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Denise Egéa-Kuehne


Exceptional contributions to instructional program
DISTANCE LEARNING I CURRICULAR REVISIONS I INSTITUTES & COLLOQUIA I MULTIMEDIA I OTHERl PEDAGOGICAL MATERIAL
Distance Learning
  • Spring 2008 - Teaching about WWII: Two different points of view. Professional development for Louisiana social studies teachers (K-8 and French Immersion). A series of four videoconferences supported by a grant extension from the Louisiana Board of Regents Supporting Electronic Learning and Essential Campus Transitions (SELECT) Programs. In collaboration with the WWII Museum in New Orleans, the Mémorial de Caen (France), the University of Clermont Ferrand (France), and the General Consulate of France in New Orleans.
  • Spring and Fall 2007 - Virtual Museum: Technology Enhanced Professional Development for Louisiana Science Teachers (K-8 and French Immersion). A series of six professional development workshops each for Louisiana teachers of science (K-8 and French Immersion). Board of Regents Supporting Electronic Learning and Essential Campus Transitions (SELECT) Programs. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Project Director and Principal Investigator. Co-PI: Sophie Warny
  • Spring 2005 – Multidisciplinary  Professional Development for Teachers of French and French Immersion in Louisiana via Compressed Video, Board Of Regents Distance Education Initiative Grant Extension – D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principal Investigator and Project Director.  Co-PIs: Robert C. Lafayette and Bernard Dubernet
  • Spring and Fall 2004 – Multidisciplinary Professional Development for Teachers of French and French Immersion in Louisiana via Compressed Video, Board Of Regents Distance Education Initiative Grant – D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principal Investigator and Project Director.  Co-PIs: Robert C. Lafayette and Bernard Dubernet
  • 2002 – Organized and chaired the American segment of the International Videoconference of the Institut de la Fondation de l'Entrepreneurship. The videoconference included Québec (Montréal, Gaspé), Belgium (Charleroi), Switzerland (Lausanne), and France (Paris). March 27
  • 1997-1999 – Developed and implemented a compressed video course on "Advanced Studies in Foreign Language Methodologies," offered for the first time in Fall 1999 (with grants from the LSU Division of Instructional Support and Development and the French Cultural Service in New Orleans). Teaching Innovation Award, LSU
  • 1997 – Tele-Conference on French Immersion Programs in Louisiana, out of Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, with Eunice, New Orleans, Shreveport, and Alexandria. To bring information to state and higher administration education officials and the general public about French immersion programs in Louisiana (with funding from the French Cultural Service in New Orleans). September 9. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Project Director
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Major curricular revisions
Through committees, for example:
- Chair, Holmes Secondary Education Sub-Committee Program Review
- Chair, FL Education M.Ed. Redesign Committee
- Chair, FL Sub-Committee for Teacher Preparation Program Redesign
- Co-chair, NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education) Diversity Standard Committee
- Curriculum Studies M.Ed. Redesign Committee
- New M.Ed. degree program redesign committee
- Secondary Education Redesign Committee
- Chair, Foreign Language Sub-committee for Teacher Preparation Program Redesign, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Holmes Secondary/K-12 Education Redesign Committee, New Research Courses, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Holmes Secondary Redesign Committee
- Joint Secondary Education Redesign Committee, College of Education
- Curriculum Redesign Task Force Committee, College of Education
- Committee for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
- Curriculum and Instruction Planning Committee, College of Education
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Developement of institutes, colloquia, conferences and workshops

Foreign/Second/AdditionalLanguage Education, Bilingual/Bicultural and Immersion Education, Intercultural Communication

  • Series of 4 videoconferences  Teaching about WWII: Two Different Points of View. Professional development for Louisiana social studies teachers (K-8 and French Immersion). Grant extension from the Louisiana Board of Regents Supporting Electronic Learning and Essential Campus Transitions (SELECT) Programs. In collaboration with the WWII Museum in New Orleans, the Mémorial de Caen (France), the University of Clermont Ferrand (France), and the General Consulate of France in New Orleans.
