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SPECIAL ISSUE
WINTER 2020
100 YEARS/
100 REASONS
TO LOVE
THE ED SCHOOL
NOW
Harvard Ed.
SPECIAL ISSUE
WINTER 2020
Lory Hough, Editor in Chief
100 YEARS/
100 REASONS
TO LOVE
THE ED SCHOOL
NOW
WINTER 2020 � ISSUE N 165
Editor in Chief
Lory Hough
LORY_HOUGH@HARVARD.EDU
Creative Direction
Modus Operandi Design
Patrick Mitchell
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Melanie deForest Malloy
MODUSOP.NET
Contributing Writers
Jen Audley, Ed.M.’98
Emily Boudreau, Ed.M.’19
Timothy Butterfeld, Ed.M.’20 This year, the Ed School is celebrating its 100th
Tracie Jones
Rilda Kissel anniversary. We knew we were going to create a
Matt Weber, Ed.M.’11 special theme issue to mark this major milestone,
Illustrators
but the question was, how should we organize
Loogart the information? A deep dive into just the
Simone Massoni
Riccardo Vecchio
school’s early history? A straightforward timeline
Rob Wilson approach? None of those options seemed like
the right way to tell the story in a way that would
Photographers
Diana Levine capture not only the school’s beginnings, but also
Tony Luong who we are now and who we hope to be in the
Walter Smith
future — and do it in a way that was fun. However,
Copy Editors there was one word that kept coming back to us, a
Marin Jorgensen word that might seem odd for a magazine based at
Abigail Mieko Vargus
a graduate school, but in many ways, the word —
POSTMASTER love — makes sense. The foundation of everything
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Harvard Graduate School of Education that happens here is love — love for students,
Offce of Communications
13 Appian Way
love for learning, love for teaching, love for doing
Cambridge, MA 02138 good (and doing it well), love for Harvard, love for
© 2020 by the President and Fellows of making a diference, love for wanting to do better,
Harvard College. Harvard Ed. magazine
is published three times a year.
love for fghting wrongs and knowing we have
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. something to say, and love for what we all know
education can, and should, do for all kids around
the world. With that in mind, here are our 100
reasons to love the Ed School now. x
Cover photograph by Walter Smith
Back cover colorizing by Mads Madsen
100 YEARS/ 100 REASONS TOLOVE THE ED SCHOOL
100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now
Reason #1
BECAUSE
WE CAN
LOOK BACK
AND SEE
FORWARD
AT THE SAME
TIME
OUR STUDENTS HAVE CHANGED.
A LOT. (SEE THE BACK COVER
AND THE NEXT SPREAD.)
LAST NOVEMBER, WE INVITED
THREE CURRENT MASTER’S
STUDENTS — ASHLEY BAZIN (ON
CREDIT HERE
THE COVER), AVI ANSHIKA (RIGHT),
AND JIEZHEN WU (OPPOSITE PAGE)
— TO SPEND A DAY DRESSED IN
THE STYLE OF THEIR PREDECES-
SORS FROM THE ORIGINAL ED
SCHOOL CLASS OF 1920.
Photographs by Walter Smith
CREDIT HERE
STYLING BY KATE COLANGELI/ANCHOR ARTISTS; HAIR & MAEUP BY KATHLEEN SCHIFFMANN/ANCHOR ARTISTS
Illustration by John Doe
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100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed.
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Reason #2
BECAUSE THIS IS US IN 2019
Photographs by Diana Levine
Winter 2020
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100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed.
Reason #3
BECAUSE STUDENTS CH
september 27, 1920: Students
entered the Harvard Graduate
School of Education for the very
THE FIRST
CLASS, 1920
living in Cambridge is not only
tolerable but sometimes weirdly
enjoyable.” The Hong Kong,
frst time, via Oxford Street, Harvard Bookstore, Cardullos,
not Appian Way. Any back-to- and Charley’s Kitchen still serve
school festivities did not occur as quirky landmarks today.
in Radclife Yard and were Before the well-lit Gutman Cafe
certainly not accompanied by opened in 2012, students and
a DJ. However, tuition was only faculty could meet for lunch
$200 a year. And while this frst and discussions in Larsen Hall
6 class was the frst at Harvard to common areas, dubbed “water
include women (see page 30), holes,” a selling point of these
the October 1920 issue of the spaces being that “they even
Harvard Alumni Bulletin prom- had windows.”
ised, “As long as the School is a Of course, the nature and the
strictly graduate institution, it is content of those discussions has
likely to attract more men than changed in the life of students
women.” today, as new political and so-
by the referee if they wanted registered) that emerge and are cial tensions bubble to the sur-
august 26, 2019: The Ed to forfeit before the game even increasingly looking to connect face. More recently, part of the
School’s 100th class of students began), meditation techniques and collaborate with students process of “kicking over sacred
gathered together on Appian to alleviate stress while waiting from across Harvard. cows” has involved developing a
Way. The student body is now for the notoriously slow Gutman “Before, I felt our students fuller understanding of support-
72% women. It recognizes that elevator, a vigilante committee just wanted to stay here, but ing all students.
not all students identify as male dedicated to removing postings now they want to get out in the “In the past fve years,
or female and includes students placed in violation of bulletin larger community,” says Tracie we’ve seen a 56% increase in
from across the United States board rules across the school, Jones, director of Diversity, In- Latinx students, 38% increase
and 52 countries, and from a and a mysterious grafti cartel clusion, and Belonging. in African American students,
range of ethnicities, socioeco- known as THGZE who wrote on One of the most consis- 33% increase in international
nomic backgrounds, and profes- walls about historic and recent tent experiences for students students,” Jones says. “We’ve
sional experiences. debates in education. is learning to navigate Cam- had a change in the community,
In 100 years, the Ed School’s Student organizations have bridge. As a 1965 student guide which means there’s a change
student body has changed sig- also consistently infuenced the notes, “Once you have resigned in what people are looking for.
nifcantly, but what about the school’s experience. While the yourself to…totally illogical traf- We also have had an increase
student experience? In addition Black Students Union and La fc patterns, police who ticket in [self-identifying] undocu-
to changing course work, the Organization have existed since your car with wild abandon, mented students. There are
HARVARD ARCHIVES
former student-run newspaper the ‘60s in one form or another, unmarked streets, unreason- also trends in students’ gender
The Appian Way, documented the Ed School has numerous able landlords, exorbitantly identities. In the past, we would
in 1990 a struggling student clubs and groups (each year priced food, and dirt and soot have just had an option for ‘him’
basketball team (once asked there are usually more than 30 on everything, you’ll fnd that or ‘her’ on the application, but
Winter 2020
Reason #4
ANGE
now there’s an ‘other’ because
we’re recognizing that gender
is fuid.”
