Professor Emeritus
Phone: 860.832.2152
Fax: 860.832.2109
Email: Arends@ccsu.edu
Office: HB 231.0000
Richard Arends is Professor of Educational Leadership and Dean Emeritus at CCSU. He served as director and taught in the Ed.D. Program in Educational Leadership during its initial years and also served as dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies for nine years. Prior to coming to Connecticut, he was on the faculty and served as chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his MA in American intellectual history from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in education from the University of Oregon, where he was also on the faculty from 1975 to 1983. Professor Arends is a former elementary, junior high, and high school teacher. His special research interests are on teaching, teacher education, and organizational development and school change.
Professor Arends has authored or contributed to over a dozen books on education including the Handbook of Organization Development in Schools, Systems Change Strategies in Education, Exploring Teaching, and Learning to Teach, the latter of which is now in its seventh edition. He has worked widely with schools and universities throughout North America and around the Pacific Rim, including Australia, Samoa, Palau, and Saipan. The recipient of numerous awards, he was selected in 1989 as the outstanding teacher educator in the state of Maryland, and in 1990 he received the Judith Ruskin award for outstanding research in education given by the Maryland chapter of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Between 1995-97, Professor Arends held the William Allen (Boeing) Endowed Chair in the School of Education at Seattle University.
He has served on the Board of Examiners (BOE) of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) for over 10 years, was a NCATE consultant for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), Partnership for Excellence in Teacher Education (PETE), and was involved in a research project sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA) studying the effects of professional development schools on student achievement and teacher quality. He just completed a chapter on “teaching methods” for the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Education. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon where he continues to write two new books, one “teaching for student success” and the other “elements of college teaching.”