Our Team

Our Team

Different Ways of Knowing brings the talents and expertise of a variety of educational and business professionals to schools and districts across the nation. From the staff in our national office in Los Angeles, California, to local, on-site educational consultants, our team helps school leaders, teachers, and students meet their educational goals.

Staff

Kimberleigh Aarn, Artist Educator Coach
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Kimberleigh Aarn is the drama chair, levels K-8, at PS Arts/Crossroads Community Foundation. She has been drama specialist at Crossroad Arts & Science (K-1) and at New Roads Middle School (6-8), and Teaching Artist with Inner City Arts (K-5) for the Mark Taper Foundation. She is experienced in designing professional development for teachers and in designing and training in drama, movement, voice, and ceramics. Her professional acting background consists of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theater, film, and television. She received a B.F.A. in Dramatic Arts from Emerson College and an M.F.A. in Acting from Yale School of Drama.

Miguel Amadis, School Services, Business Coordinator
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Miguel Amadis was a Teaching Assistant in the Mathematics Department at Tulane University; a tutor in college algebra, geometry, calculus, and psychology at Nyack College; and an aquatic specialist aid, instructor assistant for New York City Parks and Recreation—Aquatics Division. He is the recipient of the 2003–2004 Excellence in Teaching Award from Tulane University. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Nyack College and an M.S. in Mathematics from Tulane University.

Ruth Amadis, Executive Assistant
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Ruth Amadis has over four years of senior-level secretarial, administrative, and coordinator experience. She was District Partnerships Division Coordinator for Edison Schools, Inc., where she successfully organized the divisional field staff schedule to maximize services to schools, as well as Administrative Assistant for Resource Employment Solutions Inc. She received a B.A. in Psychology with a concentration in Natural Science from Nyack College.

Anastasia Betts, Curriculum Project Manager
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Anastasia Betts was Director of Instruction at Cornerstone Prep Charter School, where she served as coordinator of curriculum, assessment, staff development, and music. Previously she served California public school districts as elementary school teacher, curriculum facilitator, GATE facilitator, music specialist, curriculum design, and choir director. She is the recipient of the American Association of University Women Scholarship, National University Leadership Scholarship, and the National University Collegiate Honor Scholarship. Her short stories have been published in The Writer’s Journal, The Ensign, and National University’s literary anthology, The GNU. She received a B. A. in Interdisciplinary Studies and an M. Ed. in Cross-Cultural Teaching from National University in La Jolla, California.

Karen Fitzgerald, Artist Educator Coach
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Karen Fitzgerald is an educational consultant and master teaching artist providing professional development and arts-in-education services to a wide range of institutions on a variety of educational issues. She has taught at St. John’s University, Iona College and worked as education director for the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States (including the Queens Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, Rahr-West Museum, Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, the University of Arizona-Tucson, and the United Nations) and is part of numerous private and public collections (including the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Union Gas collection, the Rienhart Collection of Germany, and the Museum of New Art in Detroit). Recently she completed two collaborative commissions with composers Charles Griffin and Carl MaultsBy. As project director for ArtistCares, she oversaw the development and implementation of programming in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City. A recipient of two grants from the Queens Community Arts Fund, she has also received funds from the Greenwall Foundation and the Women’s Studio Workshop. She was awarded an M.F.A. from Hunter College and an M.Ed. from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Karolynne Gee, Senior Vice President, Professional Development
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Karolynne Gee is a co-principal investigator of Different Ways of Knowing K–6. She has been a national education consultant specializing in the arts and interdisciplinary instruction, clinical supervision, team teaching, and coaching; a provider of professional development to school systems and workshops for parents and professional organizations; a demonstration teacher in multiage classrooms and coordinator of the visual and discursive arts programs at Seeds University Elementary School of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); and an instructor in the visual arts and integrated learning at the UCLA Teacher Education Lab, UCLA Extension. She is the author of Visual Arts as a Way of Knowing, part of The Galef Institute’s Strategies for Teaching and Learning Professional Library (The Galef Institute/Stenhouse Publishers, 2000). She holds a K–8 Life Teaching Credential from California State University, Northridge, and received a B.A. in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Toni Lee Hanson, National Director, Professional Development
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Toni Lee Hanson has over twenty-seven years’ experience in education. She has served as classroom teacher and reading specialist, grades K–9; academic director and training manager for the Learning Community Program of the Los Angeles Educational Partnership; acting director of the University of Southern California (USC) Center to Advance Precollege Science Education; co-director of the California Science Project; science education coordinator of USC; a faculty member of the California State University, Northridge; a science education consultant; and an inservice leader. She is the author of teacher guides, curriculum, and National Public Radio’s “Science Friday Kid’s Connection.” She is also the recipient of Rockwell International’s Science Teacher of the Year Award, an Earthwatch Expedition scholarship, the Shiny Apple Award for teaching excellence, and an Excellence in Education Award from the Clark County School District. She received a B.A. in Elementary Education and Psychology from Western Washington University and a Reading Specialist Certificate from the University of Washington.

