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1 Dean’s Perspective ------2 Highlights ------6 Faculty Profile: Tom Brush ------7 Indiana Teacher of the Year ------8 Alumni News ------10 Distinguished Alumni Awards 7 11 ------11 Program exposes teachers, youth to “critical” languages ------12 News Briefs ------14 Instructional Systems Technology ------17 Alumni Profile: Carole Ames ------18 Class Notes ------21 Honor Roll

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Gerardo M. Gonzalez Jonathan Purvis Chalkboard is published semiannually IU School of Education Dean Executive Director of Development by the Indiana University School of and Alumni Relations Chuck Carney Education in cooperation with the IU Director of Communications Doug Wilson Alumni Association to encourage alumni and Media Relations, Editor Assistant Director of Stewardship interest in and support for the Indiana and Donor Communications University School of Education. Michelle Stuckey Assistant Director, Development Mediaworks This publication is paid for in part by & Alumni Relations Cover design/interior layout dues-paying members of the Indiana Cover Photo by Eric Rudd University Alumni Association. For more information about membership or activities, contact (800) 824-3044, [email protected], or visit www.alumni.indiana.edu. ------Dean’s Perspective

Our alumni continue to impress

by Gerardo M. Gonzalez, Dean, School of Education

1 Dean’s Perspective ------very fall, we have wonderful Bangalore was so taken with her that they 2 Highlights opportunities to celebrate our offered her a teaching contract to return ------Eoutstanding alumni. It’s an annual as a faculty member in August. She is now 6 Faculty Profile: Tom Brush tradition that’s never tiring. We think the teaching on the other side of the world, ------excellence of our institution is very much where she helped create a first-of-its-kind 7 Indiana Teacher of the Year reflected by the achievements of our special education program at the school. ------alumni. This fall was a particularly fine Of course, we are also responsible for reflection. 8 Alumni News producing some of the top leaders in In the early fall, we always hold the education. IU recently recognized one of ------School of Education’s Distinguished those, Sue Talbot, BS’66, MS’71, EdD’92, 10 Distinguished Alumni Awards Alumni Award ceremony, honoring IU presented her with its Distinguished ------alumni nominated because they have Alumni Service Award in November 11 Program exposes teachers, especially made a mark in their fields. As (p.4), recognizing her long career that youth to “critical” languages you can see on p. 10, this year’s group is includes service as an IU trustee and ------exceptionally well versed in leadership for recognition as 1978 Indiana Teacher of 12 News Briefs both higher and secondary education as the Year and a 1984 School of Education ------well as educational technology. Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. 14 Instructional Systems Technology Then there is what has been an Octo- To our north, Carole Ames, MS’68 who ------ber tradition—well, for the last two years got her start here working both with edu- 17 Alumni Profile: Carole Ames anyway—when one of our alumni is cational psychology and student services ------selected as Indiana’s Teacher of the Year personnel faculty, has just retired after 18 Class Notes (p. 7). This year, Huntington’s Melanie a long and distinguished tenure leading the Michigan State University College of ------“...a wonderful Park BS’93, MS’01, became the second Education (p. 17). 21 Honor Roll consecutive alumna to earn the award testimony to our (with Indianapolis teacher Lisa Steele, The reason we have so many outstand- MS’96, a finalist this year as well). ing alumni is because of the outstanding faculty and quality You may recall last October that Stacy work of our faculty, the innovative nature McCormack, BS’99, of Mishawaka was of our programs, and the continuing sup- of students.” the Teacher of the Year and Jamil Odom, port of our alumni and friends. The cover MS’05, of Indianapolis was named story of this issue focuses on how we runner-up. In fact, since the program’s are looking forward as the Instructional inception in 1968, 20 IU alumni have Systems Technology department, long been recipients of this incredible award. accustomed to leading change with the We place superb teachers across the latest developments, gears up for its latest country, but this recognition is a wonder- move into the future (p. 14). Apropos of ful testimony to our faculty and the qual- its history of thinking ahead, it is the first ity of teachers we place in our home state. IU program to offer a doctorate degree And in this issue of Chalkboard, you’ll entirely online. read about another outstanding graduate, So, I hope this issue of Chalkboard Sarah McVey, BS’11, who took advantage gives you a sense of pride. We certainly of our award-winning Cultural Immer- are very proud to share the achievements sion Projects by teaching at the Christel of our alumni with you and show how House Academy in India and came we’re preparing the next generation of back more than just impressed by her educational leaders. experience (p. 6). In fact, her school in e r i c r u dd

Chalkboard • 1 Highlights Faculty honored with Fulbright, national social studies council awards

The U.S. State Department and the J. “While I was there, I realized that they instruction, William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship were using U.S. theories—old U.S. theo- with its 2011 Board selected two IU School of Education ries,” Torres said, regarding how South Jean Dresden faculty members for Fulbright Specialist African institutions were examining student Grambs Career awards this summer and fall. Both profes- success. “I made the comment that I had Research in sors are consulting in countries hoping to some concerns about their use of U.S. Social Studies further develop higher education after a theories, because the context was just so Award. The tumultuous history. vastly different. They need to create their award recog- Vasti Torres, professor of educational own understanding about their students nizes research- leadership and policy studies and director and not just use theories from outside ers who have of IU’s Center for Postsecondary Research, South Africa.” Marilynne Boyle-Baise made extensive spent 21 days Arnove returned to Argentina this contributions to in South Africa summer at the request of the National knowledge concerning significant areas of in late Septem- University Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. social studies education. ber and early Arnove has frequently worked with Ar- “I’m honored and thrilled,” Boyle-Baise October. gentine institutions over the last 15 years, said. “I know that there are a lot of col- Robert four times serving as the UNESCO Chair leagues who do research on a very high Arnove, Chan- in Higher Education at Palermo Univer- caliber, and I’m honored to be considered cellor’s Professor sity and helping to found the Argentine among that group.” emeritus and a Comparative Education society. During his The honor from the NCCS is named for leading scholar Fulbright Specialist program, Arnove de- pioneering social studies researcher Jean of comparative Vasti Torres livered a conference paper and a separate Dresden Grambs, who was among the first and interna- seminar on comparative education; helped to show that American textbooks discrimi- tional education, with the preparation for the XV World Con- nated against female children. It adds to completed three gress of Comparative Education Societies, the recognition honors Boyle-Baise has weeks of work in which will be held in Buenos Aires in June previously received for her outstanding Argentina in July. 2013; and mentored graduate students on work, including being named a John Glenn The selections their theses and dissertations, something Scholar in Service Learning, a national are just a year he did during his previous appointments. recognition of service learning scholarship after Arnove, Arnove said working with the graduate that advances the field. It is awarded to the Victor M.H. students was particularly important to help one or two scholars annually by The Ohio Borden Professor build higher education faculty in Argen- State University. of Educational Robert Arnove tina, where military rule in past decades “The award is essentially about exten- Leadership and stifled growth. “Some of them were former sive contributions to the field of social Policy Studies, spent time working as a university presidents and university deans, studies education and, for Lynne, there Fulbright Specialist last fall, also in South but because of the military dictatorship, are many,” said Shaun Johnson, assistant Africa. they’d been in exile or in jail,” he said. professor of elementary education at Torres was based at University of the “So now they’re coming back to get their Towson State University. Johnson is a for- Free State in Bloemfontein, located in degrees.” mer graduate student of Boyle-Baise who the central part of South Africa, but also Arnove has won numerous service and nominated her for the award. delivered presentations at other places teaching awards from IU and has served “Several of her colleagues stepped for- across the country and presented a key- as a visiting scholar in many countries, ward on relatively short notice to lend their ynn Boyl e -B aise note address to the South African Council including China, Spain, the Dominican support. I was pleased to read of her many L on Higher Education, focusing on issues Republic and Brazil. He is the author of Tal-

contributions from other scholars in the a nd of student success. She spent much of her ent Abounds: Profiles of Master Teachers field, some of which I was only learning as time working with researchers on develop- and Peak Performers, a book detailing how I read,” Johnson said. “For me, however, y, Ca rn e y, ing long-term studies on college student the best teachers in disciplines ranging another reason for the nomination was experiences and development. The Univer- from music to mathematics to culinary arts

personal. Lynne has this amazing ability C h u ck sity of the Free State submitted a Fulbright conduct their work to produce the top to treat those under her tutelage as col- grant request for Torres to return after she performers in their fields. leagues, giving as many ideas as she takes. visited South Africa last year to speak on The National Council for the Social I will always consider her a close friend and on s , Re l ati diversity and student development issues. Studies (NCSS) has awarded Marilynne was happy to nominate her for the award.” Boyle-Baise, professor of curriculum and A member of the School of Education IU M e d ia

2 • Chalkboard Hesa doctoral students consult in thailand

A group of 11 doctoral students is it gives you a better lens on your Scholar in 2008. during that time, she from the Indiana University School of own culture,” chism said. “It shows consulted with the Thai commission Education and nancy chism, profes- by negation what your culture is not, on higher Education on issues of pro- sor of higher Education and Student and it shows the advantages of your fessional and organizational develop- Affairs (hESA), spent more than three culture.” ment for colleges and universities. weeks in Bangkok, this past summer Projects included faculty teaching chism said many of those contacts to partner with Thai higher education techniques, U.S. business education, have been instrumental in preparing institutions on projects and to learn comparative study between Thai and this project. last year, chism hosted more about postsecondary education U.S. education, and online education. faculty and staff from Thailand at in Southeast Asia. The concept for the project grew IUPUI for six weeks as they observed The students were part of a special from chism’s own work in interna- U.S. higher education up close. course called International Service tional consulting. chism spent fi ve learning in Thailand, organized by months in Thailand as a Fulbright chism, a scholar of U.S. and inter- national professional and organiza- tional development. The group met in three, fi ve-hour sessions at IUPUI to study Thai language, culture and the context of the country’s higher education system before traveling to the country in late May. The course was designed to provide a service- learning opportunity to the hESA students by pairing them with six Thai institutions on a variety of projects. chism said the project was designed not only to provide international consulting experience, but to help the doctoral students understand the U.S. system better.

