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MICHÈLE FOSTERPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEProfessor and Henry Heuser Endowed Chair in Urban PartnershipsUniversity of Louisville College of Education and Human Development. 2016-present.Professor and Sherman Family Endowed Chair in Urban Education ResearchFounding Executive Director, Urban Education Research CenterUniversity of Missouri Kansas City. School of Education 2012-2016MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES Promoting and facilitating leading-edge research, including collaborative andinterdisciplinary research, in areas related to the goals of the universityWorking to improve research opportunities, funding and working conditions forresearch in the School of EducationAdvancing faculty excellence in the area of research creative scholarly activityActing as the nexus between the university and the community with respect toresearch initiatives of mutual benefitDeveloping mutually beneficial linkages with other organizations in order todevelop partnerships and collaborative researchTransferring knowledge to society through outreach (e.g. collaborative research;seminars; workshops; lectures; websites; publications)Independent education policy researcher/scholar/analyst 2006-2012.Tenured Professor. Center for Educational Studies. Claremont Graduate SchoolClaremont, CA 1994-2006Visiting Professor York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada-Summer 2005Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar-Mills College Oakland, CA 2004-2005Judge David Nelson Visiting Endowed Professorship Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA1998-99 (declined)Tenured Associate Professor of Education and African-American and African StudiesUniversity of California, Davis, CA 1991-1994.Graduate Group in EducationGraduate Group in Applied Behavioral SciencesGraduate Group-Joint Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership

University of California Davis-California State University-FresnoAssistant Professor. Education, Culture, and Society. University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, PA 1987-1991 (on leave 1989-1991 see Honors and Grants).Visiting Professor. College of Human and Rural Development University of AlaskaFairbanks. Summer 1988.Adjunct Instructor. Wheelock and Lesley Colleges. Cambridge and Boston, MA Spring1987. Taught undergraduate and graduate level education coursesAssistant Professor--University of Massachusetts at Boston 1984-1986.Taught education, social science, reading, composition, basic writing andstudy skills courses in an interdisciplinary competency-based degreeprogram. Coordinated college-wide reading and writing assessment program.Assistant Professor- Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA 1977-1984.Taught reading, basic writing, composition, literature and study skillscourses.Partial List of Courses Taught at the Postsecondary LevelPolicy Issues in DesegregationBasic Writing I & IIAfrican-American English inSociety and SchoolsThe African-American Femalein Contemporary SocietyEthnographic MethodsDocument DesignAdult Basic EducationEnglish Composition I & IITeachers' Perspectives onTeachingEducation in American SocietyLanguage and CultureIntroduction to LiteratureEnglish as a Second LanguagePhilosophical and Social Foundationsof EducationAutobiography: A Reading and WritingCourseResearch Methods I & IIAnthropology of EducationThe Research PaperDevelopmental ReadingEducation in the AfricanAmerican CommunityWriting for PublicationDiscourse AnalysisTeacher -Counselor. Massachusetts Experimental School System. Boston, MA1971-1977.Substitute Teacher. Citywide. Grades K-12.Boston Public Schools Boston, MA1968-1971.

Instructor. Work with Continuing Education Institute, First NationalBank of Boston. 1967- 1968.Taught reading, basic writing, composition, English as a second language and study skillscourses.AdministrationDirector METCO Program. Administered and coordinated a K-12 urbansuburban desegregation program in Bedford, Sudbury and Wellesley SchoolDistricts. Developed and wrote proposal and budget. Administered budget of 250,000. Hired, supervised, and evaluated a professional and paraprofessionalstaff of 12. Conducted human relations and multicultural curriculum workshops.1974-80.Curriculum DevelopmentMulticultural Curriculum Specialist. Developed and coordinated multiculturalcurriculum for elementary grades. Conducted demonstration lessons. BrooklinePublic Schools. Brookline, MA 1973-74.Master Educator. Developed curriculum for Manpower Training Programs.Neighborhood Youth Corps, Action for Boston Community Development.Boston, MA 1970.Curriculum Developer. Reviewed and field tested curriculum materials.City Schools Curriculum Service, Inc., Boston, MA 1968-1969.FUNDED RESEARCHExternalPrincipal Investigator. Learning through Teaching in an After-SchoolPedagogical Laboratory. Funded by the Office of Educational Research andImprovement (OERI) through the Field Initiated Studies (FIS) inEducation Program. 2001-2005. (1,299,808.00).Principal Investigator. Learning through Teaching in an After-SchoolPedagogical Laboratory. Funded by the National Science FoundationSmall Grant Program 2001-2002. (85,000.00).Member Research Team. An Investigation of the Relationship Between AfricanAmerican Language and Culture and Literacy Acquisition and Development.Funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement throughCalifornia State University at Hayward. 1998-2000. (1,000,000.00).