Dave Hendry, Director of Product Research and Development
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Dave Hendry is a former high school mathematics teacher and the author of more than 250 separate K–12 curriculum publications. He has directed curriculum development activities in four National Science Foundation products and is the creator of the National Math Trail. He is project producer of the documentary Good Morning Miss Toliver and the professional development series The Kay Toliver Files and coordinating producer for The Eddie Files. A two-time winner of a George Foster Peabody award, his publications include the award-winning teacher’s guides to the instructional television series FUTURES with Jaime Escalante; instructional materials for the PBS special Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun; and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory production Catch the Wind: The QuikSCAT Story. He received a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Physics at the University of Arizona.

Sandra Jackson, Comptroller
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Sandra Jackson has extensive experience in public and private accounting departments in Los Angeles, specializing in budgets, forecasting, analyzing, and implementation of accounting software. She was Comptroller/CFO of Why Weight?, Accounting Supervisor of the South Bay Regional Accounting Center, and Senior Accountant of the Shoah Foundation. She has held a variety of positions at the Salvation Army in Los Angeles, including Revolving Fund Supervisor, Internal Auditor, and Accounting Coordinator. She received a B.S. in Accounting from DeVry University and an M.B.A. from Keller Graduate School of Management.

Ted M. Kahn, Ph. D., National Director of Online Learning & Knowledge Networks and Senior Learning Scientist
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Ted Kahn is President and CEO of DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc., an interactive computer learning company; founding director of the San Francisco Bay Area Science Education Collaboratory, a middle school science web-based resource and online community; and co-founding principal of CapitalWorks, LLC. Known internationally as a pioneer and innovator in technology and learning projects for K-12 schools, higher education, workplaces, government agencies, and museums, he has been actively involved in the research and development and marketing of interactive learning technologies for over 32 years. He has worked for numerous Silicon Valley high tech companies and advanced research labs, and has published numerous articles and technical reports. He was a Senior Fellow and visiting faculty member at the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, and a GLEF Fellow and a Featured Speaker of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, and is currently an adjunct faculty member of the Krause Center for Innovation at Foothill College. In 2003, he was named the first lifetime NMC Fellow of the NMC: New Media Consortium, a national non-profit alliance of leaders in interactive learning technologies, distance learning, and digital media. He received a B.A. in Computer Science and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Shelly Kale, Director of Publishing
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Shelly Kale has thirty years’ experience in the publishing industry—including educational, academic, museum, trade, and mass market publishing—as editorial director, managing editor, project manager, editor, writer, production editor, and copywriter. She is the author of A Suitcase of Dreams: Immigration Stories from the Skirball Cultural Center (Skirball Cultural Center, 2001) and co-author of My Museum Journal: A Writing and Sketching Book (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000) and Peggy, An Affair with the Sea (Edens Publishing, 1991). She received a B.A. in Medieval Studies and English from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Beth Krumholz, Visual Arts Educator
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Beth Krumholz is the founder of Pint Size Projects, creating custom-made art and design kits to build dollhouses and playsets with vintage materials. She has exhibited her mixed media work in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris and has designed and taught exhibition-based workshops, lectures, and classes at the Isamu Noguchi Museum in New York and The Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Museum, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. She was a grant recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Change Inc., Foundation. She received a B.F.A. in Painting and Sculpture and M.A. in Art History from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Iowa.

