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Title: Beverly Moore oral history interview, 2005 May 27
Creator: Moore, Beverly, 1947-
Date Created: 2005-05-27
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Special education, Exceptional children, Teachers
Description: Beverly Moore discusses her experience with behaviorally and emotionally disturbed children, and her connection with the open school program in Charlotte. While Ms. Moore began her career in the Columbia, South Carolina school district, she eventu...

Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 1, 2005 January 6
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-06
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part one of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal discusses her experience with open education in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal describes open education as a method that gives students the opportunity to think creatively, m...

Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 2, 2005 January 13
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-13
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part two of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal continues discussing her experience with open education in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal criticizes the current trend in mainstream education at the time of interview of inc...

Title: Carol Newman oral history interview 2, 2006 February 23
Creator: Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
Date Created: 2006-02-23
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training, Magnet schools, Federal aid to education, School integration
Description: In this second interview, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) administrator Carol Newman continues to discuss the successes and challenges of the city's open schools program, but also focuses on the emergence and significance of magnet school...

Title: Daniel Ford Faris oral history interview, 2005 June 22
Creator: Faris, Daniel Ford, 1944-
Date Created: 2005-06-22
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Teachers, Language arts (Middle school), Teaching teams, Grading and marking (Students), School discipline--Evaluation, Student-centered learning, Active learning, Mixed ability grouping in education
Description: Teacher Daniel Ford Faris describes the open education learning environment at Piedmont Open Middle School between 1977 and 1997. He discusses his methods of teaching students and compares his teaching methods during his time at Spaugh Middle Scho...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 10, 2007 July 2
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2007-07-02
Subjects--Topical: Cats in literature, Children's literature, Illustrations, Painting, Publishers and publishing, Puss in Boots (Tale)
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the early 1990s. In this tenth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley discusses her work on Puss in Boots (1991). Ms. Haley rela...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 11, 2007 September 21
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2007-09-21
Subjects--Topical: Block printing, Children's literature, Illustrations, Jack tales, Mountains--Folklore, Storytelling, Wood-engraving--Printing
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her career during the early 1990s. In this eleventh of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley discusses her work on Mountain Jack Tales (1992). Ms. Ha...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 3, 2006 April 13
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2006-04-13
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Environmentalism, Illustrations, Linoleum block-printing, Noah's ark, Painting, Pen drawing, Publishers and publishing
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her life and evolving career during the 1970s. In this third of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley discusses the period in her life in which she a...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 4, 2006 May 30
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2006-05-30
Subjects--Topical: Cats in literature, Children's literature, Costume design, Gouache painting, Illustrations, Kate Greenaway Medal, Working cats
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the mid to late 1970s. In this fourth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley discusses The Post Office Cat (1976), which was awa...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 5, 2006 October 12
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2006-10-12
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Folk literature, Illustrations, Kate Greenaway Medal, Linoleum block-printing, Publishers and publishing, Storytelling
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her career during the late 1970s. In this fifth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley describes her work on Go Away, Stay Away (1977). She recount...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 6, 2007 February 16
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2007-02-16
Subjects--Topical: Acrylic painting, Children's literature, Folk literature, Green Man (Tale), Illustrations, Nature, Pub signs http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1081960
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the late 1970s. In this sixth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley relates working on The Green Man (1979). Ms. Haley describe...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 7, 2007 April 5
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2007-04-05
Subjects--Topical: Bird trapping, Birds in literature, Children's literature, Illustrations, Painting, Storytelling, Metaphysics
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her career during the late 1970s and 1980s. In this seventh of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley discusses her work on Birdsong (1984). The inspi...

Title: Mildred Wright and Patrick Cannon oral history interview, 2005 November 18
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2005-11-18
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, School management and organization, Education--Philosophy, Multicultural education, Educational assessment, Educational tests and measurements
Description: Mildred Wright and Patrick Cannon discuss their experiences with Irwin Elementary School and open education in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Wright was a teacher and principal at Irwin Elementary from the 1970s-1990s and talks about the concept ...

Title: Mildred Wright oral history interview 1, 2006 February 14
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2006-02-14
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, School children--Education (Elementary), Educational assessment, School management and organization, Total quality management in education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Cultural pluralism
Description: Mildred Wright recounts her career as an educator and administrator working with open plan schools in North Carolina, particularly her experiences helping to open, teach at, and manage Irwin Avenue Open School, the second functioning open plan sch...

Title: Mildred Wright oral history interview 2, 2006 February 22
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2006-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Child development, School management and organization, Educational tests and measurements, Educational assessment, Magnet schools, Educational leadership, De facto school segregation
Description: In this last of three interviews with Mildred Wright, Ms. Wright discusses her career in education, particularly her role as principal at Coulwood Middle School and Thomasboro School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Wright explains how the approa...

Title: Sherrill Coutourier oral history interview, 2005 October 19
Creator: Coutourier, Sherrill, 1948-
Date Created: 2005-10-19
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers, Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Parent-teacher relationships, Education--Parent participation
Description: Sherrill Coutourier discusses her experiences as a teacher in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' open schools program from the 1970s to the 1990s. Topics discussed includes the benefits of open education for both students and teachers, parental i...

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