E. Pauline Riall Lecture Series

About the Series

Begun in 1988, the E. Pauline Riall Lecture Series brings to the University and community outstanding national lecturers in the field of education. The series was established by the late Miss Riall, long-time principal and teacher of the former Salisbury University's Campus School. A generous bequest was provided by Miss Riall's will to fund this special program.

Contact

Dr. Keith Conners, Chair and Coordinator, Riall Lecture Series
kjconners@salisbury.edu

2013 Spring Riall Lecture: Les Sternberg
March 12, 2013

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2012 Fall Riall Lecture: Dr. Lee Shulman

October 2, 2012

Born and raised in Chicago, Lee Shulman is the son of immigrant parents who operated a delicatessen that he claims gave him an appreciation for “pastrami and the well-marbled life.” After receiving degrees from the University of Chicago, he joined the faculty of the College of Education at Michigan State University. There he earned notice for his collaboration with a colleague in the University's medical school on cognition and decision-making in medical practice. From this investigation emerged a recurrent theme in Shulman's work about how professionals make decisions and acquire expertise, especially under conditions of uncertainty.

In 1982, Dr. Shulman joined the faculty of Stanford University's School of Education, where he became the Charles E. Ducommun Professor Education. After more than a decade as President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, he rejoined Stanford in 2009 as Professor Emeritus where he has continued to write and speak about issues related to all levels of education.

Lee Shulman is a past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and received its career award for Distinguished Contributions to Educational Research. He is also a past president of the National Academy of Education. In 1995, he was honored with the APA's E.L. Thorndike Award for Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and received the University of Louisville's 2006 Grawemeyer Award in Education for his book, The Wisdom of Practice: Essays on Teaching, Learning and Learning to Teach.

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2012 Spring Riall Lecture: Dr. Sharon Draper

Literacy, Learning, Laughter: A Successful Educational Design

Dr. Sharon Draper (www.sharondraper.com) is a professional educator as well as an accomplished writer. She has been honored as the National Teacher of the Year, is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scot King Literary Award, and is a New York Times bestselling author. Dr. Draper has been honored at the White House six times, and was chosen as one of only four authors in the country to speak at the National Book Festival Gala in Washington, D.C, and to represent the United States in Moscow at their Book Festival. She is an accomplished public speaker who addresses educational and literary groups of all ages, both nationally and internationally, with entertaining readings of her poetry and novels, as well as enlightening instructional presentations.

"I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me." -Dr. Draper
 

2011 Fall Riall Lecture:

Dr. Richard A. Villa ( http://www.ravillabayridge.com/ ) has worked with thousands of teachers and administrators throughout North America and the world, to develop and implement organizational and instructional support systems for educating all students within general education settings. Rich has been a middle and high school classroom teacher, special educator, special education coordinator, pupil personnel services director, and director of instructional services. Rich works with schools, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and advocacy organizations. He has authored over a hundred articles and book chapters regarding inclusive education, differentiated instruction, collaborative planning and teaching, and school restructuring. Dr. Villa has co-edited twelve books and developed three multimedia kits for teachers, administrators, and parents. Rich possesses the conceptual, technical, and interpersonal skills required to work effectively with others and facilitate change and progress in education. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences, and is known for his enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and humorous style of presenting.

2011 Spring Riall Lecture:

Roger Taylor (http://www.rogertaylor.com/ )is one of the most sought-after experts in the areas of interdisciplinary, integrated curriculum, differentiated instruction, critical thinking skills, character education, multiple intelligence, gifted education, school-to-career education, and brain-based learning. Dr. Taylor has helped thousands of school districts apply local and state standards to their curriculum so that, “teachers are teaching students for lifelong learning rather than teaching for the test.” In his 36 years as a classroom teacher, administrator, professor and internationally known educational consultant, Roger has authored/co-authored thousands of integrated, interdisciplinary, thematic curriculum units for grade levels K-12. The units are written based on the AHA! (Analyzing Human Activities) model he created. This unique model includes specific application of the most recent brain research, multiple intelligences and constructivist hands-on project-centered learning in alignment with state defined benchmarks and standards. Handout (52 page PDF)

2010 Fall Riall Lecture:

Deborah W. Meier (http://www.deborahmeier.com/) is currently on the faculty of New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, as senior scholar and adjunct professor as well as Board member and director of New Ventures at Mission Hill, director and advisor to Forum for Democracy and Education, and on the Board of The Coalition of Essential Schools.

Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education as a teacher, writer and public advocate. She began her teaching career as a kindergarten and headstart teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City schools. She was the founder and teacher-director of a network of highly successful public elementary schools in East Harlem. In 1985 she founded Central Park East Secondary School, a New York City public high school in which more than 90% of the entering students went on to college, mostly to 4-year schools. During this period she founded a local Coalition center, which networked approximately fifty small Coalition-style K-12 schools in the city.