BECAUSE
HERE’S THE
RUNDOWN
As the old saying goes, we’ve
come a long way, baby. To get you
oriented to the school’s frst 100
years, here’s a quick rundown of
Early versions of the student
some key dates and moments:
handbook provided students
with only a select group of 1891: Paul Hanus becomes
resources. Over the years, stu- Harvard’s frst faculty member in
dents have advocated for pro- education and advocates for a full
grams for Native Americans, the school devoted to education.
inclusion of queer students in 1906: Education offcially becomes
conversations about diversity, a a division under the Faculty of Arts 7
student support organization for and Sciences.
frst-gen students, and taking 1919: John D. Rockefeller makes
steps to address environmental the frst big donation toward
establishing a graduate school of
concerns among many others.
education.
Technologies like Facebook
1920: In January, a formal an- Reason #5
and WhatsApp have allowed
nouncement is made regarding the
Because Our Shield
students to support one another establishment of the school, which
in ways ranging from childcare opens on September 27, 1920. The
to a chat group letting students
know where there’s free food.
school is housed in Lawrence Hall.
Henry Holmes is the frst dean and Was (Likely) Infuenced
Indeed, the idea of inclusion
has been engrained on Appian
women are admitted — Harvard’s
frst female degree candidates. by a Teacher
Way across the years. As former 1921: On June 23, HGSE holds its
Every professional school at Harvard has its own unique shield. Ever wonder
Dean Paul Ylvisaker recounts frst commencement.
what the Ed School’s shield stands for? Although some of the exact details
in an oral history of his time at 1936: The M.A.T. degree begins. are a bit fuzzy, it appears that the shield is connected to Ezekiel Cheever, a
the school, “We should repre- 1962: HGSE moves to its new Londoner who moved to Boston in 1637 at the age of 23 and later served as
sent what others have tended home, Longfellow Hall. The Appian headmaster of the famed Boston Latin School for 38 years, until his death
to ignore.” And this is happen- Way campus begins. in 1708 at the age of 94.
His connection to Harvard is one of the fuzzy details — some accounts
ing. In my experience, the Ed 1965: Larsen Hall opens. (It’s the
say he had no connection, others say he graduated from the college in
School’s commitment to rei- frst space built specifcally for
1659, as did several of his children and grandchildren, years later. A foot-
magine where the boundaries of HGSE.)
note in a 1981 article in the Harvard Library Bulletin says that when the Ed
schooling lay, to making schools 1972: Gutman Library opens. School was founded, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell and Dean Henry
a place of belonging for all, and 1981: Patricia Albjerg Graham Holmes thought Cheever, who spent 70 years teaching, was the “prototype
to see all individuals as learners becomes the school’s frst female of the secondary school teacher.”
dean. Because Cheever was the son of a spinner and likely did not have an of-
— on Appian Way and beyond —
fcial family coat of arms, Pierre de Chaignon lá Rose, the designer of most
has left its mark. 2009: Ed.L.D. degree begins.
of Harvard’s early shields, pulled a design from the gravestone of one of
2012: The Ph.D. degree begins. Cheever’s grandsons, also named Ezekiel, who was buried in Charlestown,
EMILY BOUDREAU, ED.M.’19, IS A 2018: Bridget Long becomes our Massachusetts. The design was also found on embroidery made by his frst
CONTENT CREATOR AT THE ED SCHOOL newest dean. wife, Mary Cheever.
100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed.
Reason #6
BECAUSE WE
COME FROM HUMBLE
ORIGINS
When we think of the Ed School, we think of Longfellow, Gutman, and
Larsen. But Appian Way wasn’t where the school frst laid down roots. In
1920, when it was founded, the school was housed in Lawrence Hall on
Kirkland Street, just outside Harvard Yard. Built in 1848 from a $50,000
gift from Boston industrialist Abbott Lawrence, the dark brick Italianate-
style building was initially used for the Lawrence Scientifc School (a
precursor to the School of Engineering), including as a residence for Law-
rence’s frst professor, Eben Norton Horsford, founder of baking powder.
As the building aged, students and faculty developed a love–hate
relationship with the space. In a 1961 Harvard Crimson interview, Dean
Francis Keppel pointed to the ceiling of his Lawrence Hall offce and said,
“See those cracks? We had to remove 30,000 books from the library up-
8 stairs because we were told the second foor would cave in.”
GREGORY ANRIG, M.A.T.’56, C.A.S.’60, ED.D.’63, in a 1988 oral history
project, said of the space, “You come to Harvard and you think of all of
this wealth and the tremendous resources in this university, and then you
go to the school of education ... in this dingy little building. With a heavy
German accent, Professor Ulrich used to refer to his basement lecture
room as the ‘horse stables.’”
Ulrich, in an essay published in the 1970–71 Bulletin, added that the
lecture hall was “equipped with benches which looked as if they had been
bought from a defunct monitorial school of the 1830s. No state school
department would have allowed them in even the poorest district. ...One
hot day, the benches got stuck to the trousers of the students. It was dif-
fcult to separate the humanity from the wood.”
And yet, Anrig added, “there was something about the atmosphere
of that place, because it was so old and decrepit in many ways, there
was something very gracious about it at the same time. ... The facilities
never made the difference in this program. It was the rather remarkable
relationship you had with the faculty and, at that time, the structure of the
program itself, which I found to be just tremendously benefcial to me.”
In 1962, the Ed School moved to Appian Way with the purchase of
Longfellow from Radcliffe. Lawrence Hall fell into disrepair and was
abandoned. In 1970, a group of graduate students took over the build-
WILLIAM NOTMAN & SON
ing and started the Free University as a way to provide an alternative
education to Cambridge residents. The Free University Commune, a
collective of local homeless people, also moved in. The building was
slated for demolition to make way for, as it was once described, “the
beige sprawl of the new Science Center.” On May 8, a fre broke out on LAWRENCE HALL, 1874
Lawrence Hall’s third foor and the building was destroyed.
Reason #7
BECAUSE OUR NEW CENTENNIAL SCHOLARS WILL HELP US MOVEWinter 2020
Reason #8
Because History Was
Made in 1891 and 1920.
Over Salad.
In 1891, we weren’t yet a school. We were one faculty member, As-
sistant Professor Paul Henry Hanus, teaching one class, the History
and Art of Teaching, which was listed under philosophy. It wasn’t 9
until 1906 that Hanus and one other professor made up their own
education division within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
But Hanus wanted more. He had been pushing for a separate
graduate ed school as early as 1903; in 1915 his pushing went beyond
just talk when three groups, including the Harvard Corporation,
began a united and serious efort to fnd the money to get started.
