Building on a Century of Excellence in Education
The Centennial Lecture Series:
Building on 100 Years of Excellence in Education
Lecture series to focus on literacy and inclusion
As part its year-long centennial celebration, the Syracuse University School of Education has invited four leading intellectuals in the field of education to headline the first of what will become an annual "Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series." These "thought leaders" have not only anticipated the challenges facing education today, but are working to identify solutions with a special emphasis on improving literacy and inclusion in public schools.
Each of this season's speakers, profiled below, exemplifies excellence in revitalizing a commitment to quality public education. The Centennial Lecture Series invites you to experience first-hand these remarkable individuals as they share their wisdom and passion for excellence in education.
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Julie Eizenberg, AIA
KoningEizenbergArchitecture
"Expectations Need to Change"
April 26, 4 p.m.
220 Eggers
Julie Eizenberg is a founding Principal of KoningEizenbergArchitecture, established in 1981. The firm pioneered — and continues to practice — socially conscious architectural design with emphasis on projects that include tight budget affordable multiunit housing, community buildings, recreation centers, schools, homes, hotels, stores and work spaces. She brings design vision and leadership to the firm's wide range of projects and takes responsibility for setting the ideological and conceptual framework for these designs. Her experience in reconciling various community interests while maintaining design excellence is demonstrated in many consensus-building, community-based projects involving cities, non-profit agencies, community groups and private developers. She teaches and lectures extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad and is frequently invited to serve on award juries.
She is a peer reviewer for the GSA Design Excellence program and recipient of the Association of Women in Architecture 2004 Design Excellence Award. Under her and partner Hank Koning's lead, the firm has earned numerous awards for their projects and was named the 2004 Residential Architect Firm of the Year. In recent years, as a result of Julie's design direction, KoningEizenberg has won two national competitions – Chicago Public School Northside, and the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh , which opened in November 2004 to widespread acclaim.
Mary McAleese
President of Ireland
“A Proud Past, A Promising Future—A New Century of Disability Access and Inclusion”
May 1st, 2 p.m.
Hendricks Chapel
The School of Education is pleased to welcome President of Ireland Mary McAleese to Syracuse University on Tuesday, May 1, 2007. It is an immense honor to host such a distinguished leader and educator who throughout her career has championed so many topics of importance to the School of Education and Syracuse University—disability rights and inclusion, educational opportunity, student retention, literature and the arts, among others.
The activities surrounding her visit are called “A Proud Past, A Promising Future—A New Century of Disability Access and Inclusion,” signifying both the culmination of the School’s Centennial Year Celebration and the threshold leading to our next 100 years.
The signature event of the day will take place at 2 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel, when President McAleese addresses the University and Central New York communities. We hope you will join us. For those who cannot attend in person, the presentation will be webcast live.
In advance of May 1, we invite you to learn more about President McAleese, as well as the School of Education, through the various links provided here.
Past Events
Elisa Hyman
Executive Director, Advocates for Children in NY
"Combating the Culture of Exclusion in the Era of High Stakes Accountability in Urban Schools"
September 14, 4 p.m.
220 Eggers Hall (Public Events Room)
Elisa Hyman is the executive director of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), a not-for-profit organization with the mission of improving access to quality public education in New York City. AFC focuses on children who are most at risk of school failure due to discrimination based on disability, poverty, immigration status, involvement in the juvenile justice and foster care systems, and exposure to family violence. Hyman handles impact litigation in state and federal courts, supervises AFC's attorneys, represents parents and children in the full range of school-related legal matters in administrative and court proceedings, conducts education policy analysis, works on program development and fundraising and trains professionals on education law. Prior to coming to AFC, she was the Assistant General Counsel for Safe Horizon (1995-1998) and an associate in the litigation department of White & Case (1991-1995).
Ken Zeichner
Professor of Teacher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Preserving the Role of Public Education in Democratic Societies"
October 26, 4 p.m.
304 A-C Schine Student Center
Ken Zeichner is Hoefs-Bascom professor of teacher education at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also serves as associate dean for undergraduate and teacher education.
Zeicher is a research team member of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Study and is co-chair of the Consensus Panel on Research in Teacher Education of the American Educational Research Association. Recent research projects include "Educating Teachers for the 21st Century through Collaborative Use of Technology," funded by a University of Wisconsin System PK-16 Technology Grant. His international experience includes work as a consultant for the USAID Master's/Ph.D. program for the Namibian Ministry of Education Personnel and for the University of Umeå Teacher Education Reform Project in Umeå, Sweden.
Zeichner has been recognized for his research excellence as a recipient of the Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research on Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (2002) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Distinguished Achievement Award (2000). He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees at the Syracuse University School of Education. Zeichner also is the featured speaker in 2006 Distinguished Ganders Lecture series.
Kris D. Gutierrez
Professor of Social Research Methodology, UCLA
"Looking for Educational Equity: Immigrants, Migrants and the New Latino Diaspora"
Thursday March 1 , 4 p.m.
220 Eggers
Kris Gutierrez is professor of social research methodology at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA. Her c urrent research interests include a study of the sociocultural contexts of literacy development, particularly the study of the acquisition of academic literacy for language minority students. Her research also focuses on understanding the relationship between language, culture, development, and pedagogies of empowerment.
Recent Publications include "Toward a decolonizing pedagogy: Social justice reconsidered" (In P. Trifonas (Ed.), Pedagogy of Difference. New York: Routledge) and "Hypermediating in the Urban Classroom: When Scaffolding becomes Sabotage in Narrative Activity" (In C. D. Baker, J. Cook-Gumperz, and A. Luke (Eds.), Literacy and Power. Oxford: Blackwell.