Mrs. Georgia Dunlap This is Me

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1. 1. Jonesboro Sun

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   Published on: 11/17/2005   Last Visited: 11/17/2005

   Dunlap involves parents in children's education
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   People who know her might compare Georgia Dunlap to the Energizer bunny.
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   She's in her 61st year working as an educator in Northeast Arkansas, and she just keeps on going. Dunlap has been a parent involvement coordinator at the Jonesboro School District's Title I Parent Center since its beginning 16 years ago. "My job is to assist parents. Parents are the most important part of children's education. We feel it's very important," she said. Parents have always wanted to help their children, but they have not always had the knowledge or the materials to assist them. The parent center offers assistance, training and resources so that parents can help their children learn. Teachers inform parents that their children need help in a particular area, such as multiplication tables or consonant blends. Then, parents are able to get guidance from two parent involvement coordinators -- Dunlap and Nina Dover, whose primary focus is on pre-kindergarten and the Even Start program.
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   Dunlap and Dover have tried a number of incentive programs to attract parents and celebrate student success.
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   Dr. Jane Jamison, director of federal programs, testing and technology for the Jonesboro district, said Dunlap is a natural educator because of her experience and creative ideas.
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   I like doing what I'm doing," Dunlap said. However, it has not always run as smoothly at the parent center as it does today. When Dunlap began her part-time job, she said she started from scratch. "It truly was built from nothing," she said.
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   In the beginning, there was very little space for Dunlap, much less a center, and Dunlap traveled to various schools and developed a parent-calling network before privacy laws were adopted. She recalled that she used a table as a desk in the early days, which was a major change from her office at the former North Elementary School, where she was a first- and second-grade schoolteacher for 10 years and principal for 28 years. However, her career in education began earlier than that in the Cothern Community near Lake City in 1937, where she taught for four years. After she met and married her husband, the couple moved to Michigan, had two daughters and returned to the Natural State. Dunlap joined the Nettleton Public School District, where she taught in the Phillips Community for three years prior to her employment at the Jonesboro district. Growing up in Cash, Dunlap said she didn't have any role models to influence her except for her homemaker mother who encouraged her to get an education. Her father was a farmer. "She was determined that I would go on and make something and teaching was what she had in mind," Dunlap said. "At that time, that was about all for a young girl." After graduating Cash High School in 1936, Dunlap attended Harding College for a year and earned a bachelor of science degree in education from then-Arkansas State College and a master's degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. In addition to continuing to work, the 84-year-old has remained physically active walking 212 miles six days a week and exercising three hours a week at a senior citizens center. She will celebrate her 85th birthday later this month. She is also active fulfilling the roles of president of the Northeast Arkansas Senior Citizens, vice president of Craighead County Liaison Board, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, North School Classics Retired Teachers and part-time third-grade teacher at Southwest Church of Christ. Just as Dunlap's mother influenced her to enter the field of education, Dunlap's daughters followed in her footsteps.

2. 2. Jonesboro Sun

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   Published on: 12/8/2002   Last Visited: 12/8/2002

   Nina Dover (left) and Georgia Dunlap, both parent involvement coordinators for the Jonesboro School District, hold up materials used to make books. --Sun photo by Sherry F. Pruitt
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   Dunlap involves parents in children's education
   
