Faculty and Staff Activities

Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto, Matthew Moyer, Jill Pace and John Foley

Bonni C. Hodges, Donna M. Videto, Matthew Moyer, Jill Pace, Health Department, and John Foley, Physical Education and Health departments, each presented at the American School Health Association (ASHA) conference held Oct. 15-17 in Orlando, Fla.

A poster session titled “WSCC: Merging Health and Learning by Reinventing, Refocusing, and Recharging Your School Community” outlined the collaborative work of Moyer, Hodges, Foley and Pace. Pace is an adjunct health department faculty member and Cortland Enlarged City School District health curriculum coordinator.

The group developed and executed the initial phase of the implementation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s (CDC/ASCD’s) new Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model for coordinated school health in the Cortland Enlarged City School District. Videto and Hodges presented findings from their five-year School Health Systems Change Project. Hodges serves as a member of ASHA’s Research and Publication Committee and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of School Health.

JoEllen Bailey

JoEllen Bailey, Physical Education Department, presented “Assisting Teacher Candidates through Professional Puberty,” at the National Student Teaching and Supervision Conference on April 28 at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.

Lori Reichel

Lori Reichel, Health Department, presented two 70-minute activity-based sessions at the annual New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Conference on Nov. 17.The session titles were “Understanding What School Health Education is Really About” and “Teaching Sex Education Lessons in a Skill-Based Manner (with Communication Skills).”

Lin Lin and Krystal Barber

Lin Lin and Krystal Barber, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, made an asynchronous presentation, “Tapping into the Potential of Student Engagement with UDL Principles in Pedagogical Courses” at the Fall 2021 NYACTE-NYSATE Conference sponsored by the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the New York State Association of Teacher Educators.

Kate McCormick

Kate McCormick, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in Art Education titled, “Examining Three Populations of Preservice Teachers: SEL and Art Integration in Elementary Classrooms.”

Kim Stone

Kim Stone, English and Africana Studies departments, learned that her article, “‘Recordless Company’: Precarious Postmemory in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl” will be published as a chapter in Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Fictions: Aesthetics of Resistance by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.

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Kathleen A. Lawrence

Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Celluloid & Innocence Lost,” accepted for publication recently by The Wild Word Magazine in Berlin, Germany. Also, the Southeast Missouri State University Press will include her poem “Operating in a War Zone, Korea 1951,” about her dad, Capt. Robert Marshall Lawrence, MD, being a surgeon in a M.A.S.H. unit in the Korean War, in the anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, due out in November 2017.

Thomas Hischak

Thomas Hischak, professor emeritus of theatre, is the author of The 100 Greatest American and British Animated Films, published this spring by Rowman and Littlefield. The book covers computer, stop-motion and hand-drawn animated movies from 1937 to 2017. 

Cynthia Guy

Cynthia Guy, Community Innovation Coordinator, Main Street SUNY Cortland, has been elected and approved to serve on the board of Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) of Cortland County. She was confirmed at the annual dinner meeting on Nov. 20, and will begin serving on the CCE Board in January. Earlier in November, Guy was elected and endorsed to serve on the Cortland Mental Health Sub-committee.

John Suarez

John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, learned that his workshop, “Build Organizational Capacity: Invert the Triangle,” has been accepted for the SUNY Applied Learning Conference set for Nov. 1 and 2. To address the challenge of limited budgets, directors of applied learning offices can build office capacity by hiring, for academic credit, interns who demonstrate entrepreneurial qualities such as creativity and initiative. Directors can nurture those qualities by inverting the traditional management triangle, thereby giving interns some autonomy in creating, designing and conducting office projects. This approach does require directors to relinquish some ownership of intern-led projects, so this session’s role plays will give participants the opportunity to surrender ownership of projects and to experience the resulting ambiguity regarding those projects’ trajectories.