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Educating and guiding the emerging population:

Panel from the “Dream Quilt” made by members the IU School of Education’s work of the Latino Youth Collective in response to “Dream Act” legislation (story on page 10). with Latino newcomers Mission Statement The mission of the Indiana University School of

Spring 09 Education is to improve teaching, learning, and Chalkboard human development in a global, diverse, rapidly Indiana University School of Education Alumni Association changing, and increasingly technological society.

1 dean’s Perspective: 8 Education that prepares Chalkboardus all

2 Highlights

4 News Briefs

6 Faculty Profile: Robin L. Hughes

7 In Memoriam

8 Preparing the 12 emerging Latino 10 school population

10 Coaching up math: IU team helps teachers in one Indiana county introduce algebraic concepts earlier and more easily

12 Alumni Profile: Michael Uslan Chalkboard is published semiannually by the Indiana University Alumni Association, in coop- eration with the School of Education Alumni Association, to encourage alumni interest in and 14 Alumni News support for the Indiana University School of Education. This publication is paid for in part by dues-paying members of the Indiana University Alumni Association. For more informa- tion about membership or activities, contact (800) 824-3044, [email protected], or visit 15 Class Notes www.alumni.indiana.edu. IU School of Education Dean...... Gerardo M. Gonzalez 18 Snapshot Director of Communications and Media Relations, Editor ...... Chuck Carney Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations...... Sarah Baumgart Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Relations...... Michelle Stuckey IU Alumni Association President/CEO...... Tom Martz Director of Alumni Programs...... Rachael Jones Crouch Editor, Constituent Periodicals...... Sarah J. Preuschl Cover design/interior layout...... Mediaworks Dean’s Perspective

Education that prepares us all by Gerardo M. Gonzalez, Dean, School of Education

largest minority group is growing es are available to communities around quickly. The Indiana Business Research the state that are working to respond to Center at IU recently released numbers these new students. indicating the Latino population in the Early last fall, I was invited to speak state will add more than 284,000 in to a group of Latino parents who regu- the next 20 years, moving the share of larly gather at Huntingburg Elementary Latinos as a part of Indiana’s popula- School in Huntingburg, Ind., part of tion from 4.5 percent to 8 percent. a local effort to respond to the needs Changing demographics are not the of these new students and make sure problem; this country has always been school administrators and teachers are a nation of immigrants, and increased in communication with student fami- diversity enriches our communities. But lies. (You can see a video about that visit Latinos also represent the most educa- on our YouTube page at www.youtube. tionally underserved population group com/user/iuschoolofeducation or search in America. Latinos, for example, have “School of Education” on the IU the lowest high school graduation rates Podcast page — www.podcast.iu.edu.) in the country. The U.S. Department I was impressed at just how forward- school of education must not of Education reports Latino students thinking these community members only respond to a changing drop out at a rate over 22 percent — are, understanding the need to make A educational population, but twice that of African-Americans and sure these newest community members also anticipate how that population three times the rate of white students. feel at home and a part of the school. will change in the future. We are in a The IU School of Education is Communities like that southern critical time for education, quite obvi- working tirelessly to make sure the Indiana town understand that it’s not ously. With the changing workforce — state is prepared to work with these just creating something special for a particularly in Indiana and other states new students. In four years, the school certain group of students. Making sure that are trying to transform economies has produced 200 more teachers of all students succeed is in the interest from heavy manufacturing to life English as a Second Language. We’re of everyone, whether they’ve been in sciences, advanced manufacturing, bolstering efforts in the Indianapolis the U.S. a few weeks or for their entire information technology and the like — Public Schools through a 5-year, $1.4 lives. Countless studies enumerate the schools must respond in a way that million grant-funded study into ESL billions of dollars it costs society when encourages students to think beyond teaching best practices. students don’t at least earn their high high school. The cost of dropping out In this issue of Chalkboard, you’ll school degree. The ensuing struggle of or not pursuing postsecondary educa- see how more of the school’s existing those failing students as they navigate tion is higher than ever. efforts are ramping up and how new life is colorblind. No matter where Along with that challenge, student ones are getting started. In Indianapolis, we come from, such failure will affect demographics are changing drastically. Professor José Rosario’s groundbreak- where our country is going. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, ing work that began with the found- Schools of education have a special roughly a quarter of the nation’s kin- ing of El Puente in 2000 has evolved responsibility to ensure that teachers, dergartners are now Latino. What are into the Latino Youth Collective. In counselors, school leaders, and other now minority groups will become the a direct effort to bring together those education professionals are well- majority by 2023, according to census who prepare teachers, researchers, and prepared to address the needs of our projections. The president underscored community members in Indianapolis, increasingly diverse communities. Our the national importance of this group the School of Education at IUPUI is faculty is doing its part to increase the to the future of American education by kicking off the Latino Initiative this cultural competency of pre-service and choosing to give his first major educa- spring. The third year of the Indiana in-service educators to stay on the lead- tion speech of the new administration Project for Latin American Cultural ing edge of this important development before the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Competency, based in Bloomington, is in our educational future. As one of the Commerce in early March. also working on more outreach to make nation’s top schools of education, we In Indiana, too, the state’s second-

R ic k C ra ddo c k, IU Pho t o sure the research and academic resourc- welcome that shared responsibility.

Chalkboard • 1 Highlights

Faculty honors, leadership positions, new books

The Society for ther impact by sharing their experiences Family Psychology and insights. “It was going beyond exist- elected Tom Sexton, ing knowledge to make their own unique professor of counsel- contribution or signature,” Arnove said. ing and educational “It was a desire on their part to teach and psychology and di- have their students participate in a com- rector of the Center munity of practice extending back gen- for Adolescent and erations, and, at the same time, not have Family Studies, as their students be clones. They would not the organization’s impose, but they would guide.” president during In the book, Arnove conveys informa- its meeting in early tion gathered from interviews conducted February. In his role over nearly 15 years. He began with vio- as president, Sexton lin master Joseph Gingold, the longtime will oversee initia- IU Jacobs School of Music professor who tives for the orga- began teaching at age 13 and mentored nization and guide internationally-renowned students such policy over the next as Joshua Bell. That same year, he inter- George Kuh year. Sexton said viewed James “Doc” Counsilman, known that establishing a research clearinghouse as the oldest person to swim the English The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) of practice-based evidence and informa- Channel but also as the coach of national has awarded the Allen P. Splete Outstand- tion is the priority for his tenure. champions at IU and gold-medal winners, ing Service Award to George Kuh, Chan- “One of the big issues in family psychol- including Mark Spitz, who won 7 at the cellor’s Professor of Higher Education and ogy is that there is a real science-practice 1972 games. Other master teachers pro- director of the Center for Postsecondary gap,” Sexton said. “It’s the division be- filed in the book include Sylvain Cappell, Research at the IU School of Education. tween those two things that creates great the New York University mathematician The CIC presented Kuh with the award anxiety. Until we can figure out how to who developed the co-dimension one during its annual Presidents Institute, held move it back and forth, then the clients— splitting theorem. in Bonita Springs, Fla., on Jan. 6. the people who need the help—won’t Arnove said all these teachers had an “George Kuh is a scholar who has ac- get the most current help and information “x-ray vision” for diagnosing their students’ complished a feat previously thought to when they need it.” skills and deficiencies. As a result, these be impossible,” said CIC President Rich- Two of Sexton’s colleagues in the teachers would personalize the instruc- ard Elkman, “designing an instrument to Counseling and Education Psychology tion for their students. All of the master assess student learning and engagement department are past presidents of teachers also had a curiosity that allowed in the academic, social, and cultural op- the society, Chancellor’s Professor and them to develop new domain knowledge portunities offered by our colleges.” Kuh Counseling Psychology Program Training and improved ways of teaching. “Some- created the National Survey of Student Director Rex Stockton, and Professor one like Doc Counsilman studying physics Engagement (NSSE) and other related Jack Cummings. and the Bernoulli principle,” Arnove said, surveys. NSSE started examining factors Robert Arnove, Chancellor’s Professor referring to coach’s application of the related to successful student engagement Emeritus and a leading scholar of com- Swiss physicist’s work on fluid dynamics in 1997. It’s now used by more than 1,300 parative and international education, has to swimming. institutions, with 380,000 students in four- published a new book focusing on what Another new book coming out this year colleges and universities completing makes great teachers across academic summer features extensive examination of the survey in 2008. disciplines. Talent Abounds: Profiles of homeschooling by an IU School of Educa- “The survey has succeeded in provid- Master Teachers and Peak Performers, tion professor. Write these Laws on your ing greater insight into the value of one’s from Paradigm Publishers, features inter- Children is the new work by Associate higher education—and has become ac- views with some of the leading figures in Professor for Curriculum and Instruction cepted as a trusted indicator of activities various fields, from music to mathematics Robert Kunzman. Over the last 5 years, Ku h that foster, and ultimately, engage stu- to culinary arts. Kunzman has intensively studied the home dents in learning,” Saundra Tracy, Presi- Arnove found that these master teach- school movement, particularly conserva- dent of Alma College (Mich.), said in pre- ers, who had all made a mark as perform- tive Christian homeschooling. The book, senting Kuh with the honor. ers in their fields, wanted to make a fur- published by Beacon Press, documents c o urtes y G e o rge

