Education Dialogue
Tentative date: May 22, 2009
Scheduled time: 3 hours, TBA
Deadline for proposal submissions has passed.
Click here for the Education Dialogue wiki
site.
The Education Dialogue was formally launched in 2000. Its
mission is to foster open dialogue about the state of metals
education today as well as the needs and issues for the
future.
For the first few years, the session was held on Wednesday,
before the SNAG conference opened. By motion at the 2003
conference, and starting with the 2005 conference, the
Education Dialogue session was moved to become part of the
conference programming.
Courtney Starrett, Donna Sweigart and Rebecca Strzelec, the
three coordinators of both the 2007 and 2008 Education Dialogue
sessions, convinced the board of directors that the Education
Dialogue should become more of an official program of SNAG and
the annual conferences. Following a meeting in Savannah,
together we created and implemented a policy document in
May 2008. That document guides the Education Dialogue and
an Education Dialogue Committee, and articulates the respective
responsibilities of SNAG, the board liaison appointed to
oversee the Education Dialogue, and the educators coordinating
the sessions each year.
Click
here to read the May 2008 Education Dialogue policy
document.
For more information about the 2009 Education Dialogue contact Daniella Kerner.
