Highlights of Recent Faculty Achievements

Professor Shanley Allen, Literacy and Language Program

• Presenter, "Universal vs. language-specific: The crosslinguistic acquisition of motion event speech and gesture," Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Connecticut, Storrs (September 2004)
• Presenter, "Does event cognition influence children's motion event expressions?" 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University (September 2004)
• Presenter, "What co-speech gestures reveal about L2 proficiency: A study of Japanese learners of English," EuroSLA 14, San Sebastia?Ln, Spain (November 2004)
• Presenter, "Is grammar all in the mind? The case of omitted subjects in children's speech," University of Waterloo, Ontario (March 2005)

Professor Amy Baltzell, Human Development Program

• Presenter, "Coaching Your Kids to Excellence? Character, Courage, and Confidence through Sport Workshop for Coaches, Teachers, and Parents," Character in Coaching Conference, sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, Boston University (May 2005)

Professor Suzanne Chapin, Mathematics Education Program

• Co-Author, Unraveling the Mystery of the MoLi Stone: Place Value and Numeration, Digging for Data: The Search Within Research, Awesome Algebra: Looking for Patterns and Generalizations, and What's the ME in Measurement All About? (Mentoring Mathematical Minds Series, Grade 3) (with M. Gavin, J. Dailey, and L. Sheffield) (Kendall/Hunt Publishing, in press)
• Recipient, 2004 Curriculum Award from the National Association for Gifted Children for Unraveling the MoLi Stone: Place Value and Numeration
• Co-Principal Investigator, Strategic Use of Classroom Discourse in Mathematics Instruction: Studies of Effects on Student and Teacher Learning, National Science Foundation

Professor Julia Coppola, Bilingual Education Program

• Presenter, "Improving Writing Instruction for English Language Learners in the Primary Grades," Annual Conference of Massachusetts Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Boston, MA (March 2005)
• Presenter, "Recent Findings in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: Implications for Policy and Practice," Annual Convention of the International Reading Association, San Antonio, TX (May 2005)
• Co-Author, "'In my country we don't write stories. We tell our stories': Writing with Children from Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Backgrounds" (with C. Dawson and S. McPhillips) in R. Indrisano and J. Paratore (eds.), Learning to Write, Writing to Learn (International Reading Association, 2005)

Professor Thomas Cottle, Human Development and Education Program

• Author, "Feeling Scared," Educational Horizons 83:1 (Fall 2004)
• Author, "That Which They Call Self and School," Schools 1:2 (November 2004)
• Author, "Outside the Moral Circle," MassPsych, 49:1 (Fall/Winter 2005)

Professor Donald DeRosa, Science Education Program

• Presenter, "Citylab, Inspiring Success in Science," Northeast Regional Developmental Biology Conference, Boston University School of Medicine (April 2005)

Professor Thomas Dukes, Counseling Program

• Presenter, "Working Toward an Integrated Model of Resilience," Sargent College Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University, Boston, MA (April 2005)

Professor Marcia Edson, Early Childhood Education Program

• Presenter, "The Power of Observational Drawings in Early Childhood Science: A Window into Young Children's Understanding," National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference, Seattle, WA (November 2004)

Professor Gerald Fain, Leisure Studies Program

• Representative to the United Nations, World Leisure and Recreation Association
  President, American Leisure Academy
• Chairman, J. B. Nash Scholar Committee, American Association for Leisure and Recreation

Professor Carol Findell, Mathematics Education Program

• Presenter, "Use Rich Problems to Teach and Connect Hard Middle School Concepts," Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England Conference, Hartford, CT (October 2004)
• Keynote Speaker, "Producing Problems that Scale Up the Mathematics," Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Massachusetts, Boston, MA (January 2005)
• Keynote Speaker, "Challenging Problems for Everyone," New Hampshire Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference, Durham, NH (March 2005)
• Co-Presenter, "Preparing Teachers to Develop Students' Problem Solving and Reasoning Abilities in Arithmetic and Algebra" (with C. Greenes), National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA (April 2005)
• Co-Presenter, "Making the Connections: Algebra to Number, Measurement, Geometry and Data" (with C. Greenes), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA (April 2005)
• Co-Editor, Developing Students' Algebraic Reasoning Abilities (with C. Greenes), NCSM & Houghton Mifflin Company School Division and McDougal Littell Monograph Series for Leaders in Mathematics Education (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
• Co-Editor, Groundworks: Algebraic Thinking, Grades 1-7 (with C. Greenes) (Wright Group/McGraw-Hill)
• Co-Editor, Groundworks: Reasoning About Geometry, Grades 1-7 (with C. Greenes and J. Tsankova) (Wright Group/McGraw-Hill)
• Co-Editor, Groundworks: Reasoning About Data and Probability, Grades 1-7 (with C. Greenes and J. Tsankova) (Wright Group/McGraw-Hill)

Dr. Paul Gagnon, Senior Research Associate, Center for School Improvement

• Author, "Educating Democracy," Occasional Paper, National Council for History Education

Professor Peter Garik. Science Education Program

• Principal Investigator, Improving the Quality of Teachers of Physics, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, $450,000 awarded.
• Principal Investigator, Physics for Boston Public School Teachers, Boston Public Schools, $75,000 awarded.

