Edwin D. Grant, Founding Director School of Education (1905-1907)

School of Education Organized, 1905

In 1905, the School of Education is organized under the College of Liberal Arts. Education courses were formerly offered by the College of Science.

The School of Education was designed to prepare three types of workers: 1) The High School Teacher; 2) The Supervisor of Special Subjects; and 3) The School Superintendent.

Edwin Grant Dexter, author of A History of Education in the United States (1904), becomes the first Director of the School. After his tenure as Director he became the Commissioner of Education of Puerto Rico.

New School of Education Grows

Under the new organization, the School of Education could now grant “The University Certificate of Qualification to Teach.” The School had a Pedagogical Library and Museum located in University Hall, which contained more than 8,000 books, magazines, and reports pertaining to educational issues. This building was demolished in 1938.

William Chandler Bagley, Second

Director 1910-1917

William C. Bagley replaced Stephen Sheldon Colvin, acting Director of the School and professor of psychology, to become the second Director of the School of Education, 1910-1917.

Under his leadership the College of Education becomes nationally recognized for its research.

On March 8, 1911, the alpha chapter of Kappa Delta Pi was founded by the University of Illinois Education Club. Currently, more than 550 KDP chapters are found in college campuses across the world.

Kappa Delta Pi Founded, 1911

Chicago Daily Tribune Nov 26, 1914; Page 6

In 1914, 2,500 Chicago public school teachers signed a petition requesting the city board of education to construct a University of Illinois School of Education in Chicago. It was unanimously approved by the board and submitted to the U of I president Edmund James and Board of Trustees for consideration.

Chicago Site Petitioned, 1914

Daily Illini; September 24, 1916; Page: 1

In 1916, a new building was to be erected for the School of Education. It would be Collegiate Gothic in design and located on the corner of Springfield and Mathews.

Today we know it as the University Laboratory High School.

New Building for College, 1916

In 1917, Herschel T. Manuel earned his Ph.D. degree from the School of Education. He becomes

a leading expert on Mexican American education and

remained widely recognized for his pioneering studies on Spanish-

speaking students in the United States.

Notable Early Alumni – Herschel T. Manuel

Charles Chadsey, Second Dean, 1919-1930

In 1919, Charles E. Chadsey, former school principal and superintendent in Colorado, replaces W.W. Charters to become the second Dean of the college, 1919-1930.

Under his leadership the College of Education developed the Bureau of Educational Research and inaugurated the new education building.

Bureau of Educational Research, 1919

In 1919, the Bureau of Educational

Research was established to

disperse educational research and

contribute to the improvement of

education across the state.

To date, the Bureau continues to be

an important unit in assisting the

College in obtaining grants, training

working professionals, and aiding

academics in their scholarly

pursuits.

1920 Professors across campus work with the College’s Bureau of Educational Research

to disperse research on educational topics.

Bureau of Educational Research

Contributions

Daily Illini, November 17, 1920; Page: 1

In 1920, the College of Education faculty organizes the “First Annual School Superintendents Meeting.”

The meeting was intended to bridge ties between practitioners and university faculty.

Collaboration with Public Schools,

1920

University Laboratory High School serves as the teaching laboratory for the College of Education, a public secondary school that was the original site of the College.

Part of the school’s mission is to provide a space for young people to be innovative, creative, and explore experimental strategies. As a result, the curriculum of this high school has been open to change.

University High School, 1921

Thomas E. Benner, former Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras (1924-1929) and visiting professor of administration of higher education at Columbia University’s Teachers College (1929-1931), becomes the third Dean of the College, 1931-1945.

His early publications include a manuscript sponsored by Alabama State Department of Education titled, A Comparative Study of the Elementary Schools, White and Colored, of the 67 Counties of Alabama (1921).

Thomas E. Benner, Third Dean, 1931-1945

Between 1938 and 1940, the College of Education developed a new graduate professional program leading to a Master’s of Education (Ed.M.) and Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) degrees.

In 1941, the first admissions examination was required for graduate programs and sixty-nine students began working on advanced degrees.

College Develops Graduate Programs,

1938 - 1940

During the US involvement in World War II, the College initiated new programs to participate in the war effort, including the training of 800 prospective teachers of Air Corps mechanics.

On December 17, 1941, ten days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the College of Education provided leadership to the state by calling a conference of representatives from Illinois schools and teachers colleges to discuss the war and the future educational responsibilities of school officials.