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findings from the year-and-a-half he spent following six U.S. families through their homeschooling experience. Professor emeritus leading college Kunzman said the Christian conserva- tive families that educate their children of education in the Middle East at home create another dimension to the growing trend. “It adds another layer of complexity when intense religious convic- tions enter the mix,” Kunzman said, “and we consider what it means for parents to have potentially sole oversight or control of their child’s education, versus a vision of education that incorporates the inter- ests of children themselves and broader society as well.” The book comes as homeschooling numbers continue to grow. In Decem- ber, the U.S. Department of Education released new numbers indicating a 74 per- cent increase in homeschooled students Gary Ingersoll between 1999 and 2007. Kunzman has established a new Web site, www.indiana.edu/~homeeduc, to After several years of consulting with the College of Education at the United provide easier access to homeschool Arab Emirates University (UAEU), a professor emeritus from the Indiana research and scholarship. The site features University School of Education is now running it. a listing of numerous studies on home- Gary Ingersoll took over this fall for the college in the United Arab schooling, as well as a “Frequently Asked Emirates flagship university, located in Al Ain, around 90 miles south of Questions” section and other links. “The Web site is intended to provide an over- Dubai. Ingersoll is professor emeritus of the Department of Counseling and view about homeschooling for those who Educational Psychology. are either new to the subject or just want “It is the government’s goal to transform UAEU into the premier research to figure out some of the main attributes institution in the Middle East and to become an internationally recognized and and characteristics of homeschoolers, as valued university,” Ingersoll wrote in an email from Al Ain. “I am looking well as what the data say, and answers to forward to the challenge of helping to transform the college.” frequently asked questions about home- Ingersoll said he’s worked with the college at UAEU since 2004, including schooling,” Kunzman said. serving as a member of the College Academic Advisory Board. In July, an The latest addition to the award- executive search firm asked him to apply for the position of dean. Ingersoll winning Cultural Immersion Projects was said he became excited about the prospect of the job after hearing the plans the focus of a presentation by Laura Sta- for the future. chowski, project director, and School of “The U.A.E., like other Gulf States, is in the throes of transition,” Education dean Gerardo Gonzalez, dur- Ingersoll said, noting that the oil-rich U.A.E. is at the economic and possibly ing the 61st annual American Association political center of change in the Middle East. “They are acutely aware that of Colleges for Teacher Education meet- their oil revenues will not last forever. The national leadership has inaugurat- ing in Chicago. On Feb. 7, they appeared ed a visionary plan to shift away from reliance on oil revenues, and much of with two panelists from the Chicago Public that shift is already in place. However, to accomplish those aims will require Schools to talk about a new urban immer- a restructuring of the educational system. The College of Education faculty is sion project, which started in the fall. IU expected to be deeply involved in that process.” students performing their student teach- The new dean said his job now is to empower current faculty and recruit ing are working in schools in the city this more highly qualified faculty to promote the research mission. At the same year. The presentation was titled “Cultural time, Ingersoll said he will continue to prepare highly qualified teachers Immersion in Chicago City Schools and

ingers o ll for the U.A.E. classrooms. All of this will be done while balancing high aca-

y Neighborhoods: a Replicable Student demic standards with national and cultural identities. “We need to capitalize

gar Teaching Model and Partnership for Urban Teacher Education.” on what established research universities have done while being respectful of the Islamic culture within which we operate,” Ingersoll said. c o urtes y

Chalkboard • 3 News Briefs

New PhD program offered, new program agreement for math, chemistry

The new Inquiry Methodology PhD gram an original offering among similar that stakeholders have many misunder- Program, just approved by the Indiana institutions. “Very few focus on both,” standings about them. The Center for Commission for Higher Education, has said Ginette Delandshere, professor of Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) at begun enrolling students to start in research methodology at the IU School the Indiana University School of Education the fall. of Education. “Most other programs in conducted the Study of the Effectiveness The unique degree offering focuses on the U.S. focus exclusively on quantitative and Efficiency of Charter Schools in Indiana the study of research strategies used with research methods.” The American Psycho- following a request from the Indiana both quantitative and qualitative data, logical Association reported that in 2007, General Assembly. allowing students to pursue a wide range most of the 26 research methodology pro- The study considered 14 questions sug- of interests and contribute to better grams in schools of education in the U.S. gested by the four caucuses of the Gener- informing public debate on education prepared researchers only in quantitative al Assembly. Data came from the Indiana and educational policy. This new program methodology. Department of Education, the two major will prepare graduates to teach, consult sponsors, and interviews with 30 stake- with other social science and educational A new agreement will provide incen- holders, such as superintendents, leaders researchers, work in a variety of research, tive for IU math and chemistry majors of Indiana education policy organizations, development, and policy centers, as well to become math and science teachers. and individual charter school leaders. as work for companies and government The university has approved a proposal by The biggest take-away point, accord- agencies that develop standardized tests the School of Education and the College ing to CEEP Director Jonathan Plucker, is in the U.S. and worldwide. of Arts and Sciences that allows chemistry that the debate of pros and cons of charter Among other things, this new doctoral and math majors to apply for the master’s schools may be ill-informed. “People have degree program will directly address what in secondary education during the fall staked out black-and-white positions, yet some have described as a crisis in mea- semester of their senior year. If admit- the reality exists in shades of gray,” Plucker surement and interpretation of test scores, ted, selected spring coursework could said. “Some of the things I thought I given the increased requirements of the count toward both the completion of their knew about charter schools turned out federal No Child Left Behind law. Accord- undergraduate degree and the beginning to be things I needed to reconsider, and ing to a report from Education Sector, an of their master’s. Upon completing educa- we hope this evaluation has that effect independent policy analysis organization, tion coursework, graduates could earn a on others.” more than half of state testing offices bachelor’s and master’s in five years and “I think if you look at all of the results in around the country have trouble finding earn teacher licensure. general,” said Terri Akey, senior research and keeping qualified staff for testing- The program creates an incentive for associate at CEEP, “many of them fall right related jobs, raising concerns about the math and science students to seek a teach- down the middle.” quality of standardized exams. The report ing license, according to Bob Sherwood, Among the findings in the study are recommended the federal government pay associate dean for research and profes- that charter schools serve a similar or high- to train 1,000 psychometricians — experts sor of science education. “We’re hopeful er percentage of low-income students as in the design, administration, and inter- that they’ll say ‘Hey, mom and dad, if I go do traditional public schools, although pretation of educational measurement — an extra year, I can get my master’s de- they don’t serve special needs students in over five years to meet the demand. gree and a teaching license,” Sherwood proportion to other public schools. It also “Education is in critical need of good said. He added that the program should found that students don’t tend to be more research to help inform national and inter- help the School produce more math and mobile than other public school students. national reform efforts,” said Gerardo M. science teachers. The study also found “no practical Gonzalez, dean of the IU School of Edu- “We’re only going to have about 22 difference between student perfor- cation. “The new PhD program in inquiry science teachers produced by IU this year mance in charter schools and traditional methodology will prepare future re- with licensure,” he said. “That’s not very public schools.” searchers capable of addressing complex many. I would like to see that double in “I’m sure that set of findings will be research questions through both quanti- the next 3 to 4 years.” widely talked about,” said Plucker, “but I tative and qualitative means. We are very caution people about reading too much pleased to be among the first in the coun- A comprehensive evaluation of data into them.” Plucker said other research try to offer such an integrated program.” has found results that support both indicates rapid achievement increases Integrating the research methodolo- sides of the debate regarding charter generally 6-8 years after comprehensive gies makes the Inquiry Methodology Pro- schools in Indiana, but most of all finds school reforms.