Peter John Mays, Director, Supplementary Education Services
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Peter Mays has extensive non-profit management experience and is an experienced book illustrator, graphic designer, and portrait artist whose artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums. His creative and management experience includes: art program coordinator of Terra del Sol in Sunland, California; site supervisor and chair of Steering Committee, Community Technology and Discovery Center, Los Angeles; founding instructor, the Galef Institute’s Electronic Arts Academy; adult art instructor; guest lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, Film School; writer, “Digital Arts for Young Adults” online curriculum, California Home Educators; director, Clark Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and contributing writer, Pittsburgh Buzz Monthly. Honors bestowed on him include: designer of JFK memorial awards, Los Angeles Democratic Party; and winner, Liquitex National Painting Competition. He received a B.A. in Studio Arts/Fine Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.F.A. and M.A. in Printmaking/Painting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Susan McGreevy-Nichols, National Director, School Services
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Susan McGreevy-Nichols was founder/director of the nationally renowned Roger Williams Middle School Dance Program in Providence, Rhode Island and is the developer of a cutting-edge reading comprehension strategy that uses text as inspiration for original choreography created by children. She has served on a number of national committees and task forces, including the writing committee for the INTASC Beginning Teacher Standards in Arts and has also worked as a consultant for the Educational Testing Service, the Educational Development Center (SPECTRE program), and for numerous state arts and education agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations across the United States. She is the co-author of Building Dances (Human Kinetics, 1995), Building More Dances (Human Kinetics, 2001), and You Can Dance about Anything (Human Kinetics, forthcoming); was a columnist for Dance Teacher Magazine; and has been an invited contributor to the Arts Education Policy Review. She received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Rhode Island.

Aloka Nanjappa, Research and Evaluation Specialist
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Aloka Nanjappa has fourteen years’ experience of in education, both as secondary school teacher and teacher-educator in India. At the college of education affiliated with the University of Bombay, India, she taught Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, and Methodologies of Mathematics and Science. She also served as professor in charge of the Students’ Council and the Educational Technology Cell of the college. As part of an instructional designing team, she helped refine and repurpose a teller-training program for the Union Planters’ Bank in Tennessee and develop interactive tutorial modules for Siemens Medical, California. She holds a M.S. degree in Zoology from the University of Bombay, India, and an Ed.D. in Instruction, Curriculum and Leadership with a focus on Instructional Design and Technology from the University of Memphis, Tennessee.

Lin Shakir, National Director of Partnership Development
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Lin Shakir has over 30 years of business experience. She was customer relations manager for a national corporation and owned and operated her own business. She attended Pierce College and California State University, Northridge, majoring in Business Administration.

Harolyn Sharpe, Artist Educator Coach
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Harolyn Sharpe has provided educational consulting services for elementary schools in Wisconsin, Florida, the Virgin Islands, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, and North and South Carolina, guiding teachers in employing the elements of drama and communication as vehicles for engaging students in their learning and deepening their understanding of curriculum content. She was a workshop facilitator for elementary school students for Theatreworks, Inc.; adjunct faculty member of colleges in Florida and Kentucky; Artist-in-Residence for the Kentucky Arts Council; and community theater director and performer for professional, community, and educational theater. She has taught public speaking in colleges in Kentucky and Florida. A recipient of state and local art council grants for Artist-in-Residence programs and assembly programs, she was the presenter of a one woman show of costumed characters. She received a B.A. in Speech and Theater from Georgetown College in Kentucky and an M.A. in Theater from the University of Cincinnati.

Esmeralda T. Mora, Regional School Services
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Esmeralda T. Mora has been a teaching and learning specialist at Los Angeles Educational Partnership; program quality-review coach at the Achievement Council in Los Angeles; regional program manager of leadership and outreach, migrant education, for the San Joaquin County Office of Education; and a high school teacher and advisor. She was a foreign language appointee for Task Force 2000 and a certified at risk specialist at the National At Risk Youth Conference. A member of the National Teachers and California Teachers Associations, she has been a contributor to Para Todos Magazine. She received a Spanish language teaching credential from Chapman University and a B.A. in English Literature/Communications from California State University, Bakersfield.

