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WINTER 2020

Lory Hough, Editor in Chief

100 YEARS/ 100 REASONS TO LOVE THE ED SCHOOL NOW 100 YEARS/

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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

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Reason #2 BECAUSE THIS IS US IN 2019

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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. School was founded, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell and Dean Henry nificantly, but what about the school’s experience. While the yourself to…totally illogical traf- We also have had an increase a place of belonging for all, and 1981: Patricia Albjerg Graham Holmes thought Cheever, who spent 70 years teaching, was the “prototype student experience? In addition Black Students Union and La fic patterns, police who ticket in [self-identifying] undocu- to see all individuals as learners becomes the school’s first female of the secondary school teacher.” to changing course work, the Organization have existed since your car with wild abandon, mented students. There are — on Appian Way and beyond — dean. Because Cheever was the son of a spinner and likely did not have an of- ficial family coat of arms, Pierre de Chaignon lá Rose, the designer of most 2009: Ed.L.D. degree begins. former student-run newspaper the ‘60s in one form or another, unmarked streets, unreason- also trends in students’ gender has left its mark. of Harvard’s early shields, pulled a design from the gravestone of one of The Appian Way, documented the Ed School has numerous able landlords, exorbitantly identities. In the past, we would 2012: The Ph.D. degree begins. Cheever’s grandsons, also named Ezekiel, who was buried in Charlestown, in 1990 a struggling student clubs and groups (each year priced food, and dirt and soot have just had an option for ‘him’ EMILY BOUDREAU, ED.M.’19, IS A 2018: Bridget Long becomes our Massachusetts. The design was also found on embroidery made by his first

basketball team (once asked there are usually more than 30 on everything, you’ll find that or ‘her’ on the application, but ARCHIVES HARVARD CONTENT CREATOR AT THE ED SCHOOL newest dean. wife, Mary Cheever.

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Reason #6 BECAUSE WE COME FROM HUMBLE ORIGINS When we think of the Ed School, we think of Longfellow, Gutman, and Reason #8 Larsen. But Appian Way wasn’t where the school first laid down roots. In 1920, when it was founded, the school was housed in Lawrence Hall on Kirkland Street, just outside Harvard Yard. Built in 1848 from a $50,000 Because History Was gift from Boston industrialist Abbott Lawrence, the dark brick Italianate- style building was initially used for the Lawrence Scientific School (a Made in 1891 and 1920. precursor to the School of Engineering), including as a residence for Law- rence’s first professor, Eben Norton Horsford, founder of baking powder. Over Salad. As the building aged, students and faculty developed a love–hate relationship with the space. In a 1961 Harvard Crimson interview, Dean In 1891, we weren’t yet a school. We were one faculty member, As- Francis Keppel pointed to the ceiling of his Lawrence Hall office and said, sistant Professor Paul Henry Hanus, teaching one class, the History “See those cracks? We had to remove 30,000 books from the library up- 8 stairs because we were told the second floor would cave in.” and Art of Teaching, which was listed under philosophy. It wasn’t 9 GREGORY ANRIG, M.A.T.’56, C.A.S.’60, ED.D.’63, in a 1988 oral history until 1906 that Hanus and one other professor made up their own project, said of the space, “You come to Harvard and you think of all of education division within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. this wealth and the tremendous resources in this university, and then you But Hanus wanted more. He had been pushing for a separate go to the school of education ... in this dingy little building. With a heavy graduate ed school as early as 1903; in 1915 his pushing went beyond German accent, Professor Ulrich used to refer to his basement lecture just talk when three groups, including the Harvard Corporation, room as the ‘horse stables.’” began a united and serious effort to find the money to get started. Ulrich, in an essay published in the 1970–71 Bulletin, added that the lecture hall was “equipped with benches which looked as if they had been In May of 1919, John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil bought from a defunct monitorial school of the 1830s. No state school Company, made the first major donation, $500,000, toward the $2 department would have allowed them in even the poorest district. ...One million that was ultimately raised. Nine months later, on February hot day, the benches got stuck to the trousers of the students. It was dif- 17, 1920, at the Harvard Union, 200 guests gathered for a dinner to ficult to separate the humanity from the wood.” celebrate the impending conversion from division to school. This And yet, Anrig added, “there was something about the atmosphere included Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, Hanus, and Henry of that place, because it was so old and decrepit in many ways, there Wyman Holmes, who would become the school’s first dean. “On a was something very gracious about it at the same time. ... The facilities never made the difference in this program. It was the rather remarkable frigid winter night, elaborate pains had been taken to ensure a warm relationship you had with the faculty and, at that time, the structure of the environment of good fellowship and good taste,” wrote Arthur Pow- program itself, which I found to be just tremendously beneficial to me.” ell in The Uncertain Profession. “Elegant courses followed one after In 1962, the Ed School moved to Appian Way with the purchase of the other: oysters, cream of mushrooms, filet of beef, endive salad, Longfellow from Radcliffe. Lawrence Hall fell into disrepair and was cheeses, fruit ices, and cake.” abandoned. In 1970, a group of graduate students took over the build- Less than a month later, on April 12, 1920, the Harvard Graduate ing and started the Free University as a way to provide an alternative School of Education was officially established by a vote of the corpora- education to Cambridge residents. The Free University Commune, a collective of local homeless people, also moved in. The building was tion. The school would offer two degrees starting in September: the slated for demolition to make way for, as it was once described, “the master of education and the nation’s first doctor of education. As Pow-

beige sprawl of the new Science Center.” On May 8, a fire broke out on LAWRENCE HALL, 1874 SON & NOTMAN WILLIAM ell noted, “The educational press reported triumphantly that Harvard Lawrence Hall’s third floor and the building was destroyed. at long last was firmly committed to the graduate study of education.”

Reason #7 BECAUSE OUR NEW CENTENNIAL SCHOLARS WILL HELP US MOVE THE SCHOOL’S VISION FORWARD FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS

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Who: Professor Area of impact: portraiture

Why it’s important: SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT, Reason #10 ED.D.’72, a sociologist, pioneered a new way to do social science research that blends art and science with storytelling. However, unlike most social science, which tends to focus on what’s wrong, portraiture attempts BECAUSE PAT AND BRIDGET to understand what’s worthy in people and human behav- ior and within institutions like schools. It allows the re- SHARED SOME HISTORY searcher and subject to co- create the story so that each On November 30, 1981, Patricia good time. He does some things one, Lawrence-Lightfoot has Albjerg Graham was announced vastly better than I do and that, written, can participate in “the drawing of the image.” dean of the Ed School — the first of course, was an enormous as- female to hold the post and the set to me. First of all, he knew How it started: “My initial first woman in Harvard’s his- the place which I did not know. foray into the field was part tory to head a graduate school. And secondly, he is conscien- of a project that originated with Dædalus, the journal Nearly four decades later, Alb- tious to the nth degree in plan- of the Academy of Arts and jerg Graham sat down with our ning and anticipating problems Sciences, where a seminar current dean, Bridget Long, to and being prepared. And he of scholars from different talk about that time, her name, also has this fantastic sense disciplines were focused 10 and what makes her proud. of humor which you certainly 11 on trying to understand the need in that job, as I’m sure you character of high schools LONG: WHEN [HARVARD PRESI- and the nature of adoles- know, Bridget. DENT] DEREK BOK APPOINTED I had a strange maiden name cence, the ways in which YOU, YOU WERE THE FIRST LONG: WHEN YOU REFLECT these institutions served or FEMALE DEAN TO LEAD A HAR- which, when I came to the Rad- BACK, WHAT IS THE THING YOU’RE disserved the developmen- VARD FACULTY. WHAT WAS THAT cliffe Institute, I remember the MOST PROUD OF? tal needs of adolescents,” LIKE TO BE THE ONLY WOMAN Radcliffe trustees said, “Oh my Lawrence-Lightfoot wrote in SITTING AT THE TABLE? dear,” — in a very gentle way — ALBJERG GRAHAM: Oh good- a 2016 essay for Learning ALBJERG GRAHAM: I walked into “why don’t you just drop that ness, I hadn’t thought of that. Landscapes. “I was sent out into the field by this group, one of these deans’ meetings Albjerg,” my Danish father’s I’m pleased with the Harvard along with Robert Coles and one time, and three or four of name. “Patricia Graham would Graduate School of Education, Philip Jackson, to try to cap- my colleagues as deans were fit so much better.” I, of course, and I’m pleased that it’s now ture the high school scene, standing together sipping a little didn’t drop it, but I was accus- considered appropriate to think and I was the one who said, sherry before the lunch began tomed by the time I had become about poor children’s education, ‘Why don’t we call them and they hadn’t seen me come dean to not fitting in entirely. I particularly poor children of portraits?’ Since this was in. And these were very nice thought that was just the way color. I started out teaching poor very exploratory, I wanted to BECAUSE SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT SARA BECAUSE release us from the protocols guys. One of them said to his the world worked, and you children, poor white children, and constraints of traditional fellow, “Oh, you know, it was so might as well get along with it because I was in a segregated research strategies.” much easier when we were all and do the best you could, and school system and I’m white. alike.” And I smiled and waited create and build on the strong Poor children have tremendous Fact: When Lawrence- Lightfoot retired in 2019, until they finished that conver- foundation of the school of edu- disadvantages in this society the academic chair she held sation before I joined them. cation here, but make it a little and education is one of the (the Emily Hargroves Fisher more relevant to the problems main ones. Their families are Endowed Chair, estab- LONG: WAS IT A CONSTANT THING that America faced in educa- often wonderful, but the formal lished in 1988), became the THAT YOU FELT? tion. schooling that these children Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot ALBJERG GRAHAM: I represented have is often lamentable. And if Chair, making her the first LONG: YOU’VE SPOKEN African American woman in several things that Harvard we can try to work on that, that did not value. I was a woman, SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT WORKING seems, to me, very important. Harvard’s history to have WITH JERRY MURPHY. an endowed professorship I was in a school of education, WATCH THE VIDEO INTERVIEW AT WWW.

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Reason #11 Reason #13 BECAUSE “LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING ARE INDISPENSABLE Because We TO EACH OTHER” Never Forget an (THAT’S WHAT HE SAID) Anniversary

From the very beginning, leadership has been a central tenet of the Ed School. In Here are a few of our more recent: his 1937 book, Adventuring in Education, H 5TH ANNIVERSARY Professor Paul Hanus wrote that leader- Harvard Teacher Fellows (in 2020): A teacher residency ship had always been a part of his vision and master’s program to train Harvard College seniors for the school. “It is a distinctive feature and alumni to become well-prepared teachers. of this new enterprise at Harvard that it is H 10TH ANNIVERSARY established on a strictly graduate basis,” he wrote, “This, too, was in accordance with the Doctor of Education Leadership (2019): A doctoral program for leaders in preK–12 education who are plan of the school I had urged for many years, trained to take on transformative roles in education. 12 based on the hope that the school would emphasize 13 the training of leaders in the field of education, while Strategic Data Project (2019): This project works with not neglecting the best training that could be devised for the education agencies to find and train data leaders who then help districts better use student data. usual practitioner.” With that vision in mind, here is a short list of a few of the ways we’ve emphasized leadership over the years: H 15TH ANNIVERSARY Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) (2018): A 3 1920 — doctor of education (ed.d.) program: The school initially offered collaboration between the Ed School and the Harvard two degrees: an Ed.M. for master’s students, and the Ed.D., the first doctoral degree Business School, this program uses business strategies of its kind in the country. It was a degree, Hanus wrote in Adventuring, “offered to stu- to help public schools and districts improve. dents who were planning to make education their lifework.” H 30TH ANNIVERSARY 3 1990 — urban superintendents program (usp): The first comprehensive Harvard Seminar for New Presidents (2018): This Pro- doctoral program for urban superintendents in the country. Professor Bob Peterkin, a fessional Education program addresses the challenges former superintendent himself, ran the program for all but one year. When Peterkin faced by first-time college and university presidents. started, about 5 percent of the nation’s superintendents were female and 1 percent H 35TH ANNIVERSARY were people of color. Within 15 years, the percentage of female superintendents shot to 21; the percentage of people of color jumped to 6. Principals’ Center (2016): This is the nation’s first 3 center dedicated to supporting principals and school 2009 — doctor of education leadership (ed.l.d.) program: USP leaders through Professional Education seminars. ended in 2010 as the Ed.L.D., another first-of-its-kind program, began. The highly se- lective doctoral program prepares experienced educators for system-level leadership H 50TH ANNIVERSARY roles in school districts, nonprofits, government agencies, and beyond, and includes Project Zero (2017): A research center that explores faculty from the Ed School, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School. topics in education such as deep thinking, understand- 3 institute for educational management: In 2019, the Ed School marks ing, intelligence, creativity, and ethics. the 50th anniversary of this institute, the nation’s oldest program for professional de- Sesame Street (2019): The long-running beloved chil- Reason #12 velopment of college and university leaders (more than 4,700 since 1970). dren’s show and workshop can trace its roots back to 3 using data to improve quality: This bootcamp helps early education lead- the Ed School. (See Reason #34, page 26.) ers better figure out how to collect — and effectively use — data. Institute for Educational Management (2019): The na- 3 new and aspiring school leaders: This Professional Education program BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN TURNING tion’s longest-running Professional Education program focuses on common leadership challenges for new school leaders. in immersive leadership in higher education. 3 women in education leadership: This prestigious program focuses on GUTMAN BLUE FOR AUTISM AWARENESS Human Development and Psychology (2020): One of how female senior leaders in education can effectively strengthen their leadership. HERE CREDIT SINCE 2014 the school’s oldest master’s degree programs. IMAN RASTEGARI IMAN

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NICHOLS HOUSE IN 1963, BEFORE THE MOVE BECAUSE Reason #14 BRUTAL IS (MOSTLY)