  • Series of 6 videoconferences - Virtual Museum: Technology Enhanced Professional Development for Louisiana Science Teachers (K-8 and French Immersion). A series of six professional development workshops each for Louisiana teachers of science (K-8 and French Immersion). Louisiana Board of Regents Supporting Electronic Learning and Essential Campus Transitions (SELECT) Programs. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Project Director and Principal Investigator. Co-PI: Sophie Warny
  • Series of 4 video conferences - Multidisciplinary Professional Development for Teachers of French and French Immersion in Louisiana via Compressed Video. Series of four professional development workshops for (1) elementary and middle school teachers of French and (2) French immersion teachers (2005). Supported by a Louisiana Board of Regents Distance Initiative Grant Extension. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principle Investigator and Program Director. Co-PIs: Robert C. Lafayette and Bernard Dubernet. From Louisiana State University to 6 Louisiana sites
  • Series of 9 video conferences - Multidisciplinary Professional Development for Teachers of French and French Immersion in Louisiana via Compressed Video. One introductory conference and two series of four professional development workshops each for (1) elementary and middle school teachers of French and (2) French immersion teachers (2003-2004). Supported by Board of Regents Distance Initiative Grant. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principal Investigator and Program Director. Co-PIs: Robert C. Lafayette and Bernard Dubernet. From Louisiana State University to 6 Louisiana Sites
  • International Conference for Teachers in French Immersion Programs. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. September 12-14, 1997. Sponsored by the French Cultural Service of New Orleans. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principal Investigator and Program Director
  • Tele-Conference on French Immersion Programs in Louisiana. From Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, with Eunice, New Orleans, Shreveport, and Alexandria, September 9, 1997. Sponsored by the French Cultural Service of New Orleans. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principal Investigator and Program Director.
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Louisina History - Louisiana History
  • Immersion Summer Institute for Teachers of French: The Louisiana Purchase/La Vente de la Louisiane: Two Facets of a World-Shaping Event, 1800-1812, for Louisiana teachers of French, LSU, Baton Rouge (June 10-July 3, 2002). Four weeks, two graduate courses, where the participants were immersed in French and introduced to archival documents, art and artifacts in French and in English for integration into their classroom teaching. They discussed and became aware of the different voices and different "biases" in reporting and interpreting history. They constructed individual websites including the classroom-ready activities they designed. Support from the French Cultural Service of New Olreans, the Communauté Française de Belgique, CODOFIL, Action Cadienne, the Louisiana Consortium of Immersion Schools, the Louisiana Department of Education, and the State of Louisiana Division of Archives. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principal Scholar and Program Director
  • Two sets of intensive workshops: Whose Land Is This?The Secrets of Louisiana Colonial Days, 1762-1802, for Louisiana teachers of French, Spanish, and social studies. Baton Rouge (January 21-23, 2000) and Monroe (January 28-30, 2000). Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, with support from the French Cultural Service of New Orleans, the Spanish Embassy in Washington DC, and the Communauté Française de Belgique. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principal Investigator and Program Director
  • Two sets of intensive workshops on the Commemoration of the Founding of Louisiana 1699-1999, for Louisiana teachers of French and social studies. Baton Rouge (January 22-24, 1999) and Natchitoches (January 29-31, 1999). Grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities with support from the French Cultural Service of New Orleans. D. Egéa-Kuehne, Principal Investigator and Program Director. 2000 AASLH National Award
Women's and Gender Studies
As Chair of the WGS Programs Committee (2007-2009), I continued the tradition of the LSU WGS Graduate Student Conference I created in 1996. As Chair of the WGS Programs Committee (two-year term 1996-1998), I created and chaired one conference and expanded the other:
  • WGS Graduate Student Conference: Annual all-day conference to showcase graduate students' work from a variety of disciplines, presenting their research to the LSU community--professors and other students. A great opportunity, for professors and students to find out what research is being done across disciplines on campus, and to make connections. This conference continues to take place every Spring
  • WGS Speakers Series: A series of conferences to enable WGS faculty to share what they have discovered in their research and creative activities, with special attention to "how we do" our thinking, learning, and writing. (3 scholars in the Fall, 4 in the Spring)
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Development of multimedia
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Development of pedagogical material
  • À la découverte du Muséum des Sciences Naturelles de l'Université d'État de la LouisianeD. Egéa-Kuehne and S. Warny, Project Directors, with A. Sgambato. Sophie Dubois and Stanislas Dubois (trans.). Translation in French of the English version of the activities book "Discovering the Louisiana Museum of Natural Sciences," S. Warny (2007). Funded by the General Consulate of France in New Orleans, FACE (French and American Cultural Exchange), and a BoR SELECT grant. Posted on the Museum of Natural Science website and on the FEP National Resource Center website. Published by Louisiana University Press, 2008.
