Catalog 2007-2008
Graduate School of Education and Counseling
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Centers
The Graduate School of Education and Counseling has developed three centers--the Center for Continuing and Professional Studies, the Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation, and the William Stafford Center--to serve the needs of our students and to reach out to the larger community. Through offerings of study-abroad programs, lectures, workshops, and continuing professional development, these centers allow participants a wide range of innovative opportunities for engaging in social justice, creative practice, and lifelong learning.
Center for Continuing Studies
The Center for Continuing Studies provides dynamic educational experiences for continuous personal and professional growth. We seek to encourage adults to think creatively, act knowledgably, and live reflectively. We invite individuals to join us to effect positive change in the communities in which we live and serve. Together we create a forum for a rich diversity of voices and perspectives in a complex and ever-changing world.
For more information about the Center for Continuing Studies, please visit graduate.lclark.edu/dept/ccps.
Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation
The Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation advocates for the actualization of community ideas. Our programs support clear identification of questions facing local and global communities, and engagement with these issues by members of those communities with the assistance of professionals and scholars. Our hope is that such interaction will reveal fresh, innovative, and useful responses to challenges.
For more information about the Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation, please visit graduate.lclark.edu/org/orcenter.
The Indigenous Ways of Knowing Project
In the fall of 2005, the Ford Foundation awarded Lewis & Clark College funding to support the development of an innovative Native American studies program. An initiative of the graduate school's Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation and designed in collaboration with its academic departments, this project seeks to increase representation for historically marginalized people among professional educators and counselors.
In an increasingly multicultural and complex world, the Indigenous Ways of Knowing Project will help prepare native and nonnative teachers, counselors, and related community leaders for positive and informed leadership roles. Options will include advanced studies in indigenous life in the new millennium, supervised field experiences, Core classes (including CORE 506, CORE 507, and a course on great tribal leaders), and topical seminars related to degree specializations.
For more information about this project, please contact the Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation at 503-768-6099 or center director Mary Clare at clare@lclark.edu.
Oregon Writing Project
A 20-year tradition of helping teachers use writing to promote student learning, the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark has become a landmark in the lives of a generation of teachers. Since 1984, the OWP has worked with school districts in the Portland area and southwest Washing-ton to identify and train teachers as experts in classroom writing instruction and as in-district resources for staff development. Participating teachers write in a broad range of genres to strengthen their own sense of the writing process, and also explore current research, share tested classroom strategies for teaching writing, and prepare for writing assessment and issues in school reform.
The OWP at Lewis & Clark includes two invitational summer institutes for teachers of all disciplines, kindergarten through college, and school-year follow-up meetings for a full year of learning about teaching writing. Our program is affiliated with the National Writing Project at the University of California at Berkeley, which provides some financial assistance for summer institute participants.
The Writing Studio
A setting for creation, the Writing Studio helps students and staff to learn, teach, and communicate through writing. At the studio, writing turns personal curiosity into inquiry and harnesses the imagination to develop new thinking. For more information about the Writing Studio, see the College Resources section of this catalog or contact Marcia Silver at 503-768-6166 or silver@lclark.edu.