Doug Carnine, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, and President of the Choose Kindness Foundation spent the first 20 years of his career focused on improving the achievement of k-12 students who too often fail in school: children of poverty, limited English speakers, and students with disabilities. His scholarly works have been cited in over 5,000 books and journals worldwide. He spent the next 12 years of his career leading a campaign to increase the importance of evidence in education decision-making. This campaign involved working with business and government groups, ranging from large cities like Los Angeles to the US Congress and Department of Education. He received a presidential appointment, with Senate confirmation, to the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board and later received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council for Exceptional Children.
Since 2012, Doug has focused on mindful kindness, first coordinating the all-volunteer Spreading Kindness Campaign for Lane County Oregon, and then launching the Eugene-based multimillion-dollar Choose Kindness Foundation/KindR Foundation that works with schools, businesses, prisons, and social service agencies across the US.
Below, you will find some of Doug’s published papers, including his Substack articles.
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From Reform to Results: Making Education a True Profession
School administrators and teachers are often unaware of the best cognitive science research on how children learn, instead falling victim to fashions and fads. As a result, effective classroom practices are adopted, abandoned, rediscovered, and abandoned again. A growing coalition of education researchers and practitioners argue that until or unless education becomes a research-based profession—one that, like medicine, refuses to revert to discredited ideas—this cycle will continue. In this web event, Dr. Douglas Carnine will present on what the education sector can learn from research-based professions like medicine and engineering. Then, a panel of experts will discuss what cognitive science can tell us about effective teaching and how to pursue large-scale implementation of these practices.
Progressively Incorrect S4E20: Doug Carnine on Advocacy for Evidence
From host Zach Groshell: A few years ago, I came upon a paper titled, “Why Educators Resist Effective Practices” with the provocative subheading, And What It Would Take to Make Education More Like Medicine. It was written by Douglas Carnine, who I would come to learn was not only one of the most important voices in advocacy for evidence-based education, but one of the world’s foremost experts in instructional design. I am honored that Dr. Carnine has joined us to talk about his extremely ambitious and promising project, The Evidence Advocacy Center.
Personal Kindness Breakout Session
On November 3, 2019, the Spreading Kindness Campaign held a Choose Kindness Celebration in Eugene, OR. In this video, Doug Carnine introduces the Personal Kindness Breakout Session.
Mindful Kindness: Fusing Cognition and Behavior to Set Our Purpose
Speech given at the University of Oregon in 2018.
Incarcerate US Podcast Ep: 22 University of Oregon Professor Emeritus, Doug Carnine, PhD – Author
How Friendship & Support For Meditation, Mindfulness, & Kindness Facilitated Transcendence While in Tucker Max
The Feed Kindness, Starve Harm project focuses on why and how to fuse mindfulness, meditation and kindness into everyday living. It grew out of initial correspondence between Doug Carnine, a professor emeritus from the University of Oregon and Roy Tester, an inmate in a maximum security prison. Roy wanted to know more about Buddhism and meditation. Roy admited to his crimes of retaliation against abusive parents and sought ways to transcend the prison experience with mindful kindness through Doug’s supportive friendship. Doug’s four-decade personal practice of mindfulness, meditation, and loving kindness through Buddhism was the original springboard in connecting with Roy and later to three other prisoners. Through the growing friendships via letters, phone conversations and a visit to the Arkansas prison, Doug served as not only a mentor but a learner. Doug participated in and aided the development of a partnership to spread mindful kindness in the prison. In the two books he has written and the development of this web site, Doug shares what he and his prison friends are learning about the power of fusing mindfulness, meditation and kindness.
CADRE Talks with Doug Carnine (2017)
CADRE, the National Center on Dispute Resolution in Special Education, supports State Education Agencies (SEAs), Lead Agencies (LAs), and federally funded Parent Centers in 1) building local level capacity to prevent and resolve disputes, and 2) developing more effective and equitable dispute resolution (DR) systems.
May 8, 1996 Assembly Education Committee Testimony by University Professors: Henrietta Schwartz, CSU Dean for Education, Doug Carnine, PhD, UOregon, Director, National Center for Improving the Schools of Education, John Shefelbine, PhD, CSU Sacramento, Stanley Schwartz, PhD, CSU San Bernardino.