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16 COLLEGES & GRADuate Schools ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ JUNE 2008Phi Delta Kappa, Columbia UAwards to Dr. Bonnie Brown,Dr. Carole Hankin, FrankNappi Jr. & Judith S. TarloDr. Bonnie Brown & her motherby Dr. Pola RosenIt’s been my privilege to be the Vice-presidentof Phi Delta Kappa (PDK), along with my colleaguesDr. Steve Levy (President) and JoanWashington, Vice-president for the past severalyears. One of the great pleasures is the annualawards ceremony for outstanding contributions toeducation. Our 2008 ceremony was marked by our100th year anniversary honoring Superintendentof the Year Dr. Bonnie Brown, District 75 in theNew York City Department of Education as wellas Dr. Carole Hankin, Superintendent of Schoolsfor the Syosset, New York school district.For the past 30 years, Brown has been involvedin the education of special needs children nowmanaging the largest school district in New YorkCity with a budget of $800 million. With humorand a passion for helping parents and studentswhile tending to the needs of her staff, herknowledge and expertise are vast and her abilityto analyze and problem solve, keen and successful.She acknowledged her “30 year journey as alifelong learner and her success due to the collectivesupport and guidance of her staff.” She alsothanked the parents who came to pay homageto her for teaching her about “the resilience of amother’s love and courage in the face of unrelentingchallenges.”Her request to her staff, who numbered about150, and turned out to pay tribute to their leader,was “stay vigilant and never stop advocating foryou speak for the voiceless, you fight for theinjured and you have been entrusted with theDistrict 75 parents’ greatest asset, their children.”Dr. Hankin has been superintendent for 18Dr. Carole Hankin & Dr. Joseph HankinErnest Logan, Frank Nappi& Peter McNallyyears and has, among many other innovativereforms, brought computers in to the classroomsas well as a mandatory computer-training programfor all classroom teachers. She has mandatedthat world languages begin in kindergartenstudying a different language each year. In thesciences, she has arranged partnerships withCold Spring Harbor, Rockefeller University aswell as Kentucky State University; in the arenaof the arts, she has collaborated and broughtinto Syosset the major museums in NYC includingThe Guggenheim, the American Museumof Natural History, The Metropolitan Museumof Art and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.Her staff numbers 1200 and her budget is $162million. She has been a monthly columnist forEducation Update for many years, sharing andguiding parents and educators with great wisdom.Hankin has transformed the district into a nationcontinuedon page 23BANK STREET COLLEGECosta Rica and Morocco: WhereEducation and Culture Meet inSmall Communities of LearningBy Katy GurleyFor two weeks in July, a travelingcommunity of learnersfrom Bank Street walked manytimes through Costa Rica’s“This trip was basically aboutdiscovering the world throughreal life experience and usingthat experience to go home anddevelop curriculum for classroomsMonteverde Cloud Forest,about the ecology of thewhere they saw lush green gardensof mosses, ferns, flowers,and epiphytes growing thicklyon every tree. They climbedinside enormous fig trees.Clouds drifted in and settledrain forest and the communitythat surrounds it.”In addition to taking tripsto the rain forest, studentsheard from many guest lecturerswho were residentsamong the slopes. Danglingof Monteverde—whichroots and vines swept across thetrails. The air was rich with thesounds of birds, and they sawsmall mammals scurry acrossSusan Wumeans “Green Mountain” inSpanish—and experts in ecology,biology, conservation, andfarming.the forest floor.The group of 12 students, most of them BankStreet graduate students, were participating in aspecial New Perspectives class, “The DelicateConnection of People and the Biology of theRain Forest: Implications for Curriculum (Gradesthree-eight).” Susan Wu, environmental educatorin the Tiorati Workshop for EnvironmentalLearning at Bank Street College, led the course.The New Perspectives program offers professionaldevelopment courses for teachers on weekendsand in the summers, and also organizes studyabroadcourses.“Every day was extremely full,” Ms. Wu says.The group also met with the local Quakercommunity, whose members emigrated from theUnited States and helped found the village in1951. In an attempt to protect the area’s watershed,the Quakers bought much of the land thatmakes up the Monteverde Reserve. The Quakershave played a major role in the development ofthe community.Eco-tourism, which seeks to minimize thenegative aspects of conventional tourism on theenvironment and enhance the cultural integrity ofthe local people, is a major topic for discussionon Monteverde, Ms. Wu says. It has become acontinued on page 23THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLEGRADUATE SCHOOL© 2008, visual arts press, ltd.FOR ARTISTS WHO WANTTO BECOME TEACHERSThe School of Visual Arts offers a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in ArtEducation. Coursework can be completed in a 36 credit, three-semesterprogram, or in a part-time two-year program, leading to a New York StateInitial Certification in Art. The MAT curriculum centers on a communityorientedapproach to art education. The faculty of artists offers expertisein a range of areas, including arts-integrated curricula, technology andmuseum education.For further information, please request a Graduate Programs catalog fromthe Office of Admissions, 212.592.2107, or gradadmissions@sva.edu orwww.sva.edu209 East 23 Street, New York, NY 10010-3994Tel: 212.592.2107 E-mail: gradadmissions@sva.eduWeb site: www.sva.eduArt EducationChildhood EducationCreative Teaching & LearningEarly Childhood EducationEducational LeadershipLiteracy EducationMental Health CounselingMultilingual/MulticulturalSchool CounselingSchool PsychologySpecial EducationOPEN HOUSEWed., June 11at 6:00 pmin the StudentCampus CenterPreparing Students for SuccessfulCareers in Education• New 39-credit Dual Certification Master’s in SchoolBuilding Leadership and School District Leadership• Graduate Assistantships - 30 credits of tuitionremission to highly qualified students.