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UNIVERSITY O F PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF EDUCATION From the Dean WINTER 2010 –11 NEWS Beginning UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF Another Century EDUCATION Today, as we begin our second century, 21st-century components of developing as important, to consider whether the some things are better and some great skills in collaborating, communicating, final state standards go deep enough

challenges are present. We, like the handling complexity, and bringing creative to specify the ability to use school 1910–2010 Celebrating 100 Years rest of the University, have had an ideas to novel situations. Without basic learning in real life. Another article 1910 –2010 10YEARS STRONG 0 unprecedented period of improvement literacy and numeracy skills and these (page 8) is historical, with a focus on and expansion. We have experienced four c’s, our children will not do well, Improving Schools • Changing Lives • On the cover: At left are members of literacy research and instruction at Pitt Building Healthy Minds & Bodies the first graduating class of the School ever-increasing levels of research funded regardless of what test scores they may over the past century. It helps illustrate of Education in 1911. At right is graduate through grant programs that involve tough get. Furthermore, even if we solve all of Chantee McBride, who earned her PhD the ways in which strong research also and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees competitions. Our students are better than these problems, we also need to teach has had a strong practical focus. from the school in 2010 and 2001, respec- ever. We have succeeded in recruiting the our children to lead healthier lives or they urban education—a goal we’re pursuing tively. In background are, at left, Ting-Ho Huang (MA ’04, PhD ’09) and, at right, very best faculty in the country. We will, will become impoverished paying for The article (page 14) on family instability through our partnership with Pittsburgh Xiaowen Zhu (PhD ’09). of course, face some tough times because health care. and parent involvement in elementary Milliones 6–12, University Preparatory Photos from University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center and CIDDE. of the global financial situation and the school addresses another aspect of the School, which is conveniently located a rising costs of higher education, but we When we select new faculty for the multicultural problem. The school system short distance from our Pittsburgh campus. Table of Contents are positioned as well as we can be to School of Education and when we decide still rests upon a view that children come Features...... 4 Alan Lesgold respond to the pressures that will come. on priorities for research, these problems from nuclear families, but today the range Overall, you can be proud of the first 100 School News...... 16 always are on my mind. New faculty of family backgrounds of schoolchildren years of your Pitt School of Education. Faculty and Staff News...... 24 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH hen your University of Where the challenges lie is in our public members join a distinguished group of is quite variable and seldom well matched While much more will be demanded of Alumni News...... 32 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION In Memoriam...... 35 Pittsburgh School of education system. Public education in more established peers here. And much to the experiences of teachers who have us in the future, our first 100 years have Education first opened, it the United States is not up to the of our research is focused on the tough been at work for decades. Understanding shown that we can and do respond to PUBLISHER W Alan Lesgold faced an exciting period. The industrial demands we must place on it if our problems of our times. This issue of our this situation and figuring out how to deal the needs of our country and its children. Executive EDITOR expansion that would make Pittsburgh children are to thrive. We need to do magazine provides insights into a few with it presents another grand challenge. We hope you join us in our wishes for

101910–2010 YEARS STRONG 0 Jere Gallagher a major economic center was poised to more research, we need to better prepare of these research efforts. An additional emergent issue is unhealthy another century of productive scholarship COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER Stacey Rosleck begin in earnest. The pioneering professor educational professionals, and we need lifestyles. The current school generation and teaching. Personally, my decade ART DIRECTOR E.B. Huey had convinced his colleagues to help the public understand what is The article (page 6) on preparing teachers is less active and has its eating choices of involvement in the school has been Rainey Dermond and Pitt’s trustees that the University needed and why. Too many children fail to work with culturally and linguistically determined by marketing and food extremely rewarding, and I am proud PRODUCTION MANAGER Chuck Dinsmore should help schoolteachers learn how to learn enough to do well in our modern diverse student populations describes our availability, and the result is dramatic to have had the chance to lead such a EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS to teach. Certainly, there were distant world. Because of the world they live in efforts to deal with the prior knowledge changes in the proportion of people who, wonderful and contributing community Niki Kapsambelis clouds on the horizon, such as the outside school, they sometimes lack the that different students bring to school. down the road, will need expensive health of scholars. Sarah Jordan Rosenson Kelly Sjol events that produced World War I and motivation needed to do well. The system Because new knowledge is built upon care to deal with the diseases produced the Russian revolution, but there had is unforgiving and often cannot help old knowledge, solving the multicultural by unhealthy food and activity choices. The University of Pittsburgh, as an educational institution and as an employer, values equality of opportunity, human dignity, and racial/ethnic and cultural diversity. Accordingly, the University been a reasonable level of recovery them once they fall behind. Also, students and multilinguistic problems is crucial to Solving this problem may be as vital to prohibits and will not engage in discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or from the depression of the late 19th today come from many cultures, with improving schooling. Another article (page our economic future as regulating banks. expression, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. Further, the University will continue to take affirmative steps to support and advance these values consistent century, and things looked pretty good. many different languages and experience 10) in this issue deals with our efforts to with the University’s mission. This policy applies to admissions, Alan Lesgold, Professor and Dean employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities. This is a commitment made by the University and is And, indeed, the venture begun in bases, while teachers come from a help the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Finally, this issue includes an update in accordance with federal, state, and/or local laws and regulations. For information on University equal opportunity and affirmative ac- 1910 has led to a very strong School much more limited range of each. This to match the new national core standards (page 4) on our overall efforts to ensure tion programs and complaint/grievance procedures, please contact the University of Pittsburgh; Office of Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion; 412 Bellefield Hall; 315 South Bellefield Avenue; of Education—one of the best in causes curricula to sometimes lack the to existing state standards and, at least our presence and impact in the world of Pittsburgh, PA 15260; 412-648-7860. www.education.pitt.edu www.education.pitt.edu SCPublishedHOOL in cooperation with OF the Department EDUC of UniversityATION Marketing the country. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Communications. UMC73394-1210 2 SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONCelebrating www.education.pitt.edu 100 SCHOOL OF EDYearsUC ATION www.education.pitt.edu 3 FEATURES FEATURES

