March 13, 2006	Volume 5, Number 8

On the Road

On March 7, State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster attended the State of the Tribes address, presented by Oneida Nation Chairman and Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council President Gerald Danforth at the State Capitol. The address was attended by tribal chairs, tribal legislators and council members, state legislators, and state agency tribal liaisons.

Burmaster welcomed secondary and postsecondary technology education instructors to the Wisconsin Technology Education Association Conference in Wisconsin Dells on March 9. “WTEA’s conference clearly reflects the work, vision, and passion that each of you bring to your professional association, and to your classrooms,” Burmaster told the audience. “That is why Wisconsin technology and engineering education is exemplary. Our state’s competitive and knowledge-based future requires our students to master skills that allow them to be creative, develop innovative highly technical ideas, and apply those ideas in multiple ways for the good of our society. Our youth—your students—will create solutions and innovations to the challenges of today, for a better tomorrow.”

Later that day, Burmaster, a member of the UW Board of Regents, attended the regular monthly board meeting in Madison.

On March 10, Burmaster was presented with the prestigious Senator Paul Simon Award for Outstanding Advocacy for World Languages and International Studies at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Chicago. The award, given to a person outside the language teaching profession who has made an outstanding contribution to support the teaching of world languages and international education, was given in recognition of Burmaster’s leadership in promoting international education in Wisconsin and the nation. The Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages is a seventeen state, Midwest regional organization devoted to the promotion of second language learning.

Last updated on 3/13/2006