Bridges Magazine-Spring 2016

B R I D G E S MAGAZINE

2016 CELEBRATION OF EDUCATION IN OKLAHOMA

SPRING 2016

Dear Alumni and Friends of the College,

We are excited to share with you several events that have taken place in the college over the past academic year.

The first is our Humphreys Lecture Series that took place this past January. Speaker Robert D. Putnam gave a wonderful lecture in Meacham Auditorium, followed by a President’s Associates dinner, about the importance of the broader community looking out for all children. His recent book, Our Kids, The American Dream in Crisis, shows some difficult trends over the last 40 years, but offers some positive solutions through strengthening schools.

The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education continues to be a leader in integrating technology into our teacher education program. We were again recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program, one of just two for the university and the only college of education in the state of Oklahoma. Associate Professor Theresa Cullen, who has led this effort, was also recognized as an Apple Distinguished Educator. This is a global community of education leaders recognized for doing amazing things with Apple technology in and out of the classroom.

Superintendents and principals rave about our graduates’ preparedness for the classroom and especially their ability to become immediate technology leaders in the school.

An important element in successful organizations is diversity of thought and experience. We continue to take a leadership role in the college and across campus in this area. In July, Associate Professor Elon Dancy will become our first associate dean for community engagement and academic inclusion. This will allow a clear focus across our undergraduate, graduate and faculty to build an inclusive association among all elements of the college. We will continue to have specific events that highlight the importance of respecting broad perspectives and backgrounds.

One area where we need your help is in sharing the wonderful work of our alumni. Please contact us with stories or updates, both personal and professional, that we can include in the magazine so everyone can see the amazing achievements of our graduates.

Gregg Garn, Dean

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CONTENTSCathey Simmons Humphreys Distinguished Lecture Series · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 22016 Celebration of Education in Oklahoma · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 4 College Happenings · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 8 2015-16 Board of Advocates· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·11Student Spotlight: Mayra Garcia · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 14Alumni Spotlight: Sterling Mayes · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 16Tech With Beck · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 18FACULTY, STAFF, STUDENT AND ALUMNI HAPPENINGS 20

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CONTACT BRIDGESThe University of OklahomaJeannine Rainbolt College of Education820 Van Vleet Oval, Room 110Norman, OK 73019-2041(405) 325-4844ou.edu/education

DEANGregg A. Garn

ASSOCIATE DEANSTeresa DeBackerLawrence Baines

ASSISTANT DEANSherry Cox

EDITORMelanie Schneider

CONTRIBUTING WRITERRichard Mayes

CONTRIBUTING EDITORSBarbi DeLongSusan Greer

GRAPHIC DESIGNERShayna Pond

PHOTOS BYTravis CapertonHugh ScottMelanie Schneider

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ROBERT D. PUTNAM, PH.D, was this year’s guest speaker at the 2016 Cathey Simmons Humphreys Distinguished Lecture Series, held Jan. 20 at

Meacham Auditorium in Oklahoma Memorial Union.

A public policy professor at Harvard University, Putnam has consulted for the past three American presidents and numerous other world leaders. The Sunday Times of London has called him “the most influential academic in the world.”

Putnam’s newest book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, examines the growing class gap among American young people. Putnam engaged the audience of more than 200 people for more than an hour with stories of his youth in working-class Port Clinton, Ohio. Research conducted among his own classmates from the class of

1959 and today’s youth shows how the outcomes for kids from varied socioeconomic backgrounds has changed drastically.

In addition to his lecture, Putnam visted with a class in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education and toured OU-Tulsa facilities, including Tulsa Educare.

On the evening of Jan. 20, Putnam was honored with a President’s Associates dinner in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom at Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis was OU’s One Campus, One Book selection for 2015-16. Students, faculty and staff across campus have been reading the book and participating in group discussions.

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Prior to the lecture, President David L. Boren inducts Cathey Simmons Humphreys and Donald Humphreys into the Seed Sower Society.

Robert Putnam’s lecture attracts a standing-room only crowd in Meacham Auditorium Jan. 20.

The Humphreys family joins Robert Putnam and Dean Garn before the ceremony and speech.

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“Everything from family dinners to socialization through sports plays a significant role in childhood development.”Robert D. Putnam, Ph.D.

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2015-16 Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education Outstanding Seniors

On March 4, more than 260 supporters of the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education gathered in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom at Oklahoma Memorial Union for the 2016 Celebration of Education in Oklahoma.

Judge Robert Henry was the event’s keynote speaker as the Award of Distinction honoree. Henry received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Oklahoma, and currently serves as president of Oklahoma City University.