“I always think one of the advan- IU HESA presenters and Prof. Nancy Chism (front, 3rd from left) with faculty and tages of having a cultural experience staff from Chulalongkorn University

faculty since 1994, Boyle-Baise has made contributing signifi cant advances in their surprised by the honor and didn’t know her mark in social studies research with fi eld. for sure who had a part in nominating him, large projects, numerous research papers cohen, faculty member at the School though he suspected Hans Andersen, fac- and books. her most recent book is Young of Education at IUPUI from 1968 to 2003, ulty emeritus from the IU School of Educa- Citizens of the World: Teaching Elementary was honored particularly for his presti- tion in Bloomington was involved. cohen Social Studies through Civic Engagement, gious selection in 1984 as a fellow of the wrote a message to well-wishers indicat- which demonstrates teaching social studies American Association for the Advance- ing that the award to him was an award through a process that enables students ment of Science (AAAS). Election as an that refl ected well on all his colleagues. to gain information, think through what AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon “When most people receive an award or they’ve learned and then take action members by their peers in recognition of professional recognition, it is ‘traditional’ based on what they know. meritorious efforts to advance science or to say that they know that many others are IU President Michael Mcrobbie hon- its applications. equally deserving,” cohen wrote. “As one who has been emeritus for eight years, I ored Professor Emeritus in Science Educa- Mcrobbie honored cohen along with can be excused from using this traditional tion Michael Cohen as an outstanding other peers who have earned international response, because I know my colleagues contributor to his fi eld during the “cel- academy fellowships, nobel laureates and have received a variety of awards and hon- ebration of Academic Excellence” held in Pulitzer Prize winners. cohen said he was ors. I also know many others will receive Indianapolis on Sept. 15. The event was to glad to be there as a representative of the awards and honors in the future. When honor IU faculty members recognized for School of Education. he also said he was

Chalkboard • 3 Highlights any of us receive an award, it is a positive wants to make the center a home-away- housing the Neal Marshall center also is reflection on all of us.” from-home for IU students, particularly home to the African American Arts Insti- Stephanie Power-Carter is the new black students. tute, the Office ofD iversity Education and director of the Neal Marshall Black “I think I’m capable of being whoever other IU staff. Culture Center at IU Bloomington. Also students need me to be,” Power-Carter “All of us work together to support our an associate said. “There are some students who are students,” she said. professor in going to need a big sister while others Power-Carter plans to continue other the IU School are going to need an auntie or a mom. popular activities at the center, including of Education, I don’t know if I’m at the grandmother study nights, Black Student Orientation, Power-Carter phase yet.” the Critical Issues Lecture Series, Black began her new Power-Carter earned her doctorate Knowledge Bowl, and the Kwanzaa and role on Aug. 1. Juneteenth celebrations. Other new in language and literacy education from Power-Carter activities will include a book club co- Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. said four tenets sponsored by the Atkins Living Learn- She joined the IU faculty in 2002, after are essential to ing Center and recognition events for teaching for one year at the University of the center’s suc- outstanding black faculty members and Illinois-Chicago. At IU, she founded the cess: academic Stephanie Power-Carter athletes at IU. African American Read-In, a campus-wide excellence, stu- program that celebrates black writers; “Different people find different things dent services, recruitment and retention, to feel a sense of connection,” she said. the Closing the Gap Community Literacy and community building. She said she’s “I will definitely continue to emphasize Intervention Program; and Sistahs Who seeking to create an environment that that that is a place where our students are Care, a mentoring program for approxi- makes the IU Bloomington campus seem welcome and where they know they can mately 70 young women of color each a little smaller by offering student services come and find someone who will listen, year. and academic support and by partnering care and be willing to nurture them.” with other campus resources. She also Power-Carter notes that the building

School of Education alumna Talbot receives IU’s highest alumni award

IU School of Education alumna Sue Talbot was the founding director of Talbot, BA‘66, MA’71, was one of five Hoosiers for Higher Education, was selected to receive Indiana Univer- national chairwoman of the Alumni sity’s Distinguished Alumni Service Association and was elected to three Award (DASA), IU’s highest award consecutive terms on the university’s given to an alumna or alumnus. IU Board of Trustees. President Michael A. McRobbie pre- Talbot earned the IU School of sented the awards to the five honor- Education’s Distinguished Alumni ees on Nov. 4 in Bloomington. The Award in 1984 and has twice been DASA recipients were chosen for named a Sagamore of the Wabash, a services and achievements in their special award bestowed by Hoosier Sue Talbot fields of endeavor and significant governors. Talbot has also served as a contributions to community, state or special assistant to the Indiana gover- nation. IU has honored 310 alumni nor on education policy. Barbara B. Jacobs Chair in Educa- since the award’s inception in 1953. Another recipient of this year’s tion and Technology in 1998, the Talbot earned a bachelor’s DASA is David H. Jacobs Jr., of Santa Jacobs Teacher Educator Award hon- degree in education in 1966, a mas- Monica, Calif. The Jacobs family has ors three Indiana teachers and two ter’s degree in education in 1971 contributed greatly to the IU School teachers from across the country who and a doctorate in school adminis- of Education. The newly established use technology tration in 1992, all from IU. A retired Jacobs Teacher Educator Award is an to support inno- educator, she spent 20 years as an annual award designed to promote vative, inquiry- elementary school teacher, gaining excellence in the use of technology in based teaching recognition as Indiana Teacher of classroom teaching. Made possible by and learning the Year and runner-up for National a $1 million gift from the late Barbara activities in their Teacher of the Year in 1978. For IU, B. Jacobs, who also established the classrooms.

4 • Chalkboard First of its kind: Urban Education PhD at IU School of Education at IUPUI

In May, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education approved a new Urban Education Studies PhD to be offered by the IU School of Education at IUPUI starting in fall 2012—the first doctoral degree in education to be offered entirely on the IUPUI campus. The degree, which is the only urban education doctoral program in Indiana and one of just a handful in the coun- try, focuses on preparing researchers to study schools in complex urban environments. Faculty and students in the program will conduct community- based research designed in partner- ship with P–12 schools and community organizations. “IUPUI’s PhD in urban education program is a distinctive, research- oriented degree program,” said IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz. “The interdisciplinary focus will prepare Woodrow Wilson scholars who are capable of making Fellows, (above) significant contributions to improve Eric Sprague, urban education.” chemistry, and (left) Kara Griffin, The program will focus research physics and math, on the needs of high-risk students speaking to stu- and other factors that impact student dents during an learning. The community-based, col- immersive learn- laborative model will place research- ing project at ers in the social context of urban Crispus Attucks education issues. Similar models have high school in allowed for success in education and Indianapolis. healthcare research because com- munity members are involved in the research process. “Our faculty and students have distinguished themselves through their work in urban schools and com- munities,” said Pat Rogan, executive associate dean of the School of Edu- cation in Indianapolis. “We are excited about the cross-disciplinary nature of the program and the opportunities for translational research that informs Foundation-funded Noyce Scholars Pro- recent college graduates in science, local and national educational policy gram and the Woodrow Wilson Indiana mathematics, engineering and tech- and practices.” Teacher Fellowship Program. nology are now starting coursework to The School of Education’s Center The Urban Education doctorate prepare for math and science teaching for Urban and Multicultural Educa- builds on a master’s degree focused on positions in the state’s urban schools. tion (CUME) will be a central vehicle urban education and other IU School of To learn more about the new Urban for research by doctoral students and Education at IUPUI initiatives that help Education Studies PhD program, go urban education faculty. CUME is the urban students learn more effectively. to http://education.iupui.edu/soe/ research arm of the IU School of Edu- In May, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels programs/graduate/urbaneducation/ cation at IUPUI which has conducted introduced the third cohort of Woodrow overview.aspx Wilson fellows to attend IUPUI. Accom-

Ca rn e y several major program evaluations, including the National Science plished career changers and outstanding C h u ck

Chalkboard • 5 Faculty Profile Brush watching for sweeping tech trends, helping teachers and students not get swept away

lot of technical innovations make teach- Indiana and the country to support teachers who use technology to support innovative, aing and learning better. A lot may also inquiry-based teaching and learning activities in their classrooms. simply get in the way. All of these projects have grown not just from research interest, but personal experi- For someone working with technology in ence. Brush earned a secondary teaching license in New York after earning a mathemat- teaching and learning environments, knowing ics degree from Potsdam State. Always interested in computers, Brush decided earning Tom Brush the diff erence is vital to success. Tom Brush, a Potsdam State master’s degree in instructional technology seemed like the ideal choice Barbara B. Jacobs Chair in Education and for additional education to secure a permanent license. “Th at was where it really took Technology, associate dean for teacher education and professor of instructional systems off ,” Brush said. technology, is very interested in the latest innovations. He just isn’t automatically a He immediately immersed himself in trying new things with the latest technology believer. in the classroom—meaning, at that time, Radio Shack’s cutting edge TRS-80 or the “I’m probably a bigger cynic than most in terms of how technology is going to Apple IIe. “We had a lab school, so I could go work with kids and try out all these ideas. transform the classroom, because I’ve been there, Brush said. “And I can tell you from It really sparked my interest in how we could use new technology to help kids learn.” working in a school and trying to implement technology, it’s not easy. When it’s clunky A Potsdam State mentor who had earned his doctorate at IU urged Brush to do the and doesn’t work and doesn’t serve a purpose, it’s not going to get implemented very same. Brush earned his PhD in special education with a minor in instructional systems well.” technology and then set out to gain more experience to inform his work. “I didn’t think To keep a “classroom of the future” from quickly becoming a relic of the past, Brush I had fully immersed myself in the K–12 environment as much as I wanted,” Brush spends a lot of time researching what’s next. He is embarking on a study investigating said. So he became the director of instructional technology for the Mount Clements upcoming developments thanks to a grant underwritten by the Fund to Improve Post- Community Schools, a district in Michigan, just north of Detroit. In the job, Brush secondary Education. He is also looking for more grant dollars to thoroughly research was responsible for everything from computer network wiring to phone service. Now technology for teachers and students, emphasizing the best ways it can actually be used. completely in the pool of bringing technology to the classroom, the experience provided “Th e whole purpose of this research is to thoughtfully, and in detail, think about a place for Brush’s dissertation research and set the arc of his research investigating how and design the next set of tools—particularly for mobile applications—that are going to technology can support student and teacher inquiry. support inquiry-based learning in classrooms,” he said. Since then, the onetime math teacher has investigated methods for history and so- Brush is very involved in purposeful teaching and learning with technology that is cial studies, math, and science. From Michigan, Brush began a faculty career at Auburn, particularly focused on inquiry-based methods. He’s leading a U.S. Department of Ed- then Arizona State University, before returning to the IU School of Education in 2002. ucation-funded project involving Auburn University and New Mexico State University Back home again in Indiana, Brush has created projects that have brought teachers from to create a teacher education curriculum supporting problem-based learning. Similarly, across the country here and taken him across the country to teachers. Th e goal is to keep another federal grant is backing a project between IU and Auburn to develop online teachers from high-tech frustration and help students enjoy high-end learning. “It’s learning and instructional tools for teaching and learning history. And Brush has just something that we’ve worked on for years, having them tell us what works, what doesn’t started the fi rst Jacobs Teacher Educator Award (p. 12), selecting teachers from across work, what’s eff ective.”

Cultural immersion experience in India leads to full-time job for School of Education graduate

arah McVey doesn’t know where in the world her young life is headed, but she her Cultural Immersion Projects last sknows it’s been changed forever by her experiences in India. summer. When the school sought McVey, a 2011 IU School of Education graduate, is working in her fi rst full-time applicants for the job of leading the teaching job as a special education teacher at the Christel House in Bangalore, India. new program, McVey applied and Founded by Christel DeHaan, a 2000 recipient of IU’s Herman B Wells Visionary got it. Sarah McVey with students in India Award, Christel House has built and operates seven learning centers reaching 3,000 “I love being a teacher and, like impoverished students around the world. most people who choose teaching McVey got her start at Christel House India last summer through the School of as a profession, make a diff erence and impact people’s lives,” McVey said. “I originally Education’s Cultural Immersion Projects. McVey requested that her project be at one wanted to work in the inner city. I kind of get to do that 10-fold in India. Th is country of the schools in India with the highest levels of poverty. School offi cials arranged for is on the brink of becoming a world power. Giving kids a chance to break into that with her to be IU’s fi rst student teacher at Christel House India. Th e students there, McVey the rest of their fellow citizens is really cool. Th ey’re going to be able to do something for said, come from slums where alcohol and drug abuse are rampant; homes may have themselves and their families to really change their world.” just a single room for an extended family of eight or more and may not have electricity, While at IU, McVey was named a Jepsen International Scholar, which gives students running water or a kitchen; and 98 percent of parents are illiterate and cannot provide fi nancial support to become immersed in a foreign culture and community. Th e program help with homework. was created and funded by School of Education alumnus Keith Jepsen, EdD’74, and his Bangalore is a large city with all of the amenities of any modern city in the world, wife, Kathy Dore. McVey said, but the city has a shockingly extreme range of conditions with cutting edge “International study is an exchange between the students and the people with whom businesses in some areas and extreme poverty in others. they interact,” said Jepsen. “Both are better for the experience.” “Th e motto of Christel House is to end the cycle of poverty,” McVey said. “Th ey McVey credits Jepsen and Dore with making it much easier for her to take advantage focus on students who have potential, but wouldn’t be able to get out of the situation of the opportunity to be a student teacher and service learner in India, an experience they’re in. Th e kids come from very unbelievable circumstances; things that Americans that has already led to her fi rst full-time teaching job and will impact all of the unknown can’t even fathom with regard to how they are living. But they are coming to school and paths ahead. doing some amazing things.” “I’ve always wanted to have that international experience, but never have had a set Special education is a relatively new and still developing fi eld in India’s schools. vision for where I’m going,” she said. “Th is is my chance to get that experience. Every- McVey, who completed the Teaching All Learners Program at the School of Education, thing fell into place and, hopefully, that will lead to more opportunities—I just don’t was involved in setting up the special education program at Christel House India during know where.”

