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Educator Preparation Institute (EPI): FacultyFaculty and Staff for the Educator Preparation InstituteThis dynamic team of EPI faculty model co-teaching in the delivery of the curriculum. Large group sessions address major teaching-related concepts. In small groups, EPI participants study and apply content as related to their particular disciplines and/or grade levels. Dr. Betty Bennett is our EPI Director with 15 years of experience in K-12 education as a teacher, administrator and district trainer of beginning teachers. She also has 10 years experience as an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at UNF including teaching in UNF’s Belize M.ED program. She has written two books on school discipline. She is a certified martial arts instructor and through this venue teaches anti-bullying to children and women's self-defense. She was Pak’s Karate of Mandarin’s 2005 Instructor of the Year. Her passion is creating safe learning environments for all students. Dr. Lynne Raiser, UNF Professor Emeritus and EPI Curriculum Coordinator, has taught children at every grade level in five states as an elementary school or ESE teacher (K-6), 7th grade English teacher or speech pathologist (7-12). She retired from the University of North Florida in 2004 but hasn't lost her 42 year passion for teaching. She coordinates the Gladys Prior Awards for Career Teaching Excellence and was the 1993 EVE Award winner for her work establishing Very Special Arts in Northeast Florida, now a part of the Cummer Museum. She is the recipient of the 2009 Urban Education Award for Distinguished Educator. She loves to teach teachers to help struggling learners to read. Miss Shannon Wine, M.Ed., is a former UNF Honors student and teacher of the year at her school. She has been a Reading First Coach at Annie R. Morgan Elementary School and a Literacy Coach for Episcopal Children's Services. She presently teaches inclusion kindergarten at Woodland Acres Professional Development School where she interned ten years ago. UNF students in the PreK-Primary program visit her class to learn how to teach young children effectively. Miss Wine brings experience and passion to preparing young children throughout their elementary years to be successful learners. She especially loves to teach literacy and appropriate social behaviors. Contact InformationContact EPI Contact information: Dr. Betty Bennett - Director: bbennett@unf.edu 904-620-1823 Dee Crawford - Project Coordinator: dcrawfor@unf.edu 904-620-1880 Fax: 904-620-1619 (No cover sheet necessary – delivers directly to the EPI).
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