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Partnership Newsletters
Collaboration between Gillette and UW statistics, UW Synergy expands, NNER Summer Symposium, Ask an expert: American Heritage Center's Rachael Dreyer, summer reading recommendations from around the Partnership, thank yous and recognition of retirees, and more!
March 2013: Lost in Transition events for spring 2013, evaluations of 7th
Annual Life Sciences Lost in Transition Summit, 17th Annual Shepard
Symposium, Niobrara Oil Play oral history project, NNER Summer
Symposium, and more!
December 2012: 2012 NNER highlights edition, Brooklyn Academy teacher peer review process, Jenna Shim and her students discuss diversity, Terry Burant on surviving in education, conference reactions from kinesiology, music, art, and math, Lost in Transition Spring 2013 events, and more!
September 2012: Highlights 7 new school districts join the Partnership, peer leaders in synergy classes, the 2012 NNER Conference in Denver, Mauro Diaz's experience at the NNER summer symposium, the UW literacy education conference, and more!
May 2012 : Highlights the 2012 NNER Conference and Call for Proposals, Feature Book Picks
from Around the Partnership for summer reading, Lost in Transition
Initiative, Community Engagement Initiative, student teaching in Gillette, recent research by Stephanie Lewis on helping students cope with the aftermath of experiential education, and more.
March 2012 : Highlights 2012 NNER events and Partnership scholarships, the League of Democratic Schools meeting, and an update about the school-community engagement initiative
September 2011: Highlights the 2012 NNER Conference, Community Engagement Initiative, Paige Fenton Hughes assumes Governing Board leadership, and Ann Foster to retire from NNER
May 2011: Highlights the 2011 NNER Conference and Call for Proposals, Feature Book Picks from Around the Partnership for summer reading, Lost in Transition Initiative, various articles, and more.
December 2010:
Highlights the World Languages work group as a model for democratic
practice, the spring 2011 Lost in Transition meeting schedule, a map of
Partnership members, various articles on statewide events and research
projects, thoughts from UW College of Arts and Sciences' Dean Ollie
Walter, and more.
September 2010:
Highlights the November 2010 In Praise of Education conference, World
Languages work group's developments, various education programs and
events in Wyoming, reflections from Partnership Director Audrey
Kleinsasser, and more.
April 2010:
Highlights the need and work of the Partnership's "Lost in Transitions"
initiative, the League of Democratic School and Wyoming P-16 Education
Council's work, thoughts from UW College of Education's Dean Kay
Persichitte, and more.
December 2009:
Highlights the January 2010 In Praise of Education conference,
spotlights teacher facilitator Terri Stephan, student engagement
research, and more.
May 2009:
Highlights the Partnership's Qwest Foundation grant for its "Lost in
Transitions" initiative, Wyoming educators' involvement in the national
NNER conference, spotlights Sheridan High School teacher Carol Stewart,
Fremont County's student teacher support, and more.
January 2009:
Highlights Partnership's NNER scholarships, Sweetwater County teacher
facilitators Kathleen Bruce and Diana Wiig, high school to higher
education meetings around mathematics, life sciences, and
reading/writing, State Scholars Initiative, and more.
September 2008:
Highlights the Partnership's P-16 Strand Fall Forum, Natrona County
teacher facilitator Marcia Patton, Trish Cook chairs the Partnership's
governing board, Carbon County School District #2 and Fremont County
School District #1 join the Partnership, Francisco Rios directs the UW
Social Justice Research Center, and more.
May 2008:
Highlights gaps in student transitions from high school to higher
education, educators assess writing expectations across levels, upping
teaching standards, articulation meetings expand for math and languages,
P-16 Education Council's latest work, benefits of Partnership
membership, and more.
January 2008:
Highlights mathematics articulation meeting, Park County School
District #1 joins the Partnership, life sciences high school to higher
education summit, League of Democratic Schools member Woods Learning
Center, writing colloquium focusing on high school to higher ed
transitions, Shepard and NNER symposiums, and more.
September 2007:
Highlights regional life sciences transitions meetings, Cathy Small
visits UW, Partnership's "Big Read" initiative, Sweetwater County School
District #2 rejoins the Partnership, NNER annual conference, launching
of the Wyoming P-16 Education Council, Partnership director Audrey
Kleinsasser named AED scholar, Day on the Hill event, and more.
May 2007:
Highlights the Wyoming League of Democratic Schools, partner schools
invited to a summer retreat, fall NNER conference, "What Education Means
for Democracy" article, 2007 Leadership Institute, State Scholars
Initiative, and more.
