April 23, Wednesday -- Joseph A. Aguerrebere, president and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and a national expert on school reform, will deliver a Distinguished Educational Thinkers lecture at 5 p.m. in the University Club lounge at UC Davis. Aguerrebere's talk will be titled "Toward a Strong Profession." It is free and open to the public.

Aguerrebere was born and raised in East Los Angeles and graduated from Garfield High School, subject of the movie "Stand and Deliver." He earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's and doctorate in educational administration at the University of Southern California. He has been a teacher and administrator in elementary, middle and high school settings in California, a professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and deputy director of the Ford Foundation in New York.

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, based in Arlington, Va., is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the quality of teaching and learning by establishing standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do. It provides a national voluntary system that certifies teachers who meet these standards.

The Distinguished Educational Thinkers speaker series is sponsored by the UC Davis School of Education and the Graduate Group in Education.

For more information, please call (530) 752-4663.