BEAUTIFUL Reason #16

In 1973, a year after it opened, Gut- in 1965. Likened to a brick bunker, man Library received an honor that 3-D IBM card, or medieval castle, might make some — still today — the tallest building on campus was flex an eyebrow (or two). The Bos- actually designed in reaction to the ton Society of Architects, at their surroundings. In a letter written in annual dinner in May of that year, 1964 to Roy Larsen, the building’s called the building one of the “most namesake, lead architect William beautiful pieces of architecture” in Caudill wrote, “One of the main the metropolitan Boston area. The design premises of the building dinner was to honor the library’s was to make it as flexible as a glass BECAUSE OUR BRICKS architect, Benjamin Thompson and Manhattan office building, still have Associates, with their prestigious the feeling of permanency that will ARE SPECIAL 14 Harleston Parker medal. allow it to dwell together in unity 15 The committee called the mas- with other Harvard buildings, yet When it comes to brick, there’s a sive building, with its reinforced retain its individuality. Now if it wide range of hues and tones. One concrete and stark, blocky shape, does these things — and I think of our buildings, Longfellow Hall, is an “outstanding example of a the building will — we must have Reason #15 so special that it even has its own disciplined approach to architec- anticipated that it would be called named color: Radcliffe Brick. ture.” They particularly praised the Roy Larsen Hall. Like the man, the Why Radcliffe and not Longfel- “brightly colored interiors” of the building should be dynamic, should low? The stately building that today library, which were then painted in have a timeless quality, and should Because We Know How houses classrooms, Askwith Hall, bold reds, blues, greens, yellows, be a distinctive and distinguished and the dean’s office, originally and purples. The interior reflected individual. If not, fire the architects to Save Old Buildings belonged to Radcliffe College. the “liveliness of Brattle Street and — after the dedication.” Designed by Perry, Shaw, and reinforces the immediate urban The architects weren’t fired, In 1970, in order to make way for the construction of Gutman, the Hepburn as a neo-Georgian version pattern,” they added. Benjamin and Larsen Hall received many ac- school’s new library, two historic houses had to be moved: Read and of Harvard’s University Hall, the Thompson, who had earlier started colades over the years. “New and building opened in 1930 and was the famed Architects Collaborative stimulating,” wrote one architect Nichols. Nichols was built in 1827 by its original owner, John T.G. originally called the New Radcliffe with Walter Gropius, founder of the in The Boston Globe. “Active, Nichols, who likely was a local doctor. It was designed by Oliver Lecture Hall. It was renamed a year Bauhaus School and head of Har- ingenious,” wrote the authors of Hastings, a lumber merchant who built his own house on Brattle later to Longfellow Hall, in honor of vard’s Graduate School of Design, Harvard: An Architectural History. Street a few years later next to Henry Wadworth Longfellow’s Alice Mary Longfellow (daughter of said at the ceremony that his inten- But there was also criticism of the house. The Read house was built earlier: In 1772, according to the Henry Wadsworth), a member of the tion in designing the library was for building’s quirkiness. Windows Cambridge Historical Society, although other documents — burial original organizing committee that it to be “functional but in the scale were few and far between, in part established what became Radcliffe records, reports from Harvard libraries, and the Historic Guide to of the street, particularly the sur- because the architects wanted to College. The Ed School eventu- rounding residential area.” draw the eye to a small number of Cambridge, published in 1907 by the Daughters of the American ally bought the building in 1961, Like many other buildings cre- stunning views. Which they did — Revolution — indicate that it may have been built in 1725. In any although classes for Radcliffe ated in this brutalist style — a at the expense of natural light (very case, the first owner was James Read and his family. In 1759, a piece undergraduates were still held LARSEN HALL French term, beton brut, or raw little) and windowless offices (very of the garden space was sold to Christ Church as construction of the there. It was a sale, said Radcliffe concrete — Gutman has its critics, many). It seems that Caudill had a church began. The house stayed in the Read family until 1826, when President Mary Bunting in 1961, particularly folks who work in the sense of humor about the criticism, it was sold to Levi Farwell, who later had a street renamed after him that made sense. building and find it cold (despite saying at the dedication ceremony “By turning over to the School colorful furniture). So, too, has in 1966, “The new structure may (Farwell Place, once School Court — the dead end behind Gutman). of Education a building in the Rad- nearby Larsen Hall had its critics. have a strange form, but it will wear Radcliffe bought the house in 1943, to use as a dormitory. cliffe Yard, we further the education Its modern style hasn’t been em- a familiar Harvard tweed.” And final- Luckily, when Nichols and Read were moved in 1970, the move of women at Harvard, which has

braced by everyone since it opened ARCHIVES COLLEGE RADCLIFFE FILIPOWSKI STAN ly, “What’s wrong with castles?” was close by: The houses now sit side-by-side, next to Gutman. always been Radcliffe’s basic aim.”

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Reason #17 BECAUSE YOUTH WILL BE SERVED (AND SERVE)

All of our deans were Reason #18 Reason #19 Reason #21 young when they took over. Two were barely in their 30s when they Because BECAUSE IN 1920, were appointed. a 100th $200 COULD BUY Anniversary YOU A DEGREE Is So Special That’s the amount Ed School 16 We Had to students paid for tuition that 17 first year. In 1920, they could 1920–1940 1940–1948 1948–1964 Reason #20 Henry Wyman Holmes (40) Francis Spaulding (44) Francis Keppel (32) Celebrate It also buy…

Twice 3 A copy of The Boston Globe BECAUSE WE HAD PAULO or a stamp for 2 cents This year, the Ed School is celebrat- 3 ing the 100th anniversary of the PAJARES ELIO ABITBOL; LISA ; A little girl’s belted coat creation of the school. But this isn’t FREIRE FOR A YEAR for $2.98 or a pair of gold-filled the first time we’ve marked our spherical toric lens glasses with centennial. During the 1991–1992 “The very first time I heard the name Freire was after most of my a grip-tite nosepiece for $6.50

academic year, we recognized the GAZETTE HARVARD Because the education, including university level. I had never heard of him until I from Gilchrist’s Basement Store landmark decision by Harvard in Way Students reached Mexico, where I spent a few years teaching linguistics. I had in Boston 1891 to appoint Paul Hanus as started to develop a way of teaching that I thought was, well, good for 3 A Ford Model T for $260 the university’s first education Stay in Touch 3 professor. This two-part celebra- me and I hoped for the participants. One of them came up to me after A sirloin steak at the Hotel tion started in late September with with Family class and said, ‘You’ve read too much Freire.’ That was the first time Astor in New York City for $1.75, 1964–1972 1972–1982 1982–1992 1992–2002 a series of lectures from faculty I heard his name. I didn’t want to appear as the guy who didn’t know with a side of peach melba for Ted Sizer (31) Paul Ylvisaker (51) Pat Graham (47) Jerry Murphy (54) and Friends about their research and life’s work, Could Get anything about the guy everyone was supposed to know, so I said, ‘Oh 80 cents including Professors Charles Wil- no, I haven’t read that much, and what was that name again?’ I came lie, Carol Gilligan, Israel Scheffler Interesting across Freire a few years later through my interest in liberation theol- (who retired at the end of that year ogy, and so I read his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed for the first time. after nearly 40), Robert LeVine, and 1920 Handwritten letters, Catherine Snow (who was serving candlestick phones and calls I heard the name Piaget maybe 10 million times but never the name as acting dean). The second part of placed by operators, telegrams Freire and I have wondered why he is not as well-known even if, in the celebration, held in early April, my opinion, his work is even more relevant now than it ever was.” 1960 Rotary landline phone calls, focused on changes in teaching coin-operated phone booths and learning, and included keynote BRUNO DELLA CHIESA, A LONGTIME VISITING LECTURER, AT AN ASKWITH FORUM addresses from incoming Harvard 2000 Flip phones, email, pagers IN 2012 DISCUSSING THE HUGE INFLUENCE OF BRAZILIAN PAULO FREIRE ON EDU- president Neil Rudenstine and Ed CATORS. FREIRE, CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PHILOSPHERS 2020 Smartphones, texting, School faculty Gary Orfield, Harold OF EDUCATION OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TAUGHT AT THE ED SCHOOL IN 1969, THE social media Howe II, Dick Light, Vito Perrone, YEAR BEFORE PUBLISHING PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED. HE ARGUED THAT TRA- DITIONAL TEACHING METHODS PROMOTED THE VALUES OF THE DOMINANT CLASS, 2002–2006 2006–2013 2013–2018 2018– Bob Peterkin, and Heather Weiss, 2120 Mind-to-mind CREATING A “CULTURE OF SILENCE.” STUDENTS, HE STRESSED, AREN’T MERELY

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Reason #22 was nothing short Sara’s advice to my too risky when Jerry college, you would graduate students. I used my Harvard together on the sec- 54 years later, I still of magical. And this students over the finally said to me, have wasted your From Beatrice Whit- research to inform ond floor of Larsen don’t get. even spilled over to years as the first “Some faculty might experience. Venture ing, Robert LeVine, my school practice, to celebrate and say the streets ‘round “true” thing I ever just miss the boat!” out and explore Jerome Kagan, and and I brought my goodbye. We were LATOYA HARRISON, the corner with the learned at HGSE. I knew then that the many libraries Catherine Snow’s “real” world experi- looking for a pho- ED.M.’08, ED.D.’13 self-donate book- dealing with senior at this university.” excellent crosscul- ence in schools back tographer and ran Our USP cohort (FONDLY) stand. With a grate- ALMI ABEYTA, ED.D.’13 faculty was above His advice led me tural courses and to Harvard. This into the hallway to dinner with the BECAUSE WE REMINISCE ful heart, I know I’ll I have so many HGSE my pay grade. to discover nooks research, my theo- boundary-spanning see who was around. Elmores. It was such always find a home memories! My more and crannies around retical understand- position gave me A few minutes a fun evening. They so the class could by filling her entire turns out he’s also at Appian Way. recent memory is KATHARINE (MARTIN) campus that opened ing of child develop- enormous credibil- later, in comes none were so hospitable JANE CONDON, watch it together; office with balloons. DENISE (TIOSECO) an education advo- with Professors Bob PFEIFFER, ED.M.’16 up a whole new world ment was broadened ity with my Harvard other than Howard and kind. Pulling ED.M.’74 our librarian, John We had to do this ROEHL, ED.M.’02 cate, a scoutmaster, MAX KLAU, ED.M.’00, Peterkin and Maree My favorite memory to me. Chet taught beyond U.S.-centric students, modeled Gardner. With a little all-nighters to prep I studied children’s Collins, tuned the after hours, which, The best memory the loving spouse ED.D.’05 Sneed. Even though is getting engaged in me the importance of and Western per- a new professional iPhone tutorial, he for Maree Snead’s television with Sam Gutman TV to the of course, meant was seeing the of a kindergarten I remember going Bob is retired, he still the Radcliffe Sunken connecting, building spectives. The learn- role for them, and was able to leave us law class where “no Gibbon, executive channel. During the that my daughter thick FedEx admis- teacher, and a father to a “Welcome New supports his Urban Garden. My sweet relationships, listen- ing was so exciting demonstrated that with a very memo- sloppy thinking” producer of The show, I had to “ask had to come with sions packet on my of two. Students” party in Superintendent Pro- husband walked into ing, and mentoring. I wanted to be a university professors rable photo and final was allowed. I still Electric Company. the audience” about me. Can you imagine doorstep. I think my the basement of Gut- gram students when Gutman where two That one connec- graduate student at can also teach kids! moment of the year. use that phrase to I was in one of the flavor of Red being three, watch- heart stopped for a JORDAN SCHNELL, man in the first week. they are superinten- friends and I were tion on Appian Way Appian Way for the It was value-added this day. USP field his classes with a Hots candy. As that ing a room fill up moment and blood ED.M.’08 I remember con- dents. Bob came out rushing through a helped to mold me rest of my life. for both sides! RAUL JUAREZ, ED.M.’18 trips with Bob and German man who question aired, John with balloons way drained from my My favorite memory necting with all the to consult with us project for Jed Lip- into the educator I Many of my fondest Deborah where we taught languages by emerged from his over your head? face. I felt euphoric, was my awesome other new students in Santa Fe. After an pard’s class on char- have become. HANNA RODRIGUEZ- CHRISTINE DELEON, memories took place had opportunities to BOB SELMAN, using music. To this office…with a bowl Can you imagine then lightheaded, study group for who had lived such evening dinner, Bob ter school policy. We FARRAR, ED.M.’05, ED.L.D.’14 in Gutman Library. learn from superin- PROFESSOR day, I can see this of Red Hots. (In case being Monica try- then nervous that HT100. We found fascinating lives and got a bloody nose were way over our USHA PASI, ED.M.’85 ED.D.’13, ALUMNI My greatest memo- No matter how my tendents in the field. It was the fall of classmate telling you were wondering, ing to open your this packet couldn’t each other randomly thinking to myself, that wouldn’t stop meeting time, so he I remember how I COUNCIL ries at HGSE have day was going, I 1968. As part of us the story of his I did in fact do well office door the next really be meant for on orientation day “Enrolling in this bleeding. So Maree sat there patiently. felt when Dean Pat For 13 weeks, I to do with the kind knew I would always LONGY ZHEN HAN, my doctoral train- escape to West Ber- — $50,000!) morning? Can you me. I didn’t tell many and formed an program was a great and I took Bob to the We finally left and he Graham spoke to dragged myself to of community I was be greeted by a ED.M.’17 ing to become a lin. He hid in a truck imagine how much people I was even instant bond. We choice!” emergency room. We steered me into the the entering class the Higher Education able to build for friendly smile from Coming to Boston psychologist, I had of cabbages. When BELLE BRETT, ED.D.’92 fun we had? applying because it were very differ- waited hours for the Sunken Garden and of 1985 and said, and the Law course, myself while I was Maribel, who was from Australia meant just completed my the East German As a new part-time felt like a pipe- ent and we used MODESTA GARCIA, doctors to see him proposed because as I recall, “You all which I found just ut- there. Whether it was on the custodial that I got to experi- clinical and com- guard at the Berlin student in the doc- BRENDA KINSLER, dream. As reality set those differences to ED.M.’79 and meanwhile froze he knew I loved that belong here.” Every terly boring. At week sitting silently across staff, once I walked ence a lot of New munity psychology Wall border crossing toral program, while ED.M.’80 in, doubt began to support each other My favorite memory in the emergency space so much! It time I think about 14, it was time to from a friend at Gut- through those doors England for the first internship at what stuck his bayonet working fulltime as I wanted to do fill my mind. As an and make each was serving on the room as we waited. turns out the other HGSE, I am reminded study for the dread- man Library while we and I could always time. Apple picking, then was called the in to the back of the HGSE’s director of something for Black immigrant, a woman, other laugh. We are HGSE Colloquium We kept asking for women knew it was of the responsibil- ed final. A few of us wrote papers about count on my friends pumpkin carving, Cambridge Child truck, fortunately he Career Services, I History Month but and public school lifelong friends more Board and inviting blankets for the three about to happen and ity embedded in got together and our personal stories and the security turkey and squirrel Guidance Center. missed my class- wanted to take three had no idea what educated, would I than 10 years later. my faculty-mentor, of us. We still laugh were in the bushes her remarks. I also decided to divide and our theories team for laughs. watching, and a I told my adviser, mate, Uwe Kind! courses my first to do. I went to fit in? Would I be Professor Francisco about it to this day! taking pictures! remember moments and conquer all the of learning, the white Christmas. 18 Freda Rebelsky, that Thus a great spirit semester but was Harvard’s Depart- able to compete? ELLY BERKE, ED.M.’15, Jiménez, from Santa Never in a million with Carol Weiss, course content. After team meetings at ALICE PARMAN, One of my fondest 19 I had not expected was saved. concerned that it ment of African and Would my voice and ALUMNI COUNCIL Clara University, years did I think I’d GUS FRIAS, ED.M.’94 who taught me the we wrote summaries the top of Larsen M.A.T.’65 memories is launch- to work in the future might be challeng- African American opinion be taken My favorite class was where I completed end up in the emer- In 1993, I took a difference between of all the reading and where we scribbled I had the great ing my second Gusto with youth, but was MARY TAMER, ing. My adviser, Studies in hopes of seriously? I juggled 21st Century Demo- my B.A., to speak at gency room with my class titled Schools measuring and case law, somehow on the whiteboard pleasure of hearing & Gecko picture book surprised to find this ED.M.’13 Terry Tivnan, urged getting guidance. multiple jobs as a graphic Transforma- the HGSE. Equally HGSE professors and the Law, led knowing how you’ve it all clicked and I for hours preparing lectures by Jerome at the Ed School with work very exciting At the start of the me to go ahead and I had the opportu- student and took tion: Opportunities important, it was a begging for hospital by Professor Jay made a difference. loved this course, for Workplace Lab, Bruner, who also Elli, my illustra- and challenging, 2013 spring semes- do it. ‘It’s just three nity to speak with out student loans, and Implications for meeting of two of blankets. Nothing Heubert, Ed.D.’82. He highlighting for me or the consistent showed films of his tor from Sweden, and I’d like to learn ter, I had to bring months out of your Ewart Guinier, who which took 15 years U.S. Schools taught my most significant like the USP family! taught us how to use KEIRA WILLIAMS, that learning is more “Thirsty Thursday” research studies. surrounded by sup- more about child my younger son to life,’ he said. And so informed me that he to pay off. That by Susan Eaton. I mentors in higher the law to promote ED.M.’14 fun and effective drinks at the Sinclair, He was an inspiring portive friends and development, both HGSE with me for I successfully did and [Boston artist] investment was loved exploring case education, Profes- KAY MERSETH, education reform Our cohort arranged with other people. I took away from teacher who brought faculty. For many, it empirically and the- a day of classes. and have applied Allan Crite had been worth it. Having that studies of towns in sors Jiménez and M.A.T.’69, ED.D.’82, and improve student a two-day IEP retreat HGSE more than a breath of fresh air would have been just oretically. She said Jackson was 13 and that helpful mantra friends since high experience, access, America experienc- Charles Vert Willie. ADJUNCT LECTURER achievement. Spe- at Harvard Forest. SUSAN MOORE just learning; I took to social studies another lunchtime to me, “There is a less than thrilled to each time I’ve faced school. Guinier gave and credential is a ing demographic Subsequently, as an I have a memory of cifically, he empha- We learned more JOHNSON, M.A.T.’69, lifelong friendships curricula in the late event (because there new professor at the tag along, until the an overload. me Allan Crite’s privilege I don’t take change and posing admissions officer at talking with former sized that, by law, all about our class- ED.D.’81, PROFESSOR and colleagues. 1960s. My studies were never a short- Harvard Graduate promise of crispy phone number. I for granted. creative solutions Santa Clara, I invited Deans Pat Graham students and staff mates and just plain As a first-year were split between age of events at the School of Education tater tots in the Gut- BOBBY DORIGO JONES, called Allan Crite to unite diverse Professor Willie to and Jerry Murphy have a sacred right enjoyed each other’s doctoral student in AUDREY EDWARDS, HGSE and romance school) but for me, it who has just come man Cafe convinced ED.M.’17 and arranged to CHRISTINA WILEY, groups and resolve keynote a mentor- about Pat’s first ad- to attend schools company. At the end 1976, I hoped that ED.M.’65, ED.D.’69 languages; I was part was a wonderful mo- to town from the him otherwise. I still Toward the end visit his home on ED.M.’18 conflicts. I found the ing symposium that dress to the faculty. that are safe, secure, of the weekend, we HGSE’s renowned On a September of a graduate semi- ment and a highlight University of Chi- have the photo of of my education Columbus Ave in In the middle of my movement toward I created around The stakes seemed and successful. each had a piece anthropologists afternoon in 1964, nar in French litera- of my time at HGSE. cago, where he was him with one of the policy program, I Boston. Walking HGSE graduation bilingual schools one of his visits for incredibly high! This After graduating of paper with our could help me un- I found myself ture, which boosted a member of that widest smiles I had took a short course into his home was ceremony, I got a in Utah particularly a conference in San was early in the fall from Harvard, I name at the top. Our derstand the culture chatting with a my confidence that JUAN FELICIANO- university’s Com- ever seen in front on young adult lit- like walking into a very important call compelling. A class Francisco. just after Pat had used his teachings classmates silently of the high school classmate, an Afri- I might someday go VALERA, ED.M.’79, mittee on Human of his small box of erature. After a year museum! There was from the Gift of Life like this is so rel- been named dean to prevent school walked around the I’d just left. They did, can American named for a Ph.D. — which I ED.D.’85. Development. His potato treats. It was of laws, theories, fabulous artwork Marrow Registry. evant in our current VICKI JACOBS, and Jerry as academ- violence and improve room, leaving and, smitten by their Charles Smith, who did, a few years later. I remember the Gut- name is Lawrence right there and then and statistics, the on all the walls. After walking across political climate. ED.M.’80, ED.D.’86, ic dean. I was serving student achievement anonymous notes introductory course, had worked in Cam- man elevator. It was Kohlberg, and like he announced his course reminded He showed me his the stage and tak- ADJUNCT LECTURER as Pat’s assistant throughout America. meant to inspire I asked Beatrice eroon and Germany. JONATHAN DAUBE, so slow that people you, he was once intent to apply to me, through incred- sketchbooks from ing just a moment MARTIN GOMEZ, My first day at HGSE while I was finishing and encourage the Whiting if I could As a young white ED.D.’68 started gathering for going to be a clinical Harvard, although ible stories and childhood. He had to hug my family, I CAEL’16 was as an expectant, up my thesis. I recall RUSSELL WILLIS, person on the page. contribute to her teacher, I wanted Looking back to the it to arrive. While we child psychologist. not for its academic discussion with my me sign his guest- anxiously returned My favorite memory eager, and complete- conversations about ED.M.’96, ED.M.’02 I still have mine and current research. To to help students mid-1960s, the high- waited, we talked, But when he learned standing. “These” peers, of the most book. Allan Crite the call to learn that from my time at ly intimidated stu- a faculty retreat My advisor at HGSE look at it if I feel like my surprise, she said overcome poverty light was working but as soon as the about the ‘genetic he said, “are the important goal allowed me to look I had matched as a HGSE is the warm dent. In her faculty and I was extremely was the late Chester I’m having a rough yes. That was the and language bar- with David Riesman, elevator arrived, ev- epistemology’ work best tater tots I’ve of education: to through his artwork. donor for a 54-year- welcome and welcome address enthusiastic about Pierce. He was the time personally and first of many rich col- riers. We both did. author of The Lonely erybody was silent. of Jean Piaget, he ever had!” discover the world What I found most old man suffering embrace of the Ed that morning, Sara getting the entire se- kindest gentleman professionally. laborative research So began a 55-year Crowd, who gave me And once inside the decided to focus on and our place within interesting was his from severe aplastic School community. Lawrence-Lightfoot nior faculty on a boat who took me under opportunities I’ve friendship, extending my only Harvard A+. elevator, none of us research, applying RICH REDDICK, it. HGSE never let work that featured anemia. Two of the From my first steps admonished us, and taking them on a his wing and shared ROBIN MOUNT, had at HGSE, where to our families, that He continued to be said a word. Piaget’s theories ED.M.’98, ED.D.’07 me lose track of the trees as the theme. best moments of my entering Gutman, to with kindness but cruise or to an island stories about his ED.M.’79, ED.D.’94, students learn from lasted until Chuck’s helpful during my 31 to moral develop- In 2004, I appeared bigger picture. I selected several life happened liter- the various meetings also urgency, to find in Boston Harbor to career and life that I ALUMNI COUNCIL faculty and faculty death in August and years as a communi- ment. He is holding on Who Wants to pieces of art that ally back to back: at Larsen, to the time each week to discuss the future of will always remem- Learning to view learn from students. perhaps made the ty college president. an inter-university be a Millionaire, SARA SUCHMAN, were placed on getting my master’s plenaries in Longfel- “dance in the leaves” HGSE. While I was ber. I knew I could go human develop- world a little better. Not a highlight: seminar in Larsen which aired dur- ED.D.’12 exhibit in Gutman degree and learning low, the people and — metaphorically, expanding on what a to him during office ment through a KITTY BOLES, ED.D.’91, Thanks, HGSE. having to memorize Hall. Why don’t you ing Julie Reuben’s In 2010, Professor Library. As a part of my cells could save the environment of to live our lives fully cool idea this would hours just to talk and crosscultural lens SENIOR LECTURER Herold Hunt’s POS- tag along? Maybe history course. (I Monica Higgins was the Black History a stranger’s life. Hugsy always made through playful mo- be, I could detect listen to his wisdom. transformed my For many years I CHRISTINE DAHNKE, DCORB (planning, you will find an in- was a teaching awarded tenure. Month celebration, More than a year me feel welcome and ments that would some wariness on He told me one day, thinking, research, had a dual role: ED.L.D.’19 organizing, staffing, teresting idea or two fellow.) Professor Her breakfast club we had a recep- later, I was finally at home. The con- nourish our humanity Jerry’s part. They ob- “If you come to Har- and teaching of hu- HGSE lecturer and At year’s end, the directing, coordinat- you can develop into Reuben graciously research group tion in Allan Crite’s able to meet my sistency of kindness as well as our minds. viously thought this vard and only visit man development to elementary class- seventh cohort of the ing, reporting and a dissertation.” ended class early decided to celebrate honor. recipient, Michael. It shown by everyone I have extended was too much and the library in your undergraduate and room co-teacher. Ed.L.D. program got budgeting), which,

