On Adversity the New Psychology of Coping in a Tough World

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Features 10 Getting a Leg Up on Adversity 24 The Dance Maker TC psychologists are breaking new Jody Gottfried Arnhold (M.A. ’73) champions ground in understanding how we cope dance education as a Deweyan medium in a difficult and often unjust world for learning. Now she’s bringing it back home with a $4.3 million gift to TC . Adversity and Resilience: A Gallery of Images . A Stepwise Process To mirror the many ways in which An interdisciplinary faculty committee is human beings experience adversity shaping TC’s new dance education (and TC psychologists explore it), doctoral program we have illustrated our cover story in this issue with images created by eight different artists

Illustration: Gianni de Conno; Photograph: Deborah Feingold departments TC 3 PRESIDENT’S LETTER Hewing to TC’s values in a time Today of national uncertainty. The magazine of Teachers College is produced by the Office of Development and External Affairs at Teachers 5 NEWS @TC College, Columbia University. Teachers College Community School Suzanne M. Murphy On page makes its new principal official; vice president, development & external affairs Spike Lee on campus; accreditation (m.ed. ’99, m.a. ’96) with flying colors James L. Gardner associate vice president, external affairs 31 UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM Sara Clough A workshop on teaching to diverse senior director, strategic 24CULTURAL communications MOVEMENT classrooms; school law, taught by the Jody Gottfried Arnhold ultimate expert; online nursing edu- TC TODAY STAFF (M.A. ’73) is funding TC’s cation; addressing youth incarceration Joe Levine new dance education editor doctoral program. She learned much about Heather Donohue 62 FUTURE LEADERS business operations & marketing teaching dance from The Last Word Anthropology & Edu- initiatives manager, external affairs the local cultural organ- cation student Shana Colburn’s journey contributors ization Ballet Hispanico, Paul Acquaro, Linda Colquhoun, which she now serves to the dissertation finish line Robert Florida, Larrolyn as Honorary Chair. Class Acts To bond with her Latina/o Patterson-Parms--Ford, Robert Fuller, Desiree Halpern, Harriet clients, counseling psychology doctoral Jackson, Patricia Lamiell, Nikki student Mariel Buque has learned to Marenbach, Urania Mylonas, Scott Rubin, Sally Sweeney, “self-disclose” Matthew Vincent, Hua-Chu Yen

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47 NEWS, PROFILES & NOTES TC Today Campaign Update: News Renaming a TC center for the 525 W. 120th St., Box 306 36 New York, NY 10027 More Than the Sum of great Chinese educator Tao Xingzhi 212-678-3412 What We’ve Raised ProfilesTravis J. Bristol (Ph.D. ’14); [email protected] www.tc.edu/tctoday The Campaign has re-energized Alicia Pérez-Katz (M.Ed. ’98); Julie the extended TC community, created new Ratner (Ed.D. ’96); Margaret Fitzpatrick knowledge and practice, and seeded (Ed.D. ’86); Esther Yoon (Ph.D. ’15) ON THE COVER innovation for generations to come

50 CLASS NOTES 45 On Board: The Consultant Is In 61 IN MEMORIAM Caroline Rosen (M.Ed. ’89, M.A. ’87) Patricia Cranton, Hally Beth Poindexter takes a big-picture view of the (Ed.D. ’57), Morton Schindel individual student (M.A. ’47), Warren E. Yasso Illustration: Carlo Giambarresi It’s called the TC Fund because it funds life at TC — every single day.

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New Beginnings

TC renews its accreditation, Spike Lee visits campus, and more. Pictured here: New Teachers College Community School Principal Michelle Verdiner, who is a fervent champion of tailor- ed instruction. 4 http://bit.ly/2dISsl7

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A Glowing Renewal TC aces its Middle States accreditation

compliance with all review standards and offering no mandated recommendations for improvement. The evaluation capped a two-year review process that included a final three-day site visit by a Middle States team and a College self-study conducted by administrators, faculty members, professional staff, students, alumni and a trustee. “Teachers College is among the top graduate programs in education in the country,” the Middle States team wrote in its evaluation report. “It aspires to be at the intellectual forefront of issues facing American education. The vision is to use a research-inspired multi- disciplinary approach, blending both theory and practice to educate the next generation of teachers, counselors, etc.” TC President Susan Fuhrman said the review “produced a wealth of excellent ideas for improving the College, in part by strengthening our ability to respond to the needs and concerns of our students, faculty, alumni, and other key stakeholders and con- stituencies.” he middle states commission on The review process was led by Sasha Higher Education has emphatically An amazing Gribovskaya, Director of Accreditation and renewed Teachers College’s accredita- Assessment, and a steering committee chaired Ttion and affirmed the College’s efforts by Bill Baldwin, Professor of Practice in Ed- to remain at the forefront of shaping new ucation and former Vice Provost, and A. Lin approaches to teaching and learning in the 412 Goodwin, Vice Dean and Evenden Professor TC faculty, students 21st century. and staff contributed to of Education. The Commission awarded its highest the College’s Read the Middle States report and TC accreditation renewal. marks, finding that the College is in full self-study at http://bit.ly/2eJxpvu.

CHANGING THE WORLD THROUGH DISCOVERY

eachers College Provost and Dean Tom James has received Outward Bound’s 2016 Kurt Hahn Award, named for the wilderness organization’s founder. Recipients are those who “change lives through challenge and discovery and create a more resilient and T compassionate world.” n An education historian, James has written on the schooling of Japanese-Americans interned during World War II. At TC, he has created an investment fund for faculty work. He also has helped conceive Outward Bound programs. The award committee called James “a person of great dignity and decency.”

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LIVING LIVES OF MEANING HONORS & DISTINCTIONS The second annual Spiritual Life Conference, led in June by TC psychologist Lisa Miller, focused on spiritual activism — which results, said Tran- Regina Cortina, Professor of scendental Meditation expert Bob Education, became Vice Presi- Roth, from conviction and persistence. dent of the Comparative and “You are more qualified to make the International Education transformation that needs to happen Society. She directs in the world,” Roth told listeners, TC’s program in “because you have the knowledge International and Com- that change begins within.” parative Education. http://bit.ly/2dLMW0T Peter Coleman, Professor of Psychology & Education, received the International Association of Conflict Man- agement’s 2016 Outstanding Book Award for Making Conflict Work: Harness- ing the Power of Dis- agreement (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014).

Ansley T. Erickson, Assistant Professor of History & Educa- tion, received the 2016 History of Education Society Prize for “Segregation as Splitting, Segregation as Joining: Schools, Housing, and the Many Modes of Jim Crow” (American Journal of Education, August 2016, with Andrew Highsmith).

Felicia Moore Mensah CHANGING THE WORLD THROUGH DISCOVERY will receive the Association of Science Teacher Educa- TC: A SPIKE LEE JOINT tion’s 2017 Outstanding Last spring, director (and former TC medalist) Spike Lee released “2 Fists Up,” Science Teacher Educa- a documentary about black student protests at the University of Missouri tor of the Year Award. that included TC English Education professor Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, postdoc Mensah’s research Jamila Lyiscott and Patrick Gladston Williamson (M.A. ’16). This fall, he focuses on improving visited campus to screen the film. Lee’s documentary on Hurricane Katrina science experiences for inspired the 2007 TC curriculum, “Teaching the Levees.” urban Pre-K—16 teachers and students.

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THESE JUST IN To Dr. Vogeli, With Love

ruce vogeli, the clifford TC welcomed Brewster Upton Professor of Mathematical Education, has Bdevoted his 52 years at TC to advancing the careers of his former and current students. In June, some 6 200 of them said thank you, present- new faculty members ing Vogeli with a portrait of himself by in fall 2016: artist Kim Do. Brianna Avenia-Tapper “It’s the highest honor for a uni- Assistant Professor of versity professor,” he says. “I’d rather TESOL & Applied Linguistics have it than a new Rolls Royce.”

Alex Eble Assistant Professor of Economics & Education TC in the Election Sonya Douglass Horsford n october, teachers college president Associate Professor of Education Leadership and Susan Fuhrman conducted “Taking the Elec- Senior Research Associate, tion to School,” a conversation with Christopher Institute for Urban I Edley, Jr., senior policy adviser to Hillary and Minority Education Clinton — this year’s Phyllis L. Kossoff Lecture Cindy Y. Huang on Education and Policy (http://bit.ly/2fnOj6i). Assistant Professor of It was the third consecutive presidential Counseling Psychology election in which TC hosted an adviser or advisers of the two major party candidates. (This Jeffrey M. Young year, the Trump campaign declined participa- Professor of Practice, tion.) A TC website (tc.edu/kossoff2016) Education Leadership ran commentary by and interviews with fac- Martinque “Marti” Jones ulty, students and alumni on subjects ranging Postdoctoral Research from nutrition policy to the sticker price of Fellow, Department of Counsel- college tuition. ing & Clinical Psychology

TC HONORS ITS CONSUMMATE PEOPLE PERSON

n May, Jack Hyland, Board Co-Chair, received TC’s Cleveland E. Dodge Medal for Distinguished Service to Education. n Hyland’s 29-year service spans two presidents and record-setting campaigns. He is “the consummate master” at “bringing people together,” said fellow Co-Chair I Bill Rueckert,“ who estimated Hyland has attended 116 board and 400 committee sessions — trailing only Rueckert’s grandfather, for whom the Award is named. He served on TC’s board for 67 years.

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IN BRIEF

n Ellen Meier, Director of TC’s Center for Technology & School Change, received a $1.3 million National Science Foundation grant to study systemic transformation of inquiry learning environments for science, technology, engineering and math. Loud Reports: Headline-Makers from TC n Keynote Randall E. Allsup, As- New findings on student motivation, cross-sector collaboration to improve sociate Professor of Music & Music urban schools, and community college transfer rates Education, spoke on “Fractured (fairy) Tales: In Search of Trans- formational Spaces in Music Edu- cation” at the University of Illinois’ n “Who Opts Out and Opts Out and Why?” also typical college graduate Third Symposium on LGBT Studies Why?”— the first national, reveals that opt-out propo- fares well in terms of earn- and Music Education in May. independent survey of the nents oppose high-stakes, ings and debt management. “opt-out” movement— standardized testing be- Private institutions often n Ann Rivet, Associate Professor revealed that its support- cause they believe it takes outperform public ones on of Science Education, was appoint- ers oppose the use of away too much instruction- measures such as gradua- ed two-year Program Officer in test scores to evaluate al time. In its July tion rates, but Scott- the National Science Foundation’s teachers and believe that report on 2016 Clayton’s study Division for Research on Learning high-stakes tests force standardized test finds that public uni- in Formal and Informal Settings. teachers to “teach to the scores, New York versity graduates test” rather than employ State disclosed often do better in n The Asian Development Bank strategies that promote that about 21 per- the job market than (ADB) honored Gita Steiner- deeper learning. The cent, or an estimat- peers from private Khamsi (in her association with new survey also reports ed 250,000 of the approx- colleges and universities. ICREST, the international branch of concern about the growing imately 1.1 million eligible TC’s National Center for Restruc- role of corporations and public school students n In a study in the journal turing Education, Schools and privatization of schools. across the state, declined Leadership and Policy in Teachers), and students for the “For activ- to take the tests — about Schools, Alex J. Bowers, “Most Successful Development ists, the the same as in 2015, when Associate Professor of Project.” Their ADB-funded project, concerns the state led the na- Education Leadership, and “Education for the Poor,” was are about tion in combined math and Jared Boyce (Ph.D. ’15), conducted with the Mongolian more than English Language categorize prin- Education Alliance. the tests,” Arts test refusals. cipals who leave said Oren schools as satisfied n Kimberly Noble, Associate TC HONORS ITS CONSUMMATE PEOPLE PERSON Pizmony-Levy, TC Assis- n “Early Labor or disaffected, Professor of Neuroscience & Ed- tant Professor of Interna- Market and Debt finding that reten- ucation, gave an invited lecture at tional & Comparative Outcomes for Bache- tion policies may the Presidential Scholars in Society Education, who co-authored lor’s Degree Recipi- succeed primarily and Neuroscience at Columbia the study with Research ents,” a study by TC educa- with the latter, who are University in May. Noble has doc- Associate Nancy Green tion economist Judith Scott- potentially most problem- umented an association between Saraisky (Ph.D. ’15). “Who Clayton, finds that the atic to hold in schools. poverty and brain development.

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Getting a Leg Up on Adversity The new psychology of coping in a tough world

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Being human entails facing difficulty. Since Freud, psychology has sought to understand how adversity harms us and can make us stronger — and to help people cope more effectively.This effort has focused both on factors inside the individual and external social forces such as inequities in wealth and power, and discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation and class. Many Teachers College psychologists have been at the forefront of both kinds of work — from the front lines of the global refugee crisis to the impact of police violence against minorities, to the nexus of environment and genetics. They are leaders in RETHINKING

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Part one: It’s like getting back on the horse after being thrown.” Marla Brassard has made equally important contributions to understanding psychological abuse How We Cope and neglect, which, she says, “equal all other forms of Speaking of the Unspeakable maltreatment, short of death and brain injury, in terms of damage to the developing brain, psyche, social functioning, health of a child and life outcomes.” he term “school psychologist” may convey a In 1983, Brassard — an expert witness in death pen- focus on the everyday, but that’s been anything but the alty cases involving defendants with documented histo- case with Philip Saigh and Marla Brassard. ries of abuse and neglect, and in custody cases involving During the 1970s, Saigh taught at the American allegations of psychological abuse — co-chaired the first University of Beirut (AUB) and served as a therapist at international conference on psychological abuse with AUB Hospital. When civil war broke out, he began Stuart Hart of Indiana University. They developed a set seeing children who’d survived bombings and terrible of definitions and assessments — including one that iden- injuries and witnessed death. Their symptoms included tifies maltreatment based on observing 20 minutes of nightmares, flashbacks, inability to concentrate, and pre- parent-child interaction. occupation with illness and death. “They didn’t fit exist- Psychological abuse includes calling children derog- ing models of classification,” he recalls. “I spent a lot of atory names or saying things like “having you ruined my time in the library, reviewing similar life.” Neglect includes extreme emotion- cases seen after the two World Wars.” al unresponsiveness and other things Then in 1980, the American parents don’t do that would normally Psychological Association published promote healthy brain development and a new adult diagnosis called post- social functioning. Neglect is also embed- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ded in every other form of abuse. and Saigh began constructing an in- “If you surprise your father in the terview to identify PTSD in children. garage, and he throws you up against the The condition, often accompanied by wall, you’ll forgive him,” Brassard says. — and confused with — depression Understanding “But if he recognizes you and means to and anxiety, is diagnosed only when Trauma in Children: hurt you, you feel alone in the world be- symptoms persist for at least one Philip Saigh cause the person on whom you depend month. Still, Saigh’s pool of children for your safety and well-being is communi- grew, and he began treating them with Philip Saigh has refined cating that he really doesn’t care about you an adaptation of a technique called understanding of PTSD, or is a threat to your well-being.” flooding, previously used to reduce finding that children Parental psychological abuse and neg- students’ test-taking anxieties. A sim- diagnosed with it have lect vary greatly in frequency, intensity and ilar method had also helped Ameri- greater anxiety and de- duration. A worst-case scenario: when in- can soldiers returning from Vietnam. pression and lower verbal fants are fed and changed but not hugged or “Essentially, I asked kids to im- IQs than those exposed talked to. Left to make sense of a frighten- agine aspects of their traumatic to trauma who don’t ing world and regulate their own emotions, experience, gradually and for longer have PTSD; also, that the these children typically have very low IQs periods,” recalls Saigh of the treat- latter closely resemble and may appear mentally retarded, yet ment, now called Exposure Therapy children never exposed to “they’re often incredibly street-smart — and used in many countries. “The trauma at all. “The PTSD people who’d be our best survivors in a idea is to expose the child to the diagnosis counts,” Saigh world war.” feared situation in his or her imagi- says. Thanks to him, Currently, Brassard is revising foren- nation, under controlled conditions. so does the treatment. sic guidelines to help front-line social

