{"id":65206,"date":"2009-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-school-of-education-professors-honored-for-their-work\/"},"modified":"2009-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T00:00:00","slug":"uri-school-of-education-professors-honored-for-their-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/12\/uri-school-of-education-professors-honored-for-their-work\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 School of Education professors honored for their work"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tJohn Boulmetis, Anne Seitsinger recognized by different groups<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 3, 2009 \u2013 Two professors in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s School of Education were honored with major awards in recent weeks.<\/p>\n


\n\tAdult Education Professor John Boulmetis received the President\u2019s Award For Exceptional and Innovative Leadership in Adult and Continuing Education from the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education. The Kingston resident received the award during the association\u2019s national conference in Cleveland, Ohio on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n


\n\tBoulmetis, who has taught at 溏心vlog免费B站 for 37 years, is a former president of the association and is credited with saving the organization in the early 2000s, when it nearly ended operations due to financial issues. Chosen as president-elect in 1999, Boulmetis became president just a couple months later when the organization\u2019s president suddenly resigned. During the next two years, he worked with the group\u2019s members and units to free themselves from an outside management firm to bring stability back to the organization and the thousands of members worldwide.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cBeing recognized for this award was a shock and an honor,\u201d said Boulmetis, who was nominated for the award by current AAACE President Douglas Smith, a professor at the University of South Florida. \u201cKnowing what we went through to get the AAACE back on its feet made this even more special.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBoulmetis has been a part of the association since 1973, and more than three decades later, he remains passionate about adult education.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWhat drew me to this field is the wide umbrella nature of adult education,\u201d Boulmetis said. \u201cWe work with people at all different stages, from adult literacy programs to individuals working toward their high school GED. We have people in English as a second language programs, military personal, religious education and work force development programs. It really runs the gamut, but in the end, it\u2019s all about helping people improve their lives, which is a rewarding feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhile Boulmetis received a national honor, fellow 溏心vlog免费B站 School of Education Professor Anne Seitsinger was honored locally by the Rhode Island Middle Level Educators with the group\u2019s Friends of RIMLE award.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor the last two years, Seitsinger \u2013 a North Kingstown resident \u2013facilitated the strategic plan for RIMLE for middle level education in the state. Following the plan, all middle schools in the state are using a teaming method in which smaller groups of students stay in classes together with the same group of teachers. Likewise, teachers in these \u201cteams\u201d have planning periods that coincide, allowing better communication and collaborative efforts during a key period of growth for students.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe practice of teaming allows for a more personalized education experience,\u201d Seitsinger said. \u201cThe adults in the schools get to know groups of students on a more individual level, which helps teachers better address issues that students face during a key transition period in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tCurtis Corner (Wakefield) Middle School Principal Michele Humbyrd nominated Seitsinger for the honor. Seitsinger and Humbyrd, the group\u2019s outgoing president, worked closely on the teaming strategic planning.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI am extremely honored to have been nominated,\u201d Seitsinger said. \u201cTo be among the people who have received this honor in the past is humbling. These are the leaders in middle level education for the state, so to be honored this way was so surprising.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Boulmetis, Anne Seitsinger recognized by different groups KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 3, 2009 \u2013 Two professors in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s School of Education were honored with major awards in recent weeks. Adult Education Professor John Boulmetis received the President\u2019s Award For Exceptional and Innovative Leadership in Adult and Continuing Education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}