The conference discussed evidence which suggested the nature of the problems which were arising or would arise as a result of the war.

College of Education and World War II

Willard B. Spalding, Fourth Dean,

1947-1953

Willard B. Spalding becomes the fourth Dean of the College of Education, 1947-1953.

Reforming Education and Contributing

Services to the NationLee J. Cronbach, who came to the University of Illinois in 1948, made major contributions in the fields of educational psychology and psychological testing. Cronbach developed the most frequently used measure of the reliability of a psychological or educational test, called “Cronbach’s alpha.”

Cronbach’s knowledge and expertise enabled him to provided services to the U.S. governments during the Great Depression and World War II.

During this period Cronbach was involved in the training programs and testing technologies used in America. Moreover, Cronbach served as a military psychologist at the navy’s sonar school in San Diego, becoming deeply engaged in instructional psychology.

Research on Disabled Children, 1950

College of Education faculty become leaders in the field of special education. Early publications by Samuel B. Kirk, Merle B. Karnes, and Winifred D. Kirk reach an international audience.

In 1951, Max Beberman, Professor of education and teacher at University High School, founded “new mathematics,” a method of teaching math that went beyond the usual rote learning.

Max Beberman and “New Math,” 1951

Beberman led the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics (UICSM) and produced a number of 16 millimeter films of his classroom performance (As shown to the left).

Institute for Research on Exceptional

Children, 1952

Founded in 1952, the Institute’s mission was to increase knowledge about exceptional children and improve the effectiveness of special education programs by conducting systematic, longitudinal, and comprehensive interdisciplinary research. It quickly became a pioneer in the field of special education.

Publications written by faculty from the Institute are in the Special Education. The book titled, Educating Exceptional Children (1962), written by Samuel Kirk is currently in its 11th edition and remains widely used..

B.L. Dodds, Fifth Dean, 1954-1959

B. L. Dodds becomes the fifth Dean of the College of Education, 1954–1959.

During his tenure a joint Ph.D. program is established between the College of Education and the Psychology Department and the Training Research Laboratory is founded.

The first extramural course in Educational

Administration is offered.

University High School Film Project, 1960

University High School was contracted by the U.S. Office of Education to make films on teacher training.

Margaret Mead, world renowned anthropologist (seated right) meets with members of the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics (UICSM) Film Project Staff. Gertrude Hendrix (seated left); standing left to right, Burl L. Sims, Prof. Max Beberman, Dr. Robert Hall. Ms. Mead was a consultant for the film project.

Deaf Education, 1960s

Faculty in the College begin to contribute to the understanding of deaf children and their education.

The founding of Journal of Rehabilitation of the Deaf (JRD) in 1967 was strongly supported by faculty in the College of Education. JRD was published as a University of Illinois Bulletin.

1905

Early Childhood and Exceptional

Children, 1960sMerle B. Karnes, Professor of Special Education at the Institute of Child for Behavior and Development, became one of the nations leading experts in Special Education. Her research was sponsored by the U.S. Council for Exceptional Children and received its highest recognition, the “J.E. Wallace Wallin Award.”

Alonzo Grace, Sixth Dean, 1960-1964

Alonzo Grace becomes the sixth Dean of the College of Education, 1960–1964.

During this time period, the College’s Alumni Association is founded and the College reorganizes into seven departments.

Special Education, 1962

The Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, founded and directed by Samuel Kirk was transformed into the Department of Special Education in 1962.

In 1963, Dr. Kirk coined the term “learning disabilities.” In his research, he discovered that early education can increase intelligence, a discovery which led to the creation of Head Start, a federally funded program that provides educational, health and social services to impoverished preschoolers.

In 1964, he was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as the founding director of the Division of Handicapped Children and Youth under the U.S. Office of Education.

Educational Psychology, 1962

The Department of Educational Psychology was established in 1962 as the product of an administrative reorganization within the College of Education.

The Educational Psychology Department originally consisted of five instructional divisions: Behavioral Foundations of Education, Human Development, Learning and Instruction, Personnel Services, and Quantitative and Evaluative Research Methodologies.

A continued mission of the department is to prepare graduate students for positions as university professors, testing and measurement specialists, researchers, evaluators, and counseling psychologists.

