"Defining Social Responsibility in the Context of...."
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Character Education
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Law-Related Education
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Service Learning
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Conflict Resolution
Justice R. Fred Lewis
R. Fred Lewis
Justice for the
Supreme Court of Florida
CSRCE Conference: Keynote Speaker
Justice Lewis was appointed by the late Gov. Lawton Chiles to the Supreme Court of Florida in December of 1998. In that capacity, he also serves as liaison to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners, the Committee on the Rules of Civic Procedure, the Committee on Standard Civil Jury Instructions, and the Code and Rules of Evidence Committee. Justice Lewis is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law and is presently active in the Justice Teaching Institute, a program designed to enhance public education. He has received numerous awards including the distinguished Friends of Justice award from the American Board of Trial Advocates for his dedication and service to the citizens of Florida.
Justice Lewis has been heavily involved with our youth serving on the Board of Directors of Miami Children's Hospital, the Florida Commission on the Legal Needs of Children, and volunteers in the Florida Law Related Education Program which works with students and teachers statewide. He is involved in a program of actively teaching and working in schools through out Florida to promote a better understanding of government institutions and providing open access to judicial officers. Justice Lewis and his wife Judith have been married for over 30 years and they have two children.
Chief Jerry L. Demings
Chief
Jerry L. Demings
Chief of Police, Orlando Police Department --
Orlando, Florida
CSRCE Conference: Keynote Speaker
Jerry L. Demings is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Freddie L. Demings and is a native of Orlando, Florida. He is the youngest of five children and has a twin brother. He attended Orange County, Florida public schools and is a graduate of Jones High School, where he graduated with honors in 1977. He later received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Florida State University in 1980 and his Master of Business Administration degree in 1989 from Orlando College. Chief Demings graduated Magna Cum Laude and is listed in Who's Who Among College Students. He is also a 1998 graduate of the 194th session of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Academy and is a 2000 graduate of the FBI's National Executive institute. In June of 2001, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from City College.
Chief Demings is married to Captain Valdez Butler Demings who is also a member of the Orlando Police Department. They have three sons, two of whom are twins. The twins are students at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, Florida. The youngest son is an artist and attends middle school in Orlando.
After working as an accountant, Chief Demings was employed by the Orlando Police Department in 1981. He was sworn in as Chief of Police by Mayor Glenda Hood on December 30, 1998, and is responsible for management of the Department's $70 million budget. He has worked many assignments throughout his career including uniform patrol, investigations, and various administrative assignments. In addition to his regular job responsibilities, Chief Demings has served as Commander of the Department's Crisis Negotiation Team.
Chief Demings is involved in numerous social service activities and law enforcement organizations. He volunteers much of his time with organizations that help children. He is a Board member for the Central Florida YMCA, Immediate Past Chair of the YMCA Black Achievers Program, Vice President of the Children's Safety Village of Central Florida, and is a Board Member for the Central Florida Boy Scouts of America. He is also a Board member for the Heart of Florida United Way, Metropolitan Orlando Urban League and serves on the Orange County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community and the Florida Supreme Court Treatment-Based Drug Court Steering Committee.
In his spare time, Chief Demings serves as a Trustee for Saint Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church, speaks at numerous community events and is an active member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
William Glasser
William Glasser
President, William Glasser Institute -- Chatsworth, California
CSRCE Conference: Keynote Speaker
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, William Glasser was educated at Case Western Reserve University where he received is BS (1945) and MA (1948) in Clinical Psychology, and his M.D. (1953) in Psychiatry. He completed his medical internship at UCLA from 1954 to 1957, his Psychiatric Residency at the Veterans' Administration Hospital in Los Angeles, and was Board Certified in Psychiatry in 1961. The University of San Francisco awarded Dr. Glasser the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa in 1990.
Dr. Glasser has written nineteen books, most of which have been published by HarperCollins, including his best selling Reality Therapy (1965), Schools Without Failure (1969), Positive Addiction (1976), The Quality School (1990), and Choice Theory (1998). His latest books, published in 2000, are Reality Therapy in Action, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Getting Together and Staying Together, and Every Student Can Succeed.
He is president of the William Glasser Institute in Chatsworth, California, an international organization consisting of over 49,000 people who have received training in Choice Theory, Reality Therapy, Quality Education and Choice Theory Management all over the world.
Dr. Glasser worked in the private practice of Psychiatry in West Los Angeles from 1956-86, while lecturing and writing on a concurrent basis. Since closing his office, he has devoted himself completely to writing, lecturing and intensively training people in his ideas. He has worked and consulted in every area of psychiatry and has taught and lectured at universities in many countries of the world. He is presently an adjunct professor of counseling at California State University, Northridge.
His major effort is to teach the world Choice Therapy, a new psychology aimed at replacing the present psychology of the world, which he calls external control psychology. He believes that external control psychology is a plague on humanity because it destroys human relationships. In doing so, it prevents us from getting along any better with each other that we ever have as evidenced by our failure to improve marital, family, teacher-student and manager-worker relationships during the present century.
At this time, he has persuaded the City of Corning, New York, to engage in a five-year project to teach 20,000 people to replace external control psychology with Choice Theory. This may be the first time in the history of the world that a whole community has embraced a new psychology. The project has been underway since 1997.
James Leming
James Leming
Chair of Education, Saginaw Valley State University
-- University Center, Michigan
CSRCE Conference: Keynote Speaker
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.
Mary Williams
Mary Williams
International
Center for Character Education, University of San Diego -- San Diego,
California
CSRCE Conference: Keynote Speaker
Mary M. Williams, is a Professor of Education at the University of San Diego where she co-directs the International Center for Character Education (ICCE). The ICCE hosts the first online certificate in character education program, and masters and doctoral specializations in character education in the US. Dr. Williams is a teacher educator, staff developer, and program evaluator. She was co-chair of the National Commission on Character Education (1997-2001). In 2001 she was co-author of "Educating Hearts and Minds: A Comprehensive Character Education Framework," "Character Education: A Guide for School Administrators" and "Character Education: A Primer for Teachers". She designs and implements training programs for teachers, counselors, administrators, and school board members in the form of Character Education Leadership Institutes and Academies based on these books.