HARVARD ED. HARVARD SUMMER 2019 SUMMER 2019 SUMMER HARVARD ED. MAGAZINE The Teacher Issue A Special Report HED10-FOB-Cover.indd 1 4/28/19 3:57 PM Harvard Ed. Summer 2019 ContentsSummer 2019 Features 18 SUMMER 2019 � ISSUE N 163 A SPECIAL REPORT Editor in Chief Lory Hough [email protected] Creative Direction, Ed. The Modus Operandi Design Patrick Mitchell Melanie deForest Malloy Teacher MODUSOP.NET Contributing Writers Issue Katie Bacon Andrew Bauld, Ed.M.’16 20 Professionalizing Preschool Emily Boudreau, Ed.M.’19 Early childhood education is critical, yet pre-K Elaine McArdle teachers are often thought of as babysitters, not professionals. What would it take to tranform Illustrators the profession? STORY BY KATIE BACON Chris Koehler Greg Mably 26 The Middle of Somewhere George Wylesol A look at why more teachers should consider working in rural America. Photographers STORY BY ELAINE MCARDLE Jillian Clark Matt Kalinowski 30 Not Just Here for #1 Jonathan Kozowyk Ten teachers in this year’s master’s programs Tony Luong answered a question that Dean Bridget Terry Long Heather McGrath had posed to them several times this year: Who are you Ekaterina Smirnova here for? Copy Editors “I told a few people I needed to create a succulent 40 Pay Matters Marin Jorgensen Abigail Mieko Vargus club to help educate the East Coast.” When it comes to what we pay our public school RACHEL EISNER, ED.M.’19 teachers, in many parts of the country, the pay is not what it should be. STORY BY LORY HOUGH POSTMASTER Send address changes to: Harvard Graduate School of Education Office of Communications 13 Appian Way Cambridge, MA 02138 © 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Harvard Ed. magazine NEWS + NOTES FROM APPIAN WAY is published three times a year. Departments PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. Teacher becomes her student’s student, p. 4 � Time to rethink grad- ing, p. 6 � Ashton Wheeler Clemmons, Ed.M.’09, turns to politics, p. 4 8 � There’s an app for that, p. 11 � Ed.L.D.-created educator pod- CONVO. — READER FEEDBACK 2 cast takes off, p. 14 � East Coast succulents, p. 15 � What Lecturer GRAD. — ALUMNI NEWS + NOTES 45 Aaliyah El-Amin, Ed.M.’13, Ed.D.’15, is reading, p. 16 KALINOWSKI MATT MABLY GREG DEVELOPMENT 49 Cover illustration by Greg Mably HED10-FOB-TOC.indd 2 4/28/19 7:06 PM HED10-FOB-TOC.indd 1 4/28/19 6:59 PM Harvard Ed. Summer 2019 Behind the Cover Convo. Lory Hough, Editor in Chief JOIN THE CONVERSATION: SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO [email protected] The “Girlhood” story in our winter 2019 issue about middle on Appian Way, comprising minor- 1 school girls generated a lot of interest. One question raised Past Tense ity group students — virtually all of by a few readers stood out: “What about boys,” they wanted them black — most with firsthand to know. It’s a great and important question. Middle school is dif- By the late 1960s, according to experience in the conditions that ficult for all kids, absolutely, and we hope to tackle a story about “Education and the New Breed,” the others have battled. boys at some point in the future. However, this story, given some a story in the magazine’s spring “What is interesting about all of the very specific issues girls and women still face, felt very tar- 1969 issue, the students coming to three groups of students is not geted to adolescent girls, and so we decided to keep a tight focus. the Ed School to become teachers their experience — for many col- But we hear you, readers: Middle school is no picnic for our boys and were changing in response to the lege students now have similar many stories could be written about their experiences! Also related times. The War on Poverty, summer experiences — but rather their 2 to the story, another reader pointed out that we failed to mention riots, the Vietnam War — these continued vigor, nor to say ideal- 3 two groundbreaking and influential works done by Professor Carol were just a few of the factors influ- ism. Enthusiasm for saving the Gilligan (now at New York University) when she was teaching at the encing incoming students, wrote world through education was Ed School, including an essay she published in the Harvard Educa- CHESTER FINN, M.A.T.’67, ED.D.’70, a always