Guests also were treated to a speech from 2016 Oklahoma State Teacher of the Year Shawn Sheehan. Sheehan is a 2011 graduate of the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education with a master’s degree in special education. He also was named one of four finalists for 2016 National Teacher of the Year. Other special guests on hand included OU Board of Regents Chairman Max Weitzenhoffer and State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister.

In addition to faculty, alumni and friends of the college who were honored for their work in education, undergraduate students were honored for their selections as the 2015-16 Outstanding Seniors and 2015-16 Outstanding Interns.

2016 HonoreesAward of DistinctionJudge Robert Henry

Young Educator AwardMelissa Brevetti, Daniel G. Krutka

Outstanding Educator AwardVoncella McCleary-Jones, Jon Myers

Career Achievement AwardSharon Lease

Meritorious Service AwardEmily Stratton

Hall of Fame InducteesRichard Heatly, Virgil Perry Lovelace


Judge Robert Henry: Award of Distinction

Voncella McCleary-Jones: Outstanding Educator

Emily Stratton: Meritorious Service

Melissa Brevetti: Young Educator Dan Krutka: Young Educator

Jon Myers: Outstanding Educator Sharon Lease: Career Achievement

Richard Heatly: Hall of Fame Virgil Perry Lovelace: Hall of Fame


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Rockey Robbins: Leadership-Citizenship

Aiyana Henry: Teaching-Advising

Gina Powell: Staff Service

William Frick: Research-Scholarship Jiening Ruan: Research-Scholarship

Kendra Williams-Diehm: Teaching-Advising

Kristy Brugar: Junior Faculty

Lawrence Baines: Jon E. Pedersen Excellence in Graduate Mentoring

Angela Urick: Patricia L. Hardré Excellence in Graduate Mentoring


2015-16 Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education Outstanding Interns

Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione and OU Board of Regents Max Weitzenhoffer.

L to R: Jan Barrick, Katie Dunlap, State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister, Linda Everett.

2016 Oklahoma State Teacher of the Year Shawn Sheehan.

Gene Rainbolt (L) and University Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Clarke Stroud.


2016 DIVERSITY SYMPOSIUM

T he 2016 Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education Diversity Symposium, which took place Jan. 28-29, carried the theme

“Voices at the Margins.”

Terrell Strayhorn, Ph.D., served as keynote speaker for the event, speaking to a crowd of more than 150 in Zarrow Hall on Jan. 28. Strayhorn is a professor of higher education at Ohio State University and serves as director of the Center for Higher Education Enterprise.

Strayhorn tailored his talk to this year’s theme of voices at the margins, relaying anecdotes and information from his work as a faculty affiliate in the Todd A. Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male and the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State.

Day two was student-focused and student-driven as graduate students from the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education and around campus gathered in Collings Hall for presentations on topics ranging from Native American influences and teaching in the margins, to women’s advocacy and student-led activism.


JRCOE EARNS APPLE Distinguished Program AWARD FOR 2015-17

The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education at the University of Oklahoma has been named an Apple Distinguished Program for 2015-17.

This is the second time the college has received the honor, also earning designation for 2013-15.

The Apple Distinguished Program designation is reserved for programs that meet criteria for innovation, leadership, and educational excellence, and demonstrate a clear vision of exemplary learning environments.

The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education implemented a one-to-one iPad program in 2013, where all fully-admitted undergraduate students receive an iPad. This is part of the larger One University Digital Initiative, created at OU in 2012.

Since first earning recognition for 2013-15, the college has expanded its leadership and faculty support. Faculty are creating content for use in their classes and presenting workshops and research around the world to share with the larger educational community.

The college hired a technology integration specialist to work with faculty, staff, students and the greater educational community on innovative uses of technology in the classroom and beyond. Part of this outreach effort includes complimentary professional development workshops for preservice and current teachers.

A project that helped the college earn Apple Distinguished Program designation is its pairing with Arthur Elementary in the Oklahoma City Public Schools, the only ConnectED school in Oklahoma. College faculty and students have been involved in helping Arthur Elementary students and staff implement iPad use in the school.

The college also has undergone a physical transformation with its technology innovations, turning a standard computer lab into the Sandra L. O’Brien Collaborative Learning Hub with updated work stations, a smart board and a community learning environment. The redesign of the Ann McArron Jones Innovative Learning and room 325 classrooms allows students to work in group settings with technology at their fingertips.

Spearheading much of the project for the college is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology Theresa Cullen. Cullen is an Apple Distinguished Educator, a prestigious and competitive award honoring highly innovative educators.

