinda Irwin-DeVitisMary E. Riley ’65Marcia A. Royal ’74Frances E. Runzo ’61Annabel L. ’68 and Harold H. SacksSmart Beginnings South Hampton RoadsMelvin H. Williams

$500 to $999Claire Kaufman Benjack John R. Broderick ’97 (H)Leslie H. FriedmanRoger L. Frost, C.P.A. ’61Mary S. Lee ’71Suzanne S. Moran ’79William A. OwingsJames J. Wheaton

$250 to $499J. David Branch III, Ph.D. Nina W. Brown ’68 Garnett Casey Shores ’84Andrew R. Casiello ’05Ingrid M. Dickens ’69Greta I. Gustavson ’67 Brian J. Hodson ’93Arminda B. IsraelJohn L. Ivy Jr. ’70Sharon L. JudgeKathleen A. KaplanChristine and John J. Kren ’94 Patricia A. Kunkel ’88Ronald L. Looney ’75Harold J. McGee Sr. ’59Sherry Lynne Nyman-Heuser ’92Rosemarie Russo ’83Bill C. Wells, USAF (Ret) ’79

$100 to $249Kelly Y. Adams ’01Mary R. Ahearn ’71Dana G. AllenAnonymousClaudine Austin ’81Joan G. Baecher ’70 Anna L. BamforthBabbi J. Bangel ’78Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc. Katherine B. Barkin ’86Jimmie S. Barnwell ’77Sandra G. Batkin ’71Patricia V. Beeks ’80Cheryl A. Bester ’80Karen K. Biggs, USN ’00Ann K. Bock ’58Linda BolSandra J. Bradley ’05Joan Park BuckleCarroll M. Butler Jr. ’79Sue H. Butler ’77Elizabeth K. Byrd ’74Linda J. Byrd ’70Cindy M. Byrum ’94Theresa F. Caffee ’92Laurie W. Canning ’90Thomas J. Caroluzza ’70Steven K. Carter ’74Georgia Christie ’78Coleen S. Clemente ’70Angelia D. Coggin ’85 Shannon G. Coker ’80Una L. Coleman ’69Amy Curling ’93Lois Eileen Dalton ’62Pamela A. Darden ’09Margaret T. Davenport ’71Michael L. Davenport ’78Richard R. Davis ’95Frances R. Dukes ’06Frances B. Duman ’73Craig R. Dupuis ’92Katharine B. Dwyer ’71Vickie P. Eckert ’77Alice P. ’76 and Bruce T. Eldridge Sr. ’77Jenny L. Erber ’79Stephen C. Ervin ’71Terry J. Farmer ’06Gregory J. Feron ’74Neil Fitzpatrick ’86Sandra Kay Frost ’89Corinne G. Gabriel

Honor Roll of Donors

FRIENDS of Darden


Pamela S. ’92 and Bradley W. GaleWalter T. H. Galliford Jr. ’72Cherie H. Geiger ’73Anastasia M. Giannoutsos ’65James R. Glisson ’70Marsha M. Goodman ’98Kimberly A. Graham ’07Dennis E. GregoryLinda R. Gregory ’75Joann M. ’74 and James R. Grindstaff ’76 Robert H. Gunter ’66Donald R. Hall ’97Shannon E. Hardwick ’70Kevin M. Harper ’02Elaine F. Harris ’64Anne Haste ’62Shirley A. Hatten ’72Jing HeMelissa B. Hecker ’85Elna F. Helgerson ’72Shirley Mae HerlineJean B. Hilton ’74Steffi B. Himmelstein ’73Grace S. Hopkins ’80Susan E. Horner ’69Malia L. Huddle ’81Correy R. HudsonMargaret A. Hurt ’67Delwyn D. Hutto ’82Tanya L. Jenkins ’96Barbara L. Johnson ’75Robert T. Johnson ’94Patsy R. Joyner ’77Marion C. Kagel ’71Charles B. Kenison ’97June T. Kernutt ’74Carlesta A. King ’81Iris E. King ’59Elizabeth Koivisto ’10Gregory A. Koumbis, USN (Ret) ’96Carol R. Krochmal ’72Mary G. Landon ’00Florence A. Landy ’03Milton Lopez ’98Bonnie C. Lyons ’59Anne J. Madsen ’61Barbara M. Mandell ’78Ellen Marshall ’81Kelly J. Martin ’09Sarah Martin ’88Evelyn R. Mathewson ’71Anne W. Maynard ’69Natalie Nicole Miller Julie A. Moberly ’97Elizabeth M. Monroe ’86Harold C. Morris ’64Helen J. Moyer ’61

Pearl N. Moyers-Dean ’72Marie H. Nace ’96Nola H. Nicholson ’86Jean K. Parker ’78Lisa E. Parker ’91Mary A. Parrish ’73Catherine P. Perino ’82Rhonda L. Perkins ’94Linda L. Pond ’02Jonas M. Porter ’93Dennis W. Price ’81Sara RafalIra RahimLynn S. Regna ’82Alice M. Reynolds ’94Theresa A. Ruffing ’88Charlene T. Runner ’04Carroll M. Ruschman ’83Coleen A. Ryder ’87Karen L. Sanford ’82Robert A. Scellato ’61Patricia B. Schrimper ’70Kathryn Sullivan Scott ’78George A. Seabolt ’78 Genevieve B. Seguinot ’85Margaret M. Seitz ’95Shirley N. Sellers ’74Kim Sibson ’06Allison C. Simon ’80Barbara A. Singleton-Seals ’08Sandra L. Sperry ’76Cecilia P. Stanfield ’72Marjorie A. Stealey ’79Shelley B. ’77 and Laurence E. Stepp ’78Judy J. Sterling ’78Monika StokerSunTrust Mid-Atlantic FoundationChristie Sykes ’74Iness E. Taylor ’71E. Diane ThompsonJean S. Trainum ’72Ruth J. Turner ’72Wendell H. Turner ’99Violet Tuttle ’72Julie V. Van Moorhem ’64Theresa D. Wachal, M.Ed. ’66Robert E. Warren ’67Ginger WatsonHelene WattsValerie J. Wesseldine ’94Lauren WillisCheryl WilsonGerald C. Worthington ’72Harris WuErin J. Warham

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