Professor Jerry E. Fluellen, Jr.
Jerry E. Fluellen, Jr. is
Adjunct Professor, Psychology and Education, Edward Waters College,
Jacksonville, Florida.
Educated at Temple University (135 graduate hours/Educational
Psychology Ph.D. program), University of Pennsylvania, Harvard
University, and Howard University, Jerry cofounded the Obama
Family Network of Jacksonville, Florida (OFN-Jax). He facilitated a
professional development program for leaders based on Peter Senge’s
fifth discipline framework for learning organizations and completed an
ethnographic study of OFN-Jax. He chaired the OFN-Jax future of
education team and facilitated the facilitation team. Finally, he wrote
a blog series for the OFN-Jax link in President Obama’s Organizing for
America grass roots movement and for the Democratic Executive Committee
of Florida. Themes of his blog series had been leadership, learning,
and change.
Professor Fluellen has been engaged in what Harvard Graduate School
of Education (HGSE) calls, “research based practice”. Serving as an
adjunct professor of psychology and education at Edward Waters College
(EWC), he combined Harvard Project Zero Research Center’s teaching for
understanding framework, Howard Gardner’s MI approach, information
literacy, Gardner five minds for the future, and Ellen Langer’s
mindfulness theory into a prototype for designing and delivering
student-centered instruction. Additionally, the ERIC data base
published, internationally, 27 of his documents related to human
intelligence and teaching thinking. These included
Power Teaching
Prototype: New paradigm education at Edward Waters College.
Jerry authored
Word for the Mind: Analysis of a Language of Thinking,
Teaching for Understanding: Harvard Comes to Pennell Elementary.
A Teacher Research Report,
The Titmouse
Effect,
Heroes and Terrorists: ELA for the 21st Century,
The Human Story: From Hominids to Homo Intelligens. A Curriculum Map
for
5th Grade,
The Empty Cup: “Teaching for Understanding” at 21st Century Edward
Waters College,
Algebra for Babies: Exploring Natural Numbers in Simple
Arrays,
Double Description, and
Creating a Culture of Thinking in DCPS: A Generic Proposal for the
District of Columbia Public Schools Board of Education.
With his educational psychologist hat on, Jerry is a Professional
Member of the World Future Society and will have served as a fellow at
Harvard University’s “Future of Learning” 2010 summer institute. He will
matriculate in the new master’s program for Instructional
Leadership of learning organizations at Jacksonville,
University in Fall 2010.
Visit his
Facebook page and his
blog.