Lee Cronbach, faculty 1949-1963

Division of Home Economics, 1962

Home Economics becomes a division in the Vocational & Technical Education (VOTEC) Department. The division

• Published a bi-monthly journal, The Illinois Teacher of Home Economics

• Hosted two national invitational conferences where approximately 200 leaders came together to think about current concerns in the field and problems coming work and family roles

• Created Innovative Teaching Techniques in Home Economics (ITT-HE) to share material developed by Home Economics staff and students with teachers nation-wide.

Educational Policy Studies, 1963

In 1963, B.O. Smith, William O. Stanley, Archibald Anderson, Foster McMurray, and Harry Broudy founded the Department of History and Philosophy of Education.

The department is currently named the Department of Educational Policy Studies.

In 1964, the new College of Education building opened. Financed at over $3 million and filling 95,000 square feet, it included 43 laboratories and workrooms, a television control center, a small library, three lounges, and a counseling center. It was hailed as a work of modern architecture.

New College of Education Building, 1964

Educational Evaluation, Robert Stake

Robert Stake arrived at the University in 1963, where he began his career in the evaluation of educational programs.

In 1975, Robert Stake became the director of CIRCE.

He has promoted an approach to evaluation methods called "responsive evaluation” out of which came the book Standards-Based & Responsive Evaluation. .

In 1988, he received the Lazarsfeld Award, in 1994, an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala, and in 2009 an honorary doctorate from the University of Valladolid in Spain.

Center for Instructional Research and

Curriculum Evaluation, 1964

In 1964, the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE) was organized to conduct a program of research, instruction, and service in education with special attention to curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment.

J. Thomas Hastings was the first director.

The Center was created in response to the U.S Office of Education’s interest in locating a research and development center on campus specializing in measurement and evaluation.

Education Alumni Association, 1964

EAA is the official Education arm of the University of Illinois Alumni Association originally started in 1964.

The major purpose of the Association shall be that of mutual improvement, professional and educational, of alumni in education.

To stimulate interest in education as a career among outstanding students.

To enable joint action by alumni in the field and the College of Education staff individually and collectively toward the uplifting of the profession in the field as well as the continued improvement of the professional services, experiences, and programs provided by the College of Education.

Rupert N. Evans, Seventh Dean,

1964-1969

Rupert N. Evans becomes the seventh Dean of the College of Education, 1964 – 1969.

The College reorganizes into seven departments (History and Philosophy of Education, Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Special Education, Vocational Education, and Educational Psychology).

Rupert continues to live in Urbana and participate in the local education community.

ERIC Clearinghouse, 1967

Since 1967, the ERIC Clearinghouse on the Elementary and Early Childhood (ERIC/EECE) has provided information for educators, parents and families, and individuals interested in the development, education, and care of children from birth through early adolescence.

Lilian G. Katz was the director from 1970-2000.

The first internet journal of ERIC/EECE is the Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP), which is available at http://ecrp.uiuc.edu.

Katz continues to make major contributions in the field of education.

Alternative Teacher Education

Program, 1968The College of Education enrolled approximately 200 of the 690 students in Project 500. This was a University wide program that recruited students from racially underrepresented backgrounds.

Through the Alternative Teacher Education Program (ATEP), these students were primarily trained to be elementary and secondary education teachers.

Graduates of the program were qualified for teacher certification in Illinois schools.

(pictured, student teacher, Glenn Pierson)

Professor Larry Parker, son Alonzo, and alumna/faculty member of U of Washington/author, Joy Ann Williamson

Project 500 40th Anniversary Celebration

November 2008

Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1968

The first quarterly issue of the Journal of Aesthetic Education was published in March 1968 with Ralph A. Smith—Professor of Aesthetic Education—as its editor.

The journal clarified issues of aesthetic education in its most extensive meaning while offering new educational responses to recent challenges to improve the general quality and style of education.

J. Myron Atkin, Eighth Dean, 1970-1979

J. Myron Atkin became the eighth Dean of the College of Education February 1, 1970. He stayed in that position until August 31, 1979.

Atkin has emphasized the central role of teachers in designing high quality science education programs, improvement of the science curriculum, practical reasoning in teachers and children, and case methods in research.

He was active on key national and international committees to advise on science education policy.

He is the co-editor of Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom.

