Thomas D. Peacock

Address: **** **** ******

Duluth, Minnesota 55812

Stallvagen 46:403

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Telephone: 218-***-**** permanent

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Education:

School Location Degree

Cloquet Sr. High School Cloquet, MN diploma - 1969

Bemidji State University Bemidji, MN B.S. Secondary

Education - 1973

University of MN - Duluth Duluth, MN M.A. Education

Administration- 1979

St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN

Principal/Superintendent

Administrative licensure -

1983

Harvard University Cambridge, MA. M.Ed. - 1987

Harvard University Cambridge, MA. Ed. D. - 1989

Administration, Planning

and Social Policy

Professional Experience

1972-1973 Coordinator of American Indian Education

Cloquet Public Schools

Cloquet, Minnesota

RESPONSIBILITIES: Teaching, counseling, administering small grants

1973-1975 Director of American Indian Youth Program

Duluth, Minnesota

RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsibility for a multi-faceted juvenile delinquency diversion

program for Native youth in the city of Duluth, Minnesota and four nearby reservations: A

youth worker component, group home, and alternative school. Major responsibilities included

proposal writing, budget preparation, program monitoring, supervision, limited teaching.

1975-1977 Director of American Indian Education

Duluth Public Schools

Duluth, Minnesota

RESPONSIBILITIES: Administrative responsibility for the American Indian education

programs of the school district, serving over 700 Indian youngsters. Programs included a federal

Indian education program, gifted and talented program, early childhood center, and curriculum

development program. Major responsibilities included proposal writing, budget preparation,

program monitoring, and supervision of staff. Adult basic education (GED) instructor for the

Fond du Lac Reservation.

1977-1980 Director of Education

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe

Cass Lake, Minnesota

RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsibility for all education programs of the Minnesota

Chippewa Tribe, including Johnson O'Malley contracting, higher education scholarships,

vocational training, Indian Action Team, Head Start training and technical assistance, bilingual

education teacher training, and Title IV technical assistance. Major responsibilities included

contract negotiation, working with legislators on state and federal legislative initiatives, advocacy

for Indian education programs in tribal and public schools, training and technical assistance,

supervision of program coordinators, and budget monitoring. The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe is

a consolidation of six reservations, representing 35,000 enrolled members, with over 14,000

school age children.

1980-1985 Secondary School Principal

Cass Lake High School

Cass Lake, Minnesota

RESPONSIBILITIES: Administrative and curricular leader of grade 7-12 high school

serving 350 students. Major responsibilities included teacher supervision and evaluation, student

counseling and discipline, home-school relations, scheduling, curriculum leadership, staff training,

and day to day school operations. While in this position, the school was recognized by the

Minnesota Department of Education as a model for racial cooperation. I also served as chairman

of a successful bond referendum campaign and was active in several other school-wide

committees.

1980-1984 Adjunct faculty

Bemidji State University

Bemidji, Minnesota

RESPONSIBILITIES: Taught evening and extension undergraduate and graduate courses

in American Indian and multicultural education on campus and in several out-lying communities.

Courses taught included Education of American Indian Children and Youth and Introduction of

Bilingual Education.

1988-1989 Secondary Principal

Willow River High School

Willow River, Minnesota

RESPONSIBILITIES: Served as principal and career counselor for a small, rural northern

Minnesota school of approximately 180 students. Supervised and evaluated faculty, served as

PER (performance, evaluation and review) chair, and enforced student discipline policies.

1989 -1993 Superintendent

Fond du Lac Ojibwe Schools

Cloquet, Minnesota

RESPONSIBILITIES: Administrative responsibility for comprehensive and life-long

educational services for American Indians in the Fond du Lac (Minnesota) service area. Services

range from Head Start through post-secondary, technical training, a K-12 tribally operated

school, JTPA (Jobs Training Partnership Act), and bio-medical research training. As a Fond du

Lac Ojibwe School administrator and Fond du Lac Community College board member, I was

actively involved in the design and development of two North Central Association self-studies.

