Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D, is
a Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education. Her research and practice expertise is in the
areas of educational leadership and educational partnerships among
schools, families and community members. Karen joined HGSE in
January of 2005 after serving for eighteen months as the Interim
Deputy Superintendent for Family and Community Engagement for the
Boston Public Schools (BPS). While working with the BPS, she
continued to fulfill her duties as president of the Institute for
Responsive Education (IRE). IRE is a research, policy and
advocacy organization that conducts research on and advocates for
effective school, family and community partnerships that support
the educational development of children. Karen joined IRE in
1997 as Project Director for the Boston Community Partners for
Students' Success initiative, which focused on the development of
activities and programs to familiarize parents with the recently
established Boston Citywide Learning Standards. She was appointed
vice-president of IRE in May of 1998 and president in September of
1998.
Karen holds a Doctorate and Master's of Education from
Harvard University in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy,
a Master's in Counselor Education from Southern Connecticut State
University, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Trinity
College in Hartford, CT. In 1997, she was awarded a Spencer
Dissertation Fellowship for her research on how and why families
are involved in their children's educational development. She
is the author of "Making the Connection between Families and
Schools," published by the Harvard Education Letter (1997)
and "Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They Are
Engaged in Their Children's Learning" in The School Community
Journal (2002). She co-authored with Anne Henderson A
New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community
Connections on Student Achievement, published by the Southwest
Educational Development Laboratory in January of 2002.
Jane Davidson
Jane
Davidson is the Assembly Member for Pontypridd and former Deputy
Presiding Officer for the National Assembly. On 16 October
2000 she was appointed as the National Assembly Education and
Life-Long Learning Minister responsible for all aspects of
education, training and life-long learning, and re-appointed to the
post following the Assembly elections in May 2003.
Jane Davidson is married with three children and lives in
Gwaelod y Garth (near Pontypridd). Educated at Malvern Girls'
College, Birmingham University and the University of Wales, Jane
taught English, Drama and PE at Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi and
Coedylan School, Pontypridd. Jane is an experienced youth
worker and former Cardiff City Councillor. She was a member
of the Arts Council for Wales and its Lottery Board, and Head of
Social Affairs at the Welsh Local Government Association before her
election to the Assembly.
Diana Pullin
Diana C
Pullin holds both a J.D. degree and a Ph.D. in Education from the
University of Iowa. She is Professor of Education Law and
Public Policy at Boston College. She also coordinates the
Joint Degree Program in Law and Education at the Law School and the
Lynch School of Education at the University.
Dr. Pullin has served as Dean of the School of Education at
Boston College and as Associate Dean of the College of Education at
Michigan State University. Dr. Pullin was staff attorney,
co-director, and then President of the Center for Law and Education
of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C.
Dr. Pullin has represented students, parents, teacher unions,
and educators in federal district and appellate courts and the U.S.
Supreme Court. She is co-editor of the interdisciplinary
scholarly journal Educational Policy and the author of
numerous articles, book chapters, books, and technical
reports. Her publications have addressed educational testing,
the rights of individuals with disabilities, education reform, and
the preparation and licensing of educators.
Juan Manuel Moreno
Juan Manuel Moreno is currently
Senior Education Specialist at the Department of Europe and
Central Asia of the World Bank,where he leads
the education teams of Bulgaria and Armenia. He
holds a PhD in Education (UNED, Spain) and a
Master of Education (Columbia University, USA). Before
joining the Bank in 2002, he was Associate
Professor of Education at the Universidad
Nacional de Educacion a
Distancia (UNED) in Spain. From 1999 to
2002 he served as
Vice-Rector of International Relations of UNED and as
the Secretary General of the Ibero-American
Association of Higher Distance Education
(AIESAD).
Dr. Moreno is co-author, with
Ernesto Cuadra, of the World Bank
publication (2005) Expanding Opportunities
and Building Competencies for Young People: A New
Agenda for Secondary Education. He has published 8 books and
some 70 articles on issues of education
reform, curriculum development and
innovation, external support
to schools and education
leadership. He has been a visiting scholar at
SUNY Buffalo (USA), and
at the University of Niejmegen (Netherlands). He
has also served as
consultant and evaluator for the European Commission
and UNESCO and has worked in education reform and development
projects in over 20 countries.
