January 8, 1999 - 7:30AM to 3:30PM Scottsdale Community College - Gymnasium

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Featuring: Parker Palmer Parker J. Palmer is a writer, teacher, and activist who works independently on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality, and social change. His work spans a wide range of institutions-colleges and universities, public schools, community organizations, religious institutions, corporations, and foundations. He also serves as Senior Associate of the American Association of Higher Education, as Senior Advisor to the Fetzer Institute, and as founder of Fetzer's Teacher Formation Program for K-12 teachers. He travels widely in this country and abroad giving workshops, lectures, and retreats, and has often been cited as a master teacher. His work has been featured by The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Change Magazine, The Christian Century, CBS-TV News, and The Voice of America. The Danforth Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the Fetzer Institute have supported his work with major grants. In 1993, he won the national award of the Council of Independent Colleges for "Outstanding Contributions to Higher Education."