1993 - Present Associate Professor of Education

Ruth Myers Endowed Chair

Co-Director, Study in Sweden Program

Co-Director Ed.D. Programs

University of Minnesota Duluth

Duluth, Minnesota

POSITION DESCRIPTION: Co-Director of two doctoral programs in educational

leadership in conjunction with the Twin Cities campus: Northern PK-12 Ed.D. and higher

education leadership. Teach master s degree and doctoral level courses in educational leadership,

research methodology, ethics, and curriculum design. Current with distance teaching (teach two

online M.Ed. cohorts and utilize online and ITV in doctoral programs). Advise masters and

doctoral level students and serve on graduate committees. Recent university committee work

includes the UMD American Indian Advisory Committee, Graduate Education Committee,

Research Committee, Education Department Head Search Committee (Chair). International

Studies experience: Co-Director, Study in Sweden Program (2005); Directed Study Tour

(Australia) 2003.

Consulting Experience

1980-1987 Educational Consultant

In-Tech Services

Bemidji, Minnesota

Owner/operator of an educational consulting firm, contracting with Indian education

programs and tribes. Contracts included: Bemidji Public Schools - evaluation of Johnson

O'Malley and Title IV-A program; Cass Lake Schools - evaluation of Johnson O'Malley. Title

IV-A, post-secondary preparation, and Indian language and culture programs; Ponemah

Elementary School - proposal writing and program evaluation of Title VII bilingual basic

program; Fond du Lac Reservation - evaluation and proposal writing of all education programs of

the reservation including Title IV-B, Bureau of Indian Affairs contracts (Tribally operated school

- operations, special education and Chapter One), post-secondary preparation, curriculum

development, and bilingual education.

Trained in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, with working knowledge of SPSS and

field research (interviewing, observations, survey development and document searches) methods,

including ETHNOGRAPH and NuDist. My research specialty is qualitative, phenomenological

interviewing, and historical research.

1991 - Present Consultant

American College Testing Service

Iowa City, Iowa

Fairness reviews of the ASSET, LSAT and ACT test materials, Item Banking

Development Division.

1991 - 1998 Site Team Leader

Office of Indian Education Programs

Washington, DC

Provide on-site technical assistance and monitoring to federal Indian schools throughout

the country. Conducted visits to schools in Washington State, Mississippi, Montana and New

Mexico.

1993 - 1999 Site Team Facilitator

The Blandin Foundation

Grand Rapids, Minnesota

Provide technical assistance to school districts in northern Minnesota that are engaged in

school reform initiatives funded by the Blandin Foundation.

Awards

2004 Youth Non-Fiction Book Award for The Seventh Generation: Native Youth Speak

About Finding the Good Path by the American Educational Publishers Association.

2003 Multicultural Children s Book Award for The Seventh Generation: Native Youth

Speak About Finding the Good Path by the National Association for Multicultural

Education

2003 Skipping Stones Honor Award for The Seventh Generation: Native Youth Speak

About Finding the Good Path. Skipping Stones is an award-winning children s magazine.

2003 Minnesota Book Award for Ojibwe: Waasa Inaabida.

2002 ForeWord Magazine Bronze Award in History for Ojibwe: Waasa Inaabida

2003 Minnesota Book Award for The Good Path.

2002 Lifetime Achievement Award. Minnesota Indian Education Association

2000 Lifetime Achievement Award. Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College.

Cloquet, Minnesota.

2001 Outstanding Faculty Award. College of Education and Human Service Professions.

University of Minnesota Duluth.

1985 Bush Leadership Fellowship. Bush Foundation.

Hobbies

writing - teaching stories, fiction, Ojibwe history and culture

karate - shodan (black belt) in Okinawan Shorin Ryu

Publications

A. Books

Cleary, L., & Peacock, T. (1998). Collected wisdom: American Indian education.

Needham Heights, Ma: Allyn and Bacon.

Peacock, T. (Ed.). (1999). A forever story: The people and community of the Fond du

Lac Reservation. Cloquet, Mn.: Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Peacock, T., & Wisuri, M. (2002). Ojibwe: Waasa Inaabidaa. We look in all directions.

Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press.

Peacock, T. & Wisuri, M. (2002). The good path. Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society

Press.

Bergstrom, A., Cleary, L. & Peacock, T. (2003). The seventh generation: Native youth

speak about finding the good path. Charleston, WV: Appalachian Regional Laboratory.

B. Book in Publication

Peacock, T. & Wisuri, M. (in-press). The Four Hills of Life. Afton, MN: Afton

Historical Society Press.

C. Articles

Peacock, T. (1976). poetry. The First Skin Around Me. Moorhead, Minnesota:

Territorial Press.

Peacock, T. (1976). poetry. Phantasm. San Francisco: Chico Press.