Cooperative Teacher Education

Program, 1972

In 1972, the College implemented the Cooperative Teacher Education Program (CTEP) in the Chicago suburbs to give practical experience to secondary education students.

The goal of the program was to alter the preparation of teachers by completely involving teacher trainees in the learning process through their participation during the academic year in public school classrooms so that the trainees would blend educational theory with practice.

International Mathematics Study, 1976

College of Education became the coordinating center for International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement Second International Mathematics Study in 1976 with Kenneth J. Travers of the Department of Secondary Education as the Director.

The project was a comprehensive study of the teaching and learning of mathematics in the schools of twenty countries around the world.

The study was one of the largest empirical investigations of comparative mathematics education ever carried publishing its results in 1985.

Dr. Travers is a founding member and Emeritus Director of the Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education program.

Center for the Study of Reading, 1976

In 1976, the College of Education, in collaboration with the US Department of Education, established the Center for the Study of Reading to address the unacceptably high number of school children who were failing to learn to read.

The CSR would later help implement the Reading Recovery Program to aid low-ability first grade readers in 1986.

Richard C. Anderson has served as the only Director since 1976.

Joe R. Burnett, Ninth Dean, 1979-1985

Joe R. Burnett becomes the ninth Dean of the College of Education, 1979 – 1985.

During this period the College’s Teacher Education program is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

Keeping with national trends to increase standards, the college instituted new freshman admission standards and adopted a new grading policy.

Administration, Higher, and Continuing

Education Growth, 1981The Department of Administration, Higher and Continuing Education established two new programs.

The Department extended course offerings by building a new Higher Education Program which joined the educational administration program in offering program options at an off-campus center.

The Department also established the joint degree program in law and education which included an interdisciplinary focus between law and education. The program also combined internships at both educational agencies and law firms.

2008

Paul W. Thurston, Designer of Joint Degree Program

University Primary School (UPS), 1982Established by the late Dr. Merle B. Karnes in 1982—one of the co-founders of the Illinois Gifted Program—the University Primary School is an early childhood gifted education program which serves children between the ages of 3 and 7.

UPS provides a site for the College of Education to demonstrate, observe, study, and teach best practices in early childhood and gifted education. Nancy Hertzog, an associate professor in the College, directs the school and Professor

Emerita Lilian Katz (Curriculum and Instruction) is the school’s Senior Curriculum

Advisor.

Picture: A colorful mural of playground flowers painted by the preschoolers at University Primary School hangs in the College of Education Building.

Nancy Cole, Tenth Dean, 1985-1989

Dean Nancy Cole became the tenth Dean and first woman to serve in that capacity.

Under her leadership the College established the Year Long Project which placed elementary education students in practice teaching for one year.

Also, the Education Administration division of AHCE offered an on-campus Ed.D. cohort program which became a national prototype.

Curriculum and Instruction, 1987

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction established in the Fall of 1987 combined the pre-existing Secondary Education and Elementary Early Childhood Education Departments to provide undergraduate programs in teacher education and graduate programs in curriculum and instruction.

The Bagley Scholarship Program was created to award the College’s top-students with merit based scholarships.

The Bagley Awards marked the first sustained, privately funded philanthropic effort in the history of the College of Education.

These awards are funded from gifts of alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the College of Education and named after William Chandler Bagley, an early Director of the former School of Education.

Top Right: Scott & Jean Johnson (College of Education faculty sponsors of a Bagley award) with 2008 Bagley Scholar Kate Maureen Minogue (Senior, Special Education), and Dean Mary KalantzisBottom Right: 2008 Bagley Scholar Torrence E. Sparkman (Doctoral Student, Human Resource Education) with Dean Mary Kalantzis

Bagley Scholars Award Program, 1988

P. David Pearson becomes the eleventh Dean of the College of Education, 1989-1995.

Pearson also co-directed the Center for the Study of Reading.

P. David Pearson, Eleventh Dean,

1989-1995

Office of Community College Research

and Leadership (OCCRL), 1989In 1989, the OCCRL was founded with funding from the Illinois State Board of Education to provide action research for community colleges in the State. Dr. Debra Bragg, Professor of Higher Education in EOL is the current OCCRL Director.

The mission of OOCRL is to provide research, leadership, and service to community college educators and assist in improving community college education policy and practice, particularly in the Illinois community college system.

This year OCCRL celebrates 20 years.

