Rick Sawyer

 

 

 

 

 

Rick Sawyer, Ed.D.

 


Affiliation: Education Department

Position: Assistant Professor


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SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Diller, K., & Sawyer, R.D. (2004) New alliances for integrating technology into the curriculum. Educause Quarterly.

Sawyer, R.D. (2000). Adapting Curriculum to Student Diversity: Patterns of
Perceptions among alternate-route and college-based teachers. The Urban Review,32(4), 343-364.

Sawyer, R. (2000). Mentoring But Not Being Mentored: Improving Student-to-Student Mentoring Programs to Attract Urban Youth to Teaching. Urban Education, 36(1), 39-59.

Sawyer, R., D. (2001). Teacher decision-making as a fulcrum for teacher development: Exploring structures of growth. Teacher Development, 5(1), p. 39-58.

Sawyer, R., D. (2001). Teachers who grow as collaborative leaders: The rocky road of support. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 9(38). http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n38.html

Sawyer, R. D. (2004.) Situating Teacher Development: The View from Two Teachers' Perspectives International Journal of Educational Research 37, 733-753.

Sawyer, R.D., & Diller, K. (2001). Technology for inquiry: (Mis)uses of electronic reflective portfolios. Issues in Teacher Education, 10(1), 9-28.

Slavit, David, Richard Sawyer, and Janet Curley (in press). Filling Your PLATE: A Professional Development Model for Teaching with Technology. TechTrends.

UNDER REVIEW FOR REFEREED JOURNAL

Sawyer, R. D. & Schmidt, J. (2005-under review). Confronting the Border: Challenging Lessons for Educators on the Road. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education.

PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS WITH REVIEW BOARDS, BUT NON-REFEREED

Rutter, A., & Sawyer, R.D. (2004). Being mentored by the dean of teachers college, Columbia University. The Sophist's Bane. A Journal for the Society of Professors of Education. (Accepted).

Sawyer, R. D. (2001). Educators and students learning together and apart with technology. Curriculum in Context, 28(1), 14-17.

BOOK REVIEWS

Kennedy, M. & Sawyer, R. D. (1997). Making room for students: Sharing teacher authority in room 104 [Review of Making Room for Students: Sharing Teacher Authority in Room 104]. Teachers College Record, 99(1), 222-226.

Rutter, A. & Sawyer, R. (1995). The rhetoric of research and reform. Educational Researcher, 24(9), 33-35.

Sawyer, R.D. (2002). Imagining curriculum. Practical intelligence in teaching. Review of Bradbeer, J., (1998). Imagining curriculum. Practical intelligence in teaching. Curriculum Inquiry, 32(3), 379-388.

REFEREED BOOKS/CHAPTERS

Sawyer, R. D., Rutter, A. LeFevre, D., Margolis, J. (2005). Chapter 2. Instruction. In Farenga, S. J., Joyce, B. A., & Ness, D. (Eds.). Encyclopedia on Education and Human Development. M.E. Sharpe Publisher.

Sawyer, R., & Bledsoe, D. (2005). A University-School District Literacy Partnership: Working Together to Support Student and Teacher Literacy. In J. Braunger & D. Donahue (Eds.). Content Area Reading. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.

Norris, J., & Sawyer, R.D. (2004). Hidden and Null Curriculums of Sexual Orientation: A Dialogue on the Curreres of the Absent Presence and the Present Absence. Edited yearbook from the 4th Curriculum & Pedagogy Annual conference, Dectur, GA. (Equal co-authorship.)

Bolin, F. S., Sawyer, R. D., & Borago, M. (1997). Methods of inquiry in supervision. In G. Firth & E. Pajak (Eds.), Handbook on Research in Supervision.

Rutter, A., & Sawyer, R. D. (In Press). Chapter 3. Instruction. In Farenga, S. J., Joyce, B. A., & Ness, D. (Eds.). Encyclopedia on Education and Human Development. M.E. Sharpe Publisher.

Sawyer, R. D. (2002) Curriculum making, Meaning, and teacher identity. In T. S. Poetter, C. Haerr, M. Hayes, C. Higgins, and K. W. Baptist (Eds.), In(Ex)clusion: (Revisioning the democratic ideal). Troy, NY: Educators International Press, Inc.

MONOGRAPHS

Grannis, J. & Sawyer, R. D. (1994). Midtown West School LEARNING FOR LIFE Project: Evaluation Final Report. Teachers College, Columbia University. (Report).