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BECAUSE OUR COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES GO VIRAL fully fully by HGSE student word poetry delivered - beauti utes and 46 seconds of spoken an incredibly fivepowerful min- dance had just witnessed was laptop, I sprinted. precariously carrying an open back to my office. Infull suit, When it ended, I did not walk roughly 2,000 views but for this Our typical videos averaged tal communications strategy. the Ed School’s director of digi - The year was 2016, and I was had big dreams for viewership. to download back at my desk, I waiting for this large video file it was portant, recorded. While standing ovation. Equally im- an immediate and prolonged LIVINGSTON, ED.M.’16 Reason #24 What hundreds in atten- . It received DONOVAN “One “One of the powerful,most heart reach 10,000 or so. one, I hoped we could maybe social social media following, and a of video views, a doubling in our nessed hundreds of thousands it posted. bring. Then, a simple click and of inspiration this video would better way to signal the level voice, but I could think of no being an unbiased institutional 5 minutes and enjoy.” for those who did not see it — take today’s spoken word poetry. And date Donovan Livingston, for hear! Thank you, Ed.M. candi- felt student speeches you will ever Over the next 24 hours, I wit Yes, I pushed the limits of - - enjoy. The very next day, Dean larger (and newer) audiences to morsel for our exponentially would make a perfect digital the last part of Ryan’s speech Hilarious and touching, I knew twice here on Appian Way. whether lighting could strike that speech ended, I wondered the question: “Wait, what?” As onds when he famously posed the final six minutes and 50sec- life. Its iconic moment was in asking essential questions in graduation speech, centered on James Ryan delivered his own isn’t even the full story. night sensation, and yet that Donovan was literally an over - like I had never seen before. mainstream/social media spike The very next day, Dean 12/20/19 12:07 AM

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commencement. He said,‘You’re like a celebrity here.’” Mama Lola? She’s here.’ Like I was asmuchof the excitement as the “Matt [Weber] once told mehow people were saying, ‘Did you see …AND BECAUSE MAMA BEARS ALWAYS COME BACK Reason #25 UP,” SHE SAYS. “I FEEL LIKE I ADOPTED ALL OF THEM.” OF ALL THEM HUG ADOPTED I AND LIKE FEEL TEARS “I WIPE I SAYS. SHE UP,” KIDS. THE FOR BACK THEIR COME GET “I THEM WATCH AND DIPLOMAS. — THEM — CALLS SHE AS GRADUATES THE “BABIES,” WITH HER PICTURES VISITS WHO SNAP TO BUT MAY EVERY RETIRED, SHE CAMPUS AFTER 2013 IN FLORIDA TO MOVED WHO SECK LOLA the the field needs,” shesays. too knowledge. is “Wethe practical have a sense of what courses. fessional Education back toPro students and in through the degree programs experience that but projects, own their bring they also practice-based faculty like herself,faculty practice-based Current school.” ed of kind different a us made has and wayunique pretty in tracks a “is both substantial practice-based,” representing she faculty says. Having education schools. other many from apart” us “sets says, she more, and ies of education, television producers, policymakers, as teachers, superintendents, state counselors, secretar corewho are faculty steeped workedin the field, having places.” other of lot a from apart School Ed the sets a and intellect real keen desire a could accomplish,” what that’s he that of “Isaid. think something examples models, role mentors, were they work, the did and there that bringing then and backexperience students. toeducators, Harvard their other and schools with working field, the in time of lot a spent of professorshis from the Ed School had on — him professors who not only did research, but also interview, EdCast in a In 2012, Harvard What TheyPractice Preach OurBecause Professors Reason #26 ED.D.’99 ED.M.’92, ED.D.’95 ED.M.’84, ED.D.’88 A school’s but research, says, Savitz-Romer so is critical, “There are two ladders for faculty: tenure track or or track tenure faculty: for ladders two are “There Hiring Mandy agrees. Savitz-Romer Senior Lecturer about great those professors“When I think who not only professed,were but outthen actually (RIGHT), A FORMER SECURITY SUPERVISOR AT THE ED SCHOOL SCHOOL ED THE AT SUPERVISOR SECURITY FORMER A (RIGHT), ; and others, ; notand the others, field with only with connect ; ; Paul Reville; JOE BLATT, ED.M.’77 DEBORAH JEWELL-SHERMAN, ; KAREN MAPP, ED.M.’93, FERNANDO REIMERS, GEOFFREY CANADA, ED.M.’75

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Because the BECAUSE 50 — First Book 50! — CURRENT Checked out of BECAUSE DWIGHT SCHRUTE* WAS HERE Gutman Library FACULTY Was a Gift AND ACTIVE Over the years, we’ve had lots of celebrities pass through from Henry EMERITUS Appian Way. See if you can match some of the more recent Wadsworth visitors and why they came to the Ed School: Longfellow… GRADUATED

1. Which Office cast member left his beets in Hollywood At the opening of Gutman Library FROM THE ED and recorded an episode of the EdCast in November 2012? on February 7, 1972, Dean Ted Sizer made a toast and then SCHOOL 2. In 2018, this Boston Celtics star spoke during an checked out the first book — a Askwith Forum about the “too smart for sports” dilemma Latin grammar believed to be given Reason #31 some athletes push against. to the university in 1870 by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 3. This America’s Next Top Model hung out in Dean Kathy whose yellow Georgian mansion, McCartney’s office in February 2012 to talk about dorm life just down the street from the Ed BECAUSE WE GO 22 while attending an executive program at HBS. School on Brattle Street, is still 23 standing (and once housed in the ALL OUT FOR THE 4. In 2018, this secretary general of the United Nations attic Radcliffe students, who called visited Professor Fernando Reimers’ class. themselves the Atticans). At the HOLIDAYS opening, Sizer sliced into a giant In 2010, beloved children’s 5. In a class for Ed.L.D. students in 2013, this Children’s De- Reason #29 chocolate sheet cake as glasses of book author and illustrator Eric fense Fund founder was an honored guest. champagne were passed around Carle provided art for the dean’s and guests treaded lightly on the holiday card. Six years 6. This presidential hopeful told Askwith listeners …And Because That’s Not the yet-unmarked purple and blue rugs. later, so did Sandra Boynton. in 2015 that “this country is in real trouble.” They paid tribute to the building’s Only Gem on Our Shelves architect, Benjamin Thomson and 7. Which crooner serenaded master’s students in 2014 about Associates, and to the acting librar- In addition to the collection of circulating books and noncirculating the importance of music therapy and arts in education? (He ian, Paul Perry. periodicals in the Gutman Library, there is also an amazing collec- even asked for their advice on how to start related programs.) tion of historical resources for studying the history of schooling and 8. After being invited to the Ed School over Twitter in learning in America. Here are a few notables: 2019 by master’s student WOOJIN KIM, ED.M.’19, the stars 3 In 2016, a rare book from Gutman’s special collections called The of these two hit shows spoke about combatting stereotypes in schools and society. Freedman’s Spelling Book, published in 1866, was showcased for a year at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African Ameri- 9. In 2015, this country singing couple spoke to an can History and Culture as part of the slavery and freedom exhibit. Askwith crowd about doing what you love. They even The book has been in Harvard’s collection since 1867. gave away one of their guitars to a student. 3 One of the earliest identified books in the collection is from 1652: 10. This media icon and school founder discovered a Methodus et leges studiorum, quarùm ductui & normae insistens poterit unique gift — her very own Harvard ID — under her chair labore haut magno, exiguâ vero temporis morâ, consequi possessionem when she sat down for an EdCast in 2012. & proptitudinem vernulae ac copiosae latinitatis, tam in scribendo,

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Garth Brooks, 10. Oprah Winfrey Oprah 10. Brooks, Garth ad eruditionem utilium, cognitionem.