Paul Revill
Paul
Reville, a lecturer on educational policy and politics at HGSE, is
president of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy,
an independent policy organization dedicated to the improvement of
PreK–12 public education. The Rennie Center conducts research,
convenes policy-makers and shapers, and advocates for solutions to
Massachusetts' educational challenges.
Reville is former executive director of the Pew Forum on
Standards-Based Reform, a Harvard-based, national education policy
“think tank” which convened the U.S.’s leading researchers,
practitioners, and policymakers to set the national "standards"
agenda.
Reville was founding executive director of the Massachusetts
Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), an organization that
provided key conceptual and political leadership for the Education
Reform Act of 1993. From 1991 to 1995, he served on the
Massachusetts State Board of Education, where he chaired the
Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning. From 1996 to 2003,
Reville chaired the Massachusetts Education Reform Review
Commission, which provided research and oversight for
implementation of education reform. In 1985, Reville was founding
executive director of the Alliance for Education, a multiservice
educational improvement organization serving Worcester and central
Massachusetts. He continues as chair of the Worcester Education
Partnership’s Steering Committee, a key partner in a
Carnegie-sponsored initiative to transform the city's high
schools.
Irwin Blumer
Dr. Irwin Blumer is
currently the chair of the Educational Administration and Higher
Education Department and Research Professor in Educational
Administration in the School of Education at Boston College. Prior
to Boston College, Dr. Blumer was the Superintendent of Schools in
Newton and Concord/Concord-Carlise, Massachusetts; Principal in
Brookline, Massachusetts; Assistant Principal in New York and
Newton; Counselor in Newton; Teacher Trainer in the first session
of the National Teacher Corps in the 60’s; and Teacher in Easton
and Wayland, Massachusetts. He received his D.Ed. from Boston
College and his M.A. and B.S. from Northeastern University.
Lynne Miller
Lynne Miller is
Professor of Educational Leadership and Co- Executive Director of
the Southern Maine Partnership at the University of Southern Maine.
Before moving to Maine, Lynne worked in Philadelphia as a
high school English teacher and Teacher Director of a public
alternative school, in Boston as liaison to de-segregation programs
at Boston English High School, and in South Bend, Indiana as both a
high school assistant principal and Associate Superintendent for
Curriculum. An originating member of the National Commission on
Teaching and America?s Future, she continues to be involved in
teaching policy issues on the state and national levels. She has
authored or co-authored numerous articles on teacher development,
school reform, leadership, and teacher- constructed assessment and
has collaborated with Ann Lieberman in writing or editing five
books, the most recent of which is Caught in the action:
What matters in professional development (NY: Teachers College
Press, 2001). Lynne views herself as ?walking the fault line?
between theory and practice.? She is currently engaged in a
large scale high school transformation project in Maine and has
particular responsibility for helping to develop pathways for
under-represented students to attend college.
Dennis Shirley
Dennis
Shirley is one of the foremost authorities on community organizing
and educational change in the United States today. Shirley’s book,
Community Organizing for Urban School Reform (University
of Texas Press, 1997), described innovative strategies for
improving public schools by linking them with community groups and
is widely used by parents and community members to inspire and
guide their change efforts. Howard Gardner wrote that “This book
reminds us of what democracy is and what it can be in the United
States,” and Seymour Sarason described it as “one of the best and
best-balanced books on urban school reform I have read.” His books
and articles are used in classes in schools of education, schools
of social work, and departments of sociology and political
science.