Theresa Cullen, Ph.D., and Dean Gregg Garn


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BOARD ofADVOCATES2015-16

Patty Bartell – Chair HoustonDanni Boz – Secretary The Woodlands, TexasJan Barrick Oklahoma CitySally Bentley Oklahoma CityRoberta Burrage Antlers, OklahomaJoe Castiglione Norman, OklahomaFaith Clune Edmond, OklahomaJenny Dakil Norman, OklahomaKatie Dunlap Edmond, OklahomaRobert Everett Norman, OklahomaRuth Ann Fate Tulsa, OklahomaCharlotte Jones Norman, OklahomaJane Kenney Oklahoma CityHuntley Kubitza HoustonSharon Lease Oklahoma CityKristin Lipe Oklahoma CityDave Lopez Oklahoma CityLinda Lytle Tulsa, OklahomaJanise McIntyre Temple, OklahomaSandra O’Brien HoustonMargaret Pape Norman, OklahomaBarbara Paul Oklahoma CityLinda Rodgers Oklahoma CityEmily Stratton Oklahoma CityMarilyn N. Sullivan Oklahoma CityBarbara Thompson Oklahoma CityLori Thrower Norman, Oklahoma

Front Row (L to R): Barbara Thompson, Sally Bentley, Emily Stratton, Sandra O’Brien, Sharon Lease, Marilyn Sullivan, Linda Lytle.Back Row (L to R): Danni Boz, Patty Bartell. Jenny Dakil, Faith Clune, Margaret Pape, Robert Everett, Charlotte Jones, Dean Gregg Garn.

The College’s Board of Advocates is made up of educators and business leaders who are passionate about advancing education. They meet several times throughout the year and serve as a visionary body that promotes education advocacy and support.


On Oct. 16, the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education welcomed EFFIE BENNETT-POWE, professor emerita at State University of New York, Cobleskill. Bennett-Powe was on campus as the featured speaker for the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education Endowed Lecture Series.

An early childhood educator, Bennett-Powe spoke of her time growing up in Rentie Settlement, Oklahoma, and the role that race played in her schooling and career. After her talk, a panel discussion took place featuring Bennett-Powe and professors from the College of Cducation, Anthropology and African and African American Studies.

For more photos from Bennett-Powe’s lecture, visit http://bit.ly/BennettPowe

To watch a video of Bennett-Powe’s lecture, visit https://youtu.be/SJS5YChJPo0

CRIS MAYO, PH.D., professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was on campus March 9 to speak as part of the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education Endowed Lecture Series.

Mayo’s lecture focused on LGBTQ youth and their associations across differences in public schools. Mayo encouraged those who consider themselves to be LGBTQ allies to not just sit back and assume the youths they work with understand how to navigate the path that lies ahead. There is much history in the LGBTQ movement, of which today’s youth may not be aware and may be interested in learning where it began.

A question-and-answer session took place after the talk with an audience that included faculty, graduate students and undergraduates.

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STUDENTS GIVE BACK

As part of their service learning project for their field seminar class, undergraduates SHELBY HARMON and JASMINE JUSTUS conducted a diaper drive to benefit Baby Steps in Norman. This is an organization that provides support for teen moms within Norman’s high schools. They provide childcare along with all of the diapers, wipes, formula, and food for the children when they are in their care, so that the mothers can continue to go to school. In all, they were able to donate 1,682 diapers and 2,112 wipes to the organization.

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENTFOR FUTURE TEACHERS The 2016 Oklahoma State Teacher of the Year and Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education graduate SHAWN SHEEHAN stopped by campus on March 3 to offer advice to aspiring students. His work as teacher of the year has taken him all over the state, and he spoke about how encouraged he is with what he is seeing in the classrooms, despite the issues that education in Oklahoma is facing. Sheehan also shared tips on how he engages with his students, and ideas that have and have not worked in his classroom. The students also had one-on-one time with Sheehan to ask questions as they prepare to enter the field. The event was sponsored by Kappa Delta Pi, Student Oklahoma Education Association, Student Council for Exceptional Children and National Science Teachers Association.

TEACHERS MAKE GREAT CEOS

Teacher-turned-entrepreneur PIYUSH PATEL visited Collings Hall on Feb. 9 to meet with students and talk about how the skills they are learning as educators can translate to different areas. Patel is the founder of Digital-Tutors, a company that teaches the people who make movies, games and projects by creating the world’s largest CG, VFX, CAD and digital art training library. Patel holds an undergraduate degree in elementary education, with an emphasis in middle school math and science.


MAYRA GARCIA

LEADING CHANGE THROUGH ACTION MELANIE SCHNEIDER Sometimes something as simple as encouraging words from a teacher can make all the difference in a person’s life.

For Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education junior Mayra Garcia, encouraging words brought her to Norman and set her on a path in the field of education.

A native of Oklahoma City and graduate of U.S. Grant High School, Garcia had the dream of attending the University of Oklahoma. But as she got older, her surroundings and peer group started to make her think college wasn’t possible.

“Every student goes through a transition as they move from middle school to high school, and when I got to U.S. Grant, it had this reputation in our community of not being a good school. And being around some of the students changed me into a person I didn’t want to be.

“A lot of students there think they can’t go to school, or they don’t want to go to school. And when you are around that, you start to think to yourself, ‘well, why am I going?’”

College is a big step for anyone, and it is made harder if the people surrounding you question its value. If not for the persistence and guidance of her teacher, James Kappel, Garcia’s dreams of college, helping others and a better life may have come to a halt.

Garcia had Kappel as her world history teacher as a sophomore, academic team sponsor as a junior and AP Government teacher her senior year. For him, there were no reasons why college should be out of Garcia’s reach.

“He always tried to get to know his students on a more personal level,” Garcia said. “He would ask me where I wanted to go to school, and I would tell him I wasn’t sure I wanted to go. But he wouldn’t take no for an answer because he knew I could do the work in college.”

Still, Garcia wasn’t convinced, and she had all the excuses in her arsenal: it’s too expensive; it’s too far.

“But every excuse I gave, he came back with ‘nope, not good enough,’” Garcia said. “And I think he instilled some confidence in me. And that is what I want to do for other students who are in a similar situation.

“If I didn’t have a James Kappel in my life, I wouldn’t be here.”

Garcia also started to think about her community. If she was one of those people who followed the path of not advancing her education, how would she be able to make a difference for younger generations?


“How am I going to change things if I fall into that attitude of not caring about my education?” Garcia said. “I want to show them that I am doing it, and you can, too. I knew I just wanted to go to school and better myself in an academic sense, in a life sense and in a socioeconomic sense.”

With college becoming a reality, it was then that Garcia understood becoming a teacher could be an avenue to make that difference in her community.

“It made a huge difference having teachers to talk to about things that maybe your family doesn’t understand,” Garcia said. “My family is from Mexico, and there were some things that they just didn’t understand. Having those teachers to go to for support really drove me to want to be one of those teachers.”

Once in Norman, Garcia dove head first into exploring all the opportunities a college campus has to offer. Class council and the Hispanic American Student Association were two of her bigger involvements, with the latter leading her to become Miss Hispanic OU 2014.

“It was important for me to become involved because I really wanted to become a part of the university,” Garcia said. “I didn’t just want to be a student who wasn’t invested. That helped me meet people and find support systems in both a diverse setting and with students who may be facing the same struggles I was.”

As Miss Hispanic OU, Garcia focused on the platform of mentorship. Her freshman year she took it upon herself to bring students from her high school to sit in on her classes and get the experience of what college is like.

“I started doing this on my own, but I really wanted to mentor on a bigger scale, and I thought being Miss Hispanic OU could help that,” Garcia said. “I wanted to bring cultural awareness to the university, but also college resources to the high school.”

Garcia worked with the students to understand scholarship resources and made sure they were on track with deadlines for applications, financial aid and other checklist items.

“I think what it did the most was familiarize the students with a college campus,” Garcia said. “Most of them don’t have siblings or parents who went to college, so this was their first encounter with a college campus.

“One student in particular I did the ‘Mr. Kappel tactic’ with when he told me he was going to community college, even though he really wanted to go to Oklahoma State,” Garcia said. “He said he didn’t know how to pay for it, but he didn’t realize he had all these scholarships at his disposal. And in the end, he realized he could do it. Now he is in his second year at OSU and loves it.”

The second part of Garcia’s mentoring program was matching the students with people at the colleges they were going to attend. So once they got on campus, they would have someone to turn to if they had a question, making them feel more comfortable and more likely to stay enrolled.

Garcia’s role as a mentor will continue long after she has left the OU campus with her degree in social studies education. A member of the college’s Urban Teacher Preparation Academy, Garcia already knows she wants to take her teaching talents to the urban schools of Oklahoma City and be a role model for those who may be in the same situation she was four years ago.

“I want to work with sophomores and juniors because I feel that is such an important transitional phase in high school,” Garcia said. “If you start working with them at that age, you can really help them get prepared for what lies ahead in college.”

As with all education students, Garcia is aware of the challenges she will face as a teacher in the state of Oklahoma. And that is exactly why she wants to stay.

