Dennis Buss, Ed.D.

Associate Professor, Coordinator, Curriculum, Instruction and Supervision (on leave)

• Email Address: dbuss@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-895-5474
• Fax: (609)896-5362
• Office: Memorial Hall 202 H
• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Educational Background

• B.A.  University of Pennsylvania  (History)
• M.A.T.  Brown University  (Teaching and Social Sciences)
• Ed.D.  Rutgers University  (Curriculum Theory and Development)
   

Courses Taught at Rider University

• Curriculum Development and Design
• Strategies for Curriculum Change
• Instructional Improvement
• Seminar and Practicum in Supervision
   

Honors and Professional Activity

• Sears Roebuck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership
• Rider University Award for Distinguished Teaching
• Rutgers University Graduate School of Education Distinguished Service Award
• Past President, New Jersey Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Member, Board of Directors, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Past Chair, Curriculum Teachers Network
• Editor, New Jersey Journal for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Member:
  • Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
  • American Education Research Association
  • National Society for the Study of Education
  • John Dewey Society
  • Professors of Curriculum
  • Phi Delta Kappa
  • Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars
  • New Jersey Council of Education
     

Scholarly Publications

• “The Ford Foundation in Public Education: Emergent Patterns” in Arnove, Robert T. (ed.) Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism:  The Foundations at Home and Abroad.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1982.
• “Relevant Comments on New Jersey's Plan for the Supervision of Instruction:  Recognizing the Obstacles to Good Supervision.”  Focus on Education, 31 (Spring 1987): 45-53.
• “Curriculum Perceptions:  A Multivariate Analysis” with David Rosenberg and Donald Tosh.  Educational Studies (U.K.) XIV (No. 3, 1988): 243-255.
• “Human Resources and the Reflective Practitioner.” Focus on Education, 33 (Fall, 1989): 74-75.
• “Transforming Teacher Development.”  Focus on Education, 37 (Fall, 1993):  22-25.
• “The Student Activity Program:  Its Place in the Secondary School” in Annual Review of Research for School Leaders 1998.  Hlebowitsh, Peter S. and Wraga, William G. (eds.).  New York:  Macmillan Library Reference, 1998.
• “Searching for the Ideal Curriculum Textbook.”  Curriculum Teacher, 10 (Fall, 1997), 2-4.
• “The Promise and Pitfalls of Standards-Based Curriculum Development.”  Focus on Education. 43 (Fall, 1999):  22-28.
   

Conference Papers

• “Existing Policies and Emerging Practices” and “Collegiality:  Involving and Evolving, A Professor's Perspective.”  Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  March 3, 1990.
• “Personality and Learning Styles:  Some Issues Concerning Curriculum and Instruction.”  6th Prague International Conference on Psychological Development and Personality Formative Processes, University Campus in Prague-Suchdol, Czechoslovakia, August 29, 1991.
• "Charter Schools, Vouchers, and Other Alternatives in Education: Implications for Curriculum." Panelist, Professor of Curriculum Meeting, Association for Supervisionand Curriculum Development, Baltimore, MD.  March 21, 1997.
• "What Should be Taught and Learned in Graduate Curriculum Classes?"  Association for Suervision and Curriculum Development, New Orleans, LA.  March 2004.

Academic Honors and Awards
1991    Sears-Roebuck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership
1994    Rider University Award for Distnguished Teaching
1995    Rutgers University Graduate School of Education Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Education