In Focus with Dennis Shirley: Public Engagement in Public Education
Channel: Houston A+ Challenge
Date: 2012-05-02

Boston College professor DENNIS SHIRLEY was the first U.S. scholar to document the rise of community organizing as an educational change strategy. His activities in this area have led to international work ranging from the nitty-gritty, micro-level of assisting beginning teachers and principals to the macro-level of designing and guiding large-scale research and intervention projects for school districts, states, and nations.

Dr. Shirley has advised the Ministry of Education in Tokyo, Japan; the Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart, Germany; and he recently was on a steering group of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development advising the government of Norway on lower secondary school reform. He is the co-author, with Andy Hargreaves, of the 2009 book entitled "The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change", and his new co-authored manuscript with Hargreaves entitled "The Global Fourth Way" will be published later this year.