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Educational Excellence

• Create a Progressive Potluck that features foods from a designated country; members pay for
each course as they go and learn more about that country.
• Designate sales of a specific product/project to be sent to UNICEF/USA.
• Conduct a Silent Auction of craft items.

Support for Early-career Educators (SEE)

In order to share the DKG vision of Leading Women Educators Impacting Education Worldwide
and strengthen our Society, the EEC established Supporting Early-career Educators (SEE) as the second
international project during the 2012 International Convention in New York City. Members are all familiar
with the statistics for retention of early-career educators. So many leave the profession after only a few
years, and DKG members have an opportunity to provide the guidance needed to stop the exodus. Do not
forget about student teachers from local colleges and universities, too.
SEE encourages members/chapters to be creative in support of early-career educators with a variety
of strategies, such as:
• giving support with visits, emails, texts, and phone calls;
• helping with lesson plans and resources such as classroom mini-grants;
• offering advice on topics such as classroom management, parent-teacher relations, curriculum
integration, and assessment;
• providing support in appropriate and practical ways, which could include classroom volunteering
or mentoring.

United Nations/CTAUN

DKG became a non-governmental organization (NGO) in 1995. Starting in 1997, Anne-Marie
Carlson of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society
International formed a team of volunteer experts
to enable educators to develop new and better
ways of teaching about the United Nations (UN)
and its civil society partners. The Committee
on Teaching about the UN (CTAUN) provides
a resource center that brings together materials
developed throughout the UN System and
makes available exemplary materials used by
governments and NGOs, teachers, and curriculum
specialists. CTAUN presents an Excellence in
Education Award to recognize teachers’ work to
help students find ways to learn about the goals
and work of the UN.
Opportunities to promote this component of EEC include:
1. Award a grant for a member to attend a CTAUN conference; she will later report at a chapter or
state organization meeting.
2. Inform educators about UN/CTAUN resources:
• Assist teachers in finding information on website;
• Send a CTAUN newsletter (link on DKG website) to chapter members.
3. Inform members about the DKG/UN relationship:
• Present a program/workshop at a chapter meeting and/or state organization conference/
convention;
• Include an article about the UN in publications.

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