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Massachusetts: 2004 - 2015
Hamilton Government Study Committee: member
Hamilton-Wenham GREEN: founder and first President
Capital Management Committee: member
League of Women Voters: Board Member.
Maine: 2015 - 2019
Vestry: St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, 2017
Camden Conservation Commission, 2017 - 2019
Stewardship Education Alliance: President, 2019
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
Lesley University: Adjunct Professor and Senior Lecturer
Director: Art House, an after school program Grades K-6, Washington, DC
Volunteer Work in Education:
Founder and Co-Director, Field Studies at College of the Atlantic bar harbor ME: K - 12
Co-Founder and President, The Tremont School Fund, to support the local elementary school in Tremont, Maine
School Committee Member, Hamilton Wenham, MA, 2012-2015
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 helps me understand local issues and find ways to address them.
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 my work.
Barbara
