Faculty

Kathy Thompson
Public Service Associate

She received her Ph.D. in Middle Grades Education from The University of Georgia. She
has been Co-Director of the League of Professional Schools for the past four years. Her
research interests include teacher professional development and empowering students and
teachers through democratic service-learning, Representative publications are:

Thompson, K. (2005). Collaborative decision-making. In V.A. Anfara, P.G. Andrews, &
S.B. Mertens (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education (pp. 147-
150). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Thompson, K. & Pate, P.E. (2005). Community. In V.A. Anfara, P.G.
Andrews, & S.B. Mertens (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education
(pp. 151-154). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Pate, P.E., & Thompson, K.F. (2003). Effective professional development: What is it? In
V.A. Anfara & P.G. Andrews (Eds.), Handbook of research in middle level
education, Leaders for a movement: Professional preparation and development of
middle level teachers and administrators (pp. 123-143). Greenwich, CT:
Information Age Publishing.

Thompson, K.F. (2000). Real-world learning can lead to student empowerment. In D.
Tippins, T. Koballa, & B. Payne (Eds.), Learning from cases: Unraveling the
complexities of elementary science teaching (pp.69-71). Boston, Massachusetts:
Allyn & Bacon.

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