“If you are passionate about education, Oklahoma is the place where you are most needed,” Garcia said. “Right now is when these students need us most.”

Junior Mayra Garcia served as Miss Hispanic OU 2014.


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Heritage Hall, in Oklahoma City, has grown to be one of the most highly respected of all private

schools in the nation. It wasn’t by accident that my father, Sterling L. Mayes, a Sooner and teacher born and bred, was a central figure in the school’s founding and served as its first headmaster during the critical first years of its growth. In many ways it was the culmination of the life of a man born to be an educator.

You could say that Dad’s story parallels the up-by-your-bootstraps story of the University of Oklahoma itself. His father homesteaded during the Land Run of 1889 and Dad, at the age of 16, graduated from the one-room grammar school in the rural community of Stella, in Cleveland County. Two years later, he took his first job in education as a teacher of all grades in that same one-room country school. Two years after that, he moved to Rock Creek, Oklahoma, as principal of that town’s high school-elementary school. He relinquished that job when my grandfather sold his general store in Stella and moved his family from their farm to a home in Norman so that Dad could be the first of his six brothers and sisters to attend a university.

His choice of study was education, and his efforts were recognized by membership in Kappa Delta Pi, international honor society in education. With time out for Army service in World War I, he graduated in 1926, married my mother, Alberta Beatrice “Bea”

Follmar and accepted a job as superintendent of schools for the then-booming oil town of Earlsboro, Oklahoma. I was born in 1928, followed two years later by my sister Carolyn Sue.

The explosive growth of the little town in those days overcrowded schools, and by the time I approached school age in those pre-kindergarten years, entry was limited only to those who had reached the age of 6 before school started that September. With a birthday in October, I was held over, beginning my schooling at the age of 7.

At some point, Dad began work at OU toward a master’s degree in education. On a visit to the OU library a few years ago, I sought out and leafed through the pages of the master’s thesis that he wrote in the early 1930s. The effort that my parents put into that volume is the source of many of my early childhood memories.

The thesis was completed in the summer, and in Oklahoma it was predictably hot. Air conditioning consisted of whatever torpid draft could be induced through open dining room windows. In that near-sweatshop environment my mother sat, day after day, diligently typing the pages of Dad’s thoroughly researched and hand-scripted thesis on educational conditions in the state of Oklahoma. The work was continuous and demanding: no erasures were allowed. Each page of text required error-free typing

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHTSterling L. Mayes

BY RICHARD MAYES

Sterling L. Mayes earned a bachelor’s degree in education from OU in 1926 and a master’s degree in 1939.



of an original and five copies on thin onion-skin paper separated by black sheets of carbon paper. Every stroke of the Underwood typewriter had to be perfect. If there was an error on any of the scores of pages of text or charts, the flawed copy had to be discarded, a group of blank sheets reassembled and typed over until the work was letter-perfect!

In 1936, Dad accepted a position as principal of a grade school in Oklahoma City. With the deal completed, our house sold in Earlsboro and plans made to move our family to our new home when a tornado struck Oklahoma City. The twister knocked out blocks of homes and structures in the south side of the city and demolished the school building that was to be Dad’s new job site. The school board reacted by reassigning him as a teacher of math and history at Roosevelt Junior High School, where he served until a spot opened, and he was named principal of Walnut Grove grade school. Success there led to his promotion to vice principal at Harding Junior High School.

Those were the days of social change, and the law went into effect ending segregation in the city’s public schools. As part of that change, Dad was called from Harding to be the principal of Webster, the first desegregated junior high in Oklahoma City. He filled the post with honor, enabling the historic transition to be accomplished smoothly and successfully.

Dad led the school successfully in those early years of integration. His success in serving through those otherwise turbulent times of social change led to his being named principal of Southeast High School. Once more, he led the school successfully and remained there until he reached retirement age and – somewhat reluctantly– retired from Oklahoma City’s public school system.

Over the years he was active in his community and his chosen profession in many ways. He had been a lifelong member of the American Legion, and served as president of the Lion’s Club and the Oklahoma

County Retired Teachers’ Association.Even though “retired,” he taught courses at Oklahoma City University. After a lifetime of teaching and administration in public school systems, his combined annual income in his first year of retirement was more than he had earned in any single prior year as a teacher and administrator!

In 1969, a group of parents were intent on establishing a new private school. To make their plan a reality required a building and a faculty, and in a rush of last-minute activity, Dad agreed to answer their call for his skills and leadership and he accomplished the near-impossible: with just two weeks before classes were to open, he assembled a staff of teachers and with that, meeting in rented church school classrooms, Heritage Hall was off and running. While not given the title of headmaster, Dad effectively served in that capacity during the school’s critical early years. When he finally retired from Heritage in 1971, the school was soundly established and its growth and rise to prominence continue to this very day.

