Bonjour tout le monde/ACEAS/CASEA members. In this fifth and final newsletter of the academic year, it is a pleasure to provide the following updates:

- 2009 l’ACEAS/CASEA CONFERENCE UPDATE: Mille fois merci/Special thanks to Bonnie Stelmach and Matthew Meyer for organizing the timetabling of this year’s conference. Please see the following for more information from Bonnie and Matthew.

- Registration and Accommodation in Ottawa: Il y a du “fun”/There are numerous events going on in Ottawa at the same time as l’ACEAS/CASEA 2009, including the Ottawa Marathon. Members will want to reserve accommodation and sign-up for events ASAP.

-  L’ACEAS/CASEA 2009 BANQUET: Soyez bienvenue! L’ACEAS/CASEA banquet will be held Monday May 25, 2009 at the LAGO Bar and Grill (www.lagobargrill.com). David Burgessis coordinating the event. Cost is $55 per person. Make cheques payable to Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration, and send to: CASEA/ACEAS Banquet, c/o Dr. Dawn Wallin, 62 St. Andrew Rd., Winnipeg, MB R2M 3H6. Receipts will be available upon request.

- L’ACEAS/CASEA 2009 AWARDS: Merci/thanks to Dawn Wallin (T. B. Greenfield Ph.D. Doctoral Award), Paul Newton (Margaret Haughey Masters Award), and Ken Brien (Distinguished Service Award) for chairing and organizing the adjudication of these awards. Merci/thanks to l’ACEAS/CASEA members who served on these committees. Recipients will be recognized at the l’ACEAS/CASEA banquet on Monday May 25.Master’s thesis and Ph.D. doctoral award recipients will be announced at the la SCEE/CSSE AGM, and l’ACEAS/CASEA AGM.

- L’ACEAS/CASEA 2009 SPECIAL EVENTS: Plan on attending the l’ACEAS/CASEA “Kick Off” Breakfast/petit-déjeuner (no charge) on Saturday May 23, 2009 at 7:30 am.  Lunch will be provided at the l’ ACEAS/CASEA AGM (no charge) on Monday May 25. Plan on attending the CASEA/ACEAS AGM, for discussion of current and future initiatives. There will be a CASEA/ACEAS Book Launch Monday May 25 (refreshments provided). Contact David Young (dyoung@stfx.ca) or Matthew Meyer (mmeyer@stfx.ca) if you have a book you would like included.

 GRADUATE STUDENTS: There is a CASEA/ACEAS Graduate Student Seminar in the 2009 program. Contact Brenton Faubert (bfaubert@oise.utoronto.ca) for information.

- This year’s program features an Educational Administration Seminar where the topic is What constitutes research and evidence in the field of Educational Administration?Contact Rosemary Foster (ryfoster@ualberta.ca), or Matthew Meyer (mmeyer@stfx.ca) for more information. Panel participants include Carolyn Shields (U of Illinois), Dawn Wallin (U of Manitoba), Joseph Flessa (OISI/UT) and Lyse Langlois (U Laval).

- Colleagues from BELMAS will make a presentation on the state of the art in Britain. Presenters are: Colin Russell (Edinburgh), Trevor Lee (London), and Linda Hammersley-Fletcher (Liverpool).

Contact information for Executive Members and Committee Chairs is attached to the end of this newsletter. On veut vous voir à Ottawa! See you all in Ottawa very soon! A bientôt!

Rosemary Foster

L’ACEAS/CASEA CONFERENCE 2009

Collègues/colleagues,

Merci/thank you to those of you who alerted us about program changes. The final program is scheduled for early May. Please check La SCEE/ CSSE website for updates.

L’ACEAS/CASEA is experimenting with a couple of ideas this year:
- Sessions will be chaired, but there are no discussants.
- In the interest of efficiency with time, we would like to have PowerPoint presentations installed on the laptops at Carleton so that presenters do not have to spend time doing this. If you are able, please e-mail your PowerPoint presentation to Bonnie Stelmach bonnie.stelmach@usask.ca by May 19th. Please name it by your last name and the Room # in which your presentation is scheduled. Example: StelmachTory202. Bring a memory stick with your presentation just in case!

We look forward to seeing you/On veut vous voir at Carleton University during la SCEE/CSSE, May 23- 26, 2009.

Merci beaucoup/thanks again,
Bonnie Stelmach and Matthew Meyer (Program Co-Chairs)

Bonnie Stelmach and Matthew Meyer

COMITE DES CHERCHEURS/CHERCHEUSES FRANCOPHONES: Nouvelles de Claire Lapointe
Tel que décidé à Assemblée générale annuelle de 2008, un comité a été formé afin d’encourager la participation des chercheurs/chercheuses francophones à l’ACÉAS/CASEA./As decided at the 2008 AGM, a committee for the participation of French-speaking scholars has been struck. Members are/ les membres actuels sont Roseline Garon (U de Montréal), Claire IsaBelle (U d’Ottawa), Carolyn Shields (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) et Claire Lapointe (U Laval). Le comité aura sa première rencontre lors du Congrès à Ottawa.

LES NOUVELLES/MESSAGE FROM THE GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE – Brenton Faubert

As part of this year’s l’ACEAS/CASEA program, graduate student representative Brenton Faubert has led up the organization of the session titled: Next Steps - What can graduate students do to better prepare for a career in education research? This session is scheduled May 24, 10:00 - 11:15 AM.  
Guest speakers are:  
Dr. Carol Campbell - Director of the Education Research and Evaluation Strategy Branch, with the Ontario Ministry of Education
Bruce Campbell - Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Dr. Bob Macmillan - Associate Dean (Graduate Programs and Research), University of Western Ontario

Questions to be addressed include: Does having a career in government cut you off from the academic sphere?  What are the working conditions involved in doing consulting work?  How does one go about securing tenure at a faculty of education? Three guests have been invited to speak to graduate students to answer these and other questions they may have about preparing for a career conducting research in a government, think tank or faculty environment. Each of the speakers will answer some common questions about their respective organization (i.e., working hours, type of work), followed by break-out groups so graduate students can ask their own questions directly to the speakers.  The event will include breakfast. Graduate students (from CASEA and other associations) are welcomed to attend.  

Faculty members, please pass this message along to your graduate students.  Those students interested can register for the workshop by e-mailing Brenton at:  bfaubert@oise.utoronto.ca