Dr. Catherine Kurkjian

Honors/Awards

Ø  Commendation for Leadership as Faculty Advisor to Beta Kappa Chapter at CCSU for the Alpha Upsilon Alpha Honor Society of the International Reading Association 2007

Ø  Horizon Award for Student Membership in Connecticut Reading Association (Student Membership Chair for CRA)   2003-2006       

Ø  Special Recognition CT Literacy Award,  Presented at the Annual Conference of New England Reading Association, October 21, 2005 

Ø  Appointment as Department Chair, Children’s Books, The Reading Teacher Journal 2003-2007

Ø  BOT/AAUP- Faculty Development Grant: Cultural Knowledge in Language Learning and Teaching 2008   

Ø  BOT/AAUP- Faculty Development Grant: Empowering Writers: Faculty Training and Community Service Project 2005   

Ø  New England Reading Association Special Recognition Award  September,2005

Ø  Connecticut Outstanding Literacy Award, Presented at the Annual Conference of the Connecticut Reading Association, November 5, 2004

Ø  Appointment as Research Chair of Connecticut Reading Association for Reading Research 2004-2008 

Ø  Student Membership Horizon Award, International Reading Association 2003-2006      

Ø  Title II Grant- State Department of Education: Performance Assessments in Higher Education, Commendations from  Auditors 2003

Ø  BOT/AAUP -Faculty Student Grant: Using Technology to Enhance and Transform “Tried and True Strategies” for Emergent Readers and Writers 2002-2003      

Ø  CSU University-CSU University Research Grant Research Proposal: Orchestrating Literacy Instruction: Prospective Teachers Use Case-based Studies Via the Internet2002-2003  

Ø  BOT/AAUP –School of Education and Professional Studies Reassigned Research Fall Research Proposal: Orchestrating Literacy Instruction: Prospective Teachers Use Case-based Studies Via the Internet 2002-2003      

Ø  Title II Grant- State Department of Education: Performance Assessment in Higher Education 2002

Ø  CCSU/AAUP -Faculty Development Grant: Electronic peer mentoring: Facilitating professional support for full-time and part-time faculty 2000 

Ø  BOT/AAUP -Summer Curriculum Development Grant-Preparing Literacy Teachers in the New Millennium: Reconstructing the Reading and Language Arts Curriculum within New Technologies Summer 2000  

Ø  CCSU University-CSU University Research Grant Research proposal: Electronic Peer Coaching: Facilitating teachers’ professional growth and change in literacy instruction. 2000

Ø  BOT/AAUP-Faculty Student Research Grant:Teacher selection and gender bias in read aloud literature Fall 1999         

Ø  BOT/AAUP-School of Education and Professional Studies Reassigned Time. Research proposal: Teachers as reader of Multicultural Literature: Where are they in the reader response continuum?" Fall 1999         

Ø  BOT/AAUP Summer Curriculum Development Grant: Assessment Strategies for the General Education Curriculum Summer 1999  

Ø  Certificate of Special Recognition Service to Youth at Northend Elementary School New Britain Public Schools Spring 1999    

Ø   Inducted as an Honorary Member of Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society1998 

Ø  Faculty Development Grant-CCSU/AAUP: Literacy & Technology1998  

Ø  CSU University-CSU University Research Grant Research proposal: Electronic exchanges across campuses: Facilitating forums for concerns and issues surrounding  selection and use of multicultural literature. 1997-1998      

Ø  BOT/AAUP-School of Education and Professional Studies Reassigned Time. Research proposal: Electronic exchanges across campuses: Facilitating forums for concerns and issues surrounding selection and use of multicultural literature Fall 1997         

Ø  BOT/AAUP- Curriculum Development Grant-Create an Integrated Model of Early Childhood Summer 1997 Course in TeacherEducation, Reading and Special Education

Ø  BOT/AAUP- School of Education and Professional StudiesReassigned Time. Data analysis proposal: The mediation of literacy in selected Head Start Programs Fall 1996

Ø  Certificate of Special Recognition Service to Youth at Smith Elementary School
 New Britain Public Schools Spring 1996    

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Honors/Awards

2005                 Special Recognition Literacy Award, Presented at the Annual Conference of the New England Reading
                        Association, October 21, 2005.

