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Campus: Skokie
Email: hross@nl.edu
Phone: 224.233.2594
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Biography
Harry Ross joined National-Louis University in September 2001 and was elected department chair in June 2005. Prior to joining the NLU faculty, Ross had been a teacher at Evanston Township and Lake Forest High Schools, and before that, he had been a faculty member in the English Dept. at Northwestern University’s College of Continuing Studies, where he won an annual award for teaching excellence.
Ross regularly writes and presents on the importance of professionalizing teaching and distributing school leadership in order to improve student achievement and sustain school improvement. He currently has a book in press, Thirteen Steps to Teacher Power: Taking Your Career to the Next Level, and he is working with a coalition of CPS principals and teachers to build leadership at nine urban schools. He has written and presented on ways of expanding the secondary English curriculum to motivate students to become lifelong readers. He is currently working with Chicago teachers to implement these curricula, funded by a grant from the Dept. of Education. In addition, Ross is the lead scholar on a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research and publicize the work of the 1930s Federal Writers’ Project.
Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University (English)M.A., Northwestern University (English)
M.Ed., Northwestern University
BA, Vassar College
Publications
Thirteen Steps to Teacher Power: Taking Your Career to the Next Level, book co-authored with Steve Zemelman (Heinemann, 2009)Presentations
Selected Presentations June 2008 – April 2009
Running an Effective Urban Teacher Residency Program: The Opportunities and Challenges for University Faculty. Presentation, annual conference of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education.
How to Create Instructional Leadership Teams to Improve Student Achievement and Sustain It. Presentation, Chicago Schools Alliance annual retreat.
Soul of a People: The National Writers’ Project. Lead scholar on a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Memoirs and Autobiographies that High School Students Won’t Forget. Presentation, National Council of Teachers of English annual convention.
Pedagogical Practices for Teaching the Classics to Struggling Readers. Full-Day Workshop, National Council of Teachers of English annual convention.
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