Grannis, J., Sawyer, R. D., et al. (1994). Evaluation of The Community Achievement Project in The Schools: A Collaboration of the United Way And The New York City Public Schools. (Report).

Sawyer, R. D. (Ed.). (1994). Building on Diversity: Exploring Issues of Teacher Retention. (Teachers College, Columbia University Monograph).

Sawyer, R.D. & Griffin, G. (1998). Review of Teacher Preparation Programs at Teachers College. (Teachers College, Columbia University Monograph).

Sawyer, R. D. (2001). Turning High School Classrooms into Learning Communities: Teachers Learning from Educational Theory and their Students. Monograph published by the Nishinomiya Board of Education.

Sawyer, R. D. (2001). Contextualizing Secondary Preservice Education at WSU Vancouver. Self evaluation for the Consortium of Contextual Teaching and Learning. Seattle, the University of Washington.

Sawyer, R. D. (2002). Interim Eva1uation of Engaging the Public with
Digital Primary Sources: A Tri-State Online History Database and Learning Center. Evaluation. Prepared for the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Washington State University.

NEWSLETTERS

Sawyer. R.D. (December, 2005). Through the past lightly: Some ah-hah moments over the course of the Teaching American History Project. In H. Morris (Ed.) Engaging the American Past. A Monthly Chronicle of News and Events for History Partners. Vancouver, WA: the Educational Service District 112.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

Bolin, F.S., Sawyer, R.D., & Borago, M. (March, 1995). Methods of Inquiry in Supervision. Co-presenter at the Fourth Biennial Teachers College Caswell Conference. (March, 1995).

Gershon, W. Gillman, C., Sawyer, R., & Pinar, W. (2002). Voices from the classroom: A community conversation and celebration. Non-paper presentation at the Curriculum and Pedagogy 2002 Annual Conference, October 16-19, 2002, Decatur, Georgia.

Norris, J., & Sawyer, R.D. (2003). Hidden and Null Curriculums of Sexual Orientation: A Dialogue on the Curreres of the Absent Presence and the Present Absence. Edited yearbook from the 4th Curriculum & Pedagogy Annual conference, Dectur, GA. (Oct. 2003).

Sawyer, R. D., Laguardia, A., & Walker, T. (April, 2006). Cultural Encounters of the History Kind: Perspectives on History Teaching and Professional Development. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April, San Francisco.

Sawyer, R. D. Asher, N. & Walker, T. (April, 2006). Confronting the Border: Challenging Lessons for Educators on the Road. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April, San Francisco.

Sawyer, R. D. & Noris, J. (February, 2005). From Autoethnography to Duoethnography: A Search for the Dialogic Self. Provoking Curriculum: Trans/forming Narrative(s) - University of Victoria - Victoria, B.C. - February 24-26, 2005.

Sawyer, R. D. & Norris, J. (October, 2005). Towards the Dialogic and Critical Engagement of Duo-ethnography for Transformative Curriculum: An Interactive Discussion of Methodology. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Conference on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Miami, Ohio.

Sawyer, R. D. (2003). New Approaches to Collaboration: Preservice Teachers Using Technology to Support Critical Discussion about On-Line Classrooms. Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April, Chicago, session 60.012.

Sawyer, R. D. (2001). Democratic Education. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Holmes Partnership, Albequerque, NM, January, 2001.

Sawyer, R. D. (2001). Curriculum Development as a Context for Teacher Development: Meaning-Centered Growth. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, October 4-6, Denver, Colorado.

Sawyer, R. D. (2001). Curriculum Making and Teacher Identity: Sites of Growth and Dissonance. Paper presented at the Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, October 10-13, 2001.

Sawyer, R. D. (2001). Turning High School Classrooms into Learning Communities: Teachers Learning from Educational Theory and their Students. Paper presented at the Washington State University - Nishinomiya Board of Education Seminar. Nishinomiya, Japan, November 10 - 19, 2001.

Sawyer, R.D. (2000). Multiple equations of support in mathematics teachers: Changing from the traditional to the contextual. Paper presented at AERA in New Orleans. Annual Meeting, Session (#25.08).

Sawyer, R. D. Review of CREWC Evaluation Process. Presentation at the Columbia River Education and Work Council (CREWC) Executive Board, February, 2000, Vancouver, Washington. (Presentation only).

