About ESR
Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) works directly with educators to implement systemic practices that create safe, caring, and equitable schools so that all young people succeed in school and life, and help shape a safe, democratic and just world. Founded in 1982, ESR is a national leader in school reform and provides professional development, consultation, and educational resources to adults who teach young people in preschool through high school.
ESR creates, disseminates and teaches core practices that:
1. Reduce educational disparities and facilitate equal access to quality instruction and opportunities for students. ESR helps schools build a positive climate and culture, a disciplined and supportive learning environment, and personalized, high achieving classrooms that promote healthy development and academic success for all students.
2. Help students develop and strengthen social skills, emotional competencies, and qualities of character that increase personal and interpersonal efficacy and cultivate social responsibility. ESR helps schools build high quality social and emotional learning programs and initiatives that promote respect and help to reduce intolerance, harassment and bullying, and risky and aggressive student behaviors.
ESR has a long history and a wealth of experience facilitating the change process and much practical expertise in how to create positive learning environments in today’s schools. Our work with principals, school leadership teams, faculty, students, and families is informed by current research and the “best practices” in educational leadership, instructional reform, prevention, and youth development.
Annual Report 2006-2007 (excerpted)
Educators for Social Responsibility Board of Directors
Mark Baldwin – Dean, College of Education, California State University San Marcos – San Marcos, CA
Barry Berman – Chief Financial Officer (Retired), Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP – Boston, MA
Sheldon Berman – Superintendent, Jefferson County Public Schools – Louisville, KY
Carol Bershad – Education Consultant – Natick, MA
Deborah Childs-Bowen – Director and Associate Professor, Institute for Teaching and Student Achievement, School of Education, Samford University – Birmingham, AL
Larry Dieringer – Executive Director, Educators for Social Responsibility – Cambridge, MA
Larrie Hall (Chair) – Assistant Superintendent, School for Integrated Academics and Technologies – Vista, CA
Janice Jackson – Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education – Cambridge, MA
Mariko Lockhart – Director, Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative – Seattle, WA
Kathi Mullen – Special Assistant to the Superintendent for High School Renewal, Boston Public Schools – Boston, MA
Jan Phlegar – Executive Director, Learning Innovations – Woburn, MA
Leslie Rennie-Hill – Vice President, Paragon Education Network Inc. – Portland, OR
Rene Townsend – Managing Partner, Leadership Associates and Director of Outreach, Price Charities – Encinitas, CA
Nancy Wilsker – Attorney/Partner, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP – Boston, MA
Educators for Social Responsibility National Advisory Board
Sheldon Berman – Superintendent of Schools, Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools
Gene Carter – Executive Director, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
James Comer – Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry and Associate Dean, Yale Child Study Center
Marian Wright Edelman – President, Children’s Defense Fund
Roger Fisher – Professor Emeritus and Director of Harvard Negotiation Project, Harvard Law School
Daniel Goleman – Author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence
Maxine Greene – Professor Emerita, Teachers College, Columbia University
Eileen Rockefeller Growald – Founder, Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning
Michael Hartoonian – Professor Emeritus, Department of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota
Mary Hatwood-Futrell – Former President, National Education Association and Dean, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University
Fr. Theodore Hesburgh – President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Jonathan Kozol – Author of Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, and The Shame of the Nation
Deborah Meier – Author of The Power of Their Ideas and Founding Principal, Mission Hill School, Boston
Gabriella Morris – President, The Prudential Foundation
Sonia Nieto – Professor Emerita, School of Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, author of Affirming Diversity
Vito Perrone – Retired Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Robert Peterkin, Director – The Urban Superintendents Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Deborah Prothrow-Stith – Associate Dean and Professor of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health
Charles Slater – Director, Education PhD Program and Associate Professor, Texas State University-San Marcos
