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Katharine Taylor and the Shady Hill School, 1915-1949 University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 1-1-1989 Katharine Taylor and the Shady Hill School, 1915-1949. Sandra Ramsey Loehr University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1 Recommended Citation Loehr, Sandra Ramsey, "Katharine Taylor and the Shady Hill School, 1915-1949." (1989). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 4460. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/4460 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. KATHARINE TAYLOR AND THE SHADY HILL SCHOOL, 1915-1949 A Dissertation Presented by SANDRA RAMSEY LOEHR Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION September 1989 Education Q Copyright by Sandra Ramsey Loehr 1989 All Rights Reserved KATHARINE TAYLOR AND THE SHADY HILL SCHOOL, 1915-1949 A Dissertation Presented By SANDRA RAMSEY LOEHR Approved as to style and content by: /L. yce(/A. Berkman, Member Marilyn'Tlaring-Hidore, Dean School of Education ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express by appreciation to the following individuals for their continuing encouragement and support throughout this project: Hank Loehr, David Loehr, Philip Eddy, Carolyn Edwards, Joyce Berkman, William Kornegay, Myrtle Orloff, Marcia Stefan, and Fred W. Ramsey. iv ABSTRACT KATHARINE TAYLOR AND THE SHADY HILL SCHOOL, 1915-1949 SEPTEMBER 1989 SANDRA RAMSEY LOEHR, B.S., OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Ed.M., HARVARD UNIVERSITY Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Directed by: Professor S. Philip Eddy This study is a narrative history with a biographical focus that traces the evolution of the Shady Hill School from a neighborhood cooperative school to a thriving independent school with a national reputation for innovative curriculum, excellent classroom teaching, and a distinctive teacher training program. Three theses guide the narrative: (1) Katharine Taylor's leadership, her personal characteristics and her vision of school as a unified community of teachers and learners were primary forces in the transformation of the Shady Hill School. (2) Katharine Taylor's commitment to faculty development and her corresponding interest in teacher education programs were crucial factors in the evolution of the Shady Hill School; moreover, these commitments and interests were important factors in the development of Taylor s personal identity. (3) Katharine Taylor's personal values, motivations and professional concerns indicate the influence of her formative life experiences within v the progressive social and educational reform networks in Chicago during the early years of the twentieth century. The study contributes to research in the field of American educational history with respect to the following issues: first, the study adds to the documentation of the diversity of educational experiments in the progressive era of American education; second, it illustrates how examining the social, political and philosophical influences upon individuals associated with the development of schools adds to our understanding of reactions to conventional pedagogy in the progressive era; third, the study calls attention to the relevance of Taylor's ideas, leadership style and innovative programs for educational policy and practice today. These issues are introduced in the first chapter of the study and they are developed in chapters two through four then the major points of the study are reviewed in the last chapter for the purpose of recommending directions for further research based on the conclusions of this study. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .. ABSTRACT. .. Chapter I. INTRODUCTION . *****•••••••••• 1 Focus of the Study. ^ A Rationale for the Study.* 4 Organization of the Study.15 Sources Used in the Study. Summary of Chapter One.20 II. THE SHADY HILL SCHOOL, 1915-1921.21 Creating a School.21 "Our Heroic Passage".. The Search for a Director, 1920-1921 . 38 III. KATHARINE TAYLOR: THE YEARS BEFORE SHADY HILL.43 Early Years/Family Life.43 Formal Schooling Experiences in Chicago.50 The Vassar Years.57 A Teacher Returns to the Parker School, 1916-1921.60 Influences of Flora J. Cooke and Anita M. Blaine . 61 IV. "MY OWN PARKER SCHOOL" YEARS OF TRANSITION AND GROWTH, 1921-1928. 69 An Introduction to the Chapter.69 Organizational Changes . 72 Curriculum Revision at Shady Hill.75 Faculty Development.85 To the Teachers.87 The Move to Coolidge Hill.91 A Review of the First Six Years.95 vii V. THE SHADY HILL SCHOOL, 1928-1949: YEARS OF AUTONOMY AND RECOGNITION. Introduction . .97 A Teacher Education Program at Shady Hill The Rationale. 99 How the Apprentice Training Program Began. .104 The Apprentice Training Course as an Established Program . 107 e Seminar Component of the Apprentice Training Course. 109 nfluences and Impact of the Apprentice Training Program . 115 VI. REVIEW, INTERPRETATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS . 121 Introduction . 121 Review . 121 Katharine Taylor: The Person and Her Leadership. 125 Katharine Taylor as Educator . 130 Katharine Taylor and Progressivism . 133 Implications for Future Research . 139 BIBLIOGRAPHY . 145 viii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Focus of the Study The subject of this dissertation is the development of the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the vital leadership role played by Katharine Taylor, the director of the Shady Hill School from 1921-1949. During the years of Taylor's administration, Shady Hill grew from an informal neighborhood school directed by parents into an influential independent school with a professional staff. Under Taylor's leadership, the school developed a national reputation as an innovative institution with a distinctive curriculum, excellent classroom teachers, and a unique teacher training program. Katharine Taylor's work at Shady Hill represented the major accomplishment of her long, productive life (1888-1979); moreover, her work in the school exemplified both her commitment to a life of service and her deep interest in the role of the teacher. Taylor's commitment to a life of service had its origins in her early family life. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut on June 14, 1888. Her father, Graham Taylor, was a Congregational minister who was actively engaged in urban social reform. Graham Taylor was especially interested in the institutional model of the settlement house as an appropriate means for interpreting the Christian gospel for urban America in the last decades of the nineteenth century. 1 Taylor's interest in formal education began at the Francis W. Parker School, a center for the "new education"; here she found guidance and acceptance by the teachers and she developed a genuine love for learning. Taylor completed her secondary education at the Parker School; she then attended Vassar College, where she earned the A.B. in English in 1910. She earned the M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1911, and spent the following year in Europe on the William Borden Fellowship awarded by Vassar College. Taylor then returned to Vassar as an instructor in English from 1913 to 1916. In 1916, Taylor joined the faculty of the Francis W. Parker School, and remained there until 1921 when she became director of the Shady Hill School. After her retirement from Shady Hill, Taylor spent another two decades working as a representative and consultant for several international educational organizations. Thus her life was one committed to service in general, and to service through educational institutions in particular. In the present study of Katharine Taylor and the Shady Hill School, the focus is on Taylor's work as an educator, and the following questions indicate the direction of the study: 1. Why was Katharine Taylor successful? What were the components or attributes of her leadership style that contributed to her work at Shady Hill? 2. What were the circumstances of her personal history, her personality, and her motivations which contributed to her work at Shady Hill? 2 3. What were her ideas about the role of the teacher? How would she describe the "model teacher?" What motivated her continuing interest in, and emphasis on, teacher education? 4. What were the educational objectives and principles that informed her educational theories and guided her administrative efforts at Shady Hill? The following study develops an historical narrative with a biographical focus that addresses these questions, and the data in the narrative is offered as support for the following theses about the life and work of Katharine Taylor: 1. Katharine Taylor's leadership style, her personality and her vision of the ideal school as a unified community for both teachers and learners were primary forces in the transformation of the Shady Hill School from an informal parent cooperative to an established institution recognized for its innovative curriculum and its excellent classroom teaching. 2. Katharine Taylor's commitment to faculty development and her corresponding interest in teacher education were crucial factors in the evolution of the Shady Hill School; moreover, these commitments and interests were also important factors in the development of Taylor's personal identity. 3. Katharine Taylor's personality, values,
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