- 2024: Dr. Rebecca Sockbeson, "Indigenous Knowledge Mobilization (IKM) & Anti-Racist Education in Immobilizing Times"
- 2023: Alex Meyers, "Supporting Transgender Students"
- 2022: Bettina L. Love, "We Gonʼ Be Alright, But That Ainʼt Alright: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom"
- 2021: Mays Imad, "Bearing Witness as an Act of Love, Resistance, and Healing"
- 2021: Matthew Chingos, "Charter Schools at 30: What Does the Research Say?"
- 2018: Gloria Ladson-Billings, ""
- 2017: Michele Moses, ""
- 2016: Julian Vasquez Heilig, “A Remedy for Educational Injustice”
- 2015: Laura W. Perna, “Increasing Higher Education Attainment of All Students: The Need for a Comprehensive Approach”
- 2014: Sean F. Reardon, “Race, Income, and the Reduction of Inequality in American Education”
- 2013: Diana Hess, “The Challenges of Civic Education in a Time of Political Polarization”
- 2012: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, “Civic Education: What, Where, How, and Why?”
- 2011: Deborah Loewenberg Ball, “Hopelessly American: The Challenge of Responsible Education”
- 2009: Melissa Roderick, “Rising to Meet Obama’s Challenge: What the Crisis in Educational Attainment Means for Urban High Schools”
- 2008: Diane Ravitch, “The Perils of School Reform”
- 2007: Gregory Michie, “We Don’t Need Another Hero: Urban Schools and the Promise of Public Education in America”
- 2006: Tommie Lindsey, "It Doesn't Take a Genius"
- 2005: Jonathan Zimmerman, “We Are All Pluralists Now: The Surprising History of America’s Culture Wars”
- 2004: Howard Gardner, “Good Work in Education”
- 2003: Pedro Noguera, “City Schools and the American Dream”
- 2002: David Tyack, "Majoring in Failure: Mismatch of Pupil and School"
- 2001: Charles V. Willie, “Diversity and Student Achievement”
- 2000: William Ayers, "Teaching as an Act of Hope: Equity and Social Justice in Education"
- 1999: Ellen Langer, "The Power of Mindful Learning"
- 1998: Deborah W. Meier, “On Education”
Brodie Family Lecture
The Brodie Family Lecture Fund was established in 1997 by Theodore H. Brodie '52, an Overseer of the College from 1983 to 1995. This fund is used to bring a speaker of note in the field of education to campus at least once a year, delivering a message on the subjects of problems and practices of teaching and learning.
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Title:Cultivating Genius and Joy in Education through Culturally and Historically Responsive Pedagogies
Speaker:Gholdy Muhammad
Sponsored by: The Brodie Family Lecture Fund
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad offers a unique, culturally, and historically responsive approach to cultivating genius and joy in education. This approach is essential for accelerating the growth of all students and uniquely youth of color, who have been traditionally underserved in learning standards, policies, and school practices. She will present her equity framework, called the HILL Model, to help educators develop students’ histories, identities, literacies, and liberation.
The HILL Model consists of five pursuits in teaching and learning:
- Identity Development—Helping youth to make sense of who they are and others.
- Skill Development— Helping youth to develop proficiencies across the content areas and state learning standards.
- Intellectual Development—Helping youth gain new knowledge set into the context of the world.
- Criticality—Helping youth name, understand, question, and disrupt oppression in the world.
- Joy—Helping youth uplift beauty, aesthetics, truth, and personal space fulfillment within humanity.