The Thomas H. Wright Lecture, inaugurated in 1995, honors Thomas H. Wright's dedication to Sarah Lawrence and his long service on the Board of Trustees. An endowment, established by the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, funds the lecture.

2008 Thomas H. Wright Lecture

Where da Heat Go: Social Justice, Agency & Science

Angela Calabrese Barton, Ph.D.

Monday, July 7, 2008 at 4:30 p.m.
Donnelley Theatre
Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Angela Calabrese Barton, Ph.D., is a scholar and a teacher who is committed to working within and across the educational system – including public schools, community organizations, and science engineering communities – to help promote a more just world. She is associate professor of teacher education at Michigan State University and currently heads up the Detroit Area Elementary Teacher Education Program at MSU. She also teaches both doctoral and undergraduate courses in science education and teacher education. Before moving to Michigan in 2006, Dr. Calabrese Barton was on the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University for nine years. Additionally, she has been a chemistry teacher, and she has developed and taught in numerous urban after school programs in community centers, shelters, and schools in New York City, as well as Texas and Michigan.

Dr. Calabrese Barton currently holds two grants from the National Science Foundation to examine student learning and its intersection with participation and identity development inside and outside of school settings. She is also beginning a new project funded by the Spencer Foundation to examine teacher learning when elementary teachers and parents study science curricular materials together with the goal of adapting the materials to better support their students/children. Her professional awards and publications are numerous.

The Thomas H. Wright Lecture, funded by the Leon Lowenstein Foundation and individual contributors, honors Thomas H. Wright’s dedication to Sarah Lawrence College and his long service on the Board of Trustees.

Previous Thomas H. Wright Lectures

• 2007: Children and Nature Design Principles
  David L. Sobel, M.Ed., Director, Teacher Certification Programs; Co-director, Community Based School Environmental Education Program, Antioch New England Graduate School
• 2006: Open Pandora’s Box: Curiosity in the Classroom
  Susan Engel, Ph.D., Director of the Program in Teaching at Williams College
• 2005: Building a Community/Building a School
  Nancy Mann, M.A., Principal, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School
• 2004: Reflections on Teaching: Relationships, Possibilities, and Power
  Jane Andrias, M.A., Leader in New York City's progressive education movement
• 2003: Nurturing the Remarkable Powers of Children
  William Crain, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at The City College of New York
• 2002: Processes of Change in Schools
  Tom Roderick, M.Ed., Executive Director of Educators for Social Responsibility, New York City Metropolitan Area
• 2001: Pathways to Literacy: Non-Standardized Approaches to the Enhancement and Assessment of Literacy Across the Curriculum
  Frank Smith, Ph.D., Writer and Researcher, British Columbia, Canada
• 2000: Rethinking Standards and Assessment
  Harriet K. Cuffaro, Ed.D., Professor Emerita of Education, Bank Street College of Education and Staff Developer at the City and Country School, New York City
• 1999: Play and Learning
  Celia S. Genishi, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
• 1998: A New Look at Families, Schools and Child Development
  James P. Comer, M.D., Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University Child Study Center
• 1997: Rethinking Teaching: What Schools Can and Should Be
  Linda Darling-Hammond, Ed.D., Stanford University
• 1996: Conflict as a Fact of Life: Families, Schools, Communities
  Regina Arnold, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Studies, Sarah Lawrence College
• 1995: Family/School Partnerships: Working Together for Children
  Patricia Carini, Founder of Prospect School and the Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research, North Bennington, Vermont