December 14 is the deadline for students to enter their work in the TK20 system for assessment. Faculty should encourage students to submit the work earlier if at all possible.  For assistance with TK20, please contact Tim Sutton at Tim.Sutton@unt.edu.

UNT students and graduates are invited to an information session to Learn about TaLK (Teach and Learn in Korea). This is a Korean government supported international voluntary program for individuals who seek to expand their multicultural experiences and would like to teach English to young Korean learners.

Well done Drs. Mary Harris, Jimmy Byrd, and Jeanne Tunks from the Department of Teacher Education and Administration on securing a grant for $19,000 from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The $19,000 is UNT's portion of a larger grant to Stephen F. Austin University for the Texas Educational Research Center for Educator Preparation (TERCEP). SFA and UNT along with other participating institutions (Lamar University, Texas Tech University, and University of Texas at El Paso) are engaged in a research study about the factors affecting hard to staff schools.

Dr. Pamela Harrell and Dr. Colleen Eddy's grant proposal Dallas Xtreem Science and Mathematics Institutes, a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Teacher Quality Grant, was funded for $675,000 over a two-year period.