Mr. Peter Gibbon, Senior Research Fellow

• Speaker, Stuyvesant High School, New York City (February 2005); Wawatosa North and South High Schools, Wisconsin (March 2005); Marquette University High School, Wisconsin (March 2005); Mesmer High School, Wisconsin (March 2005); Rufus King High School, Wisconsin (March 2005); Lasalle High School, Providence, Rhode Island (March 2005); Branford High School, Branford, Connecticut (March 2005); Fox Chapel High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 2005); Greenburg-Salem High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 2005)
• Presenter, "Why Heroes?" Annual Catholic Educators Convention, Providence, RI (March 2005)
• Prescott Speaker, Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Connecticut (April 2005)
• Presenter, "Can Historians Prevent War?" National Council on History Education Annual Convention (April 2005)
• Presenter, "Why Teachers Matter," American Council on Trustees and Alumni, Boston, Massachusetts (April 2005)
• Author, "No Teacher Left Behind," The Institute for Effective Governance (April 2005)

Professor Charles Glenn, Policy, Planning, and Administration Program

• Co-Author, Education Freedom (with Jan De Groof) (Foundation for International Solidarity "Eduardo Frei," 2004)
• Co-Author, Balancing Freedom, Autonomy, and Accountability in Education, Vols. 1-3 (with Jan De Groof) (Wolf Legal Publishing, 2004)
• Author. Il mito della scuola unica (with Introduction by Eliza Buzzi) (Marietti, 2004)
• Author, "School Choice as a Question of Design" in Patrick J. Wolf and Stephen Macedo (eds.), Educating Citizens: International Perspectives on Civic Values and School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2004)
• Author, "Prescribing Orthodoxy" in Alan M. Olsen, David M. Steiner, and Irina S. Tuuli (eds.), Education for Democracy: Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)
• Author, "Historical Background to Present Conflict about Education and Religion" in Jose?L Luis Martinez Lopez-Muniz (ed.), El Derecho a la Education en el siglo XXI (Persona y Derecho, 2004)
• Author, "Intervention" in Inte?Lgration sociale et autonomie des e?Ltablissements scolaires (Le Colle?Lge Supe?Lrieure, 2004)
• Presenter, "Equity and Excellence," World Conference on the Right to and Rights in Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (November 2004)
• Author, "The Challenge of Diversity and Choice," Educational Horizons 83:2 (Winter 2005)
• Presenter, "Educational Equity in a Federal Context," Third International Conference on Federalism, Brussels, Belgium (March 2005)

Dr. Susan Goldsmith, Director, Center for School Improvement

• Author, "The Liberal Arts and Improvement," Journal of Education184:3 (2005)

Dr. Carol Gordon, Head Librarian, SED Educational Resources Library

• President, New England Educational Media Association
• Author, "Academic Libraries" in Privacy (Libraries Unlimited, forthcoming)
• Co-Presenter, "Cutting Edge Practices for the 21st Century School Library" (with Dr. Ross Todd), School Library Association of Victoria, Victoria, Australia (August 2005)

Professor Carole Greenes, Mathematics Education Program

• Presenter, "Developing Algebraic Reasoning and Measurement Sense," Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England (October 2004)
• Keynote Speaker, "Strategies for Developing Algebraic Reasoning and Measurement Sense in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8," National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Minneapolis, MN (November 2004)
• Presenter, "Navigating through the Number Strand in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 2," National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Minneapolis, MN (November 2004)
• Presenter, "The Teaching of Algebra: The Why, The What, and The When," Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Massachusetts, Marlborough, MA (March 2004)
• Co-Presenter, "Preparing Teachers to Develop Students' Problem Solving and Reasoning Abilities in Arithmetic and Algebra" (with C. Findell), National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA (April 2005)
• Presenter, "Challenging Young Children Mathematically: Lessons Learned from Implementation of Big Math For Little Kids," National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA (April 2005)
• Presenter, "Strategies for Helping New Leaders," National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Annual Conference (Past Presidents' Panel), Anaheim, CA (April 2005)
• Co-Presenter, "Making the Connections: Algebra to Number, Measurement, Geometry and Data" (with C. Findell), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA (April 2005)
• Co-Editor, Developing Students' Algebraic Reasoning Abilities (with C. Findell), NCSM & Houghton Mifflin Company School Division and McDougal Littell Monograph Series for Leaders in Mathematics Education (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
• Editor, Algebra and Algebraic Thinking, 2008 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Yearbook

