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First Walden PDK Scholarships Awarded Scholarships honor founders of Walden’s Phi Delta Kappa cyber chapter. Walden University’s cyberspace chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, the society for professional educators, awarded its first two Simon-Poppenhagen scholarships to Walden Ph.D. in Education students Candace Stine and Sandy Wenzel.
The scholarships, one for $500 and the other for $1,000, honor a former Walden education dean, Dr. Brent Poppenhagen, and a current education faculty member, Dr. Marilyn K. Simon, who are both founding members of the chapter.
Recipients Making a Difference
Candace Stine lives in Broken Arrow, Okla. The third-grade teacher works in a Title I instruction program and tutors upper-elementary-aged children struggling in reading and math. Sandy Wenzel lives in Madison, Wis., where she is an upper-elementary-level special education teacher.
“We have two extremely worthy recipients of our first Simon-Poppenhagen scholarships,” says Simon. “Both Sandy and Candy epitomize Walden’s mission of social change.”
Stine is seeking her Ph.D. with the hope of one day becoming a full-time college instructor. “My dissertation will investigate teacher-efficacy relative to quality professional development,” Stine says. She hopes to use her dissertation as preliminary research for a more formal study of teacher-education programs.
About Phi Delta Kappa
Phi Delta Kappa is a well-respected professional association for educators and student educators. It advocates for public schools and publishes the Phi Delta Kappan, the most cited educational journal in the United States. PDK has 650 chapters in the United States, Canada and parts of Europe and Asia.
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