USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION : FALL / WINTER 2018 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION : FALL ROSSIER USC USCRossierAT 100 Bringing the Future Into Focus This fall, USC Rossier is celebrating our centennial. While we formally became TABLE OF CONTENTS a school of education exactly 100 years ago, we have been preparing teach- Dear ers as far back as the 1890s from a small department of pedagogy in USC’s College of Liberal Arts. In 1911, we took a major step forward by adding credential programs Friends of for high school teachers, programs that the Los Angeles Times called “an DEAN educational blessing to all Southern California.” By 1918, this program was Karen Symms Gallagher, PhD Rossier, in such great demand that university officials moved to establish a formal ASSOCIATE DEAN OF school of education. EXTERNAL RELATIONS Carla Wohl The vision and determination we have demonstrated from the beginning have served us well over the years—from the redesign of our EdD program SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR and the establishment of our online Master of Arts in Teaching, to the creation Matthew C. Stevens of innovative research centers and the founding of USC Hybrid High and four CONTRIBUTING other high schools to serve first-generation students who will carry on the WRITER & EDITOR spirit of positive multigenerational change. Ross Brenneman We embark on our second century as a leading school of education know- Stephen Lucasi ing full well that leadership requires listening, that innovation demands col- DESIGN laboration and that the future of education is not ours to shape alone. Rent Control Creative So we decided to offer something different in this issue of our magazine. EDITORIAL BOARD We have invited thought leaders from within and beyond USC Rossier to share Darnell Cole PhD, Associate their perspectives about the future of education—covering topics as varied Professor of Education; Matt DeGrushe MEd ’04, Director as the interconnectedness of access and equity, justice and progress; the of Alumni Engagement; convergent roles of psychology and technology in new paradigms of teach- Gregory Franklin ’83, EdD ’97, FEATURES ing and learning; and the urgent need for clearer communication and better Superintendent of Tustin Unified organization to improve outcomes for our students. School District and Chair of 6 Dean’s Superintendents Advisory USC Rossier at 100 We see the obstacles. We seek the solutions. And together we Fight On! Group; Margo Pensavalle The school marks its centennial with an eye toward the future. By Elaine Woo EdD ’93, Professor of Clinical Sincerely, Education; Morgan Polikoff PhD, 14 Equity & Access Associate Professor of Education; Maintaining Our Competitive Edge Requires Equity. By John Brooks Slaughter Gale Sinatra PhD, Professor of Marching Toward Justice. By John B. King Jr. & Ryan J. Smith Psychology and the Stephen H. Reclaiming Equity in Word and Deed. By Estela Mara Bensimon Crocker Professor of Education; From Vision to Reality. By Shaun R. Harper KAREN SYMMS GALLAGHER, PHD Amber Sommerville, Director of A Time to Listen. By Sy Stokes Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean Marketing of Strategic Enrollment Services; Kristan Venegas PhD, 22 USC Rossier School of Education Assistant Dean of Strategic Teaching & Learning Initiatives and Evaluation. Relationships Matter. By Mary Helen Immordino-Yang On Message. By Benjamin Riley Email: communications@ Use Your Words. By Margo Pensavalle, Angela Hasan and Shilby Sims rossier.usc.edu Beyond the Three “Rs.” By Craig Kielburger Reveta Franklin Bowers, Chair, Head of School, Carol Fox MS ’62, Teacher Education Lecturer; Noor Menai, CEO and President, CTBC Bank Web: rossier.usc.edu Let’s Work Toward Being Boring. By Stephen J. Aguilar Center for Early Education in Los Angeles President, USC Alumni Association Board of Making It Personal. By Alan Arkatov (retired) Governors (former) Brent Noyes ’75, MS ’79, Principal, Arroyo Vista Elementary School (retired); Chair, The Academy What Graduate Education Can Learn from Blockbuster and Netflix. Mary Atwater James, Vice Chair, Los Angeles Greg Franklin ’83, EdD ’97, Superintendent, DEPARTMENTS By Christopher “Chip” Paucek Executive Board Member, Prime Group Tustin Unified School District; Chair, Dean’s Steve Poizner, Technology Entrepreneur; State Getting Smarter. By Anthony B. Maddox Superintendents Advisory Group Insurance Commissioner of California (former) Robert Abeles, USC Chief Financial Officer Timeline 04 (retired) David Hagen, Former Superintendent, Morgan Polikoff PhD, Associate Professor of 32 Huntington Beach Education, USC Rossier Faculty Council Chair Rossier News 38 Organization & Action Frank E. Baxter, Chairman Emeritus and retired The Rise (and Fall?) of Academic Freedom. By