What would the role of improvement responsibility to create these networks Too much of the current research portfolio in advisor look like in an educational setting, of support is at best diffuse and at worst education is meant to prove that something and how would a school of education— nonexistent. What better role can a works. For example, because of federal The Urban Education Challenge: perhaps partnering with a business research-centered school of education policy, a great deal of educational research school or medical school—train such a that is focused on the underserved take on? today is geared toward large randomized field person? The essential point here is that trials. These field trials grow from the desire How Research-centered universities must rethink what it means to test promising innovations. However, to prepare teachers and others who are Knowledge the null hypothesis tends to be the modal Universities Should Respond focused on improvement. Universities Utilization finding of randomized field trials comparing By Louis Gomez, Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban Education and director, Center for Urban Education need to think about planning for roles that Research innovations and controls. One could conclude currently don’t exist. In order to more fully To substantially improve urban education, from this that there was nothing there to rban education has relatively little this, we need to make reliability and and detail to ensure teachers and other address the problems in urban education, we need to choose research problems begin with, or that many of the interesting to do with “urban-ness” per se. improvement of instructional approaches professionals are able to use it to improve the field needs new people who can that matter. Consider adolescent effects are being washed out by variability in URather, it has to do with ensuring higher priorities. In particular, the research learning opportunities for underresourced creatively use data, information, and literacy. In the past 10–15 years, public context as well as in the ways practitioners that people who historically have been university should make effective utilization students. In addition to encouraging research in the appropriate contexts and and private foundations have invested use innovations. underserved educationally have an equal of knowledge in underresourced commun- states and school districts to create serve everyone within a framework significant resources in understanding opportunity to learn. (Many of these people ities a key goal, and it can focus on making formative data streams, schools of of continuous improvement. how to improve adolescents’ ability to Sometimes, studies like this find that well- live in cities, but not all.) The practical and new knowledge across contexts easier education should make data and data read to learn. This influx of support in part resourced communities show effects, while scholarly focus of urban education should to accomplish. utilization prominent features of their Another challenge related to knowledge came from the realization that while, as underresourced communities do not. An be on knowledge utilization. preparation curricula. utilization is effectively preparing a field, we have made tremendous important research challenge that schools young people for 21st-century work and progress in teaching youngsters to read, of education should take up is not simply to Educational innovations often fail to Knowledge Knowing how to measure learning and citizenship, which will be defined by new we know relatively little about how best show that there are no effects or that there deliver their full benefit when placed in Utilization use those measurements to improve it forms of globalization brought about by to teach adolescents who know how to are differential effects but to collaboratively the hands of those who have seen the Challenges is essential for teachers. They also a technical revolution. This is not the decode text to read to learn. Although work through these varying effects with least educational opportunity and progress The fundamental business of professional should be able to handle common job of a school of education or a school the 10–15-year investment has produced the aim of creating techniques that help and those who teach them. At its core, schools in research universities is to measurement problems such as variability district. This is the job of diverse, perhaps many insights, it has not yielded a practitioners across contexts to achieve this is a problem of variability and identify and train the next generation of and reliability. In addition to preparing global, collaborations. systematic body of knowledge, coupled positive results. reliability. We create innovations that innovative practitioners. The challenges teachers who are better able to use with detailed routines of utilization, that work only in certain contexts, and we of urban education, and perhaps all edu- data and put cutting-edge research into An important role that schools of practitioners can implement and, with On the occasion of the University of Pitts- know precious little about how reliably cation, demand a new kind of professional practice, schools of education should education should play in preparing research support, improve. burgh School of Education’s centenary, everyone can use these innovations. practitioner. Such practitioners should be begin to address the question of what students—especially the underserved these are important ideas to discuss, and Developing more effective innovations skillful in, among other things, the use of other types of professionals are needed ones—to be citizens, is to serve as The solution is not merely developing our school is taking up some of these ideas. and determining what it takes to make data for improvement, the measurement in order to improve teaching and learning the catalyst for such collaborations. research-based insights into various For example, the School of Education is a them work are problems worthy of of learning for improvement, and con- organizations. The enlightened university must figure aspects of adolescent literacy; it is leader when it comes to thinking about how research universities and the schools tinuous quality improvement. out how to reach into the community, creating usable regimens and routines to prepare teachers in new ways. The school of education within them. Some fields, like health care, have draw on resources, and focus these that allow practitioners to support also has worked to achieve leadership in Data are needed to improve schools and designated professional roles that focus resources on problems of teaching and adolescents. This is not often the focus of research through entities like the Office of A wide range of innovations, from putting other venues where people learn. We on continual quality improvement. The learning for a new age. Further, much research in education, but it is precisely Child Development and Center for Urban computers in every classroom to developing need well-trained professionals who people in these roles understand the of learning is social, and social learning the sort of thing that research-centered Education. Pitt, like other universities, techniques for parents on how to read to know how to make optimal and creative techniques associated with disciplines of needs rich community support. Today, the universities and schools of education has much more to do, but it is clear that their children, have been slow to produce use of data in their practices. To accom- ongoing improvement because they have concerned with urban education should we are up to the challenge of engaging This mural detail (opposite page) adorns a positive benefits in well-resourced com- plish this, we should provide easy avenues diverse backgrounds in fields ranging address. Like medicine, education needs in enlightened scholarship that works to hallway in the Pittsburgh Milliones school not only basic and applied research but improve practice. munities and have become reduced to little for teachers to become more data and from manufacturing to construction, and building, which formerly was Margaret  more than shadows of their purpose in information centric. We should collect they are able to apply these continuous Milliones Middle School. It was painted by also translational research that can take artist Tarish Pipkins with the assistance of SCHOOL OF EDUCATION data atwww appropriate.education levels of frequency.pitt.edu SCideasHOOL that work OF somewhereEDUCA TIONand make www.education.pitt.edu underresourced communities. 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Compounding this problem is a lack of These research studies support the Preparing Teachers to Work with adequate preparation on the part of school’s efforts to help teachers to teachers to meet the linguistic and cultural understand what it means to be a English Language Learners needs of ELLs. The results of years of second language learner, to be aware second language acquisition research have of the nature of second language shown that immersion in a new language acquisition in their teaching, and to By Tabetha Bernstein-Danis, teaching fellow, and Richard Donato, chair, Department of Instruction and Learning is effective only when teachers understand teach ELLs in classes where English how to integrate a focus on language is simultaneously the vehicle and the ow, more than any other time learners (ELLs) for the first time. These the need for them to demonstrate the with a focus on content and how to raise content of instruction. in the history of education in districts are searching for appropriate same statewide accountability standards a learner’s awareness about this language Nthe United States, teachers need ways to support the enhancement of ELLs’ as their native English-speaking peers during content-based instruction. The In the coming years, the school will to be prepared to address the issues sur- academic content knowledge and skills on high-stakes tests—a task requiring University of Pittsburgh School of Education, continue to offer courses for preservice rounding cultural and linguistic diversity while simultaneously developing their strong English language proficiency. in an effort to remain a leader in the field, teachers and to pursue research in their classrooms. English language abilities. As a result, ELLs often are placed in already is addressing the local and national agendas that ensure the success of classrooms with their native English- impetus to prepare teachers to work with these efforts. According to data taken from the 2007 A culturally and linguistically diverse speaking peers based on the erroneous ELLs in K–12 schools. American Community Survey published student population offers many benefits assumption that exposure is all that Future plans include examining brick- and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, but also poses many challenges for is needed for second language In 2008, Richard Donato, chair of the related to second language learning and-mortar versus online formats for the number of children older than 5 years school districts. Often when districts acquisition to occur. Department of Instruction and Learning, in classroom settings. A recent study the preservice teacher course; creating of age who speak a language other than experience an influx of ELLs, they are and Meryl Lazar, clinical assistant professor, by graduate student Melissa Brydon opportunities for teacher candidates to English in the home has increased 140 not prepared to provide these non-native assembled a team of teacher leaders and examined the effects of rich vocabulary gain hands-on experience with culturally percent over the past 30 years. As the English-speaking students with the kind education professionals with expertise in instruction on young ELLs’ ability to learn and linguistically diverse students; and population of non-native English speakers of instruction necessary to ensure their working with culturally and linguistically the specialized language necessary to facilitating collaborative efforts among increases, many school districts— academic success. Recent trends toward diverse student populations. The team comprehend narrative and academic texts. state and local education agencies, especially those in rural and suburban mainstreaming ELLs are derived from designed a course for preservice teachers Clinical Instructor Anna Arlotta-Guerrero policy institutes, and institutions of areas—are enrolling English language that would further their knowledge investigated the consequences of school- higher education to prepare a workforce of strategies supporting the linguistic based professional development on of teachers that meets the needs of development of ELLs, enhance teachers’ teachers’ changing instruction practices current and future student populations. ability to appropriately address cultural with ELLs. Donato and his early language differences in the classroom, and improve learning research team at Pitt have The University of Pittsburgh School of their skills for effective collaboration with conducted, in collaboration with Carnegie Education has a long history of standing ELL specialists. Related efforts include Mellon University, several school-based at the forefront of resolving the most requiring all teacher candidates to take studies over the years on various aspects current and most pressing educational a course in teaching ELLs that will prepare of second language learning. These issues. As the school continues to them to be the resourceful, culturally studies include the integration of academic monitor needs in and beyond the local knowledgeable, and pedagogically adept content with second language learning, educational community, the University professionals that districts seek to hire. the development of writing in a second will remain secure in its position language across time, and the cumulative as a leader in research and teacher On the research side, faculty and graduate achievements in speaking proficiency of preparation. students in the Department of Instruction students in sequential language programs and Learning are addressing issues beginning in kindergarten and extending through high school. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu

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Questioning the Author: An Approach for Enhancing Student Engagement with Text and Text Talk: Robust Vocabulary Instruction for Grades K–3—has had a dramatic impact on comprehension instruction in Pittsburgh and across the country. The professors’ current research in vocabulary instruction is the extension of a line of work that began in the 1970s. Most recently, Beck and McKeown have conducted instructional studies with young children that demon- strate the impact of rich instruction on the ability of children to use and understand sophisticated words in oral contexts that they will later use in writing and in reading.

Faculty members in the special education More than 100 Years of Literacy program also are focusing their research on reading-related areas. Assistant Profes- Research and Instruction sor Douglas Kostewicz has conducted investigations into the impact of repeated at the University of Pittsburgh readings of science texts on the fluency of students with disabilities. Assistant By Linda Kucan, assistant professor and program coordinator of reading education Professor Christopher Lemons has analyzed the impact of specific reading interventions on the reading skills of intellectually disabled students. he University of Pittsburgh on a Sunday [in 1950]. With no money to and their colleagues conducted an analysis has long been associated with spend for facilities, the group could find of outcomes in Pennsylvania related to Assistant Professor Linda Kucan has been Additionally, Kucan and Assistant Huey would have admired all this Tliteracy research and instruction, no place to meet. Finally, Emmett A. Betts the implementation of the federally funded involved in two programs of research Professor Sarah Scott secured an attention to reading, which he called especially reading. E.B. Huey’s classic, [reading educator and author of a reading initiative known as Reading First (RF). related to the education of literacy teachers. Innovation in Education grant from Pitt “the most remarkable performance that The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading series] and others obtained permission from Their investigation involved data collection She is the coprincipal investigator, with that supported their efforts to transform civilization has learned in all its history.” (1908), was published while he was in a nightclub manager to use the back room in 32 school districts and provided a Annemarie Palincsar of the University of a comprehension methods course for And he would have acknowledged that Pittsburgh. Huey also was a professor of his second-rate club.” Even before that comprehensive picture of the effectiveness Michigan, for an Institute of Education Master of Arts in Teaching interns. The such attention and inquiry were most of psychology and education at Pitt, historic meeting, the University had been of the RF program on third graders. Bean Sciences grant (2008–11) to develop pair held classes with the interns in fitting: “[For] there yet remain to be then known as the Western University the site of annual conferences focusing also has contributed to the knowledge resources, including readings, tasks, the Pittsburgh Public Schools—allowing written many most interesting chapters of Pennsylvania. Pitt Professor Gerald on reading and writing—the first held base about literacy coaching, an integral and videotapes, to be used by teacher the interns with daily opportunities to on the psycho-physiological phases of A. Yoakum served as president of the in 1945 and the last in 1990. element in many RF schools, by authoring educators who teach comprehension teach small groups of students. These reading, which will be made possible group that became the International a widely read book about the many roles methods courses. Kucan and Palincsar are experiences helped the interns learn as investigation proceeds further.” Reading Association (IRA). In his 1977 Current efforts by faculty members in of coaches. This book is now in its working with 10 teacher educators from how students process information in paper, “Reading Reflections: The History the School of Education’s Department second edition. nine different institutions of higher learning text. Interns were then able to analyze At the University of Pittsburgh, the of the International Reading Association,” of Instruction and Learning reveal that who have been using the resources they their teaching skills by viewing video of investigation continues. B.W. Jerrolds wrote:”An early Executive the commitment to reading research and The work of Professor Emeritus Isabel Beck developed and then contributing to their themselves working with students in SCBoardHOOL Meeting OF was E heldDUC in APittsburghTION instructionwww endures..education Professor Emeritus.pitt.edu and Clinical Professor Margaret McKeown— revision and improvement. SCtheHOOL classroom. OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu Rita Bean, Professor Naomi Zigmond,