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Illustration: Gianni de Conno Parental neglect is the worst form of emotional abuse. When children realize the people on whom they depend for their well-being simply don’t care, they feel in the world. }

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workers identify and report caregiver psychological chronic neglect. “It helps them survive, but probably at a abuse and neglect. The intent isn’t punitive. cost of flexibility,” Bonanno says. “You become a go/no go “You can’t go around arresting people for being mean kid — you either don’t react to stress, or you do, full out.” to their kids,” she says. “Parents don’t need more critics — Some combat veterans similarly learn hypervigilance and it’s hard, lonely work, so you’ve got to set up supports.” hair-trigger response to sudden sound and movement — vital for battlefield survival but disastrous back home. Bonanno thinks better adaptive responses can be Can We Become More Resilient? learned or re-learned. TC’s Resilience Center for Veter- ans and Families, which he directs, aims to create such n 2004, George Bonanno published powerful new ev- interventions, in part based on people’s profiles before idence that most people recover quickly and fully from trauma occurred. emotional loss and trauma: Among a representative “We need to know these baseline distinctions to be sample of those who had been inside the World Trade able to provide appropriate treatment,” Bonanno says. ICenter on 9/11 or seen others die, more than half were Meanwhile, two other TC psychologists, Lena psychologically indistinguishable from people who were Verdeli and Lisa Miller, focus on two very different miles away, with no signs of PTSD. Another sizeable factors in resilience: community and spirituality. percentage recovered over a longer period, while only Verdeli, Founding Director of TC’s Global Mental between 5 and 30 percent displayed chronic PTSD. Health Lab, believes that “personhood is experienced Bonanno and others have since replicated those and expressed within the context of community and numbers with survivors of everything from natural social roles” and that restoring community is critical for disasters to spinal cord injury. Most recently, using De- the world’s 65 million refugees. Many are so anxious and partment of Defense data on 140,000 soldiers, Bonanno depressed that they cannot care for themselves and their found that 83 percent experienced little change in trau- families, even when food and shelter are provided. ma from before deployment through their return. Sur- Verdeli has adapted a therapeutic approach called prisingly, multiply deployed soldiers fared even better. Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) that is proving But why isn’t everyone resilient — and how to help successful in humanitarian emergencies worldwide. IPT those who aren’t? focuses on triggers of depressive episodes — grief, life Bonanno believes resilience requires “regulatory changes, conflicts. In 2003, Verdeli and her research flexibility” in responding to changing environments. “We partner, Kathleen Clougherty, trained young high school- decide how to respond to different challenges and threats educated villagers to conduct group IPT sessions in by assessing what’s happening,” he says. “Assessment AIDS-ravaged southern Ugandan communities. They requires asking, sometimes repeatedly, What do I need to used IPT again in northern Uganda in 2007 with teens do?, What am I able to do? and Is it working?” displaced by civil war. In randomized clinical trials, peo- We may not do this well if we have become overly ple’s locally defined mental health problems improved conditioned to respond to a particular situation. For beyond expectation. example, brain development that governs emotional Verdeli has since trained professionals as well as self-regulation begins earlier in children who suffer laypeople in Haiti and Colombia. Lebanon, with a vast

Rebuilding Community: Lena Verdeli

“There is an old Zulu saying, ‘People are people within people,’ meaning personhood is experienced and expressed within community and social roles,” Lena Verdeli says. “In displacement situations, Group IPT helps break social isolation and create a sense of community. We’re experts on the method; local therapists and clients know what triggers their depression and trauma-related behaviors and feelings.”

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Illustration: Ellen Weinstein People are amazingly resilient. We typically recover quickly and fully from loss and trauma; restoring community helps us cope with disaster; and depression {can lead to spiritual awakening.

refugee population, is implementing its new national mental health strategy in consul- tation with her. She also led adaptation of methods for the World Health Organiza- tion’s new Group IPT manual and leads trainings for WHO, nongovernment organizations and mental health workers affiliated with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. “We’re harnessing and strengthening natural healing mechanisms,” she says. Spirituality, too, may provide community — through a belief in something larger than oneself. Early in her career, Lisa Miller joined a 20-year study of mothers with a history of depression and found that those practicing a religious faith were less likely to suffer from recurrence of the condition. Miller subsequently linked regular spiritual practice to a thickening of the brain’s cortex, which thins in chronically depressed people. Miller calls her work “traditional” in providing a scientific basis for something timeless: a “universal spirituality that can be lived beautifully through a religious faith or through family, nature or personal practices.” Her students have traveled to the Southern California sanctuary of the Ojai Foundation, to chant at the vernal equinox, and to India, to meet the Hindu spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. Miller believes such “spiritual multilingualism” can help “overcome the illusion of hard-core separateness that leads to war and other global threats.” Most recently, Miller has cited bio-

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logical evidence that “depression is often the doorway to enters the elevator, Sue says, holds the same stereotypes spiritual awakening”: for example, the finding that in peo- that result in unwarranted police shootings of black men. ple with a lifetime history of depression who self-report Can microaggressors change? Most resist because an active spiritual life, a gene that inhibits the “reuptake” “looking at their unconscious biases would assail their of the neurotransmitter serotonin — the same mechanism sense of being good, moral and decent individuals.” employed by many antidepressants — is more active. In his most recent book, Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence (Wiley 2015), Sue describes roadblocks to such self-scrutiny. They range from the fear that “whatever I Part two: say or do will appear racist” to passivity when it comes to actively combating racism. “If you object to a favorite uncle’s racist joke, others may hush you up,” he says. “If Changing an Unjust World you voice concern in the workplace, you may be branded you’re ok, and I am, too a bleeding-heart liberal. A well-intentioned society has many ways to keep us in our places — and to reward us here’s been a slow yet steady acknowledgement for not rocking the boat.” that people identify in all kinds of ways, and that all facets Where Sue has tried to prompt a change of heart, of identity are worthy of being recognized and affirmed,” Robert Carter has sought to create legal redress for race- says TC psychologist Brandon Velez. based harm and stress. That hopeful statement owes much to TC counsel- “If you bring a complaint that something at work ing psychologists Derald Wing Sue and Robert Carter, made you uncomfortable sexually, you do not need to who have led efforts to change the climate around social show intent,” Carter says. “It’s enough that you were un- identity. Their colleague, Laura Smith, has emerged as a comfortable; corrective actions could be taken in the or- national voice on poverty, while new faculty such as Velez ganization or by the court. But there are no guidelines for and Melanie Brewster are building on their efforts. racial claims, and when the claim is racial, one has to In 1996, Sue drew hate mail for televised remarks show the defendant’s intent.” to President Bill Clinton’s Race Advisory Board urging Carter has developed the first and only instruments Americans to “acknowledge our biases and preconceived for measuring race-based traumatic stress and the differ- notions.” ent kinds of racism people are exposed to. The categories “In academia, my research findings on racism hadn’t range from “avoidant racism” (refusal to offer minori- caused a stir, but now people said, ‘You’re just a racist of a ties a job or a loan) to “hostile racism practices” (police different color.’” Sue shakes his head. “My wife said, ‘You profiling, stop-and-frisk). Carter, who has served as an live in an academic bubble. You need to help ordinary expert witness in racial discrimination cases, published folks understand racism.’” his instruments in 2013, 2015 and 2016 in the journals Sue has since almost single-handedly made “mi- Psychological Trauma and Traumatology — “a big step, be- croaggressions” a lay term, delivering his message that cause the people and the courts require expert testimony these unintended slights toward people of color, gay and to be based on accepted scientific evidence in your field.” transgender people and women are often more harmful Both Melanie Brewster and Brandon Velez have TC’s Brandon Velez sees “a slow yet steady than overt racism and hate crimes. widened the discourse on harm inflicted around social Microaggressions wound so powerfully, Sue argues, identity. Brewster is interested in adaptive skills that pro- acknowledgement that people identify in all kinds of because they reveal society’s unconscious biased assump- mote mental health among members of marginalized tions. “When I’m asked, as an Asian American, ‘Where groups such as bisexuals, LGB people of color and trans- ways, and that all facets of identity are worthy of being were you born?’ and I say, ‘Portland, Oregon,’ and they gender persons. Cognitive flexibility, for example, com- follow up with, ‘No, where were you really born?’ — I’m bines an awareness of options in difficult situations with and affirmed.” seen as a perpetual alien, not a true American.” Unspoken the willingness to consider them. Bicultural competence microaggressions can be even more toxic. The white per- is the ability to navigate with ease among both one’s own son who clutches her purse when an African American and other social identity groups.

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Brewster is also interested in the stresses on those who openly declare themselves atheists. In 2014, she published an edited volume, Atheists in America (Columbia University Press), and has explored whether atheists who attend non-religious churches such as Oasis or the Society of Ethical Culture experience less stress than those who don’t. Velez studies the effects of prejudice on Latina/o LGB people and others who identify as members of multiple minority groups, a focus that became all too relevant after the June 2016 Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. “Many victims were people who were doubly marginalized,” he says. Velez is trying to untangle complex questions: Is it true, as is often claimed in popular discourse and scholarship, that heterosexist prejudice is more preva- lent among racial and ethnic minority communities? If so, are LGB people of color exposed to more of such prejudice? Might sexual minority people of color be less susceptible to heterosexism because they’ve learned strategies to cope with racial prejudice? Microaggressions and discrimination are also directed at people on the basis of class — which is why, writing in American Psychologist in September 2015, Laura

Illustration: Beppe Giacobbe TC’s Brandon Velez sees “a slow yet steady acknowledgement that people identify in all kinds of ways, and that all facets of identity are worthy of being and affirmed.”}

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Smith called for her profession to support increasing the minimum wage. Smith, whose family is from the central Appalachian Mountain region, ex- plores issues of social inclusion and exclusion. “People who are marginalized and live outside access to civic protections, health care and educational opportunities are precluded from reaching optimal levels of well-being,” she says. “If you address exclusion, you’re preventively addressing issues of emotional well-being rather than doing remedial work later on.” In one study, Smith and her students found that poor students at elite higher education institutions frequently experience classist microaggressions by faculty and classmates: for example, in sweeping statements about the poor or working class as “the other”; in casual invites to go out for dinner; in comments about people on welfare. “These students constantly choose between concealing their class identities or coming out,” Smith says. Increasingly, Smith’s efforts are focused on social change — particularly through participatory action research. “We don’t do studies on kids and community members — we do it with them, identifying issues of importance together. We include them as knowledge makers with something to teach others — by nam- ing, as well or better than anyone else,

Illustration: Pep Montserrat Just as damaging as outright discrimination is stereotype threat — the burden of undertaking a particular task knowing that others expect you to fail because of {your particular

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problems in need of study in their own communities.” as 60 years old was overwhelmingly The first step, Smith says, is to convince kids that perceived to be less competent, less they have skin in the game. “Research can seem super motivated and less adaptable than an boring — what does it have to do with them?” applicant identified as 29 years old, At a Bronx public school, Smith’s team helped teen- or a Millennial (or Generation Y). Yet agers conduct research that convinced the principal to when the applicant was described as institute courses on sexuality and sexual health. a Baby Boomer, he fared comparably “When you live life understood by the dominant cul- with applicants identified as members Demonstrating ture as someone with nothing important to say, that seeps of the younger generation. Racism’s Harm: into your being,” she says. “So why do we do this work Such biases undoubtedly lead as counselors and psychologists? The theory is, let’s do managers and colleagues to treat Robert Carter something beyond the 50-minute therapy hour to more women, minorities and older employ- People often remain directly target silencing and marginalization.” ees unfairly. Yet the TC group has also stressed from race- documented another source of dam- based encounters, age: from “stereotype threat” — the bur- Robert Carter finds. “If Just Business? den of undertaking a particular task you can show that minori- (Mis)managing diversity in knowing that others expect you to fail ties have been socially the workplace because of your race, gender, age or and psychologically other social identity group. Numerous injured, and you win a ost organizations style themselves as “mer- studies have shown that blacks, wom- damages suit, that will itocracies” that award jobs and promotions solely for en and other oft-marginalized groups get attention and per- qualifications and results. under-perform when expending vital haps stop the negative So why, ask Caryn Block and Debra Noumair, are mental energy worrying about failure behavior. Recognition there “still very few women and minorities in senior lead- or trying to disprove stereotypes. of racism and its harm ership positions in organizations that hold power”? Why, In one study, Block and Rober- will likely take more time despite the Civil Rights movement and the first black U.S. son explored how female scientists than I have, but I hope president, are 94.8 percent of Fortune CEO positions respond to stereotype threat at differ- one day it will happen.” held by men and 95 percent held by whites? ent stages of their careers. They found Noumair, Block and three colleagues in TC’s Social- that younger female scientists try to Organizational Psychology program — Loriann Roberson, “bullet-proof” themselves by never Elissa Perry and Sarah Brazaitis — are in the forefront of making a mistake. Mid-career women scientists are more answering those questions. Block and Noumair are co- likely to challenge injustice or simply leave. Senior wom- editing a special issue of The Journal of Applied Behavioral en are realistic survivors who strategically defend against Studies on social equity as an organization change issue, stereotype threat but also try to be themselves and find while Block, Noumair and Brazaitis have been funded to meaning in their work. They may not always answer the create a TC initiative on the same topic. call to “wear the women in science hat.” The group’s hallmark is directly applying research “Stereotype threat isn’t just something to overcome and theory to practice and taking a systems approach to in a given situation,” Block says. “The work, in forging a understanding diversity dynamics in the workplace, in- career, is how to manage that extra layer?” cluding in academia, companies and nonprofits. Roberson has conducted some of the major studies Certainly they’ve confirmed that people continue to of diversity management. Programs that groom women hold deeply entrenched stereotypes about others. Block and minorities for senior jobs typically fail, she argues, be- co-authored a study — since cited nearly 900 times — cause even when managers act without prejudice, others showing that female managers viewed as successful were in the organization hold stereotypes — and employees in stereotyped as having hostile personalities. In a just-pub- stereotyped groups know it. The latter face a double lished study led by Perry, a fictional job applicant identified whammy: they are handicapped by stereotype threat but

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held to an “impartial” performance standard that ignores order to face the challenges of a racist society, Brazaitis the handicap. says, white girls are often taught unwittingly to give up “The presence of stereotype threat means that per- their power, self-reliance and independence in exchange formance itself may convey biased information about a for protection and financial security. person’s true ability,” Roberson writes. “In group relations conferences… I have seen white Many believe stereotype threat is “in the air.” Thus women authorize white men as leaders and defend and TC’s Executive Master’s Program in Change Leadership protect white men despite their seeming irresponsibil- (XMA), which Debra Noumair founded in 2011 for ity, incompetence or even abusiveness,” she writes. “I mid-level executives tapped to lead and manage major have seen white women pair with white men insistently, change in their organizations, approaches discrimination repeatedly, often at the expense or exclusion of other as a systemic issue. The program teaches that change in women, both white and of color.” any one area of an organization plays out across all levels, Noumair argues that these different roles — super- and that neat diagrams of reporting relationships and star, team player, malcontent, foot-soldier — are pre-baked supply chains don’t capture “irrational, unseen” forces that into the system and dynamically connected. thwart successful change. “You can’t have a star without a scapegoat,” she says. Bias and exclusion occur at all levels, but insidious au- “Someone can’t be oppressed without an oppressor. Stu- thority dynamics typically occur beneath dents in the XMA learn about covert pro- the surface, Noumair says. Some people cesses and see that as the game-changer. actively covet power, while others fear for They go back to their jobs feeling as their jobs or their ways of thinking and though they’re wearing X-ray glasses — doing. They project disavowed aspects of now they can see beneath the surface of themselves onto those whom they per- their organizations. Now they can help ceive as “the other.” Some labels —“team people hold a more complicated view player,” “fixer” or “producer” — sound be- of organizational life and work to create nign, while others — “loser,”“bully,” “pro- more inclusive systems.” vocateur” — suggest weakness, inappro- Confronting “Our work provides people with tools priate anger, or lack of self-awareness. Stereotype Threat: to understand diversity dynamics in sys- Both kinds of labels stick because those Loriann Roberson tems, rather than focusing on diversity as tagged with them have their own “Velcro” something that individuals do or do not (Noumair’s term) for familiar, comfort- What should organiza- have,” Block adds. able roles, which they enact on behalf of tions do about stereotype Everyone stands to benefit. White bosses and colleagues. threat? First, stop pre- women, for example, might find them- Sarah Brazaitis has vividly illustrat- tending it doesn’t exist, selves “freed to nurture and strengthen ed these interrelationships through her argues Loriann Roberson. their sense of self-agency and authoriza- studies of white women, who, she ar- Managers should be can- tion,” Brazaitis suggests. gues, “occupy a unique position in our did about others’ unjust Companies that “hire (and train) young” society: oppressed due to sexism but attitudes and reduce might recognize that “turnover among oppressors because of their white skin.” threatening “cues” for younger people is actually greater and White women help preserve white at-risk employees — for more frequent,” Perry says, “so older em- male privilege and power, Brazaitis ar- example, by offering ployees may represent a better investment.” gues, because they benefit from it. They reassurance and guidance And as Brazaitis writes, those in power are also positioned to disrupt it — but rather than a “sink or might decide that “rather than each group doing so would mean relinquishing their swim” approach, or by em- fighting one another for scarce resources system-assigned roles. Where black phasizing the importance of power and authority, such collaboration mothers have raised their daughters to of skills not questioned could produce an ample supply to be be strong, resilient and independent in by the stereotype. shared among all.”

