Art of Teaching Faculty

Sara Wilford, Director, The Art of Teaching Graduate Program/Psychology, BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MSEd, EdM, Bank Street College of Education. Former early childhood and public elementary school teacher; keynote speaker and workshop leader for seminars and conferences on early childhood education; member, editorial advisory board, Child magazine; contributor to Scholastic, Inc. publications; author, Tough Topics: How to Use Books in Talking with Children About Life Issues and Problems;  What You Need to Know When Your Child Is Learning to Read; and Nurturing Young Children’s Disposition to Learn Holder of the Roy E. Larsen Chair in Psychology (2001-2006). SLC, 1982-

Mary Hebron, Associate Director, The Art of Teaching Program – BA, MA, New York University. Former teacher and coordinator of primary education, Mamaroneck Public Schools; curriculum and assessment consultant in New York City and Westchester; coordinator of teacher and study groups, including The Art of Teaching Professional Development Series. Board member of The Prospect Archive and Center for Education and Research, North Bennington, Vermont. SLC, 1985-

David J. Eger, The Art of Teaching – BS, Wesleyan University. PhD, University of Michigan. Clinical psychologist in private clinical practice. Experience as a Staff Psychologist, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and Children’s Inpatient Unit, NY, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Div.; Director of Student Services, The Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, NY; Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. SLC, 2006-

Kim Ferguson, Psychology/Art of Teaching - B.A. Knox College. MA, PhD, Cornell University.  Special interests include cultural-ecological approaches to infant and child development; children at risk (including children in poverty, with HIV/AIDS, orphans, children in foster care); health and cognitive development; and development in African contexts. SLC, 2007 -

Linwood J. Lewis, Psychology/The Art of Teaching – BA, Manhattanville College. MA, Brooklyn College. PhD, City University of New York. Special interests in the effects of culture and social context on the conceptualization of health and illness, stress and coping in persons with chronic disease, the psychological study of families, and basic research on cognition; recipient of a MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellowship on Network for Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood. SLC, 1997-

Margaret Martinez-DeLuca, The Art of Teaching – BA, College of Mount St. Joseph. MSEd, Bank Street College of Education. Member, faculty of Bank Street College; consultant, Bank Street Center for Minority Achievement; work in restructuring and math reform in New York City, Newark, and Baltimore elementary and middle schools; math consultant in school districts outside the New York City area; classroom teacher K-12 for 30 years. SLC, 1994-

Kathleen Ruen, The Art of Teaching – BA, MA, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD, NYU. Special interest in connections between teaching and creating artwork. Former teacher and Assistant Director, Central Park East I Elementary; grant writer, Center for Arts and Education, New York City. Founder and Artistic Director of Undermine, Under One Roof Theatre, Tribeca, NY. SLC, 2003-