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Dr. James Comer, an
internationally renowned child psychiatrist at Yale University, will
keynote California State University, Fresno’s 24th annual Conference on
Character and Civic Education on April 16 at the Fresno Convention
Center in downtown Fresno.
Fresno State’s is the nation’s longest-running character education
conference, providing hundreds of prospective teachers with information
on local civic agencies devoted to assisting children and families with
life issues, said Dr. Jacques S. Benninga, conference co-director.
Benniga is an education professor in the conference sponsor, the Kremen
School of Education and Human Development’s Bonner Center for Character
Education. He said participants are presented with ethical issues facing
today’s teachers and with professionally appropriate ways of dealing
with those issues and with strategies to enhance character strengths in
students.
Comer will speak at 8:30 a.m. He is the Maurice Falk Professor of Child
Psychiatry at Yale’s School of Medicine, the author of five books and
hundreds of articles, and is among Education Week’s 100 most-significant
educators. Recognized internationally for his work on promoting
child-development principles to improve schools, Comer has more than 35
years experience in child development and education.
At the same general session, the center will recognize the elementary
schools that give exemplary attention to character education by
presenting the 21st annual Virtues and Character Recognition awards. The
day-long conference also presents workshops on professional ethics and
decision-making.
For more information contact Benninga at 559.278.0253 or
jackb@csufresno.edu, conference
co-director Jane Moosoolian at 559.270.0115 or
janem@csufresno.edu, or Mona
Nyandoro, Kremen School development director, at 559.278.0393 or
monan@csufresno.edu.
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