Peacock, T. (1976). The old ones. A Long Time Ago Is Just Like Today. Duluth,

Minnesota: Duluth Public Schools.

Peacock, T. (1977). Red is the east for the sun and other interviews. In Elliot Wiggington

(Ed.), I Wish I Could Give My Son a Wild Racoon. New York: Anchor.

Day, P. & Peacock, T. (1997 May-June). Child abuse and neglect in Indian country.

Colors Magazine, 12-13.

Briggs, L. & Peacock, T. (1995). Tribal-State cooperation: Affirming and redefining Indian

self-determination. Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 7 (2), 32-33,44.

Christensen, R., & Peacock, T. (1997). A guide to literature of reforming American

Indian research. Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Education, 9, 25-27.

Peacock, T. (1997). Lenny. In Greta Morine-Dershimer (Ed.), Custom Case Series in

Education. Needham Heights, Ma.: Allyn and Bacon.

Peacock, T. (1997). They're acting really squirrelly. The Collaboration Case

Clearinghouse Casebook. The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and

Learning. St. Paul: Minnesota Private College Research Foundation.

Peacock, T., and Miller Cleary, L. (1997). Ways of Learning. Tribal College: Journal

of American Indian Higher Education, 8, 36-39.

Peacock, T. (1997). Research issues in American Indian country: A reservation Indian's

perspective. Proceedings of the Native Research Symposium, 1996, Orcas Island, Washington.

[On-line]. Available: www.fdl.cc.mn.us/tcj/PEACOCK/hmtl.

Peacock, T. (1998). The world of chili peatoad and the great circle of these things. In

Elizabeth Quintero and Mary Kay Rummel, American voices: Webs of diversity. New York:

Prentice-Hall.

Peacock, T. (1998). Lenny. In Kauffman, J., et. al. Managing classroom behavior: A

case-based approach (2nd ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Peacock, T. (1998). Critical perspective on the case of what did you learn at school

today? Washington, DC: The Hitachi Foundation and Charlottesville, VA: University of

Virginia.

Peacock, R., Day, P., & Peacock, T. (1998). Adolescent gambling on a great lakes

Indian reservation. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. Buffalo, NY: SUNY.

Peacock, T. (1998). Using case studies in multi-cultural education. In Mary Sudzina

(Ed.), Case Study Applications in Teacher Education. Needham Heights, Massachusetts: Allyn

and Bacon.

Peacock, T., Rallis, H., and Keller, C. (1999). A case of freedom to learn: Balancing the

needs and rights of all children. In R.F. McNergney & E. Ducharme (Eds.). Educating for

democracy: Case method teaching and learning. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Peacock, T., and Cleary, L. (1998). Reporting research to teachers and educational

practitioners. Journal of American Indian Education, Winter 1999.

Peacock, T., Day, P., & Peacock, R. (1999). At what cost? The social impact of

American Indian gaming. Journal of Health and Social Policy, 10, 4. 23-34.

Albert, E. & Peacock, T. (2000). A resource guide for perspective teachers and educators

in American Indian education. Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education,

Winter 2000.

Peacock, T., & Albert, E. (2000). My children s song: American Indian students

perceptions of teachers and schools. Center for Urban and Rural Affairs. Minneapolis:

Humphrey Institute.

Peacock, T., & Day, D. (2000). Teaching American Indian and Alaska Native language in

the schools: What has been learned. ERIC Digest. Charleston, WV: Appalachia Educational

Laboratory.

Peacock, T., & Day, D. (2000). Nations Within A Nation: The Dakota and Ojibwe of

Minnesota. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fall 2000.

Albert, E., & Peacock, T. (2000). Teaching as story. Proceedings of the 1999

International Indigenous Conference on Education. Hilo, HI: University of Hawaii.

Peacock, T., Day, D., & Albert-Peacock, E. (2001). The seventh generation: Native

students speak. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Research in Indian Education Conference.

Albuquerque, NM: Catching the Dream Foundation.

Peacock, T., & Day, D. (2001). Nations Within A Nation: The Dakota and Ojibwe of

Minnesota. In Stephen R. Graubard (Ed.). Minnesota, Real and Imagined. St. Paul: Minnesota

Historical Society Press.

Peacock, T., & Strand, J. (2003). Nurturing Resilience and School Success in American

Indian and Alaska Native Students. Charleston, WV: ERIC/CRESS (EDO-RC-O2-11).

