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Margaret Golden, Ed.D

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Margaret Golden, Ed.D. is a Professor Emerita at Dominican University of California and the Education Community Manager at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. As a professor at Dominican University, she worked with the Center for Courage and Renewal, founded by Parker J. Palmer, to facilitate the Courage to Teach© and Leading Together© programs dedicated to supporting teacher well-being and the revitalization of school communities. She currently works with the education team at the Greater Good Science Center to design and facilitate science-based communities of practice working to change the dominant narrative in education to one that values kindness, cooperation and other pro-social qualities. Margaret is the coauthor of Teach Our Children Well: Essential Strategies for the Urban Classroom and editor of Teaching and Learning from the Inside Out: Revitalizing Ourselves and Our Institutions. She lives in Berkeley with her partner, David, is the proud mother of four amazing young adults, and just welcomed her first grandchild into the world. She enjoys the practice of yoga, long walks in the hills, travels to the sea, and quality time with family and friends

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