In May of 1919, John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil
Company, made the frst major donation, $500,000, toward the $2
million that was ultimately raised. Nine months later, on February
17, 1920, at the Harvard Union, 200 guests gathered for a dinner to
celebrate the impending conversion from division to school. This
included Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, Hanus, and Henry
Wyman Holmes, who would become the school’s frst dean. “On a
frigid winter night, elaborate pains had been taken to ensure a warm
environment of good fellowship and good taste,” wrote Arthur Pow-
ell in The Uncertain Profession. “Elegant courses followed one after
the other: oysters, cream of mushrooms, flet of beef, endive salad,
cheeses, fruit ices, and cake.”
Less than a month later, on April 12, 1920, the Harvard Graduate
School of Education was ofcially established by a vote of the corpora-
tion. The school would ofer two degrees starting in September: the
master of education and the nation’s frst doctor of education. As Pow-
ell noted, “The educational press reported triumphantly that Harvard
at long last was frmly committed to the graduate study of education.”
THE SCHOOL’S VISION FORWARD FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed.
BECAUSE SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT
10
CREDIT HERE
Illustration by John DoeReason #9
Who: Professor
Area of impact: portraiture
Why it’s important: SARA
LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT, Reason #10
ED.D.’72, a sociologist,
pioneered a new way to do
social science research that
blends art and science with
BECAUSE PAT AND BRIDGET
storytelling. However, unlike
most social science, which
tends to focus on what’s
wrong, portraiture attempts
SHARED SOME HISTORY
to understand what’s worthy
in people and human behav-
ior and within institutions
like schools. It allows the re-
searcher and subject to co-
create the story so that each On November 30, 1981, Patricia good time. He does some things
one, Lawrence-Lightfoot has
Albjerg Graham was announced vastly better than I do and that,
written, can participate in
“the drawing of the image.” dean of the Ed School — the frst of course, was an enormous as-
female to hold the post and the set to me. First of all, he knew
How it started: “My initial frst woman in Harvard’s his- the place which I did not know.
foray into the feld was part
tory to head a graduate school. And secondly, he is conscien-
of a project that originated
with Dædalus, the journal Nearly four decades later, Alb- tious to the nth degree in plan-
of the Academy of Arts and jerg Graham sat down with our ning and anticipating problems
Sciences, where a seminar current dean, Bridget Long, to and being prepared. And he
of scholars from different talk about that time, her name, also has this fantastic sense
disciplines were focused and what makes her proud. of humor which you certainly 11
on trying to understand the
need in that job, as I’m sure you
character of high schools LONG: WHEN [HARVARD PRESI-
and the nature of adoles-
know, Bridget.
DENT] DEREK BOK APPOINTED
cence, the ways in which I had a strange maiden name
YOU, YOU WERE THE FIRST
these institutions served or which, when I came to the Rad- LONG: WHEN YOU REFLECT
FEMALE DEAN TO LEAD A HAR-
BACK, WHAT IS THE THING YOU’RE
disserved the developmen- VARD FACULTY. WHAT WAS THAT clife Institute, I remember the
MOST PROUD OF?
tal needs of adolescents,” LIKE TO BE THE ONLY WOMAN Radclife trustees said, “Oh my
Lawrence-Lightfoot wrote in SITTING AT THE TABLE? dear,” — in a very gentle way — ALBJERG GRAHAM: Oh good-
a 2016 essay for Learning
ALBJERG GRAHAM: I walked into “why don’t you just drop that ness, I hadn’t thought of that.
Landscapes. “I was sent out
into the feld by this group, one of these deans’ meetings Albjerg,” my Danish father’s I’m pleased with the Harvard
along with Robert Coles and one time, and three or four of name. “Patricia Graham would Graduate School of Education,
Philip Jackson, to try to cap- my colleagues as deans were ft so much better.” I, of course, and I’m pleased that it’s now
ture the high school scene, standing together sipping a little didn’t drop it, but I was accus- considered appropriate to think
and I was the one who said, sherry before the lunch began tomed by the time I had become about poor children’s education,
‘Why don’t we call them and they hadn’t seen me come dean to not ftting in entirely. I particularly poor children of
portraits?’ Since this was
in. And these were very nice thought that was just the way color. I started out teaching poor
very exploratory, I wanted to
release us from the protocols guys. One of them said to his the world worked, and you children, poor white children,
and constraints of traditional fellow, “Oh, you know, it was so might as well get along with it because I was in a segregated
research strategies.” much easier when we were all and do the best you could, and school system and I’m white.
alike.” And I smiled and waited create and build on the strong Poor children have tremendous
Fact: When Lawrence-
Lightfoot retired in 2019, until they fnished that conver- foundation of the school of edu- disadvantages in this society
the academic chair she held sation before I joined them. cation here, but make it a little and education is one of the
(the Emily Hargroves Fisher more relevant to the problems main ones. Their families are
Endowed Chair, estab- LONG: WAS IT A CONSTANT THING that America faced in educa- often wonderful, but the formal
lished in 1988), became the THAT YOU FELT?
tion. schooling that these children
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot ALBJERG GRAHAM: I represented have is often lamentable. And if
Chair, making her the frst LONG: YOU’VE SPOKEN
African American woman in
several things that Harvard we can try to work on that, that
SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT WORKING
did not value. I was a woman, seems, to me, very important.
ELIO PAJARES
Harvard’s history to have WITH JERRY MURPHY.
an endowed professorship I was in a school of education, WATCH THE VIDEO INTERVIEW AT WWW.
named in her honor. I hadn’t gone to Harvard, and ALBJERG GRAHAM: We had a HGSE.ME/GRAHAM
Illustration by Riccardo Vecchio100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed.
Reason #11
BECAUSE “LEADERSHIP AND
LEARNING ARE INDISPENSABLE
TO EACH OTHER”
(THAT’S WHAT HE SAID)
From the very beginning, leadership has
been a central tenet of the Ed School. In
his 1937 book, Adventuring in Education,
Professor Paul Hanus wrote that leader-
ship had always been a part of his vision
for the school. “It is a distinctive feature
of this new enterprise at Harvard that it is
established on a strictly graduate basis,” he
wrote, “This, too, was in accordance with the
plan of the school I had urged for many years,
12 based on the hope that the school would emphasize
the training of leaders in the feld of education, while
not neglecting the best training that could be devised for the
usual practitioner.” With that vision in mind, here is a short list of
a few of the ways we’ve emphasized leadership over the years:
3 1920 — doctor of education (ed.d.) program: The school initially ofered
two degrees: an Ed.M. for master’s students, and the Ed.D., the frst doctoral degree
of its kind in the country. It was a degree, Hanus wrote in Adventuring, “ofered to stu-
dents who were planning to make education their lifework.”