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comparison to those in other states and The results of the sixth annual Public The survey asked 26 questions over nations. Asked where state high school Opinion Survey on K-12 Education seven categories: school quality, school students rank academically with students in Indiana by the Center for Evalua- funding, school district consolidation and from other states, 62 percent indicated tion & Education Policy (CEEP) at the governance, school choice and charter Hoosier high school students ranked Indiana University School of Education schools, virtual education, teacher qual- in the middle and 20 percent said near found the public ranks education as its ity and compensation, and familiarity the bottom. top policy issue. The survey, conducted and support of the federal “No Child Left “Although more respondents feel posi- in November, gauged the attitudes and Behind” accountability law. tive about Indiana schools than those who perceptions of a representative sample of Overall, Hoosiers indicated they are don’t,” Spradlin said, “the 2008 results Hoosiers on key educational issues. generally a little more positive about do suggest that Indiana citizens believe For the first time, respondents were Indiana’s school quality, with 54 percent ongoing school improvement is needed asked to rate the importance of eight major indicating public schools are excellent or to ensure Indiana students perform on policy issues. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 good, up from 50 percent in 2007. Once par with, or better than, students in other being most important, a total of 90 per- again, respondents view schools locally states and nations.” cent rated K-12 education at 8, 9, or 10. even more favorably with 63 percent indi- The economy (88 percent), health care (82 cating their schools are excellent or good. percent), higher education (80 percent), But Hoosiers also indicated they don’t and public safety (73 percent) rounded think the academic performance of Indiana out the top five. high school students is outstanding in

IU and Ivy Tech sign articulation agreement to allow elementary education credit transfer

Indiana University and Ivy Tech Community College announced on Feb. 10 that they are easing the pathway to a teaching career through articulation agreements that will allow Ivy Tech education students to transfer credits towards an IU degree. These transfer agreements make it possible for students who complete an approved Associate of Science in Elementary Education degree at any Ivy Tech campus to transfer credits earned that will count toward Bachelor of Science in Elemen- tary Education degrees offered at all Indiana University cam- puses. IU President Michael McRobbie and Ivy Tech Presi- dent Tom Snyder joined other campus leaders in the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis to celebrate the signing of the final agreement that will make system-wide articulation possible.

IU President Michael Mc Robbie and Ivy Tech President “This agreement furthers the long history of cooperation Tom Snyder sign the articulation agreement during a between Indiana University and Ivy Tech in the interests of ceremony at the Indiana Statehouse on Feb. 10. higher education across Indiana,” McRobbie said. “It will open the door to new career opportunities for many Hoosiers, and it will help the state of Indiana fill a critical demand for well-trained elementary school teachers. Young people in virtually every Indiana community who may be interested in pursuing a career in teaching will now be able to complete the initial requirements leading to a bachelor’s degree at an Ivy Tech campus near their home.” “The increased access to education degrees will not only help the state meet the need for teachers, it will also increase the diversity of the teaching workforce,” said IU Dean of Education Gerardo Gonzalez. “Students will be able to start their education degrees at any Ivy Tech and transfer seamlessly to IU Northwest, IUPUI, Bloomington, or any other IU campus,” Gonzalez said. Ch ris o ns M e y er , IU Co mmunicati

Chalkboard • 5 Faculty Profile Writing a new script and expanding scholarship

Robin L. Hughes on the t’s way too early to make Oscar ing the story of a Fort Worth, Texas, basketball court, the setting for a new academic paper and plans — or even plan to buy movie basketball coach whose teams in a movie script Itickets — but it’s possible that segregated school of the 1950s until the Hollywood could come calling on a 1970s were so good they regularly beat faculty member from the IU School college squads. Not only did the athletes of Education. perform well on the court, they excelled The fresh new writer for the silver in the classroom, becoming Harvard screen is Robin L. Hughes, whose graduates and career professionals. day job is assistant professor in higher Hughes read up on how to prepare a education and student affairs, based movie script and got advice and direc- in Indianapolis. Hughes also holds tion from a script writer and producer an appointment as adjunct assistant she knows in Los Angeles. “So I went professor of African American African back and rewrote it so that it really was Diaspora Studies in Bloomington and a script.” Indianapolis. As she worked on a It’s another unique career step for historical academic paper, she said she the researcher who is helping to expand was struck by the drama involved in areas of study often unexplored in what she was writing. schools of education. Hughes focuses “As I was writing the piece, I said, on sports, particularly examining issues ‘you know, this kind of looks like a surrounding student athletes in revenue-

script,’” Hughes said. She was research- generating sports. She co-founded A ar o n o ns B ernstein , IU Co mmunicati