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ensuring cohesiveness among formative, systems: the Partnership for Assessment (e.g., selected response, short and The Next Generation of Content Standards interim, and summative assessments. of Readiness for College and Career extended answer, complex electronic Moreover, states needed to show how and the Balanced Assessment System. items), be computer-adaptive, be scaled and State Assessment Systems the assessment system will measure As an example, the Balanced Assessment vertically across a range of learning “standards against which student achieve- System calls for periodic through-course progressions, and use both computer This essay by Suzanne Lane, professor of research methodology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, ment has traditionally been difficult to performance tasks and an end-of-year automated scoring and moderated addresses content standards and state assessment systems at a national level. measure” and included “items that will be reference exam that are used together human scoring. varied and elicit complex student demon- for both summative and accountability strations or applications of knowledge purposes. The performance tasks are Although there are a number of design to teachers what is important to teach have agreed to adopt the Common Core and skills,” according to the U.S. Depart- to be curriculum-embedded (e.g., and psychometric issues that need to be “I am calling on our nation’s governors and to students what is important to State Standards and have competed for ment of Education. exhibitions, product developments), addressed for this new generation of learn. Unfortunately, the use of perfor- federal funding from the U.S. Department and state education chiefs to develop standardized, and administered and assessment systems, we need to embrace mance assessments in large-scale of Education’s Race to the Top initiative. standards and assessments that Two consortia have been funded to develop scored by teachers, with moderation. this opportunity so as to ensure that assessment systems declined with the To prepare for the next generation of plans that will support this next generation The end-of-year reference exams are assessments not only reflect tasks, but don’t simply measure whether students requirements of the No Child Left Behind assessments, Pennsylvania conducted an of content standards and state assessment intended to include various item formats are positioned to inform and enhance can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether Act of 2001. With the advent of the alignment study to examine the relation- both teaching and student learning. they possess 21st–century skills like Common Core State Standards initiative, ship between the Pennsylvania Academic which is being led by the National Standards and the Common Core State problem solving and critical thinking, Governors Association Center for Best Standards that helped inform decisions entrepreneurship and creativity.“ Practices, the Council of Chief State made by the state in the adoption of – President Barack Obama School Officers, and the U.S. Depart- the Common Core State Standards. This References March 2009 • Council of Chief State School Officers • Lane, S. Performance Assessment: • U.S. Department of Education. ment of Education Race to the Top Fund study was conducted by Suzanne Lane, and National Governors Association. State of the Art. In L. Darling-Hammond, The Nation’s Report Card (2005). initiative, there is a renewed interest in professor of research methodology at Common Core State Standards for Performance Assessment: Measuring Washington, D.C. Retrieved in December here is a call for a more balanced using performance assessments in state the University of Pittsburgh. English Language Arts (2010a, March). Student Achievement So That Students 2009 from nationsreportcard.gov/ assessment system, one that assessment systems that are grounded Retrieved on March 10, 2010, from Succeed (in press). science_2005/s0116.asp. www.corestandards.org. Tincludes performance tasks to in academic standards that assess The U.S. Department of Education is • Lane, S. & Stone, C.A. Performance • U.S. Department of Education. assess skills that multiple choice items 21st-century skills. providing $350 million for consortia of • Council of Chief State School Officers Assessments. In R.L. Brennan (ed.), Race to the Top Program Executive cannot, such as the ability to write a states to develop new assessments and National Governors Association. Educational Measurement. New Summary (2009). Retrieved in April York: American Council on Education 2009 from www2.ed.gov/programs/ persuasive essay or explain an answer The Common Core State Standards in that measure the Common Core State Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010b, March). and Praeger Publishers (2006). racetothetop/executive-summary.pdf. to a mathematics problem. As this past English language arts and mathematics Standards. The reauthorization of the Retrieved on March 10, 2010, from school year began, so did the dawn for kindergarten through grade 12 will Elementary and Secondary Education Act www.corestandards.org. of a new age in educational assessment— provide the foundation for the next gen- (ESEA) will set guidelines for assessments • Darling-Hammond, L. & Pecheone, R. an era in which a more balanced assess- eration of state assessment systems. and their use in the future. The goal of Developing an Internationally Comparable ment system will serve as a valuable The Common Core State Standards the Common Core State Standards and Balanced Assessment System That tool for educational reform. represent a set of expectations for the the Race to the Top initiative is to help Supports High-Quality Learning (2010). knowledge and skills students need so ensure that academic standards are clear Retrieved in April 2010 from www. k12center.org/rsc/pdf/Darling-Hammond Both policymakers and educators have that when they graduate from high school and concise and set high standards for PechoneSystemModel.pdf. argued that the use of performance they are prepared for success in college all students. For a state to have been • Lane, S. Evaluation of the Alignment assessments that measure students’ and careers. These standards emphasize eligible for Race to the Top funding, a between PA Academic Standards thinking and reasoning skills and their students’ ability to reason, synthesize state needed to show a commitment and Common Core State Standards ability to apply knowledge to solve realistic, information from various sources, think to improving the quality of its state (June 2010). Pennsylvania Department meaningful problems will help shape critically, and solve challenging problems. assessment system, measuring student of Education. SCsoundHOOL instructional OF E practicesDUCA TIONby modeling Mostwww states, including.education Pennsylvania,.pitt .edu achievement and student growth, and SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu

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Combating Childhood Obesity Leadership Initiative for By John M. Jakicic, professor and chair, Department of Health and Physical Activity Transforming Schools t is estimated that 16 percent of participating. The results from this study to support the efforts of six schools in the By Mary Margaret Kerr, chair, Department of Administrative and Policy Studies children 6–19 years of age in the indicate that schools can provide a venue Pittsburgh area to implement innovative IUnited States are overweight, with to improve the health of children—which programs to combat childhood obesity. n June 2010, the Centers for Disease Pittsburgh School of Education School location. A bus accident scenario requires 19 percent of children classified as obese, also may result in bettering the academic These efforts were expanded to engage Control and Prevention (CDC) released Leadership Program now requires course them to deploy responders and inform according to the U.S. Centers for Disease performance of these children. additional schools in the fall of 2010. Ithe results of the National Youth Risk work in school crisis prevention and anxious parents. They quickly practice Control and Prevention (CDC). This is Behavior Survey—an alarming report intervention as well as course work in what to do after medical emergencies, of significant public health importance It is important for schools to become documenting unsafe behaviors among positive behavioral interventions and suicides, floods, accidents, and illnesses. because overweight and obese children actively involved in the process of youths attending U.S. schools. According support, or PBIS. For many, this is their first experience are more likely to be obese as adults and improving the health of children by to the report: with such traumatic events. because there is an increasing prevalence providing them with ample opportunities • 31.5 percent of students had been in a To begin, graduate students learn to of obesity-related chronic diseases, such to learn and participate in behaviors physical fight one or more times during prevent or mitigate school crises. First, Third, students develop skills in crisis as diabetes, in children. This public health reflecting a healthy lifestyle. Investing the 12 months before the survey. they use CDC’s School Health Index, a communications for the many stakeholders concern needs to be addressed as a societal resources to improve physical education, • 5.6 percent of students had carried a Web-based assessment and planning tool they will encounter in their leadership problem and all possible opportunities recess, and activity learning for all children weapon (e.g., a gun, knife, or club) on that facilitates a review of eight domains roles. Without warning, they may discover for prevention and treatment must be is critically important, and reliance on school property on at least one day of health, mental health, and safety in the they have 15 minutes to prepare for a implemented in an effective manner. The University of Pittsburgh Department athletic programs that serve a small during the 30 days before the survey. school setting. This assessment allows mock press conference about a school Moreover, it is important to recognize that of Health and Physical Activity has taken segment of the student body may not be • 7.7 percent of students had been school personnel to identify weaknesses intruder. Composing a parent letter after for almost all children, excessive weight a leadership role—with efforts guided by optimal. These initiatives should include threatened or injured with a weapon to target through an annual action plan. a meningitis death tests the ability to gain is a result of insufficient physical Professor John M. Jakicic and Assistant offering healthy options in the school (e.g., a gun, knife, or club) on school Future principals also analyze local write under pressure. In lieu of traditional activity and consumption of additional Professor Amy Otto—in research and lunch program and limiting access to snack property one or more times during the discipline data and use floor plans to homework, students must find and correct calories in the food they consume. the development of community outreach foods and vending machines within the 12 months before the survey. map their schools’ “danger zones.” This the flaws in a sample suicide policy or in programs that combat childhood obesity. school. However, to be most effective, • 19.9 percent of students had been helps them to uncover problems such a district’s safety plan. Considering these factors, schools provide Results from a recent study showed that it is important to encourage healthy bullied on school property during the as bullying. A new online PBIS course one environment in which the concern for an intervention focused on nutrition and behaviors both within and outside the 12 months before the survey. introduces aspiring principals to tools for Students have expressed great enthusiasm childhood obesity can be addressed for a physical activity resulted in weight loss school environment, which results in the • 5.0 percent of students did not go to implementing universal, secondary, and for this demanding new course work. variety of reasons. The HEALTHY study, for severely overweight children, and an need for parents and families to be active school because they felt they would be intensive prevention strategies to stop As one observed, “I had no experience a recent study funded by the National unexpected finding was that their parents participants in the health of children. Thus, unsafe at school or on their way to or violence in a school through the active with these situations before. It’s just not Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and also lost weight through this process. school administrators, teachers, parents, from school on at least one day during involvement of school staff members, something you experience every day. And Kidney Diseases, has shown that a com- These results have led to development of and policymakers need to collaborate the 30 days before the survey. students, and parents. even though I panicked in class, I would

prehensive school-based intervention a full intervention curriculum that is being on addressing the public health concern much rather learn now than in the middle (Source: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/ss/ can be effective at reducing children’s implemented through Pitt’s Community regarding childhood obesity and consider Second, students study readings in of a crisis!” ss5905.pdf) chances of becoming overweight as they Leisure-Learn Program for children and implementation of school-based initiatives school crisis response and then apply progress from sixth through eighth grade. families in the Pittsburgh community. as one component of a comprehensive this knowledge in a series of simulations For additional information, please see: Despite these alarming statistics, univer- This was a study conducted at seven sites Moreover, through the America On the approach to prevent and treat this problem based on real-life cases. A class may Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. sity training programs often overlook the that included 42 schools; the University of Move in Pittsburgh initiative, which is that is affecting more than 30 percent of view a newscast about a school crisis. “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance— preparation of school leaders to prevent Pittsburgh served as one of the intervention supported by UPMC Health Plan, H.J. Heinz children, according to the CDC. HPA and Its members then go into action in high- United States, 2009.” Morbid and Mortality and respond to school violence and other sites, with collaborators from the School Company, Del Monte Corporation, and the School of Education are taking a intensity timed exercises. In response to Weekly Report, Surveillance Summaries, crises. Recognizing this deficiency in SCof HOOLMedicine OFand SchoolEDUC of AEducationTION KDKA-TV,www Pitt .educationhas provided small.pitt grants.edu leadership role in these efforts. SCa HOOLschool shooting, OF E forDUC example,ATION students Junewww 4, 2010,.education 59, SS–5. .pitt.edu leadership preparation, the University of  plan a rapid evacuation to an off-site 12 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu 13 FEATURES FEATURES

