Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond Awarded the Sister Joel Read Outstanding Educator Award
April 1, 2016
Alverno College will honor Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond with the Sister Joel Read Outstanding
Educator Award at a ceremony on April 7. The award recognizes educational leaders
who have brought significant improvements to education through their leadership, practice
and scholarship. The event begins at 5:30 p.m., and includes a reception, dinner and
award presentation. It is only the second time anyone has been given this award, and
it also happens to coincide with Sr. Joel Read's 90th birthday.
Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University,
where she launched the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the
School Redesign Network. She served as executive director of the National Commission
on Teaching and America's Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose report, “What Matters
Most: Teaching and America's Future,” was named one of the most influential reports
in U.S. education and led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and teacher
education. She was also named one of the nation's ten most influential people affecting
educational policy over the past decade.
The program includes a discussion moderated by Alan Borsuk, Senior Fellow in Law and
Public Policy at Marquette University. The conversation, which will include Darling-Hammond
and Patricia Luebke, Dean of the School of Education at Alverno, will touch on three
themes: How a city like Milwaukee can best prepare teachers for our schools, how schools
can build performance-based assessment into their evaluation process, and what major
policy issues impacting education the next United States President will need to address.
Read, who served as Alverno College's president for 35 years, has long been recognized
as one of the nation's leading educational innovators. Under her leadership, Alverno
developed its revolutionary abilities-based curriculum and assessment-as-learning
teaching methods, which educators from around the world have studied for over 40 years.
The award is named to honor the outstanding contributions Read has made to the field
of education.
The winner of the Sister Joel Read Outstanding Educator Award is decided by a national
panel of education experts comprised of the following members:
• Dr. Patricia Luebke, dean, Alverno College School of Education
• Dr. Nancy Athanasiou, professor, Alverno College School of Education
• Alan Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy, Marquette Law School and education
columnist for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Ricardo Diaz, executive director, United Community Center and member of the Alverno
College Board of Trustees
• Dr. Patricia Albjerg Graham, dean and professor emerita, Harvard Graduate School
of Education
• Dr. Pat Hutchings, senior scholar, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
• Jamie Merisotis, president, Lumina Foundation
• Ellen Moir, founder and CEO, New Teacher Center
• Tashia Morgridge, co-founder and president, TOSA Foundation
• Mary Staten, incoming director of Clinical Placement, Assessment & Licensing, Alverno
College School of Education
Published on April 1, 2016 | Categories: Newsroom migrated press release