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HARVARD ED. HARVARD SPECIAL ISSUE WINTER 2020 WINTER 2020 WINTER 100 YEARS/ 100 REASONS TO LOVE THE ED SCHOOL NOW HED12-FOB-Cover-FINAL.indd 1 12/20/19 1:03 PM Harvard Ed. HARVARD ED. HARVARD SPECIAL ISSUE WINTER 2020 WINTER 2020 Lory Hough, Editor in Chief 100 YEARS/ 100 REASONS TO LOVE THE ED SCHOOL NOW 100 YEARS/ HED12-FOB-Cover-FINAL.indd 1 12/20/19 1:03 PM WINTER 2020 � ISSUE N 165 Editor in Chief Lory Hough [email protected] Creative Direction Modus Operandi Design Patrick Mitchell Melanie deForest Malloy MODUSOP.NET Contributing Writers 100 REASONS Jen Audley, Ed.M.’98 LOVE IS IN THE AIR Emily Boudreau, Ed.M.’19 Timothy Butterfield, Ed.M.’20 This year, the Ed School is celebrating its 100th Tracie Jones Rilda Kissel anniversary. We knew we were going to create a Matt Weber, Ed.M.’11 special theme issue to mark this major milestone, Illustrators but the question was, how should we organize Loogart the information? A deep dive into just the Simone Massoni school’s early history? A straightforward timeline Riccardo Vecchio Rob Wilson approach? None of those options seemed like the right way to tell the story in a way that would Photographers capture not only the school’s beginnings, but also Diana Levine TO LOVE Tony Luong who we are now and who we hope to be in the Walter Smith future — and do it in a way that was fun. However, Copy Editors there was one word that kept coming back to us, a Marin Jorgensen word that might seem odd for a magazine based at Abigail Mieko Vargus a graduate school, but in many ways, the word — POSTMASTER love — makes sense. The foundation of everything Send address changes to: Harvard Graduate School of Education that happens here is love — love for students, Office of Communications love for learning, love for teaching, love for doing 13 Appian Way Cambridge, MA 02138 good (and doing it well), love for Harvard, love for © 2020 by the President and Fellows of making a difference, love for wanting to do better, Harvard College. Harvard Ed. magazine love for fighting wrongs and knowing we have THE ED SCHOOL is published three times a year. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. something to say, and love for what we all know education can, and should, do for all kids around the world. With that in mind, here are our 100 reasons to love the Ed School now. x Cover photograph by Walter Smith Back cover colorizing by Mads Madsen HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.indd 2 12/20/19 4:49 PM HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.inddNOW 1 12/19/19 11:22 PM 100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Reason #1 BECAUSE WE CAN LOOK BACK AND SEE FORWARD AT THE SAME 3 TIME OUR STUDENTS HAVE CHANGED. A LOT. (SEE THE BACK COVER AND THE NEXT SPREAD.) LAST NOVEMBER, WE INVITED THREE CURRENT MASTER’S STUDENTS — ASHLEY BAZIN (ON THE COVER), AVI ANSHIKA (RIGHT), AND JIEZHEN WU (OPPOSITE PAGE) — TO SPEND A DAY DRESSED IN THE STYLE OF THEIR PREDECES- SORS FROM THE ORIGINAL ED HERE CREDIT ARTISTS SCHIFFMANN/ANCHOR KATHLEEN BY MAEUP & HAIR ARTISTS; COLANGELI/ANCHOR KATE HERE BY CREDIT STYLING SCHOOL CLASS OF 1920. Photographs by Walter Smith Illustration by John Doe HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.indd 2 12/30/19 5:14 PM HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.indd 3 12/19/19 11:31 PM 100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed. Winter 2020 4 5 Reason #2 BECAUSE THIS IS US IN 2019 Photographs by Diana Levine HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.indd 4 12/19/19 11:33 PM HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.indd 5 12/19/19 11:34 PM 100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed. Winter 2020 Reason #3 Reason #4 BECAUSE HERE’S THE BECAUSE STUDENTS CH ANGE RUNDOWN september 27, 1920: Students living in Cambridge is not only now there’s an ‘other’ because As the old saying goes, we’ve THE FIRST come a long way, baby. To get you entered the Harvard Graduate CLASS, 1920 tolerable but sometimes weirdly we’re recognizing that gender School of Education for the very enjoyable.” The Hong Kong, is fluid.” oriented to the school’s first 100 first time, via Oxford Street, Harvard Bookstore, Cardullos, Early versions of the student years, here’s a quick rundown of some key dates and moments: not Appian Way. Any back-to- and Charley’s Kitchen still serve handbook provided students school festivities did not occur as quirky landmarks today. with only a select group of 1891: Paul Hanus becomes in Radcliffe Yard and were Before the well-lit Gutman Cafe resources. Over the years, stu- Harvard’s first faculty member in certainly not accompanied by