William Glasser
William
Glasser
President, William Glasser Institute -- Chatsworth, California
CSRCE Conference: Keynote Speaker, Post-Conference Workshop
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: Character Education Panel
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.
John E. Edward
John
E. Edwards
Principal
of Apopka High School
CSRCE Conference: Character Education Panel
Dr. John E. Edwards has bee the principal of Apopka High School for
the last ten years. Prior to this, he served as assistant principal
at Jones High School in Orlando and at Winter Park High School. Dr.
Edwards has also worked as a social studies teacher and basketball coach
at Edgewater High School in Orlando.
In high school, Dr. Edwards played basketball at Winter Park High School.
After this, he went on to play basketball at Florida Southern College
in Lakeland where he was a 4-year starter. While at Florida Southern,
Dr. Edwards also was a Small College All-American and earned a spot
in the Sunshine Conference Hall of Fame. After graduating from college
with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, Dr. Edwards played
professional basketball in Spain for a year. After returning from Spain,
he obtained his teacher certification from the University of Tennessee.
Dr. Edwards has also achieved a Masters of Business Administration and
a Doctorate of Education, both from the University of Central Florida.
Mabel McKinney-Browning
Mabel McKinney-Browning
Director
of American Bar Association Division for Public Education
CSRCE Conference: Keynote Speaker
Mabel McKinney-Browning is Director of the American Bar Association Division for Public Education. The Division implements and coordinates the ABA's efforts to educate diverse public constituencies about the law and legal issues. Ms. McKinney-Browning has written and edited numerous publications on law, civics and social studies education for the elementary and secondary schools. She has conducted workshops, consulted with school districts and community organizations, throughout the nation on programs to educate the public about the law and legal system. Ms. McKinney-Browning received her bachelor's degree from Chicago State University and both her master's and doctorate degrees in education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.