Educational Excellence Committee work
2024-2026 - Katrin Saks from Estonia is the representative for Europe
2022-2024 - Kaija Teikari from Finland is the representative for Europe
2020-2022 - Marianne Skardeus, Sweden
This committee shall promote programs and projects for excellence in education. The committee shall identify long-term and short-term programs and projects that focus upon topics adopted by the Society. The committee shall support programs of action that promote the personal well-being, intellectual growth, and global awareness of women educators; encourage a focus on the arts at international conventions, regional conferences and state organization conventions and develop strategies that will enable chapters to encourage members to become leaders.
Focus Areas Based of Society Strategic Plan:
1. Promote the mentoring of new educators through the Supporting Early-career Educator’s Project (SEE) (1.B.2)
2. Increase support of the Schools for Africa (SFA) Project at all levels (2.B.1)
3. Promote UN activities (2.B.4)
4. Empower members to take leadership roles (3.C.2)
Goals:
1. Sharing strategies that provide timely support for Early Career Educators and all teachers, especially during critical situations, at chapter, state organization, and international levels
2. Empowering members to build leadership skills through programs in personal growth, professional development, advocacy, and international connections and
3. Providing and promoting ongoing information about important DKG program initiatives by EEC through multiple avenues of communication.
Blogs and articles from the Educational Excellence Committee
This committee shall promote programs and projects for excellence in education. The committee shall identify long-term and short-term programs and projects that focus upon topics adopted by the Society. The committee shall support programs of action that promote the personal well-being, intellectual growth, and global awareness of women educators; encourage a focus on the arts at international conventions, regional conferences and state organization conventions and develop strategies that will enable chapters to encourage members to become leaders.
Focus Areas Based of Society Strategic Plan:
1. Promote the mentoring of new educators through the Supporting Early-career Educator’s Project (SEE) (1.B.2)
2. Increase support of the Schools for Africa (SFA) Project at all levels (2.B.1)
3. Promote UN activities (2.B.4)
4. Empower members to take leadership roles (3.C.2)
Goals:
1. Sharing strategies that provide timely support for Early Career Educators and all teachers, especially during critical situations, at chapter, state organization, and international levels
2. Empowering members to build leadership skills through programs in personal growth, professional development, advocacy, and international connections and
3. Providing and promoting ongoing information about important DKG program initiatives by EEC through multiple avenues of communication.
Blogs and articles from the Educational Excellence Committee
2012-2014 - Tuula Penttilä , Finland and Ingrid Sternquist, Sweden
The committee’s goals are to advance excellence in education, to empower women and increase global awareness. Its two international projects are: Schools for Africa and Supporting Early Educators.
The committee consists of 2 representatives from each region and the International President and Membership Services Administrator. Cathy Daugherty is the chair.
Our first task was to find persons to work as state EEC chairs and assist them in their tasks. Later we also found state UN liaisons.
Ingrid at the workshop in Amsterdam In our first meeting in Austin we started working on the training manual to be used in the preconference training in regional conferences. We continued the work in several GoToMeetings. We worked on the powerpoint presentations for the training and the workshop offered in the conference. We also prepared material for the Infofair. At the conference we were responsible for the training, the workshop and the Infofair.
In our second meeting in Austin we started working on the workshops that we are offering in Indianapolis.
The first two EEC newsletters are out and there are more to come out.
Working in this committee has been most rewarding. It has been great to work with such dedicated DKG sisters under the guidance of a hardworking chair.
We urge you to make yourselves available for one of the international committees and why not the
Excellence in Education Committee.
The committee’s goals are to advance excellence in education, to empower women and increase global awareness. Its two international projects are: Schools for Africa and Supporting Early Educators.
The committee consists of 2 representatives from each region and the International President and Membership Services Administrator. Cathy Daugherty is the chair.
Our first task was to find persons to work as state EEC chairs and assist them in their tasks. Later we also found state UN liaisons.
Ingrid at the workshop in Amsterdam In our first meeting in Austin we started working on the training manual to be used in the preconference training in regional conferences. We continued the work in several GoToMeetings. We worked on the powerpoint presentations for the training and the workshop offered in the conference. We also prepared material for the Infofair. At the conference we were responsible for the training, the workshop and the Infofair.
In our second meeting in Austin we started working on the workshops that we are offering in Indianapolis.
The first two EEC newsletters are out and there are more to come out.
Working in this committee has been most rewarding. It has been great to work with such dedicated DKG sisters under the guidance of a hardworking chair.
We urge you to make yourselves available for one of the international committees and why not the
Excellence in Education Committee.