Program Director, Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth Program
Secondary Teacher Education
Education Department / Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth
College
Jay Davis is Program Director for the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD)
program, a multi-year program that expands the educational opportunities for
promising high school students from under-resourced urban and rural schools,
while offering the Dartmouth community a unique opportunity for service
learning. He also directs the Secondary Teacher Education program in
Dartmouth’s Education Department, certifying Dartmouth undergraduates for
careers in public middle and high schools. Davis previously taught high
school and middle school English for eleven years, and maintains a position in
the Hanover public school district as School Leadership Coach, providing
professional development training for teachers and consulting advice for
administrators.
Davis is also a National Facilitator for the National School Reform
Faculty. In this role he conducts trainings focused on developing
collegial relationships, encouraging reflective practice, and rethinking
facilitative leadership in the restructuring of schools. He has served as a
national facilitator at conferences in Devner, Los Angeles, Houston, and
Philadelphia, and has trained 80 local teachers and 12 principals and
superintendents to be facilitators of learning groups.
A member of the Board of Directors for the Upper Valley Trails Association
and the Gould Academy Alumni Association, Davis has co-authored articles on
research he conducted in Bosnia, and he is co-editor of Crossing
Customs: International Students Write on Collegiate Life and
Culture. He chairs the Prize and Selection Committees for the
Dartmouth Prize for Exceptional Elementary and Secondary School Teaching, and
also chaired the Dartmouth Adopt-A-School Committee created in response to the
devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. He is a regular presenter
at the Rockefeller Center for Leadership at Dartmouth as well as numerous other
organizations and student groups on campus. He is also the 2006 recipient
of the “Campus Compact for New Hampshire Good Steward Award,” selected by the
president of Dartmouth College.
Davis holds a 1995 Masters in Arts and Teaching from Brown University, and
New Hampshire State certification as a secondary English teacher. He was
a Phi Beta Kappa 1990 graduate of Dartmouth, where he majored in English and
captained the Men’s Nordic Ski team.
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