“Strengths and Challenges of Teaching Culturally-Appropriate Science: Stories from Navajo Classrooms,” with Donna Jurich

a paper read before the annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Santa Fe, NM, 8/11/03.

“Assessing Digital Portfolios." with Donna Jurich

a presentation at the Midwest Instructional Technology Center Conference on Digital Portfolios at Monmouth College, IL, 6/13/03.

“Teaching Culturally-Appropriate Science,” with Donna Jurich

a paper presented at the annual NSTA Conference, San Diego, CA, 3/27/02

“Untangling the Web”

an address to the Illinois Prairie chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, Galesburg, IL, 9/26/01

"Negotiating Curriculum: Empowering Students to Direct Their Own Learning"

(A paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY, April 10, 1996.)

"Parental Involvement"

(A speech to a regional Head Start planning staff, 3/9/92)

What is the "Audience?"

(A paper prepared for Dr. Dana Fox, University of Arizona)

"Seeking Stories of Critical Pedagogy: Negotiating the Curriculum in Teacher Education"

(co-authored with Donna Jurich and Deborah Anders), Symposium at the Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Mount Eagle, TN, Sept. 1995. I am unable to located copies of the text of this presentation.)

"Review of Joel Spring's American Education"

(A critique of the 8th edition prepared for the publisher)

Volunteer Work

Summer 2001, I volunteered at Atsa Biyààzh Community School in Shiprock, NM, in the Navajo Nation. I taught web design to students, faculty and staff. You may visit the pages they produced during this 5-1/2 week workshop, which was funded by the Ettinger Foundation, the Navajo Nation Rural Systemic Initiative, and Knox College, by clicking here.

(Atsa Biyààzh Community School logo)

Atsa Biyààzh, also called Shiprock Alternative School, Inc., is an alternative school organized under the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Navajo Nation