Lectures and Events

Teachers College is proud to introduce the 2012-13 Julius and Rosa Sachs Distinguished Lecturer Professor Ryan Baker, Columbia University. Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development. He earned his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Learning Sciences at the University of Nottingham. He earned his Bachelor's Degree (Sc.B.) in Computer Science from Brown University. Dr. Baker has been Assistant Professor of Psychology and the Learning Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He previously served as the first Technical Director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center DataShop, the largest public repository for data on the interaction between learners and educational software. He is currently serving as the founding President of the International Educational Data Mining Society, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Data Mining. His research combines educational data mining, learning analytics and quantitative field observation methods in order to better understand how students respond to educational software, and how these responses impact their learning. He studies these issues within intelligent tutors, simulations, and educational games. In recent years, he and his colleagues have developed strategies to make inferences in real-time about students' motivation, meta-cognition, affect, and robust learning.

Achievable and Affordable: Providing Comprehensive Educational Opportunity to Low-income Students. The Campaign for Educational Equity at TC has been researching this issue and working with a task force of scholars, practitioners, advocates and policy makers to deal with the question of whether and how comprehensive educational opportunity can be provided to all students from poverty backgrounds.

Moderated by President Susan Fuhrman; Panelists: Gregory Elacqua, Director of the Institute of Public Policy, School of Economics, Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile; Henry Levin, William H. Kilpatrick Professor of Economics & Education, Teachers College; Miguel Urquiola, Professor of Economics at the School of International, Columbia University

Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? with Pasi Sahlberg

2012 Julius and Rosa Sachs Lecture featuring Pam L. Grossman, Ph.D. Stanford University, School of Education and 2012 Distinguished Tisch Lecturer Re-imagining Teacher Education in a Changing Landscape Professor Grossman will chart the changing landscape for teacher education and its implications for university-based teacher education. Using her large-scale study of pathways into teaching in New York City as a springboard, she will explore ways to re-imagine the work of teacher education and the role of the university.

The annual Conference sponsored by the Center for Opportunities and Outcomes for People with Disabilities of the Health and Behavior Studies Department at Teachers College. This year's theme continues to focus on contemporary issues in special education and fosters dialogue between professionals, students and the broader community.

2012 Tisch Lecture featuring The Right Honorable Helen Clark Administrator of the United Nations Development Program and former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Since 2001, Congress has considered and failed to pass various forms of the federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, or 'Dream Act.' The bill currently under discussion in Washington would allow undocumented immigrants to apply for permanent residency if they complete two years of a four-year college degree program or two years of U.S. military service. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla) is reportedly preparing another version. Not wishing to wait for Washington to act, some states, including New York, have passed their own legislation qualifying undocumented students for lower, in-state tuition rates. But only three --Texas, New Mexico and California-- allow them to receive government tuition aid. In New York State, Perkins and Linares have introduced a bill that would allow undocumented students to apply for t--many of whom were born here or brought as young children -- get an affordable education, and panelists will respond. This event is sponsored by the Latina/o and Latin American Faculty Working Group and the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Russell B. Rumberger, Vice Provost for Education Partnerships, University of California, Professor of Education in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara, and current director of the California Dropout Research Project, will give a lecture title "Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It." Dr. Rumberger has published widely in areas such as the schooling of disadvantaged students, dropouts and linguistic minority students, school effectiveness, and education policy.

ENGAGING STUDENTS IN THE NATION'S FISCAL CHALLENGES moderated by ELIZABETH WILLEN, Director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media featuring special guests CHARLES CALOMIRIS, Columbia Business School JUDITH JOHNSON, former superintendent, Peekskill schools PETER ORSZAG, Vice Chairman of Global Banking, Citigroup, and Bloomberg View columnist PETER G. PETERSON, former US Secretary of Commerce

“Wham! Bam! Islam!”, produced by TC alumnus Naif Al-Mutawa, chronicles the various challenges he faced leading up to the creation of his comic book series THE 99 - which features a team of superheroes, each exemplifying one of the 99 virtues of Allah.

IBM is a leader in metrics and uses learning analytics to gauge learning effectiveness, drive learning recommendations, and aid in decision making. Join TC alumnus (and adjunct faculty member) Nabeel Ahmad (EdD '09) and current student Michael Ticknor as they demonstrate IBM's learning analytics system. Learn how they collect various metrics to help analyze, measure, and report data about improving learning and the context it takes place in. You will leave with the knowledge to implement learning analytics in your environment.

The 2012 Provost's Series - a discussion and cocktail reception featured Dr. Karen Froud, Director of the Neurocognition of Language Lab, and Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and Neuroscience and Education at TC. Dr. Froud gave a brief talk on "the Neuroscience of Language and Learning" and a basic demonstration of one of the lab's high density EEG systems.