Peacock, T. (2003). Net Menders. In Mary Kay Rummel and Elizabeth Quintero,

Becoming a Teacher in the New Society. NY: Peter Lang.

Course Taught 2004-2005

EDUC 7004 Educational Action Research and Inquiry

EDUC 7006 Ethics and Professionalism in Education

EdPA 5056 Qualitative Research

EdPA 8010 Doctoral Seminar: Literature Reviews

EdPA 8011 Doctoral Seminar: Problem and Research Questions

EdPA 8087 Doctoral Seminar: Thesis Design

EDUC 1100 Education in Modern Society

2003-2005 Presentations

(on sabbatical in Birmingham, England January-May 2003; teaching at Vaxjo University, Sweden

January May, 2005)

State/Regional

Birch Bark Books (Minneapolis 5/29/03) book reading/signing

Menominee Reservation (Keshena, Wisconsin 9/2/03) community speaker

Bemidji State University (Bemidji, MN 9/29/03) keynote opening American Indian Center

Native Spirits (Red Cliff, Wisconsin 10/4/03) book reading/signing

Minnesota Indian Education Conference (Mahnomen, MN 10/9/03) presenter

Fond du Lac Reservation History Tour (Cloquet, MN 10/17/03) tour director

Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning (Park Rapids, MN 10/21/03) book reading/signing

Winona State University (St. Paul, MN. 12/14) presenter

Ashland Middle School (Ashland, WI 2/25) book reading/signing

Adolescent and Families Conference (Cable, Wisconsin 4/23) keynote speaker

Winona State University (Winona, MN. 4/5-6) symposium presenter

St. Paul Academy (St. Paul, MN. 4/2) keynote speaker (book festival)

Cross River History Group (Hayward, WI 10/8) Ojibwe history speaker

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (Bemidji, MN 10/9) Native education symposium

Fond du Lac Ojibwe Schools (Cloquet, MN 11/9) Ojibwe history tour

Hayward Middle School (Hayward, WI 11/12) book reading

National

National Indian Education Conference (Greensboro, North Carolina 11/1-5) presentations (2)

National Association for Multicultural Education (Seattle, WA 11/8) accept NAME award)

LASER Research Conference (Houston, Texas 12/2-4) keynote speaker

Montana American Indian Education Conference (Helena, Montana 6/21) keynote speaker

Past Research

1986 - A Quantitative Study of Success factors of Minority and International Students at the

Harvard Graduate School of Education.

1987 - A Qualitative Study of Success Factors of American Indian Graduate Students at the

Harvard Graduate School of Education.

1986 - A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship between Attendance and Achievement Test

Scores in a Tribally Operated School.

1987 - Dissent in American Indian Communities (preliminary study for thesis)

1989 - Internal Tribal Disputes in the Age of Self-Determination (thesis).

1993 - Perceptions of Teachers of American Indian Students

1994 - The Impact of Gaming on a Great Lakes Reservation

1996 - American Indian Students Perceptions of Teachers and Schools

Current Research

1993 present - Case Studies for Perspective Teachers of American Indian Students

1998 present - Ojibwe History, Culture and Philosophy

2003 present - Leadership and Organizational Behavior in Indigenous Communities

2003 present Young People s Stories About Racism

Past Service

Founding Chair, Board of Trustees (1989-94)

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College

Cloquet, MN

Board of Trustees (1993-97)

College of St. Scholastica

Duluth, MN

Minnesota State Board of Education (1992-98)

St. Paul, MN

Action for Children s Commission (1992-1996)

St. Paul, MN

Current Service

Research Review Panel

Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education

Mancos, Colorado

Board of Referees

Journal of Behavior Disorders

University of Virginia

American Indian Advisory Board

University of Minnesota Duluth

Northwood Children s Home

Licensed foster parent

Duluth, Minnesota

Member, Graduate Education Committee

University of Minnesota Duluth

Member, Research Committee

University of Minnesota Duluth

References

Amy Bergstrom, Director

Teacher Training Program

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College

2101 14th Street

Cloquet, MN. 55720

Phone 218-***-****

abqsdr@r.postjobfree.com

William Ammentorp, PhD

Professor of Educational Leadership

University of Minnesota

330 Wulling Hall, 86 Pleasant Street SE

Minneapolis, MN. 55455

Phone 507-***-****

abqsdr@r.postjobfree.com

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