6 • Chalkboard Second consecutive alumna named Indiana Teacher of the Year seeks to be memorable to students Huntington’s Melanie Park, BS’93, MS’01, brings creativity to the classroom

etting many students to learn often Education. “And she is an means reaching them where they live. effective and inspirational GFor Indiana’s 2012 Teacher of the year, teacher that her students it’s a creative challenge she relishes. will always remember.” “I’m always looking for ways to hook their Park said being a memories—I call them ‘memory hooks,’” teacher who can make an Melanie Park said. Park learned in a surprise impression is important in Melanie Park assembly at riverview Middle School in her classroom, where stu- huntington on oct. 10 that she had earned dents may be as much as the Teacher of the year honor. A reading three grade levels behind remediation teacher for grades six through in reading. “I need for my students to grow at Eastwood Middle School in the M.S.d. of eight, Park has developed her memory hooks multiple grade levels in one year to get them Washington Township. overall, Park is among as something that will appeal to a middle caught up, especially before they go to high 20 Indiana teachers of the year holding an IU schooler. school,” she said. School of Education degree. “I do things like write raps to help them Preparation with multiple grade levels has Park’s connection to the School of Educa- remember how to structure their paragraphs,” helped Park. “Every experience I’ve had in tion runs even deeper. her husband, Stephen she said. She recently provided an example teaching has led me to this position,” she Park, earned a biology education degree of writing a simile with a sentence describ- said, “and I really feel like I’m now where I’m at the School of Education in 1994 and was ing dirty skin “as smelly as SPAM,” referring truly called to be.” Park started teaching fi rst named an Armstrong Teacher Educator in to the gelatinous, pink pork-derived product grade, moved to sixth grade and coordi- 2000. The Armstrong program recognizes available in a can. While some may consider nated gifted and talented curriculum for fi rst outstanding Indiana teachers every year who it a delicacy, many describe it as having a through fi fth grades. She said she learned the participate in professional development and smell much like moist cat food. For her class, different techniques needed at each level, other programs at IU. Park opened her own can of the meat and let the specialized teaching needed for some “IU gave me a well-rounded curriculum,” every student who wished get a good whiff. and the proper uses of data to gauge student Park said. “IU made sure that I understood “And the nice thing about middle school is progress. “It’s been wonderful to look back my content area well. It also did a wonderful you can be really crazy like that, and the kids on how each of those experiences helped me job of teaching me the instructional prac- love it,” Park said. “So I do bring a lot of that every day in my classroom.” tices I need.” Park noted several lessons she creativity into my classroom just to be sure In earning the award, Park joined a distin- draws upon from her IU experience, includ- that they remember.” The point—remember- guished list of Indiana Teachers of the year ing promoting diversity in a classroom where ing the power of a simile, pungent as a SPAM with IU School of Education backgrounds, most of the students look mostly alike, dealing can with a freshly peeled-back lid. such as last year’s recipient, Stacy Mccor- with discipline issues and designing creative An effective teacher is one that will mack, BS’99, a physics teacher at Penn high instruction. “I really entered teaching under- certainly be memorable, a fact the state School in Mishawaka, Ind. last year’s runner- standing exactly what schools superintendent noted in awarding this up for the honor was also an IU alumnus, would be expected of year’s Teacher of the year. “(Park) believes all Jamil odom, MS‘05, of Mary Bryan Elemen- me and how to develop students—regardless of their life circumstanc- tary in Metropolitan School district of Perry curriculum, but it also es—can learn,” said Tony Bennett, Indiana’s Township. This year’s fi nalists also included gave me the content Superintendent of Public Instruction in a IU School of Education alumna lisa Steele, area knowledge to feel news release from the Indiana department of MS‘96, an eighth grade language arts teacher confi dent doing that.”

Chalkboard • 7 Second year of IUPUI Ghana teaching project produces “life-changing” experiences

Darci Speakman (L) with students Dawn Whitehead (R)

erhaps one of the best tributes to the Indiana students work with Morning Star provided me with a sense of Global Aware- success of the relatively new cross- faculty in teaching classes, assisting in oth- ness, gave me a heart for people living in Pcultural Education Program in Ghana ers and generally working in the school over other countries and helped me to appreci- comes from the story of a student who had a the course of three weeks. ate even more all that I have here in the hard time with the cross-cultural part. “The main goal is for participants to states,” Speakman added. “I loved getting dawn Whitehead, director of curriculum have an experience working with students, to know david and Israel, the two teachers I internationalization at IUPUI and adjunct as- other colleagues of a different culture and worked with. during my time with these two sistant professor for the School of Education, learning how those differences make it teachers, they introduced me to new ways of heads the program and tells any potential easier and how those differences make it thinking, new foods and an entirely different participant that the differences between the tougher,” Whitehead said. “In our global- culture. They also spent time showing me cultures can be stark. one IUPUI student, in ized world, we know that our students— creative ways to work with new art materi- particular, had a hard time with the some- even in classrooms in Indiana—are going to als. Ghana was amazing. I can’t wait to go times American-perceived stern manner work with students from all over the world. back.” Ghanaian teachers handled their pupils and So this gives them a leg up.” “The program enabled me to be im- the independence they granted them during Before leaving the country, students mersed into an entirely different culture that unsupervised breaks. Whitehead recalled it at IUPUI must participate in orientation I was able to live and teach in,” said ross was a constant point of discussion during sessions to help prepare them for the Brinkoetter. he was so taken with the experi- nightly debriefi ngs with program partici- important cultural differences. Whitehead ence in 2010 that he returned last summer. pants. said that preparation followed by the on- “The Morning Star School administration “you wouldn’t think she would have an site experience gives them an important treated me like a son, and the staff treated interest in going abroad again,” Whitehead grounding for their teaching, particularly me like an equal,” he said. “The happiest of said. “I think in october, she wrote to me given the rise in immigrant populations in the many happy moments of the experience and said, ‘do you have any information on many school districts. “They have to learn was when we had lunch with the adminis- how I could fi nd a job teaching internation- how to communicate, understand those tration and staff, and I walked toward my ally?’” That School of Education alumna is nuances of interacting,” she said. “one of students’ class to say my farewells. As soon now teaching in chile. the main goals is preparing them for that. It as one student saw me, they began shouting So after just two years, the cross-cultural helps them have a better insight into some my name, and all of the students left their Education Program in Ghana is infl uencing of their students who are coming into the classes and came to greet me. I felt like a teachers both at home and abroad. The United States.” rock Star!” second group of participants traveled to “Going to Ghana was one of the most And while it may be immediately clear teach in the Morning Star School in Accra amazing experiences I have ever had,” said or simply something that becomes so after last summer. The IUPUI program is open darci Speakman, an art education major. returning home, Whitehead said she hears to all majors, but is a School of Education Whitehead said Speakman’s experience, in from students what an impact it’s had on program that seeks education students to particular, allowed her to explore how Gha- them. teach, earning credit for an “educational naian teachers differentiate between their “Many of them have emailed and said foundations” course. In the k–9 school, the “arts” and “arts and crafts” curricula. “It ‘this changed my life,’” Whitehead said.

8 • Chalkboard Alumni News Leadership posts for alumni

Lemuel Watson, St. louis in August and began his new job the-art equipment, multimedia and furniture. EdD’94 in higher on oct. 1. Walker came from Bluefi eld State “At the end of the day, this will be a state- education, became college in West Virginia where he was also of-the-art learning environment for teachers dean of the college president. Previously, Walker served as vice and students,” nowak said in an IPFW news of Education at president for academic affairs at harris– release. “We are equipping the residents of the University of Stowe. he also served as vice chancellor kosovo with the tools they need to succeed in South carolina in for academic affairs at Elizabeth city State 21st century learning, and that is something August. Watson is University and at kentucky State University to be extremely proud of.” the second African as well as dean of the School of Education at Terry Barker, Specialist’87, EdD’01 Lemuel Watson American dean in north carolina A&T State University. in school administration, was unanimously USc history and the Jeffrey Nowak, approved as the superintendent of School only African American dean currently at the PhD’01 in science city of Mishawaka in August. Barker was university. Watson grew up in South carolina education, now a superintendent of Union–north United School and earned a business degree at USc. he later faculty member at corporation. coordinated the educational leadership pro- Indiana University– Barker’s experience prior to Mishawaka gram as a member of the faculty at clemson Purdue University includes serving as assistant superintendent University. Fort Wayne (IPFW), for curriculum and human resources at West Watson said positioning the college to re- is a development chicago, Ill., schools; assistant superinten- vamp South carolina education was a priority. consultant work- dent for human resources at lake Zurich, “It takes a community if you want to improve Jeffrey Nowak ing with the United Ill., schools and superintendent of Mount education,” Watson told the Rock Hill (S.C.) States Agency for Prospect, Ill., schools. Herald. “you have to invest in that, regardless International development (USAId) and ko- Carrie Chapman, PhD’02 in curriculum of our differences.” sovo Education center (kEc) to create a basic and instruction with an emphasis in special education program for the country. nowak John Howe, PhD’11 in higher education, education, now a faculty member at Minne- traveled to kosovo in october to imple- became assistant dean of student services sota State–Mankato, has co-authored Critical ment a professional development program and operations at navarro college (Texas) Conversations in Co-Teaching. The book for teachers that focuses on the concept of Waxahachie campus in September. howe has explores co-teaching models, discusses how project-based learning (PBl) in the classroom. previous experience working in the United the approach fi ts with school improvement The activity follows up on his extensive inter- Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and Taiwan. his initiatives and describes protocols that foster national experience, including the creation of responsibilities in Waxahachie include over- dramatic improvements in how educators a national education program for Macedonia. sight of learning facilities as well as working communicate with their colleagues for the As director of the northeast Indiana Science, with students. benefi t of student learning. The book is Technology, Engineering and Mathematics “My responsibilities are largely split be- designed to enhance shared practice by using (nISTEM) Education resource center, nowak tween the student area and operations area,” a simple structure and process of talking to- is an expert on the continuing global focus on howe told the Waxahachie Daily Light. “It was gether. The protocols fi t into three categories: technology and PBl in education. the diversity of the position that really drew nonnegotiable conversations (recommended nowak is responsible for the design of my interest. The position combines two quite for all partners), special occasion protocols (to classrooms, furniture and teaching aids to different areas.” use in specifi c situations) and “in-a-perfect- further the learning process for students. Albert Walker, EdD’74 in educational world” protocols (to use as enrichment activi- The classrooms will be equipped with the leadership, was selected to be the new ties to extend learning). president of harris–Stowe State University in best combination of multi-purpose, state-of-

