The Educators Series brings meaningful professional development to faculty in Marblehead Public Schools. Renowned educators in the fields of literacy, culture, and the arts are invited to Marblehead Public Schools to share their views with faculty. The Educators Series exposes teachers to scholars and research while asking them to consider their classroom practice. Teachers learn from participation in lectures, study groups, and teacher institutes that help build knowledge, reflective habits, and collaboration. By offering these types of professional development, teachers consider curriculum and differentiated instruction with all types of learners in mind. As a school district who strives to build professional learning communities within its schools, the Educators Series reinforces the belief that teachers are essential collaborators to one another within the culture of the classroom and school. By having professional development open up classroom practice in public and reflective ways, individual and community growth occurs.

Beth Delforge is the developer/facilitator of the Educators Series.

2006-2007

Kurt Wootton
Director of the ArtsLiteracy Project in the Education Department at Brown University. Elizabeth Keiser, master teacher/artist joined Kurt Wootton for the Teacher Institute Workshops: Oct 27, 28, & Mar 31; Work Sessions with Beth Delforge: Dec 4, Jan 8, Feb 12.

Harvey Daniels
Professor at National-Louis University in Chicago
An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Daniel’s book, Teaching the Best Practice Way: Methods That Matter, K-12. Lecture was cancelled.

Ron Berger
A master carpenter and teacher, and now a School Designer for the Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound School network. An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Berger’s book, An Ethic of Excellence: Building a Culture of Craftsmanship in Schools. The lecture,”A Culture of Quality,” took place on May 22, 2007 4-6pm.

2005-2006

Elliot Eisner
Internationally known arts educator is the Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art at Stanford University. Dr. Eisner is the author or editor of sixteen books addressing the topics of arts education, curriculum studies, and qualitative research methods. An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Eisner’s book, The Art and the Creation of Man. The lecture, “What Do the Arts Teach Anyway,” took place on June 12, 2006 4-6pm.

Deborah Meier
Teacher, writer, public advocate and learning theorist. Founder and teacher-director of highly successful elementary schools, Central Park East in NYC, and Mission Hill School in Boston. An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Meier’s book, In Schools We Trust. The lecture, “Connecting the Dots: What’s K-12 Schooling got to do with the Good Life,” took place on Feb 14, 2006 4-6pm.

Linda Rief
Master English language arts teacher at a middle school in New Hampshire and instructor at the University of New Hampshire’s Summer Literacy Institute. An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Rief’s book, Seeking Diversity: Language Arts with Adolescents. The lecture, “Literacy with Life: Real Writers for Real Reasons for a Real Audience,” took place on May 23, 2006 4-6pm.

2004-2005

Jessica Hoffman Davis
Former Director of the Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Davis’ book, The Marriage of Passion & Industry: Schools that Focus on the Arts: Portraits of the Conservatory Lab Charter School, Boston Arts Academy, and the Walnut Hill School. . The lecture took place on November 16, 2004 4-6pm.

Ellin Oliver Keene
Teaches at the University of Denver and consults with schools and districts around the country. An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Keene’s book, Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in the Reader's Workshop. The lecture took place on January 11, 2005 4-6pm.

Kathy Greeley
Master teacher and Middle School Program Developer for the Cambridge Public Schools. An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Greeley’s book, Why Fly That Way? Linking Community and Academic Achievement. The lecture took place on March 22, 2005 4-6pm.

Steve Seidel
Director of Harvard Project Zero and Director of the Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. An eight-week (K-12) teacher study group read Seidel’s book, Making Learning Visible - Children as Individual and Group Learners. The lecture took place on May 17, 2005 4-6pm.