- 2022: Bettina L. Love, "We Gonʼ Be Alright, But That Ainʼt Alright: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom"
- 2021: Mays Imad, "Bearing Witness as an Act of Love, Resistance, and Healing"
- 2021: Matthew Chingos, "Charter Schools at 30: What Does the Research Say?"
- 2018: Gloria Ladson-Billings, "Hip Hop/Hip Hope: The (R)Evolution of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy"
- 2017: Michele Moses, "All Views Are Not Created Equal: Disagreement, Diversity, and the Politics of Being Reasonable in Education Settings"
- 2016: Julian Vasquez Heilig, “A Remedy for Educational Injustice”
- 2015: Laura W. Perna, “Increasing Higher Education Attainment of All Students: The Need for a Comprehensive Approach”
- 2014: Sean F. Reardon, “Race, Income, and the Reduction of Inequality in American Education”
- 2013: Diana Hess, “The Challenges of Civic Education in a Time of Political Polarization”
- 2012: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, “Civic Education: What, Where, How, and Why?”
- 2011: Deborah Loewenberg Ball, “Hopelessly American: The Challenge of Responsible Education”
- 2009: Melissa Roderick, “Rising to Meet Obama’s Challenge: What the Crisis in Educational Attainment Means for Urban High Schools”
- 2008: Diane Ravitch, “The Perils of School Reform”
- 2007: Gregory Michie, “We Don’t Need Another Hero: Urban Schools and the Promise of Public Education in America”
- 2006: Tommie Lindsey, "It Doesn't Take a Genius"
- 2005: Jonathan Zimmerman, “We Are All Pluralists Now: The Surprising History of America’s Culture Wars”
- 2004: Howard Gardner, “Good Work in Education”
- 2003: Pedro Noguera, “City Schools and the American Dream”
- 2002: David Tyack, "Majoring in Failure: Mismatch of Pupil and School"
- 2001: Charles V. Willie, “Diversity and Student Achievement”
- 2000: William Ayers, "Teaching as an Act of Hope: Equity and Social Justice in Education"
- 1999: Ellen Langer, "The Power of Mindful Learning"
- 1998: Deborah W. Meier, “On Education”
Brodie Family Lecture
The Brodie Family Lecture Fund was established in 1997 by Theodore H. Brodie '52, an Overseer of the College from 1983 to 1995. This fund is used to bring a speaker of note in the field of education to campus at least once a year, delivering a message on the subjects of problems and practices of teaching and learning.
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Speaker: Alex Myers
Title: Supporting Transgender Students
Alex Myers is director of The Mountain School in Vershire, Vermont. He has been on the teaching faculty at Brown University, Georgetown University, and American University and has more recently taught at Phillips Exeter Academy and St. George’s School. Myers is the author of four novels, including The Symmetry of Stars (Harper Collins, 2021), and is the author of Supporting Transgender Students (University of New Orleans Press, 2020). His essays have been featured in Newsweek, The Guardian, and Yes! magazines. The first openly transgender student at Exeter Academy and Harvard University, Alex has, over the past three decades, engaged in professional development with educators focused on issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a particular emphasis on the LGBTQ+ community. This lecture considers how transgender and gender non-conforming youth experience the classroom, the playing field, and other school contexts.