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Illustration: Jody Hewgill Within organizations, people sometimes gravitate toward roles that are pre-baked into the system — team player, malcontent, foot-soldier — and that prevents them from their full potential.}

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Part three: dopamine receptors may be more stressed by poverty and other environmental conditions. Now Brooks-Gunn is focusing on the epigenome How the Environment Gets — a kind of rheostat, or set of master chemical switches, Under Our Skin that enhances or represses the expression of certain genes or gene groups. ltimately, neither inner resources nor external “The epigenome is the reason why two identi- forces alone determine success in coping with adversity. cal twins, born with the same genetic markers, might Or as TC developmental psychologist Jeanne Brooks- have different health profiles at age 50 or 60,” she says. Gunn puts it, the old argument of “nature versus nurture” “They’ve had different experiences and their rheostats is a meaningless dichotomy. “What is interesting is the are quite different.” interplay between the two,” she says. New evidence suggests that some of what Brooks- At TC, Brooks-Gunn, who has co-directed several Gunn calls “the rheostat sets” may be transmitted and of the nation’s largest long-term studies of families and even increased across generations. children living in poverty, and Laudan Jahromi, who ex- “That’s huge,” she says. “After a generation or two, plores enhancing social and emotional readiness among poor kids may, for example, get high blood pressure at vulnerable groups of children and their parents, work this higher rates not only because they live in negative en- fascinating middle ground. vironments, but also because they were born with Brooks-Gunn’s studies have helped establish that rheostats altered by the experiences of their parents.” disparities in wealth and other resources dramatically The same may be true for immune function and suscepti- affect school and career success, health and longevity. bility to conditions ranging from colds to cancer — More recently, she and others have drawn on this work to which would help explain why poorer people have show, literally, how poverty, discrimination and violence shorter life expectancies. get under the skin to influence health. Laudan Jahromi, who also operates from “a devel- In one line of inquiry, she has focused on how ad- opmental/ecological framework,” isn’t looking at genes — verse social circumstances affect biological markers such but she is interested in how children with autism (nature) as telomeres — long regions of molecules that help protect and their immigrant parents cope with a special educa- the ends of chromosomes from degrading. In a 2014 study tion system (nurture) that conducts business mainly of African-American boys, Brooks-Gunn and colleagues in another language. found that telomere lengths of those living in more difficult Currently, together with TC doctoral students like environments were on average 40 percent shorter than for Christine Iturriaga, a longtime district special education those living in more advantaged environments. chairperson, Jahromi looks at the stressors that face immi- In other work, conducted with biologists, demog- grant parents of special-needs kindergarteners as they raphers and economists, Brooks-Gunn has found that begin navigating the special education system. people with a genetic indicator associated with fewer “We’re focusing on culturally diverse families to

Addressing Genetic Vulnerability: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn’s studies suggest genetic vulnerability to environmental stresses in some mothers who parented more harshly after the 2008 Recession; in others in poverty with severe post- partum depression; and in some children whose fathers have left home. “We can’t change the genome,” she says. “But if we create a better environment, we can change which genes are turned on and off.”

22 fall + winter tc.edu/tctoday Photograph: TC Archives Illustration: Kevin Hong Neither inner resources nor external forces alone determine success in coping with adversity. Studies are showing how, literally, genes meet the environment (poverty, discrimination, {violence) to

better understand how their experiences in the special Nothing less than the futures of potentially pro- ed system are different,” Jahromi says. “We are looking at ductive human beings hang in the balance. “The pre-K potential risk factors like perceptions of discrimination, to K transition establishes long-term patterns for chil- as well as aspects of cultural resilience, like familism [cul- dren and their families, tures in which family needs take precedence over those in terms of how they are TO SUPPORT TC STUDENTS of individual family members]. We want to know whether going to engage with WORKING WITH THESE AND OTHER PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY, families reporting certain types of protective factors or schools,” Jahromi says. VISIT tc.edu/supportpsych barriers to special education have particular kinds of “So we want to ensure it’s OR CONTACT LINDA outcomes. Then we can figure out how to intervene.” a healthy transition.” TC COLQUHOUN AT 212 678-3679.

tc today fall + winter 2016 23 Alumna Jody Arnhold champions dance education as a Deweyan medium for learning. Now she’s bringing it

back home.

n BY WILL BUNCH 6 PHOTOGRAPHS BY DEBORAH FEINGOLD 6THE Dance Maker

24 fall + winter tc.edu/tctoday J ody Gottfried Arnhold (M.A. ’73) is passionate about dance. Her own story suggests a 19th century nar- rative ballet. The plot ranges from her decision to teach public school during the budget-strapped 1960s to her emergence as a national voice in dance education as Founder of 92Y Dance Maker Dance Education Laboratory (DEL), Co-Chair of the New York City Department of Education Blueprint for

Teaching and Learning in Dance (Pre K-12), Chair (and now Honorary Chair) of Ballet Hispanico and executive producer of the recent EMMY-nominated documentary PS DANCE!.

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Now, in a spectacular development that reconnects her to dance education’s very beginnings, Arnhold and her hus- “We squirm before we band, John, have given $4.365 million to establish a new dance education doctoral program at Teachers College. The squawk. Yes, literacy, focus is on preparing master dance educators — the teachers yes, math, but principals of aspiring dance teachers — along with dance researchers and policy experts who will advance Arnhold’s ultimate goal: must understand that making dance education a staple in American public schools. “We squirm before we squawk,” Arnhold said this past the arts build artistically fall at her Upper West Side apartment. Elegant and trim, with striking dark hair, she looks ready to step onstage at La Mama literate adults [and] dance or Triskelion Arts. “Yes, literacy, yes, math, but principals must understand that the arts build artistically literate adults, engages the student’s encourage better attendance, behavior and self-esteem, and support the learning goals in other disciplines. Dance does whole body and mind for this in a unique way because it engages the student’s whole expressive purposes.” body and mind for expressive purposes.”

Channeling History

ance — meaning not just technique, but also impro- the Arts and consultant to the TC committee shaping the visation and choreography — fosters “collaboration, new doctoral program. “She’s mentored hundreds of dance D creativity, problem-solving, citizenship,” Arnhold educators to find their own truths and approaches. Now 6 says. Beyond its practice by gifted dance artists, she she’s giving this field a home, where people can celebrate believes dance develops understanding of the world, as John and respect the incredible transformation and knowledge Dewey, TC’s iconic philosopher, argued education must. “I dance brings to all people. And she’s doing it at Teachers really believe that it will help foster world peace.” College, which so prominently celebrates all educators.” The field of dance education was conceived at TC in 1916 by Margaret H’Doubler (pronounced “Dobler”), a visit- Putting It All Together ing biology doctoral candidate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studied with Dewey. H’Doubler’s ’s own dance education master’s degree pro- departmental boss wanted to expand physical education gram, closed in 2005, produced many leaders for women. Influenced by TC faculty member Gertrude TC such as Martha Hill, the first dance director Colby and Carnegie Hall instructor Alys Bentley, she de- at Juilliard School of Music, and the Trinidad- veloped a dance program in physical education built upon ian6 dancer Beryl McBurnie (“La Belle Rosette”). Inevitably, a vision of “creative dance,” in which each person becomes Arnhold arrived there, too. As a young girl in Washington, a “creative dance maker” with an individual vocabulary of D.C., she studied with modern dance pioneer Erika Thimey, movement. who had trained in Dresden with Mary Wigman, a trailblazer On the 100th anniversary of H’Doubler’s work, Arnhold of the form. Wigman had worked with modern dance theorist seems to be consciously channeling this history. Rudolf Laban. “Like H’Doubler and Colby, Jody is a maverick,” says “It gets even stranger, because John’s family is from Barbara Bashaw (Ed.D. ’11), Director of Graduate Dance Dresden and was completely involved in the cultural Education at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of life there before the war,” Arnhold says of her husband.

26 fall + winter tc.edu/tctoday MOVER AND SHAKER Arnhold has worked for decades to ensure a quality, sequential dance education for every child. Her founding of the Dance Education Laboratory at the 92nd Street Y, endowment of a master’s degree program at Hunter College and her co-leadership of the dance education Blueprint have dramatically increased New York City’s roster of certified dance instructors.

Arnhold enrolled at the University of Wisconsin- “Teachers College put it all together for me,” she says. Madison, but ultimately wanted to dance in New York City. “It reconnected me with my art. It gave me a vision of what Once there, however, she felt unmoored. “I was taking three I wanted — quality, sequential dance education for every classes a day, but needed structure,” she recalls. “So I sold child — and a network of people I work with to this day.” blouses at Bonwit’s and then worked at the Department of If TC shaped Arnhold’s vision, P.S. 75 on the Upper Welfare, as it was then called.” West Side, where she first taught dance, was her finishing After a departmental strike, Arnhold enrolled in an in- school. She was hired when Ballet Hispanico, a local cultural tensive teaching program at New York University. “I was institution, received federal funding to do a six-week resi- always a teacher,” she says. “I was the oldest of four siblings dency there. “The principal, Lou Mercado, said there was no and was always organizing the kids in the neighborhood. dedicated dance space — I’d have to teach in a classroom At 15, I opened Erika’s studio on Saturday mornings and and move the desks — but he believed in me. I showed up on taught the five-year-olds.” the first day with my drum.” In New York, she taught general education at P.S. 165 Arnhold immediatly apprenticed herself to Tina and then at P.S. 180, across Morningside Park from TC. Ramirez, Ballet Hispanico’s Founder and Artistic Director, She was happy but missed dance — so “I literally walked who she sensed was a master teacher. “I wrote down every- up the hill and into TC’s dance department,” then led by Thais thing she did, joined in her classes, followed her back to Barry, a Wisconsin alum. the Ballet Hispanico studios during lunch.” Today, Ballet

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“Teachers College reconnected me with my art as a very young teacher. It gave me a vision of quality, sequential dance education for every child, and a network of people I work with to this day.”

Hispanico’s home on West 89th Street is called The Arnhold An Army of Teachers Center. Another teacher, Joan Sax, introduced her to the ap- plication of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) to dance ince the mid-1990s, Arnhold has led a major expan- education: “The guiding principles of LMA are process, not sion and improvement of dance instruction in New product, everybody can dance and you can make a dance S York. With Joan Finkelstein, she founded 92Y Dance about anything. Make a dance to Mussorgsky’s ‘Night on 6 Education Laboratory, which provides teacher train- Bald Mountain’ and you’ll never forget Mussorgsky’s ‘Night ing and professional development. In 2012, she endowed on Bald Mountain.’ Create a dance about symmetry and the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program at Hunter asymmetry, and you’ll understand symmetry and asymmetry.” College. The city’s roster of certified dance teachers has Arnhold taught for 25 years, becoming a master teacher grown significantly, to 256 in 2016. and a mentor to other teachers who also dreamed of bringing In 2005, together with Finkelstein (then serving as dance to their students. Director of Dance for the New York City Department of “It was one of those moments when everything freezes,” Education) and Ramirez, Arnhold led development of the recalls Bashaw of first seeing Arnhold teach. “You’re watching city’s Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Dance, Pre K-12. this person who is so brilliant, and you can’t breathe, because The Blueprint is organized around five “strands”: dance mak- you’re thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, this is everything I want to be ing; developing dance literacy; making connections with and do.’ It was about children making their own dances. I’d other disciplines; working with community and cultural re- been looking for it, but I wasn’t sure it existed.” sources; and exploring careers and lifelong learning.

