Staff

Mona H. Bailey has worked with the Institute for Educational Inquiry and the Center for Educational Renewal for the past several years, focusing on issues of minority recruitment and retention into teaching. She was a co-facilitator for the Developing Networks of Responsibility to Educate America's Youths initiative. She has served as deputy state superintendent of Washington and in a variety of roles in the Seattle Public Schools.

Richard W. Clark is the currently a consultant (and past executive vice president) with the Institute for Educational Inquiry. In addition to providing oversight for all programs, he directs the Journalism, Education, and the Public Good initiative and is past director of the League of Small Democratic Schools initiative. Dr. Clark, an educational consultant and author, has worked with P-12 and college educators in thirty-five states. For many years he worked closely with the Coalition of Essential Schools in their research and writing and served for ten years as an external evaluator of school change efforts in Philadelphia. In addition to a background as a teacher, principal, and school district administrator, he has eight years of experience as a broadcaster. He is the author of Effective Professional Development Schools (Jossey-Bass, 1999), among other publications.

Ann M. Foster is the executive director of the National Network for Educational Renewal and senior associate of the Institute for Educational Inquiry. Prior to serving in these Seattle-based positions, she was the co-director of the Research and Development Center for the Advancement of Student Learning, a collaborative center between the Poudre School District and Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.

John I. Goodlad is president of the Institute for Educational Inquiry and a co-founder of the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington. He held professorships at Agnes Scott College and Emory University in Georgia, the University of Chicago, and UCLA (where he was dean of the Graduate School of Education from 1967 to 1983) before coming to the University of Washington in 1984. Goodlad is the author of over thirty books on education, including the highly acclaimed A Place Called School (McGraw-Hill, 1984, 2004), Teachers for Our Nation's Schools (Jossey-Bass, 1990), In Praise of Education (Teachers College Press, 1997), and Romances with Schools (2004). Goodlad has received numerous national awards in recognition of his work, including the prestigious Harold T. McGraw Prize in Education in 1999, the James Bryant Conant Award for Outstanding Service to Education from the Education Commission of the States in 2000, the first Brock International Prize in Education in 2002, the New York Academy of Public Education Medal in 2003, and the American Education Award from the American Association of School Administrators in 2004. Books published in 2004 include: Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy, written with Corinne Mantle-Bromley and Stephen J. Goodlad; The Teaching Career (co-edited with Timothy J. McMannon); a 20th anniversary edition of A Place Called School; and Romances with Schools: A Life of Education. Dr. Goodlad holds honorary doctorates from twenty colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

Dorothy Lloyd is the director of the League of Democratic Schools (LODS)—formerly the League of Small Democratic Schools (LSDS). Dorothy has long ties to the work of John Goodland and to renewal of democratic schools and has been chosen to lead the continuing development of the LODS. Dr. Lloyd has been a dynamic force in education. She has been an active presenter and keynote speaker at state, national, and international conferences. She is also a consultant, trainer, and staff development leader for school districts and universities across the country. Dorothy has conducted seminars and workshops in thirteen states and Canada, over thirty California school districts, and was selected into Leadership California in 1992 and into Leadership America in 2001. Among her honors and awards are: Educator of the Year Award, Western Region Professional and Business Women; Community Education Awards (San Francisco, Monterey, and San Mateo); Outstanding Educator, Leader, Professional, African-American Community, Monterey, California; and Monterey County Outstanding Woman in 2003.

Cori Mantle-Bromley is a professor and department chair in the College of Education at Washington State University. She was co-facilitator of the Developing Networks of Responsibility to Educate America's Youths initiative. Prior to her present position, she was a research professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington. She has also been an associate professor in the School of Education at Colorado State University, where she and her colleagues worked to create and study school-university partnerships. She is co-author of Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy (Jossey-Bass, 2004).

Bonnie McDaniel is a research associate at the Institute for Educational Inquiry. Her research interests are in the philosophy of education, democratic theory, and most recently in the history of American education. She has taught foundations of education courses at the University of Washington and Western Washington University. She was the recipient of the 2004 Gordon C. Lee dissertation award from the College of Education at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Paula McMannon has been special assistant to John Goodlad since 1987, first in the Center for Educational Renewal and then in the Institute for Educational Inquiry (IEI). She has been secretary/treasurer of the IEI since its founding in 1992.

Clifford Rowe is professor of journalism at Pacific Lutheran University. He helps develop the curriculum materials and co-facilitates the sessions for the Journalists' Fellows Program at the Institute for Educational Inquiry. Rowe, a member of the Washington News Council, is an experienced reporter and editor who worked for newspapers in Chicago, Portland, and Seattle.

Jacqueline Smith is responsible for participant selection and program evaluation of the Journalists' Fellows Program of the Institute for Educational Inquiry, along with a variety of other duties. Smith, an independent consultant, is a former newspaper reporter, has worked as a school district public relations specialist, and is a past president of the Washington School Public Relations Association. She is also a board member for the Puget Sound Educational District.

Roger Soder is a senior associate of the Institute for Educational Inquiry and a co-founder of the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington. Prior to his work with the Institute and Center, Soder served as assistant director of Indian Education Programs, Cape Flattery School District, on the Makah Indian Reservation, and as education director of the Seattle Urban League. Among other publications, he is editor of Democracy, Education, and the Schools (Jossey-Bass, 1996), co-editor with Kenneth A. Sirotnik of The Beat of a Different Drummer: Essays on Educational Renewal in Honor of John I. Goodlad (Peter Lang, 1999), and author of The Language of Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2001).

Paul G. Theobald is a senior fellow of the Institute for Educational Inquiry. He currently holds the Woods-Beals Endowed Chair in Urban and Rural Education at Buffalo State College. He is an accomplished educational historian whose work frequently crosses disciplinary boundaries and has appeared in such distinguished research journals as Educational Theory, American Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Studies, Journal of Educational Thought, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, American Historical Review, Educational Foundations, History of Education Quarterly, and many others. His first book, Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918 has remained the definitive study on the history of rural education in this country for the past twelve years. His second book, Teaching the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Community, an intellectual history that weaves in philosophical themes in an attempt to build a new vision for educational ends, has been widely used in graduate education classes both here and abroad.

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Carol Wilson has worked in education for thirty-two years as a teacher, high school principal, assistant superintendent, university instructor, consultant, and nonprofit executive director. For fourteen years, she served as executive director of the Colorado Partnership for Educational Renewal, a collaborative initiative that includes sixteen school districts (with more than six hundred schools), eight universities and colleges in the Colorado Community Colleges system. For five years, she co-chaired the governor's commission on teacher licensing and also served on the Colorado Commission on Higher Education's Standards Committee for teacher education program approval. Wilson's publications and presentations address leadership, organizational change, collaboration, equity, diversity, policy, and education in a democracy. She was a co-facilitator for the Developing Networks of Responsibility to Educate America's Youths initiative. She also served a two-year term as chair of the National Network for Educational Renewal's governing council.