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Moon, 5. Marion Wright Edelman, 6. Elizabeth Warren, 7. Josh Groban, Groban, Josh 7. Warren, Elizabeth 6. Edelman, Wright Marion 5. Moon, The New England primer, or, An easy and pleasant guide to the art of Answers: 1. *Rainn Wilson, 2. Jaylen Brown, 3. Tyra Banks, 4. Ban Ki- Ban 4. Banks, Tyra 3. Brown, Jaylen 2. Wilson, *Rainn 1. Answers: reading: adorned with cuts: to which is added the Catechism (1836) and The New England primer, a history of its origin and development (1897)

CREDIT HERE CREDIT are some of the first reading books published in America. HARVARD ARCHIVES; GUTMAN LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SPECIAL LIBRARY GUTMAN ARCHIVES; HARVARD

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Who: Professor and senior director, Project Zero

Area of impact: multiple intelligences

The reach: Professor Howard Reason #33 Gardner once had a school cat in Washington state named after him, an orange male whose dominant intelli- gence, said the school’s prin- cipal, was mice and moles. Professor Howard Gardner is that famous. Thirty-seven years after his seminal book, Frames of Mind, disputed the notion that there was only one intelligence that could be measured by a test — a theory that revolutionized how we think about intelligence and catapulted him into a Because This Sox/ stratosphere of fame unheard of by most academics, es- pecially in education — the Yankees Thing Still list of schools, conferences, books, dissertations, lesson Runs Deep plans, theater companies, theme parks, and yes, school pets dedicated to him and to his theory of multiple intel- In 2007, we published a story about the fierce Red Sox–Yankees 24 ligences continues to grow. rivalry among faculty at the time. As we wrote: 25

Why it matters: As Education Week reported in “Staying “On one side are Sox fanatics like Dean Kathy McCartney, who grew Power” in 1993, “The idea up listening to games with her father on their front porch in neigh- was revolutionary, because boring Medford, Massachusetts, and who took the 1967 World Se- traditional psychologists ries particularly hard, and Professor Bob Kegan, a longtime season defined intelligence more ticket holder who says baseball is a ‘civil religion,’ not simply a sport. narrowly. They called it ‘g,’ On the other side are transplanted New Yorkers like Professor Bob for general intelligence, and Peterkin, a Yankees fan since the Dodgers left New York in 1958, the measured it with IQ tests focused on just two of the year after Jackie Robinson retired, and Professor Jim Honan, who intelligences Gardner identi- inherited his love for the Bronx Bombers from his father and grand- fied — logical-mathematical father and who, today, thanks to cable television, watches all of the and linguistic skills. By using games.” the word ‘intelligences,’ That fall, when the story came out, the four diehards were asked rather than talents or abilities, to talk about the rivalry. Kegan joked that there might not be a ri- Gardner had challenged some valry, based on the standings at the time. (New York was eight games long-established notions in the field.” behind Boston). “The Evil Empire is a sad shell of its former self,” he wrote. Peterkin shot back: “Oh count me in. I like nothing more Fact: Gardner was asked in than an overconfident Red Sox fan.” And then to prove his point, he 2008, on the 25th anniversa- added: “Twenty-six World Series championships versus three? Pu- ry of the theory, if multiple in- telligences would continue to leeze.” McCartney’s response? “It’s quality, not quantity.” be his crowning accomplish- Asked if he was tempted to switch loyalties after living in Boston ment, despite a full career as for 25 years, Honan said never. (Peterkin said his loyalty had only a researcher, writer, teacher, grown stronger.) As for the standings, Peterkin said they were an thinker, mentor, blogger, and “aberration” that would be “corrected” by the playoffs. collaborator. As he told Ed. Kegan laughed about their confidence. “Yankees fans,” he said, magazine, he couldn’t answer that. “I never expect to have “are like General Patton, who said during a difficult moment in the last word on a topic,” he battle, ‘They’ve got us surrounded, the poor bastards.’” said. “I am much too intellec- NOTE: FOR THE RECORD, SINCE THE ORIGINAL STORY PUBLISHED, THE YANKEES BECAUSE HOWARD GARDNER HERE CREDIT STEWART MARTHA tually restless for that.” HAVE WON 1 WORLD SERIES, AND, UM, THE HOMETOWN TEAM: 3. Illustration by John Doe Photograph by Tony Luong

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Reason #35 Reason #36 …AND TO Because We Actually THE ELECTRIC Helped Teachers Fly Did we really help teachers become pilots? Sounds far-fetched (and there’s certainly no space in Harvard Square for a runway), but in COMPANY 1943, at a time when patriotism was high, the Ed School did its part for the war effort when the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) Most people know about our involvement with the begin- requested that we offer a free pre-flight aviation course for high Reason #34 nings of Sesame Street. (You read page 26, right?) Less well school teachers. At the time, the CAA was worried that America known is the role several faculty members played in the cre- would not be ready for the next world war; aviation education, the ation of The Electric Company, the children’s television show agency believed, was critical to the nation’s future. Initially, the The New York Times called the “son of Sesame Street.” program focused on prepping college students, but by the spring The half-hour revue style show ran for six seasons, from of 1942, the CAA and the U.S. Office of Education teamed up on a 26 BECAUSE WE CAN TELL YOU HOW WE GOT, 1971 to 1977 (with reruns airing until late 1985), and used program to “air condition” school-aged kids — that is, teach them 27 music, skits, funny costumes, celebrities, and running basic aviation skills. As Robert Hinckley, an assistant secretary for gags as a way to help elementary-age children develop their air, noted in his 1942 book Air-Conditioning Young America, “His- HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET... grammar and reading skills. (Many of the early writers were tory has faced us with the plain alternative: Fly — or die! The entire improv comics.) A year before it aired, Professor Gerald nation must become air-conditioned.” The 15-week course at the Ed Can you tell us how we got those professors, Gerald professor of developmen- to academic personnel on on Harvard when he was Lesser pulled together a group of Ed School faculty, includ- School prepared high school teachers to understand meteorology, to Sesame Street? This ex- Lesser, Charles W. Bigelow tal psychology, because a university level, puppe- looking for people with ing Professor Jeanne Chall; Associate Professor HELEN POPP, navigation, civil air regulations, and general servicing and operation cerpted 1969 article from Professor of Education and children seem to respond teers, preschool teachers, expertise in various fields, ED.M.’60, ED.D.’64; and Professor COURTNEY CAZDEN, ED.D.’65, of aircraft. Former Dean Henry Holmes taught the course. The Harvard Crimson de- Developmental Psychol- well to this “fast, rapid- children’s book authors, many of the show’s advis- to help advise the show’s new staff on what the goals of the tailing how Harvard faculty, ogy, chairs the advisory change” style. Lesser said and animators took part in ers do come from Harvard. show should be, and to educate the show’s writers on the particularly from the Ed board of the Children’s he was pleased by the these discussions. In addition to Lesser, Reason #37 School, were instrumental Television Workshop (CTW), success which the program Kagan, Chall, and Shel- reading process. Lecturer Samuel Gibbon, a veteran of the in helping get the show off which produces the show. had had so far but stressed ACADEMICIANS don White, six members Captain Kangaroo show and Sesame Street, was tapped as the the ground, may help: Professors Sheldon White that its “ultimate success” About 30 or 40 of the pro- of the Ed School Faculty show’s executive producer. and Jeanne Chall partici- would depend on “whether gram’s advisers come from — Professors Lawrence BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO BATHROOMS, HARVARD PROFESSORS pate on a regular basis in kids learn from it or not.” the academic world, Lesser Kohlberg, Chester Pierce, AS OF THIS FALL, WE’RE LIKE, “WHATEVER. JUST HELP PLAN TV SHOW FOR the actual production of Two research groups, one said. The show is “not a Courtney Cazden, Burton KIDS the show. White reads and within CTW and one within Harvard-dominated enter- White, Marion Walter, and WASH YOUR HANDS” “Don’t jive a judge by jam- reviews all of the shows’ the Educational Testing prise,” he said, explaining Leon Eisenberg — helped ming a June bug” ends a scripts in advance; Chall Service, are watching the that because it was conve- to work out the shape of commercial — “brought to looks over the storyboards effect the show is hav- nient for him to draw Sesame Street. you by the letter J” — fea- of all the shows’ animated ing on children. CTW’s tured in a recent episode sequences before they are research advisory sub- GO ONLINE TO WWW.HGSE.ME/SESAME100 TO: of educational television’s produced. committee, of which Lesser innovative new children’s and Kagan are members, 1. READ AN HISTORICAL PIECE ABOUT THE SHOW AND COMMENTS FROM SENIOR LECTURER JOE BLATT, ED.M.’77, show, Sesame Street. LAUGH-IN is in contact with both of WHO HAS CONTINUED THE SCHOOL’S RELATIONSHIP WITH Two years of research The show is modeled to these groups. The concept SESAME STREET (AND EVEN HAD A MUPPET IN IS LIKENESS and discussion — in which an extent on the style of of the program was formu- CREATED FOR HIM BY THE SESAME FOLKS) 12 Harvard professors took television commercials lated in seminars in which 2. WATCH A SHORT VIDEO CREATED FOR THE SHOW’S an active part — pre- and shows like [Rowan and individuals involved with 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN 2019 ceded the show’s debut Martin’s] Laugh-In, ac- children in various ways 3. LISTEN TO EDCASTS WITH GARY KNELL, FORMER on November 10. One of cording to Jerome Kagan, participated. In addition CEO OF SESAME WORKSHOP, AND WITH ELMO CREDIT HERE CREDIT

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Ted Sizer endorsed the move. mal academic activities.” Dean feel freer than usual to alter nor- “students and faculty should presented by the war and that voted to discussion of problems war, asking that the day be de active spokesperson against the by Professor Edwin Moise, an passed a resolution, proposed the instructor.” The Ed School discretion of the student and but “attendance was left to the weren’t officially canceled, away from taking Classes part. that the Ed School didn’t shy issue of this 1969–70 magazine, A few days earlier, the HGSE - with Law School students. vassed on October 15 in Boston tion, Ed School students can- on local PBS stations. In addi- curriculum, which was shown television program based on the tee developed and sponsored a Association’s Vietnam Commit free. A month later, the Student cussed and made available for Vietnam curriculum were dis- and films from a newly created Publications, lessons plans, about Vietnam for October 15. ers to help them prepare classes principals, and student teach - open workshops for teachers, Student Association sponsored HARVARD STADIUM IN THE WAKE OF THE KENT STATE SHOOTINGS, MAY 8, 1970 STUDENTS GATHERED AT Harvard Ed Harvard 12/30/19 5:18 PM - .

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CREDIT HERE 17 Years Strong After Is Still Going Conference Color of Alumni the Because educational equity.” AOCC andpromote vital issuesof students to sustainandexpand by the amazingefforts of HGSE remarks, “The founders are honored founders of the conference, Brown of Education. Oneof 37original the University of MarylandCollege after 17 years,” says ence would stillbegoingstrong this unique,student-ledconfer- leaders from across the country. dents, researchers, andeducation conference regularly convenes stu- affecting communitiesof color. The spotlight oneducationalissues continues each year to shinea First heldin2003, the conference (AOCC) hasstood the test of time. HGSE Alumni of Color Conference and leave Appian Way, but the over time asstudentsgraduate Many student-ledprograms fizzle Winter 2020 ED.D.’16 TIMOTHY BUTTERFIELD, ED.M.’20 Reason #39 “As a founder, Inever imagined , anassistantprofessor at

TARA BROWN, space after Christmas and in the spring would teach a seminar there. Lecturer William Schroeder helped build the new yurt and said he planned on holding office hours in the sign another yurt for their faculty and administrators in what is now the location of the Sunken Garden. put up a few.” The following year, Radcliffe College agreed with Reilly and asked Coperthwaite to de business manager, who told the student newspaper, “It would certainly solve my space needs if I could the and yurt surprised pleased him, as did the reaction of staff members likeWilliam Reilly, theschool’s they were learning. Coperthwaite told the The with yurt, its shiny red roof, became a gathering place for students to drink tea and talk about what (and some would say brutalist style) yurt in two days on the library site, with the help of other students. come the school’s new $6 million library, Bill Coperthwaite, a first-year doctoral built student, a $600 they were a changin’. In October while1968, architects were still working on plans for what would be It’s impossible to imagine this happening now, but it was the late 1960s, and times, as Bob Dylan sang, CHIASPORT, MAINE, AND LIVED IN FOR MUCH OF HIS ADULT LIFE: WATCH A VIDEO AND READ A 2012 THERE WAS A YURT BECAUSE BEFORE GUTMAN, Reason #40 ED . STORY ABOUT THE YURT THAT Harvard Crimson GSE.HARVARD.EDU/ED COPERTHWAITE, ED.D.’72 at the time that the school’s approval for , BUILT ON 300 ACRES IN MA

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Who: Teacher and founder of the Sunshine Institute in Australia Area of impact: first BECAUSE Reason #41 woman at Harvard to earn a doctorate Why it’s important: Lorna LORNA Hodgkinson came to the Ed School with the first class of students in 1920. BECAUSE From Melbourne, Australia, Hodgkinson went on to HODGKINSON, become the first woman to receive a doctorate, not just from the Ed School, but across Harvard. Born ED.D.’22 WOMEN in 1887, Hodgkinson not 3 The Ed School was the first only set the stage for other school at all of Harvard to offer women interested in study- a degree to women. ing at Harvard, but she also went back to Australia and 3 The first class of 161 students challenged the country’s (not counting students enrolled neglect of “feeble-minded” jointly in the Prince School of students while working for Retailing) included 61 women, the Department of Public Instruction. She eventually or about 38%. started her own school for 3 students with disabilities, By 1926, more than half of the which still exists. 30 student body was female: 265 to 264 (despite headlines like this Why she started a school: one from a 1920 Boston Herald). “I had to because nobody else would do it, and there is 3 This year’s class? 72% is fe- not even a state institution male (591 female to 227 male). to which such cases can be sent for proper treatment,” Reason #42 Hodgkinson said in a 1925 article in the journal Society. Because Mary Dana Hicks Fact: After shedding light Prang Redefined “Continuing on the challenges students with disabilities faced in Education” — and Got Her Australia as they tried to go Master’s at the Age of 85 to school and get an educa- tion, Hodgkinson earned the nickname “outspoken lady When Mary Dana Hicks Prang stepped into Lawrence doctor.” Her outspokenness Hall in 1920, she was unusual for Harvard, and not also prompted the director only because she was in that inaugural group of female at her job with the Depart- graduate students at the university. Prang was also un- ment of Public Instruction to launch an official inquiry usual because of her age: She was 84 at the time. into the validity of her ad- Before becoming a graduate student, Prang had mission to Harvard. In a a full life as an educator, starting as an art teacher in letter to Dean Henry Holmes, Syracuse, New York. She was a vocal advocate for arts Director S.H. Smith wrote education in public schools and traveled to major cit- that Hodgkinson was “not ies, including Boston, to teach Saturday morning art qualified to speak with au- instruction classes to teachers. When she was 64, she thority” about the issues of

education and disabilities, ARCHIVES HARVARD UNIVERSITY; HARVARD INSTITUTE, RADCLIFFE LIBRARY, SCHLESINGER ; married Louis Prang, an artist and lithographer who and suggested that Harvard is known for bringing Christmas cards to the United cancel her degree. In his States market in 1875. She eventually became director MARY AND LOUIS, 1901 return letter, Holmes, of

of Boston’s Prang Normal Art School in 1884. course, politely refused. HERALD BOSTON

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Reason #45 Because Evelyn Church Hatfield, Our Oldest Living Alum (at 107!), Was Born During the Taft Adminstration

