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Registration is now open for the Fall 2017 CEHD Writer’s Retreat taking place on Saturday, October 28 from 8:00 am – 4:30 pm in the Johnson Center, Room D.  This is a great opportunity for graduate students to commit to their writing, get motivation from their peers, and recieve valuable feedback.  

This year’s Writer’s Retreat will include a workshop on navigating databases with CEHD Librarian, Anne (Driscoll) Melville. Anne will also be available to assist students individually after the workshop.  Consultants from the Writing Center will be on hand, too, and did we mention we’ll be providing snacks?  All you need to bring is your laptop, writing materials, and a positive attitude!  

Register and find out more here.

Our weekly digest for students is full of news and opportunities for you!  Check your Mason email or click below to read yours!

If you’ve been reading The 2300 weekly digest that drops into your Mason email every Sunday (and you should!), you know that we often post job, scholarship, and volunteer opportunites that might particularly interest our students, and we link to them here on the blog.  Please note that CEHD shares these listings as a courtesy to our students and that George Mason University and CEHD are not vetting or endorsing these opportunites in any way.

POSITION: Spanish Teacher (Part-Time)
LOCATION: Tysons, Vienna, Reston & Great Falls DURATION: September to June 2017-18
CONTACT: Maureen Santamaria at [email protected]

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Children’s Center for Language & Culture, Inc. (ChiCeLaCu!) seeks enthusiastic, energetic, independent, and experienced Spanish teachers and assistant teachers for it’s At Your School Program & Saturday School Program, which take place either at Fairfax County Public Schools or at the Center’s Vienna facilities.

All teachers MUST meet the following requirements:

• Fluent/Native Spanish speaker
• Associate’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree in education, Spanish or the arts
• At least 2 years of experience
• Experience writing lesson plans
• Team player, creative and flexible
• Good classroom management skills
• Advanced English (written and spoken)
• Minimum 1 year commitment for employment (Sept. 2017- June 2018).

  PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

1. AT YOUR SCHOOL Programs

   Days: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
   Before School hours: (7:10 a.m.-8:40am) (7:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) Wages: Lead Teachers: $30 per hour; Assistant Teacher: $20 per hour

2. SPANISH SATURDAY SCHOOL

   Days: Saturdays
   Hours: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
   Wages: Lead Teachers $25 per hour; Assistant Teachers: $15 per hour
   If interested, please send cover letter and resume to [email protected].

   For more information about ChiCeLaCu!, please visit www.childrencenterlanguage.com.

As the semester continues to ramp up, I encourage you to reflect on your multiple, intersecting identities and how they may impact your success as a student.

If I had to describe this week in two words, I’d say, “THE MOST!” Okay, I need three words, “THE ABSOLUTE MOST!” This week I’ve fired off several “Urgent Response Needed” emails, missed a couple of meetings because I was double booked and not paying close attention to my calendar, cashed in several “I need a favor” points with key partners across campus to resolve pressing student issues, counseled students through “life after academic termination,” wrote appeal decisions, prepared annual performance evaluations for my staff, and on and on and on. At one point, I found myself saying, “For my next trick, I’m going to need a volunteer…”

At times, life, work, and play can feel magical, especially in the Student Affairs profession, as we explore every possible avenue to get to a “yes” answer for students when they are distressed, need an exception, or have simply messed up and don’t know how to fix it. We put on our capes and pull rabbits out of hats. We go just that hard for YOU, although it may not always show. But this week I was also reminded of the words expressed by actor, humanitarian, and super woke activist, Jesse Williams, during the 2016 BET Awards, (albeit in a different context) yet still relevant here, “Just because we’re magic, doesn’t mean we are not real.” Real as in, just like you, we have these multiple intersecting identities that at times may appear compatible or at conflict at any given moment. We, too, identify as working professionals, students, caregivers, siblings, partners, sons and daughters, engaged citizens, and friends. Although we privilege our “working professional” identity in the workplace, it doesn’t mean those other identities suddenly disappear, and sometimes we, too, have to be honest with ourselves and give ourselves permission, guilt free, to attend to some of those other identities, because as much as we like to think of ourselves as magical, it doesn’t mean that we are not real. We feel. We love. We hurt. 

As the semester continues to ramp up, I encourage you to reflect on your multiple, intersecting identities and how they may impact your success as a student. Are you privileging your student identity? Are some of your other identities currently in conflict with your student identity? How are you managing these identities?  

Mason strives to be a model well-being university, in which members of the university community are “thriving across a range of domains (physical, career, social, community, psychological and financial) and being satisfied with one’s life while experiencing curiosity, hope, meaning and joy.” I invite you to explore the Well-Being University Initiative and reflect on how you’re promoting well-being, while managing your multiple, intersecting identities and check out some of the well-being resources and services offered at the university. 

Challenge yourself to simply BE, and BE the BEST at it. That’s all for now.

The 2300 weekly digest has two editions this week: one for our grad students and one for our undergrads.  Click your edition below to read the latest student news and information from CEHD!