opened in 2012, students and dents have advocated for pro- education and advocates for a full a DJ. However, tuition was only faculty could meet for lunch grams for Native Americans, the school devoted to education. $200 a year. And while this first and discussions in Larsen Hall inclusion of queer students in 1906: Education officially becomes 6 class was the first at Harvard to common areas, dubbed “water conversations about diversity, a a division under the Faculty of Arts 7 include women (see page 30), holes,” a selling point of these student support organization for and Sciences. the October 1920 issue of the spaces being that “they even first-gen students, and taking 1919: John D. Rockefeller makes Harvard Alumni Bulletin prom- had windows.” steps to address environmental the first big donation toward ised, “As long as the School is a Of course, the nature and the concerns among many others. establishing a graduate school of education. strictly graduate institution, it is content of those discussions has Technologies like Facebook Reason #5 likely to attract more men than changed in the life of students and WhatsApp have allowed 1920: In January, a formal an- nouncement is made regarding the women.” today, as new political and so- students to support one another establishment of the school, which by the referee if they wanted registered) that emerge and are cial tensions bubble to the sur- in ways ranging from childcare opens on September 27, 1920. The Because Our Shield august 26, 2019: The Ed to forfeit before the game even increasingly looking to connect face. More recently, part of the to a chat group letting students school is housed in Lawrence Hall. School’s 100th class of students began), meditation techniques and collaborate with students process of “kicking over sacred know where there’s free food. Henry Holmes is the first dean and Was (Likely) Influenced gathered together on Appian to alleviate stress while waiting from across Harvard. cows” has involved developing a Indeed, the idea of inclusion women are admitted — Harvard’s Way. The student body is now for the notoriously slow Gutman “Before, I felt our students fuller understanding of support- has been engrained on Appian first female degree candidates. by a Teacher 1921: On June 23, HGSE holds its 72% women. It recognizes that elevator, a vigilante committee just wanted to stay here, but ing all students. Way across the years. As former Every professional school at Harvard has its own unique shield. Ever wonder first commencement. not all students identify as male dedicated to removing postings now they want to get out in the “In the past five years, Dean Paul Ylvisaker recounts what the Ed School’s shield stands for? Although some of the exact details or female and includes students placed in violation of bulletin larger community,” says Tracie we’ve seen a 56% increase in in an oral history of his time at 1936: The M.A.T. degree begins. are a bit fuzzy, it appears that the shield is connected to Ezekiel Cheever, a from across the United States board rules across the school, Jones, director of Diversity, In- Latinx students, 38% increase the school, “We should repre- 1962: HGSE moves to its new Londoner who moved to Boston in 1637 at the age of 23 and later served as and 52 countries, and from a and a mysterious graffiti cartel clusion, and Belonging. in African American students, sent what others have tended home, Longfellow Hall. The Appian headmaster of the famed Boston Latin School for 38 years, until his death range of ethnicities, socioeco- known as THGZE who wrote on One of the most consis- 33% increase in international to ignore.” And this is happen- Way campus begins. in 1708 at the age of 94. His connection to Harvard is one of the fuzzy details — some accounts nomic backgrounds, and profes- walls about historic and recent tent experiences for students ing. In my experience, the Ed 1965: Larsen Hall opens. (It’s the students,” Jones says. “We’ve say he had no connection, others say he graduated from the college in first space built specifically for sional experiences. debates in education. is learning to navigate Cam- had a change in the community, School’s commitment to rei- 1659, as did several of his children and grandchildren, years later. A foot- HGSE.) In 100 years, the Ed School’s Student organizations have bridge. As a 1965 student guide which means there’s a change magine where the boundaries of note in a 1981 article in the Harvard Library Bulletin says that when the Ed student body has changed sig- also consistently influenced the notes, “Once you have resigned in what people are looking for. schooling lay, to making schools 1972: Gutman Library opens.