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DCRW Evening with State Board of Education Director Dr. Debora Scheffel | |
August 7th, 2013 |
You are cordially invited to
**** DCRW’s First Evening Event ****
On
Wednesday, August 14, 2013, from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.
P.S. Miller Library (CR Bank Room East), 100 South Wilcox St., Castle Rock, CO
We are pleased to announce that our own DCRW member Dr. Debora Scheffel, District 6 Director on the CO State Board of Education, will be our speaker! Deb will enlighten and inform us on the state of education in Colorado and Douglas County! Don’t miss her!
Dr. Debora Scheffel was appointed in December, 2012, as the Dean of Research at the University of the Rockies. Previous to her appointment at the University of the Rockies, she was the Dean of the School of Education at Jones International University for over three years, held a tenured professorship at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, served as the Director of Competitive Grants and Awards/Literacy Grants and Initiatives at the Colorado Department of Education, and served as special assistant to the Commissioner of Education in Colorado.
Dr. Scheffel has an extensive background in assessment, serving as the Director of Aca-demic Assessment at two universities, and has been a visiting scholar at the United States Air Force Academy in assessment. Her academic background is in communication sci-ences and disorders and special education with research interests in cognitive psychology and learning theory as related to implications for learning environments, brain-behavior relationships and learning, reading and oral language development and disabilities in chil-dren, and education reform policy.
She has worked in six states in a variety of post-secondary educational contexts, and is a published author in literacy, special education, and higher education assessment. Her professional affiliations include the International Neuropsychological Society, the Interna-tional Dyslexia Association, and the Council for Exceptional Children. She was elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in November, 2010, representing the 6
th Congres-sional District. She serves on the editorial boards of Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, Colorado Reading Council Journal (CRCJ) and Journal of the First-Year Experi-ence and Students in Transition. Debora enjoys water and snow sports, church involve-ment, and spending time with family members, most of whom reside in Colorado.Debora Scheffel (R)
6th Congressional District, Parker
As space is limited to 65 for this night, please RSVP immediately to Jeanette NewVille at
douglascountyrepublicanwomen@hotmail.com by August 13th. ADMISSION IS FREE!
Invite your neighbors and friends! Light refreshments will be served. For more information,
call DCRW President Marsha Haeflein at 303-841-4318 or mhaeflein@comcast.net.