Education Revolution

Deborah Meier

AERO Director Jerry Mintz along with conference director Isaac Graves will be present at this event to honor 2009 AERO conference keynote speaker, Deborah Meier.

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PLEASE JOIN FAIRTEST TO HONOR DEBORAH W. MEIER AND CELEBRATE THE CREATION OF THE DEBORAH W. MEIER AWARD FOR HEROES IN EDUCATION

* THURSDAY, 4 JUNE 2009 6 – 8:30pm

* THE URBAN ACADEMY AT THE JULIA RICHMAN EDUCATION COMPLEX
317 EAST 67 STREET NEW YORK

Guest Speaker: Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, CUNY

Presentation of the Deborah W. Meier Award

Hors d’oeuvres and dessert

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HONORARY CHAIRS

Frederick Bay
Jill Eikenberry
Michael Tucker

HOST COMMITTEE
Tricia W. Meier – Co-Chair
Sophie Sa, Co-Chair
Merle and Barry Ginsburg
Linda Darling-Hammond
Ruth Kaplan
John Merrow
Ann and Victor Navasky
Pedro A. Noguera
Diane Ravitch
Frederick Wiseman

DEBORAH MEIER has spent more than four decades as educator, learning theorist, writer and public advocate. She has inspired teachers everywhere to create learning environments that foster thoughtful habits of mind, and enhance democracy and equity.

She founded and directed of a network of highly successful public schools in East Harlem, including Central Park East Secondary School, from which more than 90% of entering students went on to college. From 1992 to 1996, Meier served as co-director of the Coalition Campus Project, redesigning two large failing NYC high schools, and creating a dozen new small Coalition schools. From 1997 to 2005 she was the founder and principal of the Mission Hill School, a K-8 Boston Public Pilot school in the Roxbury community.

The schools Meier created are national exemplars of reform. She has received honorary degrees from Bank Street, Brown, Bard, Clark, Teachers College, Dartmouth, Harvard, Hebrew Union, Hofstra, The New School, Lesley College, SUNY Albany, UMASS Lowell, and Yale. She was awarded a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship in 1987.