6 • Chalkboard Faculty Profile and co-edits The Journal for the Study “I’d just wonder how can so many folks of Sports and Athletes in Education and of a particular group just fail,” she said. In Memoriam teaches a course called “The College “Then you visit those schools and I see Student Athlete.” why they fail — because a lot of folks John Alton Moldstad Eventually, Hughes says it would don’t give two hoots about them.” 1923–2008 make sense to establish a cross-disci- That interest is driving her current Longtime Instructional Systems Tech- plinary sports research center in India- research on high school prep academies, nology Professor John Moldstad died napolis — home to the NCAA head- many of which have cropped up across on Dec. 15, 2008. Moldstad was a quarters, NFL and NBA franchises, the country for the sole purpose of leader in his field while serving as a professor from 1955 until 1989. He is plus a major pro tennis tournament and preparing major college basketball play- also an IU School of Education alum- scores of amateur athletics. Hughes said ers. The NCAA has scrutinized what nus, having earned both his masters’ the issues are often ignored in schools it calls “nontraditional preparatory and doctoral degrees at IU in 1950 of education across the country. “We’ve schools” in recent years, listing some as and 1953, respectively. kind of forgotten about it,” she said, “diploma mills” from which a member While leading curriculum develop- “and it’s crazy because it’s a money- institution cannot accept an academic ment in the emerging field of educa- tional technology, he developed and taught 10 new graduate instructional “As I was writing the piece, I said, ‘you systems technology courses. He and other IST Department colleagues know, this kind of looks like a script.’” worked on the Instructional Develop- ment Institute Project, a training pro- — Robin L. Hughes gram for teachers in the mid-1970s. The IST field emerged as a schol- arly field of inquiry in part because of maker,” noting that there are few doing transcript. “They need a system to Moldstad’s work. He pushed heavily for research on audiovisual media. He her type of research in higher education make sure that they’re not just egregious helped form the Research and Theory programs. to these kids,” Hughes said. Other division of the Association for Edu- Hughes’ interest in sports comes research Hughes is conducting investi- cational Communications and Tech- naturally, although she said most gates the impact of race on faculty and nology, and oversaw the publication assume she had more of an interest in students in universities. of many research articles in AECT playing sports. She, her sister, and her While a born and raised Texan, publications. two brothers are each more than six feet Hughes knows she’s in the place for her He is survived by his wife Katherine Geving Moldstad, MS’51, whom he tall, a fact that made most think they’d now. Before settling in Indiana four met while both were working toward be masters on the basketball court. years ago following appointments at IU degrees, and their two children. “People just expect that you’re good at the University of Texas-El Paso and the it and I was not so good. Neither was University of Oklahoma, Hughes was Duaine C. Lang my sister, really,” she said. “And my on the lookout for an opportunity to 1928–2009 father — being the coach that he is — join the IU faculty. A fellowship pro- The director of student teaching and told us ‘you’re really not that good.’” gram brought her to Bloomington, an field experiences at IU Bloomington (There was one athlete in the bunch; experience she enjoyed so much she for 24 years, Duaine C. Lang, died one brother played NCAA Division I applied for the same fellowship again the on Jan. 3, 2009. Lang came to the basketball.) next year and taught in Indianapolis. IU School of Education in 1968 from Her father is a solid judge of basket- “Oh, I am here,” Hughes said she Butler University. He retired in 1992. Lang helped create the Associa- ball talent, or lack thereof. He’s Robert told herself. “I just can’t wait for a full- tion of Teacher Educators. He earned Hughes, who retired in 2005 as the time position to open up in higher-ed that organization’s designation as nation’s winningest boys’ high school student affairs.” The position came a a distinguished member and twice basketball coach. He roamed the side- few years later, and Hughes applied. received the ATE President’s Recogni- lines for 47 years, 31 at Fort Worth’s With her interests and the presence of tion Award. At his retirement, Lang Dunbar High School, and is in the major sports in Indianapolis, “there’s a noted that in his career he had hired National High School Hall of Fame. perfect fit,” she said. 217 doctoral students to help super- vise student teachers. At her father’s side, she developed an And soon she might be adding movie Born in Nebraska, he earned his interest in the game. “I would scout credentials to her vita. “It’s taken me doctorate at the University of Nebraska. games with my father since I was 2 in a different direction,” Hughes said. He served in both World War II and the years old,” she said. “Higher education student affairs, Korean War. He is survived by his son Over time, she also began to ask movie writer: I don’t know what that and daughter. questions about the athletes she’d watch. means. I’ve got to figure that out.”

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PhoAaroton CBernsteinredit , IU Communications the IU School of Education is funding a five-year project to better prepare ELL teachers before they begin their careers, develop skills of current teach- ers, and revise methods of IU faculty. The national professional develop- ment grant of just under $1.5 million is funding a partnership between the IU School of Education at IUPUI and the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS). And now faculty members are concentrating on ways to make the transitions less jarring for both the students and the schools. “The idea of cultural competency really is an idea that is very relevant for 21st Century teachers,” said LYC members work on a project to gather talking points for a meeting at Senator Lugar’s office. Peter Cowan, assistant professor in the department of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education. Cowan is director of The Indiana Project for to make instruction better for English Medina, lecturer in teacher education. Latin American Cultural Competency language learners and actually make Medina’s perspective includes work as a (IPLACC), a joint effort of the Center instruction better for all the students.” faculty member, as a board member at for Latin American and Caribbean In Indianapolis, faculty members the city’s Latino support organization Studies (CLACS) and the School of at the School of Education at IUPUI La Plaza, and seven years as director of Education at IU Bloomington now in are bringing together different stake- the Hispano-American Multi-Service its third year. Its goal is to enhance the holder groups starting with a spring Center in Indianapolis. And she’s seen teaching of Latin American culture and conference. The Latino Initiative kicks little work that tells the story of Latinos society in the schools and communities off on April 30 with an event called in a city like Indianapolis. “[Research- of Indiana. “Celebrating IUPUI/Latino Commu- ers] typically focus on the big cities — Cowan said IPLACC is working nity Partner Impact: Looking Back, New York, or in California or Texas,” on bringing together stakeholders to Moving Forward.” she said. “And if we talk about the Mid- consider how they can organize and The afternoon features a keynote west, it might be Chicago or Cleveland get support from university resources. address by Angela Valenzuela, Univer- or Detroit. But we need our own and we The organization is hoping to follow sity of Texas professor and author of need to begin to also develop research- a spring event with a summer retreat. Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas- ers from within.” “We’re identifying people who have the style” Accountability Fails Latino Youth, Within all of these efforts is the goal energy and the passion to address these as well as Subtractive Schooling: U.S.- of guiding Latino newcomers as they issues, then bringing them together Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring. progress through Indiana’s schools into and using some of our resources to help Community partners will also partici- citizens who are engaged, giving back, support them in this work,” he said. pate in a discussion about collaborating and providing something more to their “So what we hope to see is development with IUPUI. new home. of an ongoing model of professional “Part of what it means to be an urban “This is not about going to school development.” school of Ed with an urban mission is so you can graduate, make money, and And among the goals: removing thinking about the different commu- then live a nice life and go off to your some fear that exists about the new nities,” said Samantha Bartholomew, suburb,” Rosario said of the Latino population of students. Cowan said assistant professor of educational Youth Collective’s work. “A good life some school districts and teachers are leadership and policy studies and a means a critical life, a life that doesn’t simply afraid of these students. co-organizer of the event. She said the get you to forget where you came from. “They are afraid they are going day will be about starting a continu- You remember in a democracy you have to have to throw out everything that ing dialogue about partnerships. “How a role to play — and it’s not just a role they’ve learned and learn to teach in a can we help each other to help inform about protecting your own and speaking completely new way,” he said. “However, things that have consequences to the for your community. What we try to get what research shows, and my experience Latino community?” kids to understand is that making a life is that you don’t have to throw every- There is a particular need for is an ethical project and it has cosmo- thing out. And there are a few things researching Latino student issues in politan dimensions to it.” Ch uc k C arne y that you can learn to do that are going Indianapolis, said co-organizer Monica

Chalkboard • 9 Coaching up math

IU team helps teachers in one Indiana county introduce algebraic concepts earlier and more easily Greene County teachers work during a recent monthly meeting.

ebate continues over the think about how we are going to teach School who’s taught for 25 years. success of a national push to these concepts.” “Mastery’s expected earlier. We have D introduce higher-level math- Galindo is leading a team from the lots of parents call and say ‘we can’t help ematics at an earlier grade. Starting in IU School of Education that is work- them with their homework. We didn’t the 1990s, the federal department of ing with colleagues from the Math have this until high school.’” Other education started pressing educators Department to take on this challenge teachers say that’s also meant increased to begin teaching algebraic concepts in one rural Indiana county. The expectations from them. “The burden well before students reach high school. Greene County Math Advancement has fallen more to us to get it done in Discussions about global competitive- Partnership Project (Greene MAPP) our classrooms,” said Lori Markle, ness have added heat to the arguments is in the midst of a two-year effort to 3rd grade teacher at Linton-Stockton for requiring higher math performance help teachers in five school corporations Elementary. “Everybody needs a from U.S. students. become better prepared to share the refresher and I think we felt like it was Early results have fueled it. Elemen- concepts with students. The Indiana time for someone to hold our hands and tary students in the U.S. have actually Department of Education is funding guide us into what was being expected.” performed better against other countries the way for nearly 80 teachers from “By helping teachers better under- in math according to the National kindergarten through 6th grade to stand algebraic reasoning and math- Assessment of Educational Progress attend monthly sessions and intensive ematics in general, they can in turn feel or NAEP assessment. But a Brookings summer sessions. more comfortable teaching math,” said Institution report issued last year deter- Signe Kastberg, associate dean of Sophie Haywood, co-director of the mined 8th graders in the U.S. are academic affairs for the IU School of Greene County Grant and Professional “woefully unprepared” for the advanced Education at IUPUI and math edu- Development Consortium, which asked classes in which they now struggle. cation professor, Clinical Assistant the IU team to become involved. The Yet little attention has gone to Professor Gina Borgioloi Yoder, and organization funds development oppor- another challenge the move has brought Research Associate Kathryn Essex are tunities for Greene County teachers. about: increased demand on teachers all part of the project. Math Depart- “Students are going to hopefully build who might not have approached the ment Associate Professor Kevin Pilgrim those critical thinking, problem-solving subjects in the classroom. and Math Department Lecturer Kim- skills that are necessary for that math at “One of the problems is that algebra berley Polly are also on the IU team. a younger age.” has not been a part of the elementary Greene County teachers expressed Haywood’s partner at the consortium school curriculum for a long time,” said a desire for more professional training said the need for this kind of profession- Enrique Galindo, associate professor that would help them keep pace with al development became clear when the of mathematics education. “Many the increasing demands. organization surveyed elementary teach- teachers who are experienced — and “Everything’s introduced earlier,” ers. “We discovered that they have been in the classroom for many said Tammy Basye, a special education really lacked a lot of confidence in years — have never had the chance to teacher at Eastern Greene Middle teaching the content of mathematics,” Ch uc k C arne y

