November 2001 Newsletter
From
The Director . . .
We
are excited to announce that the Marian Wright Edelman
Institute will host "Achievements and
Possibilities," a reunion and reception, on November 7th
at Seven Hills Conference Center.
The purpose of this event is to re-engage the
original friends of the Institute who were so instrumental
in its development and to inform and engage new faculty on
campus. Our
hope is that they will identify the Marian Wright Edelman
Institute as a supportive environment to further their
scholarship, program development and interest in children,
youth and families.
Project
directors from the Child Study Center, JumpStart, The Global
Learning Center, The Child and Adolescent Development
Program, the Early Childhood Training Consortium and the
Mission Science Project will be available during the
reception from 5 – 6pm in the lobby of Seven Hills to
speak one-on-one about their programs. Over dinner, program
directors look forward to meeting with faculty guests to
further explain and explore opportunities for research,
program development and other initiatives available to them
in their area of interest. That evening, the Institute will
announce a new RFP process that will award “mini-grants”
to support current Institute initiatives and further expand
faculty interests in children, youth and families.
For those of you who would like additional
information on the Institute and its programs, please
contact me directly at 338-6976 or our Director of
Operations, Janet Egiziano, at 405-3560. If you have not
received an invitation to the November 7th event
but are interested in joining us, please call 405-3564 to
make a reservation, as seating is limited. On a more somber
note…In light of the recent events of September 11th,
many of our colleagues who are mental health providers have
sent us information on how to discuss these events with
children.
Rene
Dahl to Replace Shannon Perry as CAD Coordinator
 The
Child and Adolescent Development (CAD) program is undergoing
a transition with the pending retirement of its Coordinator,
Dr. Shannon Perry and entrance of Dr. Rene Dahl. Dr. Perry,
current coordinator of the rapidly expanding degree program,
will be leaving her post as of January 2002 to embark into
the world of early retirement. Her dedication has paved the
way for CAD as a challenging and exciting major under the
college of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Although we are
saddened by her departure, we wish her the best of luck as
she enters a new stage in her life.
Dr. Rene Dahl, the
“Coordinator Elect” will take on her new role as leader
of CAD in the spring of 2002. Dr. Dahl comes to the program
with a background in recreation from San Jose State
University, administration and policy analysis from Stanford
University and a PH.D in the sociology of education from
Stanford as well. Dr. Dahl’s research has focused on the
ways in which elementary schools institutionalize innovative
educational programs that were designed to assist those
students classified as “at-risk”. She is currently a
professor and has been in past years acting department
chair, for the department of Recreation and Leisure Studies
here on campus. We are all looking forward to her arrival as
well as her leadership in the years to come.
CAD
Program Expands
In
the spring of 2001, an articulation project led by Dr. Marci
Hanson was established between San Francisco State
University’s Child and Adolescent Development (CAD) degree
program and the City College of San Francisco’s Child
Development and Family Studies program. The purpose was to
assist in recruiting and identifying those students that are
interested in receiving a bachelor’s degree in Child and
Adolescent Development from SFSU in addition to establishing
a collaborative effort that works to tackle current issues
related to early childhood education.
Through
funding from the Miriam and Peter Haas Foundation, Kelli
Harrington-Otero, MS, MSEd, was hired as Training
Coordinator to assist in advising City College students in
their transfer to CAD.
And also to co-teach CD 300 with CCSF faculty as well
as to work with the CAD Council and faculty from both
institutions on the articulation of upper and lower division
coursework. The
project also involves the development of a “circle of
educators” charged with examining relevant issues in the
field of early childhood education through conferences and
consortiums, the creation of two new academic courses in the
areas of leadership and infant mental
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