MOTAL Founder Honored

by Erin Haselton on April 21, 2011

The Association of California School Administrators, ACSA (Region XVll) will honor Greta K. Nagel, Ph.d of Fullerton with the Robert E. Kelly Award at its 21st annual Celebration of Excellence on Monday, May 9 at the Irvine Marriott.

The Robert E. Kelly award is presented to a recipient who, upon retirement from teaching and school administration, contributes significantly to public education or educational leadership by volunteer work in their community. The award is sponsored by Bank of America.

Greta Nagel is the founder, president and curator of the Museum of Teaching and Learning (MOTAL), a nonprofit charitable corporation established to create exhibits and events that explore, communicate, and celebrate how people learn. Dr. Nagel is an educator with over forty years of experience as a teacher, learning specialist, elementary principal, and college professor.

She is a professor emerita from California State University Long Beach, and is the author of The Tao of Teaching, The Tao of Parenting and Effective Grouping for Literacy Instruction in addition to dozens of articles related to teaching and learning.

The Museum of Teaching and Learning in collaboration with the Old Courthouse Museum-Orange County Parks, the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University, Fullerton, the Orange County Department of Education, the Orange County Historical Commission, Chapman University, and Fullerton College will present A Class Action- exhibit – Mendez et al. v. Westminster et al – opening in September 2011 and running through June of 2012. The educational exhibit will be free and open to the public during regular museum hours.

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