When it comes to birthday celebrations, EVELYN CHURCH HATFIELD, ED.M.’42, has got the Ed School beat. By nearly eight years. Hatfield was born in a farmhouse near Clinton, Indiana, in 1912, just a few months after the Titanic sank. President William Howard Taft was still in office. Today, she’s living in a nursing home in the Hoosier state, where she got her bachelor of science at Indiana State Universi- ty in 1934, raised two kids, and taught for 30 years at Evansville Central High. She drove a stick shift Honda Civic until she was 32 101. Three years later, she finally got to see her beloved Chi- 33 cago Cubs win the World Series — a first in her lifetime. Hatfield came to the Ed School at the urging of one of her EVELYN CHURCH Indiana State professors, the head of the university’s business HATFIELD ON HER WAY TO Reason #44 department, where Hatfield had worked as an undergraduate. CAMBRIDGE, 1940 “He had insisted that she and several other students should apply to Harvard for graduate school because they should aim their goals high,” says her son Bruce Hatfield, himself a BECAUSE ANNE ROE teacher for 34 years at Bosse High School, also in Indiana. She did, Reason #46 attending only during the summer, a wartime option for working students. It wasn’t a guarantee there would be a second summer. BECAUSE THE ED SCHOOL WAS PARTIALLY FUNDED GOT TENURE “She said that the master’s candidates, after their first year, were informed as to whether they would be invited back for the IN THE BEGINNING BY ROCKEFELLERS Professor Anne Roe (1904 – 1991), founder and director of the second year,” Bruce says. “Obviously my mother was relieved Center for Research on Careers and a research associate at the when she received notification that she had been invited to re- Our first big donors were John D. Rockefeller and his wife, Laura Spel- Ed School, was a big deal. Here’s why: turn” to the Ed School. man, a teacher, who gave $500,000 in May 1919 through their General Over the years, Hatfield and her family traveled to Cambridge Education Fund to help start the Ed School. John founded the Standard 3 She became the first woman at the Ed School to receive tenure a few times for alumni events, especially after she retired from Oil company in 1870 and was considered to be one of the richest men — in 1963. teaching in 1978. At one of the reunions in 1980, another Harvard in the country. Laura and her parents had a college renamed after them in 1884: the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, which became Spelman 3 Roe was only the ninth woman in the history of Harvard Uni- alum asked a question that got Hatfield miffed — for herself and College. The Spelmans were longtime abolitionists. versity to become a tenured faculty member. other women. “A gentleman approached my father to ask him what year 3 Her research interests covered important topics: the effect he had graduated,” Bruce says. “My dad informed him that my of alcohol on artists and scientists, creativity and occupational mother was the Harvard graduate. He said, ‘Oh no, she could not psychology, and the correlation between occupational choice have graduated from Harvard. It would have been Radcliffe.’ Hav- and personality. ing corrected him about how women could get a master’s from 3 The school created the Anne Roe Award in 1979, which brings Harvard, my mother was rather upset. In telling the story to my to the school an educator who has significantly contributed sister, Julia, my mother would always say something to the effect to women’s professional growth in the field of education. Sister of, ‘Don’t you think that I would know where I graduated?’”

Joel Read was the first recipient, in 1980. Gloria Steinhem was HERE CREDIT FAMILY HATFIELD THE OF COURTESY POLUMBAUM; TED On June 5 of this year, Evelyn Church Hatfield will turn 108. given the award in 1999. — TIMOTHY BUTTERFIELD, ED.M.’20

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Reason #47 BECAUSE OUR COVERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COOL

Reason #51 BECAUSE STUDENT NEWSPAPERS WERE ONCE A THING HERE Reason #49 “Why not do it online?” Even in 1998, when the “World Wide Web” was still kind of a new thing and Google was only a search engine, our decision to publish The Appian on newsprint raised some eye- 34 BECAUSE WE’RE brows. And since there was some clear kinship between our interests 35 and the “information wants to be free” ethos of the early days of the INTO JOURNALING. Internet, I recall that we gave it serious consideration. They wanted to produce a publication that was truly independent, and to make WAY INTO IT our own decisions about what counted as news, who got published, From the day it put out its first and whose stories were told. But this was a long time before smart- issue in 1937, the Harvard Edu- Reason #50 phones made the Internet portable, and we also wanted to make cational Review has held strong something tangible that people could carry with them. to its mission: to be an indepen- I was also inspired in part by the demise of a charming indepen- dent voice for educators to share Because dent newspaper that covered the neighborhoods around the Alewife their thoughts about education. We Write the T Station in North Cambridge. We couldn’t get enough subscrib- As the journal’s first editor, ers to make the numbers work; one theory was that a newspaper Howard Wilson, told the Har- Books wasn’t the right match for the community’s information needs. The vard Crimson in January 1937, We have our own book publisher. In Ed School seemed to be the sort of community where a hyperlocal, the new journal was designed to the fall of 2002, Doug Clayton and homegrown publication could thrive. “present the independent views a few of his colleagues at the Har- My 600 or so classmates in the Ed.M. Program impressed me as Reason #48 of America’s foremost educators vard Education Publishing Group ambitious, anxious, and eager to make connections. Most of us were on all branches and problems of (which also publishes HER) founded only going to be on campus for nine months, and making the most their work.” the Harvard Education Press (HEP), of our time at Harvard felt vital. Because our tenure was so fleeting Because We Were Also One of the First a university-based publisher with a HER, as it’s come to be and the campus itself was so physically constrained, we didn’t have specific goal: to publish books by Schools at Harvard to Offer a Podcast known, replaced an earlier scholars and researchers not only much time and space to be together. The Appian was an experiment publication called The Har- for people in and around the world that sought to remedy that by weaving a self-portrait of our ephem- You’re at the gym. The television set attached to your elliptical machine isn’t working. All of the vard Teachers Record. Notable of education policy, but also for the eral community from words and images. — JEN AUDLEY, ED.M.’98 magazines are from 2018. Most have pages torn out of them. It’s the perfect time to turn up the submissions over the years have practitioners — the school leaders, teachers, principals, superinten- JEN AUDLEY WAS COFOUNDER OF THE APPIAN WITH JIM WRYE, ED.M.’98, AND volume on your phone and … learn. Since 2011, the Ed School’s podcast, the Harvard EdCast, has included pieces by Hillary Rod- CRAIG CROUCH, ED.M.’98. THE PAPER WAS PUBLISHED FROM allowed listeners to learn about education in an accessible way, similar to the popular NPR Sci- man, Jerome Bruner, Walter dents, and other education profes- 1998 TO 2001 AND PRINTED AT THE HARVARD CRIMSON OFFICES. TO OFFSET sionals. Since then, HEP has grown COST, THE PAPER COLLECTED MONEY IN “HONOR” BOXES AROUND CAMPUS. ence Friday radio program that makes science user-friendly. These 15- to 20-minute weekly dis- Mondale, Annie Rogers, Dean to its current impressive size and THE SCHOOL’S FIRST STUDENT NEWSPAPER, THE APPIAN WAY, STARTED IN 1989 cussions have included big name guests like Oprah Winfrey and Elmo and have covered timely Bridget Long, Orlando Patter- reputation. In its inaugural season, AND WAS STAPLED BY HAND. IN 2002, ANTHONY HERNANDEZ, ED.M.’02, CUR- TIS FAZEN, ED.M.’03, AND OTHER STUDENTS STARTED AN ONLINE VERSION THAT topics like smartphones and teens, the complexities of teachers strikes, deep learning, and the son, Nat Hentoff, Israel Schef- three titles were published. It now RAN UNTIL JUNE 2005 AND CAN BE ACCESSED HERE: GSEACADEMIC.HARVARD. traps of overparenting. fler, and Robert Coles. publishes 28 to 30 titles a year. EDU/~THEAPPIAN/ARCHIVES.HTM

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Reason #52 BECAUSE WE ARE THE WORLD Reason #53 was realizing that some of my where I had grown up, expand- we can learn and theories interlocutors interpreted those ed to also include an identity from strangers discussed We asked husband-and-wife linguistic challenges as cogni- as a member of a global com- and accomplish together. in classes, team, Professor FERNANDO RE- tive challenges. munity of shared interests and lunch or during a walk, where I could IMERS, ED.M.’84, ED.D.’88, director I marveled at the diverse values. While I didn’t know it at where I would carefully listen be corrected of the International Education experiences of my classmates the time, when my plans were to I came to HGSE to how people interpreted “my with good intentions, where I Program; and ELEONORA VILLE- from a variety of countries and become secretary of education in the fall of meanings” and I “their mean- could be challenged to take a GAS-REIMERS, ED.M.’84, ED.D.’88, a regions around the world, who of Venezuela, those cross-cul- 1983 after being ings.” I learned very quickly different perspective. There professor of education at Boston had done so many different tural conversations and collabo- in Ithaca, New that true cultural understand- was something very special University’s Wheelock College of things prior to arriving on Ap- rations, in classes and extracur- York, for six ing happens in the daily details about teaching and learning Education, to write about their ex- pian Way. In conversations with riculars, shaped what eventually months learning of interactions, when someone about large picture world tradi- 37 periences coming to the Ed School them, and in collaborations in became a career advising gov- English. I had attaches meaning to your inter- tions and small picture daily Our current group of students comes from all over the world. This year’s as students from Venezuela. courses and outside of classes, I ernments and working with graduated from undergraduate ruption, or when someone as- interactions. class alone includes representatives from these 52 countries: discovered how people from dif- colleagues in countries far away a year before, had been working sumes your eye contact or lack Now, so many years later, In September of ferent national and cultural ori- from the country of my birth. for six years as a teacher in Ven- of it means something. Even I still use those lessons when 1983 I arrived at gins could find common ground The Ed School provided me, ezuela, my home country, and though I valued that I learned teaching my students about HGSE to pursue in educating children and youth. as a student, many opportuni- was ready to challenge myself about so many countries tradi- culturally relevant pedagogy a master’s de- HGSE provided many op- ties to develop a practice and again. I was a master’s student tions, foods, and the like, I and how to work effectively gree. I had just portunities to participate in to cultivate the discipline of re- in the counseling and consult- valued even more that I learned with immigrant kids who are in finished a year and lead student organizations. flecting on that practice. In the ing psychology program, and to check assumptions before their schools, fearing that any as a lecturer in With Eleonora, a fellow student projects I completed in courses, was very interested in learning jumping to conclusions, espe- behavior will be misinterpreted experimental psychology at the from Venezuela I had met upon in my work as a teaching fellow about cross-cultural research, cially with someone who has a and that they will be negatively Universidad Central de Ven- arrival to HGSE, we organized and research assistant, and in theories, and practical applica- different kind of upbringing or labeled despite their best ef- ezuela, where I had completed orientations for international the many ways I was able to con- tions. Taking courses like Cross- home culture than me. forts to be respectful. I teach my my undergraduate studies in students and “the Cronkhite tribute to the culture cultural Counsel- I couldn’t have done that students not to make assump- psychology. Appian Way was a seminars,” in which students of the school, from ing gave me many without the help of all my fel- tions when they notice a behav- long way from home for me, the talked about education and life publishing a guide to new tools to think low HGSE classmates and ior that may not be expected. first person in my family to have in the places they were from. sources of financial about communities peers from the Kennedy School Meanings are complicated completed college. I had studied These conversations about the aid for international different from my and the School of Design who constructs, and cultures — or English in an evening school, places we had known, and about students, to organiz- own. But probably lived at the Cronkhite Gradu- shared meanings, as Profes- while still an undergraduate, our hopes and dreams, helped ing a student run in- the most important ate Center, where I lived too. sor Bob LeVine used to teach in order to be able to access me discover how much could be ternational education research influence in my preparation that We had vivid discussions about us — have a way of challenging journal articles in my field of learned from different perspec- conference, I learned that we year was the number of class- the world, about politics, about us daily. I will always be grate- study, but my speaking and tives, and how much common learn the most from taking the mates, professors, researchers, school practice. My class- ful for the opportunity to learn writing skills were clearly lim- ground could be found amidst risk of doing something and and staff members I met who mates, and in particular my from the many resources that ited. Struggling to find words in our differences. It was in those then learning from that experi- were from cultures differ- international classmates and HGSE offered me, but espe- this new language, when I had interactions that the strong na- ence. Among the many lessons ent from my own. There was classmates from traditionally cially for my international peers never experienced those chal- tional identity I had brought to I learned the five years I studied something about learning from underrepresented groups in the who challenged fundamental lenges in my mother tongue, campus as a son of immigrants at HGSE, none was more valu- readings, but a whole other United States, became my “lab” principles and taught me to be

was humbling. Even more so who only knew the country REIMERS FERNANDO OF COURTESTY able than discovering how much learning that happened over where I could explore ideas open to different meanings.

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Reason #54 BECAUSE ROY LARSEN BOSSED LIKE … A BOSS

The name Roy Larsen is famil- iar here on Appian Way, but back in 1955, it was also well known to novelist Sloan Wilson who featured a boss in his second book, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, patterned after Larsen, a longtime visiting committee member and Ed School donor who eventually had a build- ing named after him. (See page 14.) 38 As it turns out, just before Wil- son wrote the novel (which became Reason #55 a bestseller and movie starring Gregory Peck), he handled public Because We Elevated New Students relations for Larsen, who was the to VIP Level — Where Educators powerful head of Time-Life Pub- lishing in New York. Larsen didn’t Should Be — When We Rolled Out realize it at the time, but Wilson the Red Carpet at Orientation was studying him. Wilson told the Harvard Crimson in a 1992 inter- view, “Initially, I couldn’t figure out what made this man rich and powerful.” Not surprising, it’s the same puzzle that Tom Rath, the main character of the novel (and Reason #56 Sloan Wilson’s alter ego), tried to solve about his boss, Ralph Hop- kins, president of a fictional Man- hattan-based television company. BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY WAITED FOR SUPERMAN It’s unclear if Wilson ever com- pletely figured Larsen out, but Documentaries, especially those about education, don’t usually get huge crowds when they’re shown. there’s no doubt that Larsen was But when an advanced screening of the Waiting for “Superman” documentary aired on September 23, content with how he was loosely 2010, at the Loeb Drama Center at the A.R.T. across from campus, it’s safe to say that this was one of portrayed and never tried to med- our most well-attended Askwith Forums in recent history. Not only did audience members wait in line dle with Wilson’s words. After Wil- for Superman, but they had to sign up for tickets ahead of time; those who weren’t lucky enough to get son showed Larsen an early draft in had to watch from overflow rooms on campus. The film, which followed a group of low-income stu- of the novel and asked if he wanted dents and their families trying to get coveted slots at a local charter school, was so popular that three to change anything, Larsen simply weeks later, faculty members even debated the film’s message at another Askwith Forum. wrote back, “Say anything about me

except I changed a good book.” ANDERSON JILL WATCH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FILM FROM DIRECTOR DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: GSE.HARVARD.EDU/ED

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“My desire to pursue How People

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CREDIT HERE Winter 2020 Illustrations by Simone Massoni and collegeathletic teams in the vicinity of Boston. employed in the training andcoachingof various school course will have anopportunity to observe the methods of equipment,insignia,andawards. Studentsin this games, interpretation of rules,competent officials, care methods of training, eligibility rules,managementof the theory and technique of coaching team games, ics, the following will begiven specialconsideration: fall and winter gamesand sports. Among other top- This course will includea study of the mostimportant by Mr. Geer. be arranged /Mr. Kelly, with occasionallectures Wed., Fri., 11a.m.andpractice periodsathours to reports half-course (first half of the year) / Mon., Lectures, discussions,prescribed reading, and From the 1923–1924coursecatalog: BECAUSE WE ALSO TAUGHT COACHES… Reason #59 AND OTHER FALL AND WINTER SPORTS GAMES AND SPORTS: FOOTBALL, BASKET-BALL, L5 / ORGANIZATION AND TEACHING OF

