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Chapter Meetings and Programs


2024-2025 Education Excellence Programs 
September 16, 2024: Monday, 6:15 p.m. social, 6:30 p.m. meeting
Location: Northwest Recreation Center, 2913 Northland Dr, Austin, TX 78757
Program: Legislative update with TCTA lobbyist Pamela McPeters
Themes and Goals for 2024-2026, Officer Installations (1st VP, 2nd VP, Secretary)

October 21, 2024: Monday, 5:30 p.m. social, 6:00 p.m. meeting
Location: Lamar Senior Activity Center, 2874 Shoal Crest Ave., Austin, TX 78705
Program: Healthy Women seminar with Monique Stensrud (Susan Komen Foundation, Austin)
Celebrate 25-year recognitions and Epsilon Kappa’s 66th Birthday!

November 18, 2024: Monday, 5:30 p.m. social, 6:00 p.m. meeting
Location: Lamar Senior Activity Center, 2874 Shoal Crest Ave., Austin, TX 78705
Program: Women and Art. Explore the art of card making and make your own greeting card.
Facilitator: Norma Jost
Assemble gift bags for teachers in SEE Project schools

December 14, 2024: Saturday, 10:00 a.m.
Location: Home of Charlotte Hanna, 8124 Big View Drive, Austin, TX 78730
Program: What to know about AI with Brian Dixon, Dixon Data Consulting Service LLC
Live Auction: Kathryn Wright, auctioneer

January 2025:
Exec Board Meeting

February 8, 2025: Saturday, 11:00 a.m.
Location: Saltgrass Steak House, 10614 Research Blvd, Austin, TX 78759
Speaker: Book Banning: What is it? How does it affect schools?
Speaker: Minda Anderson, Librarian, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders
Recognition of  SEE Grant recipients

March 3, 2025: Monday, 5:30 p.m. social, 6:00 p.m. meeting
Location: Lamar Senior Activity Center, 2874 Shoal Crest Ave., Austin, TX 78705
Program: McNair Scholars Program—The goal of the McNair Scholars  is to increase the attainment of doctoral degrees by students who come from underrepresented segments of society.
Speaker: Dr. Molly Minus, Former Program Director

April 21, 2025: Monday, 5:30 p.m. social, 6:00 p.m. meeting
Location: Lamar Senior Activity Center, 2874 Shoal Crest Ave., Austin, TX 78705
Program: Celebrating Our Educators—Experiences and Achievements
Speaker: Claudia Knowles, Summers in Newfoundland
Recognizing Member Achievements—Outstanding First-Year Teacher Award

May, 2025: Founder’s Day Brunch (sponsored by the Coordinating Council of Austin)
Location: TBD


​Included are the purposes fulfilled under each meeting and we recognize that we are all "Key" women educators and the purposes of our Delta Kappa Gamma Society.
Purpose:
1. To unite women educators of the world in a genuine spiritual fellowship;
2. To honor women who have given or who evidence a potential for distinctive service in any field of education;
3. To advance the professional interest and position of women in education;
4. To initiate, endorse, and support desirable legislation or other suitable endeavors in the interests of education and of women educators;
5. To endow scholarships to aid outstanding women educators in pursuing graduate study and to grant fellowships to non-member women educators;
6. To stimulate the personal and professional growth of members and to encourage their participation in appropriate programs of action; and
7. To inform the membership of current economic, social, political, and educational issues so that they may participate effectively in a world society.

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