For the past several years, Heather Moreover, few studies have examined depression) decreased. At the same Family Instability and Parent Bachman, assistant professor in the School whether promoting increased parent time, their prosocial skills, such as of Education’s Applied Developmental involvement in school leads to corres- cooperation and self-control, improved. Involvement in Elementary School Psychology (ADP) program, and Elizabeth ponding improvement in children’s However, parents’ increased involvement Votruba-Drzal, assistant professor in the academic or social functioning. In did not affect their children’s growth By Heather Bachman, assistant professor, Department of Psychology in Education University of Pittsburgh Department of other words, perhaps parents who are in achievement. One explanation for Psychology, have been examining socio- engaged and involved in children’s the absence of such associations with he American family has changed economic status effects on children’s schooling differ from less involved achievement may be that the study’s dramatically in the last three achievement trajectories during elemen- parents in key characteristics that also measure of parent involvement did not decades. From 1980 to 2007, T tary school. According to several national are associated with children’s academic focus on involvement that was specific the nonmarital birth rate climbed from data sets, the impact of significant family and social skills, such as motivation, to academic performance. 18 to 40 percent, marriage rates declined, income and maternal education disparities value for education, etc. If so, then and cohabitation rates rose steadily, on children’s reading and math skills is parent involvement is simply a marker This work suggests that parents continue particularly among low-income families. evident in kindergarten and persists or for a host of parental attitudes and to wield considerable influence on their Together, these demographic trends widens through fifth grade. Throughout behaviors that already support children’s children’s development as children have resulted in an increased number of their study, Bachman and Votruba-Drzal, growth and development. This attempt progress through elementary school, children whose parents have had multiple along with ADP doctoral candidate to distinguish causal from correlational and these results applied similarly to partners in relatively short periods of time. Nermeen El Nokali, endeavored to associations between family involvement low- and high-income children. It is According to a 2009 study by Andrew J. determine whether parents’ involve- and children’s school success is critical important for future research to explore Cherlin, by the mid-1990s, 12 percent ment in school could narrow these as teachers and principals become parent behaviors that support children’s of American children had experienced achievement gaps. increasingly accountable for their efforts achievement and also to consider how three or more parental partnerships by to encourage parent and community schools can encourage and support 15 years of age. The consensus among teachers, child care involvement in schooling. parents in these efforts. providers, educational policymakers, and Within the field of developmental psychol- researchers is that parent involvement Bachman and Votruba-Drzal obtained Bachman and Votruba-Drzal’s study was ogy, a large body of research heralds the is a pathway through which schools can data from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver supported by a grant from NICHD. importance of continuity and predictability help children to achieve academic success. National Institute of Child Health and in the parent-child relationship during early The most common measures of parent Human Development (NICHD) Study childhood. The instability resulting from involvement are quality and frequency of of Early Child Care and Youth Develop- For additional information, please see: these demographic trends is likely to disrupt communication with teachers and parental ment, a longitudinal, multimethod parenting behaviors and school involvement Cherlin, Andrew J. The Marriage-Go- participation in school activities. Efforts to study of more than 1,300 children and that support children’s early academic Round: The State of Marriage and the promote parent involvement are integral their primary caregivers from 10 U.S. achievement. Toward that end, a host of Family in America Today. New York, NY: parts of many intervention programs cities. According to the findings, when early education and intervention strategies Knopf Publishing, 2009. targeting low-income children. Past parents boosted their involvement have been implemented to improve the research, however, has focused mostly on in their children’s elementary school El Nokali, N., Bachman, H.J., and Votruba- school readiness skills of children from parent involvement among preschoolers; (through increased visits to the school Drzal, E. “Parent Involvement and Children’s economically disadvantaged backgrounds. far less is known about the role of parent and encouraging educational progress Academic Achievement and Social These programs have achieved mixed suc- involvement in children’s success during at home), children’s problem behaviors Development in Elementary School.” Child cess, but in general, low-income children elementary school. (including both aggressive and disruptive Development, 81,(3), 988–1005, 2010. continue to start school significantly behind behaviors as well as anxiety and their more affluent peers in emergent literacy and numeracy skills and make less progress SCthroughoutHOOL the OF elementary EDUC schoolATION years. www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu

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101910–2010 YEARS STRONG 0 magazine’s Best of 2010 project in the K–12 category. Courtesy Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh In 1958, construction (above) began on Trees his photo montage Hall, the home of the Department of Health and Physical Activity. Today, faculty members reflects back on the are expanding research efforts to a new building in the Oakland-Hill District area and faces, buildings, with collaborative work at UPMC Montefiore. This photo (at right) featured in the T Courtesy Archives Service Center, 1960 Owl, was accompanied by a University of Pittsburgh and classroomsCentennial that helped caption detailing the importance of student-teachers learning how to hold grow the School of Education students’ attention. The caption’s author wrote that, “Cultivating interest and into the top education enthusiasm for the subject is essential if she is to teach effectively.” graduate school it is today. Photo from The Owl, 1960, University of Pittsburgh

Pictured above is the first School of Education graduating class in 1911. Courtesy Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh

In 2006, the University established Dean S.P. Franklin (above) led the School of the Dr. Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban Education, the first fully endowed E.B. Huey (above) is considered a Education in 1960. The 1960 Owl noted that Dean Franklin was “a great help to these men chair in the School of Education’s pioneering professor who helped history. Pictured above, left to right, to convince University leadership and women who have pledged themselves to the teaching of others.” Helen Faison; George L. Miles, that Pitt should help teachers retired president and CEO of WQED Photo from The Owl, 1944, University of Pittsburgh learn how to teach. Multimedia; and Dean Alan Lesgold. Courtesy Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh Photo CIDDE, University of Pittsburgh

At the 100th School of Education recognition ceremony, graduate Chantee McBride (above) Chancellor Samuel Black McCormick In 1917, the School of Education established the Learning environments have come a (MAT ’01, PhD ’10) is joined by her family (at right) established the School of Delta chapter of Pi Lambda Theta. The school’s long way since this classroom (left), as she celebrates completing her doctorate Education in 1910. chapter is pictured above in the 1925 Owl. featured in the School of Education in social studies education. Courtesy Archives Service Center, Today, Pi Lambda Theta is considered the most section of an Owl yearbook. University of Pittsburgh Photo CIDDE, University of Pittsburgh selective national honor society of educators. Photo from The Owl, 1960, University of Pittsburgh Photo from The Owl, 1925, University of Pittsburgh SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu 16 University SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu ofPittsburgh SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu 17 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

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schools in the tristate area. Faculty program is designed to attract students are still in place today: administrative The Dr. Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban members in the School of Education advise interested in working in inner-city schools. and policy studies, instruction and learning, Education—the first fully endowed chair 1910–1920 1930–39 the U.S. Office of Education (now the U.S. Professor Will Grant Chambers authors A Master of Education degree is designed Course offerings include: Seminar in the and psychology in education. Additionally, in the School of Education—is established, Department of Education) on improving the Pittsburgh’s New School of Education, and approved for school administrators Inner City, the Urban Context, Teaching two research and development institutes— and Louis Gomez is appointed to the chair. citizenship education program in schools the formal report to University trustees and master teachers. The degree requires Afro American History in Secondary Schools, the Institute for Practice and Research in The school’s placement in the U.S. News throughout the country. announcing the new School of Education. 32 credits from the school and eight credits and Seminar in Problems of Reading Instruc- Education and the Institute for International & World Report “Best Graduate Schools” Chambers becomes known as the founding from another school within the University. tion in an Urban Society. Construction Studies in Education—are formed. Faculty (in education) rankings hovers between dean of the School of Education. The first A Doctor of Education degree also is begins on Forbes Quadrangle, the site of contracts are reduced from three- to two- 31st and 37th in the nation. Several graduating class of the School of Education approved. The Falk School now offers Wesley W. Posvar Hall, which will house term appointments. Reduction in the length faculty members begin spending much features eight men and women, all of whom a nursery, kindergarten, and six grades 1950–59 the school. Approximately 80 percent of of faculty appointments, coupled with of their time at Pittsburgh Milliones 6–12, The school undergoes major curriculum all school administrators and 40 percent buyout agreements, early retirement University Preparatory School, as part accept teaching positions immediately that focus on the individual development revisions to increase a disciplinary afterSchool graduation, with four continuing with of each child. During the late Depression of Educationof all public school teachers in Western incentives, and normal retirements results of the school’s efforts to launch its urban emphasis. Pediatrician Benjamin Spock, graduate study at Pitt. Due to the large period, the School of Education faculty Pennsylvania hold a degree from the Univer- in major changes in faculty resources. The education initiatives. developmental psychologist Erik Erikson, sity of Pittsburgh School of Education, and reorganization results in a 34 percent reduc- influx of women, a women’s education donate $640.50 to the Cathedral of and Margaret McFarland establish the dormitory is constructed on Fifth Avenue Learning building fund—the highest four out of every 10 school systems in the tion in total full-time equivalency faculty. first concentration in child development Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are led near Halket Street. School leaders at the donation of any faculty at the University and child care. The concentration time believe that “Men will come without to the fund. The graduates of the school by persons holding graduate degrees from 2010 eventually is moved into the school the School of Education. The U.S. News & World Report “Best a dormitory and women won’t.” The U.S. organize their students to contribute and merges with the Educational and 1990–99 Graduate Schools” (in education) ranking commissioner of education adopts the 10 cents each to the construction. The Developmental Psychology Program, The child development and child care of the school substantially increases to school’s practice teaching plan for use by school celebrates its silver anniversary which ultimately becomes the Applied program transfers from the Pitt School 23rd—tying the school with the University other institutions and designates it the with an enrollment of 545 students, Developmental Psychology Program. 1970–79 of Social Work and merges with the of Minnesota Twin Cities—out of 234 Pittsburgh Plan. The School of Childhood— which is one-sixth of all undergraduate The Tri-State Area School Study Council The school houses the Race Desegregation developmental and educational psychol- schools. The Community Leisure-Learn what is known today as the Falk Laboratory students at the University. establishes the Horace Mann Lecture Assistance Center. The school also under- ogy program to become the Applied Program, the oldest community program School—opens. At this school, many adult Series to commemorate the life of Mann goes an expansion of its student body due Developmental Psychology Program in at the University, celebrates its 40th immigrants are taught English. and give recognition to his contribution to lower tuition rates made possible by the Department of Psychology in Education. anniversary. A decade of faculty recruiting to the American public school system. subsidies, and enrollment doubles between The program in health, physical, and continues as half of the school’s faculty 1940–49 The school organizes into nine major The school adapts to the changing needs 1965 and 1971. Student participation in the recreation education becomes the Depart- have retired during the previous 10 years. divisions: general education, business of World War II. Vocational education governance of the School of Education is ment of Health and Physical Activity. 1920–29 education, educational administration, The school faces financial difficulties due courses are taught in three shifts, 24 formalized through student representation elementary education, health education to the sharp decline in enrollment during hours a day, training men in the machine in the various councils and committees. (both men’s and women’s divisions), World World I. Schenley High School trades, welding, and numerous other Undergraduate and graduate student religious education, secondary education, Information gathered from School of (now Pittsburgh Schenley High School) industrial trades. To aid in the war effort, representatives are enfranchised with full 2000–09 and vocational education. The under- The school establishes faculty expertise Education staff, archives, and the following is the first regular site for observation new courses are offered: the High School voting power in the Faculty Council and the graduate teaching program expands to in empirical research and policy on devel- two dissertations: and student teaching. The school partners in Wartime, Admission Problems in Academic Policy Committee. Two student a full term of student teaching. organizations, the Undergraduate Cabinet opmental factors that support school with KDKA Radio (now NewsRadio 1020 Wartime, School Leadership in the War Herron, J.B. “History of the School in Education and the Council of Graduate success, especially among low-income KDKA) to establish a broadcasting studio Emergency, and Vocational Guidance in of Education University of Pittsburgh, Students in Education, are responsible for minority children and youth. The Office on campus that provides educational the War Economy. The first annual reading 1953–1972.” PhD diss., University of the election of the student representatives. of Child Development moves into the instruction to students via radio. The begin- conference is held, an event that brings Pittsburgh, 1974. 1960–69 school. Numerous milestones are reached: nings of the Departments of Curriculum recognition to the School of Education’s The Ford Foundation awards the school The Applied Developmental Psychology Neff, W.B. “History of the School Study and Educational Measurement are Department of Elementary Education. a five-year $490,000 grant to establish Program celebrates the 50th anniversary of Education University of Pittsburgh, founded through a three-way alliance The end of the war increases the student a graduate teaching internship program. 1980–89 of the roots of its program. Also commem- 1910–1950.” PhD diss., University of among the Pittsburgh Public Schools, body through the enrollment of returning The International and Development Educa- In order to improve operating efficiency, orating its 50th anniversary is the Higher Pittsburgh, 1974. Bureau of Educational Research of the veterans. Between the fall terms of 1943 tion Program is established and designed sharpen program focus through program Education Management Program, one of Public Schools, and School of Education. and 1946, enrollment increases from 5,082 for both American and international reduction, and realign and improve faculty the first programs in the country to prepare students to 16,939 students. The School students pursuing careers in international and staff use, the School of Education professional administrators—such as Centennial celebration events listed on page 20 of Education partners with Teachers and development education. The goals of undergoes a major reorganization from registrars and admissions directors—for College of Columbia University to create the school expand to include the promotion 1986 to 1990. Fifteen departments and university and college careers. The Learning the Tri-State Area School Study Council, of social justice and the improvement of programs are realigned and merged to Policy Center is established with Mary SCHOOL OF EDUCATION an entitywww formed.education to strengthen the.pitt public.edu social existence. An urban internship form three academic departments that SCKayHOOL Stein appointed OF EDUC as its AfirstTION director. www.education.pitt.edu