• Selective Program Scholarships award $1,500 persemester for up to two continuous academic years.• Competitive Research Assistantships awardup to 6 credits of tuition remission for continuingstudents working with faculty on research.Apply Now. Registration is Underwayfor Summer and Fall Classes.www.cnr.edu/gsgs@cnr.edu800-381-035429 Castle PlaceNew RochelleNew York 10805
New Nobel Laureates InscribedBy RENI ShulmanIn a society where admiration and celebrityare so often reserved for actors, athletes andmodels, it was heartening to attend a gatheringof people paying tribute to the six newAmerican Nobel Prize recipients and their intellectualachievements, at the Nobel MonumentInscription Ceremony recently. The newlyinscribedLaureates included Mario R. Capecchiand Oliver Smithies for Medicine, Al Gore forPeace, and Leonid Hurwics, Eric S. Maskin, andRoger B. Myerson for Economics.The ceremony honoring the most recent NobelLaureates took place at the Nobel Monumentin Theodore Roosevelt Park in New York City.With endorsement from former Consul Generalof Sweden in New York, Dag Sebastian Ahlander,and former New York City Parks Commissioner,Henry J. Stern, the Nobel Monument was conceivedin 2001 and soon after inaugurated onOctober 14, 2003. As the United States hashad more Nobel Prize recipients than any othercountry, the monument honors past and presentAmerican Nobel Laureates, as well as the founderof the Prize, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.In his opening remarks at the 2008 inscriptionceremony, New York City Parks CommissionerAdrian Benepe noted the suitability of RooseveltPark to accommodate the monument, alludingto the park as “the Agora,” a place where,he explicated, relationships are developed andminds come together. Consul General of Swedenin New York, Ambassador Ulf Hjertonsson, followedthe Commissioner and attributed the academicsuccess of the United States to, “its unparalleled…ethnicand cultural diversity.” As such,he explained that New York City was and remainsthe most appropriate location for the monument,as it is “a formidable example [of this diversity].”June 2008 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ COLLEGES & GRADuate Schools 17Dr. Roger B. Myerson, one of the 2007Laureates in Economics, discussed the implicationsof the Nobel Prize in his address. “Theintrinsic quality of my work is no better orworse,” he explained. Rather, he said the prize“belongs to humanity.” He further reflected uponthe inspiring nature of the Nobel Prize and theNobel Monument. Myerson humbly expressedhis conviction that “the real prize is the prizeof helping the next generation in our field…tosee things more clearly.” He did remark that theLaureates were “treated like rock stars” whilein Sweden this past December at the NobelBanquet. Myerson modestly concluded with theassertion that Nobel Laureates are merely “thedevoted servants of the muses of science andcreativity.”In this spirit of inspiring the next generationtoward achievement in science, literatureand peace efforts, the fourth grade class fromRodeph Sholom School attended the ceremony.Additionally, Mingzhu Li, a high school studentand winner of the 2007 Laureates of Tomorrow-Nobel Essay Contest, was present. “It was soexciting to go to the Nobel Banquet in Swedenand meet the Laureates and talk to them,” shetold Education Update. “I feel like I am onestep closer to entering the scientific world andmaking a contribution.” Commissioner Benepetold Update that the distinguishing feature of theNobel Monument is its dedication to “pure intellectualachievement, which serves as an inspirationto the next generation of New York.”The morning ceremony concluded with a performanceby choral ensemble, Sound of Sweden.The Swedish natives melodiously sang, in acapella mode, Sa Skimrande Var Aldrig, Education a piece Updatecomposed by Evert Taube. After a April buffet 2008 luncheonhosted by Swedish Consulate P.O. General, #:Issue205255 5 ⁄8 x 7 1 ⁄4Ms. Li introduced Dr. Oliver Smithies, the 2007Nobel Laureate in Medicine.The event was inspirational and joyous, yetcasual and tranquil. The acme of academicachievement of the Laureates was recognizedEarn aNobelists Myerson and Smithies at unveiling of monumentBank Streetand immortalized in the unveiling of the newLaureate names. Furthermore, the collaborationof Swedish and American interests, especially inthe academic master’scosmopolis of New York City, washighlighted and celebrated. #degree.Learn howto bring outthe best inall children.Graduate School Open HouseThursday, May 1, 2008, 5:15PMBank Street College Graduate School of Education610 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025-1898www.bankstreet.edu 212.875.4698INNOVATION INTEACHING AND LEARNING
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