10 • Chalkboard said Shirley Byrer, also a co-director something that they’re going to store of the consortium. “They were away for a later date when there’s more definitely afraid to move away from time, but to say ‘here’s how you do it.’” their textbooks because they didn’t Since the project started in August, trust their own understanding. So one Rapacki has spent a good bit of her time of our goals is to increase that knowl- doing the classroom lessons to illustrate edge base in the content area of math how they work. As the work advances in so they can better help their students the next year, she’ll step more into the understand mathematics, especially background, eventually just observing algebraic thinking.” and giving pointers. “When you hear that word— “She’s wonderful,” Markle said of ‘algebra’—especially as an elementary Rapacki. “She’s encouraging all of us teacher, it’s a little intimidating,” said to take chances, to take risks, and help Bart Wade, a third grade teacher at us see how we can take the things that grade teacher at Bloomfield Elementary, Linton-Stockton Elementary. “We have we’re already doing and extend them “Plus they need to know the ramifica- to find some things that can supplement algebraically.” tions of those things.” what we’re doing.” Rapacki said she understood the “We’re helping the children to For the consortium, bringing in learning curve the teachers faced think more,” said Cindy Moody, also IU partners was key. “They bring a because of the experience level in a Bloomfield Elementary third grade lot of resources that are on the cut- Greene County schools. The average teacher. “And giving them more think ting edge of education,” Haywood said. age of the county’s teachers is 42. time, helping them to learn strategies to “Trying to change the way people think Rapacki said she encounters only a solve problems.” about mathematics is huge. It’s a huge few recent graduates. Galindo said the IU team is connect- paradigm shift that we’re bringing to “The idea is not so much to change ing research and practice, implementing the schools.” everything that they’re doing, but to pedagogical concepts with the math Because of that large task, the IU tweak the things that they have and to knowledge from both the School of team also has a coach. A roaming “math look at the way they question students,” Education and Math Department coach” moves between the five schools, she said. “To try to get them to help faculty and staff. Byrer said that this working directly with teachers in their students formulate thoughts on their combination of resources is crucial. classrooms to show how a teaching idea own and come to their own understand- “We’re bringing the schools together to, can work and demonstrating new ways ing as well as support the process of that number one, increase teacher mathe- of teaching. problem solving. They need to foster matic understanding, and, number two, “They tend to think of me as the classrooms that encourage algebraic translate that into math instruction.” practitioner,” said Lauren Rapacki, the reasoning and thinking in order to Galindo is also looking to pick up Greene MAPP Math Coach. “How can succeed down the road.” things that can translate to other areas. they put to practice exactly what the IU “We needed to give to our kids other He expects that this kind of model can team talks about? The goal is to make options, because they have to know in translate to other areas of Indiana. Also, it make sense for them, and to make it problem-solving in the future the many of the techniques developed with something that they’re going to use, not possibilities,” said Janet Shirley, third these experienced teachers may be valu- able for pre-service teachers in School of Education methods classes. “I think it’s a full cycle where we bring together the research from the university and the experience from the local schools, plus the energy and cre- ativity of future teachers who will later be coming to these classrooms,” he said. See the story on the SOE podcast page, or YouTube. Just look under “education” at podcast.iu.edu, or www.youtube.com/ IUSchoolOfEducation.

(top) Teachers speaking with Kevin Pilgrim, professor in the IU Math Department.

(bottom) Enrique Glindo leads a recent

Ch uc k C arne y session with Greene Co. teachers.

Chalkboard • 11 Alumni Profile

A School of Education base for the man behind the Dark Knight Before reviving Batman on film, Michael Uslan worked on using comics to educate

or a lifetime, IU alumnus Michael Uslan, BA’73, MS’75, FJD’76, has battled against the perception that comics are simply some- thing for kids, a thing to be taken less seriously than high art. Clearly, he’s making some headway. Set aside the fact that the latest incarnation of the Batman movie series he started in 1989 began the year push- ing $1 billion in revenue worldwide. The Dark Knight is one of the top grossing films ever, and was nominated in 8 Academy Award categories. Uslan has achieved success as the Batman series executive producer, and also served as producer or associate producer on other Hollywood films including National Treasure and The Spirit. What pleases Uslan more these days is that he is finally helping pioneers of the comic book industry get recogni- tion. He just completed a documentary featuring some of the last living original comic book creators. And their work is now gracing museums worldwide. “I worked with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently and advised them and loaned them comic books from my collection,” Uslan said (his personal collection is so vast he donated more than 30,000 to IU’s Lilly Library in 2001). “For the first time ever, they had an exhibit dealing with comic books at the Met and I had a chance to speak there. I’ve spoken twice now at the Smithsonian Institution, and they’ve recognized comic books as a true American art form and have honored the creators.”

Michael Uslan Uslan pointed out that the Louvre

in Paris as well as other museums in o ns c o urtes y IU Co mmunicati

12 • Chalkboard Alumni Profile

Europe have recently hosted shows So mostly over a summer, Uslan said featuring comics. “It’s the icing on he crammed in as many hours as he the cake. It’s what I set out to try to could while studying subjects to bolster do, and I’m very proud that all of our the work he was doing for D.C. He said efforts … have been able to accomplish he made many presentations in classes (recognition) for these people that so on using comic books effectively in deserve the respectability of audiences education. Again, he was thankful to be worldwide.” taken seriously, this time by School of Educating about the value of com- Education faculty. ics is something Uslan has been doing “When they heard what I was since his days at IU. While working working on, rather than scoff or just on his undergraduate degree in history, say ‘that’s crazy! You can’t do that,’” he created the first accredited college he said, “they bent over backwards to What pleases course and correspondence course on allow me to keep as much focus as I comic books in 1971. And later that could within their courses to work on Uslan more these decade, while pursuing a law degree the aspect of comic books in education. days is that he in Bloomington, another opportunity Uslan said he literally worked night and came about that brought him to the IU day, seven days a week, over an intensive is finally helping School of Education. summer session. His thesis titled “The “I was hired by D.C. Comics,” he Comic Book Revolution” focused on pioneers of the said, “and one of the first programs that subject. Masters in hand in the fall that D.C. asked me to get involved with of 1975, Uslan helped to successfully comic book industry was a project called ‘Edugraphics.’” The sell the program to the school board in get recognition. company envisioned using comic books New York. as a teaching tool, particularly for These days, an incredibly tight He just completed those trying to pick up language skills. speaking schedule brings Uslan to D.C. asked Uslan to work with educa- college campuses often. He says the a documentary tion researchers to develop comics that background he received in education could aid learning-disabled children, has helped him more thoroughly vet featuring some English as a second language students, research and understand his audience. of the last living or children who generally didn’t have Generally, he says the degree has helped an interest in reading. shaped how he approaches life. original comic book “We took comic book adventures And still, he’s educating others. As of Superman, Batman, and Wonder he enjoys gratification from the muse- creators. And their Woman — with controlled vocabular- ums now featuring some of comics ies, with teachers’ guides, with bulletin pioneers such as Stan Lee, the creator of work is now gracing board displays, and supplemental Spider Man, and Jack Kirby, co-creator museums worldwide. material — and produced comics that of Captain America, Uslan says there’s would introduce, for example, one new more educating to be done. While the vocabulary word each page,” he said. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and “And everyone found that as the Sciences honored The Dark Knight students were reading them and had in 8 categories, many critics and fans the pictures reinforcing the words, it protested its omission from the “best was extremely effective.” picture” category as a snub. The Oscars D.C. planned to send Uslan to have never nominated a movie based on teacher’s conventions and help make a comic book character. a presentation before the New York “Thus far, we’ve gotten the recogni- City School board. “I got to a point tion from the Metropolitan Museum where I felt I really needed credentials of Art, the Louvre, the Smithsonian to keep pace with this and to maintain Institution,” Uslan said. “And one day, if my credibility,” he said. “That’s what we keep working at it, I’m sure we’ll get backed the decision for me to go out that degree of respect from the Academy. and get my masters.” That would be wonderful.”