Looking back now, it is clear to see that throughout his life Sterling Mayes was an active participant in, and contributor to, the advancement of education in central Oklahoma. Many times across the years I heard him repeat the simplistic mantra that was the essence of his lifelong dedication to teaching: “A school,” he would quote, ”is a log with a student on one end and a teacher on the other.” His life was the embodiment of that philosophy and reflects the happy union of his purposeful drive and the thorough foundation he received at OU’s College of Education.

Richard L. Mayes is the son of Sterling L. Mayes. Do you have an education alumnus you would like to highlight? Drop us a line at [email protected].


3 EASY-TO-USE APPS FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLINGEveryone has a story to tell, and there isn’t a better tool in the classroom to help create your student’s’ story than an iPad. With these three easy-to-use apps, turn your lessons into digital masterpieces!

With as few as one device in the classroom, students can easily become authors, movie directors, YouTube sensations and more!

#1 EXPLAIN EVERYTHING: $2.99The Explain Everything app is exactly what it says. It is an app that can literally help your students explain

anything! Presentations, movies, animations, and math equations can be created in a snap and easily shared to multiple platforms. It is number one in my book because of its versatility and its ability to be used for more than one purpose! It will be the best $3 you will spend for your class all year!

#2 30 HANDS/30 HANDS PRO: FREE/$4.99The functionality of 30 Hands is lacking compared to apps such as Explain Everything, but this app is #2 on my list because of its easy-

to-use interface. I have personally used this app with ages ranging from pre-school-age students to high school students. Students can create presentations, movies or audio recordings that can be easily shared to Google Drive, Dropbox or YouTube. 30 Hands currently has a paid Pro version for $4.99 and a free app to learn the tool. With the paid version, students have more ability to import and export material, but the free version is completely suitable for frequent classroom use.

#3 TELLAGAMI/TELLAGAMI EDU: FREE/$4.99Let your students design their own avatar with Tellagami! In this app, students can create and design their own virtual avatar

and record their voice to tell a story! Projects inside Tellagami can easily be exported to the camera roll, YouTube, Vimeo and more! This app tops my list because of its easy-to-use tools and because avatars never have bad hair days! There is a free version and a paid EDU version in the app store. The EDU version is a steal at $4.99 with great backdrops and layouts specifically designed for classroom use.

CREATE A CULTURE OF TECHNOLOGY-INFUSED TEACHING!

ANNE BECK, M.ED., is the educational technology specialist for the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education. You can contact her at [email protected].


TURNEY SHARES IMPORTANCE OF PHILANTHROPY

O n March 30, recent President and CEO of Victoria’s Secret Sharen Jester Turney visited the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. Turney is originally

from the Ardmore, Oklahoma, area and graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in business education. While on campus, she met with Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education students to pass on advice for a successful career and spoke to classes around campus. She wrapped up her visit with an enlightening and inspiring talk on “Why philanthropy is important and how to teach philanthropy to the next generation.”

Turney told the crowd gathered in Beaird Lounge in Oklahoma Memorial Union that philanthropy is not only about the money, but also the giving of one’s time and talents. Philanthropy is based on a person’s passion, not simply a monetary transaction. Turney believes that philanthropy is transformative, rather than a temporary fix for challenges. She reminded the audience of the proverb: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Turney compared philanthropy to “teaching a man to fish” in that it overcomes a challenge in a more permanent way and changes our world as we know it.

Turney mentioned her two biggest philanthropic passions – cancer research and children’s causes, especially education. Locally, Sharen, her husband, Charles, and their son Matthew have funded the Sharen Jester Turney Endowed Education Scholarship in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, allowing many OU students to fulfill their dreams of a career in education over the years.


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BEN HEDDY, PH.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Heddy was named the USC Rossier School of Education Dissertation of the Year award winner for 2015. Heddy’s dissertation was titled “Facilitating Interest and Out-of-School Engagement in Science in Secondary School Girls: Increasing the Effectiveness of the TTES Model Through Parental Involvement.

HAPPENINGS SPRING 2016

HORM LEADS RESEARCH ON INFANT DEVELOPMENT AND SCHOOL READINESS

Diane Horm, Ph.D., George Kaiser Family Foundation Professor of Early Childhood Education and director of the Early Childhood Education Institute, OU-Tulsa, served as lead author on a recent study on how

development during the infant-toddler years serves as the foundation for school readiness.

The study was commissioned by the Office of Planning, Reseach and Evaluation, through Horm’s work with the Network of Infant-Toddler Researchers.

