The faculty and staff at the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) are very active in seeking external funds for service and research projects. The following are examples of current projects:

• Rural Multicultural Training Collaborative (RMTC Tuba-Yuma Project)

• Bilingual Doctoral Fellowships
• DeWitt Wallace Peace Corps Fellows

• US West Grant Project : TEEM (Telecommunications, Environmental Education & Multimedia)
• The Next Step: Using Microsoft Software and the Web to Enhance Curriculum

• A Celebration of Teaching

• Braitmayer Foundation- NAU Community Ascendancy Projects.

Rural Multicultural Training Collaborative (RMTC Tuba-Yuma Project)

Principal Investigator : Patricia J. Peterson
Start Date: 8/15/93
End Date: 8/14/97

This program is a training collaboration in Special Education between NAU, Tuba City School District and Yuma School District. Five field based students spend the Fall Semester training and attending classes with ten Native American participants who work in the local schools in Tuba City. The same five students spend the Spring semester in Yuma with ten participants, mainly of Hispanic background, who work in the local schools in Yuma. Students receive all Special Education coursework during two semesters to allow them to be certified to teach EH, MH and LD students. In January, students travel to Cuernavaca, Mexico and spend two weeks in a Spanish Immersion program at the Instituto Bilingue.

For more information please contact:
Patricia J. Peterson, Associate Professor: Educational Specialties
Northern Arizona University/CEE
P O Box 5774
Flagstaff, AZ. 86011-5774
Telephone: (520) 523-4005
Fax: (520) 523-1929

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Patricia.Peterson@nau.edu

Bilingual Doctoral Fellowships

Principal Investigator: Gina P. Cantoni
Start Date: 8/15/94
End Date: 8/14/97

The purpose of these Doctoral Fellowships is to assist bilingual students who show outstanding ability and motivation to become leaders in the field of education. After they complete their degree, they are expected to work in a bilingual setting for at least as many years as they were in the Fellowship program. The Fellows receive full tuition, textbooks, a small travel allowance and provided they work no more than half-time, a monthly stipend of $450.
This is CEE's second bilingual fellowship grant. The first grant produced four graduates, and the current project has already produced one. NAU is the only university serving Bilingual Doctoral Fellows from five different Native nations, in addition to Spanish.

For more information please contact:
Gina P. Cantoni, Regents' Professor
Director, International Programs in Education
Northern Arizona University/CEE
P O Box 5774
Flagstaff, AZ. 86011-5774
Telephone: (520) 523-4842
Fax: (520) 523-1929

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Gina.Cantoni@nau.edu

DeWitt Wallace Peace Corps Fellows

Principal Investigator : Daniel L. Kain
Start Date: 11/1/92
End Date: 9/30/97

Participants will attend the university for three summers, teaching on a rural reservation during the two academic years in between, provisionally certified in Arizona while earning regular certification, and paid by the school district for teaching. Benefits: $1,000 one-time stipend; 1/2 summer tuition; funds to attend required seminars; funds for instructional materials. Requirements: Successful Peace Corps teaching experience; demonstrated sensitivity to cultural differences; effective classroom manager; powerful letters of recommendation; statement of career goals; application forms.

For more information please contact:
Daniel L. Kain, Assistant Professor: Instructional Leadership
Northern Arizona University/CEE
P O Box 5774
Flagstaff, AZ. 86011-5774
Telephone: (520) 523-7122
Fax: (520) 523-1929

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Daniel.Kain@nau.edu

US West Grant Project : TEEM (Telecommunications, Environmental Education & Multimedia)

Principal Investigator : Cathy L. Gunn
Start Date: 6/1/95
End Date: 9/30/97

Teacher Leader Teams in six Northern Arizona school districts (Flagstaff, Sedona, Camp Verde, Tuba City, Kayenta and Ganado) will collaborate with the NAU college of education and their university partners to produce a pedagogical-oriented, instructional CD-ROM disc for use in teaching preservice courses, inservice modules, and on-site school inservice led by Teacher Leader Teams. The CD-ROM disc will be used during Phase I of a longitudinal project to support preservice and inservice instruction on how to teach environmental education interdisciplinarily incorporating national standards in geography, math, science, the arts, and also to meet national teacher education standards (specifically telecommunications and multimedia) in technology. Training on the Internet and instructional uses of telecommunications in K-12 classrooms will be provided to all participants, including NAU partners to prepare partners for electronic linkage and telecommunications integration into curriculum.

Saturday seminars during AY 1995-96 will provide continued instruction, development, and refinement of skills and materials in preparation for the development of an instructional CD-ROM (summer, 1996). Year two will provide seminars and training in the use of the instructional CD-ROM as Teacher Leader Teams begin working with faculty in their own schools and as materials and strategies are incorporated into NAU's teacher preparation program. Planning and implementation of a World Wide Web (WWW) link will provide partners and other colleges of education and teachers around the world with access to materials produced. The NAU WWW home page will also provide a home for materials developed by teachers during the US West-supported Phase I and environmental data presented by children in a future Phase II.

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The Next step: Using Microsoft Software and the Web to Enhance Curriculum

Principal Investigator : Gae Johnson
Start Date: November 1996
End Date: Through Fall term 1997

NAU- CEE teacher education programs partner with seven K-12 schools as training sities. This NAU Microsoft Professional Development Partnership provides:

• Microsoft products training activities for preservice and inservice teachers to include technology integration;
• systemic inclusion of technology integration into NAU-CEE methods courses;
• student development and maintenance of a local curriculum web site;
• a curriculum bank of lesson plans and units to cross all disciplinary areas with a specific cultural awareness theme;
• development of a preservice, inservice and university editorial board for web page curriculum bank;
• exploration of a long-term plan for sustaining Microsoft training and curriculum development into NAU-CEE courses and with K-12 partners.

For more information please contact:
Gae Johnson, Asst. Professor
Northern Arizona University/CEE
P O Box 5774
Flagstaff, AZ. 86011-5774
Telephone: (520) 523-9217
Fax: (520) 523-1929

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gae.johnson@nau.edu

A Celebration of Teaching.

Principal Investigator : Gae Johnson
Start Date: March1, 1997
End Date: June 30, 1997

A Celebration of Teaching one-day conference to be held during honors week. High school students who are interested in becoming teachers will have the opportunity to interact with teacher education students and faculty.


For more information please contact:
Gae Johnson, Asst. Professor
Northern Arizona University/CEE
P O Box 5774
Flagstaff, AZ. 86011-5774
Telephone: (520) 523-9217
Fax: (520) 523-1929

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gae.johnson@nau.edu

Braitmayer Foundation-NAU Community Ascendancy Project.

Principal Investigator : Sam Minner
Start Date: March 16, 1997
End Date: April15, 1999

A project to provide knowledge and skills supporting active citizenship and volunteerism to educators. Preservice Elementary Ed. teachers enrolled in the Apache Junction Partnership Program will participate in community service projects.

For more information please contact:
Sam Minner, NAU Professor
Northern Arizona University/CEE
P O Box 5774
Flagstaff, AZ. 86011-5774
Telephone: (520) 523-7114
Fax: (520) 523-1929

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sam.minner@nau.edu