2010–11 alumni Board of Directors Officers Directors Earlene l. holland, Spclst.’80 Ex-Officio nicole V. law, BS’94 President Thomas c. Anderson, MS’99 Andrea M. Smith, BS’04 carolyn Emmert, Edd Jamia Jacobsen, BS’62, lee Ann Babcock Brown, BS’68 Amanda M. Stewart, BS’04 rachael Jones McAfee MS’75, Phd’83 karol l. Bartlett, BS’86 Martha d. Street, BS’63, MS’66 Gerardo M. Gonzalez, Phd Vice President/President Elect Edward Bradford, Jr., BS’78 hazel r. Tribble, MS’75 Jack A. cummings Suzanne M. Zybert, MS’89 david l. dimmett, MS‘00 david l. Wallace, BS’69, MS’71, Jayme T. little Patricia l. Gainey, MS’79, Edd’94 Spclst.’78 Patricia M. rogan, Phd Secretary/Treasurer William d. Gardner, MS’00 robb k. Warriner, BS’69 Michelle l. Stuckey nancy Sutton, BS’66 Virginia M. harrison, BS’72, MS’77 h. douglas Williams, Edd’84 Past President Myrna y. hernandez, BS’94, MS’99 Janet A. Williamson, BS’72, MS’90 Jack W. humphrey, MS’56, Edd’62 Maysee yang herr, MS’01

Chalkboard • 9 Distinguished alumni awards honor standouts in technology, access and leadership

instructional architect of the PLATO Learning System, one of the oldest and largest e-learning systems. He also managed PLATO’s program of independent research on eff ectiveness. Foshay was appointed to the faculty at the University of Illinois-Champaign, Governors State University and, currently, Walden University. In addition, he has experience as a high school teacher, school media coordinator and as a consultant with major corporations and educational technology startup ventures. Foshay, who earned a doctorate in Instructional Systems Technology from IU in 1977, received a departmental citation as Outstanding Alumnus in 1991. His BA is from Oberlin College and his MA is from Columbia University Teachers College. He has contributed Rob Foshay, Christine Cheney, James Mervilde and Dean Gerardo M. Gonzalez. more than 70 major research journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics in on Sept. 23, the Indiana University School of Education honored three of its outstanding instructional design, learning science, technology alumni who have had a great impact on the inclusion of students with disabilities, educa- and education, and human performance technol- tion technology research and education administration innovation. ogy, and he has presented at research conferences The IU School of Education distinguished Alumni Award is given to individuals who worldwide. He currently serves on the editorial hold a degree from the school and have made a lasting impact through their work since boards of four research journals. He chairs the graduation. The 2011 honorees are: Certifi cation and Accreditation Governance Committee for the International Society for Performance Improvement and contributed to Christine Cheney is dean of the College of Education at University of the creation of its Certifi ed Performance Technologist program. He has Nevada, Reno, where she taught for more than 25 years. After completing served on the National Board of Visitors and the Alumni Board of Directors her doctoral work at the IU School of Education (EdD,’84), she came to for the IU School of Education. the University of Nevada in 1984 as assistant professor in special education. She was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1990 and to full James D. Mervilde has been recognized as an outstanding leader in professor in 1997. In 2003, Cheney became founding department chair of many diff erent capacities during a 37-year career in education. His experi- the newly organized Department of Educational Specialties and was named ences range from teaching social studies and English in a Detroit parochial dean of the College of Education in 2010. She earned a BA in psychology school to being the superintendent of the Metropolitan School District of and an MEd in special education at the College of William and Mary in Washington Township in Indianapolis, from which he retired in June. Along Virginia in 1971 and 1973, respectively. She is a former special education the way, he worked as a long-term substitute teacher, teacher of English teacher and administrator in Virginia, South Carolina and Indiana. Cheney in a high school, high school assistant principal, high school principal and has been involved in education at the local, state and national levels. She has assistant superintendent. Th ose experiences took place in a multitude of consulted extensively with Nevada school districts around issues of special communities ranging from inner city to rural and urban/suburban. Mervilde education, inclusion of students with disabilities and behavior management. has guided several signifi cant change and redesign projects, including block She has served on many task forces and work groups for the Nevada Depart- scheduling in high schools; conducting a successful remonstrance campaign ment of Education. In addition, she is the recipient of numerous awards for a school building project; designing and implementing innovative cur- and recognitions from the University of Nevada, including the Regents riculum design projects; redesigning secondary and alternative education in a Undergraduate Advisor Award (2001), the University Distinguished Teacher large, diverse district; leading a successful general fund referendum campaign Award (2002), Outstanding College of Education Outreach Award (2003) and leading Washington Township to become the fi rst K–12 international and the President’s Award for Outstanding University Service (2004). She baccalaureate school district in Indiana. He received an MS degree in is the author or co-author of more than 30 refereed articles and three book 1981, EdS in 1986 and EdD in 2000, all from the IU School of Education. chapters or monographs. She is also the author or co-author of fi ve federal Mervilde also received the Dean Berkley Emerging Leader Award from the IU School Administrators Association in 2006 and was honored by the Uni- grants, bringing $4.5 million to the university. versity Council for Educational Administration with Rob Foshay has been a leader in the educational technology fi eld for the Excellence in Educational Leadership Award, more than 30 years. He is currently director of research for the Education “In Recognition of Extraordinary Commitment and Technology Group of Texas Instruments (TI) where he manages TI’s exten- Support for the Improved Preparation of Educational sive education research portfolio on the eff ectiveness of their products and Administrators.” services in math and science education. For 15 years, Foshay was the chief

10 • Chalkboard Program exposes teachers, youth to “critical” languages

instructors were a diverse group that included and culturally informative,” nyikos said. teachers, graduate students and pre-service That was part of the point, according to teachers from as far away as new york and nyikos. The program was designed to be Wisconsin. The instructors began the program “site responsive,” meaning the teachers with coursework online before meeting in would use strategies to handle the demands Bloomington for a three-week campus resi- of what types of students they had, the A Startalk Session at a Bloomington Park dency program. facilities where they were conducting the nyikos’ grant is unique among the sessions (one was at a park picnic shelter) and STArTAlk grants in its focus on develop- each agency’s expectations for the groups mental needs of teaching children another of youngsters. The teachers created lesson ver the summer in Bloomington, stu- language at such an early age (pre k–6) and plans that revolved around culturally centered odents in community summer programs its promotion of language program advocacy themes, which included ethnic food, local were surprised and excited about the hands- in other communities. Each participant was markets and currency, and traditional folk art on activities in the non-traditional language to leave with a plan to start a community lan- such as ornate Turkish tiles. Teachers gained learning courses in which they participated. guage program similar to the existing Bridges: key teaching insights through collaborating These activities included making a fresh children, languages, World project spon- with their peers and sharing which language Middle Eastern salad, shopping in an Egyp- sored by the center for the Study of Global learning activities particularly engaged their tian market, exchanging money and studying change at IU. nyikos is the Bridges pedagogi- students. “Many students learned how to bar- traditional art and culture. The children had cal coordinator and partners with the center, gain at an Arabic market using local currency, fun while becoming more culturally aware which in turn partners with several language locate key cities in Turkey and use an Arabic and acquiring new language skills. departments and Title VI centers on campus to grocery list while shopping. The children In fact, the payoff of a tasty Arabic-style provide volunteers to teach languages in free particularly enjoyed designing a passport in salad was quite an incentive for students in- community programs. In particular, the new IU which they received a stamp each time they volved in the “STArTAlk” summer programs center for the Study of the Middle East partici- successfully used Arabic,” nyikos said. at several community sites including the pated in this grant project through two instruc- one of the teachers said that was the best Banneker center, the Monroe county Public tors who worked in language focus groups aspect of the program. “I was a teacher for library and Girls, Inc. Martha nyikos, associ- to ensure linguistic and cultural authenticity 16 years,” said heidi Torres of Goshen, Ind. ate professor in the literacy, culture and in teaching and materials design. curriculum “The reality is a lot of teaching is about what language Education department, directed materials are now being posted to a Web site happens when you fi nally get to the class- the summer program funded by a federal for free access. room. It’s ‘oTJ’—it’s totally ‘on the job.’ And STArTAlk grant. STArTAlk formed around The key element during the residency was so you fi nd out, ‘oh yeah, that theory sounds fi ve years ago with the goal of increasing the twice-weekly community center teaching great in a book but it works very differently in the number of Americans learning, speaking sessions, during which teachers would go to real life.’” and teaching what the government terms as one of the designated sites to conduct their Both teachers and students walked away “critical need” foreign languages. lessons. “We knew that teaching in unstruc- with valuable skills from the summer experi- “The thrust of this program was to train tured, fl uid community environments would ence. “These languages aren’t commonly potential teachers who speak Arabic or challenge any seasoned language teacher,” taught in schools,” nyikos said. “With the Turkish how to teach youngsters from 3 to nyikos said. “But the special challenges met constant cutting in funding, the children don’t 12 years of age to engage with the language by our STArTAlk grant teachers functioned to often have an opportunity to learn a foreign in meaningful ways and to interest teachers bring a very special brand of collaboration to language—let alone languages outside the in graduate certifi cation programs as well,” the teaching sites.” Indo-European language family. Many of the nyikos said. As is natural in a free summer program, kids children and site supervisors were fasci- nyikos’ project focused on teaching Turk- would come and go during the sessions and nated. The children enjoyed the challenge ish and Arabic (other STArTAlk projects on there might be a wide age range within the of learning through a new language and felt the IU campus during the summer focused group. “The participants collaborated in their empowered by being able to say things in a on chinese, hindi and Urdu) and attracted daily lesson planning to make lessons engag- different language.” participants from across the country. The 12 ing, interactive, hands-on and linguistically rich

Chalkboard • 11 News Briefs Projects touch Afghanistan, Turkey, Armenia; first Jacobs Educators Group