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“It was the height of the No Child Left Behind era and paring teachers of teachers, the program will feature policy, during an arts teacher hiring freeze. The DOE had many man- leadership and dance-focused movement science compo- dates, but through thoughtful work with our dance teachers, nents. “Jody’s been working to ensure dance education for we were able to address all of them,” Arnhold says proudly. every child,” Bashaw says. “She’s been developing a moun- Last year, Arnhold teamed with director Nel Shelby and tain, and the TC doctoral program is the peak.” Finkelstein (now Executive Director of the Harkness Foun- “As the future of American education is debated, this dation for Dance) to create the documentary PS DANCE!, program will help put dance at the table,” Arnhold says. about the teaching of dance in five New York City public “Our graduates will make dance education even strong- schools. The film promotes Arnhold’s mission, Dance For er. The arts are for every- Every Child. Nominated for a New York EMMY, PS DANCE! one, at all ages and stages aired on WNET/THIRTEEN in New York and public of their lives. Our graduates of Education television nationwide. Narrated by the veteran TV journalist are going to be doing work Paula Zahn, the film is the Blueprint in motion. in dance education that Pioneering new approaches to And now comes the Arnholds’ gift to TC. Beyond pre- we can’t even imagine.” TC teaching and learning

A Stepwise Process alumni footsteps A faculty committee shapes TC’s new dance education doctoral program

n interdisciplinary faculty committee Roosevelt, who designed coursework for TC’s m a r g a r e t h ’ d o u b l e r is shaping TC’s new dance education doctoral specialization in Teacher Education. doctoral program for faculty review “In high school, I saw the filmIsadora, in which As a visiting doctoral and submission for state approval. Vanessa Redgrave plays Isadora Duncan. I student at TC in 1916, A she reconceived the field n “This doctoral program will be devoted exclu- was into politics, and it interested me in dance sively to dance education, bringing together because of Duncan’s involvement with social of dance education. TC’s faculty as well as the rich and extensive causes.” n Finding connections for students, dance education community in and beyond says Kelly Parkes, Associate Professor of Music New York City,” says committee chair Mary & Music Education, requires “a focus on holistic b e r y l m c b u r n i e Hafeli, Professor of Art & Art Education. “That education, not just on subject-specific skills, and means being consultative, in and outside of an awareness of who’s in the classroom — and Known as “La Belle Rosette” the College.” n Priorities are to prepare dance who’s not.” TC helps students find their own and the grande dame of educators to teach teachers of dance in diverse pathways as educators, she says, and “perhaps Caribbean dance, she pro- settings; develop dance educators as accom- even more than music, dance is open to that, moted regional culture. plished researchers; and foster leaders in dance because it doesn’t privilege one form over education curriculum development and policy. another.” n Dance education is typically about n Dirck Roosevelt, Visiting Associate Professor the art and pedagogy of dance, but “we’ll have m a r t h a h i l l of Curriculum & Teaching, believes aspiring mas- the science and policy components to enable ter teachers must balance classroom teachers’ students to think about a range of career goals,” Juilliard School’s inaugural everyday experience against a broader under- says Carol Ewing Garber, Professor of Move- dance director, she first taught high school students standing of dance in society. n “You have to ment Sciences. n “I’ve loved this collaboration,” at TC’s Lincoln School. join the novice’s perspective to the larger terri- Roosevelt says. “It’s all about different, vigorous tory of importance that dance occupies,” says traditions being brought to bear.” — JOE LEVINE

of the Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University tc today fall + winter 2016 29 Raynor Memorial Libraries; Below, Blackstone Studio/Shelborne, NY “ I want to reach millions of people.” – Naira Musallam, Ph.D. ’11

aira Musallam, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, began to connect with others at Na Catholic school that preached tolerance to Christian, Muslim, Druze and Jewish students. At Teachers College, with scholarship support, she translated The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, edited by her professors Morton Deutsch and Peter Coleman, into Arabic. Today, she teaches at TC and runs Frontier7, a company that mines data to help organizations focus on what matters most. T Our students come to TC for a degree — but they stay involved for good. Embrace TC for life! s Follow the progress of our current scholarship students s Support work to address the most pressing issues of our time s Continue your professional development s Take part in the TC Fund and Planned Giving s Check tc.edu/campaign to stay involved Unconventional Wisdom Paradigm-changing new programs at TC

“ I want to reach cators at “Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools,” a unique millions of people.” Teaching four-day professional training held at TC in mid- – Naira Musallam, Ph.D. ’11 July. n “Reimagining Education” explored the history of racial and ethnic diversity in public for the New schools and diversity’s educational benefits for today’s increasingly diverse student population. Majority n In an opening presentation, Wells and doctoral students Lauren Fox, Diana Cordova-Cobo and Unique prep for today’s diverse classrooms Juontel White said public schools have largely re- segregated due to legal challenges, even as immi- gration has created a majority nonwhite student population. Whites still constitute 80 percent of the teaching force. n “By the 1970s, we started he mid-20th-century desegregation to see challenges to the common wisdom about aira Musallam, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, of U.S. public education put students of color in children of color as ‘culturally deprived,’” said key- began to connect with others at better-resourced schools and helped narrow racial note speaker Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita of Na Catholic school that preached tolerance achievement gaps. Yet some 44,000 black teach- Language, Literacy & Culture at the University of to Christian, Muslim, Druze and Jewish students. ers were fired, leaving most black students to be Massachusetts Amherst. The task now: to devel- taught by whites who knew little about black his- op culturally responsive pedagogy that addresses At Teachers College, with scholarship support, she tory and communities, and who were often told “attitudes, behaviors and dispositions” and the translated The Handbook of Conflict Resolution, edited to avoid discussing race. n “In losing black teach- institutional racism that sustains them. n “Re- by her professors Morton Deutsch and Peter Coleman, ers, black children lost advocates and champions imagining Education” featured student rap artists into Arabic. Today, she teaches at TC and runs Frontier7, who set high academic standards and cared deep- who teach science and social studies through ly about students’ success,” Amy Stuart Wells, their music and a ballet performance by students a company that mines data to help organizations focus Professor of Sociology & Education, told edu- from immigrant families. Workshops included: on what matters most. T Our students come to TC for a degree — but they stay involved for good. Embrace TC for life! s Follow the progress of our current scholarship students s Support work to address the most pressing issues of our time s Continue your professional development s Take part in the TC Fund and Planned Giving s Check tc.edu/campaign to stay involved

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8“Reading, Writing, and Talk: Inclu- sive Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners.” Mariana Souto-Manning, TC Associate Professor of Early Child- hood Education, immersed participants in difficulties experienced by children whose “home language is not aligned” with their school’s. 8“Developing Racial Literacy with Children’s Literature.” Led by Detra Price-Dennis, TC Assistant Professor of Elementary & Inclusive Education, teachers learned about Jim Crow-era “green books” that guided black travelers. 8“Using Hip Hop as Therapy in Multi-Racial Schools.” Counseling Psy- chology Ph.D. student Ian Levy demonstrated the hip-hop and rap workshops We’re he uses with Bronx high school students. putting in civil TC Associate Professor of Science rights guardrails,“ Education Christopher Emdin argued but the states that standardized tests can prevent meaningful connection with minority will make students. “Rigor,” he declared, “is not decisions about equal to rigor mortis.” — PATRICIA LAMIELL interventions and using federal Schoolhouse Lawyers funds. urious about the federal 2015 — John” King (Ed.D. ’08), Every Student Succeeds Act U.S. Secretary of Education (ESSA)? You could read all 1,061 pages — or U.S. Secretary of Education ity on school-finance law and the right to an John King could personally impart adequate education; and Dennis Parker, Direc- Cthe basics by challenging you to create a state tor of the ACLU National Office’s Racial Jus- accountability plan under the new law. tice Program. The Institute’s Faculty Chair, TC King (Ed.D. ’08), a former high school so- Professor of Law & Education Jay Heubert, cial studies teacher, did just that for students in litigated race-discrimination cases as a civil- TC’s annual School Law Institute in July. The rights lawyer at the Department of Justice and Secretary headlined the week’s rock-star in- served as chief counsel to the Pennsylvania structor lineup, which included Gary Orfield Department of Education. Institute Co-Chair and Patricia Gándara, co-directors of the Rhoda Schneider is General Counsel and UCLA Civil Rights Project and leading author- Senior Associate Commissioner of the Massa- of Research ities on school desegregation, affirmative action chusetts Department of Elementary and Sec- The groundbreaking ideas and serving immigrant students; TC Professor ondary Education and has repeatedly served of TC faculty, in action Michael Rebell, a prominent national author- as the state’s interim Education Commissioner.

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Like No Child Left Behind before it, “There are not many programs aimed at ESSA commits states to college and career teaching teachers how to teach,” she says. standards and continued close attention to Enter Teachers College’s new nursing achievement gaps. Yet it also requires use education doctoral program, launched this fall of non-academic indicators such as student with Nwabueze in its inaugural cohort. The engagement or school climate, while scaling new program is offered fully online to students Nurse back federal control. “We’re putting in civil with a master’s degree in nursing who want to educators have rights guardrails,” King said, “but states will become leaders in the academic or health care “ make decisions about interventions and using setting without missing a beat on the job. one of the hardest federal funds.” “TC’s program is truly unique in that stu- jobs in higher “Leaving it up to the states creates some dents engage in scholarly discussions, interac- education. Often problems,” King acknowledged. Does inclusive tive classes and collaborative research projects aspiring nurses debate simply beget “fluffy indicators that through an online environment,” says lecturer have no college let schools off the hook”? How will besieged Tresa Dusaj. degree and are very state education departments manage the new More than 60 percent of registered nurs- inexperienced. measures? es-in-training lack a bachelor’s degree. — Kathleen O’Connell, ” Still, it was clear that considerations like “Nurse educators have one of the hardest Isabel Maitland Stewart school climate matter to King. He closed by jobs in higher education,” says Professor Professor of Nursing recalling losing both his parents as a young boy Kathleen O’Connell, the program’s creator and Education and later being asked to leave boarding school. founding director. “Often, aspiring nurses have He wished the school had offered more options no college degree, are young, naive and very for students in difficulty. inexperienced. The job of the nurse educator is Later, English Education Ph.D. student to turn them into safe and responsible profes- Valon Beasley emailed: “Secretary King made sionals in a very short time.” me know that he is listening and he is watch- TC launched the nation’s first university- ing the tragedies and inequities that African- based nursing education program in 1898 and American male youth are suffering from today. produced thousands of leading nurse educa- I will use his life and words to motivate and tors. Nursing schools subsequently took over transform the minds of New York students, preparation of nurse educators — but with various educators and hopefully, diverse people in the world.” — JOE LEVINE

The 2017 School Law Institute runs July 10-14. For information visit www.tc.edu/schoollaw.

The Art of Teaching Nursing Teachers

rooklyn-based nurse ursula-pearl Nwabueze, who teaches in the City University of New York’s College of Technology, sought two things in a nursing education doctoral program: Bfreedom to keep working and sharper classroom, clinical and lab skills.

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1,200-plus nursing faculty vacancies nation- Associate Professor of English Education. wide due to a lack of candidates with doctoral The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s degrees, there’s growing sentiment that edu- highest. African-American youth are nearly five cation schools should resume “teaching the times more likely to be confined than whites, teachers.” With that goal in mind, the Jonas while Latino and American Indian youth are You can’t Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare two to three times more likely. be well if you awarded scholarships to four students in TC’s “Youth incarceration has infused the prac- new program — the first time the Center is tices of teaching, mental health and other fields,” spend“ your life funding education school students. said Vasudevan, Associate Professor of Tech- in a social group “I believe this program will affect how nology & Education. that’s pressed nurses are taught,” O’Connell adds. “I hope “You can’t be well if you spend your life up against students take what they learn here, contin- in a social group that’s pressed up against the the window, ue to further the profession’s research and window, looking in,” said Smith, Associate looking in. become leaders in their schools and in their Professor of Psychology & Education. fields.”— AMANDA LANG “We’ve got to help teachers notice what — Laura” Smith, Associate Professor of kids are feeling,” said Suzanne Carothers of Psychology & Education NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Educa- The Crime of Punishment tion and Human Development. “If a five-year- oday i sentenced five young men, old says, ‘I’m hungry,’ and you say, ‘Do your ages 14 to 15. I spoke with one whose math,’ you’ve lost something.” — JOE LEVINE TC best friend had been shot and killed. His father was there “ as well. When I adjudicate to Tprotect the community, that means not only protecting victims of gun violence, but also including the voices of others who are victims.” Edwina Richardson-Mendelson, a longtime Administrative Judge for the New York City Family Court, was speaking at “Youth and Wellbe- ing in an Age of Mass Incarceration,” an August forum held by TC’s Civic Participation Project (CPP). Created by TC’s Yolanda Sea- ley-Ruiz, Laura Smith and Lalitha Vasudevan, CPP provides “safe and brave spaces to discuss issues related to social justice and equity for young people in schools.” It seeks to “disrupt the academy by opening up a space for people to be who they are and want to be,” said Sealey-Ruiz,

34 fall + winter TC.EDU/TCTODAY Illustration: Paul Vismara; Photograph: TC Archives First Editions TC’s Faculty in Print

Nashville Color Line The reality behind a desegregation success story

n During the court-ordered desegregation era, Nashville, Tennessee created “one of the most statistically desegregated school systems in the country,” writes Ansley T. Erickson. n Yet in Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits (University of Chicago Press 2016), Erickson, Assistant Professor of History & Education, describes a school district in which “inequality had shifted form.” n “Nashville’s educational outcomes generally followed national patterns — they both improved, and remained starkly unequal,” Erickson writes. The city achieved “relative statistical success while remaining unable or unwilling to value all of the district’s students, their communities, and their places in the metropolis.” Why? Because Nash- ville’s housing policies, economic development agendas and urban renewal projects affected the “hundreds of small choices made by local, state, and federal officials” in enacting desegregation on the ground. n With segregation receiving renewed attention, Erickson believes today’s policy makers must understand stories like Nashville’s in order to make a genuine dent in the problem and the related issue of educational inequality. n “Inequality has been at once deeply embedded and difficult to fully identify,” she writes. “Making visible its full scope and the broad range of those invested in it is, even today, the first step to challenge it.” — ELLEN LIVINGSTON

“Inequality has been at once deeply embedded and difficult to fully identify.” Ansley T. Erickson, Assistant Professor of History & Education

Reality Pedagogy 101 A crash course in teaching black youth

n Urban schools “replicate colonial processes,” writes Christopher Emdin, TC Associate Profes- sor of Science Education, in For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too (Beacon Press 2016). Just as white teachers forced students in the first schools for Native Amer- icans to assimilate, urban public school teachers compel black students to be “complicit in their own miseducation” and “celebrated for being everything but who they are.” Choosing between their own culture and academic excellence, students suffer “a loss of their dignity and a shat- tering of their personhood.” n “Neoindigenous,” Emdin’s term for these urban youth, signals why traditional classroom methods stifle learning and damage their emotional and academic well-being. His alternative: reality pedagogy, which meets “each student on his or her own cultural and emotional turf.” Students help determine how the class is managed, sometimes teach and are empowered to make the classroom familiar through everything from slang and graffiti to elaborate handshakes. These methods — informed by church services, rap circles and hip-hop battles — may contradict teachers’ training. Yet by displacing fear with understanding, Emdin suggests, and by immersing themselves in students’ culture rather than the other way around, teachers will transform classrooms into spaces where brilliance shines. — ROBERT FULLER

“Neoindigenous,” Emdin’s term for urban youth, signals why traditional classroom methods stifle learning.

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More than the Sum of What We’ve Raised

his past summer, Teachers College passed the $250 million mark in its historic Campaign, Where the Future Comes First, a landmark achievement that brings us within sight of our ultimate goal of $300 million.

In fact, as of November 1, 2016, the Campaign The bottom line: This is a Campaign in which raised $267 million, or 89 percent of our goal. Of everyone has participated because we all can see our course we’re thrilled about the numbers — but from dreams reflected in its goals. These are your accom- the get-go, the Campaign has been about so much plishments, not mine nor even those of our dedicated more than simply raising money. Building on the Col- administration and staff here at the College. We are lege’s rousing 125th anniversary celebration in 2013, facilitators — but the Campaign’s success is in every Where the Future Comes First has re-energized way the result of a community in which people are our extended TC community, reconnecting thou- funding their passions. sands of alumni around the world with their alma I could fill this entire magazine describing the mater and each other. The Campaign has supported amazing work at TC fund- Tthe development of new knowledge and practice ed by our Campaign. (Two by our world-class faculty and students, reaffirming of our successful efforts — our place at the forefront of education, health and a unique new dance edu- psychology. And it is positioning us for continu- cation doctoral program ing leadership by inspiring an ever-wider circle of funded by alumna Jody supporters to create unprecedented new levels of Gottfried Arnhold, and the scholarship backing for our talented students, who expansion of TC’s Cowin are our standard-bearers for the future. Financial Literacy Program,

SUZANNE M. MURPHY Vice President, Development & External Affairs u

REAPING BIGGER REWARDS Building on the College’s 125th anniversary, the Campaign has re-energized our extended TC community, reconnecting alumni around the world with their alma mater and each other.

