Opportunity: Website Manager, Nanubhai Education Foundation

The Nanubhai Education Foundation (501c3), founded in 2004, is dedicated to improving education in India's rural public schools. The Website Manager is a volunteer position that will report to senior staff in India and the United States. This is a great opportunity for a passionate, motivated individual who is interested in supporting a small but active education grassroots NGO. The Website Manager will be responsible for coordinating with India-based & U.S.-based staff to maintain, update and troubleshoot our website. They will also be responsible for moderating our blog and drafting newsletters on Campaign Monitor using content provided by the Executive Director and Board.
Ideal candidates will be able to start immediately and can commit approximately 10-15 hours per month of their time.
For further details please see this link.

Call for Proposals

Second Annual TA’ALIM Conference

Intersections of the Global and Local in Education in the Middle East

Thursday, April 18th 2013, 9am to 12pm 

179 Grace Dodge Hall (GDH) at Teachers College

The Association for the Advancement of Learning Issues in the Middle East (TA’ALIM), a student society at Teachers College (TC) that focuses on education in the Middle East and the larger Muslim World, is seeking graduate students to participate in its Middle East Student Research Dialogue component of its second annual conference. This component will consist of two video-conferencing sessions that will offer a unique opportunity for students to exchange research and ideas with students engaged in similar work at the American University of Cairo (AUC) and Notre Dame University in Beirut, Lebanon.

TA’ALIM invites graduate students at Teachers College, related schools/departments at Columbia University schools, and other education institutions, to submit abstracts employing either theoretical or empirical approaches to the study of education, from a range of disciplines and perspectives.

The Proposal Review Board is now accepting submissions until Friday April 5th, 2013 by 5pm EST. Please send submissions or any questions to tctaalim@gmail.com.

Proposals should include the following three components:

• A title of no more than 50 characters

• An abstract of up to 150 words (please note: presentations will be 15 minutes each)

• Your basic information (name, program, year in program, school affiliation, contact

number)

Education networking Happy Hour

Photos from our Education Networking Happy Hour- March 27, 2013

 A big thanks to everyone who attended

Opportunity: Fellowships

The ZOOM Foundation announces the 2013 ZOOM Public Policy Fellowship in Connecticut and is currently seeking applicants.  Exceptional emerging leaders from across the nation will be selected and placed in public offices including the Office of Governor Dannel P. Malloy.  Fellows will have the opportunity and support to further develop leadership skills while working on high-level policy projects in Connecticut. For more information on the program, please visit http://www.zoomfoundation.org/default.asp?P=901663
Applications are due April 19, 2013 and the Fellowship begins July 1, 2013.

Applications are being invited from emerging scholars—graduate students, new PhDs, and postdoctoral fellows—for the Edmund W. Gordon MacArthur Foundation/ETS Fellowship For 21st Century Learning and Assessment. Fellows will attend two workshop/mentoring meetings a year, engage in collaborative research with each other, and will be mentored at the meetings and in between the meetings by James Paul Gee (project director) and senior researchers in the area of assessment and learning. Applicants must be committed to research on assessment and learning from an interdisciplinary perspective. Applicants must be concerned with the impact of new technologies, recent advances in the Learning Sciences, and the broader impact of assessment and learning on society in the 21st Century. Applicants should have a background in an area relevant to assessment or learning and be as concerned with what we measure and why we measure it as with how we measure it. Fellows will receive funding for travel, lodging, and collaborative research with other fellows. Those interested in applying should send a 2-3 page statement about their background, research interests, and desired career trajectory, a CV, a writing sample, and a letter of reference from an advisor or colleague with whom one works closely. These materials should be emailed to james.gee@asu.edu.