In advance of a new project about to start for diplomacy. The Turkish–Armenian Sum- into a single group. There is no Turkish group in Kabul, Afghanistan, the chancellor of mer Teaching Institute was another project of or Armenian group; we are all together.” Kabul Education University came to the CSSIE with the participation of IUPUI’S Center You can hear more from Indiana University Bloomington campus for Urban and Multicultural Education (CUME). the teachers and see more Sept. 5–9 to visit with IU President Michael The focus was largely on how to help the about the program in a short McRobbie, faculty from the IU School teachers bring more student-centered learning video on the IU School of of Education and staff at the Center for to their classrooms. All were middle and high Education Vimeo channel: Social Studies and International Education school English teachers in either Armenia http://vimeo.com/iusoe/ (CSSIE). The U.S. State Department recently or Turkey. Embedded in the professional turkish-armenianinstitute. awarded CSSIE nearly $3.5 million to develop development institute was a goal of allowing The Indiana University School of Educa- and implement a master’s degree in Eng- educators from countries with a long history of tion will benefit from two gifts from the lish language teaching at Kabul Education strained relations to learn about each other. estates of noted Indiana artist and teacher University. Lavon Whitmire, BA’29, and education Following a week of discussion about leader Dorothy Prince Barnett, EdD’62. Both project plans and possibilities, Chancel- gifts were designated for general support of lor Amanullah Hamidzai expressed great the School of Education and will be used to confidence about the new project when asked establish a $1 million Dean’s Fellowship Fund about what he had hoped to accomplish. to recruit and support top graduate students. “It’s not a hope—we have accomplished it Recipients of the Dean’s Fellowship will because our partnership will go on for the receive a $25,000 stipend and fee remission master’s in TESOL (Teachers of English to for 24 credit hours per year. To be eligible, Speakers of Other Languages),” he said. “So, applicants must have a 3.9 undergraduate GPA we got a commitment from the president, a and a 1400 combined score for the quantitative commitment from the department and we and verbal sections of the GRE with at least a have established quite a lot of infrastructure. 5.0 analytical writing score. Non-native English So, in March, we will start the program.” speakers must have a score of 150 on the The State Department grant is $3,487,454 Turkish and Armenian teachers present a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). for a three-year project directed by two IU project before the group. The School of Education honored its first School of Education faculty members. Terry group of Jacobs Teacher Educators from Mason, professor of curriculum and instruc- “We just hope that they learn to live Indiana and across the country Oct. 1 for tion and director of CSSIE, and Mitzi Lewison, together, to communicate with one another “Teacher and Educator Day” in Blooming- professor of literacy, culture and language and to appreciate each other as they develop ton. The Jacobs Teacher Educator Award is education, have been involved in Afghan personal and professional relationships,” said the latest program at the School of Education higher education for several years. The new Mason. designed to promote excellence in the use of project will build on the previous work, which The project came to IU after a successful technology in classroom teaching. The new established the first master’s degree offering bid for a project sought by the U.S. Embassies program is made possible by a $1 million gift in education at Kabul Education University of Turkey and Armenia. The embassies wanted from the late Barbara B. Jacobs, who estab- and brought Afghan educators to IU for a program that would both show how current lished the Barbara B. Jacobs Chair in Education further study. Representatives from the State approaches to English language teaching can and Technology in 1998. Department as well as Afghanistan-based be used to develop critical thinking skills and The Jacobs Teacher Educator Award an- program manager for the IU project Jerrad build tolerance among adolescent students. nually honors three Indiana teachers and two Langlois were also in Bloomington for the After getting the project bid, Mason, CSSIE teachers from across the country who use week of meetings. associate director Arlene Benitez and Rob technology to support innovative, inquiry- With that track record and what he knows Helfenbein, associate professor of curriculum based teaching and learning activities in of IU faculty, Hamidzai said he’s confident of studies at the IU School of Education in India- their classrooms. The 2011 Jacobs Teacher his institution’s future. “I found them (faculty) napolis, traveled to the countries briefly to get Educators are: John Gensic, biology teacher at very enthusiastic, very interested and it seems a better idea of the teaching environments of New Prairie High School in New Carlisle, Ind.; to me they have an objective to do something the project participants. Carla Beard, English teacher at Connersville there,” he said. “I think things will go very The peoples of Turkey and Armenia have High School in Connersville, Ind.; Sally Nichols, well.” endured a centuries-old conflict, and the gov- BioLit teacher at New Tech School of IDEAS, A group of 50 teachers—25 each from ernments of each nation do not have formal Indianapolis; Cory Callahan, social studies Turkey and Armenia—spent six weeks on diplomatic relations. Within the walls of IU, teacher at Auburn High School in Auburn, the Indiana University Bloomington campus participants were more than simply diplomatic. Ala.; and Michael Perkins, elementary teacher as part of a U.S. Embassy-sponsored “We started here as two groups: a Turkish at Tully Elementary School in Tully, N.Y. Each program to help the teachers learn new group and an Armenian group,” said Turkish teacher receives a $1,500 stipend at the end of techniques for the classroom and new ideas teacher Alper Etyemez. “Now we have turned the one-year appointment and $1,000 toward

12 • Chalkboard News Briefs

and Illinois with implementation of university- assisted community schools strategies. University-assisted community schools draw upon higher education to assist them as service support centers for youth, their families and community members. Public community schools are neighborhood “hubs” where partners develop collaborative solu- tions to local learning and youth develop- ment barriers. As a collaborating facilitator for the new center, Medina will join Jim Grim of the Mary Rigg Neighborhood Center, the lead partner for the George Washington Community High School (GWCHS) initiative in Indianapolis, and The inaugural class of Jacobs Teacher Educators at a ceremony on Oct. 1, with Associate Starla Officer of theO ffice ofN eighborhood Dean for Teacher Education Tom Brush (far right). The group includes (from left) Michael Partnerships in the Center for Service and Perkins, John Gensic, Carla Beard, Cory Callahan. A fifth recipient, Sally Nichols, was unable to attend the Call to Teach ceremony. Learning. CUME is a strong collaborator with George Washington Community High School. purchasing technology resources to support director of special education for Wisconsin. Medina oversees an early field experience for teacher education majors that is part of the his or her teaching, as well as funds to support The grant is part of the Department of partnership. As many as 60 student interns travel to Indiana University for professional Education’s initiatives to support elementary work in the schools for 14 weeks each semes- development events throughout the year. and secondary education under Title IV of the ter. GWCHS was once closed, but re-opened “We are so pleased with the high quality 1964 Civil Rights Act. On Oct. 1, the “Great in 2000 with the help of 17 different entities of this inaugural class,” said Tom Brush, the Lakes Equity Center” began work to help with at IUPUI. current Barbara B. Jacobs Chair in Education assisting and training personnel on the prepa- and Technology. “Their innovative practices in ration, adoption and implementation of plans “Our primary philosophy at GWCHS using technology in teaching and learning will for public school desegregation across the focuses on collaboration for mutual benefit help the School of Education to capture and six states of Region V at the request of school so our work focuses on developing a win-win analyze those best practices so we are able boards and other governmental agencies. collaboration which I believe is the hallmark of our relationship,” Medina said. to share them with other teachers and future “We are thrilled by this opportunity to teachers.” partner with schools and communities seeking “This award represents recognition of our The Indiana University School of Educa- to ensure equitable education opportunities longstanding partnership with GW and area tion at IUPUI received a $2.2 million federal are available and accessible for all children. community centers and advances our col- grant to develop a regional Equity As- Schools engaged in equity work need to laborative work to develop full-service com- sistance Center (EAC) to provide technical critique and transform normative assumptions munity schools,” said Pat Rogan, executive assistance in the areas of civil rights, equity about race, class, gender, language, national associate dean of the School of Education in and access, and school reform. The U.S. origin and ability, and focus on empowering Indianapolis. Department of Education awarded support for and educating all students,” said Thorius. Education historian and outspoken the three-year project to principal investigator “This kind of work must be transformative to education policy analyst Diane Ravitch Kathleen King Thorius, assistant professor of disrupt and eliminate contributors to inequity joined her Education Week blogging special education, and co-investigators Bren- across educational systems and society.” partner Deborah Meier, who is recognized dan Maxcy, associate professor of Educational IUPUI will be establishing a new regional as a leading advocate for personalized Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS), and Center for University-Assisted Community and intellectually-challenging schools for Thu Suong Thi Nguyen, assistant professor in Schools in Indianapolis, a project involving “Bridging Differences Live,” on April 27 at ELPS. In conjunction with the principal investi- the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning Indiana University. Presented by the IU School gators, operations will be led by Project Direc- with collaborative facilitators, including of Education and the Meier Institute at Har- tor Donna Hart-Tervalon, a former assistant Monica Medina of the Center for Urban mony Education Center in Bloomington, the and Multicultural Education (CUME) in the event was a moderated discussion hosted by IU School of Education and faculty member IU School of Education Communications and in teacher education. The new IUPUI-based Media Relations Director Chuck Carney. A center will assist universities and community full video of the more than schools in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky hour-long discussion is on the IU School of Education Vimeo Channel at http:// IUPUI faculty behind the Equity Assistance vimeo.com/iusoe/bridg- Center, from left, Thu Suong, Thi Nguyen, ingdifferenceslive. Brendan Maxcy, Kathleen King Thorius and Donna Hart-Tervalon

Chalkboard • 13 A big first for Indiana University from the School of Education’s instructional systems technology department more online offerings, continuing spread of influence for the program

omputers and electronic instruction are such a “The IST program has an outstanding international repu- thing of the present, it’s hard to remember when tation for quality and innovation,” School of Education dean it wasn’t a part of education in the past. Gerardo Gonzalez said when the program approval came. It’s something chair of the IU School of Educa- “our graduates are employed in leadership positions in a ction’s Instructional Systems Technology (IST) department variety of settings throughout the world. The new online Ted Frick can certainly recall. When he joined the IST faculty degree will make available a program with a proven track in 1983, the department was seeking simply “a computer record to people we could not have reached otherwise. It is, person,” Frick said. “They were looking for somebody who in itself, an application of the innovative teaching for which could do something with a computer curriculum.” our faculty is known.” Until that time, students at the IU School of Education And the program builds upon the department’s had just a little exposure to computer-assisted education, strengths, touching education in a variety of ways. The mainly through the PlATo terminals—boxy, plasma-screen department’s longtime slogan is “We improve human learn- devices that ran educational programs from a networked ing and performance in diverse contexts.” The work faculty, mainframe computer. But in the early ’80s, the Apple II was staff and students conduct proves it. The IST department emerging and the IBM personal computer was beginning prepares practitioners and researchers to build and test to take hold in the market. Frick arrived with the charge to processes, products, systems and services for use in educa- create a curriculum for IST on teaching and learning with tion and workplace settings. That preparation allows them computers. to conduct analysis, design, development, evaluation and “We were dealing then with adults who hadn’t grown up implementation and management. research crosses disci- with computers, so we really had to start at the beginning,” plines and focuses on theories for instructional design and Frick recalled about his course, computers in Education. “I workplace learning and performance improvement. remember telling a group of teachers in a summer class, ‘I Edd students, online and in-person, will learn to apply don’t mean to insult you, but the stuff I’m teaching you, it’s these theories to solve practical problems. They will learn going to be taught in the fourth grade before you know it.’ research skills to conduct needs analyses, do formative eval- And it’s now true.” uation and usability testing, and measure learning achieve- Indeed, the basics taught then are undoubtedly second- ment and improvement of human performance on the job. nature to an elementary school student today. And the “The program will prepare people to go out into the IST “computer curriculum” is much smarter than a fourth field,” Frick said. “They could be in a variety of roles and grader. settings—not just k–12, but corporate, business and industry, government, military, nonprofits, and schools and In August, Indiana University and the IST department universities. We expect our Edd graduates to be managers made history when the Indiana commission for higher Edu- and leaders to help organizations solve problems—whether cation gave its approval for a completely online doctorate. they’re instructional problems or human performance prob- The doctor of education degree (Edd) in IST is the first IU lems where instruction is not needed.” doctorate offered completely online. The Edd online offers the same content as the on-site degree program but allows If that sounds broad, it’s intended to be. That’s precisely many more opportunities for working professionals and oth- the value graduates have found in the IST program. “What I ers to earn the degree. learned from this department is not just a small perspective

