Linda darling hammond biography of nancy
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Who’s Behind America’s Superintendents and School Transformation?
The School Superintendents Association (AASA) recently met in San Diego. Superintendents from around the country gathered to discuss what they saw as important to school leadership and public education. The future of education was a prominent theme of the meeting, with the overall focus on one word, transformation.
They saluted digital and futuristic learning, reflected in the meeting’s title, “The Personalization of Education.” Other titles might have been, Who Needs Teachers When You’ve Got Screens? Or How can We Help Your Company Make a Profit on Students?
Was the teacher shortage a hot topic? No. Finding college degreed, qualified teachers wasn’t high on the leadership radar screen. Some mentioned teacher recruitment. One möte dealt with teachers’ strikes. They offered a möte highlighting AmeriCorps (they support Teach for America)and the Senior Corp
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Commencement Speaker
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, a position she has held since she joined the Stanford faculty in 1998. Her work at Stanford began as the Faculty Sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) where she teamed up with other Stanford faculty to redesign the program, which is now widely cited as an exemplar, nationally and internationally. She has taught in the STEP program, as well as the GSE’s programs in Curriculum and Teacher Education and Administration and Policy Analysis. She twice received the GSE’s Outstanding Teaching Award.
While at Stanford, she founded the School Redesign Network, which has worked with schools and districts across the country to transform schools so that they can offer personalized, authentic, and equitable learning opportunities supporting 21 st century skills. In 2001, she worked with other faculty, graduate students, and alumni to found the East
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Teaching for Social Justice (see accompanying presentation for complete charts*)
It is wonderful to be back in the Philadelphia area, where I met my husband (then a law student at the University of Pennsylvania while I was a graduate student at Temple University) and started my career (teaching high school in Camden, Philadelphia, and Rose Tree-Media). I'm honored to be here to give the Connie Clayton lecture. Dr. Clayton became the superintendent of schools during the years that I spent in Philadelphia and she was a tireless worker for educational improvement and equity in this city. So I am particularly gratified to be able to give a lecture in her honor. The current holder of the Clayton Chair, Diana Slaughter-Defoe is another woman whose work on issues of educational equity for women and people of color I greatly admire. Of course I could say this about so many educators in Philadelphia who I've known throughout the years since I started teaching here more than 25 years ago.