Reason #60 special methods andpractices will beampleand valuable. Cambridge. The opportunities for reading and for observation of Demonstrations will beconductedininstitutions the vicinity of the background that will dignify the subjectin the teacher’s mind. ing of the blindandof children of low vision, andshouldsupply the blind.It will emphasize the problems which arisein the teach- The course is designed to give a comprehensive survey of work with Edwards Allen* with the cooperation of specialists expenses. Half-course (first half-year) / Fri. 4-6,Sat.10-12/ Mr. Lectures, reading, andreports of the demonstrations andpractical From the 1925–26coursecatalog: …AND TEACHERS WHO TAUGHT THE BLIND * * N1 / THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND CREATOR OF BRAILLE EMBOSSING EQUIPMENT AND EMBOSSING BRAILLE, FOR BRAILLE OF ADVOCATE CREATOR AN BLIND, THE THE FOR AT SCHOOL TEACHER AND PERKINS HEADMASTER A ALSO WAS ALLEN EDWARD

12/20/19 1:54 AM HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.indd 42 42 100 Reasons to Love the Ed SchoolNow matter of me reading aloud to the kids.” It was also, he says, guaranteed fun. mixture of image and text, because they enabled me to make the hour an interactive one, not just a tanilla’s classroom at the Amigos School,” he says. “I especially liked using books that have an even source of pleasure to read aloud to my designated second-grader or two on the floorof LuisaQuin- every year until the program ended in 2016, when the Amigos moved. “It was a guaranteed weekly tors, to stay connected to a classroom and to students. an adult.” It was also a great way for Ed School students, many of them former teachers or educa tunity to practice their oral language and listening skills during weekly literary conversations with elementary students’ love of reading through role modeling and for the students to have the - oppor Office of School Partnerships (it was later overseen by the Office Studentof Affairs), “was to foster volunteers. gos, a dual-language immersion program. In 2006, it was expanded to include Spanish-speaking second-grade for “buddy” an hour. dent and staff volunteers from Harvard (mostly the EdSchool) withwould their read one-on-one because Tuesday was Reading Buddies day at the school, the day each week when a few dozen stu- on Tuesdays. “I rarely have any absences on Tuesday,” she told the Second-graders in Pat Goffredo’s class at the AmigosSchool in Cambridge loved coming toschool KIDS BECAUSE Reason #61 “I love goofing around and whobetter to do that with than an8-year-old?” Scott Ruescher, the long-time administrator for the Arts and Education Program, volunteered The goal of Reading Buddies, says Roger Dempsey, who helped coordinate the program with the The program began in 2001 and ran until 2016, first at theLongfellow School and then the Ami- Harvard Gazette in That’s2004. - Harvard Ed Harvard 12/20/19 1:59 AM .

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AMIGOS SCHOOL; GEOFFREY LISTER; JILL ANDERSON CREDIT HERE Winter 2020 HALL KIDS IN THE BECAUSE Reason #62 level of the building. Cambridge that hungin the lower design andpaintingof a mural of the studentsandKaganon the M.A.T. Program collaborated with school. Ed School studentsin the unexpected overcrowding at their room spaceinLarsenbecauseof teacher, CeleKagan, to useclass- invited the studentsand their of LarsenHall.Dean Ted Sizer had tending classesin the basement around campusevery week, at- School inCambridge were running first-graders from nearby Peabody ries around childdevelopment, 21 busy studyinganddebating theo- ulty and Ed Schoolstudents were During the fall of 1969, while fac- stories read by devilish deans. staff members) for trick-or-treating, Halloween magicians, andscary out the campus with pumpkins, goblins, and costumed-kids (and For at least the past decade, come the end of October, we’ve decked Reason #63 BECAUSE “TRICK OR TREAT!” 12/20/19 2:00 AM 43 Harvard Ed. Winter 2020

Reason #65 BECAUSE WE DO LOVE OUR ACRONYMS… IEP, HDP, M.A.T., CSO, ED.D., FEP, EPM, OSA, C.A.S., HED, SOC, SRC, HTF, TF’S, L&L, L&T, MBE, GCC, HER, PH.D., PSP, HIRES, HEPG, Reason #64 AOCC, ED.L.D., SLP, ART, TEP, TIE, M.A.T., PZ, PELP, ED., JUST TO NAME A FEW… BECAUSE ELEANOR 44 DUCKWORTH TOOK US 45 TO THE MOON

One of [Eleanor Duckworth’s] it. After leaving my Teach For students would begin with liter- poetry explication because the complaints emerges a woman earliest assignments was to America site in Louisiana of six al descriptions of the moon only process can be daunting. One who was truly selfless. establish a moon watching years and investing $20,000 I to end with mythical references. of the first things I tell my stu- Students learn tenacity and journal. We were to share our could ill-afford, I began to won- In the years since I have taken dents is to embrace ambiguity. sensitivity through the process Reason #66 drawings, descriptions, and dis- der why I had decided to put my the class, former and current In a world of close analysis and of returning to this poem and coveries with the class. I must life on hold for grad school. students continue to submit clarity, they are often uncom- other literary works, and ulti- admit I was a bit baffled by the But I cannot tell you how fresh insights. The lesson for fortable with the request. I am mately, they learn to not only …BUT HUGSY? WELL... assignment. What did this have many times I have returned to me has been that no matter how not suggesting unsupported as- manage but also embrace their to do with improving classroom the metaphor of moon watch- well I think I know something, sertions, but I am discouraging frustration over not finding easy We’re the Harvard Graduate School of Education. But that’s a long instruction, I wondered. I wrote ing in my subsequent teaching further study will reveal new definitive answers. answers. and, some would argue, tedious name, so most of us refer to our- to friends back home and told career. By the spring of 1999, I possibilities. When we think The theory is initially put Such reflection is critical for selves as something else. “HUGSE” is a name you hear a lot around them that I had discovered had come to some rather stun- we’ve exhausted the options to to the test with Browning’s My teachers and their students if we campus, as in hug-z. But not everyone is a fan of that nickname. In there was “an upside-down rab- ning conclusions. Every time I solve a problem, that’s when we Last Duchess. The dramatic hope to improve the quality of fact, a few years ago on election day, the Name Campaign of 2012 bit in the moon.” They thought had tried to establish a defini- must be open to new ideas that monologue is narrated by the classroom instruction. was launched out of the Communications Office. Meant to be fun, I was nuts. By the time winter tive pattern about the moon, will emerge if only we are will- duke, who is by turns disarming, Okay, I get it now. Thank the campaign included a video featuring faculty, students, alumni, rolled around, I found myself something unexpected would ing to embrace them. ruthless, and insecure. Upon you, Eleanor, for sharing with and staff making arguments for what weshould call ourselves, plus more than once running around occur. Sometimes the moon was I currently teach 12th-grade subsequent readings, students me an instructional strategy a non-scientific Facebook poll that had one clear winner: the Ed Cambridge at midnight (se- a cold and distant orb; some- English in a suburban high determine that the duke may that continues to inspire. School (787 votes), followed by HGSE (saying each letter, 269 votes), cretly cursing Eleanor’s name), times it looked as though it must school in Pennsylvania serv- indeed speak most loudly on and HUGSY/HUGSE (157). Some surprise offerings: in ninth place, VICTORIA SHORT, ED.M.’99, just trying to find the moon, let be shining so brightly only over ing 2,400 students. In my AP behalf of his seemingly silent HERE CREDIT HERE CREDIT TEACHES HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH THuGSE with 8 votes, and in 14th, Azkaban, a write-in with 1 vote. alone wax philosophically on Harvard Square. In class, fellow literature course, we begin with duchess. Through his pointed IN PENNSYLVANIA

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Reason #67

Because We’ve Made an Impact in the Field

There are so many areas where Explore SEL was released, of- MIND/BRAIN master’s program in learning partnerships with nonprofits the Ed School has made a sig- fering useful tools for districts Advances in biology and neu- and the brain. In addition, the and school districts that involve nificant impact — too many to to use to customize their par- roscience show how a child’s Center on the Developing Child curriculum assessment and capture fully in this magazine, ticular needs in this area. Other brain and cognitive develop- also focuses extensively on the creation, research, and inter- but here are a few highlights: projects, like Making Caring ment are shaped by his or her brain and the science behind vention strategies. The school’s Common and the Saul Zaentz learning experiences and en- learning, offering a science and newest research center, Reach SOCIAL–EMOTIONAL Early Childhood Initiative also vironment, and how learning, learning fellowship, providing Every Reader, is collaborating More and more, educators have heavily incorporate SEL into in turn, affects the brain and easy-to-follow resources for with MIT to explore the power started to recognize that the their research and work. And we its capacities. Professor Kurt the media and policymakers, of a personalized screener and skills needed for kids to pay at- offer courses, like Establishing Fischer was an early pioneer hosting workshops, and col- interventions on improving chil- 46 tention in class, make smart de- Loving Spaces and Beyond Grit, in understanding this connec- laborating with communities on dren’s literacy outcomes, start- came dean in 2006, and hired 47 cisions, and develop friendships and conferences, like the one tion and helped elevate the projects like Saving Brains and ing with the understanding that renowned faculty experts in this — skills like self-regulation, held in 2017 on SEL with local importance not only at the Ed FIND video coaching. when it comes to reading, every area. Today, we have two ma- empathy, and discipline — are superintendents and alumni. School, but on a national level. child is different. A number of jor centers connected to early BECAUSE OUR FIRST also important to lifelong The result in 2002 was the READING AND LITERACY Professional Education courses childhood: the Center on the success. At the Ed School, launch of an innovative Professor Catherine Snow is include Learning to Talk by Developing Child at Harvard PROFESSOR WROTE A these “social–emotional” master’s program called considered one of the fore- Talking: A Developmental Ap- University, whose mission is to skills (SEL) are infused the Mind, Brain, and Edu- most experts in the world on proach to Maximizing Language generate, translate, and apply BOOK WITH THE WORD into much of the work we cation (MBE) Program. language and literacy develop- and Literacy Skills and Advanc- scientific knowledge to close the do. Professor Stephanie The initial mission was ment in children. Many of her ing Culturally Responsive Lit- gap between what we know and “ADVENTURING” Jones, a national leader to bring together biology collaborations and projects, erature Instruction. what we do to improve the lives in this work, oversees the and cognitive science including her Word Genera- of children facing adversity, and IN THE TITLE Ecological Approaches to with education, and help tion curriclum used heavily in EARLY CHILDHOOD the Saul Zaentz Early Child- Social Emotional Learn- interested students tackle Boston Public Schools, have Early childhood issues have hood Initiative, a groundbreak- ing (EASEL) Labora- fundamental questions had long-term benefits. Profes- been a huge focus at the Ed ing center which wants to bring “I have been referred to as a pioneer. It is true that I have been tory, which explores the about how people learn sor Emerita Jeanne Chall was School since the day we opened the science of early learning up a pioneer most of my professional life. On graduating from col- effects of high-quality and what we can do to a leading expert in reading our doors. Everything from to date, with the goal of trans- lege, I have taught in a high school which had been going for SEL interventions on improve learning. “We research and instruction and offering courses in 1920 on forming early childhood educa- only two years; then in a state university that was just fourteen achievement of students, felt responsible to develop founded the Harvard Reading the importance of play to our tion in this country. The Zaentz months old; than as the first principal in a city high school not teachers, parents, and this program because Lab in 1966. (Today, the Jeanne involvement in the ground- Early Learning Study at Harvard yet three years old; then I taught in a normal school which had communities. The lab there was so much hap- Chall Reading Lab still exists.) breaking Sesame Street program is a longitudinal study of the not been running at all (my recitation room was in a paint shop also provides practical pening regarding learning We also have a rigorous master’s to influential research on the development of young children over a blacksmith shop during the first months of my teaching in tools for educators to use, and the brain,” Fischer program called Language and impact of Head Start and the in an effort to get a snapshot of this school); then I came to Harvard University where there was such as bite-sized lessons said in an online story in Literacy and offer dozens of re- science of trauma on develop- what early childcare even looks as yet no department to which I had the honor to be called. I am that can be squeezed into 2007, the same year he lated courses. Leading research ing brains, our school has been like — where, for example, are rather glad to have been a pioneer because pioneering means busy days, and is tracking also launched the award- projects include the READS Lab at the forefront. The focus be- preschoolers going for care and opportunity, and every opportunity that comes to a man is a what SEL work is being winning Mind, Brain, and with Professor Jimmy Kim, the came even sharper when Kathy who are the carektakers? — and challenge to do the best he can — to render the best service that done in schools across the Education journal. The Global Learner Project, the Lan- McCartney, a leading expert then using that information to it is possible for him to render under the circumstances.” country. Most recently, program quickly became guage for Learning Research in early childhood education, transform our understanding of FROM ADVENTURING IN EDUCATION (1937), BY PAUL HANUS, an interactive hub called the nation’s signature Group, and many long-running joined the school in 2000, be- what works and why. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Who: Professor Area of impact: school desegregation

What he’s done: In 1975, a year after he joined the Ed Reason #70 School, Professor Charles “Chuck” Willie stepped into the national spotlight when he was appointed to serve on a panel with former Dean Francis Keppel to read proposals in the Boston school busing case, and then make recommendations for BECAUSE a final plan to desegregate the city’s schools. Willie later served as a consultant STORIES and expert witness in major school desegregation cases in other cities such as Den- MATTER, SO ver, Houston, Kansas City, Little Rock, and St. Louis. WE STARTED The impact: “Dr. Willie’s legacy is personal and DOUBLE professional: the multitude of his scholars, like me, that he taught and mentored TAKE at HGSE, as well as the educational trajectories of 49 thousands of children trans- IN 2014 formed from his authorship of school integration plans. ...Think of the youth forever The first thing I thought as I followed by 10 incredible stories the stage and I was better for it. altered by attending inte- stood on the Askwith stage that told by master’s and doctoral This event inspired a per- grated schools for two gen- day in 2017 is, “My friend Matt students alike, all deeply mov- sonal double take of my own erations. One can mention is a liar.” ing. I was a staff member and interests and the ways I create his name in any gathering of Matt was the director of digi- I was the closer. There are few and build community. I became educators, sociologists, and tal communications strategy at times in life I have ever been involved as a Double Take coach HGSE alumni, and it gener- ates hours of affectionate HGSE and helped to create and more afraid. for future sessions. I took a reflections of his teaching, expand Double Take. Double As I stood on the stage about storytelling class through a local his intellect, and his kind- Take was conceived by Dean to tell a deeply personal story to nonprofit, Massmouth. I partici- ness. This is a legacy beyond Jim Ryan, who had a personal the students in my programs, to pated in a series of Boston area peer.” — RICHARD REDDICK, interest in storytelling and knew my colleagues, to faculty at Har- storytelling slams, which lead ED.M.’98, ED.D.’08, co-author it was a valuable tool for educa- vard, it all suddenly felt fraught to a performance at Somerville with Willie of A New Look tion. He wanted to see a sto- with risk. I felt very vulnerable. Theater and on WGBH’s Stories at Black Families and The Black College Mystique. rytelling event at HGSE. As an Somehow, my words took from the Stage. Telling stories avid listener of the Moth, I was over, and that night, I told the and more importantly listening Fact: Asked in 2014 why he intrigued, but I had never told a painful journey I have been on to stories has expanded my ca- applied to the Ed School, story beyond the confines of the leading to my mom’s diagnosis pacity for empathy, understand- JOHN SILVANUS WILSON JR., ED.M.’82, ED.D.’85, then-pres- dinner table. of Alzheimer’s disease. I told ing, and awareness. ident of Morehouse College, “I don’t even know if it’s go- the audience about her, what it Terry Tempest Williams said now senior adviser to Har- ing to be that popular, Ril,” Matt feels like to lose her in this way, that “storytelling is the oldest vard President Larry Bacow, said, “Just do it, not a big deal.” and hopefully for a few minutes, form of education,” so it is fit- said, “With three powerful Not only was the event popu- I made the audience feel the ting that HGSE created a space words, I can easily sum- lar, but the first iteration filled loss too. When I finished, all I for stories to be told and heard. marize why I chose HGSE for graduate school back in Askwith Hall to capacity. To top remember is putting the mic on 1981... Very simply, those it all off, Dean Ryan opened the the stand, taking my seat, and RILDA KISSEL IS A PROGRAM ADMINIS- TRATOR AT THE ED SCHOOL WHO WON three words are Charles Vert evening with his powerful and feeling an incredible sense of MASSMOUTH’S AUDIENCE CHOICE