14 • Chalkboard Many of the IST faculty during a recent meeting in the IST studio. In the back, L-R, Prof. Elizabeth Boling, Dir. Offfi ce of Instructional Consulting Karen Hallett- Rupp, Prof. Tom Brush, Assoc. Prof. Krista Glazewski, Dept. Chair and Prof. Ted Frick, Assist. Prof. Ray Haynes; in foreground, L-R, Prof. Curt Bonk, Assist. Prof. Yonjoo Cho, Prof. Charlie Reigeluth

of using technology,” said cheolil lim, professor of educa- president for academic planning tional technology at Seoul national University and a 1994 and policy at IU. In her admin- Phd graduate. A past vice president of the korean Society istrative work, Bichelmeyer “The program will for Educational Technology and past president of the ko- draws on her knowledge rean Society for learning and Performance, he researches of instructional systems prepare people to go out many areas including distance education, e-learning and technology to ad- into the field. They could support systems for creativity. he visited his old campus re- dress problems and cently to deliver a talk on the move toward digital textbooks opportunities that be in a variety of roles in korea. “They emphasize the broad context,” lim said impact teaching and and settings — not just of the School of Education IST faculty. “It is not just about learning across the using technology itself, but how we use technology in terms seven campuses of IU. K–12, but corporate, of designing or in terms of using technology for education Most recently, she has business and industry, purposes.” taken on the respon- government, military, That’s a tone set some time back by the faculty. The sibility of leading the IST department traces its history back to the 1920s and newly created IU office nonprofits and schools has been part of the School of Education since the 1940s. for online Education. “The and universities.” The former Audio Visual department at IU began to ex- problems that we focus on in pand how it viewed media simply as a product to deliver IST always have two sides. From educational elements. Instead, in the 1950s, faculty with one perspective, you could say that backgrounds in sociology, psychology and measurement we solve problems having to do with the began arriving to increase study of educational technology performance of educational systems. From the in a broader sense. Faculty member Bob heinich proposed other perspective, you could say that we solve problems a department name change in the late ’60s to Instructional to ensure that education prepares people for successful Systems Technology, stressing that “systems” was a neces- performance beyond the classroom. Either way you look at sary element to reflect that faculty would now be research- it, we’re concerned with the links between education and ing not just the way to make technology work in education successful performance.“ but how it works and whether it works. Faculty members have since continued exploring the “Technology is the process of solving problems,” said systemic approach to how technology impacts and en- Barbara Bichelmeyer, IST faculty member and associate vice hances (or impedes) education. Since 1988, IST Professor

Chalkboard • 15 charles reigeluth has conducted such research as part of And certainly among the most prolific proponents of the School of Education faculty. his focus on a “paradigm thinking of new ways to teach and learn is IST Professor change” in education takes him across the world, includ- curt Bonk, author of the 2009 book, The World Is Open: ing a recent month-long trip across East Asia. reigeluth How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. By the preached there what he practices—he’s had a long- IST department’s calculation, Bonk delivered 110 talks in running project of implementing change at Indianapolis 2010 and has given more than 1,100 presentations on the Metropolitan School district of decatur Township (see the changing world of education and technology. A January Spring/Summer 2007 issue of Chalkboard). he told educa- event in Washington, d.c., called “cyberlearning Talks,” tors in china, Japan and korea that a change in mindset sponsored by the national Science Foundation, Stanford is key to implementing a systemic change. “People can’t research Institute and National Geographic, will feature envision a school that doesn’t have grade levels, courses Bonk’s presentation “Stretching the Edges of Technology- or grades,” reigeluth said. “Those are all things that are Enhanced Teaching: From Tinkering to Tottering to Totally very tied up in our image of schooling. We need to help Extreme learning.” “It is time to stretch toward the edges people to rethink what education can and should be like.” of learning from those of us tinkering on the shores to Among the most recent efforts to build on the those whose learning approaches are tottering in new knowledge of what works is a new journal started largely directions and even landing in totally extreme or alien through the work of Elizabeth Boling, pro- lands,” Bonk wrote in the description of his session. fessor in IST and associate dean of Tom Brush, professor and associate dean for teacher graduate studies for the School education, has focused his work on how teachers and of Education. Boling founded students use technology for better learning through the International Journal inquiry. That work has blossomed particularly through “It is time to stretch of Designs for Learn- the creation of the Jacobs Teacher Educator program (p. toward the edges of ing, co-sponsored by 13 ) that promotes teachers using technology. Assistant Indiana University Professor Anne ottenbreit-leftwich is focused particularly learning from those of us Scholarworks and on how teachers best integrate technology into the class- tinkering on the shores the Association for room, as is Associate Professor krista Glazewski who also Educational com- studies problem-based learning in a tech environment. to those whose learning munications and looking more at the system of instruction in workplace approaches are tottering Technology (AEcT), learning, Assistant Professor ray haynes examines orga- to give instructional nizational effectiveness, while Assistant Professor yonjoo in new directions designers an idea cho focuses on “action learning,” where a participant of the field’s body studies his or her own actions and experiences to improve and even landing in of design knowledge, performance. totally extreme or allowing instructional Frick wrote Restructuring Education Through Technol- alien lands.” designers to experience ogy in 1991, part of the Phi delta kappa “Fastback” series many designs. “If you are (now on the Web at https://www.indiana.edu/~tedfrick/ a student in product design, fastback/fastback326.html). Many of the possibilities for your classroom is full of examples,” using technology in education, which he envisioned a Boling said. “you can buy a book off the decade ago, are now being realized. The online doctorate shelf—‘the 100 best product designs of the last is now the latest from a department that is researching 20 years.’ We simply don’t have that tradition.” The peer- the latest thing in education. And it speaks to what all are reviewed journal first published last year gives a place looking for in instructional systems technology, he said. to share “precedent materials”—detailed descriptions of what people are actually creating in the field. Boling’s “It’s about solutions.” work earned her the 2011 Presidential Award from the Association for Educational communications and Technol- ogy (AEcT) during the international convention held in november.

16 • Chalkboard Alumni Profile

Alumna leaves behind 18 years of achievement leading MSU College of Education

eing a higher education administrator can be a hectic, all-consum- ing role—one that’s not for all. One Chronicle of Higher Education Bstory estimated the average dean’s tenure at fi ve years. So a dean who has led a college for 18 years must have done something right. Most at the Michigan State University College of Education would Carole Ames point to many things Carole Ames has done correctly and well. Ames, who earned her master’s in college student personnel administration from the IU School of Education in 1968, became dean at MSU in 1993. In August, “I think being a dean, you use a she retired after seeing the college through numerous transitions and initiatives and guiding it to become one of the best colleges of education in lot of the things that you know the country. about motivation.” “Th e faculty here is outstanding,” Ames said. “Th ey’ve been very sup- portive. Th ey’re interested in doing new things and trying new things, and the college is very well supported on the campus and highly regarded. In all structures, schools can enhance or diminish the motivation of kids to these years, I’ve really never been interested in going somewhere else.” learn,” Ames said. Her work made her a leading scholar on social and “She is all about excellence,” said MSU Provost Kim Wilcox upon academic motivation while a faculty member at the University of Mary- Ames’ retirement. “People believe that she has the right values and right land and University of Illinois. In 1993, she began putting that research aspirations for the college and university.” knowledge into practice as she left the position of chair for the Educa- Perhaps what has made her a successful leader is the fact that she tional Psychology department at Illinois to become the MSU College of understands what goes into teaching and learning. Ames’ undergraduate Education dean. degree at Indiana was psychology. “So what do you do as a psychology “I think being a dean, you use a lot of the things that you know about major?” she said. “You have to go to graduate school, right?” Having taken a motivation,” Ames said. “Most people here are motivated, but you can set course in education, she was drawn to the School of Education and entered certain things up that make people less interested in the whole community the College Student Personnel Administration program (what is now the or make them much more interested in their own individualistic goals.” Higher Education and Student Aff airs program). But even while learning In her tenure, Ames has motivated faculty and staff to develop new about higher education leadership, she shifted much of her focus onto education initiatives both in Michigan and around the world. A primary educational psychology. focus has been urban education, particularly in Detroit. A program brings “I actually started looking at jobs within the fi eld of higher education Detroit students to MSU to major in education in exchange for becoming and did some interviews to be a dean of students and things like that, and I a Detroit teacher for three years after graduation. Another brings Detroit decided that was not for me,” she said. She had been a research assistant to students to campus for a six-week “academic boot camp” during the sum- Educational Psychology Professor Bill Lynch and accepted an opportunity mer. And MSU teacher preparation students teach and work in Detroit to join him as he started the new Center for Innovation in Teaching the non-profi ts during the summer. Ames is particularly proud of other Handicapped at IU. “I worked full-time as a research associate for about initiatives sending students abroad to engage other cultures in educational three years,” Ames said. “And that was a great experience because I didn’t opportunities. have any intention at that time of going on and getting a PhD. I didn’t In all, it’s been a full 18 years—the longest tenure of any MSU dean. As know what I was going to do.” of now, she’s on leave until next academic year. What’s next includes some But, she moved with her husband as he took a job at Purdue University, possible collaborative work, but also catching up from the hectic pace of fi rst working as a project coordinator for a federally funded program for institutional leadership. “I will have some time that I don’t have a calendar two years. Th en she decided she wanted to do her own research, leading her every day that’s completely fi lled,” Ames said. “I have some ideas, but I to enter the psychology doctoral program at Purdue. Her psychology and don’t have to have the rest of my life planned.” educational background led her to study why people learn. “My research really focuses on motivation—how teachers, classroom