Charlette Gorman Taylor, Educational Consultant
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Charlette Gorman Taylor has over 30 years’ experience in education and has held a variety of positions, including elementary and middle school teacher, faculty mentor, professional development facilitator, writing coordinator, college instructor, reading specialist, instructional specialist, and mentor teacher. She is the recipient of the Booker T. Washington Business Association Educator’s Award, the WCRESA Good Teacher Apple Award, and the Courville Elementary School Teacher of the Year Award. She was a Contributing Poet to Pieces of the Heart (International Library of Poetry, 2000) and has been a speaker at a variety of education and community organizations. She received a B.S. in Education, a Master of Education, and completed post-graduate course work at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Maria Villaneuva, Accountant
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Maria Villaneuva was Purchasing Coordinator for the Salvation Army in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, where she organized and negotiated purchases, searched for new vendors, and handled drop shipments and consignment requests, as well as standing orders and subscription orders. She has also been a driver for Diversified Paratransit in Huntington Park, California, and a seamstress. She received a Business Accounting Certificate from Cerritos College, where she is currently a candidate for an AA degree with a major in Accounting.

Colleen Widlak, Educational Consultant
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Colleen Widlak has over 30 years’ experience in the field of education. She has taught at the elementary school level and in community schools. She holds numerous certificates, as program director, fitness specialist, and in executive development and is active in numerous community and health organizations. She received a B.S. in Education at Wayne State University and has completed graduate courses in Education and Management.

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Consultants

Susan Washburn Buckley, Senior Program Consultant
Susan Washburn Buckley is an educational publishing consultant, writer, and editor for humanities projects at numerous organizations including Oxford University Press, Cobblestone Publishing Company, Houghton Mifflin Company, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Geographic. She was Vice President of Curriculum Concepts, Inc., a textbook development house. Her publications include Young Americans and Journeys for Freedom (Houghton Mifflin Children’s Books, forthcoming), Journeys in Time and Places in Time (Houghton Mifflin Children’s Books, 2001), Mapping American History (Scholastic, forthcoming), Easy-to-Read Biography Mini-Books (Scholastic, 2000), American History Time Lines (Scholastic, 1996), and Hands-On Geography (Scholastic, 1994). Her publications have received numerous awards including Parent’s Guide to Children’s Media—Outstanding Achievement in Children’s Magazines 1999; The Association of Educational Publishers—Distinguished Achievement Award 2000; The Nebraska Book Award; and NCSS Notable Trade Books 2002. She received a B.A. from Middlebury College.

Charlotte Castagnola, Director, Parents as Learning Partners, Los Angeles Unified School District
Charlotte Castagnola is Director of Parents as Learning Partners program, which empowers parents of students in District B of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to become involved in their children’s learning. The program was chosen by the Annenberg Foundation as the most exemplary program for parent involvement among the fifty Annenberg Challenge sites in the United States (1996–2001). Ms. Castagnola has served as community liaison for LAUSD and as project director for the U.S. Department of Education’s “Family Affair” Human Relations Project. An advocate of family and community members as partners in student learning, she is the recipient of numerous awards including the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for School, Family and Community Partnerships 1999–2000 award for directing the country’s most outstanding partnership program. She also received the Center’s 2000–2001, 2001–2002, and 2002–2003 awards for directing the country’s most outstanding permanent partnership program.

Kathy A. Dunne, Director, Professional Development, Learning Innovations at WestEd
Kathy A. Dunne manages and coordinates large-scale professional development and technical assistance efforts of Learning Innovations at WestEd in Boston, an organization that facilitates adult learning and systemic change to enhance student learning. As director she provides training, facilitation, and consultation to schools, districts, state agencies, and institutions of higher education in the Northeast and nationally. She has worked with state agencies on policy issues related to the induction and certification of teachers and administrators and has been a high school and middle school classroom teacher, a college instructor, and a curriculum supervisor for a state department of education. She is a primary author of Mentoring: A Resource and Training Guide for Educators (WestEd, 1994). She received an M.Ed. from the University of New Hampshire.

Thomas W. Fagan, Educational Policy Consultant
Thomas W. Fagan has held numerous administrative positions in educational policy, including Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Goals 2000; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education; Special Assistant and Director of Policy for Compensatory Education Programs; Chief, Special Project Branch, Equal Education Program; and Education Program Specialist, Equal Educational Opportunity Programs. In these positions, he has worked on key national education initiatives and Federal assistance programs such as Title I, the Even Start program, and the Homeless Education program. He was a school administrator in New York State and teacher of English and Social Studies in Connecticut. He received an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University; an M.S. from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut; and a B.S. from the University of Connecticut.

