Baltimore2007
17th Annual International NAME Conference

CONVERSATIONS with the AUTHORS
 

Meet and get a chance to have in-depth dialogues with these scholars.

H. Prentice Baptiste, Jr. is Professor of Multicultural and Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. His latest book is titled The U.S. Presidency and Social
Justice: Implications for Public Education (2007), Caddo Gap Press.  Baptiste has authored or edited six books including, Transforming the Curriculum for Multicultural Understandings: A Practitioners Handbook, Caddo Gap Press; Students at Risk
in At-Risk Schools: Improving Environments for Learning; and Leadership,
Equity, and School Effectiveness, Sage Publication. He is one of the Founders of the National Association for Multicultural Education.

Ellen Davidson is an assistant professor in the Department of Education at Simmons College in Boston. She also consults with Education Development Center in Newton, Mass. on projects for school administrators and mathematics reform.  Ellen works with public schools to investigate and understand diversity and equity and also helps teachers explore their teaching of mathematics.

Lewis Diuguid is vice president for community resources at The Kansas City Star. He has been with the newspaper since 1977 after graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is a certified diversity facilitator with the Newspaper
Association of America and has been involved with The Star’s diversity initiative
since it began in 1993. He has conducted diversity workshops for schools, colleges, businesses and community groups. He is the author of the 2004 book A
Teacher’s Cry: Expose the Truth About Education Today and the 2007 book, Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union.

Maureen Gillette is currently Dean of the College of Education at
Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.  Maureen’s research and teaching
focus is on urban education and on preparing culturally responsive teachers. 
As former director of the Paterson Teachers for Tomorrow project
in Paterson, NJ, Maureen designed and implemented a teacher education
pipeline project that began with recruiting teachers of color in high school Future Teachers Clubs and resulted in returning those teachers back to their community to teach. She has numerous scholarly publications, the most recent of which is the co-authored book (with
Carl A. Grant), Learning to Teach Everyone’s Children: Equity, Empowerment, and Education That is Multicultural.

Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education, Departments
of Curriculum and Instruction and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison He was President of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) from 1993-1999. Some of Carl Grant's recent publications include: An Education Guide to Diversity in the Classroom (Houghton Mifflin); Turning on Learning: Five Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class,
Gender and Disability (3rd Edition), with Christine Sleeter (Wiley); and Making Choices for Multicultural Education: Five Approaches to Race, Class and
Gender (4th Edition), with Christine Sleeter, (Wiley). His book, Global Constructions of Multicultural Education: Theories and Realities (Lawrence Erlbaum), received the Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award from NAME.

Nancy Schniedewind coordinates and teaches in the masters program in Humanistic/ Multicultural Education at the State University of New York at
New Paltz. She is co-author with Ellen Davidson of the third edition of
Open Minds to Equality: Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote
Equity (Rethinking Schools, 2006). She offers professional development
programs in diversity education to educators in a variety of school districts.
She recently co-edited the 4^th edition of Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology  (McGraw Hill, 2008).

Ellen Davidson is an assistant professor in the Department of Education at Simmons College in Boston. She also consults with Education Development Center in Newton, Mass. on projects for school administrators and mathematics reform. Ellen works with public schools to investigate and understand diversity and equity and also helps teachers explore their teaching of mathematics.