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AN UPDATED STATE OF GRACE The Grace Dodge Society honors those who, like TC’s founder (left), plan for the College in their wills. Anne-Gayles Felton (M.A. ’47), a Grace Dodge Society member, has established a current scholarship for students like Curriculum & Teaching doctoral candidate Angel Acosta.

funded by Trustee Joyce Cowin — are featured on future-minded donors to pay it forward by making pages 26 and 10 of this issue.) For now, though, here’s gifts now to establish named, endowed scholarships. a sampling of recent Campaign highlights that show- The reward is seeing their gifts supporting a current cases the extraordinary diversity of our donors and student, whom they can meet and even accompany their ideas. Each gift also builds on longstanding TC across the stage at TC’s Convocation. The result is an strengths, speaks to a critically important need in our astounding increase in new planned gifts, including society and reflects our commitment to social justice. the decision by four of our existing planned giving donors to make outright gifts establishing their schol- HELPING STUDENTS NOW arships now. They are:

ince 1914, when our founder, Grace Dodge, n Former TC Alumni Council member Joan Amron endowed a scholarship that is still paying (M.Ed. ’76, M.A. ’70), who has created a need-based S dividends, TC’s supporters have planned for scholarship for a TC student interested in pursuing the College and its students in their wills. Today, studies in Applied Science of Learning & Special with education costs rising for our increasingly di- Education and/or Intellectual Disabilities/Autism, in verse student population, we are encouraging such the department of Health & Behavior Studies.

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CROWD-SOURCED FACES In 2014, TC President Susan Fuhrman’s visit to Seoul prompted alumni to establish the Korea 125th Anniversary Scholarship Fund. Left: 2015 and 2016 Korea 125th Anniversary Scholars Hyeyan Chung (left) and Carmen Jang. Right: Seoul’s “Taste of TC” event.

n Drs. Lily E. Christ (Ed.D. ’67) and Duane M. Christ, dent in the Curriculum & Teaching Department. who have structured their investment in the College’s Charitable Gift Annuity Fund and the Pooled In- n Curriculum & Teaching alumna Thelma Shafran come Fund to endow a new HI-TECH PREP Math (M.A. ’54), who has endowed a need-based Endowed Scholarship Fund for students in Math scholarship to support “students who do not come Technologies. The award is designed to “encourage, from privileged backgrounds,” with a particular motivate, interest and award future elementary and focus on African-American women or graduates secondary school teachers and administrators and of majority African-American public schools who professionals” to “influence education at all levels in a have demonstrated a sustained commitment to better understanding of mathematics.” the education of African-American girls.

We have raised n Anne Gayles-Felton (M.A. ’47), Improving College Odds $267 million Professor Emerita at Florida for All Students toward our Campaign A&M University and recipient goal of of TC’s 2015 Distinguished uality college guidance is critically im- $300 million* Alumni Award, whose generous portant in helping young people make it gift will support a need-based to college — particularly students of color *AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2016 Q scholarship for a doctoral stu- and those from low-income families. Yet research

OUR HATS OFF TO YOU We are just facilitators. The Campaign’s success is the result of a community in which people are funding their passions.

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Grace Dodge Would Be Proud

As members of TC’s finds that counselors often spend as social justice in education and in Grace Dodge Society, the little as 38 minutes per year with each society.” following current and student. As of 2013, only 42 of the 466 former faculty and staff master’s programs in school counseling A Learning Library provide for the College in the United States offered an elective through planned gifts: course in college advising. ince TC’s Gottesman Libraries With generous support from the opened its doors in 2004, it has Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, TC’s led the way in incorporating tech- O. Roger Anderson, Professor of S Natural Sciences and Chair of the Department of Counseling & Clinical nology and interactivity into the library Department of Mathematics, Sci- Psychology will launch a new online experience. In spring 2017, the College ence & Technology; Ann Boehm, college advisement program aimed at will open the Smith Learning Theater, Professor Emerita of Psychology professionalizing this essential field. a new multi-purpose teaching and & Education; W. Warner Burke, The program will offer continuing exhibition space on the Gottesman’s Edward Lee Thorndike Profes- education for high school counselors, fourth floor. Created with an $8 million sor of Psychology & Education; college advisers, teachers and school gift from education philanthropists Judith Burton, Professor and paraprofessionals, with a particular em- Camilla and George Smith, “the Learn- Program Director of Art & Art phasis on increasing their multicultural ing Theater represents our continuing Education; Katie Embree, the and social justice competencies so that efforts to reimagine the role of the College’s Vice Provost; John they can better serve high-achieving academic library,” says Gary Natriello, Fanselow, Professor Emeritus of Language & Education; students with financial need. Ruth L. Gottesman Professor in Educa- Celia Genishi, Professor Emerita of “Strong college tion Research, and Early Childhood Education; Debra advising programs Gottesman Librar- Noumair, Associate Professor are critical to achiev- Your TC Moment Is Now ies Director. “It will of Psychology & Education and ing educational be an experimental Director of Executive Education equity and oppor- and demonstration Programs in Change & Consulta- tunity,” says Riddhi Our Campaign’s biggest priority space that positions tion; Kathleen O’Connell, Isabel Sandil, Assistant continues to be supporting current students to become Maitland Stewart Professor of and future students. You can: Professor of Prac- sophisticated, self- Nursing Education, and Program n Pledge $50,000 to create a new Director of the Nursing Educa- tice in the Depart- endowed scholarship in your own directed learners tion Program; Janice Robinson, ment of Counseling name or someone else’s and supports TC Vice President for Diversity & & Clinical Psychol- n Contribute to an existing tribute faculty in their most Community Affairs;Marie Volpe, or program fund scholarship ogy, who is spear- imaginative and am- Adjunct Assistant Professor of n Support a TC Fund Scholar or heading develop- bitious teaching.” Adult Learning & Leadership; and ment of the program. designate your TC Fund gift to Talk about financial aid Lyle Yorks, Professor of Adult & “This program is someone funding Continuing Education and AEGIS also squarely align- Contact Linda Colquhoun her passion: Camilla Program Director. Robert Crain, ed with Teachers (212 678-3679) or visit Smith who earned Professor Emeritus of Sociology College’s work www.tc.edu/future today. her TC master’s & Education, who passed away toward achieving degree in Language, in March 2016, was also a Grace Dodge Society member, and his wife, Nan Guptill Crain, continues to support the College.

OUR HATS OFF TO YOU We are just facilitators. The Campaign’s success is the result of a community in which people are funding their passions.

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Literature & Social Studies, is Director of the Friends effort will combine resources from different TC -de of the San Francisco Public Library and a member partments and include partnership with New York of the Advisory Board of the Bancroft Library at the City schools and other nonprofits. University of California at Berkeley, where she edits Research shows that school-based sex educa- Bancroftiana, the library’s newsletter. tion is effective in reducing teen pregnancy, and that comprehensive programs — which initiate a lifelong Teen sexual/reproductive process of acquiring information and forming atti- health literacy tudes, beliefs and motivations about identity, relationships and intimacy — are more effective than he United States has the highest teen birth those that are abstinence-based. TC’s new program rate in the industrialized world, with roughly will be unique in focusing on the graduate-level train- T one in four girls becoming pregnant at least ing of sex/reproductive health educators. Currently, once by age 20. Teen pregnancy results in 400,000 even teachers in middle and high school who sub- births annually. More than half of teen mothers fail scribe to a Comprehensive Sex Education curriculum to graduate from high school, and a quarter become are unsupported in developing and implementing pregnant again within two years. African-American accurate, age-appropriate holistic courses. TC’s and Hispanic girls are more than twice as likely as program will also include an emphasis on psycholog- their white peers to become ical/mental health aspects of pregnant and to give birth. sexual/reproductive health, Through the generosity A List That Tells TC’s Story helping teens gain insight of alumna Mary Edlow (M.A. into their own attitudes and ’67) — a New York City psy- experiences. choanalyst and board mem- “We all have a psycho- ith names like the late George ber of Sanctuary for Families, Bond, who helped tell the stories logical relationship to our re- which provides assistance to of indigenous African peoples; productive experiences, and victims of domestic violence W Morton Deutsch, who helped the more we can explore — TC is launching a new launch the field of conflict resolution; and that, the more we can make Sexual/Reproductive Literacy former faculty member Donna Shalala, who decisions about pregnancy Project. Over the next three has fought for equity in education and health, and parenting based on an TC’s lineup of tribute scholarships reflects the years, faculty leaders of our breadth and diversity of our efforts to shape understanding of our own Sexuality, Women & Gender a better world. Make that list even longer by readiness,” says TC faculty Initiative, based in the De- endowing your own tribute scholarship — or member Aurelie Athan, partment of Counseling & adding to an existing one — today. whose research and teach- Clinical Psychology, will cre- ing focuses on the transition ate a platform to train current to parenthood. and future health educators George Bond Morton Deutsch Donna Shalala Or as Mary Edlow so in shaping and evaluating eloquently puts it: “Every comprehensive sexuality/ pregnancy and every child, a reproductive curricula. The wanted one.”

PAYING IT FORWARD — NOW We want future-minded donors to make a gift establishing a named, endowed scholarship that benefits a student right now.

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PREPARATION FOR LIFE Teen pregnancy in the United States results in 400,000 births annually. Alumna Mary Edlow (M.A. ’67; right, with faculty member Aurelie Athan) is funding a new TC Sexual/Reproductive Literacy Project to help young people understand their own attitudes toward sex and parenting.

Strengthening our historic ship Association launched a $3 million fundraising connection with China drive to rename TC’s Center on Chinese Education as the Tao Xingzhi Center on Chinese Education, for ince the early 20th century, when a group of the TC alumnus who was perhaps the greatest of remarkable Chinese students came to the Unit- China’s education architects. The effort is aimed at S ed States to study at TC, the College has forged ensuring that the Center’s work — which has includ- a powerful connection with China that has profound- ed helping to ensure free public education for mil- ly benefitted both nations. The flow of ideas has lions of rural students in China — will continue after included the fields of economics, higher education, the retirement of its founding director, Mun Tsang, music and the visual arts, and education technology. Professor of Economics & Education Policy. (See the This past summer, the China-America Friend- story on page 49.)

PAYING IT FORWARD — NOW We want future-minded donors to make a gift establishing a named, endowed scholarship that benefits a student right now.

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STUDENTS OF NOTE TC has a proud music education legacy. Left: This past summer, Music & Music Education doctoral student Julia West chatted with radio host and TC alumnus Robert Sherman. Right: Master’s degree student Ayanda Dalamba, TC’s inaugural Milman Music Education Fellow.

Building a Community of collaborations with symphony orchestras, developed Music Educators programs for young children at Lincoln Center and in Head Start, and developed music education part- he great arts educator Elliot Eisner wrote nerships with universities in China. that the arts “are among the most powerful Most recently, at the Teachers College Com- T ways we become human, and that is reason munity School (TCCS) in West Harlem, Associate enough to earn them a place in our schools.” Professor Lori Custodero has created an innovative Teachers College’s long and proud tradition of new music curriculum that takes a developmental leadership, innovation and teaching excellence in the view of music communities. In pre-K, activities offer arts includes a remarkable legacy in music educa- the freedom to explore; in kindergarten, the program tion. TC offered the first graduate-level course in the responds to children’s emerging interest in patterns nation to include jazz, taught by renowned educator and form; and in first grade, children begin learning Robert Pace. Our current faculty have forged school about music’s symbolic nature.

ON THE RIGHT TRACK There is no clearer sign that an institution’s mission is of profound relevance than when faculty step forward as donors.

42 fall + winter TC.EDU/TCTODAY Photographs: Left, Linda Colquhoun; Right, Urania Mylonas { campaign update}

And the Scholarships Keep on Coming

Alumni and friends have created 46 scholarships this Now a generous gift from Evalyn Milman (M.A. past year and 147 during TC’s Campaign. ’64) is supporting the expansion of Dr. Custodero’s curriculum to other northern Manhattan schools in n Joan Amron Endowed n Mary Gwendolyn Laidlaw the College’s REACH partnership. The new Eva- Scholarship Fund Endowed Scholarship

lyn Edwards Milman Music Education Fellowship n Arnhold Endowed Scholarship n Roy & Deborah Lewicki in Dance Education Scholarship allows TC to advance music education at TCCS,

expand its work in REACH schools and support rich, n Barker Family Endowed n Dr. Ruth Watson Lubic Scholarship Fund at the Rita Gold & William Lubic Endowed hands-on field learning experiences for a dedicated Early Childhood Center Scholarship and talented contingent of TC Music & Music Edu- n Rebecca Binder & Charles n Barbara M.V.H. Martindale cation students whose ranks will grow over time. Cohen Scholarship Fund Scholarship The Milman Music Fellowship — modeled after n George Clement Bond n Mollie McIntyre & John the successful Milman Literacy Fellowship — is Endowed Scholarship Fund Wesley Combs, M.D. Endowed Scholarship facilitating the REACH expansion by enabling TC to n Morton Deutsch Endowed pilot its music program at PS 154. Scholarship Fund n Evalyn Edwards Milman Fellowship in Music Education Dr. Custodero envisions shaping that program n Duquès Social Justice with PS 154 faculty and the aid of a hands-on Milman Endowed Scholarship n Morse Teaching Fellowship Fund Music Education Fellow to meet the needs of the n Arlene & Daniel Fisher school and reflect the culture and values of its families. Scholarship n Roger A. Myers Scholarship in Through Dr. Custodero’s connection to the NY Phil- n Gabelli Family Endowed Counseling Psychology harmonic, the program may include trips to Friday Scholarship n Debra A. Noumair Endowed dress rehearsals for the Very Young People’s Concerts. n Dr. Anne Gayles-Felton Fellowship Fund The inaugural recipient of the Milman Music Scholarship n Abby M. O’Neill Endowed

Education Fellowship is Ayanda Dalamba, a first- n Helen Wilcox Goldsmith Fellowship Program Memorial KIPP Scholarship Fund year M.A. student and Toronto high school music n Sharon Gay Pierson Endowed

teacher. Ayanda, whose TC adviser is Dr. Kelly Park- n Debra Heinrich Scholarship Scholarship

es, is passionate about social justice and the ways in n Beatrice Hillard Nursing n Sandra Segala Endowed Education Scholarship which music education can foster community and Scholarship

empathy among students of all ages and backgrounds. n Myah & Jaime Irick n TC Annual Fund Scholarships (13) Scholarship Fund Again, this gift is close to the donor’s heart. Evalyn, n Thelma Shafran Endowed n Japan Scholars Award Fund a former early childhood teacher, curator and televi- Scholarship Fund n Jonas Nurse Leader Scholars sion producer, is deeply passionate about the arts. n Donna E. Shalala Endowed th n Korea 125 Anniversary Scholarship Fund Scholarship The Bucks Start Here n Sue Ann Weinberg Scholarship n Christie Krase Scholarship Fund here is no clearer sign that an institution is pursuing a mission of profound relevance T and importance than when faculty step forward as donors. At TC, faculty support of our Campaign has

ON THE RIGHT TRACK There is no clearer sign that an institution’s mission is of profound relevance than when faculty step forward as donors.

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TC ON THEIR MINDS Among TC community members making planned gifts to the College are (from left) O. Roger Anderson, Professor of Natural Sciences; Janice Robinson, Vice President for Diversity & Community Affairs; W. Warner Burke, E.L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology & Education; Katie Embree, Vice Provost; and Judith Burton, Professor of Art & Art Education.

never been stronger, particularly through the Grace To sum it all up, the gifts to our Campaign Dodge Society, whose members provide for TC in range from eight-figure contributions that have their wills or trusts or through other planned gifts. remade the face of the College to general support As Grace Dodge Society member O. Roger from those who just want to help. The common Anderson, Professor of Natural Sciences and Chair thread: All of our donors share the desire to con- of TC’s Math, Science & Technology Department, tribute, by being part of a larger enterprise that is puts it, “As a faculty member, I see every day the making a positive impact on so many lives. talent and enthusiasm of TC students who are dedi- You, too, can make a difference though TC’s cated to improving society and the lives of those Campaign. Join us as we set our sights on our final who they serve professionally. There’s no greater goal — and as we shape the future, today. satisfaction than knowing that my gift to TC might make the difference in enabling a student to come here and to realize life-long professional goals.”