William G. Tierney CEO of Jefferies LLC John Katzman, Founder and CEO, The Noodle Charlene Shimada ’91, Principal, Alameda Honor Roll 40 Inconvenient Truths and the Promise of Higher Education. By Marta Tienda Companies Elementary School, USC Alumni Representative Jim Berk, Chairman/CEO, Goodman Media Rossier Supporters 42 Closing the Priority Gaps. By Wesley Smith Partners Ira W. Krinsky, Consultant, Korn/Ferry Sheree T. Speakman, Founder and CEO, CIE PHOTO BY ANDREW ZINN HISTORICAL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE USC DIGITAL LIBRARY AND THE LA PUBLIC LIBRARY Support Beyond the Paycheck. By Morgan Polikoff International Learning We’re All in This Together. By Adrianna Kezar Margaret (Maggie) Chidester EdD ’95, Law Offices of Margaret A. Chidester & Cindy Hensley McCain ’76, MS ’78, Chair, Peter Weil, Co-Managing Partner, Glaser, Weil, BOARD OF COUNCILORS BOARD Associates Hensley & Co. Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLP ©2018 USC Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California Bringing the Future Into Focus nsight flows from many sources — Ifrom momentous personal and familial histories, from deep commitments to communities and ideals, from decades of pro- fessional research and service. At our best, we draw these sources together into a collective vision PHOTO BY CODY PICKENS for the future of education. —R 2 ROSSIER MAGAZINE rossier.usc.edu FALL / WINTER 2018 3 Centennial 1983 The Center for Multilingual, Timeline Multicultural Research is 1963 established. Since then, 2012 USC education professors the School has created 10 USC Hybrid High School opens, the first teach U.S. military personnel 1969 innovative centers focused on of five high schools run by Ednovate, and their dependents at bases Professor Leo Buscaglia issues of educational equity and Inc., the charter management in Europe, Asia and Africa, creates ‘Love 1A,’ the first psychology, higher education, organization founded by USC. 1948 eventually awarding 800 college course on love. and K-12 education policy. 1930 School of Education master’s degrees in 10 years. Alumni Impact is organized into 10 Ethel Percy Andrus departments. receives a PhD; she would later found 1923-24 the National Retired School of Education Teachers Association, establishes a bachelor’s which quickly evolved degree and PhD program. into A ARP. 1974 2016 The Irving R. and Virginia A. Alumni Impact 1924 1931 Melbo chair is established as Michelle King, who earned her School of Education doctorate at USC Rossier, becomes Alumni Impact the School of Education’s first After an outbreak of the awards its first EdD endowed chair. Since then the the eleventh alumnus to serve as plague, alumna Nora Sterry degrees to George H. 1954 1963 school has endowed chairs 1995 Superintendent of LAUSD. Bell and Verne R. Ross. instituted reduced price School of Education Alumni Impact in school behavior health, Alumni Impact lunch, hygiene, health combines resources Afton Nance and other pro- technology and innovation, Emery Stoops and Joyce King 2017 1909 screening and daycare 1939 with the John Tracy integration educators create urban and women's leadership, Stoops endow the Dean's Chair USC Rossier announces its new mission Thomas Blanchard Stowell programs that have since School of Education Clinic to train teachers California’s first program for evaluation and measurement, in Education. Karen Symms statement, which is to “prepare leaders joins the faculty and organizes become standards in establishes a master’s of hearing-impaired teaching English as a second higher education and Gallagher becomes the first to achieve educational equity through 1880 the Department of Education. public schools. degree in education. children. language. curriculum theory. chair holder in 2000. practice, research and policy.” USC founded DEPRESSION & PROGRESSIVE ERA WORLD WAR II POST-WAR CIVIL RIGHTS ERA AGE OF INNOVATION 1895 1911 1927 1940 1955 1978 James Harmon Hoose The California State David Welty Lefever, USC contracts with International teacher Civil rights activist teaches USC’s first Department of graduate student in Los Angeles school program begins, Rev. Jesse Jackson is courses in pedagogy. Education grants USC education, earns USC’s district to provide bringing educators to 1968 named a distinguished 1998 2018 the right to confer first PhD. student teachers USC for graduate study lecturer. Named in honor of the Alumni Impact USC Rossier high school teaching and helps pay for in secondary education. Oklahoma rancher and The School of Education is certificates, making supervising teachers. philanthropist, Waite 1979 named in honor of Barbara celebrates it the first accredited Phillips Hall opens as the Norman Topping J. and Roger W. Rossier, its centennial institution in Southern 1941-45 School of Education’s delivers the