Spotlight on Success

Senior elementary education major Catherine E. Sheehy presented at the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Catie’s presentation was based on her senior honors project titled Implementation of RTI and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Specific Learning Disabilities. 

Susan Crone, C '88 and teacher at Thurmont Elementary School in Thurmont, Md., helps support students in a one-room school in Costa Rica. 

Article Courtesy of the Frederick News Post

By: Pete McCarthy, News-Post Staff

Susan and Chuck Crone never went on a real honeymoon, so they decided five years ago to visit a friend in Costa Rica.

They had no idea the getaway would lead them to help a teacher and her less fortunate students....Click here to read more.

The annual James T. Delaney Dinner and Lecture was held on October 23. The featured Keynote Speaker was Christopher Westphal, Co-founder and CEO of Visual Analytics, Inc. This year's honoree was Wendy A. Martyak, Crime Scene Unit Supervisor, Frederick City Police. Mrs. Martyak is a twenty-three year veteran of the Frederick Police Department and is the Supervisor of the agency's Crime Scene Unit.  She joined the FPD in November 1989 and was promoted to the position of supervisor in 1995.  In 2003, Mrs. Martyak graduated from the National Forensic Academy at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.  Mrs. Martyak received the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship and was the first person in the State of Maryland to attend this forensics school. The event was sponsored by the Criminal Justice Student Association (CJSA).

The Education Department is committed to offering diverse experiences for its teacher candidates. To meet this goal, the department has developed a tradition of inviting authors to the campus each year to discuss the role of diversity in writing and teaching.

This year, through a Community Arts Development Grant from the Frederick Arts Council, we hosted Ms. Wendy Shang, author of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu.

She presented “Pages from the Past: Using Family Stories in Writing” to the Mount community and also visited Education classes to instruct a workshop entitled “Hear Me Roar, Write and Delete, Delete, Delete.”

Ms. Shang discussed the craft of writing, her books and the inspiration for them, her journey as a published author, incorporating books in the classroom, and other topics related to writing and diversity during her presentations.

Kim McGlaughlin accepted the grant award at the Frederick Arts Council’s annual “Celebration of the Arts” dinner on October 17, 2012.

The School of Education and Human Services (SEHS) received a grant from Simple K-12, an Orlando based, online teacher professional development company. All Mount St. Mary's students, faculty, staff, SEHS alumni are eligible for a free one-year membership to The Teacher Learning Community.  Furthermore, Simple K-12 provides an opportunity to collaborate with over 100,000 teachers and educators from around the world. Simple K-12 will provide various resources on many of topics and subjects.