  • Material for schools K-8. In collaboration with Sophie Warny, Assistant Professor, College of Basic Sciences, and Education Director, LSU Museum of Natural Science; Rebecca Tedford, Graduate Assistant, LSU Museum of Natural Science; and Adrienne Lopez, Coordinator of the Scope On A Rope (SOAR) Program, College of Basic Sciences. LSU MNS Websire - Booklet and activities online in "Virtual Museum"
  • Artéfacts et tumulus de LSU: Étudions ensemble la culture des indiens de la Louisiane. D. Egéa-Kuehne and S. Warny, Project Directors, with A. Sgambato. B. Dubernet (trans.). Translation in French of the English version of the activities book "Ancient Mounds and Artifacts: Durable Reflections of Transitory Societies," S. Warny (2008), based on the new LSU Museum of natural Science exhibit on "Louisiana Native Americans." To be posted on the Museum of Natural Science website and on the FEP National resource Center website. 
  • Un libro de actividades de ciencias naturales para que los niños disfruten en casa o como guía de complemento durante las visitas al Museo de Ciencias Naturales (MNS) de LSU. Science activities booklet in Spanish. D. Egéa-Kuehne and S. Warny, Project Directors. A. Morales (trans.). Translation in Spanish of the English version of the activities book "Discovering the Louisiana Museum of Natural Sciences," S. Warny (2007). To be posted on the Museum of Natural Science website.
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Other
  • In 2002, I invited the world renown French philosopher and Academician Michel Serres to LSU through an Office of Research and Graduate Studies Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship Series Award. Michel Serres gave 2 lectures, in French (October 30) and in English (October 29) with the largest attendance to-date (over 200 for the English lecture, 100 for the French lecture), and 2 informal student seminars. The proposal was supported by 35 departments and colleges. The French Education Project for Research and Teacher education and the Curriculum Theory Project in the College of Education hosted Michel Serres. His visit, from October 26 to November 1 provided additional opportunities for scholars and students from LSU and other institutions to meet with him informally, including a dinner at Professor Bill Doll's and a reception at Professor Bill Pinar's homes. D. Egéa-Kuehne Program Director and Chair
  • Collaboration and cooperation within and across disciplines with LSU colleagues and colleagues from other institutions: team-teaching courses (e.g., Principles and Practices in Secondary and K-12 Education, taught with Holmes Clinical Faculty participation; Derrida and the New World Order, team taught with David Wills, Department of French and Italian; Teaching for Communication and Teaching Culture in the FL K-12, team taught in schools with supervising teachers), gathering teams of scholars and experts for teacher inservice and institutes (e.g., 15 scholars and minority speakers brought together for the summer 2002 teacher institute), and welcoming colleagues who want to attend my courses.
  • Sharing my syllabi with colleagues who make such requests, at LSU and other institutions (e.g., Integrating Technology; Teacher-Research in Secondary and K-12; Reflective Practice in Foreign Language Education; The Teacher-Researcher in Secondary School Subjects and K-12 Education)

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