3 1990 — urban superintendents program (usp): The frst comprehensive
doctoral program for urban superintendents in the country. Professor Bob Peterkin, a
former superintendent himself, ran the program for all but one year. When Peterkin
started, about 5 percent of the nation’s superintendents were female and 1 percent
were people of color. Within 15 years, the percentage of female superintendents shot to
21; the percentage of people of color jumped to 6.
3 2009 — doctor of education leadership (ed.l.d.) program: USP
ended in 2010 as the Ed.L.D., another frst-of-its-kind program, began. The highly se-
lective doctoral program prepares experienced educators for system-level leadership
roles in school districts, nonprofts, government agencies, and beyond, and includes
faculty from the Ed School, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School.
3 institute for educational management: In 2019, the Ed School marks
the 50th anniversary of this institute, the nation’s oldest program for professional de-
velopment of college and university leaders (more than 4,700 since 1970).
3 using data to improve quality: This bootcamp helps early education lead-
ers better fgure out how to collect — and efectively use — data.
3 new and aspiring school leaders: This Professional Education program
focuses on common leadership challenges for new school leaders.
CREDIT HERE
3 women in education leadership: This prestigious program focuses on
how female senior leaders in education can efectively strengthen their leadership.
IMAN RASTEGARIWinter 2020
Reason #13
Because We
Never Forget an
Anniversary
Here are a few of our more recent:
H 5 T H A N N I V E R S A RY
Harvard Teacher Fellows (in 2020): A teacher residency
and master’s program to train Harvard College seniors
and alumni to become well-prepared teachers.
H 1 0 T H A N N I V E R S A RY
Doctor of Education Leadership (2019): A doctoral
program for leaders in preK–12 education who are
trained to take on transformative roles in education.
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Strategic Data Project (2019): This project works with
education agencies to fnd and train data leaders who
then help districts better use student data.
H 1 5 T H A N N I V E R S A RY
Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) (2018): A
collaboration between the Ed School and the Harvard
Business School, this program uses business strategies
to help public schools and districts improve.
H 3 0 T H A N N I V E R S A RY
Harvard Seminar for New Presidents (2018): This Pro-
fessional Education program addresses the challenges
faced by frst-time college and university presidents.
H 3 5 T H A N N I V E R S A RY
Principals’ Center (2016): This is the nation’s frst
center dedicated to supporting principals and school
leaders through Professional Education seminars.
H 5 0 T H A N N I V E R S A RY
Project Zero (2017): A research center that explores
topics in education such as deep thinking, understand-
ing, intelligence, creativity, and ethics.
Sesame Street (2019): The long-running beloved chil-
Reason #12 dren’s show and workshop can trace its roots back to
the Ed School. (See Reason #34, page 26.)
BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN TURNING Institute for Educational Management (2019): The na-
tion’s longest-running Professional Education program
GUTMAN BLUE FOR AUTISM AWARENESS in immersive leadership in higher education.
Human Development and Psychology (2020): One of
SINCE 2014 the school’s oldest master’s degree programs.100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed.
BECAUSE Reason #14
BRUTAL IS (MOSTLY)
BEAUTIFUL
In 1973, a year after it opened, Gut-
man Library received an honor that
might make some — still today —
fex an eyebrow (or two). The Bos-
ton Society of Architects, at their
annual dinner in May of that year,
called the building one of the “most
beautiful pieces of architecture” in
the metropolitan Boston area. The
dinner was to honor the library’s
architect, Benjamin Thompson and
Associates, with their prestigious
14 Harleston Parker medal.
The committee called the mas-
sive building, with its reinforced
concrete and stark, blocky shape,
an “outstanding example of a
disciplined approach to architec-
ture.” They particularly praised the
“brightly colored interiors” of the
library, which were then painted in
bold reds, blues, greens, yellows,
and purples. The interior refected
the “liveliness of Brattle Street and
reinforces the immediate urban
pattern,” they added. Benjamin
Thompson, who had earlier started
the famed Architects Collaborative
with Walter Gropius, founder of the
Bauhaus School and head of Har-
vard’s Graduate School of Design,
said at the ceremony that his inten-
tion in designing the library was for
it to be “functional but in the scale
of the street, particularly the sur-
rounding residential area.”
Like many other buildings cre-
ated in this brutalist style — a
LARSEN HALL French term, beton brut, or raw
RADCLIFFE COLLEGE ARCHIVES
concrete — Gutman has its critics,
particularly folks who work in the
building and fnd it cold (despite
colorful furniture). So, too, has
nearby Larsen Hall had its critics.
Its modern style hasn’t been em-
braced by everyone since it openedWinter 2020
NICHOLS HOUSE
IN 1963, BEFORE
THE MOVE
Reason #16
in 1965. Likened to a brick bunker,
3-D IBM card, or medieval castle,
the tallest building on campus was
actually designed in reaction to the
surroundings. In a letter written in
1964 to Roy Larsen, the building’s
namesake, lead architect William
Caudill wrote, “One of the main
design premises of the building
was to make it as fexible as a glass BECAUSE OUR BRICKS
Manhattan offce building, still have
the feeling of permanency that will ARE SPECIAL 15
allow it to dwell together in unity
with other Harvard buildings, yet When it comes to brick, there’s a
retain its individuality. Now if it wide range of hues and tones. One
does these things — and I think of our buildings, Longfellow Hall, is
the building will — we must have Reason #15 so special that it even has its own
anticipated that it would be called named color: Radcliffe Brick.
Because We Know How
Roy Larsen Hall. Like the man, the Why Radcliffe and not Longfel-
building should be dynamic, should low? The stately building that today
have a timeless quality, and should houses classrooms, Askwith Hall,
be a distinctive and distinguished
individual. If not, fre the architects
— after the dedication.”
to Save Old Buildings and the dean’s offce, originally
belonged to Radcliffe College.
