Guest Speakers
Frances O'Roark Dowell, renowned
author of young adult literature and recipient of the The Edgar Allan
Poe Award for her book, Dovey Coe, visited campus February 27,
2007. She also spoke with students at a local middle school. She was
co-sponsored by the School of Education, the English Department, and
Turrentine Middle
School's media center.
The Elon Teaching Fellows Program sponsors
a speaker each spring semester. Recent speakers are listed below.
| Spring 2009 |
Debra
Morris, 2008 Principal of the Year in North Carolina is principal
at A.L. Brown High School in the Kannapolis City Schools. Her Elon
presentation was entitled "Building Bridges:
Connecting with students and forming positive relationships" and
was co-sponsored by Elon's chapter of Kappa Delta Pi. |
| Spring 2008 |
Phillip
Schlechty, president and CEO of the Center for Leadership
in School Reform, has written several books, including Inventing
Better Schools: An Action Plan for Educational Reform and Schools
for the 21st Century: Leadership Imperatives for Educational Reform.
Another book, Leading Change in Schools, is in progress. |
| Spring 2007 |
Diana
Beasley, a biology teacher at Hickory High School and 2006-07
North Carolina Teacher of the Year, spoke on “Making Connections
for Success” - a strategy in which dynamic lifelong relationships
are created between teacher, student and learning itself, resulting
in a competent 21st century citizenry. |
| Spring 2006 |
Brad Cohen,
second grade teacher from Atlanta, Georgia, and author of Front
of the Class How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, spoke
on his positive determination to become a teacher in spite of having
Tourette Syndrome. |
| Spring 2005 |
Danny Magrans, Spanish teacher from Clarksville, Tennessee. Check
out article
from The Pendulum about his presentation at Elon University. |
| Spring 2004 |
Ben
Wentworth, Science teacher from Colorado School for the Deaf
and Blind was Disney's 2001 National Teacher of the Year. Check
out photos
from his tactile planetarium. |
| Spring 2003 |
Ron Clark,
East Carolina University Teaching Fellow, was Disney's 2000 National
Teacher of the Year. |
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