Chalkboard • 17 Class Notes

communication arts at the University of Wisconsin B. Gulley. The book traces Gulley’s life from Before 1960 for 24 years and is now president of elearning In- 12-year-old head of an Indiana farm household James E. Rady, BA’51, MS’61, is the author of novations Inc., a distance-learning company based to the racetrack of the Indianapolis Motor A Time to Forgive, a novel about a young hoo- in Stillwater, okla. Speedway. Percifi eld is the owner of Allied Brokers sier’s struggle to fi nd love and forgiveness after In April, Darryl L. Sink, BS’67 MS’70, Edd’73, & consulting, a marketing and communication returning from korea as a war hero. rady served gave a presentation on utilizing subject-matter company servicing suppliers of the bakery foods in the U.S. coast Guard during World War II and experts at the Performance Improvement confer- industries, based in Plainfi eld, Ill., where he lives. retired from the U.S. Army as a major, after serv- ence, sponsored by the International Society for Paul D. Allen, BA’73, MS’80, MS’01, is an ing in both korea and Vietnam. he has worked Performance Improvement, in orlando, Fla. The adjunct professor of history and education at clafl in as a radio news reporter and producer/modera- conference draws researchers, business executives University in orangeburg, S.c., where he lives. tor of a cable television talk show and is retired and professionals from the fi elds of instructional Madeline M. Garvin, BS’73, is a freelance from a career in Indiana schools as a teacher and design, training, human resources, organizational writer who lives in Fort Wayne, Ind. She writes administrator. rady, who published his fi rst novel development and performance improvement. that she was appointed to the national council of at the age of 85, lives in lima, ohio, with his wife, Sink, who has almost 30 years experience in devel- Teachers of English (ncTE) standing committee roberta. oping teaching material, runs his own instructional against censorship for a three-year period and had James Christopher , BA’58, MS’65, is a retired design fi rm. he is a contributing author to two a proposal accepted to be a facilitator at the 100th teacher who lived in hawaii for more than 20 editions of the Handbook of Human Performance anniversary ncTE convention in november. Garvin years. he recently moved to nebraska to be near Technology, is the recipient of ISPI’s Professional has served as an IU Bloomington recruiter since Service Award and a past board member of ISPI. his daughter. he lives in Mccook, neb. 2000 and also volunteers for the neal–Marshall Sink lives and works in Monterey, calif. Alumni club. She was formerly a teacher at Phyllis Norris Gillie Jaffe, Edd’68, is president northrop high School in Fort Wayne. 1960s of danielson Gillie Imports/Associates in Wash- Cathy Hart Hyatt, MS’74, MS’90, MS’98, The Indiana Broadcast Pioneers inducted Jo- ington, d.c. She writes, “I am becoming an active seph A. Angotti, BS’61, MA’65, into the richard member of regional arts organizations on Mary- of Bloomington, Ind., is co-author of Critical M. Fairbanks hall of Fame at an awards banquet land’s eastern shore.” Gillie Jaffe serves on the IU Conversations in Co-Teaching, published by on oct. 6 at the Fountains in carmel, Ind. The School of Education’s national Board of Visitors. Solution Tree Press. The book explores co-teaching models, discusses how they impact school- hall honors members of the broadcasting industry She lives in Salisbury, Md. improvement initiatives and describes protocols to who have made signifi cant contributions to In January, former president of the Indianapolis improve communication between teachers for the broadcasting’s growth and improvement. While Education Association, Thomas J. Feeney, BS’69, benefi t of student learning. hyatt has spent more at IU, Angotti was the fi rst student news director MS’75, was elected chairman of the board of than 30 years as an educator, teaching preschool of WFIU and earned the fi rst graduate degree directors of the health Foundation of Greater In- through graduate students, and is a research ever awarded at IU in radio and television. After dianapolis. Feeney retired from Indianapolis Public associate with the center on Education and lifelong working in louisville, ky., and chicago, he moved Schools in 2006. he lives Indianapolis. to new york city, where he eventually became se- learning at the Indiana Institute on disability and nior vice president of the nBc news division and community, a research, education and service executive producer of nBc Nightly News. Angotti 1970s center affi liated with IU Bloomington. has taught broadcast journalism since 1993—at After almost 40 years of teaching English Jetta R. Tarr, BS’75, MS’78, Edd’91, retired the University of Miami; northwestern University’s and English as a Second language to teens and in 2010 after 31 years teaching at Avon (Ind.) Medill School of Journalism, where he was chair adults in inner city schools in Indianapolis and community School corporation and Salem (Ind.) of the broadcast program; and most recently at los Angeles, Cheryl Glaser Clark, BA’70, MS’74, community Schools. She serves on the board of Monmouth college. looks back on her career as a public school teacher directors of learning Forward Indiana (formerly Lynn O. Nichelson, BA’61, MS’62, retired from in Class Dismissed! My Four Decades Teaching the Indiana Staff development council). She Illinois Wesleyan University in 2009 as assistant in the Inner City, published in 2010 by Gambit was previously president of the Indiana Staff dean of enrollment management and fi nancial Publishing. clark recounts her journey from novice, development council and served on Indiana’s host aid. he served the university as its fi rst director fresh-faced neophyte to wizened veteran educator committee for the national Staff development of fi nancial aid from 1963 to 2007 and was pro- and doles out practical, no-nonsense advice for council’s annual conference, which was held in moted to assistant dean of enrollment manage- new teachers just starting on their career paths. Indianapolis in July 2011. ment and fi nancial aid in 2007. nichelson lives in The book includes an appendix of lesson plans, LuAnn Brobst Staheli, BS’76, was named Utah’s Bloomington, Ill. tests and other helpful teaching tools. clark lives 2010 Best of State Medalist in literary Arts–non- in long Beach, calif. Walter W. Buchanan, BA’63, Jd’73, Phd’93, Fiction. A writer and popular speaker, she has the J.r. Thompson Endowed chair, professor, and Rebecca “Becky” Gunden Smith, BS’70, is delivered workshop presentations for the league head of the department of Engineering Technol- a lead teacher for special education for dekalb of Utah Writers, the Utah council of Teachers ogy and Industrial distribution at Texas A&M co. School System in decatur, Ga. her husband, of English language Arts, the Utah Educator University, has been named president-elect of Stephen, BS’73, is a lecturer in broadcast and library Media Association Spring conference and the American Society for Engineering Education. digital journalism at the University of Georgia in numerous other organizations. named Best of State he will serve as president-elect for 2011–12 and Athens. The couple lives in doraville, Ga. Educator k–12 in 2008, Brobst Staheli recently then as president for 2012–13. Buchanan recently Bruce R. Sutchar, BA’70, MS’74, is the released her second biography, Psychic Madman, completed a term on the board of directors of the Midwest director of the Universal Peace co-written with Jim karol. her upcoming projects national Society of Professional Engineers. he Federation, a global network of individuals and include The Business of Marriage with dino Watt is a fellow of the nSPE and ASEE and is a senior organizations dedicated to building a world of and a biography with entertainer and humanitarian member of the Institute of Electrical and Electron- peace. he is a prolifi c writer and has led education Alan osmond. Brobst Staheli lives in Spanish Fork, ics Engineers and the Society of Manufacturing seminars all over the world. Sutchar lives in Utah. Engineers. Buchanan lives in college Station, hanover Park, Ill. William J. Dearing, BA’77, MS’82, retired in Texas. Steven G. Percifi eld, BS’72, is the co-author of June after working for the federal government for Lorne A. Parker, BS’65, was a professor of Grease Monkey, based upon the life of herschel more than 29 years. he worked as a producer and

18 • Chalkboard Class Notes director, making training videos, documentaries, traveling with her husband, P.J. Fitzgerald likes for their infl uence on teaching and their commit- PSAs and commercials for the U.S. department of to spend time in Strasbourg, France, at the lycee ment to undergraduate students. It is one of the defense, Treasury, Army and Air Force. dearing’s Jean Monnet, where she, along with her French most prestigious awards honoring undergraduate last assignment was at the Pentagon. he has counterpart, Anouck Bonin, founded an exchange teaching and mentoring. Watt began his teaching returned to Southern Indiana, where he plans to program between the two high schools. She also career at IUPUI in 1988 and, in the subsequent pursue his hobbies of fi shing, traveling and black- enjoys cheering on the hoosiers in the Wolverine two decades, has received more than $13 million and-white photography. dearing writes that he state. Fitzgerald lives in Grand rapids. in grant funding to support his research and looks forward to hearing from classmates and can Joyce Johnson Porvaznik, MS’80, owns the related outreach. In large part as a result of his be reached at [email protected]. red rabbit Inn, a bed and breakfast located near efforts, the School of Science has dramatically Joan Miller Keller, MS’77, EdS’04, Edd’09, is lake lemon, about 10 miles from Bloomington, increased the number of students in mathematics retired from k–12 education and is now a lecturer Ind. She writes, “Alumni are welcome!” classes and experienced a fi ve-fold increase in the in graduate educational leadership courses at IU Donna Greenwell Spence, BS’80, MS’85, is number of students graduating with bachelor’s Southeast. She lives in Shoals, Ind. principal of north Polk central Elementary School degrees in mathematics. In 2009, the Indiana sec- Betty Walters Martens, BS’77, MS’79, in Alleman, Iowa. her husband, daniel, BS’80, tion of the Mathematical Association of America MlS’96, of rochester, Ind., completed her two- works for Aviva USA, a provider of life insurance awarded Watt the 2009 distinguished University year term as the state chairwoman of circle and annuities. The couple lives in Ankeny, a sub- Teaching of Mathematics Award, the organization’s the State With Song and All State honor choir urb of des Moines. highest honor for a math educator. The designa- tion recognized Watt’s stellar record of teaching sponsored by the Indiana Music Educators After serving on the South carolina youth excellence and his contributions to promoting Association (IMEA). She has now been appointed Soccer Board of directors since 1992, Douglas mathematics teaching and learning at IUPUI and to the IMEA board as the awards chairwoman. She A. Gaddis, BS’81, has decided to retire from soc- across the state. he lives in Indianapolis. and her husband, Mark, MS’87, dean of students cer administration as the state youth recreation at rochester Middle School, are happy to report director. he will continue coaching in the carolina Kristin J. Ingersoll, BA’92, MS’02, is an that both of their daughters are now IU graduates. Elite Soccer high School prep program, teaching instructional designer at the U.S. department Katie B. Walters Martens, BS’08, has fi nished elementary art and demonstrating folk art and of State’s Foreign Service Institute. She designs her third year of teaching in the Pharr–San Juan– crafts in community arts and history programs in online courses for diplomats and other foreign Alamo school district in Pharr, Texas. daughter Greenville, S.c., where he lives. service personnel. Ingersoll recently started a Sadie J. Walters Martens, BS’11, graduated in May blog, http://tiltedonmyaxis.blogspot.com, where Lecia Smith Hollis, BS’82, MS’87, writes, “I with a degree in therapeutic recreation. Martens continue to teach in the Pike Township School she shares “stories, poems, and other random is a teacher at rochester Middle School where her district in Indianapolis. I am teaching a life skills thoughts.” Ingersoll lives in Alexandria, Va. husband is dean of students. The couple lives in program at Eastbrook Elementary School.” hollis In May, Goshen, Ind., attorney Andrew U.D. rochester, Ind. lives in Whitestown, Ind. Straw, BA’92, MS’95, Jd’97, announced his kim king Smith Events, a wedding and event- Mark A. Bartlow, BS’84, MS’08, of Bloom- democratic candidacy for congress in Indiana’s planning company run by Kimberly King Smith, fi eld, Ind., is a biology and medical science 2nd district in the May 2012 primary. Straw, who BS’78, MS’86, was named WeddingWire’s 2011 teacher at Bloomfi eld high School. has worked as an analyst at the Indiana Supreme Bride’s choice Planner for Indiana. king Smith’s court and has served as assistant dean for inter- Susan Sachs Fogel, BS’87, is an elementary husband, Mark, ddS’76, who has his own practice national programs at the IU Maurer School of law, school teacher. She lives with her husband, in Edinburgh, Ind., has been named a Top dentist lives in Goshen. by Indianapolis Monthly magazine. The couple Arthur, BS’84, an executive vice president of northern Trust corp., in northbrook, Ill. The Southwest Florida community Foundation lives in Edinburgh. (SWFlcF) in Fort Myers has named Edward M. Karen A. Geiger, MS’79, received a Phd in Kominowski, BA’93, MS’95, director of develop- leadership and change from Antioch University 1990s ment and planned gifts. he is responsible for in december 2010. her dissertation, Cross- Anthony C. Head, BS’90, is the author of developing and growing relationships to new and Race Relationships as Sites of Transformation: Lucid, a psychological thriller set in Bloomington, existing businesses to increase the assets of the Navigating the Protective Shell and the Insular Ind. To cope with chronic nightmares, IU senior community foundation. Before joining SWFlcF, Bubble, explored the processes by which African Stuart Patterson immerses himself into lucid kominowski was associate vice president for American and European American women enact dream therapy—a technique that allows the college relations at Stetson University college of leadership by creating and sustaining cross- dreamer to control his own actions during dream law in Gulfport, Fla., where he served as chief race relationships as they work to change unjust states. When dreams begin eclipsing waking life, development and alumni relations offi cer. he lives systems around them. Geiger is president of karen Stuart confuses which world means the most to in Fort Myers, Fla. Geiger and Associates Inc., a consulting fi rm that him and which world comes with real conse- A Sister’s Promise, the fi rst novel by Midwest specializes in leadership development training, quences for his actions. head is a freelance writer Writer’s Fellowship winner Karen S. Lenfestey, based in charlotte, n.c. She is also on the faculty who has been published in national and regional MS’97, has sold more than 20,000 copies. The of the Mccoll School of Business at Queens magazines and journals for more than 20 years. book debates the timeless theme of motherhood University of charlotte. Lucid, his debut novel, was published in 2010 by and family ties. lenfestey’s work has appeared Mary Shrawder Jungemann, BA’79, MS’82, is h2h Publishing. For more information visit www. in several magazines. In 2008, a billboard she a teacher at Southport high School in Indianapolis, lucidthenovel.com. designed for a Grand Marnier contest garnered where she lives. In november, Jeffrey X. Watt, Phd’90, as- national attention and appeared in new york’s sociate professor of mathematical sciences and Times Square. lenfestey lives in Fort Wayne, Ind. associate dean for student affairs and outreach in 1980s the School of Science at IUPUI, was named the Linda Maire FitzGerald , BS’80, MS’88, teaches 2010 Indiana Professor of the year. Sponsored by 2000s middle and high school French at Forest hills the carnegie Foundation for the Advancement Michael J. James, Phd’03, is co-author of Eastern high School in Ada, Mich. She is former of Teaching and administered by the council for Education’s Highest Aim: Teaching and Learning president and current secretary of the Alliance Advancement and Support of Education, the U.S. Through a Spirituality of Communion, published Française of Grand rapids, Mich., and enjoys Professor of the year awards recognize professors in 2010 by new city Press. James, who has a

