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Jeanne Geddes-Key to deliver inaugural lecture Nov. 18

3:35 p.m., Nov. 13, 2003--Jeanne Geddes-Key, the Emily L. Phelps Director of The College School, will deliver her inaugural lecture at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, in Clayton Hall. Her topic will be “The Discipline of Kindness.”

Jeanne Geddes-Key, the Emily L. Phelps Director of The College School

The lecture, which will be preceded by a reception at 5 p.m., is free and open to the public. Those planning to attend are asked to make reservations by calling the dean’s office of the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy at 831-2394.

Geddes-Key was named Phelps Director in recognition of “her outstanding leadership of The College School and her service to the University and broader community.” The named directorship was endowed by Lisa and David Spartin, in honor of Emily L. Phelps, Lisa Spartin’s grandmother.

The College School, a laboratory school for children with learning differences in grades one through eight, serves as a clinical education site for 125 UD students each semester. UD faculty members also work with The College School and use it as a clinical assessment site. The College School is part of the School of Education in UD’s College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy.

As director, Geddes-Key acts as a liaison for academic research, coordinates and supervises student practicums, supervises a staff of 10 and is responsible for developing a school improvement plan, including integrating technology into the curriculum.

Before joining UD, Geddes-Key was in Japan for nine years, where she taught and later became assistant principal of two Department of Defense Dependents Schools. She has had extensive experience working with hearing-impaired students in Japan, Texas and Quebec.

A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, she holds a master’s degree in education of the deaf from Smith College, and she is currently working on her doctorate in educational leadership at UD.

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