College of Education

James D. Greenberg, Ph.D., is Director of the College of Education K-16 Partnership Development Center, and was founding director of the University of Maryland Center for Teaching Excellence as well as the founding Honors director in the College of Education. He has been a faculty member and administrator in Education at the University for over 35 years.  Recently, he also served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in South Africa, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Urban Partnerships (NCUP), as Visiting Fellow at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and as invited keynote speaker and workshop leader at several universities in Ecuador, the University of Concepcion in Chile, and the University of Lima in Peru. During the past ten years, he received four university awards for outstanding teaching and leadership, and he was the recipient of the 1997 Vernon Anderson Distinguished Faculty Award in the College of Education.  Dr. Greenberg was named a Merrill Presidential Scholar Faculty Mentor in 2006.   

Dr. Greenberg has published on a variety of educational topics, and has made numerous presentations of scholarly papers and training workshops at the local, state, national, and international levels.  He has served as a consultant to schools and school systems, colleges and universities, federally and corporate sponsored projects, and both U.S. agencies and local universities in several foreign countries.  He received a USAID grant to lead a University of Maryland team on a training and leadership development project with a consortium of universities in Ecuador and has worked with Ecuadorian universities on faculty development projects for over ten years, He also served in the summer of 2002 as a member of a USAID team evaluating programs in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. 

Dr. Greenberg is past President of the Maryland Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and has served as co-Chair of the Professional Experience Design Team of the State of Maryland Task Force on Teacher Education Redesign, Regional Secretary for North America of the International Society for Teacher Education, recipient of the national Association for Teacher Educators’ award for most outstanding collaborative program in teacher education, and has served as external evaluator and consultant for the Institute for Critical Thinking, the Great Ideas in Science Consortium, an NSF Urban Systemic Initiative project, and several NCATE and NASDTEC accreditation teams for teacher education program approval.  Dr. Greenberg has served as Chair of the University’s steering committee for the Teaching with Technology/ Teaching Theaters program, was co-director of the Institute for Instructional Technology and co-sponsor of the Teaching with Technology Symposium, and served on the advisory board for the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.  He directs the joint College of Education - Undergraduate Studies Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Programs, and he teaches the seminar -- EDUC 388: Guided Experiences in College Teaching --  which is an integral part of the program.  He also teaches a University Honors Seminar, International and Multicultural Perspectives in Education (one of the College of Education’s contributions to University Honors), and was a member of the teaching team for the national N.E.A.-University of Maryland KEYS project.  Dr. Greenberg has served on advisory committees for the University System of Maryland’s K-16 initiative, and he serves as a member of the leadership team of the new Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement and Urban Education with particular responsibility for school-university collaboration, and as co-director of the joint College of Education – College of Engineering TIME project funded by the General Electric Foundation. 

Dr. Eleanor White comes to the position of project coordinator for the K-16 Development Partnership Center after a distinguished career in the Prince George's County Public Schools System. In the Prince George's School System she was most recently the Assistant Superintendent for Region V. Prior to this position she was a middle school prinicipal at Kettering Middle School and for four years was the Chief Educational Officer/High School Principal for the Gwynn Park Cluster of Schools. Under her leadership, Kettering received the National Blue Ribbon School of Excelence Award in 1993 and in 1998 Gwynn Park Cluster of Schools received the Maryland General Assembly Outstanding Community of Schools Award. She was also a member of the Middle School Implementation Team which designed and executed the transformation process for "junior high schools" to become "middle schools." With these valuable experiences she is coordinating multiple projects through the K-16 Development Center to create stronger partnerships between the University of Maryland and K-12 schools with the mission of serving students, leaders, and the community.