NEW: Follow this link to the NBC print article about eating disorders in African Americans for which I was interviewed. Video to follow:
http://www.thegrio.com/health/eating-disorders-quietly-plague-black-communities.php?page=2
BOTH SIDES OF THE POND: My family's War - 1936 - 1946 I've been doing research at the Kennedy LIbrary over the past two years, and the Archivist recently asked me to contribute to their Blog. You can read the result at: http://archiveblog.jfklibrary.org/2011/11/scholar-at-work-2/
ISLANDS OF TIME: a love story
Thanks to writer Lucy Sprague-Frederiksen and the Hamilton-Wenham Chronicle (please see link below), for letting people in my home town know that draft copies of my new novel, Islands of Time: a love story are available at our library for comment. At least they were - I'm delighted that they are all out currently! I hope readers will comment on the story, so I can learn from their reactions as I finish the final draft.
http://www.wickedlocal.com/hamilton/fun/entertainment/books/x1622882843/Hamilton-author-takes-novel-approach-to-getting-feedback#axzz1fZgRYe7O
Thank you for visiting my site. Here you'll find my writing about education and eating disorders, and a link to my rental cottages on Hodgdon Pond Farm, Seal Cove, Maine on Mount Desert Island, which is the home of Acadia National Park.
I know this is an odd combination! I've enjoyed diverse opportunities including teaching in universities for 11 years, running a real estate and construction company in Maine, and I was married for a long time to a man who was eating disordered. I've also worked for the Rural School and Community Trust as a policy analyst and led research teams looking at the cost-effectiveness of small schools.
My first book, Bitter Ice: a memoir of love, food, and obsession was published by Wm. Morrow/Rob Weisbach Books in late 1999. ERIC/CRESS published my second book, The Hermit Crab Solution about small schools. The Rural School and Community Trust and KnowledgeWorks Foundation published Dollars & Sense: the cost-effectiveness of small schools, and Dollars & Sense 2: Lessons from good, cost-effective small schools, two in-depth reports about small schools. My academic writing has appeared in many journals including KAPPAN, Journal for Maine Education, and the Journal for the Education of the Gifted.
In November 2010 Greene Bark Press published The Hungry i: a Work Book for partners of men with eating disorders, and I just finished the final draft of my first novel, Islands of Time, about forgiveness and love. For the past two years I've been researching the story of my British family during World War II, for a book currently titled: Both Sides of the Pond: My Family's War- 1936 - 1946. You can find information about these projects on this site by clicking the pictures above.
I hope what I've learned can be as useful to you as writing about it has been to me.
My best to you,
Barbara
FOR SCHOOL COMMITTEE: Barbara Kent Lawrence, Ed.D. COMMITTED TO KIDS + COMMUNITY
Promote partnerships between HWRSD and our community and look for new ways to use existing assets more fully.
Listen to students, members of the community, elected officials, teachers, and administrators to identify goals and concerns,
and help identify where these overlap.
Work to maximize the benefits of our collective resources to provide a high-quality education for our students.
These assets are not just financial - they include the experience and expertise of everyone in the community,
and are grounded in our commitment to our children.
VOLUNTEER WORK in the COMMUNITY
Since 2004, when I moved to Hamilton, I have been actively involved in the community.
Hamilton Government Study Committee: member
Hamilton-Wenham GREEN: founder and first President
Capital Management Committee: member
League of Women Voters: Board Member.
EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION
I have many years of experience teaching students from middle school through graduate school and in education research.
Teacher: The Potomac School, VA.
Teacher: Brunswick School, CT.
Chairman of the History Department and Dean of Guidance Northeastern University: Researcher in Education, Adjunct Professor
Education, Adjunct Professor Lesley University: Adjunct Professor and Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer Director: Art House, an after school program Grades K-6, Washington, DC
Grades K-6, Washington, DC Volunteer Work in Education:
Founder and Co-Director, Field Studies: ME, K - 12
K - 12 Co-Founder and President, The Tremont School Fund, to support the local elementary school in Tremont, Maine
School Fund, to support the local elementary school in Tremont, Maine Policy Analyst :
The Annenberg Rural School and Community Trust Lead Researcher + Writer: Dollars & Sense for
KnowledgeWorks Foundation As a researcher in education, I studied districts throughout the US and visited many of them. This experience and training will help me understand
local issues and find ways to address them. I hope to be a fair and proactive voice for our community of residents, students, parents, teachers, and administrators,
EDUCATION:
BA: Bennington College, Anthropology
MA: New York University, Sociology
Ed.D.: Boston University School of Education, Administration, Policy and Training
WRITING in EDUCATION:
I’ve written books and articles for foundations, government agencies, and academic journals about culture and education, education of the gifted, issues relating to school facilities, and ways in which schools and communities can work together. My dissertation, Working Memory: the influence of culture on aspirations, won the 1998 dissertation award from the National
Rural Education Association.
These include Dollars & Sense: The cost effectiveness of small schools, Dollars & Sense II: Lessons from Good, Cost-effective Small Schools and The Hermit Crab Solution, about creative ways to utilize school facilities. I’ve also worked with teams on projects including Schools for Successful Communities: An Element of Smart Growth for the US Environmental Protection
Agency and the Council for Educational Facilities Planners International.
For a partial list of my published papers in education please visit:
www.barbaralawrence.com/AcademicWork2.html
Thank you for your interest in the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District and in my candidacy for a seat on the School Committee. If you have any questions or comments,
please contact me at: bkl@barbaralawrence.com.
Barbara
With students from Seabird Island School near Vancouver, Canada for members of the First Nation Salish tribe.
I'm running for a seat on the School Committee of Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District. Please see below for more information about my work in education.
As an educator, resident, and grandmother I will:
Three of our grandchildren go to school in Hamilton.