a familiar symptom of tion Review 1977 called “In a Different Voice: Women’s Conceptions doctoral student who was on leave the inexperienced young col- of Self and of Morality,” as well as her 1982 book, In a Different Voice. and working at the White House lege alumnus whose only brush Our apologies to Professor Gilligan on our oversight! under Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and with public schools was his own David Blumenthal, a Harvard Col- suburban education. The startling The issues we cover in the magazine are covered else- lege senior and Harvard Crimson thing is that the same enthusiasm, We don’t do a lot of theme issues here at Ed. There are just too 2 where at the Ed School, including on our website, in Usable reporter. As they wrote: now tempered and more realistic, Knowledge, and through the EdCast podcast series. Here “The bright naïve graduate still exists in the student who has many interesting, individual stories that we want to cover and are a few recent related pieces you can find at gse.harvard.edu: of a ‘Seven Sisters’ college is no already grappled with the frustra- trying to group them into themes can feel limiting. So why did 3 A story in Usable Knowledge called “Preventing Gender Bias” longer a typical student in the tions of social change.” gives parents and caregivers tips on countering stereotyping when M.A.T. Program at Harvard. Neither we do a theme on teachers for this issue? It felt like the right their kids are still young. is the naïve graduate of a small- time, given the ongoing teacher strikes that have become 3 Related to our feature story on Assistant Professor Tony Jack, the but-respectable midwestern men’s CONNECT WITH HGSE national news, the importance of teachers and teaching EdCast talked to Jack about ways that colleges conflate access and school. What is gone is the naïvete. inclusion. In the past few years, the ranks emphasized at the Ed School, and the huge stack of teacher- 3 Just in time for this issue’s story on rural teachers, a story on the of entering students at HGSE has TWITTER.COM/HGSE HARVARDEDUCATION. related stories sitting in a folder on my desk. (Yes, that would school’s website announced the launch of the National Center for been swollen by growing numbers TUMBLR.COM Rural Education Research Networks by the Center for Education of young people hardened by expe- be paper printouts.) Honestly, the problem wasn’t deciding to Policy Research and hosted a related rural ed Askwith Forum. rience, the veterans of long months do or not to do a theme on teachers. The problem was deciding in undergraduate volunteer pro- FACEBOOK.COM/ ISSUU.COM/HARVARD Wondering how you can become part of the conversation? grams, VISTA summer community HARVARDEDUCATION EDUCATION which stories to include in the feature well. When it comes to USABLE KNOWLEDGE 3 You can comment on what you’re reading in the magazine, organization projects, or the Peace writing about teachers, there are literally hundreds of stories or tell us what you would like to read, in a couple of different Corps. A second visible contin- Are you interested in keep- ways: 1. Send an email to our letters account: [email protected]. gent is fresh from student protest YOUTUBE.COM/ MEDIUM.COM/ that could — and should — be written. In the end, we went HARVARDEDUCATION @HARVARDEDUCATION ing up with free, easy-to- edu 2. 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Summer 2019 Teacher Becomes the Student HOW GRAD SCHOOL TURNED NEWS + NOTES FROM APPIAN WAY THE TABLES FOR TWO STORY BY LORY HOUGH Assistant Professor Jarvis Givens is flipping through a spiral notebook he still has from his 11th grade honors U.S. history class. He reads aloud notes from a lecture his teacher gave on slave culture, pointing out key phrases he had written down, like “slaves devel- oped subcultures” and “done in secret.” “I didn’t remember those things until I started looking through my notebook,” 4 he says, “but when I’m writing about 5 fugitive pedagogy” — the focus of his current research and his forthcoming book — “these are the same questions I see my 15-year-old self engaging in.” The reason the notebook has been unearthed is not only that it resonates with his research, but also because that same U.S.