Designed by Perry, Shaw, and
The architects weren’t fred, In 1970, in order to make way for the construction of Gutman, the Hepburn as a neo-Georgian version
and Larsen Hall received many ac- of Harvard’s University Hall, the
school’s new library, two historic houses had to be moved: Read and
colades over the years. “New and building opened in 1930 and was
stimulating,” wrote one architect Nichols. Nichols was built in 1827 by its original owner, John T.G. originally called the New Radcliffe
in The Boston Globe. “Active, Nichols, who likely was a local doctor. It was designed by Oliver Lecture Hall. It was renamed a year
ingenious,” wrote the authors of Hastings, a lumber merchant who built his own house on Brattle later to Longfellow Hall, in honor of
Harvard: An Architectural History. Street a few years later next to Henry Wadworth Longfellow’s Alice Mary Longfellow (daughter of
But there was also criticism of the house. The Read house was built earlier: In 1772, according to the Henry Wadsworth), a member of the
building’s quirkiness. Windows Cambridge Historical Society, although other documents — burial original organizing committee that
were few and far between, in part established what became Radcliffe
records, reports from Harvard libraries, and the Historic Guide to
because the architects wanted to College. The Ed School eventu-
draw the eye to a small number of Cambridge, published in 1907 by the Daughters of the American ally bought the building in 1961,
stunning views. Which they did — Revolution — indicate that it may have been built in 1725. In any although classes for Radcliffe
at the expense of natural light (very case, the frst owner was James Read and his family. In 1759, a piece undergraduates were still held
little) and windowless offces (very of the garden space was sold to Christ Church as construction of the there. It was a sale, said Radcliffe
many). It seems that Caudill had a church began. The house stayed in the Read family until 1826, when President Mary Bunting in 1961,
sense of humor about the criticism, that made sense.
it was sold to Levi Farwell, who later had a street renamed after him
saying at the dedication ceremony “By turning over to the School
(Farwell Place, once School Court — the dead end behind Gutman).
STAN FILIPOWSKI
in 1966, “The new structure may of Education a building in the Rad-
have a strange form, but it will wear Radclife bought the house in 1943, to use as a dormitory. cliffe Yard, we further the education
a familiar Harvard tweed.” And fnal- Luckily, when Nichols and Read were moved in 1970, the move of women at Harvard, which has
ly, “What’s wrong with castles?” was close by: The houses now sit side-by-side, next to Gutman. always been Radcliffe’s basic aim.”100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed.
Reason #17
BECAUSE YOUTH WILL BE
SERVED (AND SERVE)
All of our deans were Reason #18
young when they took
over. Two were barely
in their 30s when they Because
were appointed. a 100th
Anniversary
Is So Special
We Had to
Celebrate It
16
HARVARD ARCHIVES AND NEWS OFFICE; MICHAEL LUTCH; JOHN HANCOCK; ANDY BRILLIANT; HARVARD GAZETTE; LISA ABITBOL; ELIO PAJARES
1920–1940 1940–1948 1948–1964
Twice
Henry Wyman Holmes (40) Francis Spaulding (44) Francis Keppel (32)
This year, the Ed School is celebrat-
ing the 100th anniversary of the
creation of the school. But this isn’t
the frst time we’ve marked our
centennial. During the 1991–1992
academic year, we recognized the
landmark decision by Harvard in
1891 to appoint Paul Hanus as
the university’s frst education
professor. This two-part celebra-
tion started in late September with
1964–1972 1972–1982 1982–1992 1992–2002
a series of lectures from faculty
Ted Sizer (31) Paul Ylvisaker (51) Pat Graham (47) Jerry Murphy (54)
about their research and life’s work,
including Professors Charles Wil-
lie, Carol Gilligan, Israel Scheffer
(who retired at the end of that year
after nearly 40), Robert LeVine, and
Catherine Snow (who was serving
as acting dean). The second part of
the celebration, held in early April,
focused on changes in teaching
and learning, and included keynote
addresses from incoming Harvard
president Neil Rudenstine and Ed
School faculty Gary Orfeld, Harold
Howe II, Dick Light, Vito Perrone,
2002–2006 2006–2013 2013–2018 2018– Bob Peterkin, and Heather Weiss,
Ellen Lagemann (57) Kathy McCartney (50) Jim Ryan (47) Bridget Long (45) as well as alumni practitioners.Winter 2020
Reason #19 Reason #21
BECAUSE IN 1920,
$200 COULD BUY
YOU A DEGREE
That’s the amount Ed School
students paid for tuition that 17
frst year. In 1920, they could
Reason #20
also buy…
BECAUSE WE HAD PAULO 3 A copy of The Boston Globe
or a stamp for 2 cents
FREIRE FOR A YEAR 3 A little girl’s belted coat
for $2.98 or a pair of gold-flled
spherical toric lens glasses with
“The very frst time I heard the name Freire was after most of my a grip-tite nosepiece for $6.50
Because the education, including university level. I had never heard of him until I from Gilchrist’s Basement Store
Way Students reached Mexico, where I spent a few years teaching linguistics. I had in Boston
Stay in Touch started to develop a way of teaching that I thought was, well, good for
me and I hoped for the participants. One of them came up to me after
3 A Ford Model T for $260
3 A sirloin steak at the Hotel
with Family class and said, ‘You’ve read too much Freire.’ That was the frst time Astor in New York City for $1.75,
and Friends I heard his name. I didn’t want to appear as the guy who didn’t know with a side of peach melba for
Could Get anything about the guy everyone was supposed to know, so I said, ‘Oh
no, I haven’t read that much, and what was that name again?’ I came
80 cents
Interesting across Freire a few years later through my interest in liberation theol-
ogy, and so I read his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed for the frst time.
1920 Handwritten letters,
candlestick phones and calls I heard the name Piaget maybe 10 million times but never the name
placed by operators, telegrams Freire and I have wondered why he is not as well-known even if, in
my opinion, his work is even more relevant now than it ever was.”
1960 Rotary landline phone calls,
coin-operated phone booths
BRUNO DELLA CHIESA, A LONGTIME VISITING LECTURER, AT AN ASKWITH FORUM
2000 Flip phones, email, pagers IN 2012 DISCUSSING THE HUGE INFLUENCE OF BRAZILIAN PAULO FREIRE ON EDU-
CATORS. FREIRE, CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PHILOSPHERS
2020 Smartphones, texting, OF EDUCATION OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TAUGHT AT THE ED SCHOOL IN 1969, THE
social media YEAR BEFORE PUBLISHING PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED. HE ARGUED THAT TRA-
DITIONAL TEACHING METHODS PROMOTED THE VALUES OF THE DOMINANT CLASS,
2120 Mind-to-mind CREATING A “CULTURE OF SILENCE.” STUDENTS, HE STRESSED, AREN’T MERELY
communications? VESSELS TO BE FILLED, BUT PARTICIPANTS IN THE LEARNING PROCESS.
Illustration by Simone Massoni100 Reasons to Love the Ed School Now Harvard Ed.
Reason #22 was nothing short
BECAUSE WE REMINISCE (FONDLY)
of magical. And this
even spilled over to
the streets ‘round
the corner with the
self-donate book-
stand. With a grate-
ful heart, I know I’ll
always fnd a home
so the class could by flling her entire turns out he’s also at Appian Way.
