Bank Street Presents "Strength and Delicacy: Teaching in Changing Times"
Tuesday, September 6 2005, at 4:00 p.m.
August 30, New York--Lynne Miller, Professor of Educational Leadership and Co-Executive Director of the Southern Maine Partnership at the University of Southern Maine, will deliver the Eleventh Annual Barbara Biber Lecture at Bank Street College of Education, on Tuesday, September 6, at 4:00 p.m. She will talk about "Strength and Delicacy: Teaching in Changing Times."
A former public school teacher and administrator, Miller continues, in the words of Ted Sizer, "to walk the fault line between theory and practice." She has written widely about teacher development and school reform and is actively engaged in local and national reform efforts to promote equity in schools; she was an original member of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. The Southern Maine Partnership at the University of Southern Maine was the 2005 recipient of the Wiesneski Award for Excellence in Teacher Education and has been widely recognized as a leader in school-university collaboration.
The holder of the Russell Chair in Philosophy and Education at the University, Miller's current work focuses on connecting high school and college faculty in efforts to prepare more first-generation students for success in higher education. Her most recent books, written in collaboration with Ann Lieberman, include Teachers Caught in the Action (Teachers College Press, 2001), and Teacher Leadership (Josey-Bass, 2004).
Since 1916, Bank Street College of Education has been a nationally recognized leader in early childhood education, a pioneer in improving the quality of classroom education, and a national advocate of children and families. It is located at 610 West 112th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive.
Background on the Barbara Biber Lecture:
Dr. Barbara Biber was the chairperson of the child development faculty of the Bank Street College of Education from 1931 to 1960, and directed its research division from 1950 to 1963. In those positions, she played a central role in creating several new graduate and research programs dealing with early education theory, child psychology and social policy. In 1973, she became a Distinguished Research Scholar Emerita at the College.
At the end of the 1960's Dr. Biber began devising the basic principles for federally financed day care and Head Start programs. At the age of 80, she completed Early Education and Psychological Development (Yale University Press, 1984). She also was co-author of two books reporting major research studies: Child Life in School (1942) and The Psychological Impact of School Experience (1969).
Dr. Biber, who was born in Brooklyn, first attended Barnard College and then graduated from the University of Chicago. She received a Ph.D. in psychology in 1942 from Columbia University.
Directions to Bank Street College:
By subway, take the IRT #1 or #9 to 110th Street/Cathedral Parkway station, and walk north to 112th Street. Bank Street College of Education is located at 610 West 112th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive.
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