STEVEN BAUGH

John I. Goodlad, president of the Institute for Educational Inquiry (IEI), recently announced that four leaders within the BYU-Public School Partnership are being nationally recognized as Agenda for Education in a Democracy (AED) Scholars. They are Dr. Steven Baugh, director of the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education & Schooling (CITES); executive director of the Brigham Young University-Public School Partnership (BYU-PSP); and associate professor in the McKay School of Education at BYU; Dr. John Rosenberg, dean of the College of Humanities at BYU; Dr. Vern Henshaw, superintendent of Alpine School District; and Barry Graff, an administrator for K-12 educational services in Alpine District.

These four administrators who serve the Partnership are among thirty university and school district educators in the nation designated as AED Scholars. Each received this recognition as a result of their ongoing work to develop leaders who are committed to a deeper understanding and implementation of the principles of the Agenda for Education in a Democracy, a mission-driven, research-based agenda that seeks to:

• Foster in the nation’s young the skills, dispositions, and knowledge necessary for effective participation in a social and political democracy.
• Ensure that the young have access to those understandings Develop educators who nurture the learning and well-being of every student.
• Ensure educators’ competence in and commitment to serving as stewards of schools.

JOHN ROSENBERG

IEI also noted that Baugh provides leadership to initiatives designed to strengthen P-12 school curriculum and instruction related to the development of a democratic citizenry and works to improve community engagement for the betterment of education. Baugh’s prior experiences as a superintendent, school administrator, and teacher, as well as a faculty member in the Department of Educational Leadership, have prepared him to contribute to the work of IEI.

Rosenberg’s initiative to strengthen education for indigenous and ethnic minority populations was an additional factor that distinguished him for recognition by IEI. He is an untiring advocate of equitable access to information and good education, a topic on which he presented at the McKay School’s Moral Dimensions Lecture series and for which he was recognized with a Renewal in Practice Award at the 10th Associates Conference.

Vern Henshaw is a member of the BYU-PSP Governing Board. Both he and Barry Graff work to fully engage the Alpine District in the practices of the Moral Dimensions and the Agenda for Education in a Democracy. They recently joined McKay School faculty member Pamela Hallam to present on the topic of “Democratic Professional Development” at a national conference. Henshaw also actively participates with an education/media study sponsored by the IEI.

VERN HENSHAW

The Institute for Educational Inquiry is an organization founded in 1992 by John Goodlad to advance the Agenda for Education in a Democracy. Much of the work of the Institute involves conducting extensive professional development programs on a wide range of educational issues that bring together P-12 public schools, colleges of education, and arts and sciences faculty from the settings of the National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER). The network includes school-university partnerships in the United States and Canada that are dedicated to the simultaneous renewal of schools and the education of educators in order to strengthen the quality of education for all students.

BYU was one of the 10 original partnerships in the network. Now in its 24th year, the BYU-PSP is a joint venture between BYU and the school districts of Alpine, Jordan, Nebo, Provo and Wasatch. The facilitating arm for the initiatives of the BYU-PSP is the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling (CITES). The CITES office is located in the McKay School of Education. Participating BYU-PSP districts include about one third of Utah’s school children (approximately 180,000 students) and employ over 7,000 teachers.

Brief descriptions of current scholarly work for all 30 AED scholars may be found on the IEI web page: www.ieiseattle.org.