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DOE seeks advisory council candidates

The Massachusetts Department of Education is seeking candidates to serve on the Board of Education Advisory Councils,according to a memo posted on the DOE Website.

The memo lists the following councils as having three or more vacancies. In cases where these vacancies call for specific representation, it is noted:

• Adult & Community Learning Services -- adult educators, business/union, and civic minded representatives, particularly from central and western Massachusetts.
• Arts Education -- candidates from all areas and levels of arts education as well as parents, practicing artists, and representatives from community arts organizations, particularly from western Massachusetts.
• Bilingual Education -- educators, parents, and community representatives with expertise in bilingual education.
• Braille Literacy -- educators, parents, students, and community representatives with expertise or developed interest in the teaching of the blind and visually impaired, particularly in the area of Braille literacy.
• Community Service Learning -- educators, parents, students, and community representatives with expertise in community service learning.
• Educational Personnel -- representatives from higher education, district and school administration, school committees, special education, guidance, and preK to 12 classroom education.
• Educational Technology -- educators, business representatives, third parties such as representatives from Business and Education Supporting Technology Collaborative (BEST), Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Mass Pre-Engineering Program, Institute for Community Inclusion, and Student Advisory Council; Higher Education representatives.
• Gifted and Talented Education -- school administrators, representatives from higher education, and parents, teachers, and community members with expertise or developed interest in gifted education.
• Global Education -- teachers, parents, and community representatives with expertise or developed interest in global issues (e.g. economics, world cultures, and environmental science).
• Interdisciplinary Health Education and Human Services -- health professionals who are knowledgeable about the progress of comprehensive health education and human services in the public schools under Education Reform, with particular need for representatives from higher education who are part of certification and licensure programs for health educators, school counselors and school nurses; also those with public health/clinical background.
• Life Management Skills and Home Economics -- parents, students, business/civic representatives, school committee members, superintendents and educators.
• Mathematics and Science Education -- mathematics and science educators as well as parent and community representatives with expertise and or a developed interest in any of these disciplines.
• Parent and Community Education and Involvement -- parents of children in grades preK to 12 from all regions of the state.
• Racial Imbalance -- parents of children in grades preK -- 12 from all regions of the state, civic leaders, community group representatives, persons with knowledge and understanding of the Racial Imbalance Law, choice program directors, educators, school committee representative.
• Special Education -- additional parent representation, a transition representative, and a person from the state juvenile and adult corrections agencies, with special consideration to candidates from central and western Massachusetts.
• Technology/Engineering Education -- technology education directors, educators and engineering professionals, as well as parent and community representatives with expertise and or a developed interest in this discipline. (Note: the focus of this council is on applied technologies such as engineering design, construction, and transportation, but not instructional technology as in computer applications.

Each council meets 4-6 times per year at times and locations determined by its members, according to the memo. All appointments will be for a three-year term and regular attendance is required.

Interested parties should submit a letter of intent along with a resume no later than July 8, 2004 to:

Lurline Muñoz-Bennett
Office for the Humanities
Massachusetts Department of Education
350 Main Street
Malden, MA 02148-5023

For more information, please contact Lurline Muñoz-Bennett directly at Lmunoz-bennett@doe.mass.edu or by telephone at 781-338-6285 or see www.doe.mass.edu/boe/sac and http://www.doe.mass.edu/boe/news/052004sac.html