On page 41 we list current and former faculty SUZANNE M. MURPHY (M.ED. ’99, M.A. ’96) and staff who are Grace Dodge Society members. VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT & EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

THE COMMON THREAD Our donors seek involvement in a larger enterprise making a positive impact.

44 fall + winter TC.EDU/TCTODAY Photograph: Bruce Gilbert On Board Spotlighting the work of TC’s dedicated Trustees

aroline rosen attended new york The City’s prestigious Nightingale-Bamford School and later taught 10th grade, directed student evaluation, served as assistant middle school head and, when her daugh- Consultant ter attended, led the Parent Association. She also earned two psychological counseling degrees at Teachers College, Is In learning from Ann Boehm and Jeannette Fleischner Caroline Rosen (M.Ed. ’89, M.A. ’87) takes a about the use and interpretation of sophisticated test- big-picture view of the individual student ing instruments such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scales. Concurrently, she worked with a school psychologist who consulted at four New York City private schools. CSeveral years ago, Rosen combined that experience to co-found Your Child in Focus, a consulting firm that looks at test results and neuropsychological assessments as a part of a comprehensive way to help New York City parents find the right independent schools for their children. “The pressure on parents today to help children succeed and excel is exorbitant, sometimes overshad- owing their ability to choose the best environment for their child,” she says. “I feel lucky that, with my background from TC, I can help put this in perspective.” Now Rosen is joining TC’s board because “I’m interested in also looking at the bigger picture — at education as a whole, including public schools.” Student evaluation, for example, is front and center in the national education debate — something Rosen has mixed feelings about. “We should hold schools to standards, but tests offer only a snapshot of a child. My TC professors asked about aspects of success that cannot be measured in a test — creativity, motivation, ability to generate ideas.” Meanwhile, TC’s psychology faculty are collabor- ating in new and powerful ways, while key hubs such as the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership, the Dean Hope Center for Educational and Psychological Services and the Teachers College Community School dovetail with Rosen’s strengths. As Rosen herself might say if she were wearing her evaluative hat: Sounds like a good fit. — JOE LEVINE

Photograph: Karsten Moran tc today fall + winter 2016 45 Inbox JEFFREY PUTMAN (ED.D. ’11), ALUMNI COUNCIL PRESIDENT, SHARES HOW ALUMNI MET THEIR BEST TC FRIENDS Molly Hassler and I are both “recent master’s degree graduates S A BIG SOCIAL MEDIA in Gifted Education, both taught FAN, I KNOW THAT fifth grade last year, and now A I live in her old apartment. FRIENDS MATTER. AS VICE PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT — Amalia Schiff (M.A. ’16) ” AFFAIRS AND DEAN OF STU- My husband, Walter DENTS AT SUNY DOWNSTATE Sowden“ , and I met (and later MEDICAL CENTER, I KNOW got married) at TC! THAT FRIENDS ARE ESPEC- — Erin Sowden (M.A. ’07)” IALLY IMPORTANT TO ONE’S ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE. SO IN THIS ISSUE OF TC TODAY, WE ASKED ALUMNI ABOUT THEIR BEST TC FRIENDS AND HOW THEY MET THEM. LOVE THEIR ANSWERS AND HOPE YOU DO, TOO! Jenna and I met in class. Having an American as my “bestie in NY was beautiful. We learned so much from each other’s cultures and had a blast! I miss you, Jenna. — Pooja S. Shah (M.A. ’14) ”

Serena Xu, Carrie Lieberthal and I used to go for margaritas “and nachos. I only realized during graduation that the restaurant is called Amigos, not Three Amigos. I always associated it with us! — Margaret H. Connelly (M.A. ’16)”

I roomed with Sayu Bhojwani, NYC’s former Deputy Commissioner of“ Immigrant Affairs and founder of The New American Leaders Project, at our English Education retreat. She’s young, from an Indian family in Belize; I’m Assistant Principal at Bronx Science, Cau- casian, from Iowa and retirement-aged. Next up: What’s the most important thing you learned at TC, and why? Respond — Marci Mann (M.A. ’92) ” TC via facebook.com/Teachers College.Alumni/ Today and Twitter (@TeachersCollege).

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Invoking a Legend A DRIVE TO RENAME TC’S CENTER ON

CHINESE EDUCATION FOR TAO XINGZHI

In 1915, young Tao Sing Wen came to TC to study with John Dewey, Paul Monroe and William Heard Kilpatrick. He returned to China, changed his name to Tao Xingzhi, which means “doing, then knowing” — a direct reference to Dewey’s philosophy — and led the the modernization of China’s school system.

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IN AGREEMENT Of course, the TC-China (From left): China- story has been ongoing. TC faculty America Friendship members have helped reshape Association Executive art and music education in China; Chairman Yunfei ‘‘Frank” Xiao; Ting advised the government on edu- ‘‘Crystal” Zhou, the cating China’s diverse minorities; Association's Secre- and created cultural and academic tary General; and exchanges between the two coun- TC President Susan tries. And in 1993, Tsang mounted Fuhrman a project in Yunnan Province that helped convince the Chinese government to fund public education for more than 25 million rural children. To ensure the continuation of the Center after Tsang’s retirement, Cheng Davis, Special Adviser on China to TC President Susan Fuhrman, arranged for a delegation led by Yunfei “Frank” Xiao, Executive Chairman of the Chi- na-America Friendship Association, to visit TC. Among the guests: Tao’s granddaughter, Tao Zheng (herself a teacher). At an agreement signing in August, Fuhrman pronounced “a new chapter in one of the world’s most fruitful education partnerships.” Xiao saluted TC for not only Invoking a Legend (continued from page 49) educating Tao Xingzhi but also helping to bring his ideas to the wider world. “Tao knew that we needed a more literate population to enter the industrial era,” he said. “He made Tao was perhaps the greatest of “the 42,” an extraor- schools the center of society.” dinary group of Chinese educators who were TC alumni. Tsang, too, expressed his gratitude. Now the China-America Friendship Association has “I’m particularly happy about this new agreement, not launched a $3 million fundraising drive to rename TC’s because I regard the Center as my legacy, but because I Center on Chinese Education — founded and directed by see it as an asset to both TC and China,” he said. “I believe education economist Mun Tsang — as the Tao Xingzhi it’s essential that the Center’s work continue — and now I Center on Chinese Education. know that it will.” — JOE LEVINE

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TEAMING UP TO RAISE CHINA’S LITERACY RATE

Tao Xingzhi accompanied the great TC international scholar Paul Monroe on a series of educational surveys in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai in 1921. Among the findings by the two men was the revelation that the rate of urban illiteracy in China exceeded 70 percent. As a result of that discovery, Tao Xingzhi decided to devote much of his thought and energy to the mass literacy movement.

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[ A COLLEGE SAMPLER ] [ AN ARTISTIC LEGACY ]

BIG GIGS FOR TC ARTISTS MARTIN, O’KEEFFE AND THOMAS

This fall, New York City’s Guggenheim Museum mounted a retrospective of more than 100 works by the late TC alumna Agnes Martin (M.A. ’52; at left), one of the great painters of the Abstract Expressionist period. Meanwhile, works by two other late alumni, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alma Thomas (M.A. ’34), were showing, respectively, at the Tate Modern in London and the Studio Museum of A TASTE OF TC IN SEOUL Harlem. In late October, TC’s Office of Alumni Relations hosted a Curator’s In August, TC’s Office of Alumni Relations and the TC Alumni Tour of the Thomas exhibition, followed Association in Korea welcomed Teachers College’s newest South by a Reception. A special alumni tour Korean students — part of Enrollment Services ‘‘Taste of TC” of the Martin exhibit was planned for series. In Seoul are: Hal Abeles, Professor of Music & Music Edu- mid-December. TC also claims artists Ad cation; Mary Hafeli, Professor of Art & Art Education; and Sin Cha Reinhardt, William Daley, Charles Alston Hong (M.Ed. ’72) a leading South Korean performance artist. and Raphael Montañez Ortiz as alumni.

[ BACK TO OUR ROOTS ] Taking TC to the Berkshires

ith TC launching a new arts education program in creative technologies and an- nouncing the return of dance education to its offerings, it was only fitting that this summer the College hosted a celebration of its commitment to music at the famed Tanglewood Music Center in the Berkshires. n Noting that TC offered the country’s first graduate-level courses in jazz, President Susan Fuhrman called WTanglewood a “fitting venue to celebrate TC’s legacy of innovation and excellence in the arts.” Alumni, faculty, donors, friends, parents and trustees connected (and reconnected) with one another and basked in the New England sun while Music & Music Education doctoral student Julia West spoke about scholarship support: “It would not have been possible for me to experience the supportive and creative community of learners at TC had it not been for the generosity of people who care.” n Many in attendance had also recently visited the spectacular home and gardens of TC Board Co-Chair Jack Hyland and architect Larry Wente, about an hour to the south in Millerton, New York. There, Fuhrman cited TC’s “roots” in the Kitchen Garden Association in the early 1880s. Pictured here: At right, Mitchell Thompson (M.A. '96) with Dann Kenefick.

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Arts & Humanities [ ARTS & HUMANITIES ]

APPLIED LINGUISTICS Jessica A. Ingrassellino (Ed.D. ’15), Mirta Martes-Rivera (M.A. ’87) published English Language founder of a video game and computer Teaching: A Political Factor in Puerto Rico? (Xlibris 2015), programming education nonprofit for at- a brief historical overview of language teaching and policies in risk students, was named one of the Top Puerto Rico’s public schools. Female Executives, Professionals & ART & ART EDUCATION Fine Arts alumna Suzanne Entrepreneurs by Worldwide Branding. Reese Horvitz (Ed.D. ’77) has been a practicing artist and teacher around the globe. In May 2016, Legends Gallery In February, TC faculty member a professional development HISTORY & EDUCATION in Philadelphia presented Sean Justice (Ed.D.C.T. ’15) conference for K-12 educa- Rabbi Zev (William) Eleff "Deep Waters,” an exhibition visited ’Iolani School in Hawaii tors to encourage and foster (M.A. ’11) has been named to featuring her work. for Ignite Innovation 2016, student innovation. the fifth annual “Double Chai in

[ ALUMNI FOCUS ] Why and How to Retain Teachers of Color Travis J. Bristol has emerged as a national expert

wo years ago, Travis J. Bristol began the Boston Teacher Residency program, he mentor new teachers to better connect with championing a simple but power- piloted what’s now Boston’s Male Educators students and families. T ful idea: The nation must retain, as of Color Executive Coaching Program to In The Washington Post, Bristol has well as hire, more black, help them thrive socio- urged teacher certification programs to re- male teachers. emotionally and improve cognize candidate demographics and reduce In studying Boston their practice. credentialing costs. As Assistant Professor at Public Schools, Bristol Now Bristol — as- Boston University’s School of Education, he (Ph.D. ’14) learned why sisted by Marcelle Mentor challenges the “hyper-masculinity and het- these educators often (Ph.D. ’16) — is Principal eronormative structures that harm students quit: responsibility for Investigator for NYC and compromise an inclusive teaching space.” “difficult” students; ad- Men Teach, a three-year He cautions: “Policies to diversify ministrative surveillance program to recruit, the teacher workforce should inform a and micro-manage- support and retain 1,000 system-wide approach to increase expec- ment; lack of curricular male teachers of color. tations and resources for adult and student flexibility. Working with Senior teachers of color learning.” — SIDDHARTHA MITTER

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Taking “Curriculum” from Theory to Practice the Chi: 36 Under 36” list Part of Your Day, a text by Esther Yoon is turning what experts know into tools of young Jewish movers and Elizabeth McAnally (M.A. shakers in Chicago. ’92), was released this spring to help children learn by Rowman & Littlefield. This new edition is aligned with the MUSIC & MUSIC EDUCATION sther Yoon did well in math, but it never came easily. National Core Arts Standards. Rhea Francani (M.A. ’15) is “That’s why I’m interested in learning,” says Yoon (Ph.D. making her mark in the country ’15). “How do you go from not knowing how to do some- Mark Tonelli (Ed.D. ’15, M.Ed. E music industry with her single, thing to knowing it?” ’14) was appointed Assistant “Shotgun Baby,” which debuted Yoon majored in education; taught grade school in Palo Professor of Music at Millikin this summer. Alto, California; co-founded a LEGO summer camp; and devel- University in Decatur, Illinois, oped curriculum for McGraw-Hill. But Teachers College, where where he coordinates the Gui- Patrick Freer (Ed.D. ’03) was she studied with psychologist Herb Ginsburg, an expert on tar Studies Program. inducted into Westminster’s young children’s math learning, gave her deeper answers. Music Education Hall of Fame. “Herb pushes you to connect Annabella (Woonha) Yang Freer is a Professor of Music at the theory and practice of how (M.Ed. ’10, M.A. ’07) and Georgia State University. He kids develop math skills,” she says. her husband, Andrew Lee, has guest-conducted or present- Supported by Arthur Zankel welcomed a daughter, Heidi, ed in 36 states and 16 coun- and Cleveland Dodge Foundation in 2014. Yang was accepted tries, presented at six national Fellowships, Yoon helped develop for Fall 2016 to the University conventions of the American MathemAntics, Ginsburg’s learn- of Pennsylvania’s Graduate Choral Directors Association ing software for kids, and test it School of Education in School and seven national conferences at the Teachers College Commu- Leadership + Principal Certi- of the National Association for nity School. Her takeaway: Good fication. Music Education. technology brings math alive. “I understand ‘curriculum’ PHILOSOPHY & EDUCATION Jessica A. Ingrassellino as any kind of instructional tool, Kerry Brennan (M.A. ’83) is (Ed.D. ’15, M.Ed. ’09), founder except for textbooks, which are in his 13th year as Headmaster SO REMAINDERED of TeachCode, a nonprofit more or less obsolete in the of Boston’s The Roxbury Latin that uses the Python lan- “I understand elementary classroom. No one School, the oldest school in guage to provide video game should say ‘Open to textbook continuous existence in North ‘curriculum’ as any and computer programming page 35’ anymore.” America. He currently serves as kind of instructional education for students in TC gave Yoon an exception- President of the International at-risk areas, was named one tool, except for al base to conduct research and Boys’ Schools Coalition, an of the Top Female Executives, textbooks. No one develop educational materials. organization of more than 300 Professionals & Entrepren- She sees her current job, produc- schools worldwide dedicated should say ‘Open eurs by Worldwide Branding. ing educational content for apps to advancing best practices to textbook page The honor recognizes dedica- and TV at the Hispanic Informa- in support of boys and boys’ tion, leadership and excellence 35’ anymore.” tion and Telecommunications education. in education and curriculum Network (HITN), a national public design. A former school media group with a television network that targets the U.S. RELIGION & EDUCATION teacher and current engineer, Latino market, as a great way to bring theory into practice. College Summit CEO and Ingrassellino believes that all “Sometimes people think theory is impractical, but Co-Founder Keith Frome students deserve access to to me, it opens up possibilities,” says Yoon, who also teaches (Ed.D. ’94) recently appeared quality technology instruction. math education courses at Fairleigh Dickinson University. on PBS NewsHour to discuss “Thinking only about instructional practice and procedures is the power of College Summit’s The second edition of Middle confining because it’s linear in nature — and learning is not School General Music: The Best (CONTINUED ON PAGE 54) linear.” — JOE LEVINE

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[ EDUCATION POLICY & SOCIAL ANALYSIS ] He developed a variety of courses, including “Judicial Realism,” “Applied Optimistic The World Economic Forum has Existentialism,” “The Role recognized TC alumna and current of Karaoke and YouTube in Higher Education,” and doctoral candidate Yao Zhang, CEO “Travel To Cuba By U.S. Nationals — A Cultural and of ROBOTERRA, as a 2016 Young Legal History.” Global Leader for her commitment and Curriculum & contribution to robotics education. Teaching

