{"id":11,"date":"2011-07-13T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=11"},"modified":"2011-07-13T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T16:30:41","slug":"school-of-education-thanks-the-neale-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2011\/07\/13\/school-of-education-thanks-the-neale-family\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Education thanks the Neale Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/neales201107_960.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72\" title=\"neales201107_960\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/neales201107_960.jpg\" alt=\"Jim and Lorrie Neale\" width=\"576\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Jim and Lorrie Neale visited the UWSP College of Professional Studies today to learn how their generosity has made an impact in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/education\">School of Education<\/a>. The descendants of Oscar Neale have donated $1.9 million to UWSP to create scholarship programs, to sponsor the Oscar W. Neale Memorial Celebration of Teaching banquet honoring cooperating teachers, and to fund the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/education\/Scholarships\/OscarNealeFellowship.aspx\">Oscar W. Neale Fellowship<\/a> that recognizes and supports outstanding collaboration between UWSP faculty and educators in Central Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010-11 recipient was Karen Hansel from St. Stanislaus Catholic School in Stevens Point. Ms. Hansel collaborated with Ms. Cindy Cate of the SOE faculty to create the P.A.W.S. (Point\u2019s Alliance With St. Stan\u2019s) Literacy Lab. Students from Ms. Cate\u2019s Reading Methods classes worked with classroom teachers and students at St. Stan\u2019s to enhance students\u2019 literacy skills using a method called Reader\u2019s Theater.<\/p>\n<p>St. Stan\u2019s Principal Gregg Hansel and first-grade teacher Ann Molski, a 1991 UWSP School of Ed graduate, thanked the Neales and described the importance of their gift. \u201cThe greatest gift is to give these children a sense of empowerment,\u201d said Molski. \u201cIf kids can feel important, they are empowered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head of the UWSP SOE Pat Shaw and Debbie Townsend, a pre-service teacher and liaison for the Literacy Lab, explained how UWSP students benefited from the hands-on learning experience. \u201cThere were times I was able to implement something we learned in class and that brings it full circle and makes my own learning so meaningful as a future teacher,\u201d said Townsend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our students, this sort of experience makes them realize teaching is absolutely for them and it really reaffirms their career choice,\u201d said Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t wait for next year,\u201d said Molski. Even though the Neale Fellowship with St. Stan\u2019s is for one year, Hansel added, \u201cAs far as we are concerned, the Literacy Lab will go on forever. It\u2019s becoming a fabric of our school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/education\/Scholarships\/howtoapply.aspx\">Learn how to apply<\/a> for the Oscar W. Neal Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim and Lorrie Neale visited the UWSP College of Professional Studies today to learn how their generosity has made an impact in the School of Education. The descendants of Oscar Neale have donated $1.9 million to UWSP to create scholarship programs, to sponsor the Oscar W. Neale Memorial Celebration of Teaching banquet honoring cooperating teachers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}