Kudos: Faculty team up for new book guiding after-school learning, 3 with ties to College appointed to state board, Dotts chosen as library Fellow

PALs prompts new book

A new book by two College of Education faculty members gives educators step-by-step guidance for implementing cognitively engaging games and activities in after-school programs.

“Physical Activity and Learning After School: The PAL Program,” by professors Paula Schwanenflugel and Phillip D. Tomporowski, provides a research-based blueprint for giving students in grades first through fifth innovative programming that combines physical activity and social-emotional skills development with academic enrichment in reading, mathematics and social studies. The book draws from their research in the PALs program, an after-school program in two Clarke County schools that combines after-school activities with learning.

The book includes specific guidance for setting up this kind of program, implementing activities, working with a mix of ages and monitoring outcomes. The book also includes forms and lesson plans that can be easily copied and printed by educators.

Governor appointments include faculty, alumni

Three professionals connected with the College of Education were recently appointed or reappointed to the state’s board overseeing licensure and regulation of speech-language pathologists and audiologists.

The eight members of the Georgia State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology are appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to “protect the public, health, safety and welfare and to protect the public from being misled by incompetent, unscrupulous and unauthorized persons,” according to state statute. New board member Alisa Norris Schultz (B.S.Ed. ’90, M.Ed. ’01) joins reappointed members Robin Pasquale Alverson (B.S.Ed. ’80) and Holly S. Kaplan.

Dotts named to Faculty Fellows for Special Collections Libraries

Brian Dotts, clinical associate professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, has been chosen as one of 12 Faculty Fellows by the UGA Special Collections Libraries.

This faculty development program, open to those who teach full-time at UGA, allows the opportunity to explore archives-based learning as a high-impact learning practice through intensive workshops with archivists in the Special Collections Libraries. Faculty Fellows apply this learning to adapt an existing course or to develop a new course to include an archives-focused approach to the pedagogy and the course content. This program is inspired by the comprehensive work of TeachArchives.org.