Appearances

Recent Appearances

• “Learning for Work – Learning for Writing,” presentation, Monmouth County Library, Eastern Branch, November 21, 2024
• “Through Mind and Hand to Virtue: Considering Industrial Education in Chicago, 1880-1920, History of Education Society, Chicago, November 10, 2024
• “The Evolution of Work: From Learning by Doing to Envisioning the Future,” Joint Presentation with Robert Bruno, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, September 9, 2024
• “How Hands and Minds Fostered Democracy in Schools,” Country Schools Association of America, Toledo, June 10, 2024
• “Vocational Education’s “Hot-Air Engine Comes to Grand Rapids in 1913,” Midwestern History Association, Grand Rapids, May 31, 2024
• “Lessons on Industrial Education: The Significance of Dewey’s Relationship with the Chicago Manual Training School,” Conference on John Dewey and His Legacy, Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University, October 2023
• Panel discussion on The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900, by Jon Lauck, Northern Great Plains History Association, Sioux Falls, September 28, 2023
• “William Henry Harrison Beadle: ‘Savior of the School Lands’,” paper for Country Schools Association Annual Meeting, Millersville, PA, June 13, 2023
• “Uniting Art and Labor with Education: John Dewey, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Other Chicagoans on the ‘New Industrialism,’ 1902-1904,” John Dewey Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2023  

Print and Media

• Podcast for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/learning-for-work/id1584947419?i=1000678341119; https://open.spotify.com/episode/04N9WRGfXXWmSqiigEixhy?si=6bc119bf87324a16; https://shows.acast.com/gildedageandprogressiveera/episodes/learning-for-work
• Local Author Writes about Controversial Teaching Style https://tworivertimes.com/learningtoworklocalhistorianreflectsoncontroversialeducationalstyle/
• Q and A with the Author of Learning for Work. To read:
•  “The Author’s Corner with Connie Goddard,” Current, online, September 24, 2024
• “Manual Training for All,” Front Porch Republic, online, August 20, 2024
• Interview on William Beadle, “In the Moment,” South Dakota Public Radio, September 29, 2023
• “Unprecedented Yet Unheralded: Schooling in Beadle County during the Great Dakota Boom,” Journal of South Dakota History, Spring 2023  
• “A ‘Howling Success’: Ellendale’s State Normal and Industrial School, 1899-1929,” North Dakota History, Fall 2022
• “Ellendale’s Normal and Industrial School,” Interview on “Main Street,” Prairie Public Radio, July 6, 2022