Chalkboard • 13 Alumni News Alumni making an impact in the state, region, and world

Cultures at Hobart and William Smith is among those five, she’ll earn a $5,000 Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. cash prize and $1,000 for her school, plus The Boston Globe featured McCabe a graduate-level course at the Erikson and the organization in an article last fall. Institute in Chicago and induction into McCabe and her twin sister Karen, MA’94, the Kohl McCormick Academy of co-founded the organization. The sisters Outstanding Educators. started the effort in part because of the relationship Helen formed with an autistic student she met while studying in China 2008–09 Alumni in the early 1990s. National Public Radio McCabe speaking at Nanjing Brain Hospi- also interviewed McCabe last summer Board of Directors tal in Nanjing, China, March 23, 2008. regarding the Paralympics being held in Beijing. Officers Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruc- McCabe said the country has struggled President tion has named Carol D’Amico, MS’87, with its response to autism but is gaining Janet A. Williamson, BS’72, MS’90 EdD’96, as an educational consultant to ground. “There has been growing aware- Vice President the Indiana Department of Education. ness over the past decade, since we first Jack W. Humphrey, MS’56, EdD’62 D’Amico has been CEO and Vice Presi- got involved in autism in China,” she said. Secretary/Treasurer dent of Conexus Indiana, an organization “More and more people in China know Virginia M. Harrison, BS’72, MS’77 to promote new manufacturing and other about autism, and this includes doctors, Past President industry opportunities in the state. She’ll government officials, teachers, parents. Joseph M. Walsh, BS’92 maintain a senior role there, focusing on But the government is still unable to meet Directors workforce development. Before head- the huge need for this population, includ- Karol L. Bartlett, BS’86 ing Conexus, D’Amico was executive vice ing both children and adults with autism.” Edward Bradford, Jr., BS’78 president for Ivy Tech Community Col- According to the Globe, McCabe trav- Sheila R. Conder, BS’68 lege of Indiana. els to China about twice a year to hold Larry M. Fitzgerald, BS’67 “Carol D’Amico is a nationally renowned workshops. Subjects include teaching Jennifer A. Fleming, BS’70 expert in the areas of career, technical, and strategies for parents and teachers, alter- Patricia L. Gainey, MS’79, EdD’94 adult education,” said s tate schools super- native communication strategies, sensory William D. Gardner, MS’00 intendent Tony Bennett in a news release. integration issues, and the importance of Cassandra D. Gray, BS’78, MS’84 “Dr. D’Amico has unique skills and abilities early intervention and inclusion. Davin E. Harpe, BS ’99 that will help us revitalize our approach “I would say the challenge that remains Maysee Yang Herr, MS’01 to career and technical education and is still great,” she said. “To meet the needs Earlene L. Holland fulfill our goal to develop the best high of all of these children will require contin- Jamia Jacobsen, BS ’62, MS ’75, school-to-college/workforce program in ued advocacy and efforts on the part of PhD’83 the country.” organizations like FIVE, including working James B. Luther, PhD’92 D’Amico earned her master’s degree in to promote more awareness of and com- Helen L. Mamarchev, PhD, MS’73 adult education and organizational devel- mitment to this population on the part of Andrea M. Smith, BS’04 opment and later a doctorate in leader- government offices and officials.” Sarah Sawin Smith, BS’69, MS’77 ship and policy studies from the School of Amy Scheeringa, BS’06, is one of 19 Martha D. Street, BS’63, MS’66 Education. She also has experience as the metropolitan Chicago teachers selected Nancy Sutton, BS’66 former assistant secretary for the Office as a finalist for the 2009 Kohl McCormick of Vocational and Adult Education in the Early Childhood Teaching Award. Scheer- Ex officio U.S. Department of Education. inga is a kindergarten teacher at Our Lady Sarah J. Baumgart Helen McCabe, PhD’04, received con- of Guadalupe School. The award honors Rachel Jones Crouch siderable attention recently for her work teachers of children from birth to 8-years- Gerardo M. Gonzalez, PhD on “The FIVE Project,” a nonprofit orga- old who are, according to the Dolores Donald R. Hossler, PhD nization devoted to working with those Kohl Educational Foundation, “dedicated, Jayme Little in China who have autism. McCabe is an innovative leaders in their fields.” Patricia M. Rogan, PhD assistant professor of education in the Five winners will be honored at an Michelle L. Stuckey Department of Asian Languages and awards luncheon in June. If Scheeringa

