Art of Teaching Faculty
Sara Wilford
Director, The Art of Teaching Program/Psychology
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College. M.S.Ed., Ed.M., Bank Street College of Education. Former elementary teacher, Bronxville Public Schools; workshop leader for seminars and conferences on early childhood education and literacy development; author of What You Need to Know When Your Child Is Learning to Read; Roy E. Larsen Chair in Child Development. SLC, 1982-
http://pages.slc.edu/~swilford
Mary Hebron
Associate Director, The Art of Teaching Program
B.A., M.A., New York University. Former teacher and coordinator of primary education, Mamaroneck Public Schools; curriculum and assessment consultant in New York City and Westchester; coordinator of teacher and study groups, including The Art of Teaching Professional Development Series. Board member of The Prospect Archive and Center for Education and Research, North Bennington, Vermont. SLC, 1985-
Jan Drucker
The Art of Teaching
B.A. Radcliffe College; Ph.D. New York University. Clinical and developmental psychologist with teaching and research interests in the areas of developmental and educational theory; child development; parent guidance; clinical assessment and therapy with children and adolescents; and the development of imaginative play and other symbolic processes in early childhood and their impact on later development. Professional writings have centered on various forms of early symbolization in development and in clinical work with children. SLC, 1972–
David Eger
The Art of Teaching
B.S., Wesleyan University. Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Clinical psychologist in private clinical practice. Experience as a Staff Psychologist, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and Children’s Inpatient Unit, NY Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Div.; Director of Student Services, The Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, NY; Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. SLC, 2006-
Margery B. Franklin
Psychology/The Art of Teaching
B.A., Swarthmore College. M.A., Ph.D., Clark University. Special interest in developmental theory and the history of child psychology, language and representation, and the psychology of art; author of articles and book chapters on developmental theory, language and play, and artistic development; co-editor of Development and the Arts: Critical Perspectives, Developmental Processes: Heinz Werner’s Selected Writings, Symbolic Functioning in Childhood, and Child Language: A Reader; past president of the division of psychology and the arts of the American Psychological Association. SLC, 1965-
http://pages.slc.edu/~mbf/
Linwood J. Lewis
Psychology/The Art of Teaching
B.A., Manhattanville College. M.A., Brooklyn College. Ph.D., City University of New York. Special interests in the effects of culture and social context on the conceptualization of health and illness, stress and coping in persons with chronic disease, the psychological study of families and basic research on cognition; recipient of a MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellowship on Network for Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood. SLC, 1997-
http://pages.slc.edu/~ljlewis
Margaret Martinez-DeLuca
The Art of Teaching
B.A., College of Mount St. Joseph. M.S.Ed., Bank Street College of Education. Member, faculty of Bank Street College; consultant, Bank Street Center for Minority Achievement; work in restructuring and math reform in New York City, Newark, and Baltimore elementary and middle schools; math consultant in school districts outside the New York City area; classroom teacher K-12 for 30 years. SLC, 1994-
Kathleen Ruen
The Art of Teaching
B.A., M.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Ph.D., NYU. Special interest in connections between teaching and creating artwork. Former teacher and Assistant Director, Central Park East I Elementary; grant writer, Center for Arts and Education, New York City. Founder and Artistic Director of Undermine, Under One Roof Theatre, Tribeca, NY. SLC, 2003-