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Centennial Celebration Events School of Education March 2011 Ranked 23rd by Council of Graduate Students in Education Student Conference U.S. News & World Report

he School of Education has risen U.S. News also ranked education specialty April 2, 2011 rather substantially in the U.S. News areas, and the School of Education’s psych- Centennial Celebration Gala T& World Report “Best Graduate ology in education program was ranked Carnegie Music Hall Foyer • Music by Bésame • 6 to 10 p.m. Schools” (in education) rankings. The school 21st among 21 programs. has been on an upward trend and, for the The improved ranking does not happen last several years, hovered between 31st because of any one person. It is the May 5–6, 2011 and 37th. In 2010, the school tied for 23rd cumulative effect of a very large number Motivation and Engagement Conference with the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, of faculty and staff members who attract out of 234 schools. Featuring Keynote Speaker Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University and serve a strong student body. Collectively, Invited Speakers: U.S. News determined the rankings by survey- these individuals attract research dollars, ing schools granting doctoral degrees. Of perform visible research and service, • Peter Benson, president and CEO, Search Institute the 279 schools contacted, 234 responded. publish in renowned journals, and achieve • Daniel Edelson, vice president for education and executive director, National Geographic Society, awards and positions of honor—all National Geographic Education Foundation variables considered by the deans and • John T. Guthrie, professor emeritus, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland superintendents who vote in the rankings. • Kris Gutiérrez, president, American Educational Research Association, professor of education and provost’s chair, School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder

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he University of Pittsburgh’s Saturday, Pitt coaches and their student- setting, a main objective of the School Angela Allie, a doctoral student in the and football. With the help of more than Education Research Connections. The focus oldest community outreach athletes from 10 different sports teams of Education. This is most evident in Department of Administrative and Policy 20 students, $1,817 was raised for the of this workshop was the use of public data Tprogram, Community Leisure- work with the children. PLAYERS, or Pitt’s CLL’s summer program, Physical Activities Studies and a K. Leroy Irvis fellow, was American Cancer Society. to conduct research on public early childhood Learn (CLL), celebrated its 40th Local Area Youth Exercise, Recreation, Camp for Kids, or PACK. This campus- selected as a 2009–11 University Council programs. The workshop was part of the anniversary on July 28, 2010. The mis- and Sports, is for individuals in grades based five-week camp focuses on youths for Educational Administration (UCEA) David Garcia, a doctoral student in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and sion of the program is to provide local nine through 12 and provides a choice in grades five through eight from under- Barbara L. Jackson scholar. As a Jackson Department of Health and Physical Activity, Social Research 2010 Summer Program in residents—both adults and children— of participation in a variety of activities, served neighborhoods. Pitt students scholar, Allie is appointed a mentor, attends was selected to participate in the Amer- Quantitative Methods of Social Research, with the opportunity to enhance their including basketball, wall climbing, working in this program act not only as the UCEA convention, and develops a ican College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) held at the University of Michigan. It was health and well-being. racquetball, weight training, martial camp counselors but also as mentors. network of peers. Prior to returning to Leadership & Diversity Training Program. closely aligned with some of the future goals arts, and dance. Local youths learn about fitness; fun; complete her PhD, Allie taught English The goal and mission of this program is of the Pitt School Readiness Study, namely Forty years ago, the program provided and how to interact in an appropriate, in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, where to fund and mentor doctoral students and using data to help shape and impact early passes to local residents to use the Adults have a choice of two programs: healthy manner. she held positions as English department encourage their involvement with ACSM. childhood programs. fitness facilities in Trees Hall and Parent Fitness 101 and Guest Pass Fitness chair, assessment coordinator, director of administered the National Youth Sports 101. Parents and guardians of children The local community and the Pitt Pittsburgh Oliver High School’s after-school Kakenya Ntayia, a doctoral student in Amy Powell, a student in the dual Orien- Program, a summer program for children in the Saturday’s Kids and PAWS programs students involved in CLL programs literacy program, and lead writer for the the Department of Administrative and tation and Mobility (O&M) and Teacher between 10 and 18 years old. Today, are assisted by health and physical acti- have found their experiences to be districtwide 11th-grade English curriculum. Policy Studies, was named a 2010 National of the Visually Impaired (TVI) certification under the direction of Marti Pristas, CLL vity students in the weight room and in rewarding in many ways. Pristas says Geographic Emerging Explorer for her specializations within the Vision Studies provides a variety of programming for aerobics classes. The Guest Pass Program that “intergenerational skill building Joe Bayer, a student of Associate commitment to developing a school in her Program, was awarded a scholarship by children and adults as well as intern- offers local residents from Oakland and is probably the second most important Professor Roger Klein, was one of three home village of Enoosaen, Kenya. She was the Pennsylvania-Delaware chapter of the ship opportunities for Pitt students. the Hill District the opportunity to use result of our CLL programs—the first, Pitt students selected to present research one of 14 individuals chosen as “visionary Association for Education and Rehabilitation the fitness facilities and swimming pool of course, being improved fitness and at Undergraduate Research Day at the young trailblazers.” The National Geogra- of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER). Programming for children is based on on a yearly basis. health.” The plans for CLL don’t stop Pennsylvania State Capitol. His research phic Emerging Explorers Program selects Only one award per year is given to a student age. The Saturday’s Kids program is with its 40th birthday. With the expan- is on text messaging among college “uniquely gifted and inspiring adventurers, enrolled in a personnel preparation program for children in grades one through eight. Community Leisure-Learn also provides sion of activities into nearby neighbor- students, and he also presented it at the scientists, photographers, and storytellers— such as the one in which Powell is enrolled. Children participate in one hour of internship and work experience for Pitt hoods and the renovation of its former 2009 American Psychology Association explorers who are already making a differ- Powell also received the Donald Blasch instruction in both dance and martial undergraduate and graduate students. recreation center, Wadsworth Hall, National Convention. ence early in their careers.” In recognition, Student Scholarship Award from AER’s arts. Pitt Athletes Working with Stu- Not only are they obtaining experience Pristas hopes to engage many more Ntayia received a $10,000 award, which Orientation and Mobility Division. dents (PAWS) is for children in grades planning and teaching, they also are community members and Pitt students The Exercise Science Club, an under- she will use to continue development of five through eight. For two hours each gaining experience working in an urban in CLL’s plans for the future. graduate organization in the Department the school. Ntaiya started the develop- Michelle Switala, a doctoral student in of Health and Physical Activity (HPA), ment of the school, the Kakenya Center mathematics education in the Department participated in the University of Pittsburgh’s for Excellence, in 2006 and admitted the of Instruction and Learning, is the 2010 24-hour Relay for Life event in April 2010 first class in 2009. Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year. Switala on the Cathedral of Learning lawn in honor is a 15-year veteran of the Pine-Richland of Deborah Aaron, an associate professor Kalani Palmer, a doctoral student in School District. in HPA, who died in 2008 from cancer. applied developmental psychology, was The students sold food, T-shirts, and raffle accepted into a competitive three-day tickets for an autographed Pitt basketball summer workshop, Child Care and Early SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu

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She returned to Pitt again, this time “I was curious about how personnel are At the same time, teachers also must A Woman of Letters: to earn her doctorate and work for an being used in schools,” she says. “What know how to teach students the literacy outreach project in the McKeesport, are they being asked to do? What do they skills that will help them to use technology Rita Bean Spreads Pa., schools. Ultimately, she accepted need to know?” appropriately. For example, children need a job teaching for the University, where to be able to evaluate what they read on Toward that end, Bean is visiting schools she continued to add to the Pitt the Internet and determine its validity the Literacy Doctrine throughout western, central, and eastern legacy of breaking new ground in and reliability. Pennsylvania for a pilot project that began reading education. By Niki Kapsambelis in April 2010. “People have access to so much infor- Bean saw IRA grow from the corner mation. They need to be able to make “There are going to be many more of her onetime boss’ desk to the world’s sense of it,” says Bean. y the time she graduated a secretary in the president’s office demands on all of these personnel, and leading organization of literacy profes- from high school in suburban and helping in the reading clinic. I think what we learn can really help those Given those challenges, she is convinced sionals; she grew from the secretary who Pittsburgh, Rita Bean (MEd ’67, who prepare—even school psychologists, that literacy is as important as ever. B The combined experiences helped watched the field’s luminaries come and PhD ’74) knew what her life’s work was because they’re saying they need to know Wildly popular series such as Twilight her to fall in love with the idea of go to becoming one of those stars herself. going to be. She just didn’t know how reintroduced to the classroom, but that more about reading instruction,” says or the Harry Potter books have made literacy education. A member of IRA for more than 40 years, she was going to get there. model presented its own challenges: Bean. In fact, researchers believe literacy reading fashionable, and communication “Without having literacy skills, you really The two teachers struggled to work with she served on its Board of Directors “I always knew I wanted to teach, but plays a key role in all subjects, including through text messages and social can’t make it in today’s society,” she each other, and the specialist at times from 2002 to 2006. She also chaired the I couldn’t afford to go to college,” says math, science, and social studies. networking sites continues to demand explains. “The complex demands— felt like an aide. Commission on the Role of the Reading Bean, now emeritus professor in the mastery of the written word. you would have difficulty being Specialist, which conducted a national Bean’s advice to specialists is to think Department of Instruction and Learning Bean was among the early champions of successful in a career.” study that resulted in IRA’s position of themselves as Swiss army knives— “Reading’s never going to disappear,” at the University of Pittsburgh School the current approach, in which reading statement on the subject. “efficient, functional, and versatile,” says Bean. “You may be reading on a of Education. Moreover, she noticed that children specialists often serve as coaches. she laughs. Because schools often are Kindle, but you’re going to be reading.” Internationally renowned for her work, who struggle with reading as early as constrained by limited resources, the  It was a long road to the podium, but “Coaching is, in a sense, teaching,” she she also was a member of the Standards first grade have significant difficulty reading specialist must sometimes Bean got a lucky break when she took notes. “Many specialists teach students. Committee for Language Arts for the Rita Bean has established a catching up. serve as a literacy coach and be flexible a job as a secretary for Don Cleland But they also serve in other roles, like Pennsylvania Department of Education. merit-based endowed scholarship enough to work with both students (MEd ’40, PhD ’50), who happened to be “I was fascinated with how people learn mentors; they support teachers. And they In 2009, she was elected to the Reading for doctoral students in Pitt’s and other teachers. director of the school’s reading laboratory. to read and write and why some kids also serve to set direction for the school.” Hall of Fame, which recognizes contrib- reading education program. Then, as now, the school was on the struggle and some kids don’t,” she says. They are literacy leaders in their schools. utors who improve reading instruction. Children come to school with great To qualify, candidates must have cutting edge of literacy education, and “I have been in love with the whole idea variability in the literacy skills required written a dissertation addressing Bean knows something firsthand about Retired in name only, Bean continues Cleland was helping to shape the new of being a reading teacher and helping for learning to read and write. Given the problems facing struggling the value of a good mentor. While she to work on a new national initiative, International Reading Association (IRA) struggling readers get better.” these differences in exposure to reading, readers. For information, contact was at Upper St. Clair, she returned to get Response to Intervention (known in from a corner of his desk. vocabulary, language, or literacy at home, Michael Haas at 412-648-1789. Immediately after graduating, the young a master’s degree at Pitt, where Cleland, Pennsylvania as Response to Instruction schools need to be prepared to provide “I became fascinated with the whole teacher accepted a job in Doylestown, her former boss, served to guide her and Intervention), which examines the the differentiated instruction that will reading process, and I had the chance to Pa., before returning to the Pittsburgh career in academia. changing function of everyone from the meet some of the experts in the field,” area and teaching in the suburb of enable all students to be successful When she graduated, Bean became a speech and language teacher to the she says. Upper St. Clair. readers and writers. reading specialist for all grades, which school psychologist, the teacher, and Bean earned enough money to attend In those early days, children who were was fairly uncommon. She began thinking the reading specialist. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania for identified as poor readers were taken that the most effective way for her to her undergraduate degree, where she outside the classroom to work with a do her job was not just to work with supported herself by working as reading specialist, and there was little individual students but rather to serve SCHOOL OF EDUCATION or nowww coordination.education with the classroom.pitt .edu as a resource who could guide SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu teacher. Later, the specialists were other teachers. 24 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu 25 FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

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Patricia Crawford, associate professor in Michael Gunzenhauser first joined the W. James Jacob was appointed in Nations Development Programme; the prepare adolescents to assume the role early childhood education in the Department faculty in 2004, was appointed associate 2010 to a tenure-stream position in United Nations Educational, Scientific of democratic citizens, with an emphasis 2009–10 of Instruction and Learning, was awarded professor in 2008, and received tenure the Department of Administrative and and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); on how adolescents think and make tenure in April 2010. Crawford, who joined in April 2010. His academic background Policy Studies with direct involvement the World Bank; the U.S. Agency for sense of their role in the world. Myers Grant and the University of Pittsburgh in fall 2007, is in the philosophy of education, and in the higher education management International Development; and multiple has 11 peer-reviewed publications in focuses her research on the intersection his research focus is on the ethical and and social and comparative analysis in nongovernmental organizations on journals such as the British Educational Research of early childhood literacy and teacher epistemological foundations of research education programs. He also serves as development projects in a number of Research Journal, Teachers College education. Using a sociocultural framework, methods and educational practices that director of the University of Pittsburgh international contexts. Jacob resides in Record, Journal of Social Studies Highlights Crawford seeks to understand how social aim for greater equity and social justice. Institute for International Studies in Pittsburgh with his wife, Natalie, and Research, International Journal of practices guide the literacy learning of Currently, he is completing a book on profes- Education. Prior to joining the Pitt faculty their three children: Elizabeth Anise, 10; Educational Research, and Theory and aculty and students in the children and impact the work of their sional ethics for educators working under as a visiting assistant professor in 2007, Joshua Ranen, 3; and Michael Jomar, 1. Research in Social Education.  School of Education were teachers. Children’s literature is featured the constraints of external accountability Jacob served as assistant director of the productive when it came to prominently in her research, and currently pressures. Additionally, Gunzenhauser Center for International and Development John Myers was promoted to associate F securing research grants during the she is studying the impact of picture books leads an ongoing study on the influences Education at the University of California, professor with tenure in the Department 2009–10 academic year. Grant funding on children’s emerging concepts of life of high-stakes accountability policy on Los Angeles (UCLA). He earned his of Instruction and Learning. Myers joined Faculty Accolades is at an all-time high, and faculty circumstances (e.g., aging, adoption, life- philosophies of education, professional PhD in education at UCLA and master’s the faculty of the social studies education Louis Gomez, professor and members are being recognized for their text intersections). Crawford’s goal is to ethics, and opportunities for innovation. degrees in organizational behavior and program in 2004 after graduating with a Dr. Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban contributions to their profession, with contribute to the professional development Gunzenhauser has published two chapters international development at Brigham PhD in curriculum, teaching, and learning Education, was selected as one many being invited to speak—and in of emerging and practicing teachers. She in books and 11 articles in refereed jour- Young University. Jacob’s current research with a specialization in comparative, of the New Pittsburgh Courier’s some cases give keynote addresses— has published 23 articles in peer-reviewed nals, including Teachers College Record, interests include HIV/AIDS multisectoral international, and developmental 2010 “50 Men of Excellence.” at various events. journals, including the Journal of Early Philosophical Studies in Education, Edu- capacity building, governance, and education from the Ontario Institute for Since 2003, the Courier has been Childhood Teacher Education, Childhood cational Theory, Philosophical Studies prevention and comparative and interna- Studies in Education of the University of honoring men for their professional Grant funding increased this past Education, Young Children, and the Journal in Education, Educational Studies, tional higher education. He has consulted Toronto. His research has focused on the accomplishments and community year to $16.8 million, which included of Reading Education. She also has Qualitative Inquiry, and The Review with ministries of education and health; education of adolescents for democratic work that has benefited the funding from the National Institutes of published five invited articles and eight of Higher Education. UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations citizenship in the 21st century. Specifically, African American population. Health, National Science Foundation, book chapters. Programme on HIV/AIDS; the United he investigates ways that schools can Spencer Foundation, and Pennsylvania Department of Education. The areas in which grants and scholarships have been received include assessment and evaluation, enabling factors, obesity prevention and intervention, physical activity, international education, language, literacy and culture, learning science and policy, teaching, teacher education, and curriculum development. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu Patricia Crawford Michael Gunzenhauser W. James Jacob John Myers Louis Gomez 26 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu 27 FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