Professor Robert Hoffmeister, Deaf Studies Program

• Author, "Including Deaf People as Part of the Learning Process in Families with Deaf Children," in L. Clara (ed.), Educating Deaf Children in Portugal (Educational Press, 2004)
• Author, Forward to R. Miller, Deaf Hearing Boy (Gallaudet University Press, 2004)
• Co-Author, "Residential Schools for the Deaf in Greece: A Sign of Diversity, a Promise of Unity" (with V. Kourbetis) in H. Goodstein and L. Brown (eds.), The Deaf Way II Reader (Gallaudet University Press, 2004)
• Co-Author, "Curriculum of Greek Sign Language as a First Language of Deaf Students" (with V. Kourbetis and T. Simpsa) in D. Hatzidimou, E. Taratori, M. Kougjourouki, and P. Stravakou (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Pan-Hellenic Congress (Kyrjakidi 2004)
• Keynote Speaker, "Sign language in Deaf children: development and education," 20th International Conference on the Education of the Deaf, Maastricht, The Netherlands (July 2005)
• Presenter, "The American Sign Language Assessment Instrument (ASLAI)," 20th International Conference on the Education of the Deaf, Maastricht, The Netherlands (July 2005)
• Co-Presenter, "Assessing Verbs of Location and Verbs of Motion in Greek Sign Language" (with V. Kourbetis and E. Bernardino), 20th International Conference on the Education of the Deaf, Maastricht, The Netherlands (July 2005)
• Co-Presenter, "Deaf children acquiring ASL classifiers: Examples of three real object representations" (with S. Brendel and S. Fish), 20th International Conference on the Education of the Deaf, Maastricht, The Netherlands (July 2005)
• Co-Presenter, "Deaf children acquiring ASL classifiers: Errors and Pattern of Development in a Signed Language" (with S. Brendel and S. Fish), Tenth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany (July 2005)
• Co-Presenter, "Knowledge of rare vocabulary in ASL (L1) and its relationship to vocabulary knowledge in English (L2) in Deaf Children" (with S. Fish and M. Thrasher), Tenth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany (July 2005)

Professor Roselmina Indrisano, Reading Program

• Co-Editor, earning to Write, Writing to Learn: Research and Theory in Practice (with J. Paratore) (International Reading Association, 2005)

Professor Arthur Johnson, Mathematics Education Program

• Presenter, "A of ?I^: A modest History of the most Famous Number," New Hampshire Mathematics Teachers Association Annual Conference, Durham, NH (March 2005)
• Co-Author, Teaching Today's Mathematics in the Middle Grades (with Kit Norris) (Allyn and Bacon, in press)
• Author, Math in a Different Language: A Handbook for Teaching Mathematics to Learning English Proficient Students (Allyn and Bacon, in press)

Professor Donna Lehr, Special Education Program

• Co-Author, "Meaningful Assessment" (with F. Brown and M. Snell) in M. Snell and F. Brown (eds.), Systematic Instruction of Students with Severe Disabilities (Charles Merrill Publishing Company, 2006)
• Author, "Educating students with physical and health disabilities" in E. L. Meyen (ed.), Exceptional Children with Today's Schools: What Teachers Need to Know (Love Publishing Co., in press)
• Guest Co-Editor, a special series on classic The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH) articles (with F. Brown), Research & Practice in Severe Disabilities, the professional journal of the international organization, TASH

Dr. Bernice Lerner, Director, Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character

• Author, "Why Teach Biography?" Education Week 24 (27) (March 16, 2005)
• Speaker, "Learning Curve," a PBS program featuring a segment on character education (May 31, 2005)

Professor John McCarthy, Physical Education, Health, and Coaching Program

• Presenter, "Designing Coach Training," Youth Sports Summit, Springfield, MA (March 2005)
• Presenter and Co-Organizer, Coaching Academy Program (with the New England Patriots), Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA (April 2005)
• Presenter and Co-Organizer, Character in Coaching Conference, sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, Boston University (May 2005)

Professor Steven Molinsky, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program

• Recipient, Media and Methods Magazine's M&M Award: "Best Software for Foreign Languages/ESL" for Side by Side, an interactive a two-level multimedia software program that combines video, audio, graphics, and text to provide beginning-level English language learners with more than 120 hours of self-directed, self-paced instruction (with Bill Bliss)

