CEA-Wisconsin Highlights
1984 1986
1988 1990
1992 1994
1996 1998
2000 2002
2004 2006
2008
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CEA-W begins sponsoring credit courses with
UW-Milwaukee and UW-Oshkosh.
Other courses are also sponsored in
1992 and 1996.
August 1989 - CEA-W presents first Friends of Correctional Education
Awards. Awards are
continued annually to date.
December 1989 - CEA-W assists in lobbying effort to maintain federal
support for correctional
education programs.
April 1990
- CEA-W assists UW-Oshkosh in planning and delivering “Corrections in the
1990s”
Conference. Another conference is
held in 1991.
April 1992
- Phil Leader becomes first Wisconsin
teacher to be selected Region III Teacher of the
Year. Other
Wisconsin
teachers selected as Region III Teacher of the Year are Anita Wilcox
in 1998, Mel Free in 2004, Mary
Stierna in 2005, Sharon Abel in 2006, and
Ken VanMieghem in 2007.
May 1994
- New CEA-W constitution adopted. The Constitution is again updated in 1997.
April 1996
- Wisconsin hosts 1996 Region III CEA
Conference in Madison.
April 1997 - CEA-W
sponsors Lincoln
Hills
School
teachers Maggie Peterson and Sheri Woodall
to present workshop at Region III
Conference in Cleveland.
These sponsorships evolve into
the annual Showcase Awards which
continue to date.
June 1997 - CEA-W begins co-sponsoring of the DOC Teacher Training
Day with the
Corrections
Training
Center
and Teacher Training Advisory Committee. Other Teacher Training Days are
held in 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
May 1999
- Jerry Bednarowski receives first Region III President’s Special
Recognition Award.
May 2000
- CEA-W awards first scholarship. Annual scholarships are awarded each year
with
two scholarships being awarded
beginning in 2007.
October 2000 - CEA-W website is created. A new website format is
designed in 2008.
November 2000 - CEA-W sponsors publishing of first inmate creative
writing and art anthology,
“Words of Conviction”. Creativity
booklets are published each year to date.
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August 2002
- KMCI teacher Sue Ciske, KMCI Education Director Dave
Picard, and RCI
Education Director Jean Thieme are
awarded scholarships by the CEA International office
to present workshops at the
International CEA conference in
Portland, OR.
February 2003 - Three-State Recidivism Study commissioned and
endorsed by the US Department
of Education in conjunction with the
International CEA showing the impact of education on
recidivism is published.
June 2004
- Parenting Special Interest Group established by CEA-W.
October 2004 - CEA-W co-sponsors Wisconsin GED/HSED & Adult Literacy
Conference with
Wisconsin Department of Public
Instruction and Wisconsin Technical College System. Co-
sponsoring of the conference
continues each year to date.
November 2004 - First issue of Parenting Connection newsletter
published. Bi-monthly issues
continue to be published to date.
November 2004 - Guide to Successful Parenting Programs in
Corrections published. Guide is
updated in 2008.
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July 2005 - Parenting Special Interest Group approved to expand to
national group.
May
2006 - Wisconsin hosts 2006 Region III & IV CEA
Conference in Wisconsin Dells.
May 2007 - CEA-W holds first CEA-Wisconsin State Conference. Another
state conference is
held in 2008.
July 2007 - CEA-Wisconsin chapter receives Founder’ Day Membership
Award for gaining the
most new members in the past year.
Peggy Meyers is honored as top recruiter.
March
2008 - CEA-W and Parenting SIG
sponsor Effective Black Parenting Seminar.