JANE CONDON, watch it together; offce with balloons. DENISE (TIOSECO) an education advo-
ED.M.’74 our librarian, John We had to do this ROEHL, ED.M.’02 cate, a scoutmaster, MAX KLAU, ED.M.’00,
I studied children’s Collins, tuned the after hours, which, The best memory the loving spouse ED.D.’05
television with Sam Gutman TV to the of course, meant was seeing the of a kindergarten I remember going
Gibbon, executive channel. During the that my daughter thick FedEx admis- teacher, and a father to a “Welcome New
producer of The show, I had to “ask had to come with sions packet on my of two. Students” party in
Electric Company. the audience” about me. Can you imagine doorstep. I think my the basement of Gut-
I was in one of the favor of Red being three, watch- heart stopped for a JORDAN SCHNELL, man in the frst week.
his classes with a Hots candy. As that ing a room fll up moment and blood ED.M.’08 I remember con-
German man who question aired, John with balloons way drained from my My favorite memory necting with all the
taught languages by emerged from his over your head? face. I felt euphoric, was my awesome other new students
BOB SELMAN, using music. To this offce…with a bowl Can you imagine then lightheaded, study group for who had lived such
PROFESSOR day, I can see this of Red Hots. (In case being Monica try- then nervous that HT100. We found fascinating lives and
It was the fall of classmate telling you were wondering, ing to open your this packet couldn’t each other randomly thinking to myself,
1968. As part of us the story of his I did in fact do well offce door the next really be meant for on orientation day “Enrolling in this
my doctoral train- escape to West Ber- — $50,000!) morning? Can you me. I didn’t tell many and formed an program was a great
ing to become a lin. He hid in a truck imagine how much people I was even instant bond. We choice!”
psychologist, I had of cabbages. When BELLE BRETT, ED.D.’92 fun we had? applying because it were very differ-
just completed my the East German As a new part-time felt like a pipe- ent and we used MODESTA GARCIA,
clinical and com- guard at the Berlin student in the doc- BRENDA KINSLER, dream. As reality set those differences to ED.M.’79
munity psychology Wall border crossing toral program, while ED.M.’80 in, doubt began to support each other My favorite memory
internship at what stuck his bayonet working fulltime as I wanted to do fll my mind. As an and make each was serving on the
then was called the in to the back of the HGSE’s director of something for Black immigrant, a woman, other laugh. We are HGSE Colloquium
Cambridge Child truck, fortunately he Career Services, I History Month but and public school lifelong friends more Board and inviting
Guidance Center. missed my class- wanted to take three had no idea what educated, would I than 10 years later. my faculty-mentor,
I told my adviser, mate, Uwe Kind! courses my frst to do. I went to ft in? Would I be Professor Francisco
18 Freda Rebelsky, that Thus a great spirit semester but was Harvard’s Depart- able to compete? ELLY BERKE, ED.M.’15, Jiménez, from Santa
I had not expected was saved. concerned that it ment of African and Would my voice and ALUMNI COUNCIL Clara University,
to work in the future might be challeng- African American opinion be taken My favorite class was where I completed
with youth, but was MARY TAMER, ing. My adviser, Studies in hopes of seriously? I juggled 21st Century Demo- my B.A., to speak at
surprised to fnd this ED.M.’13 Terry Tivnan, urged getting guidance. multiple jobs as a graphic Transforma- the HGSE. Equally
work very exciting At the start of the me to go ahead and I had the opportu- student and took tion: Opportunities important, it was a
and challenging, 2013 spring semes- do it. ‘It’s just three nity to speak with out student loans, and Implications for meeting of two of
and I’d like to learn ter, I had to bring months out of your Ewart Guinier, who which took 15 years U.S. Schools taught my most signifcant
more about child my younger son to life,’ he said. And so informed me that he to pay off. That by Susan Eaton. I mentors in higher
development, both HGSE with me for I successfully did and [Boston artist] investment was loved exploring case education, Profes-
empirically and the- a day of classes. and have applied Allan Crite had been worth it. Having that studies of towns in sors Jiménez and
oretically. She said Jackson was 13 and that helpful mantra friends since high experience, access, America experienc- Charles Vert Willie.
to me, “There is a less than thrilled to each time I’ve faced school. Guinier gave and credential is a ing demographic Subsequently, as an
new professor at the tag along, until the an overload. me Allan Crite’s privilege I don’t take change and posing admissions offcer at
Harvard Graduate promise of crispy phone number. I for granted. creative solutions Santa Clara, I invited
School of Education tater tots in the Gut- BOBBY DORIGO JONES, called Allan Crite to unite diverse Professor Willie to
who has just come man Cafe convinced ED.M.’17 and arranged to CHRISTINA WILEY, groups and resolve keynote a mentor-
to town from the him otherwise. I still Toward the end visit his home on ED.M.’18 conficts. I found the ing symposium that
University of Chi- have the photo of of my education Columbus Ave in In the middle of my movement toward I created around
cago, where he was him with one of the policy program, I Boston. Walking HGSE graduation bilingual schools one of his visits for
a member of that widest smiles I had took a short course into his home was ceremony, I got a in Utah particularly a conference in San
university’s Com- ever seen in front on young adult lit- like walking into a very important call compelling. A class Francisco.
