Sid Glassner, Executive Director
In the years Sid Glassner has been an educator he has served as a classroom teacher, a school administrator, a graduate school professor, a writer, founder and publisher of the professional journal TALL, (Teaching and Learning Literature) and most recently a founder and executive director of the Vermont Society for the Study of Education, Inc. He has published over 100 professional articles most dealing with the teaching and learning of literature and the literary experience. Glassner was the first to write and publish a book and supplementary materials on the American economic system for use in the middle grades. For his work in economic education he won a Feedoms Foundation Award. Glassner was also the first to write and publish classroom materials on minority groups in American describing their history in America and the many contributions they have made to the American culture. Scholastic Teacher, in reviewing these materials called them “the most provocative teaching materials of the year.” His work on minority groups won him an American Film Festival Award. Glassner published two individualized reading programs with Prentice-hall and created and developed a listening/literature program based on old-time radio shows called Tune-In.