Archive for July, 2010
New TxCRLA Officers Announced
July 13, 2010 by s-haigler, under Announcements.
The TxCRLA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the results of the recent election for 2011 officers. Sharon Miller of Lone Star College-Cy Fair has been elected to serve as president-elect, and Essie Childers of Blinn College-Bryan has been elected as secretary.
Sharon Miller joined the founding faculty of Lone Star College-CyFair to teach Transitional English in 2003. Sharon has won numerous awards for teaching including the Adjunct Teaching Excellence Award at LSC-North Harris and the 2009-2010 Faculty Excellence Award at LSC-CyFair. Her colleagues have named her the campus Advocate for Excellence, Active Learning Guru, Learning Innovator, Star Morale (Builder), and the President’s Cy-Fair Spirit Award winner. In 2009, Sharon spent a month at the prestigious Kellogg Institute sponsored by the National Association for Developmental Education, and also gained her Accelerated Learning Starter Certificate. She has served as TxCRLA Secretary since 2008.
Essie Childers has been a full-time Parallel Studies faculty member at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas, for 3 years. However, she comes to Blinn College with over 21 years of experience with developmental education. On the college level, Essie has taught for Austin Community College, Oklahoma City Community College and Tyler Junior College. Her current assignments at Blinn College are Reading 0306, Study Skills and Education 1300. Essie also serves as a Co-Chair of Achieving the Dream for Blinn College. In 2008, Essie was the recipient of CRLA’s Professional Developmental Award.