2003-2007       Appointment as Department Chair, Children’s Books, The Reading Teacher Journal, International Reading Association.

2005                BOT/AAUP- Faculty Development Grant: Empowering Writers: Faculty Training and Community Service Project

2004                Connecticut Outstanding Literacy Award, Presented at the Annual Conference of the Connecticut Reading Association, November 5, 2004

2004 to             Appointment as Research Chair of Connecticut Reading Association for Reading Research
2007

2004 & 2003   Student Membership Award, International Reading Association

2003                Title II Grant- State Department of Education: Performance Assessments in Higher Education,
                        Commendations from  Auditors

2002-2003       BOT/AAUP -Faculty Student Grant: Using Technology to Enhance and Transform “Tried and True Strategies” for Emergent Readers and Writers

2002-2003       CSU University-CSU University Research Grant

Research Proposal: Orchestrating Literacy Instruction: Prospective Teachers Use Case-based Studies Via the Internet

2002-2003       BOT/AAUP –School of Education and Professional Studies Reassigned Research Fall Research Proposal: Orchestrating Literacy Instruction: Prospective Teachers Use Case-based Studies Via the Internet

2002                Title II Grant- State Department of Education: Performance Assessment in Higher Education

2000                                CCSU/AAUP -Faculty Development Grant: Electronic peer mentoring: Facilitating professional support for full-time and part-time faculty

Summer 2000   BOT/AAUP -Summer Curriculum Development Grant-Preparing Literacy Teachers in the New Millennium: Reconstructing the Reading and Language Arts Curriculum within New Technologies

2000               CSU University-CSU University Research Grant Research proposal: Electronic Peer Coaching:
                        Facilitating teachers’ professional growth and change in literacy instruction.

Fall 1999          BOT/AAUP-Faculty Student Research Grant:Teacher selection and gender bias in read aloud literature

Fall 1999          BOT/AAUP-School of Education and Professional Studies Reassigned Time. Research proposal: Teachers as reader of Multicultural Literature: Where are they in the reader response continuum?"

Summer 1999   BOT/AAUP Summer Curriculum Development Grant-
                       Assessment Strategies for the General Education Curriculum

Spring 1999     Certificate of Special Recognition
                       Service to Youth at Northend Elementary School
                       New Britain Public Schools

1999-2000       President, Ex-Officio of Children Literature SIG, (IRA)

1998-1999       President of Children’s Literature SIG, (IRA)

1997-1998       President-Elect of Children’s Literature SIG, (IRA)

1996-1997       Vice President of Children’s Literature SIG, (IRA)

1998                Inducted as an Honorary Member of Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society

1998                Faculty Development Grant-CCSU/AAUP: Literacy & Technology

1997-1998       CSU University-CSU University Research Grant
                        Research proposal: Electronic exchanges across campuses: Facilitating forums for concerns
                        and issues surrounding  selection and use of multicultural literature.

Fall 1997          BOT/AAUP-School of Education and Professional Studies Reassigned Time. Research proposal: Electronic exchanges across campuses: Facilitating forums for concerns and issues surrounding selection and use of multicultural literature

Summer 1997 BOT/AAUP- Curriculum Development Grant-Create an Integrated Model of Early Childhood
                      Course in TeacherEducation, Reading and Special Education

Fall 1996          BOT/AAUP- School of Education and Professional StudiesReassigned Time. Data analysis proposal: The mediation of                          literacy in selected Head Start Programs

Spring 1996     Certificate of Special Recognition
                       Service to Youth at Smith Elementary Sch
                       New Britain Public Schools

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