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Sunday, June 19, 2011 Bill Jones The Sunday morning TEAA business meeting marked the close of the New York portion of our reunion. We were keen to look forward and to influence others to take up the kind of work we have done. As a start in that direction, we thought of telling about what we did that made it seem so worthwhile to us and therefore agreed to compose and submit 300-word accounts of significant, telling experiences from our teaching days in East Africa fifty years ago. September 1 is the due date for those efforts. For more on that, click on story . More explicitly future-oriented was the discussion of how we might extend the work of TEAA through partnerships with individuals and with enterprises of the caliber that we heard about from our panel presenters. We also considered the feasibility of establishing a scholarship to support the education of individuals who evidence a decided orientation to engage education efforts of the sort that TEA, TEEA and now TEAA represent. Teachers College, in major regard, is the logical location to institutionalize these kinds of alumni projects. Structures and ways of working that might be shaped to this purpose already exist at Teachers College. Graduate students, for instance, who are involved in international education projects may well be the logical tenants for what we have proposed. At the present remove the possibilities seem rich indeed. What, in fact, is possible needs to be explored. That exploration has been assigned to Harry Stein and me. If, however, our efforts at Teachers College do not yield satisfactory results, we might look to the International Institute of Education to determine whether it might function as an institutionalizing body for the proposed scholarship. The association knows, too, that there is guidance available in this matter among the alumni. Finally, we discussed a 2013 reunion in Minnesota, Florida or Colorado. Then the double-meeting-goers flew off to East Africa and the rest of us went our ways. |