3:35 p.m., Dec. 11, 2002--Jeanne Geddes-Key has been named the Emily L. Phelps Director of the College School. Her appointment to the named and endowed directorship recognizes “her outstanding leadership of the College School and her service to the University and broader community,” according to Provost Dan Rich.
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| Jeanne Geddes-Key, Emily L. Phelps Director of the College School |
The College School, a laboratory school for children with learning differences in grades 1-8, uses a team approach (home/school/health care professionals) for student remediation. The College School serves as a clinical education site for 125 UD students each semester. University faculty members also work with the College School and use it as a clinical assessment site.
As director, Geddes-Key acts as a liaison for academic research, coordinates and supervises student practicums from several disciplines, supervises a staff of 10 and is responsible for developing a school improvement plan, including integrating technology into the curriculum.
Before coming to UD in 1995, Geddes-Key was in Japan for nine years where she taught and later became assistant principal of two Department of Defense Dependents Schools. She has had extensive experience working with hearing-impaired students in Japan, Texas and Quebec.
Among her honors, Geddes-Key received a CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder) Distinguished Educator Award, an I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) fellowship and a Department of Defense Distinguished Educator Award.
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a master’s degree in the education of the deaf from Smith College, Geddes-Key is working for her doctorate in educational leadership at the University of Delaware.
Article by Sue Moncure
Photo by Kathy Flickinger
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