UCLA

Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA B.A., Education – University of Arizona, 1960 M.A., Psychology – Northwestern University, 1963 Ph.D., Psychology – Northwestern University, 1964 University of California, Los Angeles (1971–present), Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences 1964–1970: Faculty and research appointments at California State University, Long Beach; Princess Pauahi Bishop Museum; and the University of Hawaii. Military Service: Arizona Army National Guard, 158th Infantry Regiment (1956–1962); Corporal (E-4). Honorable Discharge, Armed Forces of the United States of America. Hawaiian Community Research Project: Co-directed a five-year field study in a Native Hawaiian semi-rural community. Results were published in Na Makamaka o Nanakuli documenting Hawaiian family life & child development. (Gallimore & Howard, Eds., 1968). In 1969, co-founded (with Roland Tharp) the Kamehameha Early Education Project (aka KEEP), a laboratory school & research program for Native Hawaiian children (Tharp & Gallimore, 1989, Rousing Minds to Life, Cambridge University Press). KEEP’s iterative R&D strategy was later characterized as a “design experiment” & advocated as exemplar of what is now described as improvement science & research (Sechrest, L., & Figueredo, A. J. (1993). Program evaluation. Annual Review of Psychology, 44(1), 645–674. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ps.44.020193.003241.) Continuous Improvement & Coaching Practices: Coach John Wooden claimed to have used continuous improvement which he believed helped his teams win an unprecedented 10 NCAA mens’ basketball titles. The most recent investigation he used continuous improvement to evolve a unique practice strategy that matches the criteria established for deliberate practice in the development of expertise literature (Givvin, K. B., & Gallimore, R. (2006). Repetition, Repetition, Repetition: John Wooden & the Complexities of Teaching. Quest, 58(3), 294–307). School Improvement & Teacher Collaboration: Beginning in the early 1980s, Gallimore worked with Claude Goldenberg & Bill Saunders on school-wide instructional improvement interventions. They researched how teacher teams & professional learning communities can raise student achievement through continuous improvement practices. A 2010 study on teacher collaboration earned Gallimore (with Bradley Ermeling, Saunders, & Goldenberg) the National Staff Development Council “Best Research” Award. Their studies documented continuous improvement of teaching yield significantly better student outcomes. Gallimore, R., Ermeling, B.A., Saunders, W.M., & Goldenberg, C. (2009). Moving the learning of teaching closer to practice: Teacher Education Implications of School-based Inquiry Teams. Elementary School Journal, 109, 5, 537-553, Saunders, W., Goldenberg, C. , & Gallimore, R. (2009) Increasing achievement by focusing grade level teams on improving classroom learning: A Prospective, Quasi-experimental Study of Title 1 Schools. American Educational Research Journal, 46, 4, 1006-1033.