Kerr Appointed Chair of the Department Faculty New Faculty Members of Administrative and Policy Studies Books those experiences to her teaching in Published Bethany Barone is joining the faculty Arts at Purdue University. Since graduating instruction, studying schools and districts the new School of Education principals in the Department of Health and Physical from Purdue, Coen has been a postdoctoral as institutional settings of teaching program (Leadership Initiative for in 2010 Activity as a tenure-stream assistant fellow at the University of Pittsburgh School and learning, and Transforming Schools, or LIFTS) and its professor. Barone earned her PhD in of Medicine. Coen’s postdoctoral research fidelity of program superintendent program. Within the • S.J. Bagnato, J.T. Neisworth, and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins has involved examining the effects of implementation. Munter Pittsburgh Public Schools, she served as K. Pretti-Frontczak, LINKing Authentic University Bloomberg School of Public diet- and bariatric surgery-induced weight published some of this director of pupil services, and she was Assessment and Early Childhood Health in June loss and of exercise training on skeletal work in the conference a federal consent decree administrator Intervention: Best Measures for Best 2010 with a focus muscle lipid metabolism and inflammation proceedings from the in the Los Angeles (Calif.) Unified School Practices (fourth ed.). Baltimore, Md.: on epidemiological in obese insulin-resistant patients. His 31st Annual Conference District for nine years. Paul Brookes Publishing Co., Inc., 2010. methods, physical work has been published in journals such of the North American • C.E. Coburn and M.K. Stein (eds.), activity, obesity, and as Diabetes, Diabetes Care, and Medicine Chapter of the International Group for the As a scholar, Kerr recently has published Research and Practice in Education: chronic diseases. & Science in Sports & Exercise. Coen’s Psychology of Mathematics Education. two books, School Crisis Prevention and Building Alliances, Bridging the Divide. Her dissertation dissertation research examined the Mary Margaret Kerr, professor, was Intervention and Strategies for Addressing Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. research studied the beneficial effects of M. Najeeb Shafiq has joined the appointed chair of the Department of Behavior Problems in the Classroom effects of exercise on cardiovascular end combining exercise Department of Administrative and Policy Administrative and Policy Studies in (sixth edition)—the latter coauthored • R. Donato and G.R. Tucker, A Tale of points in adults with hypertension and training and statin Studies as a tenure-stream assistant August 2010. Kerr has a distinguished with C. Michael Nelson. She has published Two Schools: Developing Sustainable diabetes, and the first of her dissertation treatment with professor. Shafiq conducts research on the record, within the University of Pittsburgh, manuscripts in journals and magazines, Early Foreign Language Programs. manuscripts has been published in The respect to lipid social benefits of education, child labor, nationally, and internationally, for her including Reclaiming Children and Youth, Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters & British Journal of Sports Medicine. Barone profile and mediators educational gender gaps, and educational expertise in supporting the mental Education and Treatment of Children, Channel View Publications, 2010. also is experienced in systematic review of inflammation in privatization in the Middle East, North health and behavioral needs of children The School Administrator, and the Journal • C.I. Fertman and D.D. Allensworth (eds.), and meta-analysis, and she has published hypercholesterolemic Africa, South Asia, and the United States. and adolescents in school settings. of the American Academy of Child & Health Promotion Programs: From Theory a series of manuscripts examining the patients. Coen’s research led to his being His research has appeared in economics, Linking school-based prevention with Adolescent Psychiatry. to Practice. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey- impact of diabetes on cancer prognosis, published twice in the journal Metabolism: education, and political science journals. mental health treatment, she was the Bass Publishers, 2010. including in publications such as the Clinical and Experimental. Shafiq also has served as a consultant to cofounding director (with David Brent) Reflecting on the challenges ahead, Kerr Journal of the American Medical the World Bank and various government of the STAR (Services for Teens at Risk) commented, “As I look ahead, I hope to • N.A. Glasgow, M. Cheyne, and R. Yerrick, Association and Diabetes Care. Barone Charles Munter is a newly appointed and non-governmental Center, a suicide research and training refocus our efforts on those who are our What Successful Science Teachers Do: was raised in Mt. Lebanon, Pa.; she and tenure-stream assistant professor of organizations. He center that has been in existence since primary focus—P–20 students and those 75 Research-based Strategies. Thousand her husband, Nick, have a 1-year-old mathematics education in the Department earned his master’s 1986. Her work in urban schools has who support their educational journeys. Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, 2010. daughter, Ellena. of Instruction and Learning. Munter degree in economics been funded by the William T. Grant, We must pursue their collective dreams • M.K. Stein and L. Kucan (eds.), Instruc- graduated from Vanderbilt University in at the University at Staunton Farm, and Richard King Mellon through our own hard work, high expec- tional Explanations in the Disciplines. Paul M. Coen has joined the Department May 2010, and his experience includes Buffalo, the State foundations; the Watson Institute; and tations, accountability, ethical actions, New York, NY: Springer, 2010. of Health and Physical Activity as a teaching high school mathematics and a University of New the Heinz Endowments. Since 1980, Kerr and global networks. After all, in the tenure-stream assistant professor. master’s course in advanced teaching of York, and his PhD has attracted more than $13 million words of [Henry David] Thoreau, ‘In the Coen graduated with a PhD in exercise mathematics at the elementary school in economics and education at Columbia in research funding to the University. long run you hit only what you aim physiology from Purdue University in May level. His research interests include how University. Prior to joining the Pitt faculty, Kerr, a licensed superintendent, also at. Therefore, though you should fail 2008. He was awarded a doctoral student mathematics teachers develop visions Shafiq was an assistant professor of has worked as a senior administrator immediately, you had better aim grant from the American College of Sports and practices of high-quality mathematics education policy studies at Indiana SCin urbanHOOL school OF districts, EDUC bringingATION at somethingwww high.’.education ” .pitt.edu Medicine and a Bilsland Dissertation SCinstruction,HOOL OFmeasuring EDUC aspectsATION of teachers’ University.www.education.pitt.edu Fellowship from the College of Liberal knowledge and practice in mathematics 28 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu 29 FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

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Rita Bean, emeritus professor of allows students to apply their chemistry Michael Ford, associate professor of Louis M. Gomez, professor and Helen Publishing. Klein also received a 2001 Seth Spaulding, emeritus professor, education, received the International knowledge in activities similar to those science education in the Department of S. Faison Chair in Urban Education, was Pitt Chancellor’s Distinguished Public was honored by the Higher Education Reading Association Special Service of practicing chemists and to design Instruction and Learning, was appointed named one of five senior partners for a Service Award and the annual Psychology Special Interest Group of the Comparative Award for distinguished service and was and conduct their own experiments. section coeditor for the journal Science new program of work at the Carnegie in Media Award from the Pennsylvania & International Education Society for his inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame The online experience was developed Education. This journal, according to its Foundation for the Advancement of Psychological Association in 1982 contributions and for years of service in in 2009. Established in 1973, the Reading to supplement textbook problem solving Web site, “publishes original articles on Teaching. The new program “seeks to and 2007. the field. Spaulding is a former director of Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who and assist students in understanding the latest issues and trends occurring tackle some of the most nettlesome the United Nations Educational, Scientific have contributed to improvement in reading abstract concepts through experiments internationally in science curriculum, problems affecting the educational Lois “Toni” McClendon, Maximizing and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) instruction. Bean also has received the and real-world applications. instruction, learning, policy and success of a large number of our nation’s Adolescent Potentials (MAPS) staff member, International Bureau of Education in 2004 Celebrate Literacy Award from the preparation of science teachers with students,” according to the foundation’s was awarded the 2009 Human Rights Geneva, Switzerland, having served Keystone State Reading Association, a Ernest Dettore, STARTS technical the aim to advance our knowledge of announcement of the senior partners’ Award by Church Women United. Church between 1983 and 1986. In addition, 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award from assistant in the Office of Child Devel- science education theory and practice.” appointments. The Carnegie Foundation Women United recognized McClendon Spaulding was the director of UNESCO’s Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, the opment, received the 2010 Chancellor’s for the Advancement of Teaching is an because she “exhibited and identified education department in Paris from 2004 Jean E. Winsand Distinguished Award for Staff for Excellence in Service Noreen Garman, professor in the independent policy and research center those things that bring peace, possibil- 1968–1973. Woman in Education Award, a 2002 Pitt to the Community. This University award Department of Administrative and Policy that describes its mission as supporting ities, care, and compassion within our Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service was created, according to the Office of the Studies, received the 2009 Distinguished “needed transformations in American community and worldwide.” Through the Karen VanderVen, professor of Award, the 2000 A.B. Herr Award from Chancellor, to recognize staff members Achievement Award from the American education through tighter connections MAPS program, McClendon serves as psychology in education, was awarded the College Reading Association, and whose work in the community surpasses Educational Research Association (AERA) between teaching practice, evidence the community organizer for Communities a Lifetime Achievement Award by a 1985 Pitt Chancellor’s Distinguished the expectations of the organizations on Supervision and Instructional Leader- of student learning, the communication in Action for Peace, which provides the Academy of Child and Youth Teaching Award. they serve and whose commitment and ship Special Interest Group. The aim of and use of this evidence, and structured activities such as the Peace Bus and the Care. VanderVen has a focus on early effort have made a significant impact on this interest group is, according to the opportunities to build knowledge.” Youth Dragon Boat League. She also is childhood planning, professionalization James Greeno, visiting professor in the the community. Dettore was recognized AERA Web site, “to provide a professional involved with New Voices Pittsburgh and of early childhood and child and youth Department of Instruction and Learning, for all the work he does as a consultant forum for those who are involved in Roger D. Klein, associate professor the Coalition Against Violence, and she work, leadership development, the and Gaea Leinhardt, emeritus professor to others and as a volunteer in helping current research, theory, and practice in of applied developmental psychology is a licensed trainer for Creating a Culture developmental role of activity, practical of instruction and learning, were part children. Examples of his service to the supervision of instruction.” Over the in the Department of Psychology in of Peace, which promotes nonviolence strategies for activity programming, of a team that received a Science Prize education and community organizations course of almost 40 years in academia, Education, received the 2009 award for training for personal use and social change. and intergenerational and life span for Online Resources in Education are his work with Heritage Community Garman has contributed greatly to the Distinguished Professional Contributions practices. She recently published a from the American Association for the Initiatives, Inc., and the 4 Kids program; field of supervision. She was one of the to Media Psychology, presented by the Curtis Smith, adjunct instructor, was book, Promoting Positive Development Advancement of Science. The team was Shady Lane School; the YMCA of Greater first professors to write about reflection American Psychological Association honored with distinguished membership in Early Childhood: Building Blocks for led by David Yaron, associate professor of Pittsburgh; Beginning with Books; the in supervision, the use of study groups (APA)’s Division of Media Psychology in the University of Pittsburgh chapter a Successful Start (Springer, 2008). chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh; and in dissertation advising, the use of at the APA annual convention. Klein of the National Society of Collegiate and team members included Greeno, Pittsburgh Action Against Rape. qualitative and interpretative research has been a member of the Division of Scholars. Smith was awarded this for his Leinhardt, Michael Karabinos of Carnegie methods in the study of supervision, and Media Psychology since 1988 and has dedication and service to the University Mellon, and Carnegie Mellon alumnus the importance of teacher judgment. Most worked as a freelance health reporter for and Pittsburgh communities through his Donovan Lange. The team developed the recently, she coauthored The Qualitative WPXI Channel 11, CNBC, and PBS. He roles as an instructor of physical education ChemCollective (www.chemcollective.org), Dissertation: A Guide for Students and has published a total of 55 videos that and a University police officer. a digital library of online activities that Faculty with Maria Piantanida (PhD ’82). complement textbooks from Wadsworth SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu

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Pre-K–12 Educator Award Department of Health the fields of early care and education, School of Education Honors Kathleen K. Harrington (EdD ’98) was and Physical Activity early intervention, health, education, developmental disabilities, family support, the recipient of the Pre-K–12 Educator Paul M. Ribisl (EDUC ’60) was the and parental advocacy in more than 45 Nine at Annual Reception Award. Harrington is the principal at recipient of the Alumni Award from the states. He has written, edited, and produced Pine-Richland Middle School in Gibsonia, Department of Health and Physical Activity. developmental programs and materials Pa. Through her leadership, the school Ribisl is the Charles E. Taylor Professor that have been adopted throughout the has received numerous accolades. The of Health and Exercise Science at Wake United States and internationally. Pennsylvania Middle School Association Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., recognized Pine-Richland with the Don where he also is an associate dean for Eichhorn Award for Outstanding Middle academic planning. He was a cofounder Falk Laboratory School School in 2004 and named it a Don of Wake Forest’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Outstanding Alumni Award Eichhorn School to Watch in 2007 and Program, the first outpatient cardiac Sigo Falk was the recipient of the Falk 2010. Harrington serves on the State rehabilitation program in North Carolina. School’s Outstanding Alumni Award. Falk, Regional Board of the Pennsylvania It became a model for 50 additional who graduated from the school in 1946, is Middle School Association and was programs developed in the state over the chair of the Falk Foundation in Pittsburgh. previously the group’s president. a 20-year period. An active member of the Falk School community, Falk has served on numerous Department of nonprofit boards. Currently, he serves as Instruction and Learning vice chair of Chatham University Board of Departmental Trustees and is a trustee of the Historical Libby Cataldi (MEd ’73G, EdD ’79) was Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Alumni Awards the recipient of the Alumni Award from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Previously, Department of Instruction and Learning. Falk served on the boards of Health Systems Department of Cataldi is an educator and author of Agency of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Administrative Stay Close: A Mother’s Story of Her Son’s Allegheny Land Trust, and Pittsburgh and Policy Studies Addiction. It is a story about dealing with Child Guidance Foundation. Pictured from left to right, Jorge Delgado; Kathleen Harrington; Fabio Fontana; Andrew Falk, on behalf of his father, Sigo; Gwendolyn Cartledge; Alan Lesgold; Maria E. Piantanida (PhD ’82) received addiction without withdrawing love and Maria Piantanida; Larry Edelman; Laura Cataldi, on behalf of her daughter, Libby; and Paul Ribisl. learning to trust again while remaining the Alumni Award from the Department Student Leadership Award of Administrative and Policy Studies. attentive to “the cautious triumph of he School of Education honored 2010 Distinguished Early Career Award Jorge E. Delgado received the Student Piantanida is an adjunct associate staying clean.” Cataldi currently lives in eight alumni and one graduate Alumni Award Fabio E. Fontana (MS ’04, MEd ’06, Leadership Award. He is a fourth-year professor in Pitt’s School of Education Florence, Italy, where she is on the board student with individual awards PhD ’07) received the Early Career Award. doctoral student in social and comparative T Gwendolyn Cartledge (BS ’65, MEd ’68) and in the School of Education at Carlow of the International School of Florence. at the school’s annual Alumni Awards Fontana is an assistant professor in the analysis in education in the Department of was the recipient of the Distinguished University in Pittsburgh. At Carlow, She also is a member of the American Reception on April 29, 2010, at the Pitts- School of Health, Physical Education Administrative and Policy Studies. He also Alumni Award. Cartledge is a professor she worked with colleagues to develop International League of Women. burgh Athletic Association in Oakland. & Leisure Services at the University of is a K. Leroy Irvis fellow and a research of special education at the Ohio State and teach a Master of Arts program in Four departmental awards and five Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Along associate at Pitt’s Institute for International University in Columbus, Ohio. She focuses educational praxis. Piantanida is the Department of awards in individual categories were with pursuing his passion for teaching, Studies in Education. Delgado has served as her professional teaching, research, and coauthor, with Pitt School of Education Psychology in Education presented at the reception. Fontana maintains an active research the representative of the Council of Graduate writing on students with mild disabilities, Professor Noreen Garman, of two editions Larry I. Edelman (SOC WK’75; SHRS program, with publications in national Students in Education to the School of the development of social skills, and early of The Qualitative Dissertation: A Guide ’82G) received the Alumni Award from the peer-reviewed journals. He also has served Education’s school council. In this capacity, intervention for and prevention of learning for Students and Faculty and coeditor, Department of Psychology in Education. on several departmental committees and he has served on many committees. and behavior problems through effective with Garman, of The Authority to Imagine: Edelman is a senior instructor in the is assisting with the University of Northern instruction. Her many works include The Struggle Toward Representation in Department of Pediatrics at the University Iowa’s Kinder Gym program, a physical SCHOOL OF EDUCATION coauthoredwww books,.education social skills curricula,.pitt.edu Dissertation Writing. SCofHOOL Colorado OF Denver. 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Jennifer Harms Amorosa (MAT ’04) Darwin Copeland (EdD ’08) is a volunteer University of Colorado Health Sciences be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Alumni 2000sBrian White Jr. (MEd ’00, EdD ’06) graduated from Columbia University firefighter, police officer, flight paramedic, Center studying with Judy Regensteiner, professional conference in New Zealand became superintendent of the Chartiers College of Physicians and Surgeons registered nurse, teacher, and principal Director of the Center for Women’s for service providers of the blind and Updates Valley School District August 1, 2010. medical school in 2009. Amorosa noted and the assistant director of Parkway West Health Research. visually impaired. White has been a member of the School that she used many of the experiences Career and Technology Center in Oakdale, of Education executive alumni committee she gained as a Master of Arts in Pa. Recently, he coauthored two chapters Jessica Unick (PhD ’09) has accepted Amanda Wuchevich (MAT ’10) was 1980sAliyu Magatakarda Wamakko since 2007. Teaching student to shape her medical and developed several case scenarios a postdoctoral position at Brown selected as a Knowles Science Teaching (BS ’80), governor of Sokoto State, school experience. Primarily, she used for the 2011 edition of the Critical Care University working with Rena Wing, Foundation fellow. The fellowship is for Nigeria, was honored with the 2009 Michael Lucas (MEd ’01, EdD ’08), her interest in teaching and learning to Transport textbook from Jones & Bartlett professor of psychiatry and exceptional young teachers committed West Africa Leadership Award for an principal of Cornell Elementary School, become involved in several teaching and Learning. Subsequently, he served as a human behavior. to making a difference in science or outstanding governor of the Economic in Coraopolis, Pa., led the school toward learning projects at Columbia. She ran a section editor for a new edition of the mathematics teaching. It provides for Community of Western African States receiving recognition as a 2010 Blue supplementary instruction program as a publisher’s emergency medical technician professional development, mentoring, by the Africa International Media Ribbon School from the U.S. Department second-year student, supervising about textbook. Copeland also was one of five and peer support. Organization. Wamakko was recognized of Education Blue Ribbon Schools 60 of her fellow students as teachers, individuals asked by International Trauma 2010sFrances Mary D’Andrea (PhD ‘10) for his contributions to education, Program, the highest honor a school can and has become fairly involved with Life Support to coauthor a coordinator received the national Council for Ex- Andrew Poh Sui Hoi (MED ’82) com- housing, agriculture, roads, health, and receive. Cornell’s science, technology, medical education research. manual and DVD for its pediatric trauma ceptional Children Division on Visual pleted a PhD in educational measurement the provision of basic infrastructures. and reading instruction were three areas life support course. Impairments Virginia M. Sowell Student and evaluation at the University of Toronto Wamakko also received an honorary that were noted as most impressive and Gregg Margolis (PhD ’05) was the first of the Year Award. D’Andrea was and currently is the acting dean of the doctorate of science from the Common- cutting edge in the application process. paramedic selected for the 2009–10 Ryan Mays (PhD ‘09), a graduate of the the keynote speaker at the School of Faculty of Education at HELP University wealth of Dominica. In November, Lucas and his team travelled Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Department of Health and Physical Activity, Education’s statewide professional College in Malaysia. to Washington, D.C., to receive the award. Fellowship. He took a leave of absence is in a postdoctorate position at the conference in April 2010, and she will Lucas also received for the Terrel H. Bell from his position as associate director Award for Outstanding School Leadership, of the National Registry of Emergency 1990sJoanne Canan (MEd ’91), a high school which “recognizes outstanding school Medical Technicians (NREMT) in teacher in Moon Township, Pa., coauthored leaders and the vital role they play in Columbus, Ohio, to work in health a peer-reviewed article, “Computers, overcoming challenging circumstances,” policy and health care reform issues. In Memoriam Coffee Shops, and Classrooms: Promoting according to the U.S. Department of In September 2010, he returned to Partnerships and Fostering Authentic NREMT, where he now is applying what Education, which distributes the Bell Florence Britton May (MED ’74) died tained close connections with the children’s Latisha Burns, a master’s degree candidate Discussion,” for the May 2010 issue of he learned from his fellowship experience Award. Cornell Elementary partners with December 11, 2009. May was a longtime families, her staff, and the community. She in the health and physical activity program. English Journal. to his daily responsibilities. Margolis the School of Education Reading Program member of the University of Pittsburgh encouraged her employees to complete their The Hug-Me-Tight Childcare and Develop- has published several EMT manuals. and the Principal’s Academy. School of Education Executive education by participating in the Teacher ment Center celebrated Burns, her contri- Molefe Mogapi (MA ’96) is a lecturer in Alumni Committee. Education and Compensation Helps Early butions to education, and the awarding of the Department of Educational Foundations Nicholas Greer (MAT ’03) was named Joe DeGroot (MAT ’07) was awarded Childhood Scholarship program. Each year, her degree at the center on July 21, 2010. at the University of Botswana. a $2,000 grant from the Spectroscopy 2009 Teacher of the Year for the Baltimore Carolyn Burns Burns supported two staff members by Society of Pittsburgh to conduct a science City Public Schools and was a finalist (BS ’10) died on allowing them to have time off to attend Maxine Roberts, professor emeritus of Francis Amedahe (PhD ’98) is the chair olympiad for third and fourth graders at for 2010 Maryland Teacher of the Year. December 27, 2009. Pitt to complete their bachelor’s degrees in elementary education, died January 25, of teacher education and dean of the Fairless Elementary School in Pittsburgh. Greer is a ninth-grade biology teacher at Burns was committed applied developmental psychology. Sadly, 2010. Roberts obtained her doctoral degree education faculty at the University of At the event, teams of students move Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. He leads to education and owned she died just prior to completing the final in elementary education from Wayne State Cape Coast in Ghana. from station to station to work on classes in ingenuity biology, honors biology, the Hug-Me-Tight Child- credits toward her own bachelor’s degree University and joined the School of Educa- science-related projects. and ingenuity science and computers care and Development in applied developmental psychology. Pitt tion in 1956. Throughout her tenure, she and coaches varsity soccer. Center, where she oversaw all of the recognized Burns’ dedication with a post- served as director of language commun- SCHOOL OF EDUCATION www.education.pitt.edu programming for the children and main- SChumousHOOL degree, OF acceptedEDUC AbyTION her daughter, ications.www She.education retired in 1985..pitt.edu

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The faculty respond to Dean Lesgold’s report on the strategic plan. Well, no, not really. In addition to celebrating the school’s 100th anniversary, faculty and staff helped Dean Alan Lesgold celebrate his own personal milestone— his 65th birthday in November. Milestone