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Donald Meichenbaum |
Donald Meichenbaum
Research Director of The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment of Victims -- Miami, Florida
Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D., is one of the founders of Cognitive Behaviour Modification (CBM),
and his book Cognitive Behaviour Modification: An Integrative Approach is considered a classic in the field.
He has also authored Coping with Stress; Stress Inoculation Training;
A Clinical Handbook for Assessing and Treating Adults with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder;
co-authored Pain and Behavioral Medicine; and Facilitating Treatment Adherence:
A practitioner's Guidebook; and co-edited Stress Reduction and Prevention and The Unconscious Reconsidered.
He was Associate Editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research from its inception and is on the editorial board
of a dozen journals. He is the editor of the Plenum Press series on Stress and Coping.
He is currently Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,
and a clinical psychologist in private practice. He was a recipient of
the prestigious Izaak Killiam Fellowship Award administered by Canada Council.
This award allowed him to devote his full time to research.
Dr. Meichenbaum is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
He is Research Director of The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment of Victims, in Miami, Florida.
The Melissa Institute is designed to bridge the gap between research findings and clinical application and public policy.
In a survey reported in the American Psychologist, North American clinicians voted
Dr. Meichenbaum "one of the ten most influential psychotherapists of the century".
A survey of academic psychologists in Canada indicated that Dr. Meichenbaum was
the most cited psychology researcher at Canadian universities.
He has presented workshops and lectures throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico,
Europe, Israel, Japan, the Caribbean, and Russia. He has consulted widely for adolescent offenders,
developmentally delayed, head injured clients, as well as for educational institutions.
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Rick Rigsby |
Rick Rigsby
President of Impact World Group
Dr. Rick Rigsby is recognized as one of the most dynamic speakers in America.
As President and CEO of Impact World Group and as Founder of Impact Family Ministries,
Dr. Rigsby inspires audiences worldwide by offering electrifying presentations that encourage and
challenge audiences of all ages.
As President of Impact World Group, Dr. Rigsby speaks to corporations, service organizations and
school groups on issues such as character, teamwork, excellence, leadership and effective communication.
As Founder of Impact Family Ministries, he speaks at churches, men's gatherings, family camps and youth conferences.
The award-winning professor holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.
Additionally, he serves Coach Dennis Franchione as chaplain for the Texas A&M football team.
Rigsby also holds appointments with the Center for Executive Development in the College of Business and
the Program in Presidential Rhetoric, affiliated with the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M.
A two-time winner of Texas A&M's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award, Dr. Rigsby earned his Master's degree from
California State University, Chico and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.
In 2000 his alma mater, California State University, Chico named him as its Distinguished Alumni of the Year.
Prior to graduate school, Rick was a television news reporter for a CBS affiliate in Northern California.
Rick Rigsby resides in College Station, Texas with his wife Janet and four sons ranging in age from
college senior to preschooler.
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James S. Leming |
James S. Leming
Carl A. Gerstacker Chair in Education
Saginaw Valley State University
James S. Leming currently
holds the position of the Carl A. Gerstacker Chair in Education at Saginaw
Valley State University. He earned both a BA and MA from the University
of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin
- Madison. For five years he was a social studies teacher at Maine West
High School in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines. In addition to his
current position at Saginaw Valley State University he has held university
faculty positions at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, State
University of New York at Stony Brook, and Ohio University.
It was during his time as a high school teacher that he realized that for some
children learning values in schools is just as important as learning the basics.
For the past thirty years he has been an active researcher and author in the
fields of social studies education and moral/values/character education.
He is the author of three books, twelve chapters in books, and articles
in such journals as The Social Studies, Theory and Research in Social
Education, Social Education, International Journal of Social Education,
Journal of Moral Education, Youth and Society, Journal of Educational
Research, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Adolescence, Journal of
Educational Research, Educational Researcher, Educational Leadership,
The Responsive Community, and the Journal of Education. His recent research
has focused on the history of the character education movement, the
evaluation of character education programs, and the place of civic virtue
in citizenship education. In 2002 he started the Saginaw Valley State
University on Economic Education and is the Center's first Director.
He is a past president of the Social Science Education Consortium, and
in May of 2001 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award form the College
of Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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Nel Noddings |
Nel Noddings
Lee L. Jacks Professor Emerita
Stanford University
Nel Noddings is Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University.
She is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and of the John Dewey Society.
In addition to twelve books - among them, Caring:A Feminine Approach to
Ethics and Moral Education, Women and Evil, The Challenge to Care in Schools,
Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief, and Philosophy of Education -
she is the author of more than 170 books are Starting at Home:
Caring and Social Policy (University of California Press), both published in 2002.
Happiness and Education (Cambridge University Press) will be published in July 2003.
Nodding spent fifteen years as a teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer in
public schools; she served as a mathematics department chairperson in New Jersey and
as Director of the Laboratory Schools at the University of Chicago. At Stanford,
she received the Award for Teaching Excellence three times, most recently in 1997.
She also served as Associate Dean and as Acting Dean at Stanford for four years.
She is a member of the National Academy of Education (President, 2001-),
a Laureate member of Kappa Delta Pi, and holds two honorary degrees in addition to a
number of awards, among them the Anne Rowe Award for contributions to the education
of women (Harvard University), the Willystine Goodsell Award (AERA), a Lifetime
Achievement Award from AERA (Div. B), and the Excellence in Education Award (Pi Lambda Theta).
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Mary
Williams |
Mary
Williams
International Center for Character Education
University of San Diego -- San Diego, California
Mary Williams, Ed.D. is Co-founder,
Co-director of the International Center for Character Education (ICCE).
She is a Professor of Education at George Mason University where she coordinates
the international online masters degree program in character education (the first in the country).
She is co-author of the best-selling "Educating Hearts and Minds:
A Comprehensive Character Education Framework." She also co-authored: Character Education:
A Primer for Teachers and Character Education: A Guide for School Administrators.
In addition to the creation of the online masters degree program courses,
she designs and implements training programs for teachers, counselors, administrators,
and school board members in the form of Leadership Institutes and Academies.
She is a teacher, teacher educator, staff-development specialist, program assessor/evaluator,
and curriculum designer. She has been designing and hosting workshops, academies,
graduate courses, certificate programs, and international conferences related to
character education and ethics since the movement started.
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Jeffrey W. Cornett |
Jeffrey W. Cornett
Dean of the College of Education
University of Northern Iowa
Dr. Jeffrey W. Cornett is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa.
Dr. Cornett previously served as a Professor and Chair in the College of Education at the University of Central Florida.
He was co-founder and co-director of CSRCE while at UCF.
Dr. Cornett holds a Ph.D. in Education from The Ohio State University.
His research interests include civic education, social responsibility, and teacher and administrator decision-making.
He has been an officer of the university division of the National Council for the Social Studies and served on
the Board of the Florida Council for the Social Studies, receiving their Social Studies International Award
and Social Science Professional Award.
Cornett has served as a consultant to numerous schools and agencies related to issues of action research,
school improvement, teacher quality, and social justice. He has conducted research activities for
the major national civic and law-related education organizations, including the American Bar Association
and the Center for Civic Education, in partnership with The Florida Law-Related Education Association.
He has led International evaluations in the emerging democracies of Hungary and Romania
and documented the decision-making of exemplary teachers of social responsibility in Florida.
Cornett and his wife, Vicki, have two children, Michael and Erica.
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