14 • Chalkboard Class Notes

newspapers. He has championed Freedom of Class Notes 1960s Information efforts in Indiana. Pauley served Hal K. Green, BS’62, MS’65, EdD’72, has just as an NBC television news anchor and host for published a mystery novel, Murder in the Well close to three decades. She began as a reporter Before 1960 House, which takes Indiana University and with television station WISH in Indianapolis and Bloomington as its setting. Green attended spent a year as a news anchor in Chicago before Robert L. Willman, BA’40, MS’51, is 91 years one of the last one-room schools in Indiana. starting her 13-year tenure as co-host of NBC’s old. He writes, “I search the Class Notes for He enjoyed a career as an administrator in Today show in 1976. The winner of numerous names of members of my generation. I find mental health and served as CEO of two large Emmy awards, she later spent 12 years as a host very few [these days].” Willman lives in New institutions before becoming a successful of Dateline NBC. Albany. Ind. independent investor. He and his wife, Margot Former IU defensive back Nate Cunningham, Vernon M. Roudebush, BS’52, is retired (Keith), EdD’77, live in Columbus, Ind. BS’70, MS’75, thought he had seen the last of after practicing optometry in Safford, Ariz., Linda S. Gregory, BA’66, MA’71, EdD’74, is a the Rose Bowl watch he received in 1968 for 40 years. He is past president of the senior programmer and analyst for Saint-Gobain when the Hoosiers played USC in Pasadena, Arizona Optometric Association and past Containers Inc. in Muncie, Ind. In November Calif. At his daughter’s soccer game in Dallas president of the Arizona State Parks Board. she was selected as one of five employees to in about 1979, Cunningham’s watch flew off He also served on the Mount Graham Regional receive the company’s Volunteer Recognition his arm when he got “a little excited” when Medical Center Board in Safford for 18 years Award. Gregory was cited for her involvement his daughter scored a goal. He never found and on the Safford City Council for four with the Eliminating Poverty Impact Coalition, the watch. Imagine Cunningham’s surprise years. He and his wife, Cecilia, now reside in of which she currently serves as co-chairwoman. when he received an inquiry last year from Tucson, Ariz. The couple has four children and She lives in Muncie. David Hill, of Plano, Texas, hoping to return the 13 grandchildren. Susan Wantz Kupisch, BA’68, MS’69, watch to its owner. “I found it in a parking lot in Bonnie Layton, the daughter of Joyce PhD’76, of Evansville, Ind., is vice president for Dallas, Texas, over 28 years ago,” Hill wrote to Bond Bellew, BS’54, writes, “I am searching academic affairs at the University of Evansville. Cunningham. “As a child, I did not realize the for any photos, videos, or recordings of IU John R. Swallow, MA’69, PhD’75, is a private significance of such a keepsake. I thought it was campus bands in the 1940s, especially of the consultant in Reston, Va., where he lives. A a cool watch and remember carrying it around Chuck Smith and Med Flory bands. I am also former Peace Corps volunteer, he also served in my pocket for a while until I finally stowed seeking photos of DU brothers from that time. with the Foreign Service and the U.S. Agency for it away in a box my parents recently found.” I would appreciate anyone’s recollections of International Development until his retirement Hill contacted the IU Athletics Department to seeing the bands. I’m working on a video for in 2003. Towards the end of his time with USAID, locate Cunningham. “I must admit that I was my father, John, BS’50, and the musicians with Swallow spent several months in Indonesia and overwhelmed at the opportunity to get the [whom] he played.” The Bellews live in Cape Afghanistan helping to implement U.S. foreign watch back after all these years,” Cunningham Coral, Fla. aid programs. replied. And, despite a little corrosion, the David A. Ambler, BS’59, MPA’61, F. Grant Williams, BS’69, MS’72, retired in watch still runs, he added. EdD’66, is retired, having served as vice August 2007 after 36 years in education. He was Jerry L. Fritz, BS’70, MS’76, has been chancellor for student affairs at the University most recently the principal of the Riley School, a named dean of the economic and workforce of Kansas in Lawrence. In the fall, the univ- K–12 special education center for students with development division for Pikes Peak Community ersity’s student-funded recreation center will emotional and behavioral problems. Williams College in Colorado Springs, Colo. He and be rededicated in his name, becoming the lives in San Diego. his wife, Janet, live in Woodland Park, Colo. David A. Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Fritz has two sons — Will, a graduate of the Center. Ambler lives in Lawrence with his wife, University of Wisconsin–Platteville, and Brad, Mary (Harris), MS’60. 1970s who recently finished his freshman year at the Beverly Stephens Mendoza, BS’59, writes, Three IU alumni will be inducted into the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “I have lived in the Los Angeles [area] since Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in April. G a r y W. Mc C l a r y, MS’72, DDS’77, is a dentist 1991 [and taught] ballet here in many dance James W. Brown, MS’70, MBA’75, PhD’77, in Georgetown, Ind. He writes that he and his studios until 2004. Currently, I am serving Craig Klugman, BA’67, and Jane Pauley, BA’72, wife, Carolyn (Bentley), MS’78, will become as second reader at the Third Church of LHD’96, are among the five new members grandparents for the second time in April 2009. Christ, Scientist, Glendale, and I am a paid who will be inducted during a ceremony The couple lives in Floyds Knobs, Ind. employee of the church.” Originally from in Greencastle, Ind., on Saturday, April 18. Cynthia Stevens Dwyer, BS’74, EdS’90, Muncie, Ind., Mendoza was the owner and Created in 1966 by the Indiana chapter of is a reading specialist for Highlands County director of the Valparaiso School of Dance and the Society of Professional Journalists and Schools in Sebring, Fla. She is also a children’s Theatre from 1969 to 1983. In Los Angeles, housed at DePauw University, the Hall of Fame book author and was chosen as Indiana District Mendoza taught ballet at the Los Angeles recognizes journalists of great distinction with 5 Middle School Principal of the Year in 2003. School of Music and Art, Le Studio in Pasadena, significant ties to the state. Brown, executive Dwyer lives in Sebring. Pashkova’s Dance in Tujunga, and several other associate dean of the IU School of Journalism In August, Barbara C. Jones, BS’75, MS’78, dance studios. Other IU graduates in her at IUPUI, is a pioneer in computer-assisted became vice president for student affairs at family include her late husband, Calvin K. journalism and an accomplished photographer. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She oversees Hubbell, BS’57, JD’60, and her late son, C. His expertise has helped create a generation approximately 190 staff members. Previously, Keith Hubbell Jr., BA’85. Another son, Stephen of multimedia-savvy journalism graduates over Jones served as assistant chancellor for Ross Hubbell, is a lawyer and well-known the years. Klugman has, since 1982, been editor student affairs at the University of Wisconsin– jazz guitarist. of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, one of the Whitewater, a position she held since 2000. state’s most prominent and award-winning She earlier served as associate vice president

