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Scholar Roxanne Henkin Named 2012 Education Headliner by Association for Women in Communications

by Christi Fish

Education scholar Roxanne Henkin in the UTSA Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching has been named the 2012 Education Headliner by the San Antonio Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications (AWC). Henkin will receive her award at the AWC’s 32^nd Annual Awards Banquet and Silent Auction on Friday, June 22.

Henkin joined the UTSA College of Education and Human Development in 2003 with 18 years of teaching experience in the public school system and 13 years as a professor at National Louis University in Chicago. Her research interests include literacy and social justice, critical literacy, and writing, and she is the author of two books on literacy and social justice: Confronting Bullying: Literacy as a Tool for Character Education (2005) and Who’s Invited to Share: Using Literacy to Teach for Equity and Social Justice (1998). Her work has also appeared in a variety of scholarly journals such asVoices from the Middle, Democracy & Education, Language Arts, English Journal and Literacy Matters.

Henkin established the San Antonio Writing Project in 2006 as a partnership between the National Writing Project and the UTSA Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching to improve the writing of Pre-K through college students in the greater San Antonio region, particularly English Language Learners and children from impoverished areas of south Texas. It is one of more than 200 National Writing Project sites that aim to collectively improve writing instruction in K-12 classrooms across the nation. Similarly, she established the Limpopo Writing Project in South Africa, which she and the San Antonio Writing Project continue to support. The Limpopo Writing Project will hold its fourth Invitational Institute in July.

“I am honored to be receiving this award and I'd like to share it with all the teachers in the San Antonio Writing Project who do such incredible work with their students every day,” said Henkin.

 The AWC will honor six other notable professionals alongside Henkin at this year’s awards ceremony. They include:

• Elizabeth Ruiz, KTSA 550 AM/Border Media, Media Excellence Headliner
• Lucy Greer Burton, University Presbyterian Church’s Source of Light Center, Harriet Ross Individual Achievement Headliner
• David T. Young, Ph.D., Southwest Research Institute, Professional Achievement Headliner
• Mary Stanchak, Discovery School, Public Endeavor Headliner
• Patt Cantú, San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, Volunteer Service Headliner
• Susie P. Gonzalez, Trinity University, AWC Maggie Cousins Award 

It's Better to Love than Hate

It's Better to Love than Hate

Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio 

SAWP articles

Kens 5: NEISD: Case of cyberbullying leads to distribution of child pornhttp://www.kens5.com/home/Case-of-cyberbullying-involves-child-pornography-131370018.html

SAWP brochurehttp://www.utsa.edu/today/2010/07/sawriting.pdf

UTSA hosts writing conference for area teachers (Jan 30, 2008)http://utsa.edu/today/2008/01/writing.cfm

ITC project: Indian students write family-oriented stories (May 12, 2009)http://utsa.edu/today/2009/05/kahani.cfm

UTSA hosts Oct.23 writing workshop, 'From Memoirs to Stories to Publications' (Oct 21, 2010)http://utsa.edu/today/2010/10/writingworkshop.html

SAWP offers two summer institutes in July (July 1, 2010)http://utsa.edu/today/2010/07/wrinst.html

UTSA hosts Feb 5 SAWP conference on learning and literacy (Jan 28, 2011)http://utsa.edu/today/2011/01/sawpconference.html

UTSA hosts young writers camp June 20-24 at Downtown campus (May 23, 2011)http://utsa.edu/today/2011/05/writerscamp.html

UTSA educates teachers at Institutes on College and Carer Readiness in Writing (July 7, 2011)http://utsa.edu/today/2011/07/staar.html

San Antonio Writing Project Hosts Digital Writing Seminar (Sep 15, 2011)http://utsa.edu/today/2011/09/sawritingproject.html

SAWP 2011-2012 Saturday Series (2011-2012) http://education.utsa.edu/events/detail/sawp_2011-2012_saturday_series/

Teachers: Protect your students from school bullies (Oct 10, 2011)
https://ruby1604.utsa.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://utsa.edu/today/2011/10/Bully.html

UTSA Nov. 5 seminar helps teachers boost student writing skills with reflection (Nov 3, 2011)
http://utsa.edu/today/2011/11/writingseminar.html

Teachers: Help students become confident writers at Feb. 4 conference (Jan 8, 2012)
http://utsa.edu/today/2012/01/writingconference.html

KLRN interview about Confronting Bullying by David Martin Davis (Feb 16, 2012)
http://youtu.be/KqZoak70Nzg (Conversations promo)

 

Not In Our Town

• Excellent site including Not In Our Town, Not In Our School.
• These videos show ways to confronting bullying and discrimination. 

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Confronting Bullying

This Saturday, October 15th I'll be talking about how we can Confront Bullying. This talk is part of the San Antonio Writing Project's Super Saturdays. It will be held at the University of Texas at San Antonio's downtown campus in the Frio Street Auditorium, FS 1.406 from 9-noon. You don't have to register. Just show up and participate.

I feel like there is change in the air. People around the world are getting tired of the bullying our children are living through either as targets of the bullies or as bystanders. Cyberbullying has brought bullying into students' homes and leaves no place to escape the harassment. Too many children have committed suicide in part because of bullying. People are starting to pay attention to bullying in a way that I haven't seen over the last 15 years that I've been researching, writing and presenting about it. States are passing laws that are meant to protect the targets of bullies. CNN, national and local television and radio stations are presenting programing about it. There was even a Summit on Bullying at the White House last year.

Bullying is a complicated issue and attempts to come up with one size fits all solutions don't work very well. But there is a lot of good will toward this issue. Parents, teachers, students, administrators and other allies are coming together and working earnestly to confront bullying and to make schools safe places for all our children. October is bullying prevention month. May no more children end their lives because of bullying. The time to act is now. Change is in the air.