Department of Education Studies
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8388

E-mail: KatzS@ripon.edu

Education

• B.A. Smith College
• M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ed.D. University of Nevada

Recent Presentations

• "From Wisconsin to Wales and Back," presented at Meeting Global Challenges 2006: Best Practices for Practitioners, Lake Geneva, Wis., with Mary Williams-Norton, November 2006.  
• "NAPOLME Best Practices in Middle Level Education: Community Asset Mapping as a Means to Educate Within cultural Context, " presented at the National Middle School Association Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., November 2006.
• "Arts Integration in the Content Area Classroom, " presented at the National Middle School Association conference, Minneapolis, Minn., November 2004.
• "Addressing Student-Held Beliefs Concernig Diversity: Lesson Ideas from a Rural College's Educational Studies Program, " presented at the International conference on Teacher Education and Social Justice, San Francisco, July 2004.
• "Beyond Car Washes and Candy Sales: Fund-raising in the Educational Environment," presented at the Educational Theatre Association/Oregon Theatre Arts Association Joint Convention, October 2002
• "Making Theatre Visible in and Integral to the Middle School Curriculum," presented at the National Middle School Theatre Forum, February 2001
• "Theatre in the Middle School Environment," presented at the National Middle School Association Conference, November 1998

Recent Publications

• Katz, S.M. (2006)  "Using Community Asset Mapping as a Means to Develop an Understanding of Diversity in Teacher Education Students," "Current Issues in Middle Level Education," 12 (1), 41-45

Professional Affiliations

• American Eductional Research Association
• Educational Theatre Association
• National Association of Professors of Middle Level Education
• National Middle School Association

Other  

• Community Involvement (director, Ripon Middle School musical 2005 - Present )

Courses Taught

• EDU 242  Arts Integration for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
• EDU 260  Diversity in American Education
• EDU 412  Philosophical and Social Foundations in Education
• EDU 421  Student Teaching: Music
• EDU 471  Student Teaching Seminar (with other faculty)