Attention:  Students in Teacher Certification Programs (Declared and Admitted)

TK20 Fall Semester Deadlines:

October 1, 2009        Last day to purchase access to TK20

October 16, 2009      Last day to file student teaching application for Spring, 2010

At midnight on October 16, the student teaching application for Spring semester, 2010 will be removed from the TK20 system. The next application posted will be for student teaching in Fall semester, 2010.

Registration for the 2009 Assistant Principals' Conference

The 2009 Assistant Principals' Conference brochure is attached (below)

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.