Epsilon Delta, 1989

Epsilon Delta was established in 1989 for undergraduate students to prepare them for the education profession. The purpose of the organization is to promote professional growth and understanding in the field of education while informing its members of the practical and theoretical advances being made in the field of education

Epsilon Delta provides an opportunity for students to exchange ideas and concerns regarding educational issues. This exchange of information is presented in the format of lectures by guest professionals, workshops prepared by practicing teachers and University of Illinois faculty, and informal discussions among the members.

Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professorship, 1992

The Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professorship in Education was endowed in 1992 by C.J. (Joe) Gauthier to honor his first wife who was a graduate of the College of Education.

The professorship is a five year appointed position giving the opportunity for research in education with a focus on technology and business.

Nick Burbules, became the second GrayceWicall Gauthier Professor of Education in 2002. The first was in Human Resource Education (HRE).

75th Anniversary of College, 1993

The “College of Education” celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1993.

While the School of Education was founded in 1905, this anniversary (1918 – 1993) recognized the official shift from the title “School of Education” to “College of Education” in 1918 and the seventy-five years of excellent instruction, research, and innovation as a College.

Student Education Association,1994

The Student Education Association (SEA) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is for students who want to broaden their knowledge and experience in the field of education.

As members of SEA, students will meet and hear from other educators-in-training, current teachers, College of Education staff members and graduates about how to better prepare for a career in education, whether at the elementary, middle or secondary levels.

2008, Picnic on the Quad 2008, Picnic on the Quad

Minority Association of Future Educators, 1994

Founded in 1994, the Minority Association of Future Educators (MAFE) offers educational experiences for its members and provides a support system for minority students in education.

Members of this organization undertake service projects, such as tutorial and reading programs, which serve the children of the surrounding community.

SAGE was formed in 1995 by the College of Education to be a student ambassador group for the College. SAGE is the official organization of the Education Alumni Association – the College’s arm of the University of Illinois Alumni Association.

SAGE facilitates interaction between education alumni and students and also assists with hosting alumni groups and alumni events. The group also plans tours and panels for freshman on Illini days and holds numerous fund raisers for over 20-25 schools per year which includes read-a-thons.

Student Advancement Group for

Education (SAGE),1995

The Distinguished Alumni Awards were established by the Education Alumni Association (EAA) in 1995 to publicly recognize some of the outstanding contributions of our graduates.

These awards, given each year, honor graduates of the College who have excelled in their personal and professional endeavors.

Distinguished Alumni Awards, 1995

2009 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients Bottom row, left to right: Carrie Riggins, Dr. Olafur Proppe, Dr. Hans Wagemaker. Top Row, left to right: Dr. Seung-Ming (Alvin) Leung, Dr. K. Brigid Flannery, Dr. Thomas Andre, Dr. Allan Wigfield, Dr. Shirley McBride

Mildred B. Griggs becomes the twelfth Dean of the College of Education, 1995-2000.

She is the second female and first African American Dean of the College of Education.

In 2000, Mildred was among 12 women from Champaign County who received an Athena awards.

Dr. Griggs received her law degree from the Illinois College of Law after serving as Dean. She remains an active member within the Champaign area.

Mildred B. Griggs, Twelfth Dean,

1995-2000

Susan A. Fowler becomes the thirteenth Dean of the College of Education, 2000 –2006.

In 2007, she was Co-Principal Investigator of the DELL-D Developing Early Language and Literacy in Danville project and Principle Investigator in the Illinois Early Childhood Asset Map Project (2006) and Illinois Early Learning Website (2001).

Last year, she was the President of the Council for Exceptional Children.

Susan A. Fowler, Thirteenth Dean,

2000-2006

The Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID), a multi-year research and action project aimed at improving doctoral education at American universities selected the Department of Educational Psychology as one of the 22 “Allied Departments” in a five-year national study that will analyze doctoral programs and link specific activities to desired outcomes.

Through this project, participants will analyze all aspects of their doctoral programs and link specific activities to desired outcomes. Departments will begin this analysis by clarifying their goals for doctoral education in their respective disciplines, and will commit to creating “design experiments” in doctoral education to better meet their identified goals.

Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate,

2003

The Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative (ECAP) is established in 2003 is home to more than a dozen projects focused on the education, care, and parenting of young children.