5 Pushcarts, One Dream--The Apple Pushers, a new documentary film narrated by Academy Award nominee Edward Norton, written and directed by Mary Mazzio, chronicles the inspiring stories of immigrant street vendors who sell fruits and vegetables in New York's food deserts -- where finding a fresh ripe, red apple can be a serious challenge. Hundreds of immigrant entrepreneurs from all parts of the world are now part of the NYC Green Cart Initiative, developed by the Department of Health to increase availability of healthy foods in neighborhoods where rates of obesity, diabetes and diet-related diseases are skyrocketing. Through the lens of their powerful and deeply personal stories, The Apple Pushers examines such hot-button issues as access to fresh food, the obesity crisis, immigration, entrepreneurship, and the American Dream.

Featured speaker, Dr. Marjorie Siegel, TC Professor of Education, will share insights from her research on literacy and her collaboration with alumna Mary Jo Meade-Weinig on her dynamic program "Read a Recipe for Literacy".

President Susan Fuhrman invites the TC community to join her for "A Day of Remembrance" featuring Dr. George Bonanno, Professor of Clinical Psychology, as he presents Out of the Ashes: Lessons Learned from Research about 9/11. A reception will follow. Members of the Teachers College community are invited to speak a name memorializing an individual they know who perished on September 11th, 2001.

René V. Arcilla Associate Professor of Educational Philosophy at NYU Steinhardt "An Existential Basis for Study"

Edmund Wyatt Gordon, John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Yale University and Richard March Hoe Professor, Emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University Plenary Session Two: The Memoirs - Pedagogical Imagination Introduction by Haki Madhubuti Moderated by Wade Boykin

Plenary Session One: The Influence of Professor Gordon's Work Moderated by Pedro Noguera Panelists: Anna Marie Cauce, David Rolleck, Ernest Morrell, Eva Baker

Please join us for the 2011 Tisch Lecture featuring Dr. Priscilla Wohlstetter, Diane and MacDonald Becket Professor in Education Policy at University of Southern California & Distinguished Tisch Lecturer and Visiting Professor at Teachers College, for " A Welcome Earthquake: Shifting Responsibilities for Public Education." Dr. Priscilla "Penny" Wohlstetter's research interests include accountability in education, the policies and politics of education reform, and organizational innovations in education. She has written extensively on charter schools and strategic alliances in education. Her work in the area of accountability includes an annual report (now in its sixth year) on the academic and financial performance of charter schools in California, and online stakeholder satisfaction surveys for parents, students and staff in K-12 public schools.

I didn't know what being black meant, but I was getting the idea that it was a big deal," writes renowned social psychologist Claude Steele in the opening pages of his new book, Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (W.W. Norton, 2011, p.2). Dr. Steele begins by recounting his early experiences of restrictions on swimming in his neighborhood park -- having to line up on Wednesday afternoons only. And then there was the roller rink, open to blacks on Thursday nights. The time is the 1950s, the place Chicagoland, with its rigid housing segregation, de facto school segregation, unemployment discrimination, and other social barriers. In Whistling Vivaldi, Dr. Steele presents an inside look at his research and details his innovative findings on stereotypes and identity. He reveals what it?s like to be stereotyped based on our gender, age, race, class; relates the trend of minority under-performance in higher education; and leads us to ponder the way we think about ourselves, our abilities, and our relationships with each other.

Teachers College is proud to welcome Dr. Samuel Lucas, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California?Berkeley, as the Julius and Rosa Sachs Distinguished Lecturer for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dr. Lucas conducts research on social stratification, sociology of education, research methods, and research statistics, and has published books on stratification in American high schools and the effects of discrimination in the the U.S.

This is the second in a series of three lectures to be offered in 2010-2011 by Samuel Lucas, University of California ? Berkeley. Dr. Lucas is the 2010-2011 Julius and Rosa Sachs Lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. The full title is "When Some Are More Equal Than Others: Equalizing opportunity in a resistant society."

Trudging Toward Freedom: School Reform in & for Democracy

On exposure to Discrimination

December 6, 2010 - Higher & Postsecondary Education -Event "The Will and the Courage: Transforming American Higher Education" featuring Alumnus & President of The Ohio State University, Gordon Gee

Research on race and gender with Angel Nieves, University of Maryland, College Park

The Department of Curriculum and Teaching, established in 1938, was the first department in the U.S. devoted to the scholarly study of problems of curriculum and teaching across all subjects and all levels of schooling, from early childhood through the education of teachers and supervisors.

Kevin Jennings is the founder and former executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that works to make schools safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Jennings has authored six books including Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir which was named a 2007 Book of Honor by the American Library Association and Telling Tales Out of School which was the winner of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award.

It’s accepted economic wisdom that the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. But as Dr. Robert Sigler, Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, pointed out at TC’s 2010 Tisch Lecture, that statement applies to the accumulation of mathematical understanding as well. That is: students who enter a classroom with greater proficiency in math can grow their knowledge base at faster rates than those with lesser proficiency. (The Tisch Lecturer began with an endowment by Trustee Laurie M. Tisch to support a lecture and visiting professorship that continues for one academic year.)

Curriculum and teaching, research and scholarship

Policies and practices,

child and parent development research, public policies,