1987 

1953 

1988-1990 

1958-Present  

1953-1958 

 

1989-Present 

1989-1999 

Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy, New York, Board of Directors.
North Shore Committee for the City University of New York, founder and organizer.
The Great Neck Collegium, Chair.
Committee of Great Neck Educators for the Study of the Impact of Television, Chair.
Great Neck Board of Education,  Advisory Committees on Values Clarification, Sex Education, Adult Education, Landmark Conferences.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, consultant on texts.
Organization of Women Educators in New York City, (OWE) founder.
Writers in Residence, Great Neck, Board of Directors.

Personnel, Curriculum Planning Council, Awards, Student Review, Recruitment, Staff Development, Research 

New York City Teachers Center, Brooklyn College liaison 

Coordinator for Certification of Competence Based Teacher Education Programs with New York State Education Department New York City  and the City University of New York (CUNY) 

The Arts and the Art of Teaching, Seminars with faculty and administrators, P. S.  154,  Brooklyn 

Consultant, Center for Educational Change 

Moderator, CUNY Colloquium, "Integrating the Liberal Arts and Pedagogy", April 30, 1993. 

Jointly Registered Program between Kingsborough Community College and Brooklyn  College, coordinator of committee of administrators and faculty, 1989 to present. 

CUNY Legislative Action Committee of Deans, March, 1990. 

CUNY Women's Coalition, Coordinator of annual conference, 1985 - 1991. 

"The Arts as a Way of Knowing", Bosphorus University, Istanbul,  Turkey, April 10, 2000

Wolfe Institute Symposium: "Sensation and the Brooklyn Museum," Brooklyn College, December ,1999

Brooklyn College Faculty Day Conference, "How Our Students Changed Our Teaching", May 26, 1999.

Womanspace Annual Conference, " The Women's Movement: Is This As Good As It Gets ?", Great Neck, New York, November 7, 1998.

Brooklyn College Faculty Day Conference, "Classroom as Confessional", Chair and Presenter, May 21, 1998.

Brooklyn College National Alumni Weekend, "Educating Through the Arts",   Presenter with Lincoln Center Institute, June, 1998

American Educational Research Association, "The Place of the Arts in Teacher Education", Panelist, April 13, 1998, San Diego, CA

New York University Creative Arts Team Annual Conference, "Teaching Literacy Through the Arts", March 21, 1998.

 "Re-fashioning the Self: The Stories Men and Women Tell at Mid-life" National 

"Performing the Art of Teaching"  A Performance/Panel, Brooklyn College and The Lincoln Center Institute, American Educational Research Association,New York City, 

April 8, 1996 (Featured in the preview "Highlights")
"Re-fashioning the Self: The Stories Men and Women Tell at Mid-life" National 

Organization for Men Against Sexism, Portland, OR, July 25,1996.

"The Role of the Arts in Learning,,," DeWitt Wallace Foundation Lecture, Brooklyn College, May 16, 1995

"The Significance of Autobiography for Self-Directed Learning, "International self-Directed  Learning  Symposium, Palm Beach,  Florida, March 3,  1995

"Full of Life: Women's Stories," Women's Berkshire Health Forum, Pittsfield, NNA, May 21,1994

"Women's Lives, Women's Stories;" Keynoter and Presenter, University  of Nebraska, Omaha, April 6, 1994

Personal Narratives and Autobiographies as Passage: Racial sand gender Issues, "Moderator and presenter at National Women's Studies Conference' Washington, DC., June 17, 1993.

"Memoirs; Teaching our Lives, "presented to the Center for Educational Change, Brooklyn New York, April 22,1993.

"The Impact of Narrative on Teaching and Learning," presented at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, November 6,1992.

"Was Huck Finn Black?" A Teacher Educator Responds," Presented at the Lesley College National Symposium on the Arts as a Vehicle for Learning in Multi-cultural Society, Hood Canal, Washington, July14, 1992.

"Teacher Education in the United States" presented at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, April 26, 1992.

"Narratives of Time and Place in the Teacher Education Classroom," presented at The National Council of Teachers of English, Washington, D.C., March a28, 1992.
Curriculum and the Teacher's Private World: The Making of Meaning," presented to University of South Florida conference on Gender in Academe, Tampa, October 31,1991.

Women Reshaping Education," presented to the National Women's Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., October 13, 1991.

"Negotiating the Teacher Education Curriculum: State Standards and the Schools of Education, "presented to American Educational Research Association Chicago, April 3, 1991.

"The Making of Meaning in American Education," presented to New York State Women's Studies Association, Russell Sage, Trot, New York,  March 16 1991.

"Evolution and Revolution: The Development of an Interdisciplinary Curriculum T Brooklyn College," presented to School of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, November 30, 1990.

"Helping At-risk Students Find Their Voices," New York, State Education Department Invitational Conference, Albany, October 23- 24,1990.

"Developing Jointly Registered Teacher Education Programs for Kingsborough Community College and Brooklyn College," New York State Education Department Invitational Conference, 
Albany, April 5, 1990.

Voted "Favorite Professor " : Brooklyn College graduating class, 1999-2000, 1994-1995

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar, "Issues in the Philosophy of Childhood," Amherst, MA, June 22-July 24, 1998.

National Conference on Research in English of the National Council of Teachers of English, 
elected to membership 1983 

New York Academy of Public Education, elected to membership. 1982

Women's Press Club of New York honored for book, A Gift of the Spirit, 1971

Danciger  Fellowship, Yeshiva University, 1960
Kappa Delta Pi