Located at the Children's Research Center in a setting conducive to interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public service, these projects share their expertise and experience, a library, and common meeting spaces.

Dianne Rothenberg is the organizer of ECAP.

Early Childhood and Parenting

Collaborative, 2003

Charles Hardie left a $4 million endowment to the College of Education to advance educational scholarship.

Part of the endowment established the Charles Hardie Professorship of Educational Policy.

Walter Feinberg, Professor of Philosophy, was named as the first Charles Hardie Professor.

Hardie Professorship of Educational

Policy, 2004

An Online Master’s Program in Global Studies in Education (GSE) helps teachers across the world to explore ways global perspectives can be incorporated into existing curricula and pedagogies.

GSE is headed by Dr. Fazal Rizvi (director) and coordinated by Nicole Lamers (grad student).

Global Studies in Education, 2004

James D. Anderson, Professor and Head of Educational Policy Studies, is named as the Gutgsell Professor of Education in 2004.

Anderson is the author of “The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935” (1988), which received the Outstanding Book Award that year from the American Educational Research Association.

The Gutgsell Professorship is awarded by the Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus to recognize distinguished service and outstanding contributions by university faculty.

Gutgsell Professor of Education, 2004

Stanley Ikenberry, Professor in EOLHEC founding member

In 2004, the Higher Education Collaborative (HEC) is formed by EOL faculty and students “as an interdepartmental, cross-disciplinary affiliation of individuals with teaching, scholarly research and other professional interests in higher learning in the United States and around the globe.”

Each semester HEC sponsors speakers to present their research and discuss critical issues affecting higher education.

Higher Education Collaborative, 2004

The Goldstick Initiative is an endowment in the Department of Special Education to help children and their families bridge communication gaps.

The endowment is used to train university faculty members who will expand the entire body of research and practice in the area of education and communication. It also is used to fund an annual lecture and doctoral fellowship.

James Halle, Professor in Special Education, becomes the first faculty member to hold the position.

Phillip C. and Beverly Goldstick

Goldstick Initiative for Study of

Communication Disorders, 2005

Hua-hua Chang along with other scholars are developing and applying new methodologies to be able to engage with multiple research activities.

Queries is providing support to the main challenges in Educational Measurement.

Queries is developing theories and methods for the new mode of large scale implementation of computerized assessment.

Education Psychology and

Quantitative Evaluative & Research

Methodologies (QUERIES)

Mary Kalantzis became the fourteenth Dean of the College of Education in 2006.

Dean Kalantzis is internationally known for her research in the areas of literacy and multicultural education, and in particular for her work on a pedagogy of multiliteracies. She also has written on ethnicity, gender, culture, workplace change, training and curriculum.

Mary Kalantzis, Fourteenth Dean,

2006-Present

Planning for Preeminence: Strategic

Planning for Sustained Excellence, 2007

The strategies and objectives set out in our strategic plan strengthen the core activities of the College, as well as support strategic innovations that will lead to institutional preeminence in four critical areas:

•Teaching and learning in critical scientific disciplines

The STEM Collaborative•Education in small urban communities

Center for Education in Small Urban Communities

•New learning ecologiesUbiquitous Learning Institute

•The future of public educationForum on the Future of Public Education

The Science, Technology, Engineering, and

Mathematics (STEM) Collaborative

Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching & Learning (EnLiST) National Science Foundation

Fouad Abd El Khalick, Co-PI

Fostering Fluency with Basic Addition & Subtraction Facts Institute of Education Sciences

Arthur Baroody, PI

A Learning Progression for Scientific Modeling, National Science Foundation, Northwestern University (contractor)

Barbara Hug, PI

A Community of Practice Model for Teacher Education: Developing Teacher Candidates’ Understanding to Teach Quality mathematics to Urban Students, American Educational Research Association

Rochelle Gutierrez, PI

Noting that 75% of all schools are found in urban areas, the Center for Education in Small Urban Communities is formed as a research, teaching, and outreach unit to build partnerships with surrounding schools.

The Center for Education in Small

Urban Communities

Julia Johnson, 2004 Ph.D. graduate of Curriculum of Instruction and former Assistant Director of the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, serves as the founding Director

Top: Local Teachers in session at the Chancellor’s Academy. Bottom: Teacher Collaborators work together with educators by observing classrooms, sharing research, co-planning, demonstrating lessons, side-by-side teaching, and debriefing. Haney Yoon, Phillip Wilder, Bradley Thompson, Catherine Hunter, Susan Gregson, and Rebecca Chairs-Tate.