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Project Zero is one of the most … AND WE STARTED HELPING FAMILIES WITH DINNER well-known research centers at the 50 Ed HARVARDSchool. But evenGRADUATE after helping One of the most innovative and practical initiatives that has come out of Project Zero is the Family Din- 51 educatorsSCHOOL better OF EDUCATION understand learn- ner Project. Started in 2009, and based on research that shows the positive effect of eating together as ing, thinking, the mind, and the arts a family, the Family Dinner Project includes a new book with 52 weeks of easy recipes and conversation for more than five decades, the starters to share at the table, plus free online resources on their website, including more recipes, family center’s name — Project Zero — is profiles, and research- and science-based advice on the importance of shared meals. still a mystery to many. A video on the center’s site Reason #74 Reason #75 states that the “zero” in the name started as a noun. As Professors Howard Gardner and David Perkins wrote in a 1994 Ed. story about Because We Know the fledgling days of PZ, as it’s BECAUSE known, founder Nelson Goodman that After a Day “Tea is as old as the school less changes in the style and in the Eliot Lyman Room, there about what you were doing, told a group of professors and grad students in 1967 that while gifted WE HAVE THE itself,” read a short piece in the interests of its adherents over would be a long table set up at you’d talk about what you’d teachers “had a knack” for cultivat- of Managing fall 1971 issue of this magazine. the past four or five decades. In one end with elaborate silver just read, you’d exchange notes ing artistic insights, writings about MOVES “The day the first cup was sipped an age when ‘relevance’ is para- urns, one with coffee and one with people, and you’d bounce arts education captured little of a Class or in Lawrence Hall marked the mount, tea somehow manages with tea, and china, exquisite ideas off of people, the intel- that knack. “The state of general beginning of a favorite pastime to retain its appeal for secretar- china plates with doilies and lectual center of the school and communicable knowledge about Instructional Moves, that is. Origi- Helping Kids Do among students, faculty, and ies and professors, students lemon slices, and other plates the most exciting thing about arts education is zero,” Goodman nally created in 2017 and expanded said. “We’re starting at zero, so we in late 2019, Instructional Moves staff. For an hour each after- and assistant deans. Perhaps it with Oreos and Pecan Sand- it. You got through, you slogged Homework, are Project Zero.” is an online project that offers noon, tea is the place to catch serves as a reminder of what we ies. It was just the perfect sort through the analysis of that last Since then, the “zero” has practical but research-based tips practitioners and parents have little time or energy to wade through up on the latest gossip or read or would like to think was a simpler of Cambridge/WASP/Harvard bit of data, which at that time evolved, as has the center, be- and strategies designed to improve dense research journals or academic papers to learn more about just watch. Tea may not be as ef- and more genteel time.” do. I mean, there’s this Limoges you did pretty well by hand coming a verb — a zeroing in on teaching and learning, such as how learning. That’s why we started the Usable Knowledge project in fective a communications media A decade later, in an oral plate with the Pecan Sandies because you couldn’t just stick it learning and thinking and all of to use gentle humor strategically 2014: We do all that wading for you and turn the research into easy- as it once was when a majority of history project recorded for on it. ...Faculty would come into a computer and run through its complexities. Today, PZ has or how to encourage students to to-digest short stories, tip sheets, and videos. gse.harvard.edu/uk dozens of projects, some related take risks in class without fear. the HGSE community gathered the school in 1988, FAITH DUNNE, and students would come and SASS, because you knew by the to art, like Artful Thinking, others The information is presented as M.A.T.’63, ED.D.’74 each afternoon in Lawrence , a former pro- everybody would sit around the time you finished that it would like Re-imagining Migration that short videos of classroom footage Hall. Still it has survived the fessor at Dartmouth, remem- great big table in the middle of be time to stop and you could go beyond, and cover topic areas and interviews with faculty across school’s considerable growth bered tea as a time for sharing. the room and around the edges go to tea and you could talk and like digital life and learning, civic Harvard. Discover more at instruc- and diversification and count- “At 4 p.m. in the afternoon, in the chairs, and you’d talk share ideas instead.” engagement, and ethics. tionalmoves.gse.harvard.edu.

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GREG WRIGHT; COURTESY OF EMILY BENZ AND JEFF WRIGHT GAVE US HOPE BECAUSE KOHLBERG Winter 2020 with the privileged as well as the marginalized. His work continues. explored. Envisioning a beloved community that excludes no one, Kohlberg worked opmental psychology, but its relevance to education and social action remains to be test ideas and theories in practice in communities. nity approach to moral education required leaving the comfort zone of academia to Kohlberg and those of us who worked with him and followed him, the just commu - and ’80s expanded well beyond tracing the development of moral Forjudgment. education and to both social and individual growth, Kohlberg’s work in the 1970s much more complex phenomenon. Because of his own deep commitment to moral a single strand of moral psychology, but he was picking up only one dimension of a Kohlberg’s contribution. It is tempting to say that Kohlberg illuminated beautifully This just community approach to moral education truly illustrates the breadth of well known except among those who are direct descendants of those endeavors. munity, articulated most clearly in his essays on education, is, unfortunately not that the way people think from early childhood on about moral issues really matters. both our central moral responsibility and the foundation of hope and meaning in life. his followers who, like Kohlberg, believe sustaining the principles of social justice is he joined the school at the age of 40, his life and work continue to inspire many of Kohlberg first walked through the hallwaysof Larsen Hall, startingin 1968, when far beyond their immediate and personal sphere. In the long years since Lawrence justly and that adults who understand justice help create a moral climate extending Professor Lawrence Kohlberg believed that youth who understand justice act more ONE OF KOHLBERG’S RESEARCH ASSOCIATES RESEARCH KOHLBERG’S OF ONE ED.D.’77 MARY CASEY, ED.M.’93, ED.D.’01, Reason #77 Kohlberg’s moral stage theory was a significant contribution to cognitive devel- The groundbreaking idea at the heart of Kohlberg’s contribution to the field was F. CLARK POWER, ED.D.’79 POWER, F. CLARK AND , LAURA LAURA ROGERS, ED.M.’75, UNIVERSITY; TUFTS AT LECTURER A IS in misleadingly simple terms. His work on moral com- focus on his stages of moral often judgment, construed life and work. Newcomers to Kohlberg’s work tend to elements form the essential ground of our collective for individuals but also for society. For Kohlberg, these ic contribution are for important the wellbeing not just ment, character, in commitment, life,purpose and - civ fully fully appreciate the extent to which moral develop graduate students in psychology or education today feel about and engage with them. It is doubtful many way we understand moral issues is critical to how we over the several decades since. Kohlberg believed the He took thinking seriously, an insight that has held up , WERE FORMER STUDENTS OF KOHLBERG; ANNE COLBY, WAS WAS COLBY, ANNE KOHLBERG; OF STUDENTS FORMER WERE , - Pages Only Had 64 Because We Reason #78 capture some. many, but this listof namesisanattempt to atleast define the Ed School. We would, nodoubt, stillmiss all of the amazingpeople who helpedstart,grow, and If we hadmore pages, we couldhave written about Noel McGinn David Cohen Brewer John Marks Donald Oliver Jerome Kagen John O’Neill Israel Scheffler Edwin Hall Richard Chait worth Johnson George Ells- Christine Gill Phillip Rulon Burton White Chester Pierce Sheldon White Walter Dearborn Pedro Noguera Courtney Cazden Nathaniel Shaler John Brewer Robert Sears Dana Cotton Colette Daiute Dorcas Bishop Howard Wilson Gil Noam Johnson Susan Moore Carol Gilligan Kurt Fischer Howard Dillon John Collins Milli Blackman John Willet Vincent Conroy Mary Beth Curtis Nathan Glazer Howard Wilson Moynihan Daniel Patrick Josiah Royce George Locke John Carroll Harold Hunt Monroe Gutman Purcell Francesca Dean Whitla Howe Howard Doc Gary Orfield Shelton Florence Roland Barth Orozco Marcelo Suarez- Daniel Koretz Bernard Bruce Adam Curle LeBaron Moseby Mary Engel Whiting Beatrice Carol Chomsky Bob Rogers Jan Hawkins Davis Russell Gerard 12/20/19 2:14 AM 53 100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed. Winter 2020

Reason #80 Reason #81 Reason #79 Because BECAUSE We Wanted BECAUSE OUR ALUMNI to Make HAVE ALWAYS Caring OUR FACULTY MATTERED Common

In Febuary 1925, the Ed When people talk to kids about School’s first Alumni As- school, they often use words like KNIT... sociation was tentatively “work hard” and “do well.” Phrases organized; it became a like “be kind” aren’t necessarily at formal organization in 1926 the top of the list. But in 2013, a and recruited association new initiative at the school started officers. Now called the with the tagline (and project name) Alumni Council, this year’s “making caring common,” especial- council includes: ly in schools. Under the guidance of Senior Lecturer Claudia Bach, Ed.M.’91, RICK WEISSBOURD, Ed.D.’94 ED.D.’87, Making Caring Common has since worked with educators Tim Begaye, Ed.M.’93, and parents to create projects such 54 Ed.M.’97, E.D.’04 55 as the Caring Schools Network and Eleanor Berke, Ed.M.’15 the Empathy in Schools Research Dorian Burton, Ed.L.D.’15 Initiative, and has created reports, Betsy Campbell, Ed.M.’93 practical strategies, and lesson Frank Carnabuci, Ed.M.’81 plans that help develop gratitude Trevor Hall, Ed.M.’99 and empathy in young people. The James Hankins, Ed.M.’18 project also goes beyond K–12. Eurmon Hervey Jr., Ed.M.’96 Their Turning the Tide campaign has been working with college ad- Sona Jho, Ed.M.’97 missions officers (and counselors Raul Juarez, Ed.M.’18 and parents) to refocus admissions Alexandra Lightfoot, away from just academic achieve- Ed.M.’89, Ed.D.’98 ment and instead have colleges Dave Louis, Ed.M.’98 and families value the other ways William Makris, Ed.M.’00 students “shine,” such as taking Robin Mount, Ed.M.’79 care of younger siblings and day- Ed.D.’94 to-day kindness. Usha Pasi, Ed.M.’85 Reason #82 Jennifer Price, Ed.M.’06, ASSISTANT Ed.D.’12 PROFESSOR Hannelore Rodriguez-Far- TONY JACK rar, Ed.M.’05, Ed.D.’13 BECAUSE OF THE LEGEND OF “KID” WEDGE Ryan Romaneski, Ed.M.’13 Dilara Sayeed, Ed.L.D.’15 “Our delay in admitting Mr. Wedge has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he was formerly Elaine Townsend, Ed.M.’16 a prize fighter. His remarkable struggle for an education counted in his favor.” Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88 DEAN HENRY HOLMES, FEBRUARY 16, 1922, IN THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, COMMENTING ABOUT FREDERICK “KID” … and quilt, go to Fenway (often), garden on South End rooftops, Austin Volz, Ed.M.’13 WEDGE, WHO WORKED HIS WAY OUT OF LUMBER CAMPS IN WISCONSIN TO BECOME A BARE KNUCKLE PRIZEFIGHTER. coach, write children’s books, golf (frequently), own a lighthouse Russell Willis, Ed.M.’96, ILLITERATE UNTIL HE WAS IN HIS EARLY 20S, WEDGE EVENTUALLY GOT HIS UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE AND WENT TO and collect historic lighthouse prints, perform modern dance, play Ed.M.’02 SEMINARY SCHOOL. AFTER GETTING ACCEPTED BY THE ED SCHOOL, WEDGE TOOK A JOB AS A PRINCIPAL TO EARN THE TUITION. HE LEFT FOR HARVARD ON DECEMBER 31, 1921, WITH $10 IN HIS POCKET AND RODE THE 2,000 MILES FROM Ultimate, run marathons and triathlons, cycle long distances, do Miya Yamada, Ed.M.’89, ARIZONA TO CAMBRIDGE IN A SERIES OF BOXCARS. tai chi, rock climb, participate in the November Project, and play Ed.M.’92. Ed.D.’93 MMORPGS. One even photographs bugs.

