Vita


Contact Information:
118 1/2  Dunecrest Ave.
Monterey, CA 93940
831-656-9759
csleeter@gmail.com



Projects


I was one of the initial planning faculty members that started California State University Monterey Bay in 1995, when it was in the process of shifting from being a military base to becoming a university.


While at CSU Monterey Bay, I was a primary designer and first Coordinator of the  Master of Arts in Education program.
  A longtime member of the National Association for Multicultural Education, I am currently its President-Elect and will serve as President during 2010-2012,
  I serve as a Board Member of Under Construction Network that sponsors Oasis Charter Public School.  To view a video I created about the school, click here.
 
I am a member of the Evaluation Team for the Te Kotahitanga Project, New Zealand.
 
I am a member of a research team on Global Citizenship and World-Mindedness, organized through the
Jesse Hetherington Centre for Educational Research, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
   As a friend of Rethinking Schools, I help raise money, occasionally review, and do whatever else is useful when I'm asked.
 
 



 As a friend of Teaching Tolerance, I occasionally contribute ideas to this wonderful magazine. See "Talking Race," "Investigating Community Assets and Tips for Entering the Community, "  and sample lesson plan on "Mexican American Labor in the U.S."



I am a Board Member for Teach Cambodia, a program that prepares Cambodian teachers, in Cambodia, for teaching elementary school.


  I serve as both a formal and an informal consultant to the Deshkal Society of India, an organization dedicated to understanding, documenting and disseminating the fundamental problems of economic and cultural levels.

  I was co-founder, Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education special interest group of the American Educational Research Association, general AERA program chair in 1998, and Division K Vice President. I've also served on several other AERA committees.

 
I served as editor of the  Social Context of Education book series, SUNY Press, 1993-2005.