   ...
   People who know her might compare Georgia Dunlap to the Energizer bunny.
   ...
   She's in her 61st year working as an educator in Northeast Arkansas, and she just keeps on going. Dunlap has been a parent involvement coordinator at the Jonesboro School District's Title I Parent Center since its beginning 16 years ago. "My job is to assist parents. Parents are the most important part of children's education. We feel it's very important," she said. Parents have always wanted to help their children, but they have not always had the knowledge or the materials to assist them. The parent center offers assistance, training and resources so that parents can help their children learn. Teachers inform parents that their children need help in a particular area, such as multiplication tables or consonant blends. Then, parents are able to get guidance from two parent involvement coordinators -- Dunlap and Nina Dover, whose primary focus is on pre-kindergarten and the Even Start program.
   ...
   Dunlap and Dover have tried a number of incentive programs to attract parents and celebrate student success.
   ...
   Dr. Jane Jamison, director of federal programs, testing and technology for the Jonesboro district, said Dunlap is a natural educator because of her experience and creative ideas.
   ...
   I like doing what I'm doing," Dunlap said. However, it has not always run as smoothly at the parent center as it does today. When Dunlap began her part-time job, she said she started from scratch. "It truly was built from nothing," she said.
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   In the beginning, there was very little space for Dunlap, much less a center, and Dunlap traveled to various schools and developed a parent-calling network before privacy laws were adopted. She recalled that she used a table as a desk in the early days, which was a major change from her office at the former North Elementary School, where she was a first- and second-grade schoolteacher for 10 years and principal for 28 years. However, her career in education began earlier than that in the Cothern Community near Lake City in 1937, where she taught for four years. After she met and married her husband, the couple moved to Michigan, had two daughters and returned to the Natural State. Dunlap joined the Nettleton Public School District, where she taught in the Phillips Community for three years prior to her employment at the Jonesboro district. Growing up in Cash, Dunlap said she didn't have any role models to influence her except for her homemaker mother who encouraged her to get an education. Her father was a farmer. "She was determined that I would go on and make something and teaching was what she had in mind," Dunlap said. "At that time, that was about all for a young girl." After graduating Cash High School in 1936, Dunlap attended Harding College for a year and earned a bachelor of science degree in education from then-Arkansas State College and a master's degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. In addition to continuing to work, the 84-year-old has remained physically active walking 212 miles six days a week and exercising three hours a week at a senior citizens center. She will celebrate her 85th birthday later this month. She is also active fulfilling the roles of president of the Northeast Arkansas Senior Citizens, vice president of Craighead County Liaison Board, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, North School Classics Retired Teachers and part-time third-grade teacher at Southwest Church of Christ. Just as Dunlap's mother influenced her to enter the field of education, Dunlap's daughters followed in her footsteps.

3. 3. Jonesboro Sun

   www.jonesborosun.com/archiveds - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/9/2002   Last Visited: 12/9/2002

   Dunlap involves parents in children's education
   
   ...
   People who know her might compare Georgia Dunlap to the Energizer bunny.
   ...
   She's in her 61st year working as an educator in Northeast Arkansas, and she just keeps on going. Dunlap has been a parent involvement coordinator at the Jonesboro School District's Title I Parent Center since its beginning 16 years ago. "My job is to assist parents. Parents are the most important part of children's education. We feel it's very important," she said. Parents have always wanted to help their children, but they have not always had the knowledge or the materials to assist them. The parent center offers assistance, training and resources so that parents can help their children learn. Teachers inform parents that their children need help in a particular area, such as multiplication tables or consonant blends. Then, parents are able to get guidance from two parent involvement coordinators -- Dunlap and Nina Dover, whose primary focus is on pre-kindergarten and the Even Start program.
   ...
   Dunlap and Dover have tried a number of incentive programs to attract parents and celebrate student success.
   ...
   Dr. Jane Jamison, director of federal programs, testing and technology for the Jonesboro district, said Dunlap is a natural educator because of her experience and creative ideas.
   ...
   I like doing what I'm doing," Dunlap said. However, it has not always run as smoothly at the parent center as it does today. When Dunlap began her part-time job, she said she started from scratch. "It truly was built from nothing," she said.
   ...
   In the beginning, there was very little space for Dunlap, much less a center, and Dunlap traveled to various schools and developed a parent-calling network before privacy laws were adopted. She recalled that she used a table as a desk in the early days, which was a major change from her office at the former North Elementary School, where she was a first- and second-grade schoolteacher for 10 years and principal for 28 years. However, her career in education began earlier than that in the Cothern Community near Lake City in 1937, where she taught for four years. After she met and married her husband, the couple moved to Michigan, had two daughters and returned to the Natural State. Dunlap joined the Nettleton Public School District, where she taught in the Phillips Community for three years prior to her employment at the Jonesboro district. Growing up in Cash, Dunlap said she didn't have any role models to influence her except for her homemaker mother who encouraged her to get an education. Her father was a farmer. "She was determined that I would go on and make something and teaching was what she had in mind," Dunlap said. "At that time, that was about all for a young girl." After graduating Cash High School in 1936, Dunlap attended Harding College for a year and earned a bachelor of science degree in education from then-Arkansas State College and a master's degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. In addition to continuing to work, the 84-year-old has remained physically active walking 212 miles six days a week and exercising three hours a week at a senior citizens center. She will celebrate her 85th birthday later this month. She is also active fulfilling the roles of president of the Northeast Arkansas Senior Citizens, vice president of Craighead County Liaison Board, a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, North School Classics Retired Teachers and part-time third-grade teacher at Southwest Church of Christ. Just as Dunlap's mother influenced her to enter the field of education, Dunlap's daughters followed in her footsteps.