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HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.indd 54 12/30/19 5:22 PM HED12-100Reasons-NEWEST.indd 55 12/20/19 2:16 AM 100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed. Winter 2020 BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN WRITING ABOUT THE VIRTUES OF COMIC Reason #83 BOOKS IN SCHOOLS Reason #85 FOR THE PAST 45 YEARS! BECAUSE OUR DISSERTATIONS HAVE ALWAYS Because Belonging Matters Here BEEN SMART This academic year, we’ve nity on gender inclusive rest- shifted the way in which we’re rooms. (See reason #37, page approaching diversity here at 27.) She pointed to the school’s HGSE. We’ve intentionally put committed effort to creating a focus on belonging. I truly physical spaces on campus that believe that we will not have a are inclusive for all members. In 1921, at the school’s first diverse and inclusive communi- These types of efforts are going commencement, the Doctor of ty if there are people who don’t to move us along the continuum Reason #84 Education degree was con- feel as if they belong. Recently, I of creating an environment in ferred upon five students, who came across a Harvard Business which people intuitively know wrote these disserations: 56 Review piece that rang true for they belong. EXCERPT FROM THE SPRING 1972 mitted to the long con of getting me, her picki- 57 me and reinforced my line of In my role, I think it’s im- ISSUE OF ED. MAGAZINE, WRITTEN BY est son, to eat something more than macaroni LESLIE OLIN CUMMINGS thinking. The author stated that portant to be transparent and DANIEL DOBIN, ED.D.’73: and cheese, my mother tricked me into eating THESIS: Cooperation in School organizations need to under- acknowledge that we still have healthy food. On homemade pizza night, she Administration stand that diversity and inclu- a lot of work to do. This com- Will comic books be the school readers of the snuck baby spinach under the mozzarella with POST-GRADUATION: assistant sion alone isn’t enough, and the munity conversation and the future? the stealth of bootleggers during prohibition. I professor, HGSE mentality of “checking boxes” other initiatives that we have The question is not really outrageous, for in still remember her dastardly grin as I chugged for diversity isn’t sufficient. underway are purposeful steps a sense they already are; school-age Ameri- glasses of what I now know to be protein pow- WALTER FRIAR DEXTER People need to feel recognized in our DIB journey. I am proud cans read far more comic books than school der-infused Nestle Quik. THESIS: The Administration of and have the opportunity to of the work we’ve done thus readers of any kind. School-age youth read A few decades older, and a few broccoli School Finances in Iowa make contributions. In sum- far, and I hope in my role I can more than 250,000,000 comic books a year — florets healthier, I use my mother’s clandestine POST-GRADUATION: professor of mary, they need to feel a sense make a significant contribution a fact that is even more compelling when you cunning to ensure that my students get a differ- education, Earlham College, of belonging. to the diversity, inclusion and realize they do so because they want to, not be- ent kind of nutrition. Just as she hid the vegeta- Richmond, Indiana In most organizations, the diversity in the student body, about how we are welcoming belonging strategic goals for cause they have to. Once damned by parents, bles in her cake batter, I teach literary analysis strategic plan for diversity is the racial representation of staff new members to the commu- our school. Our motto has been, reviled by psychologists, denounced by school through superhero comic books.... Comics can ROY CLAUDE HOLL bringing in a diversity of people members here at the Ed School nity. For example, gender and Learn to Change the World. If professionals, and nearly borne away on a rip- serve three primary roles in the classroom: THESIS: The Results of Vocational who differ racially. The Ed has shifted toward an ever more disability are two categories that we get this right, we can ensure tide of criticism in the mid-50s, comic books 3 They can facilitate a better understand- Education in Secondary Schools School has historically made diverse collective of administra- we’ve been intentionally think- that we are sending our alumni are in the throes of dramatic change. Today ing of complex required texts by serving as a POST-GRADUATION: associate pro- great strides in this category of tors, support staff, educators, ing about. We know it’s impor- out into the education sector their focus is sharper, giving a more precise preliminary reading activity; fessor of education, North Car- diversity. In 2017, the school and other individuals essential tant for us to think about how with the experience and tools picture of the real world. 3 They can extend the analysis of a classic olina State College for Women, became a plurality of racial to the day-to-day operation of we’ve designed our spaces, cur- to make substantial change. A work of literature, either by providing exam- Greensboro, North Carolina representation with no single the school. It has been a long, riculum, policies, and commu- world in which my role has be- AND 45 YEARS LATER… AN EXCERPT ples of derivative fiction or by making strong demographic category making arduous process, but there is no nity norms to foster an inclusive come obsolete! FROM A DECEMBER 2017 STORY IN USABLE allusions to the classics; NEIL CARNOT MACDONALD up most of the student body. doubt that we are committed environment in which everyone KNOWLEDGE, WRITTEN BY JABARI 3 They can replace less-accessible works THESIS: Rural Schools and Rural This transition, to a school to racial diversity if you look at feels that their individual needs TRACIE JONES BECAME THE SCHOOL’S SELLARS, ED.M.’18: from the literary canon while still conveying School Consolidation in the where an ever-growing number these numbers. have been met. In that way, DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, the same messages and using the same literary United States AND BELONGING THIS YEAR. PREVI- of students of color call home, As we continue to collect people will feel seen, heard, and OUSLY, THE TITLE HAD BEEN DIRECTOR My mother was a master of deception. Com- and rhetorical conventions. speaks to the success of HGSE in data and put an emphasis on in turn, respected. OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION. CASS ARTHUR REED WE ASKED JONES TO TALK ABOUT WHY its commitment to diversity. other marginalized identities, Recently, Dean Long sent a SHE FELT STRONGLY THAT THE WORD THESIS: Problems of American In parallel to the growth in it’s important that we think communication to the commu- “BELONGING” BELONGED IN THE TITLE. Education in the Near East

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Reason #87 Reason #89 Reason #86 PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF IMMIGRANTS AT ELLIS ISLAND, 1911 BECAUSE ONE OF BECAUSE US AND IMMIGRATION? OUR DEANS RAN THE BOSTON MARATHON WE GO WAY BACK NINE TIMES FOR THE BECAUSE OUR CAMPUS ISN’T JUST CHALLENGE. FIVE IDEAL FOR WALKING DOGS... OF THOSE TIMES, HE ALSO RAN IT FOR SOMETHING EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: Reason #88 TEACHERS Because, Like Tom Petty, 58 We Didn’t Back 59 Down

In March of 1973, Phi Delta This isn’t something you see often on campus, certainly not at ori- Kappa, the world’s largest entation. But we thought the decision by JAY BILLS, ED.M.’20, to share professional organization for the red carpet on Appian Way with his cat, Ozy, was purrfect. Want educators, suspended the Ed more Ozy? Follow him on Intagram: @ozycatofcats School for allowing women to join. A few months earlier, at a Reason #90 conference of national educa- In April 2015, Dean Jim Ryan was tors on equal opportunities for on the run again, but this time, something new was happening. It women, members of the Ed was Ryan’s fifth time running the School’s honor society de- Boston Marathon, but the first time nounced Phi Delta for “blatant he was doing it for more than just discrimination against female Back in 1921, students at the newly funding from the Dean’s Impact Fund, ration and policy,” he says. “The United the runner’s high. Wearing a t-shirt educators.” Assistant Dean opened Ed School could take a course the central mission of the initiative is to States is home to a large population of with the names of 26 teachers LeBaron Moseby and Dean Paul printed on the back, one for each called the Problems of Race and Immi- build a scholarly community of research- settled migrants without legal immigra- Ylvisaker wrote to Phi Delta’s mile, Ryan was also raising money gration in America: Americanization, ers from across Harvard, to provide ac- tion status residing and participating in for financial aid: 26 donations were leaders to appeal the suspen- with Professor Niles Carpenter. cess to nonpartisan research, and to give communities. And our national policies made, with each donor nominat- sion, even threatening to refuse Flash forward to 2019 to the newly recommendations on immigration policy. are becoming increasingly exclusionary ing a teacher who had made a the school’s facilities to the opened Immigration Initiative at Har- Now, says Gonzales, is the time for and punitive. There is an urgent need significant difference in their lives. organization. By October, Phi vard, a university-wide effort launched this kind of initiative. to come together to better understand Between 2015 and 2018, Ryan’s Delta dug in its heals and went this past fall and led by Ed School Profes- “There’s never been a more press- and inform the broader public about the marathon running raised $116,675 even further: Harvard might be …BUT DOGS DO HELP for financial aid for the Ed School. sor Roberto Gonzales, an expert on the ing time in the history of our country consequences of immigration policy on Now president of the University of expelled. The school stood its Starting in the winter of 2018, the school began bringing a therapy experiences of immigrant youth. With regarding issues of immigrant incorpo- children, families, and communities.” Virginia, Ryan returned to Boston in ground and in February 1974, dog to campus for a day near finals to serve as the official fluffy stress April 2019 to continue the tradition Phi Delta voted to open its reliever for hard working students. Oliver, a golden retriever, visited

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... Into the Future BECAUSE WE’VE RESPONDED of Education TO THE TIMES The Harvard Graduate School supports, and choice in K–12 reducing persistent achieve- study of early learning while Reason #94 “Educational institutions are teachers also wanted more than 50 similar programs around of Education has been learning schooling. There has also been a ment and opportunity gaps by bringing together early child- among the most rapidly chang- training, the school developed the country. Recognizing the to change the world since 1920, push for more transparent data race and income, and many hood educators with faculty to ing parts of our society, and the a special two-year curriculum, need for more trained leadership and our Centennial year is the on student achievement, fueled wonder if we have an overreli- identify which learning envi- Graduate School of Education followed by the Masters of Arts at the district level, the Urban perfect time to celebrate, re- in part by a federal government ance on standardized testing. ronments work best for which BECAUSE, is no exception,” wrote Harvard in Teaching, which included off- Superintendents Program (USP) flect, and, naturally, to wonder: recalibrating its influence on Meanwhile, we continue to learners. We work with commu- President Nathan Pusey in a site student teaching. launched in 1990, the nation’s What will the next 100 years education. As college sticker grapple with the best way to nities and leverage the exper- IN ADDITION special issue of the magazine During World War II, the first comprehensive doctoral bring? Since the school’s found- prices and student debt burdens prepare the next generation for tise of our alumni leaders in the TO A WORLD- from 1965 called Harvard and school added a dozen war- program for urban educational ing by Harvard’s first faculty rise, public scrutiny and calls the demands of a 21st century field to build robust child devel- the Study of Education. This focused courses and offered leaders. In 2009, the year the member in education, Paul for increased accountability in economy — and populations opment systems that accelerate CLASS ability, and willingness, to rec- flexibility in how students could final USB cohort enrolled, the 62 Henry Hanus, a mathematics higher education intensifies. around the world face short- positive educational outcomes ognize what educators and stu- study — full or part time, or dur- Doctor of Education Leadership 63 teacher who worked with Presi- The way that our students re- ages of teachers, schools, and for low-income children, as the EDUCATION, dents need, and then respond ing summers. In 1942, following Program launched, a practice- dent Charles William Eliot to ceive information continues to capacity. Education is the key to By All Means project has done. with new offerings or changes to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the based program that integrated ensure that students would be evolve; as technology advances, opportunity and progress, but it And we partner with schools SOME OF programs, has been one of the school announced a special ex- education, business, and public properly prepared for college, so, too, does pedagogy. Digital must not also be what separates across Harvard, across disci- hallmarks our our school. pedited (and cheaper) master’s policy. In 2014, the Harvard HGSE’s faculty, students, and devices in homes and class- us and holds back students who plines and traditional silos, to YOU ALSO In the 1920s, for example, program to thwart an impending Teacher Fellows Program began alumni have played key roles in rooms have created new options too often come from certain bring new perspectives to bear GOT many of our students were al- shortage of trained educators. offering a pathway for Harvard shaping education practice, pol- for student engagement and demographic groups, income on key challenges like prepar- ready experienced teachers who During the mid-1950s, in College undergraduates eager to icy, and ultimately, outcomes access to educational materials, brackets, and zip codes. ing school leaders — as we THIS: wanted to advance their skills, conjunction with Harvard Medi- start a teaching career. for learners, from preschool but the uneven use and avail- Amidst the turbulence in have done with our Certificate so we offered courses that were cal School and the U.S. Atomic What’s next? One of the big- through higher education ability of such resources has education, I firmly believe we in School Management and theoretical, but also practical. Energy Commission, the school gest ways the school is now re- and beyond. Rarely satisfied also heightened gaps between have continued reason for op- Leadership, offered in partner- As Harvard President Lawrence offered special instruction to sci- sponding to the needs of educa- with the status quo, and often some groups. And students timism. This is my second year ship with the Harvard Business Lowell said of this approach, ence teachers on radiation biol- tors involves the redesign of the ambitiously pursuing goals to themselves are changing, not as dean and my 20th year on School. These are activities that “Where practitioners were once ogy and the teaching of nuclear master’s programs. Beginning improve education beyond the only in terms of the demograph- the faculty, and I often feel that are greater than the sum of their prepared by apprenticeship in science in high schools and in 2021, instead of the current 13 walls of the classroom, the bor- ic profile of American students I have only begun to appreciate parts. I see this cross-boundary narrow techniques of proce- colleges. Around the same time, programs, all master’s students ders of the United States, and and those in other countries the vast — and outsized — influ- approach as key to having a dure,” they were now prepared a new program on guidance will take the same founda- the supposed limits of human as well, but also the needs, in- ence and positive impact that meaningful impact. Regardless at places like the Ed School. counseling was added, as was a tion courses (allowing them potential, HGSE now faces a terests, and identities students our faculty, staff, students, and of the challenges before us, our That same year, as the 19th summer school conference on to have the same grounding in new century that brings unique highlight as being important. alumni continue to make not school is well-positioned to be amendment passed, we became the nature of communism. education), then pick one of five challenges and perhaps greater Even with all this change, only on individual students, able to pivot, adapt, and partner the first school at Harvard to of- In 1964, the school launched programs (allowing students to opportunity than ever before to other aspects of education re- families, classrooms, and com- in new ways to meet the needs fer degrees to women. We also a nationwide study on segrega- develop expertise in a specific ensure every learner can access main stagnant, often in deeply munities, but also on the field of of 21st century learners. In recognized that teachers needed tion in schools as the fight for area, such as education policy high-quality education. troubling ways. While educa- education and the many hard- this way, we are truly a unique to do more than just teach stu- integration became a national and analysis) and then a concen- Recent decades have brought tion still holds great promise working education profession- change agent in education. dents to read and write. They priority. In 1983, the Midcareer tration (allowing for additional, about changes in education that for many, the highly segregated als who share our mission. We Education changes lives, and also needed to know when kids Math and Science Program was specialized knowledge, such as have shaped students’ and fami- U.S. education system is failing engage in rigorous research that indeed, it can change the world. were sick or not doing well men- established, anticipating the migration and education). lies’ experiences in important far too many students. Decades informs practice and policy, like I hope you will take every op- tally, so courses were offered country’s desperate need for tal- Watch for a feature story ways. We have seen new school of education reform have had the Zaentz Education Initiative, portunity to join us in this work. on hygiene and play. When it ented math and science educa- about the master’s redesign in

models aimed at adding rigor, limited success in significantly which is conducting a seminal DEAN BRIDGET LONG ANDERSON JILL became clear that inexperienced tors; it became a model for more the next issue of Ed.

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To celebrate the Ed School’s Centennial, we’ve created a digital hub BECAUSE where you’ll find more stories, alumni events, and lots of ways you can get … AND BECAUSE WE DON’T WANT involved and reconnect with the school in 2020: 100.gse.harvard.edu

TO LOSE YOU. CONNECT! n 100 Stories of Impact: The school and its people have influenced the field of education in too many ways to count — but we're highlighting 100 Stories of Social and web: Impact that help to tell the story. 3 gse.harvard.edu 3 twitter.com/hgse n The Future of Education Series: A signature series of talks and panel 3 Dean Long’s twitter: bterrylong discussions that looks at the issues and trends that will shape the field of 3 facebook.com/harvardeducation education over the next five to 10 years, and beyond. 3 Instagram.com/harvardeducation n Conversations with the Deans: Current Dean Bridget Long interviews each of 3 Youtube.com/harvardeducation her living predecessors in this video series, which we’ll roll out over the course of the year. Alumni office:gse.harvard.edu/alumni : n Alumni Events: We will be coming to a city near you for regional events. 3 Alumni Admissions Ambassador Program (help with recruiting) n Voices of Appian Way: Your turn to share your voice! Make a quick video for 3 Alumni agents (liaison with Development and Alumni Relations) social media about the Ed School’s impact on your life or career, or write a paragraph using 3 Alumni Council (connection between school and alumni) the hashtag #HGSE100 and #VoicesofAppianWay. See the website for details! ALUMNI CAN’T BE WRONG… 3 Candidate referrals 3 64 Host an intern (through the Field Experience Program) 3 Reason #97 Student-Alumni Mentoring Initiative: SAMI (mentoring Ed School students) 3 Update your information: [email protected] BECAUSE WE’VE HAD A HAND IN Newsletters: #HGSE100 STATE AND FEDERAL EDUCATION POLICY 3 Harvard Ed News: www.gse.harvard.edu/newsletter FOR A LONG TIME 3 Usable Knowledge: gse.harvard.edu/uk/newsletter

Dean Francis Keppel was named the U.S. commissioner of Education under 3 Ed. magazine online: gse.harvard.edu/ed President John Kennedy. Professor Tom Hehir oversaw the Office of Special 3 Career Services for alumni: gse.harvard.edu/careers/alumni Education Programs for the U.S Department of Education during the first 3 HGSE LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups/953647/ six years of the Clinton Administration. Professor Martin West worked as the senior education policy adviser to Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Professor Paul Reville served as secretary of education for the Commonwealth of Mas- Reason #99 sachusetts for five years under Governor (now presidential candidate) Deval Patrick. SARAH GROH, ED.M.’14, currently serves as chief of staff to Congress- woman Ayanna Pressley. These are just a few of the faculty and alumni who Because this have had strong ties to state and federal policy. Sometimes, that connection has even been done with great forethought. As Keppel said in an oral history Party’s Just Getting interview, explaining why he asked Kennedy to personally swear him in, “I wanted to demonstrate that I knew where the White House doors were. My Started predecessor had been told to stay in the office. The most important thing was Get out your phone and celebrate, too. for me to get the reputation with the education lobbyists and the people who Scan here to go to the school’s centennial fussed about education that Keppel knew how to get in the White House.” website.

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