New this month on HEC Online:
The Featured Resource links on the home page include:
32nd Annual TED Conference: Teacher Preparation in Changing Times: Fostering Partnerships Between Special and General Education: http://www.tedcec.org/
Graduate Fellowship at Southern Methodist University: http://www.smu.edu/EducationPhD
Clemson University has been awarded a federal grant to support 6 special education doctoral students over a 4-year period (2009-2013): vcorrea@clemson.edu
WWC Quick Review of the Report "Rewarding Persistence: Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents": http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/publications/quickreviews/performance/
PACE Extension Projects: http://www.createtx.org/default.htm. There is another opportunity coming up in Houston for the month of May and registration is right around the corner.
CEC’s RTI blog: Exploring Response to Intervention: http://www.cecblog.typepad.com/rti/

Recent news items added to the home page include:
Building RTI Capacity Conference – June 2009 in Austin, TX (contact Erica if you are interested in the June session): http://buildingrti.utexas.org/
There are a few spots left for the ACI-IV in Houston this May (please contact Erica if you would like to go or have more questions about this).
If you have not already, please make sure that when you log in to HEC Online you also update your profile. While you are logged in, feel free to add your own news items, use the new search feature to get in touch with other HEC members, or post your course syllabus as Marty has for her Spring graduate course.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6347650.html: Top teachers could get extra $20k in Houston – 2009 Associated Press
David, J. L. (2009). What Research Says About Teaching Media Literacy, Educational Leadership, Vol. 66, (6), 84-86: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Teaching_Media_Literacy.aspx
Free website that allows you to send reminders to yourself or others: http://www.textreminders.net/

We wish you the best,
Marty, Erica, Lisa, Jin, and Eric

Last minute thoughts:
Education Secretary Names Special Assistant for College Access: http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=6231&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
Erica, Lisa, and Marty are making the rounds and trying to visit as many campuses and HEC faculty members as we can during the month of April. We hope to be around your way soon. Contact one of us if there is something special going on or someone you would like us to meet or something we can do for you during this time and we will schedule the time.
Reminder: The next HEC seminar is schedule for May 27-28 in Austin. Heather will be back to present a pre-seminar symposium on Wednesday, May 26 on LETRS. We are also having some of the presenters from the University of Houston and the Children’s Learning Institute present three of the latest comprehension modules during this pre-seminar symposium. Watch for more information!
Save the date! For the November  3rd and 4th Fall HEC Seminar 2009 in the Dallas/FW/Arlington area. Special presenters are Dr. Randi O’Connor and Dr. Freddie Hiebert among many other exciting presenters and sessions.
2009 Fall Teacher Education Conference: http://www.csotte.org/csotte_conferences.htm