CURRICULUM & TEACHING peer-driven model, a concept President and CEO of Urban Stratus Prep in New York City. Donna M. Volpitta (Ed.D. that has roots in his Teachers Health Plan, Inc., a network of ’05) creates programs to help College education. federally qualified community TEACHING OF SOCIAL teach resilience. She published health centers in the South STUDIES a book called The Resilience Bronx and Queens. Judy Dick (M.Ed. ’10) contri- Formula: A Guide to Proactive Biobehavioral buted eight pieces of art for Not Reactive Parenting, and Sciences TEACHING OF ENGLISH More Shalom Coloring: Bible this past February completed Cynthia Moore (M.A. ’08) Mandalas for Contemplation “The Resilient Mindset Model,” SPEECH & LANGUAGE recently appeared in Town and and Calm (Behrman House a simple model to teach peo- PATHOLOGY Country Magazine, sharing her 2016), an adult coloring book ple about the brain and help Jules Csillag (M.S. ’10) pub- experiences joining the New released this fall. them make more mindfully lished Differentiated Reading York Chapter of the Daughters resilient choices. “Pathways to Instruction: Strategies and Tech- of the American Revolution Empower,” Volpitta’s curric- nology Tools to Help All Students (DAR) and chairing its literacy Counseling & ulum to teach the model, was Improve (Routledge 2016). committee. Clinical Psychology taught in several locations Csillag learned to merge theory this spring, and she will offer and practice while studying Lauren Jensen (M.A. ’08), CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY certification to a limited num- Speech-Language Pathology a 10th and 12th grade English Jephtha Tausig-Edwards ber of educators. at TC and working in the Language Arts teacher at (Ph.D. ’04, M.Phil. ’00, M.S. College’s Neurocognition of Glen Cove High School in Glen ’98), a clinical psychologist, was EARLY CHILDHOOD Language Lab. She presented Cove, New York, recently re- named At-Large Member of EDUCATION a TC Alumni Career Devel- ceived the Milken Educator the Governance Committee Josie Mittleman (M.A. ’97) opment Webinar this summer Award and $25,000. of the Association of Junior was promoted to Professional titled “Differentiated Reading Leagues International. The Development and Curriculum and Writing Instruction: Free Jennifer Martin (M.A. ’12) Association is one of the oldest, Specialist for Edcite, a free Tools to Help All Students draws on her TC education largest and most effective online platform that enables Improve.” www.tc.edu/alumni/ in writing ELA literacy curric- women’s volunteer groups in teachers to create and customize careerwebinars ulum; as a member of a flipped the world, encompassing more assessments and assignments, classroom team, grades 9-12; than 150,000 women in 291 providing students with digital Paloma Izquierdo-Hernandez as a member of a digital con- Leagues in four countries. practice both in and out of the (M.S. ’79) received the 2016 tent initiative; as an adviser to classroom. Heritage Award at the Latino Students Against Destructive COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY Alumni Association of Colum- Decisions; and as an active Richard Campagna (M.A. ’92) EDUCATION OF THE bia University (LAACU) El participant in educational was called out of “existential EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED Regreso Gala this past spring. consulting for undergraduate retirement” in Iowa City to do a Angela White (M.A. ’85) Izquierdo-Hernandez is the and graduate students through semester of college teaching. realized at Teachers College that

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she wanted to work in special (M.A. ’86) has spearheaded a awarded the “Fulfilling the Pro- M.A. ’89, M.A. ’63), a retired education giving students Lower Ed Lab at ’Iolani, a pri- mise” Teaching Award for ele- teacher, led a writers group in strategies to deal with social and vate K-12 school in Honolulu. mentary educators by Oakland, Riverhead, New York. Batcher’s emotional as well as academic California Mayor Libby Schaaf poetry has been published in challenges. Since retiring from Beth Levin (M.A. ’91) has at the Oakland Public Educa- magazines, anthologies and on- the Ossining Union Free School written curriculum for Mac- tion Fund’s Thank an Oakland line collections and has won District, she has worked with the millan/McGraw-Hill School Teacher event. In her accep- several awards. His third book, childcare agency Leake & Watts Division, Pearson Education, tance remarks, Gelormino Imaginings, is available on and received the “Pathways KinderCare Education (for- thanked people she met at Amazon. to Leadership Scholarship” of merly Knowledge Universe), Teachers College, including the New York State Council of Renaissance Learning, Edu- Johanna Berman Brody (M.A. Carrie Isaacman (M.A. ’15) School Superintendents. cation.com and other educa- ’11) and Natalie Guandique taught Shakespeare at The tional publishers. (M.A. ’12). Garden School this summer in ELEMENTARY & Jackson Heights, New York. CHILDHOOD EDUCATION This past summer, Julia GIFTED EDUCATION Since 2014, Matthew Dillon Gelormino (M.A. ’12) was William Batcher (Ed.D. ’92, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 56)

[ ALUMNI FOCUS ] Helping Cancer Patients Go the Distance Ellen’s Run has changed lives – including its founder’s

ulie Ratner (Ed.D. '96, M.A. '92) always planned to work “It just took over my life,” she says. in higher education, even after her sister, Ellen Hermanson, Today Ellen’s Run draws more than 1,000 runners annually, while J succumbed to breast cancer. Then, just as she was completing the Foundation has awarded more than $3.5 million in grants. Most of her doctorate at Teachers College, Ratner began planning a run in the focus is on providing patient services in the Hamptons, which has a Ellen’s memory. The first Ellen’s Run was held in August 1996, raising disproportionately high number of breast cancer cases and, contrary to more than $62,000 for support services for cancer patients and popular perception, is not just a vacation playground for the wealthy. giving rise to The Ellen Hermanson Foundation. Soon, Ratner left a “There’s a great need on Eastern Long Island for the services job at Marymount Manhattan College to serve as the Foundation’s we provide, and we are determined to keep the money in the com- Executive Director and Chair. munity,” Ratner says. Built in 2009, the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center at South- SERVING PATIENTS ampton Hospital combines the “rigor and technology of a teaching “There's a great hospital with the warmth of a support group,” Ratner says, and need on Eastern cannot turn away anyone in need. A full-time outreach coordinator helps newly diagnosed patients navigate their options. “When my Long Island for the sister was diagnosed, she was largely left to figure out her options services we pro- and treatment. Someone to walk you through that information, vide, and we are especially at such an emotional time, is important.” determined to Ratner is a member of TC’s Grace Dodge Society and Campaign Committee. She credits the College for her success in achieving the keep the money Foundation’s goals. “TC gave me the ability to analyze problems and in the community.” made me better at connecting with people and leading teams,” she says. “It provided a lens for how I see the world. I could not be who I am today without that experience.” — AMANDA LANG

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LITERACY SPECIALIST [ HEALTH & BEHAVIOR STUDIES ] Stacey Shubitz (M.A. ’07) Study with Professors Who Practice recently published Craft Moves: Susan Greenberg Weiner (M.S. ’86) Lesson Sets for Teaching Writing with Mentor Texts (Stenhouse received the 2016 Dare to Dream Award What They Teach. Publishers 2016), a professional development book for from the Diabetes Research Institute educators in grades K–5. Foundation. She is the first registered Education Policy & dietitian-nutritionist and certified Social Analysis diabetes educator to receive the award. ECONOMICS & EDUCATION Yao Zhang (M.Phil. ’14, M.A. ’09), doctoral candidate Kripalu Center for Yoga & and the CEO of ROBOTERRA, (PNPI), founded and led by APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY & Health as Vice President of Inc., was recently recognized as 2016 TC Distinguished Alumni NUTRITION Strategy and Growth last year. a 2016 Young Global Leader Award recipient MaryEllen Susan Greenberg Weiner Bauman has more than 20 years by the World Economic Forum. McGuire (Ph.D. ’02). (M.S. ’86) received the 2016 experience driving revenue Zhang received the honor, which Dare to Dream Award from the SOCIOLOGY & growth in the fitness, wellness celebrates leaders who are push- Diabetes Research Institute EDUCATION and hospitality industries. Previ- ing boundaries and rethinking Foundation. She is the first Samson MacJessie-Mbewe ously, she was the Regional Vice the world around them, for her registered dietitian-nutritionist (M.A. ’01), former Associate President for YogaWorks in commitment and contribution to and certified diabetes edu- Professor at the University of New York City and has held top robotics education. cator to receive the award. Malawi, is now Director of positions at Reebok Sports Club Greenberg Weiner has a pri- Higher Education at Malawi’s and properties for ClubCorp. EDUCATION POLICY vate practice on Long Island Ministry of Education, Science Irene Cruz (M.A. ’16) has been (Susan Weiner Nutrition, & Technology. Amerigo Rossi (Ed.D. ’15) named an inaugural Summer PLLC) and is an adviser for published a letter to the editor TC Psychologist Lena Verdeli offers cutting-edge Continuing Professional Scholar at the Postsecond- a number of diabetes-related Judy Pryor-Ramirez (M.A. ’05) in The New York Times respond- ary National Policy Institute organizations including: Dia- Study options by bringing real world issues from the front lines of places was appointed Executive Di- ing to a piece about the benefits betesSisters, Marjorie’s Fund like Syria and Uganda. rector of the Elma Lewis Center of exercise. Rossi serves as As- and THE BETES. She has writ- for Civic Engagement, Learning sistant Professor of Health and ten two books on diabetes, CORRECTION: & Research at Emerson College Exercise Science at Long Island in Boston. She also received University in Brooklyn. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 58) Dr. Verdeli has helped refugees and others afflicted by disaster cope with crippling In the Spring 2016 issue, on the Petticoat Award of the depression. Learn her methods firsthand when you register for TC’s Global Mental page 55, our story, “A Century Sadie Nash Leadership Project, Health workshop. Dr. Verdeli is just one of many distinguished professors whose life’s and Counting,” incorrectly a young women’s leadership stated Maryalice Mazzara’s development organization. work can transform yours. title and professional affiliation. Pryor-Ramirez was a summer In her current role as Director TC offers other culturally and socially relevant Continuing Professional workshops institute faculty member in 2012 of Educational Programs for and serves on the organization’s such as “School Violence & Intervention,” “Making Conflict Work” and “Digital SUNY’s Office of Global Affairs, Learning for K-6 Classrooms.” Dr. Mazzara (Ed.D. ’84) is leadership council. the Founding Director of the JFEW SUNY International Update your information Relations and Global Affairs Health & Behavior and stay connected! Get with the program by continuing your professional Program and the American Studies Director of SUNY’s Confucius tc.edu/alumni/update education — the TC way. Stay involved with TC for life! Insititute for Business. APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY TC Today regrets the error. Jill Bauman (M.A. ’90) joined tc.edu/cps

Continuing Professional Studies

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TC Psychologist Lena Verdeli offers cutting-edge Continuing Professional Study options by bringing real world issues from the front lines of places like Syria and Uganda.

Dr. Verdeli has helped refugees and others afflicted by disaster cope with crippling depression. Learn her methods firsthand when you register for TC’s Global Mental Health workshop. Dr. Verdeli is just one of many distinguished professors whose life’s work can transform yours.

TC offers other culturally and socially relevant Continuing Professional workshops such as “School Violence & Intervention,” “Making Conflict Work” and “Digital Learning for K-6 Classrooms.”

Get with the program by continuing your professional education — the TC way. Stay involved with TC for life! tc.edu/cps

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[ MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ] Childbearing Centers. She is a champion of community-based birthing and considered one TC alumnus and current Interdisciplin- of the leaders of American ary Studies doctoral student Anthony midwifery. Clemons has been leading a team of NUTRITION EDUCATION Jump with Jill, created by Jill curriculum developers in the rewrite Jayne (M.S. ’07), the Rock- star Nutritionist, was nomi- of the U.S. Army’s ROTC curriculum. nated in the Children/Youth/ Teens News Feature category by the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Televi- sion Arts and Sciences and The Complete Diabetes Organizer: tic Student, uses creativity as a lens recently published Hurts Like has been performed for over Your Guide to a Less Stressful and to explore the meaningful learn- A Mother: A Cautionary Alpha- three quarters of a million kids More Manageable Life (Spry ing experiences of autistic youth. bet (Doubleday April 2016). around the world. 2013) and Diabetes 365: Tips for Snow evaluates and challenges The book, a parody of Edward Living Well (Demos Health 2015). common conceptions about Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies, NURSING EXECUTIVE autism and offers a strengths- focuses on the perils of parenting. Since graduation, Annemarie APPLIED SCIENCES OF based demonstration of the many www.hurtslikeamother.com McAllister (Ed.D. ’12, M.A. ’08) LEARNING & SPECIAL ways that autistic people express has published “Inside Track of EDUCATION/CURRICULUM creativity and imagination. HEARING IMPAIRMENT Doing Historical Research: My & TEACHING Emily (Borgsmiller) Moxey Dissertation Story” and “Learn- Carrie Snow (Ed.D. ’10, M.A. ’04), HEALTH EDUCATION (M.Ed. ’06), a teacher of the ing the Historical Method: author of Creativity and the Autis- Jennifer Weiss (M.A. ’95) deaf and hard of hearing who Step by Step” in Nursing Re- works at Brown Elementary in search Using Historical Methods: the Hazelwood School District, Qualitative Designs & Methods has been named the St. Louis in Nursing (Springer 2014), and Special School District’s 2016 Nursing History for Contempo- Teacher of the Year for her rary Role Development (Springer, GLOBAL TC DAY dedication to students and her forthcoming). Think Globally » Celebrate Locally innovative efforts to help them achieve their full potential. Moxey was also selected as one Human of the district’s 10 Key to the Development #GlobalTCDay | Summer 2017 Classroom Award winners in February. DEVELOPMENTAL Stay tuned for details about PSYCHOLOGY the event nearest you! NURSING EDUCATION/ The Patton Veterans Project, ANTHROPOLOGY & founded by Benjamin Patton tc.edu/globaltcday EDUCATION (M.A. ’15), uses collaborative On May 5th, Ruth Lubic (Ed.D. filmmaking as a tool to assist ’79, M.A. ’61, B.A. ’59) was veterans and military families honored by the Museum of coping with Post-Traumatic Motherhood and inducted into Stress (PTS). Since January, the Motherhood Hall of Fame. the project has held several “I A MacArthur “Genius Grant” Was There” film workshops at recipient, Lubic co-founded U.S. military bases and in Israel the National Association of for wounded Israeli veterans.

