Welcome to the Iota Chapter
Emporia State University
Emporia, Kansas
104 Years
1920-2024
AWARDED PIIP BADGES
Violet Participation Award
Quality Learning For All
Member has accumulated 15 participation points
as a member in good standing.
SPRING 2022
Libby Franks
Bailey Hardie
Sarah Schleicher,
Brandi Taylor
SPRING 2023
Emmeline Schnieder
Chelsie Baldwin
Sarah Alas
Bronze Participation Award
Ideal of Fidelity to Humanity
Member has accumulated 25 participation points
as a member in good standing.
SPRING 2022
Lux Claridge
Bailey Hardie
SPRING 2023
Chelsie Baldwin
Sarah Alas
Silver Participation Award
Ideal of Service
Member has accumulated 35 participation points
as a member in good standing.
SPRING 2022
Bailey Hardie
SPRING 2023
Chelsie Baldwin
Sarah Alas
Gold Participation Award
Ideal of Science
Member has accumulated 40 participation points by actively attending meetings and completing service to the education profession while remaining in good standing. Member has chosen a topic from professional learning to implement in an educational setting and reported on the results of the experience.
Brandi Taylor
Elementary Education
Graduation Date: December 2021
Brandi Taylor teaches a fourth grade classroom at Riverside Elementary. After hearing our December presenter, Mrs. Lindsay Bays, Brandi decided to implement a breathing exercise and mindfulness meditation into her class of 19. Brandi found success with Peace Out, a 6 minute guided relaxation video for kids, found on YouTube. After listening to the video and following the steps, Brandi observed the class do 3 minutes of deep meditation. For a total time of 9 minutes, Brandi said she would be doing this more often as it had a positive impact on her students’ behaviors going into the next lesson. In her reflection she mentioned trying this after recess or lunch to get the class back into a learning mindset.
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Lux Claridge
Secondary Education - Physics & Chemistry
Graduation Date: May 2022
Lux is a student teacher at Emporia High School. They are a secondary science education major at Emporia State University. For their application of learning, they used models from a Kappa Delta Pi Toolbox seminar. These models are PIC-RAT and SAMR. For Lux’s lesson they used the PIC-RAT lesson to enhance the lesson with technology. They speak of great success using university-level research software with two 11th grade chemistry courses. They are excited to teach this in their own class where they can know the students a little bit better.
Platinum Participation Award
Ideal of Toll
Member has accumulated at least 45 participation points by actively attending meetings and completing service to the education profession while remaining in good standing. Member has attended a professional/scholarly activity and chosen a leadership role that contributes to the education profession.
Lux Claridge
Secondary Education - Physics & Chemistry
Graduation Date: May, 2022
Lux was Kappa Delta Pi’s Program Chair, an officer position, for the 2020-2021 academic year. Lux was in charge of reaching out to potential speakers and coordinating their attendance and presentation at our meetings. Throughout the year, they coordinated 7 speakers for our monthly meetings, the 8th was Dr. Reed speaking about Kappa Delta Pi. Lux speaks about the surprising challenges of finding speakers and reaching out to them. They feel like they have impacted preservice and current teachers with their wonderful guest speakers.
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