Peabody Reflector

What Every 2nd Grade Teacher Needs to Know: About Setting Up and Running a Classroom (Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc., 2010) by Margaret Berry Wilson, MEd’93 and Andy Dousis. Wilson starts with a concise review of second graders’ common developmental characteristics and then shows how to adjust your classroom and… Read More

Jesse Register, director of schools for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, during a March visit to South China Normal University. In January, a group of Chinese educators journeys to Nashville for a two-week visit that mirrors that of the Nashville group in the summer. In the movie Dead Poets Society, Mr. Read More

Peabody College’s expertise in special education dates back to at least 1937, when it established its Child Study Center to examine reading disabilities. Speech therapy was added in 1944 and a training program for teachers of the blind in 1953. But it was the groundbreaking work of Peabody-based special education… Read More

Peabody College welcomed 13 Humphrey Fellows from 11 countries in August 2010: Layla Al Yusuf, Bahrain; Baikita Yankal, Chad; Ya Rachel Valery Kouame, Cote d’Ivoire; Zalak Kavi, India; David Kabita, Kenya; Khin Latt, Myanmar; Ram Hari Lamichhane, Nepal; Fati Bagna Seyni, Niger; Nadia Ashraf, Zaheer Iqbal and Lubna Mohyuddin,… Read More

Stella Flores Stella M. Flores, assistant professor of public policy and higher education at Peabody, has been named a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. The award will allow her to pursue her research interests during 2010-11. She was one of 20 fellows selected nationally from a competitive pool of… Read More

Victoria Risko, James Guthrie and Anne Corn were named emeriti professors at Commencement. Also named as emeritus professor was Dean James Hogge. Brian Heuser, assistant professor of the practice in international education and public policy, will serve as a U.S. Embassy policy specialist in higher education for 2010-2011, researching higher… Read More

Braxton is 10th most cited in higher education literature John Braxton John M. Braxton, professor of education at Peabody, is the 10th most cited individual in higher education research according to a recent study published in Research in Higher Education. Only a small number of academic papers are cited even… Read More

Peabody College has a long history of hosting gatherings to bring faculty, staff, students and families together. One of the more popular events was “Watermelon Cutting Day,” which was celebrated during the 1940s until the late 1970s. Watermelon cutting was a special event to mark significant days and occasions at… Read More

A community component of the Early Reading First project combined forces with the Nashville Public Library to foster home literacy in a summer program called Lift Off Camp. YMCA Urban Services Program hosted the camp in August to boost learning gains and smooth the transition into kindergarten. Several Vanderbilt Peabody… Read More

From left, Charlotte Bryson, executive director of Tennessee Voices for Children, and Jack McKenzie, president of the board of directors, along with Catelyn Sweeney presented longtime children’s advocate Craig Anne Heflinger, associate dean for graduate studies and professor of human and organizational development at Peabody, with its Lifetime Invisible… Read More

Gankse Kathy Ganske, professor of the practice of literacy in the Department of Teaching and Learning. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1994 and comes to Peabody from Oberlin College. Goodwin Amanda Goodwin, assistant professor of language, literacy and culture in the Department of Teaching and… Read More

Can the achievement gap in education be bridged? A look at factors contributing to this seemingly intractable problem. Read More

The rural achievement gap must deal with issues relating to distance as well as poverty. Read More

Peabody alumnus Chris Barbic is reversing trends with his charter school network in Houston, Texas. Read More

Peabody student Jamie Graham and alumnus David Pérez have risen above circumstances to create a better life through education. Read More

Pre-K students at Ross Elementary School in Nashville work with colors and shapes prior to leaving school for the summer break. Research suggests that students from disadvantaged schools are more likely to experience a “summer dip” in achievement that can aggregate so that children can become at least two… Read More

Illustration by Amanda Warren Visit Peabody College’s Web site at http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ Bonnie Arant Ertelt, Editor Donna Pritchett, Art Director Michael Smeltzer, Designer Lew Harris, Assistant Editor Nelson Bryan, Class Notes Editor Contributors: Kurt Brobeck, Lisa DuBois, James Hogge, Camilla Meek, Melanie Moran, Elizabeth Older, Jan Read, Cindy Thomsen Web… Read More

With the Obama administration highlighting school choice as a likely reform strategy, interest in how parents choose a school is more intense than ever. “School Choice and School Improvement: Research into State, District and Community Contexts,” was hosted by the National Center on School Choice in late October. The conference… Read More

On May 1 and 2, Nashville received almost 14 inches of rain. The flooding that came with this historic precipitation was widespread and will affect Nashville for years to come. More than 3,000 houses were submerged, and at least 10 people in the Nashville area drowned, either in their… Read More

A number of visually impaired girls were on my floor [in Gillette Hall]. Because of meeting and knowing those ladies, I realized that a visual impairment was not going to stop them from doing what they wanted to do. Read More