Keynote speakers
Topic: "Inclusive Excellence from an Organizational Perspective”
Prof. Kelly Ward
Vice Provost, Faculty Development and Recognition, Washington State University, United States
Kelly Ward is Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Recognition and Professor of Higher Education. She previously served as chair of the Department of Educational Leadership, Sport Studies, and Educational/Counseling Psychology. Her administrative roles provide the opportunity for Dr. Ward to connect her research expertise to current problems of practice. At WSU, she has taught Administration of Higher Education, Critical Issues in Higher Education and Student Affairs, Student Services, Seminar in Higher Education, and College Teaching. She previously taught at Oklahoma State University and worked as an administrator and faculty member at the University of Montana. See more.
Topic: "Instructional Leadership and Professional Learning Communities for K-12 Education”
Assoc.Prof. Paula Groves Price
Associate Dean for Diversity & International Programs, College of Education, Washington State University, United States
Paula Groves Price studies issues of equity, looking for solutions to the problems of inequalities in schools and society. Equity, broadly defined, includes fairness, social justice, and equality of both access and opportunity. To understand equity, Price researches a variety of subjects, including diversity in teacher education, state educational policies, educational reform, and the community context of education. Her interest in discovering and reclaiming the voices of black women has resulted in ethnographic research about community activists whose life stories enrich multicultural education today. Her work has this multicultural focus, she noted, “since I am multicultural in experience and background. I have an African American father and a Japanese mother. I am the youngest of eight children and the first in my family to ever go to college. And I have experienced the inequalities in the schools I have attended. My mission is to teach future educators so we do not reproduce the same problems.” See more.
