Faculty Vita

Thomas Gregory, Ph.D.

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Faculty load

Faculty Teaching

Selected Publications

"Fear of Success? Ten Ways that Alternative Schools Pull Their Punches," Phi Delta Kappan. 82:8, April 2001, 577-81.

"School Reform and the No-Man's-Land of High School Size," Seattle: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Small Schools Project. Available as a PDF file at http://www.smallschoolsproject.org/articles/download/gregory.pdf

"Intentional Communities of Practice in Teacher Education: The Example of a Community of Teachers," with Susan Klein and Melody Shank, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 21, 2000.

Making High School Work: Lessons from the Open School. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.

"Building a Community by Involving Students in the Governance of the School," (with Mary Ellen Sweeney) Chapter 5 in High Schools that Work: Creating Community. (edited by Gregory A. Smith) New York: Routledge, 1993.

Funded Projects

2002: Development Grant, Title II, Indiana Professional Standards Board, Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in High Poverty School Districts, $90,421, with Susan Klein.

2002: Development Grant, Title II, Indiana Professional Standards Board, Preparing Mid-Career Changers, $91,992, with Susan Klein.

2001: Development Grant, Title II, Indiana Professional Standards Board, $118,802, with Susan Klein.

2000: Development Grant, Title II, Indiana Professional Standards Board, $121,995, with Susan Klein.

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

American Educational Research Association

Conference Presentations

2000: "Fear of Success? Ten Ways that Alternative Schools Pull Their Punches," at Realizing America's Hope: Alternative Education 2000 and Beyond national conference, Columbus, Indiana.

1999: "Breaking Big Schools Up into Small Ones: Four Practices that are Logical and Fatal," Indiana Department of Education Spring Forum, Indianapolis, Indiana.

1999: "Reforming your Schools," Conference of all of San Antonio's high schools, San Antonio, Texas.

1998: "Beginning at the End: How Can Performance Expectations Frame Diploma by Exhibition?" Indiana Department of Education Spring Forum, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Service/Outreach Projects

1999: Consultant to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington.

1981-1997: Member of the Board of Advisors for "Changing Schools."

1998: Visiting Fellow to the Center for Educational Leadership at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, working on school reform.

1997 to present: Consultant to a Consortium of schools sponsored by Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, on the topic of school reform.

Honors/Awards

1998-2000: Visiting Fellow, Center for Educational Leadership, Trinity University.

1997: Nominated for the School of Education's Armstrong Chair in Teacher Education.