Last month, it was announced that NSU’s international honor society in education, the Kappa Delta Pi (KDP) Omega Theta chapter, won the 2019-2020 Professional Development Chapter Program Award.
The award recognizes KDP chapters who have made notable advancements in the field. KDP Omega Theta put together five professional development presentations with participants selected from over 200 participants that included NSU FCE faculty, students, staff and alumni.
“It is a great honor to receive the 2019-2020 Professional Development Chapter Program Award. This recognition goes a long way in supporting the chapter’s work to upholding service, one of the pillars of KDP,” said Sandra Trotman, the chapter’s advisor and counselor.
“We are very proud to be ranked among other KDP chapters as leaders in service learning. This Excellence in Education honor is significant to the NSU Greek life [because] it exemplifies that our contributions are significant and ranked as preeminent to society and world education. Receiving this award is a great accomplishment for our chapter as we continue to enrich Greek life with our presence at NSU’s main campus and in Puerto Rico,” said Maria Grethel Mendez, chapter advisor and associate counselor for KDP Omega Theta.
The five presentations KDP Omega Theta put together for the award were “COVID-19 ‘New Normal’: Reshaping the teaching/learning platform,” “Economic, Entrepreneurial and Educational Perspectives in the Pandemic Era Conference,” “Professional development for teachers on the management and use of different platforms for virtual classrooms at the time of a pandemic,” “Special Education Forum” and “Beyond the book cover.”
According to Trotman and Mendez, the presentations highlight the need to strive as an organization, and that these service learning activities involved participants from the U.S., St. Vincent, Puerto Rico (and other Spanish-speaking countries), Jamaica and other countries.
KDP Omega Theta also has plans for how NSU students can help with their future endeavors.
“To continue with our mission of service, we would like to invite all NSU’s Greek life members, students, faculty and staff to join us in fulfilling a literacy project. The 2020-21 Literacy Project provides an opportunity for targeted communities to collaborate to give PreK to six students the opportunity to engage in one hour of reading activities and related science, technology, reading, engineering, arts and mathematics (STREAM)… With this, as you update your technology tools, like smart phones, laptops and computers, please consider donating them to be used for the rural schools where we will be conducting a STREAM program to assist not only the Pre-K-6 students, but also their teachers and their communities,” said Trotman.
Anyone interested in donating their used technology tools to the project can drop them off to Trotman on the fourth floor of the Carl DeSantis Building.
