2007 Conference Program

Welcome  (Student Activities Center, SAC, Room 200c)

• Ann Weaver Hart, President, Temple University
• C. Kent McGuire, Dean,  Temple’s College of Education
• Erin McNamara Horvat, Chair, Temple’s Educ. Leadership & Policy Studies Dept. (ELPS)

Introductions: Joan Poliner Shapiro, Temple University

The New DEEL:  Past, Present and Future: Steven Jay Gross, Temple University

Dinner and “World Café”: Lisa Kensler, Lehigh University, Conference Organizer

Concurrent Sessions

• Session A [RH267]  Building Democratic Community
• Defining Democratic Community
• Lisa Kensler, Lehigh University
• School Program Assessment for Growing Democratic Community
• George White and Lisa Kensler, Lehigh University
• Building Community Through Technology Connections
• Jean Cate, Mary John O’Hair, K20 Center for Educational and Community Renewal, and Katherine Gutierrez, University of Oklahoma

• Session B  [RH211]  The Affective in the Curriculum
• An examination of ethical policy implementation: The case of an urban city's teachers
• Felicia C. Sanders and Dana Mitra, The Pennsylvania State University
• An Ethic of Care: Do We Deal with the Hard Parts?
• Kathleen S. Sernak, Rowan University
• K-6 Moral Development Through Literacy
• Dipali Puri, The Pennsylvania State University
• Chair, Saul Grossman, Temple University

Flashpoint Panel (RH211)

• What do we mean by Ethical Leadership?
• Gail Furman, Washington State University
• Paul Begley, The Pennsylvania State University
• Kathleen S. Sernak, Rowan University
• Chair, Patricia A.L. Ehrensal, Conference Organizer

Lunch (Ritter Hall 211)

• Welcome  Richard Englert, Interim Provost, Temple University
• Eva Gold, Principal, Research for Action
• Introduced by Decoteau Irby, Temple University
• Time to Engage? Civic Participation in Philadelphia's School Reform

Concurrent Sessions

• Session A [211] Where New DEELers Fear to Tread?
• Doing the Unpleasant: Moving Beyond Talk and Self-Imposed Obstacles to Equity and Social Justice
• Brenda J. McMahon, Educational Consultant
• Speaking Truth to Power?: Progressive Leadership in Contested Terrain
• Frank Pignatelli, Bank Street College
• “Not Gona Go There!”: Avoiding Uncomfortable Conversations and the (Im)Possibility for a New DEEL
• Patricia A.L. Ehrensal, Conference Organizer

• Session B [303]  High Stakes Issues and the New DEEL
• Rebuilding a [New]New Orleans
• Dawn LaFarque, Pennsylvania State University
• A Democratic and Ethical Approach to Improving School Safety
• Billie Gastic,  Temple University
• Ethical Leadership Within a Context of High Stakes Accountability: Who Will Lead Us Out of This Mess?
• Colleen Larson, New York University
• Chair, Joseph Ducette, Temple University

Keynote Address  (RH211)

• James Earl Davis, Professor, Temple University
• Leadership Among the “Least of These”:  African American Males And the Challenge of Schools
• Introduced by Marc Lamont Hill, Temple University

Continental Breakfast, (Ritter Hall 211)

Donald Walters Scholar Practitioner Award and Invited Lecture  (Kiva Auditorium)

• Award Recipient
• Donald Walters, Emeritus Professor, Temple University
• Invited Lecture
• Mary John O’Hair, Vice Provost for School and Community Partnerships, University of Oklahoma
• Introduced by Steven Jay Gross, Temple University, Conference Organizer
• Keeping the Promise of The New DEEL

Concurrent Sessions

• Session A [RH 211] Teacher Education and the New DEEL
• Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and the Hegemonic Epistemologies of Teacher Education
• H. Bernard Hall, II, Temple University
• Overturning Autocracy in the Urban Science Classroom: The Democratic Tendencies of Cogenerative Dialoguing
• Femi Obulaja, Queens College, CUNY

• Session B [RH206] Ethical and Democratic Conversations on Debate and Theory
• Leading for Difference
• Novella Keith, Temple University
• Proposals for Drastic Change: Is Ethical and Democratic Debate Possible?
• Patricia F. First, University of Arizona
• The School Effectiveness Movement, Neoliberalism, and Critical-Democratic Leadership
• John Portelli, OISE/University of Toronto

• Session C [RH208] New DEEL Learning From All Sides: The Teacher, Administrator and University Professor
• Uncovering “Presence” in Educational Leadership
• Eve LaPier
• A New Deel: Recentering the Educational System On the Student
• Valerie Storey, Lynn University, Ross College of Education
• Strategies for Integrating Values and Ethics into University Level Teaching
• Paul T. Begley, The Pennsylvania State University

Lunch Ritter Hall 211

• Flashpoint Panel: What Do We Mean By Democracy?
• Kathleen M. Shaw, Temple University & PA State Dept. of Educ.
• Corrine A. Caldwell, Temple University
• Colleen Larson, New York University
• John Portelli, OISE/University of Toronto
• Michael Dantley, Miami of Ohio University
• Chair Kristina Legge, Temple University, Conference Organizer

Working Group Meeting

New DEEL:  The Future

• Joan Poliner Shapiro, Temple University and
• Steven Jay Gross, Temple University

Graduate Student Seminar

Mentors:  Drs. Gail Furman, Patricia First, Vivian Ikpa, Novella Keith, Patricia A.L. Ehrensal, Steven Jay Gross, Joan Poliner Shapiro, Michelle Partlow, Michael Dantley