Principal Investigator. Teaching and Learning in the Context of AfricanAmerican Community, Culture, and African American English. Funded by theOffice of Educational Research and Improvement through the National Centerfor Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence. 1996-1998. (240,000.00).Principal Investigator. Examining Intergroup Relations in Culturally DiverseElementary School Classrooms. 1996-97. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation.(49,000.00)Principal Investigator. Exemplary Teachers in Culturally Diverse Classrooms.1995-96. Funded by The Spencer Foundation Small Grants Program. (12,000)Principal Investigator. Urban African-American Teachers' Views ofOrganizational Change University of Wisconsin Center for EducationalResearch. 1990-1992. (2,500.00)Principal Investigator. Life Histories of African American Teachers. TheSpencer Foundation Small Grants Program, 1988-1991. (5,000)InternalUniversity of Louisville--Transdisciplinary Consortium on Social Justice Research.Building on the cultural assets of Mill Creek Elementary School. Principal Investigator.2018 (7,500)University of Louisville- Transdisciplinary Consortium on Social Justice Research.Member Research Team. Louisville Association for Community Economics (LACE). 2018(7,500)University of California-Davis Faculty Research Grants 1991-1992; 1992-1993(10,000.00)University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, 1998 (5,000)Other ResearchResearch Associate. Teaching from Strengths Project. Funded by the Fund forthe Improvement of Postsecondary Education under the direction of Dr. ShirleyBrice Heath and Dr. Dixie Goswami. Roxbury Community College. 1984-1986.Research Assistant. Oral Preparation for Literacy. Project. Funded by theSpencer Foundation under the direction Dr. Courtney Cazden. HarvardGraduate School of Education. 1981-1982.Research Assistant. Families and Literacy Project. Funded by the National

Institute of Education under the direction of Drs. Courtney Cazden, Jeanne Challand Catherine Snow. Harvard Graduate School of Education. 1980-1981.Consulting (selected list)Free-lance educational consultation. Areas of expertise include curricularplanning, program development, policy analysis and evaluation, professionaldevelopment, proposal development and evaluation, qualitative and quantitativeresearch, proposal review and evaluation. Work with African American Cultural FamilyResource Center--San Francisco Unified School District, ETS, CIRCE-University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, LASERS--University of SouthFlorida, City University of New York Minority Project for the TeachingProfessions, Brown University, Marquette University, Temple University,Fitchburg State University (MA), San Francisco State University; Arcadia,Lesley, Regis, Simmons, and Wheelock Colleges; Durham Technical (NC),Roxbury (MA) and Consumnes (CA) Community Colleges; Arlington, Belmont,Boston, Brookline, Concord/Carlisle, Dover/Sherborn, Georgetown, Lexington,Lincoln, Marblehead, Medford, Scituate and Worcester, MA Public SchoolSystems; Durham City and Johnston County, NC Public School Systems; DavisUnified, San Juan, and Elk Grove, and San Francisco, CA Public SchoolSystems; Fairfax County and Franklin, VA Public School Systems andPhiladelphia Public School Systems; The Spence School, Interschool; ABTAssociates; Administration for Children, Youth and Families/ Department ofHealth, Education, and Human Services; Office of Bilingual Education andMinority Language/Department of Education; City of Boston/NDEA;Massachusetts Department of Education; Massachusetts Reading Association;METCO Directors Association; Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Qualityand Student Achievement National Council of Equal Opportunity Associations;Performance Fact, Philadelphia Writing Project; Bay Area Writing Project;California Writing Project, The Public Policy Forum, San Francisco SchoolVolunteers; Schweitzer International Institute. 1977-present.EDUCATIONHarvard University, Graduate School of Education. Doctorate in Anthropologyand Education.Harvard University, Graduate School of Education. Masters in Anthropologyand Education.Tufts University. Graduate Study in Reading, Mathematics and VocationalEducation.Boston University. Metropolitan College. Graduate Study in Urban

Planning and Management.University of Massachusetts at Boston. Bachelor of Arts in HumanDevelopment.Brandeis University. Undergraduate study in Comparative Literature andTheater Arts.Certificate--Teaching English to Speakers of Other LanguagesHONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPSUniversity of Missouri- South Africa Education Exchange Program Grant RecipientAwarded September 2015. Grant Period- 1 February-1 March 2016.Spindler Distinguished Scholar Award Council on Anthropology and Education-AmericanAnthropological Association 2007Distinguished Scholar Award Committee on Scholars of Color in Education. AmericanEducational Research Association. 2004Harvard Graduate School of Education 2004 Alumni of Color Achievement AwardCambridge, MAPhelps-Stokes Fund New York, NY Senior Fellow 2001-2006National Research Council/ National Academy of Science Office of Educational Researchand Improvement Visiting Scholar 2000-2001Research Focus on Black Education American Educational Research AssociationOutstanding Research Award. 2000Research Focus on Black Education American Educational Research AssociationOutstanding Service Award. 2000University of California Davis Outstanding Faculty Member Award—Delta Sigma ThetaSorority 1994University of Kansas National Endowment for the Humanities for College Teachers 1994.National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow 1989-1991.University of North Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Scholar 1989-1991.