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Ronald Gallimore, Ph.D., Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, LessonLab Research Institute Ronald Gallimore, Ph.D. is Chief Scientist & co-founder, LessonLab Research Institute, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA. His B.A. and Ph.D. were earned at the University of Arizona and Northwestern University, respectively. He taught psychology at California State University, Long Beach, and University of Hawaii before joining the faculty at UCLA in 1971. In 1966, he was appointed Research Psychologist, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum to co-direct a 5-year field study in a Native Hawaiian community. In 1970, he and Roland Tharp designed and built a laboratory school (Kamehameha Elementary Education Project), which they co-directed for 10 years. For this work and their book Rousing Minds to Life (Cambridge University Press, 1988), Gallimore and Tharp were presented the 1993 Grawemeyer Award in Education. In 1993, the International Reading Association presented him the Albert J. Harris award. In 1992 he received the University of California Presidential Award for research contributing to the improvement of public schools. Gallimore and Jim Stigler co-directed the 1999 TIMSS Video Study. You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned is his most recent book which describes a 30 year investigation of Coach John Wooden's teaching practices. Since the 1980s he has collaborated with Drs. Bill Saunders and Claude Goldenberg in school-based investigations on which Pearson LT Learning Teams is based. His current research focuses on improving teaching. |