2010 Annual Community of Caring National Conference
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Friday, July 16, 2010 Featured Speaker - Kathleen Cushman
Kathleen Cushman writes and speaks to a national audience about the lives and learning of adolescents. An educator and journalist, in 2000 she co-founded the nonprofit What Kids Can Do (WKCD.org), which makes public the work and voices of youth on subjects concerning their lives and learning. Her new book, Practice: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery will come out in spring 2010. Cushman’s many books include the best-selling Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students and its sequel, Fires in the Middle School Bathroom. Students speak out about school climate and culture in her book Sent to the Principal, and in her book What We Can’t Tell You, teenagers talk candidly about their lives to parents and other close-in adults. She is also author of the two-volume First in the Family: Advice about College from First-Generation Students. In 1995, with Theodore R. Sizer and several other citizens, parents and teachers, Cushman co-founded the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts. Parker is nationally known as a model of developmental education in grades 7 through 12. For more information, contact Kathleen Cushman at www.kathleencushman.com.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010 Featured Speaker - Dr. Dana Mitra
Dana L. Mitra is Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Educational Administration and Policy Analysis. Her prior work experience includes teaching elementary school in the Washington, DC area and serving as the coordinator for two White House Conferences on Character Education. Dana’s research interests include high school reform, student voice, and civic engagement. Among her publications, she has published articles in Teachers College Record entitled “The significance of students: Can increasing “student voice” in schools lead to gains in youth development?” and “in Education Administration Quarterly entitled “Adults advising youth: Leading while getting out of the way.” She also has published a book with SUNY Press entitled Student voice in school reform: Building youth-adult partnerships that strengthen schools and empower youth.