Barbara Biber Convocation 2018

Bank Street College Graduate School of Education

<H2>Featuring Kwame Alexander</H2>
<P>Bank Street students, faculty, and alumni are invited to join as author and educator Kwame Alexander opens the 2018–19 school year. Alexander is a poet, educator, and <EM>New York Times</EM><SPAN> </SPAN>best-selling author of 25 books, including <EM>Rebound</EM>, the follow up to his Newbery medal–winning middle-grade novel <EM>The Crossover.</EM></P>
<P>A regular contributor to NPR, Alexander is the recipient of several awards, including the Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Prize, and three NAACP Image Award nominations. He believes poetry can change the world and he uses it to inspire and empower young people across the globe through his writing workshops and cultural exchange delegations in Brazil, Italy, and Singapore, and as co-founder of the international literacy program LEAP for Ghana. As the 2018 NEA Read Across America Ambassador, Alexander is the host and producer of the literary variety and talk show <EM>Bookish. </EM>He is the founding editor of VERSIFY, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers.</P>
<P><SPAN>The Barbara Biber Convocation is the centerpiece of the Bank Street Graduate School of Education orientation and welcome for incoming graduate students. The esteemed Barbara Biber Lecture provides an opportunity for the College community to engage with seminal thinkers on leading issues in education that contribute to innovative practices and understandings in diverse settings.</SPAN></P>
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<P><STRONG>Dr. Barbara Biber</STRONG><SPAN> </SPAN>(1903–1993), who was born in Brooklyn, first attended Barnard College and then graduated from the University of Chicago. She received a PhD in psychology in 1942 from Columbia University. Barbara Biber joined the staff of the Bureau of Educational Experiments in 1928 and became one of its key members, serving on the Working Council and the Executive Committee and in numerous other policy-making and administrative capacities. She became chair of the Studies and Publications Committee, precursor of the Research Division, in 1933, and served as chair of the Research Division until 1963. That year she was named Distinguished Research scholar at Bank Street and continued her research in mental health and child development. At the end of the 1960s Dr. Biber began devising the basic principles for federally financed day care and Head Start programs. At the age of 80, she completed<SPAN> </SPAN><EM>Early Education and Psychological Development</EM><SPAN> </SPAN>(Yale University Press, 1984). She also was co-author of two books reporting major research studies:<SPAN> </SPAN><EM>Child Life in School</EM><SPAN> </SPAN>(1942) and<SPAN> </SPAN><EM>The Psychological Impact of School Experience</EM><SPAN> </SPAN>(1969). Biber continued to play a role at Bank Street until her death in 1993.</P>
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