mittee on Human of his small box of erature. After a year museum! There was from the Gift of Life like this is so rel-
Development. His potato treats. It was of laws, theories, fabulous artwork Marrow Registry. evant in our current VICKI JACOBS,
name is Lawrence right there and then and statistics, the on all the walls. After walking across political climate. ED.M.’80, ED.D.’86,
Kohlberg, and like he announced his course reminded He showed me his the stage and tak- ADJUNCT LECTURER
you, he was once intent to apply to me, through incred- sketchbooks from ing just a moment MARTIN GOMEZ, My frst day at HGSE
going to be a clinical Harvard, although ible stories and childhood. He had to hug my family, I CAEL’16 was as an expectant,
child psychologist. not for its academic discussion with my me sign his guest- anxiously returned My favorite memory eager, and complete-
But when he learned standing. “These” peers, of the most book. Allan Crite the call to learn that from my time at ly intimidated stu-
about the ‘genetic he said, “are the important goal allowed me to look I had matched as a HGSE is the warm dent. In her faculty
epistemology’ work best tater tots I’ve of education: to through his artwork. donor for a 54-year- welcome and welcome address
of Jean Piaget, he ever had!” discover the world What I found most old man suffering embrace of the Ed that morning, Sara
decided to focus on and our place within interesting was his from severe aplastic School community. Lawrence-Lightfoot
research, applying RICH REDDICK, it. HGSE never let work that featured anemia. Two of the From my frst steps admonished us,
Piaget’s theories ED.M.’98, ED.D.’07 me lose track of the trees as the theme. best moments of my entering Gutman, to with kindness but
to moral develop- In 2004, I appeared bigger picture. I selected several life happened liter- the various meetings also urgency, to fnd
ment. He is holding on Who Wants to pieces of art that ally back to back: at Larsen, to the time each week to
an inter-university be a Millionaire, SARA SUCHMAN, were placed on getting my master’s plenaries in Longfel- “dance in the leaves”
seminar in Larsen which aired dur- ED.D.’12 exhibit in Gutman degree and learning low, the people and — metaphorically,
Hall. Why don’t you ing Julie Reuben’s In 2010, Professor Library. As a part of my cells could save the environment of to live our lives fully
tag along? Maybe history course. (I Monica Higgins was the Black History a stranger’s life. Hugsy always made through playful mo-
you will fnd an in- was a teaching awarded tenure. Month celebration, More than a year me feel welcome and ments that would
teresting idea or two fellow.) Professor Her breakfast club we had a recep- later, I was fnally at home. The con- nourish our humanity
you can develop into Reuben graciously research group tion in Allan Crite’s able to meet my sistency of kindness as well as our minds.
a dissertation.” ended class early decided to celebrate honor. recipient, Michael. It shown by everyone I have extendedWinter 2020
Sara’s advice to my too risky when Jerry college, you would graduate students. I used my Harvard together on the sec- 54 years later, I still
students over the fnally said to me, have wasted your From Beatrice Whit- research to inform ond foor of Larsen don’t get.
years as the frst “Some faculty might experience. Venture ing, Robert LeVine, my school practice, to celebrate and say
“true” thing I ever just miss the boat!” out and explore Jerome Kagan, and and I brought my goodbye. We were LATOYA HARRISON,
learned at HGSE. I knew then that the many libraries Catherine Snow’s “real” world experi- looking for a pho- ED.M.’08, ED.D.’13
dealing with senior at this university.” excellent crosscul- ence in schools back tographer and ran Our USP cohort
ALMI ABEYTA, ED.D.’13 faculty was above His advice led me tural courses and to Harvard. This into the hallway to dinner with the
I have so many HGSE my pay grade. to discover nooks research, my theo- boundary-spanning see who was around. Elmores. It was such
memories! My more and crannies around retical understand- position gave me A few minutes a fun evening. They
recent memory is KATHARINE (MARTIN) campus that opened ing of child develop- enormous credibil- later, in comes none were so hospitable
with Professors Bob PFEIFFER, ED.M.’16 up a whole new world ment was broadened ity with my Harvard other than Howard and kind. Pulling
Peterkin and Maree My favorite memory to me. Chet taught beyond U.S.-centric students, modeled Gardner. With a little all-nighters to prep
Sneed. Even though is getting engaged in me the importance of and Western per- a new professional iPhone tutorial, he for Maree Snead’s
Bob is retired, he still the Radcliffe Sunken connecting, building spectives. The learn- role for them, and was able to leave us law class where “no
supports his Urban Garden. My sweet relationships, listen- ing was so exciting demonstrated that with a very memo- sloppy thinking”
Superintendent Pro- husband walked into ing, and mentoring. I wanted to be a university professors rable photo and fnal was allowed. I still
gram students when Gutman where two That one connec- graduate student at can also teach kids! moment of the year. use that phrase to
they are superinten- friends and I were tion on Appian Way Appian Way for the It was value-added this day. USP feld
dents. Bob came out rushing through a helped to mold me rest of my life. for both sides! RAUL JUAREZ, ED.M.’18 trips with Bob and
to consult with us project for Jed Lip- into the educator I Many of my fondest Deborah where we
in Santa Fe. After an pard’s class on char- have become. HANNA RODRIGUEZ- CHRISTINE DELEON, memories took place had opportunities to
evening dinner, Bob ter school policy. We FARRAR, ED.M.’05, ED.L.D.’14 in Gutman Library. learn from superin-
got a bloody nose were way over our USHA PASI, ED.M.’85 ED.D.’13, ALUMNI My greatest memo- No matter how my tendents in the feld.
that wouldn’t stop meeting time, so he I remember how I COUNCIL ries at HGSE have day was going, I
bleeding. So Maree sat there patiently. felt when Dean Pat For 13 weeks, I to do with the kind knew I would always LONGY ZHEN HAN,
and I took Bob to the We fnally left and he Graham spoke to dragged myself to of community I was be greeted by a ED.M.’17
emergency room. We steered me into the the entering class the Higher Education able to build for friendly smile from Coming to Boston
waited hours for the Sunken Garden and of 1985 and said, and the Law course, myself while I was Maribel, who was from Australia meant
doctors to see him proposed because as I recall, “You all which I found just ut- there. Whether it was on the custodial that I got to experi-
and meanwhile froze he knew I loved that belong here.” Every terly boring. At week sitting silently across staff, once I walked ence a lot of New
in the emergency space so much! It time I think about 14, it was time to from a friend at Gut- through those doors England for the frst
room as we waited. turns out the other HGSE, I am reminded study for the dread- man Library while we and I could always time. Apple picking,
We kept asking for women knew it was of the responsibil- ed fnal. A few of us wrote papers about count on my friends pumpkin carving,
blankets for the three about to happen and ity embedded in got together and our personal stories and the security turkey and squirrel
of us. We still laugh were in the bushes her remarks. I also decided to divide and our theories team for laughs. watching, and a
about it to this day! taking pictures! remember moments and conquer all the of learning, the white Christmas.
