Education Commissioner to Open UMaine Conference on Dropout Prevention
Contact: Theresa McMannus, 581-2441
ORONO — Maine Education Commissioner Susan Gendron will open the 2007 Dropout Prevention Summer Institute hosted by the UMaine College of Education and Human Development on Monday, July 23.
The institute, being held in room 100 of the D.P. Corbett Business Building and the Memorial Union July 23-24, is open to all educators, but targets special educators, alternative education specialists, and school administrators. Registration and schedule information can be obtained by calling Theresa McMannus at (207) 581-2441.
Over the two-day conference, attendees will participate in six sessions dealing with alternative learners, alternative education and the Maine Learning Results, and post-secondary options for alternative learners.
Gendron is scheduled to deliver opening remarks at 8:30 a.m. in room 100, D.P. Corbett Building.
Other speakers include Bill Davis, professor of education and director of the Institute for the Study of Students At Risk, and educators from around Maine.
Institute sessions, being held in the Memorial Union, will cover six different topics: “Profile of an Alternative Learner,” with Stan Keach, Martha Kempe and Pamela Mattos; “Regional Review of Alternative Education Programs,” with Bill Davis, Emanuel Pariser and Shelley Reed; “Navigating the System,” with Jim Hodgkin, Helen Nichols, Emanuel Pariser and Jonathan Ross; “Classroom in the Community, with Gene Ellis and Amber Jeskey; “Post-Secondary Options: Exploring Life Beyond High School Graduation,” with Rusty Brown, Jerry Ellis, Karen Keim, Emanuel Pariser and Jane-Ann Reinink; and “Translating the Alternative Education Experience into Maine Learning Results,” with Pender Kimball.