Who Was Lucy Sprague Mitchell … and Why Should You Know?

New Literacies and Community Inquiry

“…and Dewey (Smith, 2000). In New York, in 1931, she started what was later known as the Cooperative School for Teachers, which exemplified a commitment to collaboration and inquiry.…”

“…The term community has been used to refer to a classroom or a global movement, to groups of people defined by location or interests, or in terms of communion (Smith, 2001;Wellman, 2001). There are learning, disciplinary, and professional communities, as well as historically defined, place-based communities.…”

Leadership standards: Professional Development Schools versus non-Professional Development Schools

“…When the depression of the nineteen thirties struck, Addams saw many of the things she had advocated and fought for become policies under President Franklin Roosevelt. She received numerous awards and became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 (Smith, 2000).…”

“…Dewey influenced Mitchell's ideas, which influenced her later work. Despite little experience with underprivileged people, she studied Jane Addams' work at the Chicago school (Smith, 2000).…”

“…Abraham Flexner's advocacy of the teaching hospital was built on Dewey's idea of actively engaging students to obtain needed medical skills. Abraham Flexner's model of a teaching hospital created a reform movement in the medical community (Beck 2004 (Smith, 2000).…”