Never in a million with Carol Weiss, course content. After team meetings at ALICE PARMAN, One of my fondest 19
years did I think I’d GUS FRIAS, ED.M.’94 who taught me the we wrote summaries the top of Larsen M.A.T.’65 memories is launch-
end up in the emer- In 1993, I took a difference between of all the reading and where we scribbled I had the great ing my second Gusto
gency room with my class titled Schools measuring and case law, somehow on the whiteboard pleasure of hearing & Gecko picture book
HGSE professors and the Law, led knowing how you’ve it all clicked and I for hours preparing lectures by Jerome at the Ed School with
begging for hospital by Professor Jay made a difference. loved this course, for Workplace Lab, Bruner, who also Elli, my illustra-
blankets. Nothing Heubert, Ed.D.’82. He highlighting for me or the consistent showed flms of his tor from Sweden,
like the USP family! taught us how to use KEIRA WILLIAMS, that learning is more “Thirsty Thursday” research studies. surrounded by sup-
the law to promote ED.M.’14 fun and effective drinks at the Sinclair, He was an inspiring portive friends and
KAY MERSETH, education reform Our cohort arranged with other people. I took away from teacher who brought faculty. For many, it
M.A.T.’69, ED.D.’82, and improve student a two-day IEP retreat HGSE more than a breath of fresh air would have been just
ADJUNCT LECTURER achievement. Spe- at Harvard Forest. SUSAN MOORE just learning; I took to social studies another lunchtime
I have a memory of cifcally, he empha- We learned more JOHNSON, M.A.T.’69, lifelong friendships curricula in the late event (because there
talking with former sized that, by law, all about our class- ED.D.’81, PROFESSOR and colleagues. 1960s. My studies were never a short-
Deans Pat Graham students and staff mates and just plain As a frst-year were split between age of events at the
and Jerry Murphy have a sacred right enjoyed each other’s doctoral student in AUDREY EDWARDS, HGSE and romance school) but for me, it
about Pat’s frst ad- to attend schools company. At the end 1976, I hoped that ED.M.’65, ED.D.’69 languages; I was part was a wonderful mo-
dress to the faculty. that are safe, secure, of the weekend, we HGSE’s renowned On a September of a graduate semi- ment and a highlight
The stakes seemed and successful. each had a piece anthropologists afternoon in 1964, nar in French litera- of my time at HGSE.
incredibly high! This After graduating of paper with our could help me un- I found myself ture, which boosted
was early in the fall from Harvard, I name at the top. Our derstand the culture chatting with a my confdence that JUAN FELICIANO-
just after Pat had used his teachings classmates silently of the high school classmate, an Afri- I might someday go VALERA, ED.M.’79,
been named dean to prevent school walked around the I’d just left. They did, can American named for a Ph.D. — which I ED.D.’85.
and Jerry as academ- violence and improve room, leaving and, smitten by their Charles Smith, who did, a few years later. I remember the Gut-
ic dean. I was serving student achievement anonymous notes introductory course, had worked in Cam- man elevator. It was
as Pat’s assistant throughout America. meant to inspire I asked Beatrice eroon and Germany. JONATHAN DAUBE, so slow that people
while I was fnishing and encourage the Whiting if I could As a young white ED.D.’68 started gathering for
up my thesis. I recall RUSSELL WILLIS, person on the page. contribute to her teacher, I wanted Looking back to the it to arrive. While we
conversations about ED.M.’96, ED.M.’02 I still have mine and current research. To to help students mid-1960s, the high- waited, we talked,
a faculty retreat My advisor at HGSE look at it if I feel like my surprise, she said overcome poverty light was working but as soon as the
and I was extremely was the late Chester I’m having a rough yes. That was the and language bar- with David Riesman, elevator arrived, ev-
enthusiastic about Pierce. He was the time personally and frst of many rich col- riers. We both did. author of The Lonely erybody was silent.
getting the entire se- kindest gentleman professionally. laborative research So began a 55-year Crowd, who gave me And once inside the
nior faculty on a boat who took me under opportunities I’ve friendship, extending my only Harvard A+. elevator, none of us
and taking them on a his wing and shared ROBIN MOUNT, had at HGSE, where to our families, that He continued to be said a word.
cruise or to an island stories about his ED.M.’79, ED.D.’94, students learn from lasted until Chuck’s helpful during my 31
in Boston Harbor to career and life that I ALUMNI COUNCIL faculty and faculty death in August and years as a communi-
discuss the future of will always remem- Learning to view learn from students. perhaps made the ty college president.
HGSE. While I was ber. I knew I could go human develop- world a little better. Not a highlight:
expanding on what a to him during offce ment through a KITTY BOLES, ED.D.’91, Thanks, HGSE. having to memorize
cool idea this would hours just to talk and crosscultural lens SENIOR LECTURER Herold Hunt’s POS-
be, I could detect listen to his wisdom. transformed my For many years I CHRISTINE DAHNKE, DCORB (planning,
some wariness on He told me one day, thinking, research, had a dual role: ED.L.D.’19 organizing, staffng,
Jerry’s part. They ob- “If you come to Har- and teaching of hu- HGSE lecturer and At year’s end, the directing, coordinat-
viously thought this vard and only visit man development to elementary class- seventh cohort of the ing, reporting and
was too much and the library in your undergraduate and room co-teacher. Ed.L.D. program got budgeting), which,
3 GO TO GSE.HARVARD.EDU/ED TO READ MORE ALUMNI MEMORIES AND LONGER ESSAYSReason #24
Reason #23
BECAUSE
GRADUATING
IS A FAMILY
AFFAIR…
Our students’ kids take the best
photos at Commencement.
They capture our hearts, they
make us smile, and they even
make us chuckle, especially
when the kids use the time to
catch up on a few zzzs.
20
BECAUSE OUR COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES
When it ended, I did not walk one, I hoped we could maybe mainstream/social media spike
back to my ofce. In full suit, reach 10,000 or so. like I had never seen before.
precariously carrying an open Donovan was literally an over-
laptop, I sprinted. “One of the most powerful, heart- night sensation, and yet that
What hundreds in atten- felt student speeches you will ever isn’t even the full story.
dance had just witnessed was hear! Thank you, Ed.M. candi- The very next day, Dean
an incredibly powerful fve min- date Donovan Livingston, for James Ryan delivered his own
utes and 46 seconds of spoken today’s spoken word poetry. And graduation speech, centered on
word poetry delivered beauti- for those who did not see it — take asking essential questions in
fully by HGSE student DONOVAN 5 minutes and enjoy.” life. Its iconic moment was in
LIVINGSTON, ED.M.’16. It received the fnal six minutes and 50 sec-
an immediate and prolonged Yes, I pushed the limits of onds when he famously posed
standing ovation. Equally im- being an unbiased institutional the question: “Wait, what?” As
portant, it was recorded. While voice, but I could think of no that speech ended, I wondered
waiting for this large video fle better way to signal the level whether lighting could strike
to download back at my desk, I of inspiration this video would twice here on Appian Way.
CASEY BAYER; JILL ANDERSON
had big dreams for viewership. bring. Then, a simple click and Hilarious and touching, I knew
The year was 2016, and I was it posted. the last part of Ryan’s speech
the Ed School’s director of digi- Over the next 24 hours, I wit- would make a perfect digital
tal communications strategy. nessed hundreds of thousands morsel for our exponentially
Our typical videos averaged of video views, a doubling in our larger (and newer) audiences to
roughly 2,000 views but for this social media following, and a enjoy. The very next day, DeanYou can also read
