Florida CEC

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Florida Student Council for Exceptional Children

FCEC Faculty Advisors

Dr. Joyce Tardaguila Harth,

FCEC Board Faculty Advisor

cec.jharth@gmail.com

Sarasota 2008 !

Students' Corner

New! Landis M. Stetler ESE Leadership Scholarship

Congratulations, Sara !

From: Susan Simmons <SUSANS@cec.sped.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Subject: FL CEC Has a Student Award Winner
To: Janet Raney <cec.raney@gmail.com>

Dear Janet,

Florida CEC has a student award winner:

Council for Exceptional Children
2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Member of the Year Award

Sara Aronin
Doctoral Student, Exceptional Education
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida

The award write-up and her photo are attached. Feel free to post this on
FL CEC's Web site. Sara will be recognized at the Opening General
Session on Wednesday, April 1 and at the Student Forum on Thursday,
April 2.

Congratulations, FL CEC!

Susan Simmons
Senior Director, Membership and Units
Council for Exceptional Children
1110 N. Glebe Road, Suite 300
Arlington, VA 22201-5704
800/224-6830 ext. 435
703/758-1896 fax
susans@cec.sped.org

Council for Exceptional Children

2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Member of the Year Award

Sara Aronin

Doctoral Student, Exceptional Education

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

In her first year in the doctoral program at the University of Central Florida, Sara Aronin was selected to work with the Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute. During her time with the institute she developed a strong passion in working in the area of science and special education. Through her own initiative, she began to develop a relationship with the NASA Education Resource Center (ERC) combining her knowledge in science with the field of special education. Ms. Aronin’s areas of unique interests are ones that less than a dozen researchers in the United States focus on related to access for students with disabilities in science. She has already provided numerous hours of work in this area in coordination with the NASA ERC’s and she is aligned to be a national spokesperson in this field via her presentations at national conferences in science and special education. Ms. Aronin is also an intern for the Personnel Center Project at NASDSE as part of an OSEP funded Special Education Faculty Needs Assessment Project, and for the past 3 years she has worked on the new state-of-the-art virtual classroom that will prepare teachers in an environment that does not put children at-risk. She serves in a number of leadership positions within CEC, including Senior Student Representative for the Teacher Education Division. In this role she increased the number of doctoral students who attend and present at the TED Kaleidoscope session and added an evaluation component to the session for graduate students to receive feedback on their presentations to improve their skills in the profession. Ms. Aronin is also the Student Representative to Florida CEC. She will graduate this August with her Ph.D. in Exceptional Education. Sara Aronin is the next generation of leaders that is needed in special education and she is well positioned to make a change in our field.

The Outstanding CEC Student Member of the Year Award is presented to an undergraduate and a graduate student member who have made outstanding contributions to children with exceptionalities and CEC.

I am Sara Aronin, the current FL-SCEC student representative to the Florida State Board of CEC. This position is a TWO-YEAR Student Leadership position and we are looking for the next FL Student Leader!

We are also looking to highlight a different university on our website each month, so please email me and let me know which month you would like to see all of the wonderful people in your student chapter featured!

Keep in touch, as I love to hear what is happening at each of your schools and would like to meet up in Seattle with anyone who is going to National CEC!

Sara Aronin

saronin@mail.ucf.edu

University of Central Florida

Attention Florida Student Chapters,

I am Kimberly Pawling, the current FL-SCEC student Children's Advocacy Network (CAN) representative for Florida. The FL State Student CAN coordinator is a TWO-YEAR Student Leadership position. I am presently beginning my second term as FL SCEC CAN Coordinator.

What does that mean to you? TWO VERY IMPORTANT ITEMS:

1. I need each student chapter to select/elect/whichever a member of the student chapter to serve as the chapter's CAN representative. The individual will receive my emails and can communicate action items with his or her individual chapter.

2. Florida Student Board is looking for an individual to serve as the next Student State CAN Representative. We will be reviewing applications soon. If you are interested in serving as CAN representative, please let me know.

You can reach me at kpawling@mail.ucf.edu

Kimberly Pawling

<<How to get involved with CAN>>

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Faculty Advisor	College/University	Address	Email
Michele Gerent	St. Petersburg College	600 E Klosterman Rd. Tarpon Springs FL 34689-1299	sprof@msn.com
Leslie Sena	Bethune-Cookman College	269 S Seneca Blvd. Daytona Beach FL 32114	senal@cookman.edu
Denise Gudwin	Barry University	11035 SW 154 Ct. Miami FL 33196
Jim Forgan	Florida Atlantic University-MacArthur	5353 Parkside Drive Jupiter, FL 33458	jforgan@fau.edu
Karen Patterson	University of North Florida	College of Education Special Education 4567 St Johns Bluff Rd. Jacksonville FL 32224-2676	kpatters@unf.edu
Susan Syverud	University of North Florida	College of Education/Special Education 4567 St Johns Bluff RD Jacksonville FL 32224-2676	ssyverud@unf.edu
Barbara Edwards	Florida State University	5358 Tewkesbury Trace Tallahassee FL 32308-6873	bedward@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
Elizabeth Doone	University of South Florida	Dept of Special Education4202 E Fowler Ave, EDU 162 Tampa FL 33620	edoone@tempest.coedu.usf.edu
Mary Kay Dykes	University of Florida	Dept of Special Education Norman Hall G315 Gainesville FL 32611-7050	mkdykes@coe.ufl.edu
Trudi Gaines	University of West Florida	11000 University PKWY Bldg 85 Rm 176 Pensacola FL	tgaines@uwf.edu
Elizabeth Cramer	Florida International University	College of Education 1200 SW 8th ST Miami FL 33199	cramere@fiu.edu
Mary Little	University of Central Florida-Orlando	485 Quail Hill DR Debary FL 32713-4571	mlittleucf@aol.com
Dan Ezell	University of Central Florida-Brevard	3155 Newfound Harbor Dr. Merritt Island FL 32952-2857	dezell@mail.ucf.edu
Tamar Riley	Florida Memorial University	1656 Polk ST Hollywood FL 33020	tamarfriley@yahoo.com
Tanice Knopp	University of South Florida-Sarasota	3440 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Longboat Key FL 34228-2809	tknopp@tempest.coedu.usf.edu
Douglas Carothers	Florida Gulf Coast University	10501 FGCU BLVD S Ft Myers FL 33965-6565	dcarothe@fgcu.edu
Rebecca Hines	University of Central Florida-Daytona Beach	1025 Pearl Tree RD Deltona FL 32725-4036	rhines@mail.ucf.edu
Lori Garcia	Indian River Community College	Communications and Education 3209 Virginia AVE E-106 Fort Pierce FL 34981	lgarcia@ircc.edu
Jan Lloyd	University of South Florida-Lakeland	3433 Winter Lake RD Lakeland FL 33803	jlloyd@lakeland.usf.edu
Michele McGuire	Nova Southeastern University	Fischler School of Ed and Human Services 1750 NE 167th ST North Miami Beach FL 33162-3017	mcguirem@nova.edu
Oneyda Paneque	Miami-Dade College	250 SW 129th AVE Miami FL 33184	opaneque@mdc.edu