Chalkboard • 15 Class Notes for student affairs at Ball State University spring semester 2008. Her husband, Michael, Billings’ first book, Olympic Media: Inside in Muncie, Ind., and as director of student a professor of philosophy, is also retired. the Biggest Show on Television. He and activities and organizations at Minnesota State The couple spent the fall semester in London, his wife, Angela (Bowser), BS’99, live in University–Mankato. Jones lives in Oxford. England, where Michael was teaching at Central, S.C. K. Habib Khan, PhD’76, was appointed two universities. The Morgans live in In October, N i c o l e V. L a w, BS’94, principal of chief academic officer of Stratford University in Bloomington, Ind. Garden City Elementary School in Indianapolis, Falls Church, Va., in October. The college has “Right now I am back in higher education received the prestigious 2008 Milken National an enrollment of about 2,000 students. Khan working at SUNY College of Environmental Educator Award. The award, which carries previously served four years as the provost Science and Forestry [in Syracuse, N.Y.] in a $25,000 recognition, is given to about 80 of Virginia International University in Fairfax, the Outreach and Continuing Education teachers across the country each year. “Being a Va. He lives in Fairfax with his wife, Naveed, Department,” writes Maura Harling Stefl, principal is about being a servant-leader,” says who works for the U.S. Department of State in MS’86, of Fayetteville, N.Y. “It’s a great place Law. “My teaching philosophy is threefold: how Washington, D.C. to be with all the cutting-edge environmental can I make the students lives better, how can Robert T. Rhode, BS’76, MA’78, PhD’81, projects going on … I also started a business I help my teachers become lifelong learners is a professor of English at Northern Kentucky called N.Y. Vintage Vanity and sell on the and better teachers, and how can I help make University in Newport. He is one of the world’s Internet and locally — [it’s] a good excuse to families lives better? At Garden City, we leading experts on steam tractor history go flea marketing. The kids and husband are educate the whole child and create a culture and recently co-authored The Steam Tractor well, and we enjoy our life in upstate New York. that helps both the student and the family.” Encyclopedia: Glory Days of the Invention [I’m] looking forward to attending some [Union Law, who is completing a PhD in educational That Changed Farming Forever, published Board] anniversary events [in Bloomington, supervision at Indiana State University, believes by the Quayside Group. Rhode lives in Ind.] and seeing some old faces!” the award is not solely about her as a teacher Springboro, Ohio. This fall Constance Gray Deuschle, and as a principal. “It is not only good for me, In June, Lu Ann Brobst Staheli, BS’76, BGS’88, MS’91, EdD’99, joined Valparaiso (Ind.) but for the teachers and students, and for the was named Utah’s Best State Educator at the University as a visiting assistant professor in the public. It allows everyone to see the good K–12 level. She has taught English, writing, Department of Psychology. She had previously things that are taking place at Garden City. It and reading at Payson Junior High School in provided consulting services in educational also means that there are organizations out Payson, Utah, for the past 23 years. Staheli programs, team building, and international there who recognize the good work educators earned a master’s degree in instructional education to the Indiana Department of do, [who acknowledge] the jobs we do every technology from Utah State University in Education and various schools. Deuschle is day.” In addition to meeting the challenges May. She taught English and psychology at a former assistant professor of counseling of being an elementary school principal, Law Rockville Senior High School in Rockville, Ind., and human services at IU South Bend and has also had to overcome personal challenges. before moving to Utah. During her 29 years a past president of the Indiana Counseling She has suffered from sickle-cell anemia her as a teacher, Staheli has shared her love of Association. She received the association’s entire life. But, here, as in teaching, she adopts reading and writing with over 4,000 students. Irene Cutter Distinguished Service Award in a no-excuses mentality. “I try to stay on top “Once my student, always my student,” is her 2007. Deuschle lives in Goshen, Ind. of things and know when I am healthy. Since philosophy. An author, editor, screenwriter, Mark D. Robinson, BGS’89, MS’94, is [the symptoms of] the disease come on without and writing coach as well as a teacher, Staheli vice chancellor of student development at warning, I have to live in the moment and try to lives in Spanish Fort, Utah. City College of San Francisco. He recently do and be my very best.” received two prestigious higher education In September, Tuxedo Press published 1980s recognitions. In summer 2008 Robinson was Doctors, Lawyers, Indian Chiefs by Thomas R. admitted to Harvard University’s Institute for Benjey, PhD’95. He is also the author of Keep Brenna Brown Burnette, BS’80, is a Educational Management. He also received A-Goin’: The Life of Lone Star Dietz. In addition kindergarten teacher at Don Callejon School an American Council on Education fellowship to writing books about Native Americans in in Santa Clara, Calif. She received a master’s for the 2008–2009 academic year. An I-man the U.S. school system, Benjey writes about degree in education administration from San in basketball at IU, Robinson was part of the professional and college football. He lives in Jose State University in 2003. Before moving Big Ten championship team in 1989. He lives in Carlisle, Pa. to California, she lived in Germany, Colorado, San Francisco. Angela J. Nealy, MS’98, is president Hawaii, Maryland, and Korea. At IU Burnette of DJ Center of Youth Inc., a not-for-profit served as Recreational Sports secretary. She organization, which she co-founded with is the mother of three adopted daughters and 1990s another IU alumna, Devina J. Jani, Cert/ lives in Santa Clara. Cara Chilton Patton, BS’90, is a second- BS’03, MSW’05. Nealy lives and works Barbara Woodruff Rocco, BS’80, MS’87, grade teacher at Emmons Elementary School in Indianapolis. began her second year as a Title 1 reading in Mishawaka, Ind. She lives in Mishawaka with Michelle Hatfield Gerbasich, BS’99, is an teacher in Burbank, Ill., in the fall. Previously, her son, Connor, and has been teaching in the English teacher and boys’ golf team coach at she was a classroom teacher for seven years, community’s schools for 17 years. R. Nelson Snider High School in Fort Wayne, after which she stayed home to raise three Andrew C. Billings, BS’94, MA’96, PhD’99, Ind. She has a master’s degree in curriculum, children — Kyle, 21, Heather, 18, and Carly is an associate professor in the Department instruction, and assessment from Walden 15. Rocco and her husband, Perry, live in La of Communication and Culture at Clemson University, an online institution. A former Grange Park, Ill. University. His research and teaching focuses I-woman in golf, she married Mike Gerbasich Audrey Lippman Morgan, MS’85 retired on sports communication and mass media, in 2004. The couple lives in Fort Wayne with as director of the IU Kelley School of Business particularly on the portrayal of identity within their two children — daughter Katie, 3, and Undergraduate Program at the end of the televised sport. Routledge recently published son Bryce, 1.

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Amy Paul Schmeltz, BS’99, MA’07, is a high- Nicole Nemeth Katlun, BS’06, is a fourth- The editors gratefully acknowledge the school teacher in Walkerton, Ind. She writes, “I grade teacher at Beiger Elementary School in assistance of the Indiana University Alumni married Dan Schmeltz on Dec. 29, 2007, and Mishawaka, Ind. She lives in South Bend, Ind. Association in compiling class notes. I am enjoying my second year of teaching at The magic that happens when nobody’s John Glenn High School.” Schmeltz lives in looking is a favorite theme of children’s writers, Plymouth, Ind. and Jill Plunk, BS’06, who writes under the To submit information: name Jill Jana Marie, has given it exuberant 2000s expression in Zoo Rendezvous (The Peppertree Write to the Alumni Association at Press, 2008), a rhyming account for young 1000 E. 17th St., Bloomington, IN 47408, Kevin A. Harris, BA’00, MS’02, is completing readers of the high jinks zoo that animals a PhD in counseling psychology at Ball State or visit the IUAA on the Web at indulge in after hours. Plunk is an elementary University in Muncie, Ind. He plans to graduate www.alumni.indiana.edu. school teacher in Collier County, Fla. Her book in May 2009. He is currently employed as a is dedicated to José Galván, a 5-year-old psychology resident at Citrus Health Network Florida boy born unable to hear. Ten percent of in Miami. the proceeds from the book’s purchase will go In May 2008, Shirley Baker Aamidor, to a fund to help provide José with support at PhD’02, was promoted to associate professor home that will enable him to keep up in school. of education and approved for tenure at IU Find out more — including news of Plunk’s Kokomo. She lives in Carmel, Ind. late 2008 release, Balloon Blessing — at www. Amanda G. Slusher, MS’02, is director heightenedhorizons.com. of development for the Kentucky Division of Prevent Blindness America. She is also pursuing a master of arts for teachers degree in elementary education at Bellarmine University See what’s happening at the in Louisville, where she lives. Theresa Gutzwiller Barker, BS’03, teaches School of Education middle-school mathematics, science, and religion at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School in Bedford, Ind. She lives with her husband, Travis, and son, Andrew, in Newberry, Ind. Jennifer Jacobs Robbins, BA’03, MS’05, recently relocated to Carmel, Ind. She works with corporate clients and youth education programs for The Burchard Group, a boutique consulting company based in San Francisco. Her husband, John, is a sales and marketing manager for Flexware Innovation, an information-technology firm in Fishers, Ind., that develops software for manufacturing companies. The couple writes, “While we enjoyed our time living in Texas immensely, we are quite excited to be moving closer to • Video podcasts on the IU School of Education web site: friends, family, and our Midwestern roots.” Melissa Taylor Howell, BS’04, is a second- www.education.indiana.edu grade teacher at Loughman Oaks Elementary • The IU School of Education on the IU Podcast Page: podcast.iu.edu, School in Davenport, Fla. She is also pursuing type “School of Education” in the search box, or look under “education” a master’s degree in education at Stetson in “topics” University in DeLand, Fla. Howell lives in Davenport with her husband, Brandon, BS’04. • The IU School of Education YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/ Ashley B. Ransburg, BS’05, is a first- iuschoolofeducation. grade teacher at Central Elementary School in Plainfield, Ind. She writes, “I continue to You can now see and hear more of what is going on at the School of do presentations at schools and libraries for Education. Short video features are available on the IU School of my children’s book, Evie Finds Her Family Education homepage, along with listings of events and news highlights. Tree.” The book was published by the Indiana A comprehensive list of currently featured videos is available through the Historical Society Press in 2006. Ransburg lives in Plainfield. new IU Podcast page. And we’re also on YouTube. Bradley D. Crozier, BS’06, and his wife, And now we’re on Facebook! See the latest news, including video, plus Jessica, welcomed daughter, Victoria Lynn, in keep up with what’s happening with faculty, staff, students, and alumni October 2007. They live in Harlan, Ind. by joining the School of Education group. Search for “Indiana University School of Education” to find us.

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School of Education Dean Gerardo Gonzalez visits with Ivy Tech Bloomington Chancellor John Whikehart after a ceremony to note a statewide articulation agreement between all schools of education in the IU system and Ivy Tech campuses throughout Indiana (story on page 5).