Professor Mary Catherine O'Connor, Literacy and Language Program

• Principal Investigator, Spencer Foundation Grant, a one-year grant to develop a suite of open-source software tools that will enable educational researchers to easily transform text files of classroom transcripts into an XML format that can be coded, analyzed, and searched. $27,000 awarded.
• Presenter, Poster presentation: "Strategic use of classroom discourse in mathematics instruction," Second Annual Joint Meeting of the Evaluation and Research Programs for the National Science Foundation's Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication, Washington, D.C. (November 2004)
• Co-Presenter, "Database tools for documenting endangered languages: A linked electronic dictionary-textbase and learner tools for Northern Pomo" (with Amy Rose Deal), Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Language of the Americas. Oakland, California (January 2005)
• Presenter, "Repeating, resaying, and revoicing: Inferring the teacher's purposes," Datafest Symposium, Sixteenth Annual Winter Conference on Discourse, Text, and Cognition, Jackson Hole, Wyoming (January 2005)

Professor Jeanne Paratore, Reading Program

• Principal Investigator, Intergenerational Literacy Project, Hyams Foundation Grant
• Co-Author, Teaching Second Grade Literacy (with R. McCormack) (Guilford Press, 2005)
• Co-Editor, Learning to Write, Writing to Learn: Research and Theory in Practice (with R. Indrisano) (International Reading Association, 2005)
• Core Advisor, Teaching Reading 3-5: A Video Library of Exemplary Classroom Practice (WGBH/Annenberg CPB)
• Recipient, International Reading Association's Annual Media Award for The Intergenerational Literacy Project produced by Words that Cook, an independent production firm

Professor Marylee Rambaud, Policy, Planning, and Administration Program

• Presenter, "Government/Non-government Partnerships to Strengthen Girls' Education," International Development Conference 2005, Cambridge, MA (April 2005)

Professor Marnie Reed, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program

• Co-Author, Sound Concepts: An Integrated Pronunciation Course (with Christina Michaud) (McGraw-Hill, 2005)
• Presenter, "Teaching Pronunciation through Grammar Lessons and Error Correction: The Teacher's and the Student's Responsibility," TESOL Conference, San Antonio, Texas (April 2005)
• Presenter, "Can Speech Production Facilitate Perception: The Role of Convergent Output in L2 Speech Perception," 1st Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Workshop on Second Language Speech Learning, Vancouver, Canada (May 2005)
• Presenter, "Sound Concepts for Teaching the Sound System," TESOL Academy, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (June 2005)

Professor Mary Shann, Policy, Planning, and Administration Program=

• Presenter, Virtual Molecular Dynamic Laboratory Program, South Africa (November 2004): the VMDL is an extensive collection of software programs for teachers to demonstrate abstract, complex, and molecular phenomena. Professor Shann has helped train science teachers throughout South Africa to adopt the VMDL.

Dr. Richard Silberman, Editor, Journal of Education

• Author, "Herbert Spencer on Education?\Prophet or False Prophet?" Journal of Education 183:2 (2005)

Professor Eileen C. Sullivan, Physical Education, Health, and Coaching Program

• Presenter, "Teachers as Leaders in the Schools: An Introduction to Leadership Training Theory for Physical Educators," Massachusetts Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Conference, Worcester, MA (March 2005)
• Presenter, "Strategies for Successfully Completing an Undergraduate Program," Massachusetts Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (MAHPERD) Conference, Worcester, MA (March 2005)

Professor Charles White, Elementary Education Program

• Senior Consultant for Social Studies, Houghton-Mifflin Pre-Kindergarten Literacy Program (2005), a new national preschool literacy program integrating content from math, science, and social studies
• Session Planner and Presenter, "A Civics Mosaic: Political Systems in Comparative Perspective?" Northeast Regional Conference on the Social Studies, Boston, MA (March 2005)
• Keynote Speaker, "The Big Ideas of Civics: What are They and Why are They Important?" Professional Development Day (sponsored by Houghton Mifflin), Rapid City, SD (February 2005)
• Co-Author, Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Series (with S.W. Bednarz, C.E. Cortez, C. Jennings, M.C. Schug, and H.J. Viola) (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
• Principal Investigator, Civitas: An International Civic Education Exchange Program: Civitas@Russia Partnership, a subcontract from the Center for Civic Education, Calabasa, CA, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education

Professor David Whittier, Educational Media and Technology Program

• Recipient, Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE)/Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE) 2004 Award for Technology Leadership in the area of "Exemplary Use of Technology to Teach Content in an Introductory Technology Course" for his "Teacher as Software Developer" program that integrates technology instruction, curriculum, and field experiences in teacher education.

Professor Douglas Zook, Science Education Program

• President, International Symbiosis Society
  Board Member (Science Advisor), Darwin Botanical Garden Project, an initiative to plan and develop a tropical garden in downtown Boston, MA