The Ubiquitous Learning Institute (ULI)

As part of an interdisciplinary community of scholars, the Ubiquitous Learning Institute engages in forward-looking research and evaluation, technology development, and professional training.

ULI builds on the foundation of interdisciplinary scholarship and policy formation to understand how we learn and how we teach in this new landscape of technology.

One of the first efforts of ULI is the publication of a collaborative book Ubiquitous Learning, edited by Bill Cope, Research Professor, Educational Policy Studies. A second effort includes a lecture series. Invited speakers listed below.

Dr. James W. Pellegrino, University of Illinois ChicagoFrom Research to Practice: Redesigning AP Science Courses to Promote Advanced Learning and Conceptual Understanding

Dr. Nancy Butler Songer; University of MichiganGuiding Complex Thinkers in a Knowledge Society: What do Children

Need to Learn Today for Tomorrow?

Dr. Okhee Lee, University of MiamiPromoting Science Among English Language Learners in Urban Schools:Conceptual, Methodological and Policy Issues

Ubiquitous Learning/STEM Education Seminar Series

Too often, discussions around the future of public education are strong on passion but short on actual evidence. The Forum for the Future of Public Education is filling that gap by building a resource of objective, research-based insights on key educational issues.

The Forum establishes an open venue- a true public forum to debate controversial and consequential policy issues that will shape American’s future.

Stanley Ikenberry, Inaugural Director and Regent Professor

Forum on the Future of Public

Education

Stafford Hood, Sheila M. Miller

Professor of Education, 2008

On September 15, 2008 Dr. Stafford Hood became the inaugural Sheila M. Miller professor of education and new head of the department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Dr. Hood is co-founder and co-director of a well regarded forum on the Relevance of Assessment and Culture in Evaluation (RACE), established in 2002.

Most recently, Dr. Hood was the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Psychology in Education at Arizona State University.

Spotlight on Faculty Collaboration

Christopher (Co-Pi) and Sarah Lubienski (Pi), Professors in Educational Organization & Leadership and Curriculum and Instruction, A New Look at School Type, Mathematics Achievement and Equity, U.S. Department of Education.

The Illinois Early Childhood Asset Map team, from left, led by Susan Fowler, professor of Special Education; Bernard Cesarone, the project’s technical manager; Dawn Thomas, project coordinator; and Diane Rothenberg, past project coordinator.

Education professors Sharon Tettegah, left, and Carolyn Anderson, and Brian Bailey, professor of computer science, have collaborated to make Tettegah's idea of creating a tool for children and adults to make and share vignettes about their personal and painful stories a reality.

Dr. James D. Anderson named to

National Academy of Education, 2008

James D. Anderson is elected to

membership in the National Academy of

Education, considered the highest honor

in the field of educational scholarship.

On March 31, 2009, Anderson was

invited to present at the Chancellor’s

Seventh Center of Advanced Study

Special Lecture. The presentation entitled

“From Looney Coons to Tacos & Tequila:

The Aesthetics of Race in Middle Class

America” explored the ways in which

evolving forms of race and ethnic

performance entered into and shaped the

culture of middle class America from the

late 19th century to the present.

Youth Literature Festival

The College of Education proudly hosted its first Youth Literature Festival, October 2-4, 2008. Twenty-two local and national authors participated in the festival, visiting more than 40 schools and 10 libraries within a 70 mile radius of Champaign County. Over the course of the three-day festival, more than 5,000 children and their families celebrated the value of literature in the lives of youth.

Following the success of the Youth Literature Festival, a new children’s writing contest, garnered more than 400 entries from students in grades K-5. All participants received a certificate signed by Jolette Law, coach of the University of Illinois women’s basketball team.

Re-Imagining the Education BuildingUnder the leadership of Professor Jeffrey Poss, 12 graduate students in Architecture worked with us in examining the current Education Building, and in envisioning what an expanded facility might look like.

Richard Williams, the original architect of the Building, now living in Tucson, Arizona, returned to campus to join Professor Poss, the students, Director of the School of Architecture, David Chasco, and Dean Kalantzis.

On November 30th, 5 teams of students presented their final projects to an audience of faculty from Architecture and Education.