To read the report, visit http://bit.ly/HormStudy.

Associate Professor Tim Laubach (science education) and Associate Professor Stacy Reeder (mathematics education) hosted the annual convention for the School Science and Mathematics Association in Oklahoma City at the Skirvin Hotel in October 2015. The convention brought science and mathematics educators as well as scientists and mathematicians from across the country to Oklahoma.

The event began with a day full of sessions, followed by a keynote address on Galileo’s World given by Kerry Magruder, Ph.D., curator of the history of science collections at the University of Oklahoma.

Nearly 150 presentations in mathematics, science and STEM were given throughout the three-day convention.

Associate Professor Stacy Reeder (left) and Associate Professor Tim Laubach.

OU Mathematics Education doctoral students and faculty (L to R): Devon Gunter (student), Kansas Conrady (faculty), Elayne Bowman (student), Melissa Gunter (student), Kate Raymond (student), and Stacy Reeder (faculty).


T he Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education community mourns the

passing of Professor Emeritus Charles E. Butler Sr.

Funeral services were held Dec. 19, at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 3600 N. Kelley Ave., Oklahoma City. Interment followed at Arlington Memory Gardens, Midwest City.

The first tenured African-American professor in the college, Butler began his career at OU in 1966, earning his doctorate of education. in 1970. He was named associate professor of education and human relations in 1972, earning tenure in 1978.

In 1984, Butler became the director of the Law-Citizenship Project, which trained educators to teach the basic principles of law.

From 1988-90 Butler served as the director of field experiences for the College of Education, and in 1991 was promoted to full professor of educational leadership and policy studies and of human relations.

In 1991, Butler was named the first director of the newly established African and African-American Studies program. He held that position until his retirement in 2002.

Butler is a member of the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame (2006) and the Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society Hall of Fame (2006). In 2014, Butler was inducted into the Oklahoma African-American Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma African-American Educators Hall of Fame.

A life long Oklahoman, Butler attended Dunbar Elementary in Lawton and graduated from Douglass High School in Oklahoma City. After a stint in the Marines, he earned an associate degree in mathematics from Cameron Junior College and a bachelor’s degree in math education and master’s degree in guidance and counseling from Central State College (now known as the University of Central Oklahoma).

From 1966-72, Butler served as a teacher and counselor in Oklahoma City public schools.

IN MEMORIAMCHARLES E. BUTLER, PH.D. SEPT. 23, 1937-DEC. 10, 2015

SHERRY COX, PH.D. ASSISTANT DEAN, UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING Cox (left) was selected as the 2015 Outstanding Advising Administrator Certificate of Merit recipient by NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. This award is given in recognition of demonstrated abilities as an adviser in nationwide competition.

GINA POWELL DEAN’S OFFICE Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education Staff Service Award for the first quarter of 2016.

ANNA STEELE GRADUATE PROGRAMS OFFICER Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education Staff Service Award for the fourth quarter of 2015.


REBECCA WAGGONER, director of the Institute of Child Development at the University of Oklahoma, and assistant director CYNTHIA HIGGINS were honored by the Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum for their outstanding work and service to the institute and to the early childhood program. The Institute of Child Development at the University of Oklahoma operates as part of the early childhood program and provides a developmentally appropriate environment for early childhood students to observe and interact with young children and provides young children with the very best educational opportunities during the early childhood years.

Associate Professor Stacy Reeder, Cynthia Higgins, Rebecca Waggoner, and Assistant Professor Lisa Monroe.


MEREDITH WRONOWSKI M.ED. STUDENT, EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY STUDIES Wronowski won the “Education, Fine Arts, Humanities” poster section of the Graduate Research and Creativity Day at OU in March.

ALUMNI JOE CASTIGLIONE (M.ED, 2007) was recently recognized by the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee as this quarter’s Champion of Diversity and Inclusion due to his work building an important pipeline of ethnic minorities in college athletics administration. Castiglione is the director of athletics at the University of Oklahoma.

TYRONE COLE (PH.D., 1963) was presented with the Outstanding Instructor Award during American Education Week (Nov. 16-20) at Langston University-Oklahoma City campus. Cole is an adjunct professor of graduate studies at the university.

HAPPENINGS SPRING 2016 STUDENTS KRISTIN BAIRD B.S. ED. STUDENT, SCIENCE EDUCATION Baird was a guest speaker at the TEDxOU conference held on the Norman campus on Jan. 27. Baird’s talk focused on her work as a valet at various locations in the city, and how this has given her the opportunity to encounter people with vastly difference circumstances.