Chalkboard • 19 Class Notes bachelor’s degree in theology and psychology liability defense. Merchant also practices in the Political Behavior of the American Electorate was from the University of notre dame and a Phd areas of business and tax law and estate planning. published in July by cQ Press. The couple lives in educational policy studies from IU, has held a Prior to joining the fi rm in 2009, he was a senior in lincoln. number of administrative, teaching and research consultant at Bkd, where he concentrated his Elliot Jordan, MS’10, EdS’11, writes, “I positions at the University of notre dame and practice in the areas of business and tax law. graduated in May with a specialist in education Indiana University. he was the senior student af- Meant to Be, the debut young adult novel degree with an emphasis in instructional systems fairs and enrollment management offi cer at Mount by Lauren Morrill-Ragusea, BA’05, MS’08, will technology. In 2009, I completed an MBA from Marty college, S.d., before serving as vice presi- be released by delacorte, a children’s imprint the University of california, riverside. My experi- dent for the Association of catholic colleges and at random house, under her pen name lauren ence, educational background and current career Universities in Washington, d.c. James is currently Morrill in november 2012. The author describes interests include management, IT and instructional a fellow at the center for catholic Education at the book as a retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac— design/consulting.” Jordan lives in Bloomington, Boston college, where he directs the Institute with text messages! Morrill-ragusea is at work Ind., and works as an instructional designer for for Administrators in catholic higher Educa- on her second young adult novel, inspired by her the IU offi ce of research Administration. he is tion; teaches in the higher Education program experiences playing roller derby with the Bleeding interested in securing instructional consulting in graduate concentration in catholic University heartland rollergirls in Bloomington, Ind., and either academia or the corporate world. leadership; conducts research and lectures on the Boston derby dames. She lives in cambridge, “My career has taken a slight change from catholic university leadership and mission; and is Mass. education,” writes Whitney N. Wagoner, BS’10. a co-editor of the journal, Catholic Education. he Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Phd’06, is the au- “I’m now a call center analyst for Mainsource also serves on the boards of Ministering Together thor of Cultural Capital: the Promises and Pitfalls Bank.” Wagoner lives in Manilla, Ind. and the conference for Mercy higher Education. in Higher Education Research, published in 2010 Edward J. Merchant, BS’03, Jd’06, is an at- by Jossey-Bass. She is an assistant professor of The editors gratefully acknowledge the assis- torney with the Indianapolis law fi rm ruckelshaus, higher education in the department of Educa- tance of the Indiana University Alumni Association kautzman, Blackwell, Bemis, & hasbrook. he tional Administration at the University of nebraska in compiling class notes. To submit information, concentrates his practice in the areas of criminal, in lincoln. her husband, Michael, Phd’06, is write to the Alumni Association at 1000 E. 17th civil and appellate litigation; law enforcement; an assistant professor of political science at the St., Bloomington, IN 47408, or visit the IUAA on disciplinary proceedings and law enforcement University of nebraska. The 12th edition of his the Web at www.alumni.indiana.edu.

In Memoriam

Josephine Spear William Lynch John McKinley Oct. 30, 1917 – June 7, 2011 Dec. 30, 1921 – Oct. 27, 2011 May 31, 1921 – Nov. 8, 2011

Josephine Spear was associate professor William lynch was a professor of educational John Mckinley was a faculty member in adult emeritus of the IU School of Education and psychology at the IU School of Education for education from 1961–1982. he taught classes former English instructor in the University 35 years (1952–1987). he served a stint as in both Bloomington and Indianapolis. his School. associate dean of the faculties and twice as work on theory and practice of educational programs in non-traditional adult educa- Spear first taught in Bedford and Misha- acting dean of the faculties. he also served tion settings won him the admiration of the waka junior high schools. After three years as chair of the department of Educational profession. In 1974, he was cited as one of as chairperson of the English department at Psychology from 1955–1968. lynch was a the nine living educators who made a major Warren central, Indianapolis, she came to strong advocate for faculty governance, serv- contribution to the development of the field Indiana University as an English instructor in ing on the Bloomington Faculty council and in north America. his book, Participation the University School. From 1950 until 1970, University Faculty council and committees Training in Adult Education (1965), became a Spear was the chairperson of the English multiple times. his scholarly work included a classic in the field. In 1975, he was the recipi- department in the University School. In Fulbright in Amsterdam and faculty exchang- ent of the prestigious outstanding Adult 1970, she was transferred from the University es at Peabody and University of Southern Educator of the year Award. School to the School of Education. In 1983, california. his research interests ranged she retired as chairperson of English Educa- from appropriate instructional approaches his career was devoted to teaching and tion at the IU School of Education. for handicapped individuals to the cognitive expanding the knowledge of group dynamics and team-based learning. he wrote several For the IU correspondence division, demands made of students by teachers. textbooks in the adult education field and Spear wrote secondary English courses 9–12. In 1960, lynch was awarded a Fulbright co-authored the “Indiana Plan,” which be- her primary publications, however, were high Fellowship to teach at the University of came a national model for participation train- school literature textbooks, two in English Amsterdam. In 1963, he spent a year as visit- ing. This design has been used extensively in literature and one in world literature: Ad- ing professor with the Joseph P. kennedy north America as well as Japan, Australia and ventures in English literature and Ideas and Foundation at George Peabody college for denmark. he was the founding father of the Patterns in Literature IV. Teachers, now part of Vanderbilt in nash- commission of Professors of Adult Education, In 1939, Spear received an AB in English ville, Tenn., teaching and researching special education. he met President John F. kennedy which comprises the academic leadership of from dePauw University, where she was a the profession. member and treasurer of kappa Alpha Theta. there in the spring of 1963 and later visited She earned master’s and doctoral degrees the Shriver family at their Maryland home. from Indiana University. his interest in teaching the handicapped grew, and upon returning to Bloomington, he helped establish the center for Innovation in Teaching the handicapped at IU. ------

20 • Chalkboard Honor Roll School of Education supporter links his success to long relationship with professor emeritus

obert Draba, BS’68, didn’t have a sense of his future potential or what he wanted to do after high school until getting to know his 9th grade social studies teacher. RGrowing up in East Chicago, Ind., Draba came from a family that didn’t have a lot of money and couldn’t aff ord to send him away to college. But as a high school student, Draba experienced the impact of a teacher who believed in his or her students and, as a result, cultivated their talents and interests. And in college, he learned the value of the education he could get close to home at Indiana University. While countless people have had their lives changed by a favorite teach- er, Draba’s story is particularly special in a couple of ways. One is that he and that teacher, IU School of Education Professor Emeritus John Patrick, Robert Draba and John Patrick have continued to be important in each other’s lives throughout the 50 years since they fi rst met. Another is that Draba has made a major commitment “Th ere are many highlights in my long career in education, but right at to helping other students receive the kind of opportunity that he had at IU. the top of the list is the experience I had at the beginning, during my fi rst In September, Draba, now a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of three years as a teacher, being involved with students who were thirsty to the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., was inducted by IU learn but didn’t know where to turn to get the water,” Patrick said. “Th at President Michael McRobbie and IU Foundation President Eugene Temple convinced me that my life should be in education.” into the University’s prestigious Presidents Circle, which recognizes IU’s Upon graduation from East Chicago Roosevelt, Draba set out to be a top philanthropic leaders who give more than $100,000. Draba’s special history teacher because he wanted to do for other students what Patrick guest at the induction was his old friend and mentor, Patrick, who had had done for him. He started by taking classes at an extension of IU in East taught in the IU School of Education for 37 years before retiring in 2004. Chicago, and later, he took classes in the School of Education at nearby “Th is is a thrilling day,” Patrick said after the event. “I couldn’t sleep last Indiana University Northwest in Gary before graduating in 1968 from IU night I was so excited to come here.” Bloomington, where Patrick had been hired the year before. Draba later Draba was 14 years old when he met Patrick, his world history teacher, received a PhD in education and an MBA from Th e University of Chicago in a basement classroom at Roosevelt High School in East Chicago. as well as a law degree, cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago. Patrick, in his fi rst year as a full-time teacher, was just 24 at the time. A “At IU, I got a fi rst-class education at bargain-basement prices. It really former Roosevelt student, Patrick arrived at the school determined to shake launched me in a lot of ways,” Draba said. “Although I really enjoyed my up the place academically. After serving as president of the National Honor studies at Th e University of Chicago and Loyola University Chicago, it was Society at Roosevelt, Patrick attended an Ivy League school, Dartmouth, Indiana University that really made a decisive diff erence in my life.” and found he was far behind most other freshmen. Following service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines, Draba “I really had to catch up to avoid fl unking out,” Patrick said. “I ended up returned to East Chicago and was hired as a teacher with the Gary Com- as an honor student; but when I fi rst got there, I was shocked.” munity School Corp., where he taught English, journalism and reading for Upon his arrival at Roosevelt High, Patrick created the school’s fi rst nearly 10 years. He later worked as a vice president for administration and world history class and started a history club that met twice a month in the associate professor of medical education at Chicago Osteopathic Health basement of his parents’ home, where he still lived. Draba was one of the Systems, now known as Midwestern University, and as executive director charter members of that club, which read and talked about such topics as of the American Osteopathic Association before getting his law degree and Russian history and the evolution of revolution, the origin of democracy, being selected through the Honors Program of the U.S. Department of and Greek and Roman history. Draba became fascinated with great books Justice. the club was reading, especially Native Son by Richard Wright, and Patrick Draba has been a donor to the IU School of Education for many years. recognized that he had a student of unusual ability in Draba. In 2010, he stepped up that commitment with a $120,000 endowed gift “I’ve always felt that all of our lives are infl uenced by certain people. that will permanently provide scholarship support to students at the School Th ey move us in directions that are very signifi cant, and John Patrick was of Education who are focused on language arts. In the years to come, Draba extremely important to me,” Draba said. “John believed in us. He had a lot plans to add to this endowed gift. of confi dence that we could do these things. Th at gave me a new image of “I am very, very concerned about kids who don’t have the means to myself and the belief that maybe I could really succeed in the world of ideas. attend college,” Draba said. “I was able to graduate with minimal debt and In many ways, I think I had him in the back of my mind as I went through be on my way. I want other students to have what I had at IU. I received my career and hoped that I’d arrive at this day when John would say he was tremendous value for the money. Arguably, my IU degree was the most very proud of what I have done.” important thing in my life because it made everything else possible.”

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Snapshot Summer Civic Program again a success at IUPUI

The student group “Secondary Urban Educators” at the IU School of Education at IUPUI held the second annual Summer Civic Program in July. Secondary education majors spent time with teens from the Hawthorne and Concord Community Centers in Indianapolis. The students came to campus to get more information about college and participate in learning and fun activities. The IUPUI secondary educators worked with them on achieving their personal and educational goals.