Noted author and educational activist Herbert Kohl will be on campus for a week-long residency this week. On April 6, there will be a film screening and discussion with Kohl and Elizabeth Young, assistant professor of English. Laura Angelica Simon's documentary, Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary, explores the challenges of inner-city schooling in Los Angeles in the context of violence, poverty, and anti-immigrant legislation. The film won the 1997 Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award. Kohl will also read from his latest book at The Odyssey Bookshop on April 7. His residency closes the Weissman Center for Leadership's spring series on public education.
Kohl is a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute. Widely respected as an author and educator, Kohl has taught in schools across the country and long been committed to equity and justice for children. He has been writing and teaching for over thirty years, covering every grade from kindergarten through graduate school
Kohl has helped build national and international education alliances for over thirty years, worked as curriculum coordinator for the Parent Board of the I.S. 201 Community School District in Harlem, founded and directed the New York Teachers and Writers Collaborative, and run a public alternative high school in Berkeley. His priority has always been to work directly with young children. To this end, he regularly teaches reading and writing to youngsters in his community of Point Arena, CA, in addition to handling a full load of classes at the University of San Francisco.
Kohl also writes for Teacher magazine, and has won numerous literary awards. His books 36 Children and The Open Classroom were national bestsellers, and The Discipline of Hope, which he cowrote with Myles Horton and his wife Judith Kohl, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
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