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Application For Sabbatical Leave And Sabbatical Report, Amy F. Penne
Application For Sabbatical Leave And Sabbatical Report, Amy F. Penne
Sabbaticals
I plan to use my sabbatical to 1) renew myself professionally through a series of teacher's retreats with Parker Palmer at his Center for Courage and Renewal, as well as a conference trip to Indianapolis for the Conference on College Composition and Communication; and 2) study with Palmer and through his Center to eventually become a "Circles of Trust" facilitator (defined later in this proposal). My sabbatical is designed to reconnect who I am with what I do; I need this sabbatical to reclaim my original passion for the teaching of writing and the teaching of writers. My retreat with …
Carrying On Traditions, Sharing Knowledge: Communities In Midwestern Families And College Classrooms, Sue Kuykendall
Carrying On Traditions, Sharing Knowledge: Communities In Midwestern Families And College Classrooms, Sue Kuykendall
Sabbaticals
Since both of my grandmothers were teachers in one-room schools and both my mother and my father attended one-room schools through the eighth grade, I grew up listening to stories about what it was like to teach and to go to school in these rural educational settings. I think it was these stories, along with the knowledge that I would be carrying on a family tradition, that largely motivated me to choose teaching as my profession. And I've always felt that in some way I was doing that--continuing the work that my grandmothers did and continuing the tradition of small-community …
Sabbatical Leave Proposal, David A. Linton
Sabbatical Leave Proposal, David A. Linton
Sabbaticals
I intend to study those aspects of planetarium education of which, at the time of the sabbatical, the college most urgently needs an understanding. I intend to do whatever is necessary to enable the Parkland Planetarium to commence successful operations in 1987. I also wish to attend meetings of those professional planetarium societies in which I hold membership, ·and to participate in two planetarium education workshops.