As an educational leader, Shirley
has led three different school improvement efforts with over $13
million in funding. He was the principal investigator and
director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and
Student Achievement, a consortium of seven higher education
institutions and eighteen public schools in Boston, Springfield,
and Worcester. Shirley was also the principal investigator and
director of Project QUEST (Quality Urban Education and Support of
Teachers), which provides mentoring services for beginning teachers
in the schools of the Massachusetts Coalition. Finally, as
Department Chair of Teacher Education, Shirley and his colleagues
acquired a $5 million “Teachers for a New Era” grant from the
Carnegie Corporation to improve teacher quality and provide new
networks of support for beginning teachers.
Richard Ackerman
Richard H.
Ackerman, a former school teacher and school head, is currently
Associate Professor of Education at the University of Maine College
of Education and Human Development. He is the co-author with
Pat Maslin Ostrowski of The Wounded Leader: How Real Leadership
Emerges in Times of Crisis. Since the late 1980's, Ackerman has
played increasingly active roles in professional development for
school leaders, nationally and internationally.
He was cofounder of the International Network of Principals'
Centers, a collaboration of professional associations, universities
and education agencies. Currently, he serves as a national
facilitator for Courage to
Teach/Courage to Lead Programs and the Center for Courage and
Renewal.
Sarah Mackenzie
Sarah Mackenzie is an assistant professor of Educational
Leadership at the University of Maine. She has been a public school
teacher and teacher leader as well as a college administrator and
instructor in teacher preparation programs. She co-facilitated a
leadership development program for several years that has merged
with the University of Maine's Master's/CAS cohort program in
educational leadership. She has been a facilitator of the Team
Leadership Collaboratives sponsored by the Great Maine Schools
Project of the Mitchell Institute and is presently a co-facilitator
of the Maine Principals' Association Coaching/Mentoring Program for
Beginning Principals.
Joseph O'Keefe
Father Joe O’Keefe, S.J., currently serves as the Interim Dean
of the Lynch School of Education at Boston College where he has
been on faculty since 1991. He continues to teach courses in
the Educational Administration program and coordinate Lynch School
outreach efforts to Catholic schools locally, nationally and
internationally. In addition to his work at Boston College, Fr.
O’Keefe also directs the National Center for Research in Catholic
Education and co-directs Selected Programs for Improving Catholic
Education (SPICE), a collaborative effort between the NCEA and
Boston College that identifies and makes available for replication
exemplary programs that address pressing educational needs.
As an internationally recognized expert on Catholic
Education, Fr. O’Keefe is widely published and he has lectured
around the world. Fr. O’Keefe received his doctorate in
education from Harvard University, concentrating on Administration,
Planning, and Social Policy. He is a graduate of Holy Cross College
and received a master's degree in French literature from Fordham
University as well as a master's degree from Harvard in Educational
Administration. He also received a M.Div. and S.T.L. from the
Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He
has been a member of the Society of Jesus since 1976. In
recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of
Catholic Education, Fr. O’Keefe was awarded the F. Sadlier Dinger
Award in 2004.
Marla Ucelli
Marla Ucelli is Director of District Redesign for the
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. In
fall 2002, the Institute released its Portfolio for District
Redesign. In addition to describing a vision of “school
communities that work” for both results and equity, the Portfolio
offers a set of interrelated frameworks, tools, and resources to
help local educators and communities make the transition to “smart
districts”. The district redesign work has received support
from Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller
Foundation for its second, on-the-ground, phase: redesigning
districts to help create, support, and sustain high-achieving
schools across entire urban communities.
David Crandall
David Crandall: Doctorate from University of Massachusetts
at Amherst, co-founder of The NETWORK in 1969, Chief Executive
Officer and Corporation President. Grew The NETWORK from a
single-project to a unique multi-million dollar non¬profit
organization blending research and evaluation, technical
assistance, and direct work with schools. Provided the vision,
risk-taking and perseverance to initiate and nurture to robust
operation such successes as the National Center for Improving
Science Education, the Center for Effective Communication and the
Northeast Regional Lab as well as scores of more modest projects.
Responsible for initiating and sustaining a strategic alliance with
APS, one of the Netherlands’ three national pedagogical. Served as
Chair of the Foundation for International Collaboration on School
Improvement, a multi-nation network committed to research-guided
improvement strategies.