Between 1992-96 she also served as co-director of a project (Coalition Campus Project) that successfully redesigned the reform of two large failing city high schools, and created a dozen new small Coalition schools. She was an advisor to New York City's Annenberg Challenge and Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University from 1995-1997.

From 1997 to 2005 she was the founder and principal of the Mission Hill School a K-8 Boston Public Pilot school serving 180 children in the Roxbury community.

The schools she has helped create serve predominantly low-income African-American and Latino students, and include a typical range of students in terms of academic skills, special needs, etc. There are no entrance requirements. These schools are considered exemplars of reform nationally and affiliates of the national Coalition of Essential Schools founded by Dr. Ted Sizer and currently led by Lewis Cohen.

A learning theorist, she encourages new approaches that enhance democracy and equity in public education. Meier is on the editorial board of Dissent magazine, The Nation and the Harvard Education Letter. She is a Board member of the Educational Alliance, the Association of Union Democracy, Educators for Social Responsibility, the Panasonic Foundation, and a founding member of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation and the Forum for Democracy and Education, among others.

Her books, The Power of Their Ideas, Lessons to America from a Small School in Harlem (1995), Will Standards Save Public Education (2000), In Schools We Trust (2002), Keeping School, with Ted and Nancy Sizer (2004) and Many Children Left Behind (2004) are all published by Beacon Press. Her latest book is: Playing for Keeps: Life and Learning on a Public School Playground by Deborah Meier, Brenda S. Engel, and Beth Taylor.
 

2010 Spring Riall Lecture:

Eric (Rico) Gutstein is a math professor with a mission to help teachers and students use critical mathematics methods to investigate the social and cultural landscapes of our world.  The title of his Riall Lecture on March 1, 2010 is:  Why did Derrion Albert Die?  Using Crictial Math to Understand the Conditions of Our Lives.  The lecture will take place in Holloway Hall's Auditorium, and a reception will follow in the Social Room.

Eric (Rico) Gutstein is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Besides mathematics education, his research and teaching interests include teaching mathematics for social justice, Freirean approaches to teaching and learning, critical and culturally relevant urban education, and mathematics education policy. 

2009 Fall Riall Lecture:

Dr. P. David Pearson, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, will be our Riall Lecturer for the evening of Tuesday, October 13 and morning of Wednesday, October 14, 2009.

http://www.gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/PDPearson/PDPearson.html

2009 Riall Lecture: Dr. Pedro Noguera

Pedro Noguera, PhD, has agreed to be our Spring 2009 Riall Speaker on March 10, 2009. He is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. He is also the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education.

Previous Riall Lecture Series Guest Lecturers

2008

Luann Johnson, whose book inspired “Dangerous minds”.

Will Richardson.  Mr. Richardson's blog is available at: http://weblogg-ed.com/

2007

Mr. Michael Tisserand, journalist and author of: Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-struck Students Created a School to Remember.

2006

Crystal Arlene Kuykendahl, Author and Educational Consultant

Dr. Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2005

Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor of Educational Leadership, Foundations and Policy, University of Virginia

2004

Linda Darling-Hammond, Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education, Stanford University

2003

Erin Gruwell, Teacher, Author, Founder of Tolerance Education Foundation   

Nel Noddings, Professor Emerita, Stanford University

2002

Jonathan Kozol, Author, Activist, Teacher

2000

Dr. Maxine Greene, Professor Emerita, Columbia University

Herbert Kohl, Center for Teaching Excellence and Social Justice, University of San Francisco

1999

Bertice Berry, Author, Sociologist, Comedian

Dr. Cornell West, Professor of Religion and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University

1998

Heidi Mills, Professor of Education, University of South Carolina

David Sadker, Professor of Education, American University

1997

Susan Ohanian, Freelance Writer, Author, Reviewer and Editor

Elliot Eisner, Professor of Education and Art, Stanford University

1996

Shelley Harwayne, Director, Manhattan New School, NYC

Perry Zirkel, Professor of Education and Law, Lehigh University

1995

K. Nelson Butler, Provost, Salisbury University

Judy Knott, Assistant Principal, Remuera Primary School, Auckland, New Zealand

Lesley Mayn, Assistant Principal, Hobson Primary School, Auckland, New Zealand

1994

James Comer, Associate Dean, Yale University School of Medicine

Maurice Falk, Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University

1993

Mary Budd Rowe, Professor of Science Education, Stanford University

1992

Harold Hodgkinson, Director, Center for Demographic Study, Institute of Education Leadership

1991

Richard Paul, Director, Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique, Sonoma State University

David W. Johnson, Professor of Educational Psychology, Cooperative Learning Center,  University of Minnesota

1990

Paul S. George, Professor of Education, University of Florida

Madeline Hunter, Professor of Education, University of California - Los Angeles

1989

Rita Dunn, Director, Center for the Study of Learning and Teaching Styles, St. John's University

Gary Bitter, Program Coordinator, Educational Media and Computers, Arizona State University

1988

Ernest L. Boyer, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

The Honorable Linus Wright, Undersecretary of Education, US Department of Education