Sawyer, R. D. (March, 1998). Becoming Curriculum Makers: Nine Years in the Lives of Two Teachers. Paper presented at AERA in San Diego. Annual Meeting, Session (#27.12).

Sawyer R. D. (1996). Addressing diversity in teaching. Paper presented at AERA in New York. Annual Meeting, Session (#54.14).

Sawyer, R. D. (1995). Mentoring but Not Being Mentored? The Social Construction of Mentoring to African American and Latino Males: An Ethnographic Program Evaluation. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, the University of Pennsylvania.

Sawyer, R.D. (March, 1993). Process of Education in Diverse Contexts: Engaging Students' Voices to Build an Authentic Curriculum. Presented at the Third Biennial Hollis Caswell Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University. (Presentation only.)

Sawyer, R.D., Diller, K., Eccles, M., Vaughan, S. (2000). Technology for Inquiry: Uses of On-Line Reflective Portfolios. Paper presented at AERA in New Orleans. Annual Meeting, Session (#12.10).

Sawyer, R. D. & Pearl, A. (2002). New and Experienced Teachers Applying Principles of Democratic Education to their Classrooms.Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 1-5, 2002, New Orleans, Annuan Meeting Session (#50.53).

Sawyer, R.D., and Slavit, D. (2000). Building openings: Dilemmas of establishing a cyber PDS. Paper presented at the Holmes Partnership Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, January 2000.

Sawyer, R.D., Diller, K., Eccles, M., Vaughan, S. (2000). Technology for Inquiry: Uses of On-Line Reflective Portfolios. Paper presented at AERA in New
Orleans. Annual Meeting, Session (#25.08).

Zumwalt, K., Rudder, A., & Sawyer, R.D. (March, 1995). Staffing Urban Schools: Are Alternate Route Programs Friend or Foe? Presentation at the Fourth Biennial Teachers College Caswell Conference. (Presentation only. No paper.)

DISCUSSANT AT PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Sawyer, R. D. (2003). The Impact of School-University Partnerships on Classroom Teachers. Discussant of paper session at Annual Meeting of AERA in Chicago, Session
29.080.

Sawyer, R. D. (2003). Learning Communities and Collaboration in PDSs. Discussant of paper session at Annual Meeting of AERA in Chicago, Session 73.040.

Sawyer, R. D. (2000). Discussant of Lee Teitle's paper entitled Sustainability Factors in Professional Development School Partnerships. Discussion at AERA in New Orleans. Annual Meeting, Session 3.42.


WORKSHOP/NON-PAPER PRESENTATIONS

The Teaching American History Grant. Formal presentation to the Professional Educatory Advisory Board, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, May, 2006.

Winter Roundtable on Cross-Cultural Psychology and Education. Teachers College,
Columbia University. Represented the Teachers College Record at the "Pathways to Publication" Roundtable. March 15, 1997.

Presentation at Peace Corps Fellows Seminar, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Topic: Non-traditional Teaching in Traditional Settings.

Alternate Teaching Methods Symposium: Presentation topic: A Discussion of a TV
Video-News Project for "At Risk" High School Students. April, 1991. The HERALD
Project. San Francisco State University.

FUNDED EXTRAMURAL GRANTS/PROJECTS, ETC.

Sawyer, R.D. (2000) Mini-Grant Contextual Teaching and Learning Website. Funded by the Consortium for Contextual Teaching and Learning, University of Washington
(1,000 funded).

Sawyer, R.D. (2000). Professional Development Website Project (Skyview-WSUV Partnership). Funded by the Hewlett Packard Corporation. (15,840.00, funded).

Sawyer, R.D. (2000). The Study of Still And Video Digital Imagery. Washington State University, PT3 "teach.edu" project. (1.0 FTE funded).

Slavit, D. & Sawyer, R.D. (2000). Project TEMPLATE: Technology Education Matters: Plan for Learning And Teaching with Educational Technology. U.S. Department of Education Teaching with Technology Initiative. August, 1999 - August, 2000 ($412,000, funded).

Sawyer, R.D. & Slavit, D. (2000). Research and Instructional Technology Laboratory. Omnibus Equipment Funds, State of Washington. August, 1999 - August, 2000
($24,000, funded).

Sawyer, R.D., Slavit, D. (2000). Project TEMPLATE: PT3 Grant. US Department of Education. (2,9666,529.00, non funded).

 

 

 

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