MISTY CRAIN-ENGELBRECHT PH.D. STUDENT, EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY STUDIES Crain-Engelbrecht received the Debbie Blanke Scholarship from the Oklahoma Women in Higher Education Society.

SHANDA MOODY M.ED. STUDENT, SPECIAL EDUCATION Moody was presented with the Advocate-Educator award at the 25th annual Tulsa Advocates for the Rights of Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (TARC) awards ceremony in December 2015.

JOSHUA PULOS M.ED. STUDENT, SPECIAL EDUCATION A first-year master’s degree student in special education, Pulos won the Andrew Halpern Beginning Practitioner Award from the Council for Exceptional Children Division on Career Development and Transition. This practitioner honor is awarded to an educator in the first five years of his/her career who has demonstrated outstanding commitment and service to the career education and transition of students with disabilities.

JASON WEGER M.ED. STUDENT, EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND POLICY STUDIES Weger was a 2015 recipient of a $500 Great Ideas for Teaching award. This program is open to all community college instructors in any discipline. GIFT facilitates the sharing of ideas to inspire faculty, advance great ideas and generate new ones.

Tyrone Cole (right) is joined by Alex Lewis, director of graduate programs at the Langston University-Oklahoma City campus.


OSCAR B. JACKSON (B.S., 1973) was elected to serve an initial three-year term as a trustee for the University of Oklahoma Foundation, beginning Jan. 1, 2016, through Dec. 31, 2018. Jackson retired from the State of Oklahoma in November 2011 as cabinet secretary of human resources and administration, and administrator of the office of personnel management, following 41 years of state service.

LAURA LATTA (M.ED., 2015) was named the 2015-16 Union (Tulsa) Public Schools District Teacher of the Year. Latta is a first-grade teacher at Rosa Parks Elementary. She is currently working toward a doctorate in instructional leadership and academic curriculum at OU-Tulsa.

JUANITO RENTERIA (B.S. ED., 2015) was named the inaugural Norman Public Schools Rookie Teacher of the Year. Renteria, who earned his bachelor’s degree in elementary education at OU in 2015, teaches fifth grade at Truman Elementary.

FRANK K. SCHMIDT (M.ED., 1963) is now semi-retired in Somerset, Pennsylvania. In June, Schmidt completed an oral history for the Alaska Veterans museum in Anchorage, about his exciting tour in the Aleutian Islands during the Korean War. Schmidt also is an adviser to the museum and served on active duty in the military in Alaska Aleutian Chain and Germany during the Cold War; France, Turkey and most recently the South Korean peninsula. “I want to be a staunch supporter of OU and welcome hearing from any of my classmates.”

SHAWN SHEEHAN (M.ED., 2011) was named one of four finalists for the Council of Chief State School Officers National Teacher of the Year. Sheehan was named the 2016 Oklahoma State Teacher of the Year last August.

MICHAEL SURBAUGH (M.ED., 2005; PH.D., 2016) was featured in a News on 6 story in Tulsa after being presented with his doctorate on March 28. Surbaugh successfully defended his dissertation in educational studies despite being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February. Surbaugh passed away from the disease in April. You can watch Surbaugh’s story at http://bit.ly/Surbaugh.

HAPPENINGS SPRING 2016

ALUMNIWe want to keep in touch!

As more of our communications with alumni and friends of the college turn electronic, we want to make sure we have the most up-to-date information to keep YOU informed about the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education.

Haven’t heard from us in awhile? Then we probably don’t have a current email address for you (we’re looking at you, classes of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013).

Update your email address with the college by reaching out to Susan Greer, director of alumni outreach, at [email protected] or (405) 325-7817.


FREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT opportunities The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education is proud to offer free professional development opportunities for ALL teachers in the state of Oklahoma.

These workshops take place in Collings Hall on the Norman campus, with most scheduled on weekends or during after-school hours.

For complete workshop schedules and more information, visit: ou.edu/jrcoet3

UPCOMING TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION WORKSHOPS: visit: ou.edu/education/jrcoet3

UPCOMING EVENTS

AUG. 26-27, 2016

The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education and the Gaylord

College of Journalism and Mass Communication are proud to announce they will play host to iPadpaloozaOU on campus next fall.

iPadpalooza is a one-of-a-kind event that will take place on the University of Oklahoma campus Aug. 26-27, 2016. This event will bring in educators and iPad enthusiasts from all over the state to create, educate, and share their ideas with others!

Questions? Want to get involved? Contact Anne Beck at [email protected].


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2015 HONOR ROLL

The Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education would like to recognize our generous donors who provided support for the college from Jan. 1-June 30, 2015.


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