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		<title>New TxCRLA Officers Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2010/07/new-txcrla-officers-announced/</link>
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		<title>Introducing TxCRLA President, Sara Weertz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     Sara Weertz took the reigns as TxCRLA president at the recent CASP 2009 Conference in San Antonio.  After having been elected by the membership to serve one year as president-elect of the organization, her move to the present position was automatic.     Mrs. Weertz is presently Founding Director of Supplemental Instruction and Tutoring of Angelo State University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2010/01/introducing-txcrla-president-sara-weertz/</link>
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		<title>Lindley Workman Alyea First Recipient of Shaw Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     Lindley Workman Alyea, Assistant Director of the Student Learning Assistance Center (SLAC) at Texas State University, is the first recipient of the Gladys R. Shaw Professional Development Award.  Ms. Alyea will apply the monetary award to her expenses for the 2010 6th International Conference on Supplemental Instruction in New Orleans, Louisiana.  This conference is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2009/12/lindley-workman-alyea-first-recipient-of-shaw-award/</link>
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		<title>Meet Tamara Clunis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tamara Thornton Clunis is the recently appointed Director of Developmental and Adult Education for the P-16 Division of the Higher Education Coordinating Board.  She is responsible for developing a statewide plan for developmental education, with an emphasis on improving student outcomes and increasing alignment between adult basic education and post-secondary education. Ms. Clunis has over ten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2009/02/meet-tamara-clunis/</link>
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		<title>Gladys R. Shaw Professional Development Award Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The executive board of the Texas chapter of the College Reading and Learning Association [TxCRLA] was pleased to announce the establishment of the Gladys R. Shaw Professional Development Award at the recent CASP 2008 Conference held in Corpus Christi, Texas.  This annual award is available to current TxCRLA members to use toward travel expenses and other costs associated with any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2008/11/gladys-r-shaw-professional-development-award-announced-at-casp-08/</link>
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		<title>ESSIE CHILDERS WINS AWARD AT NATIONAL CRLA CONFERENCE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Essie Childers, Instructor of Parallel Studies at Blinn College-Bryan Campus, is the recipient of the 2008 Professional Developmental Scholarship Award sponsored by the College Reading and Learning Association [CRLA].  The award, presented at the National CRLA Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, is designated for participation in professional workshops related to the recipient&#8217;s area of expertise.  Mrs. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2008/11/essie-childers-wins-award-at-national-crla-conference/</link>
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		<title>2008 CASP LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TO RUSS HODGES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russ Hodges, of Texas State University in San Marcos, was unanimously selected by the CASP board to receive the 2008 CASP Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent CASP Conference in Corpus Christi, Texas. This award is reserved for those individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of developmental education and/or to the field [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2008/11/2008-casp-lifetime-achievement-award-to-russ-hodges/</link>
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		<title>M.E. McWilliams:  Recipient of 2008 Ann B. Faulkner Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[M.E. McWilliams, Director of the Academic Assistance and Resource Center (AARC) of Stephen F. Austin State University, is the 2008 recipient of the TxCRLA Ann B. Faulkner Professional Development Award. The purpose for this annual award, presented at the CASP 2008 conference, is to promote research and development in developmental education and/or other learning assistance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2008/11/me-mcwilliams-recipient-of-2008-ann-b-faulkner-award/</link>
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		<title>Tutor Training Leadership Institute &#8211; Year 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back for the 11th year, the Tutor Training Leadership Institute presents many creative strategies for those involved in Supplemental Instruction, peer-tutoring programs, peer counseling, or academic peer-counseling.  This three-hour pre-conference institute also includes training activities for learning center supervisors and coordinators.  Featured presentations include &#8220;Tutor Training CPR&#8221; presented by Lindley Workman Alyea (Texas State University-San [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2008/09/tutor-training-leadership-institute-year-11/</link>
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		<title>Teacher Burnout Remedy Available at CASP 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love your teaching job, love and enjoy your students, enthusiastically tackle the challenges of creating new strategies for keeping your students engaged, and then it happens&#8230;WHAM!!!  BURNOUT!!  If you are feeling a little schizophenic about your job and the love/hate state of emotions that you sometimes may feel toward your profession, then the place for you to be is at CASP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://txcrla.org/2008/08/teacher-burnout-remedy-available-at-casp-2008/</link>
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