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Patton says that “data indicates M.Phil. ’00, M.A. ’99) co-edited Africa. www.sciepub.com/ NYU Professor Colette that participating vets experi- “Global Perspectives on Educa- EDUCATION/content/4/2A Mazzucelli (M.Ed. ’11) hosted ence a significant reduction in tional Leadership in the Middle a working breakfast at NYU PTS symptoms along with other East and North Africa: The INTERNATIONAL & for the International Visitor qualitative improvements over View from Palestine,” a recent COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Leadership Program, the U.S. the course of the workshop.” special issue of the online Cinco Puntos Press released State Department’s premier American Journal of Educational Animal Talk: Mexican Folk Art professional exchange pro- Research. Cristillo served as the Animal Sounds, a children’s book gram, comprising four Peer 2 International & lead writer for two of the six by Cynthia Weill (Ed.D. ’11, Peer (P2P) finalist teams from Transcultural Studies papers. The publication seeks M.Ed. ’05), in both English and Azerbaijan, Belgium, the to address “a huge gap” in the Spanish. Weill dedicated the College of Europe and the ANTHROPOLOGY & theoretical and empirical litera- book to her “dear friend and Netherlands. EDUCATION ture on educational leadership adviser” Judith Burton, TC Pro- Louis Cristillo (Ph.D. ’04, in the Middle East and North fessor of Art & Art Education. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 60)

[ ALUMNI FOCUS ] Providing a Safe Space for Seeking Truth St. Thomas Aquinas College President Margaret Fitzpatrick champions values-based education based on questioning

t orientation, I tell students it’s their It’s a message that resonates with thesis on the centrality of social justice social and ethical responsibility to a broader audience. “I’m seeing a real revi- in the founding missions of American “A create positive change, because of val of interest in schools like ours,” says universities. the world’s 6.3 billion people, they’re among Fitzpatrick (Ed.D. ’86), who has led STAC “Even then I knew that what really the privileged few gaining a college educa- for 22 years. “Parents want their young transforms students’ lives is thinking about tion,” says Margaret Fitzpatrick, President of adults to be in values-centered institutions. society as well as about themselves.” St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) in New Major corporations want employees who She’s since led creation of STAC’s Global York’s Rockland County. can bring ethical backbone to their deci- Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility sion-making. Non-religious institutions and created an Environmental Institute for do that preparation, too, but we rising high school seniors and college fresh- name it more clearly.” man. Meanwhile, all of STAC’s nearly 3,000 Growing up in Wellesley, Massa- students — roughly a third of whom are chusetts, Fitzpatrick attended schools first-generation college attendees — perform run by the Sisters of Charity, who community service. believe in “reaching out to the most The college has won many honors for vulnerable members of society and its good works, but for Fitzpatrick, the ques- raising them up through education.” tioning is what defines a STAC education. She became a Sister herself and “St. Thomas said we must enlighten the earned a master’s degree in religious mind through truth. That means asking, what studies at Fordham University. After is truth in this time and place? People devel- serving as campus minister at Queens- op different answers. So we provide a safe borough Community College, she space to discover truth — for students of all wrote her Teachers College doctoral faiths and of no faith at all.” — JOE LEVINE

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Masha (Mary) Turchinsky ’04) credits the work of TC COMMUNICATION, Dean Fusto (M.A. ’12) was (M.Ed. ’12) will assume the Professor Emeritus Edmund MEDIA & LEARNING recently appointed Head Directorship of the Hudson River Gordon in Supplementary TECHNOLOGIES DESIGN of School at Atlanta’s Brandon Museum after 19 years at the Education with empowering Anthony Clemons (M.A. ’15), Hall School, a co-ed, global Metropolitan Museum of Art her to see “the significance of an M.Ed. student in TC’s pro- day and boarding school in January 2017. Turchinsky is outdoor education and co- gram in Interdisciplinary Studies whose mission is to “provide working with current director curricular experience to enrich in Education, has been leading a challenging college prepara- Michael Botwinick on the design the lives of students.” As found- a team of curriculum develop- tory experience immersed phase of the Museum’s $5.5 ing board member and on-water ers in the rewrite of the U.S. in technology.” Fusto has million expansion in partnership educator for East River C.R.E.W. Army’s ROTC curriculum. also founded a globally re- with the City of Yonkers. Inc. (Community Recreation & Clemons, who has also devel- cognized edu-library at Education on the Water) for the oped a new method to quan- www.teachlearnlead.org Mathematics, past 11 seasons, and as the Row- titatively measure cognitive Science & Technology ing Club adviser at Borough of achievement in curriculum, pre- Kyle Dorian Younger (M.Ed. Manhattan Community College, sented his findings at the 2016 ’10) is currently pursuing a COMMUNICATION & Hawk has introduced diverse International Conference on Doctorate of Education in EDUCATION learners of all ages to New York Technology in Collegiate Mathe- Higher Education at Seton Hall Mary Hawk (M.Ed. ’10, M.A. City’s marine harbor estuary. matics, held in Atlanta. University.

[ ALUMNI FOCUS ] A Principal Goes to Washington Alicia Pérez-Katz develops a new appreciation for federal policy

rincipal Alicia Pérez-Katz couldn’t York City’s subway tracks. Yet Pérez-Katz Student Succeeds Act and confirmation secure clearance to attend last (M.Ed. ’98) hardly felt excluded. On leave as of new Secretary John King (Ed.D. ’08), P spring’s White House Science Fair, a full-time Principal Ambassador Fellow at “I really saw the trickle-down. The time is where her Baruch College Campus High the U.S. Department of Education, she was ripe for principals to advocate and use School students presented President holding workshops for educators nation- the bully pulpit as a means to make real Obama with an invention for cleaning New wide, bringing principals to Washington, change in schools.” reviewing the Ed- In April, Pérez-Katz convened Missis- ucation Secretary’s sippi’s first Educator Equity Lab, prompted EXECUTIVE ACTION guidance and by a federal requirement that states ensure With changes in speeches, and poor and minority students aren’t dispro- Washington, voting on depart- portionately taught by unqualified teachers. “the time is ripe mental policy. Back at Baruch, she’s even more aware of for principals to “Federal federal policy. “The new focus is on the policy is not the fact that principals are no longer adminis- advocate and day-to-day a trators, they’re instructional leaders,” she use the bully principal faces,” says. “But it’s not like the administrative pulpit as a means Pérez-Katz says, work went away.” to make real but adds that with Her own principles are unchanged: “We continue to focus on good teaching.” change in schools.” the 2015 signing of the new Every — SIDDHARTHA MITTER

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[ ORGANIZATION & LEADERSHIP ] EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION Tian-Ming Sheu (Ed.D. ’93), former Tian-Ming Sheu (Ed.D. ’93) was promoted to President of Dean of the College of Education the National Academy for Edu- cational Research in Taiwan. at National Taiwan Normal Univer- Previously, Sheu was Dean of the College of Education at sity, was promoted to President National Taiwan Normal Uni- versity and a professor in the of Taiwan’s National Academy for Department of Education and the Graduate Institute of Edu- Educational Research. cational Policy and Adminis- tration.

Dania Vazquez (Ed.D. ’01) MATHEMATICS leaders who champion sustain- interested in developing the has been named to the Board EDUCATION ability initiatives. She has since concept. The network is now a of Directors of the Nellie Mae Matthew Caputo (Ed.D. ’10) developed the concept of the United Nations PRME Working Education Foundation, the recently published his second “sustainability mindset,” launch- Group, with over 48 members in novel, titled A Finger and a ing a network of academics 22 countries on five continents. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 62) Foot: A Sequel to The Queen and The Monster (Trafford Publish- ing). The book follows the FBI investigation into the abduction of two children and a millenia- old mystery.

SECONDARY SCIENCE EDUCATION SATURDAY  APRIL 8  SAVE THE DATE Zora Wolfe (M.A. ’00) co- authored The Feedback Loop: TC SIGNATURE HOMECOMING EVENT Using Formative Assessment Data for Science Teaching and Learning (NSTA Press 2016), aimed at in-service and pre- service teachers. Organization & Leadership

ADULT LEARNING & LEADERSHIP © JD CLOSSER PHOTO Isabel Rimanoczy (Ed.D. ’10) published her sixth book, Stop  Sessions for all, featuring Alumni, Students & Faculty Teaching: Principles and Practices  Celebrate Distinguished Alumni & Early Career Award Recipients for Responsible Management  Experience TC Kids Camp Education (Business Expert Press  Engage in the Student Research Poster Session 2016). Rimanoczy conducted  Enjoy Networking & so much more! her TC doctoral research on the learning process of business tc.edu/festival | #TCAcFest

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largest philanthropic organiza- HIGHER & POSTSECONDARY ceived the 2016 Outstanding launch the consumer version tion in New England focused ex- EDUCATION Book Award from the Interna- of Inside8™ at inside8.com. clusively on education. Vazquez “Lift Off,” a speech delivered by tional Association of Conflict This consumer website has blogs, currently serves as the Head- Donovan Livingston (M.A. ’11) Management for Making Con- eBooks, a forum and other con- master of Margarita Muñiz as student speaker for Harvard flict Work: Harnessing the Power tent to help people lead more Academy in Jamaica Plain. Graduate School of Education’s of Disagreement (Houghton fulfilling lives. 2016 Convocation, has been Mifflin Harcourt 2014). viewed more than 11 million HIGHER & ADULT EDUCATION times and widely shared across Neelu Kaur (M.A. ’09) has The late Debra Amidon (M.A. multiple news outlets. incorporated her passion of Yoga Share Your ’72), received an Honorary Ph.D. and Ayurveda into her wellness News with Us from Bangkok University in ORGANIZATIONAL and professional development Thailand. Amidon, founder and PSYCHOLOGY coaching. She has developed her Like reading about your CEO of ENTOVATION Interna- Peter Coleman (Ph.D. ’98, own line of all-natural, organic fellow TC alumni? Let tional Ltd., was an international M.Phil. ’97), TC Professor of and chemical-free oils. These can them read about you, too. author and global motivational Psychology & Education and be used as a replacement for per- Share your news with us: speaker. She published eight Director of the College’s Morton fume but also have therapeutic Office of Alumni Relations books, including The Innovation Deutsch International Center properties. neelukaur.com www.tc.edu/alumni/update or email [email protected] Superhighway, called the “in- for Cooperation and Conflict novation book of the decade.” Resolution (ICCCR), has re- Sean Murphy (M.A. ’13) helped

“Teachers College played a most important part in my education and in my professional life. I wanted to make sure that I was able to give a planned gift to our College, so I made TC the beneficiary of one of my life insurance policies. It was a very easy way to give back.”

— Carmine Gibaldi, Ed.D. Higher Education, Alumni Council Member Grace Dodge Society member since 2015

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58 spring + summer TC.EDU/TCTODAY In Memoriam

[ TEACHING FOR CHANGE ] [ A SPORTING LIFE ] preceded the Peace Corps. She served as Patricia Cranton Hally Beth Poindexter a District Adviser for Central and Northern Japan Girl Scouts and Director of the USA Women’s Delegation to the Tokyo Olympic World Youth Camp, in conjunction with the 1964 Olympic Games. Her books include Physical Activities for College Women (W.B. Saunders Co. 1964, with Maryhelen Vannier) and Coaching Competitive Team Sports for Girls and Women (W.B. Saunders Co. 1973). atricia Cranton, a longtime Adjunct ally Beth Poindexter (Ed.D. ’57), Pro- She was an early proponent of preventive P Professor in TC’s program in Adult Learn- H fessor Emerita and former Chair of the health through good nutrition, regular exer- ing & Leadership, passed away in August at Kinesiology Department at Rice University cise, stress management and substance age 67. n Cranton co-edited The Handbook (her undergraduate alma mater), died in July abuse prevention. n Poindexter received the of Transformative Learning (Jossey-Bass at 89. She helped establish women’s inter- 2012 TAHPERD Pathfinder Award for excel- 2012) and in June published the third edition collegiate athletics there, volunteering to lence and leadership in her field. She was a of her book Understanding and Promoting organize and coach the school’s first women’s Rice Laureate and Athletics Hall of Fame Hon- Transformative Learning (Stylus). Her online sports teams. n Poindexter initially taught oree. The National Association for Kinesiology TC courses, “Transformative Learning and at Teachers College and consulted for in Higher Education annually bestows a Hally Imagination” and “Authenticity in Teaching Teachers for East Africa, TC’s program that Beth Poindexter Young Scholar Award. and Learning” were perennial favorites. n Cranton supervised more than 100 doctoral dissertations. A wilderness enthusiast, she was also a skilled nature photographer. A Canadian native, she was named to the [ GREAT ADAPTATIONS ] Order of Canada this year. Morton Schindel [ EARTH MATTERS ] A children's animator who honored the text Warren E. Yasso orton Schindel (M.A. ’47), who made animated films of children’s stories by Robert McCloskey, Maurice Sendak, Tomie dePaola, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Ezra M Jack Keats, died in August at 98. n Schindel founded his film company, Weston Woods (later part of Scholastic), to “bring kids back to the book.” He initially filmed static book illustrations, simulating movement through lighting techniques and manipulation of background elements. n Weston Woods arren E. Yasso, former Chairman of aired its many films and recordings Wwhat was then TC’s Department of through libraries, schools and, eventually, Mathematics & Science Education, died in early children’s television. Parts were voiced September at the age of 85. Yasso earned both by actors such as John Lithgow, Sarah his master’s and doctoral degrees at Columbia Jessica Parker, James Earl Jones, Mary University and taught at Teachers College from Beth Hurt, Meryl Streep and the musical 1966 to 1998, with an emphasis on oceanog- raphy, environmental issues, the shoreline of satirist Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach). the New York Bight and science pedagogy. n Early films by Schindel, who studied He co-authored Matter: An Earth Science and media at Teachers College, helped the Earth Science Activities: A Guide to Effective U.S. State Department promote the Elementary School Science Teaching, and post-World War II rebuilding of Europe. was a contributor to Sedimentology, Science His honors included the 1996 Andrew Activities and other publications. Yasso “contributed much to the development of earth Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Child- sciences teachers,” said O. Roger Anderson, ren’s Video and the 1994 Teachers TC Professor of Natural Sciences. College Distinguished Alumni Award.

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[ THE LAST WORD: TC STUDENT VOICES ] proposed dissertation work, before fully turning away from it. I saw these shifts STAYING THE COURSE as failures, and it wasn’t until I built my current project, an ethnographic study of China’s first Internet radio station, that the threads from those first years made sense. That is, I began to recognize and embrace the core of my intellectual interests: how categories are established and thrive as living things. To this end, my dissertation project analyzes the category of the Chinese state, examining how FINIS individuals in a After a journey state-monitored media organiza- across continents tion talk about and disciplinary and interact with domains, “I am their government. about to complete Within the land- my Ph.D. in anthro- scape of this work, pology at Teachers and with the un- failing support of College and cross my adviser, Dr. the finish line.” Lambros Comitas, — Shana Colburn the pieces of the last nine years and beyond have fallen here is something about tempting to fulfill a lifelong dream, into place. Through my commitment making it to the final lap of a one propelled by a deep and strong to this project, amidst the grant propos- long race. Perhaps it’s knowing feeling which for more than 20 years als, research permissions, committee the end is near, or that failure has taken me across continents and approvals and all the uncertainty, I seems farther away. I recently through various disciplinary domains have learned how to cross that finish Trecalled running the mile in sixth in its pursuit. Now I am about to line. — SHANA COLBURN grade to my husband. There I am, complete my Ph.D. in anthropology on the final curve of the final lap, and at Teachers College and cross the I just can’t continue. I can see my finish line. coach, my dad and my teammates I came to TC with the intention cheering me on, but there isn’t enough to research a South Korean expatriate push left in me. I stop and walk to community in Beijing. However, I took the finish line. a detour with my master’s thesis, study- This story is a metaphor for ing Korean-American adoptees in New Teachers College anthropology doctoral student where I am today — on the final lap York City, only to return to the project Shana Colburn is writing her dissertation on a once again. But this time I am at- on the South Koreans in Beijing as state-monitored Chinese media organization.

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THE TALKING THERAPIST To bond with her Latina/o clients, Mariel Buque is learning to “self-disclose”

ariel Buque is good at learning about others. Arriving at age five in the United States from the MDominican Republic, she learned English and became a stellar student. She’s since worked on a suicide hotline and with children with cerebral palsy. n Now a fourth-year doctoral student in TC’s program in Latina/o Mental Health, Buque is “extracting and using cultural information to help people navigate therapy.” Yet she’s also working outside her comfort zone. “As a counseling psychologist, you’re taught to strive for neutrality,” she says, “but with Latinas/os, you must engage in personal small talk. Otherwise they won’t come back.” n Buque believes Latinas/os who receive counseling are more likely to get medical care. Backed by a federal grant, she sees clients at Columbia University Medical Center. She has lots to tell them — but she’s listening, too.

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