Susan E. Galletti, Middle Grades
Susan E. Galletti has been Vice President, Middle Grades Partnerships, at the Galef Institute; the Associate Executive Director for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, middle level services; mentor principal of the Danforth Education Administration Preparation Program at the University of Washington; middle school principal; staff development specialist; and middle and high school teacher. She is the author of published papers including “Increasing the Capacity and Will to Accelerate Middle Level Reform” (NASSP, 1999) and has been cited for reform work in several publications including Crossing the Tracks (Wheelock, 1992). She received an Ed.D. in Education Leadership from the University of Washington; an M.A. in Middle Grades Instruction and Curriculum from Western Washington University; and a B.A. in English from San Diego State University.

Linda Hargan, President and CEO, Kentucky Collaborative for Teaching and Learning
Linda Hargan directs the management and delivery of the programs of the Kentucky Collaborative for Teaching and Learning, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to helping schools and other organizations meet the needs of all learners—children and adults. She was Associate Commissioner for the Office of Learning Programs Development within the Kentucky Department of Education and has served in other positions in state government. She was Executive Director of the Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative and has taught at the elementary, high school, and undergraduate and graduate levels. She has served on national and local committees, including the Southern Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, the Early Childhood Task Force of the National Arts Education Partnership, and the Prichard Committee Task Force on Teacher Quality. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including those from the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, the Kentucky Association of School Administrators, and the Council for Exceptional Children. She was awarded the prestigious Service to Education Award by the University of Louisville. She received an Ed.D. in Education Administration, an M.A. in Education, and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Louisville.

Steve Hoelscher, Leadership Consultant
Steve Hoelscher works with middle grade schools, districts, and other organizations in Michigan to advocate for whole-school comprehensive reform. As coordinator of the Michigan Middle Start Comprehensive School Reform effort, a state-based partnership that provides technical assistance and professional development to middle grade schools, he provides project leadership and facilitation of the project. A former teacher, counselor, high school administrator, and middle school principal, he is an active member of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform and a member of the National Middle School Association, Michigan Schools in the Middle, the National Staff Development Council, and other professional and community organizations. He received an M.A. in Counseling and Guidance from Western Michigan University, completed graduate work in Educational Leadership from Michigan State University and Western Michigan University, and received a B.A. in Education from Western Michigan University.

Karen L. Mapp, President, Institute for Responsive Education
Karen L. Mapp is President of the Institute for Responsive Education, a research, policy, and advocacy organization in Boston that conducts research on how school, family, and community partnerships effectively support children’s learning. She has also served as the organization’s Vice President and as Project Director for its Boston Community Partners for Students’ Success initiative and has held positions as Assistant Director of the Massachusetts Prevention Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, and Associate Director of Admissions at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. A member of the Board of Directors of Parents for Public Schools, Inc., she was awarded a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for her research on how and why families are involved in their children’s educational development. She is the author of “Making the Connection between Families and Schools” (Harvard Education Letter) and “Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They Are Engaged in Their Children’s Learning” (The School Community Journal), and co-author with Anne Henderson of A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (Southwest Educational Development Laboratory). She received an doctorate and a masters of Education from Harvard University in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, an M.A. in Counselor Education from Southern Connecticut State University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Richard Shope, Science Education
Richard Shope has 30 years’ experience as a writer, performing artist, educator, and educational researcher. Over the past ten years he has applied this experience to become a leader in space science education and public outreach, known for his abilities to communicate complex space science concepts in exciting and expressive ways, specifically with mime. For eight years he coordinated space science outreach programs for various flight projects at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He is currently Science Results Research Analyst with JPL’s Office of Research and Analysis; Director of the Education Division of the World Space Foundation; and Director of Shope Performance Group. He has extensive background in teaching, particularly for Gifted and Talented Education programs (currently serving on the Board of the California Association for the Gifted) and English/Spanish Bilingual Education programs, as well as Science Education programs. He received a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Antioch University, Los Angeles; an M.A. in Science Education at the University of Southern California (USC); and he is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in Science Education at the Program to Advance Science Education at USC.

Rosemarye Taylor, Literacy and Language Arts Specialist
Rosemarye Taylor is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Central Florida. A national consultant, she develops and delivers literacy-focused professional development for teachers and administrators, presenting regularly at various state and national conferences and consulting with schools, districts, publishers, and professional organizations seeking to improve student achievement. She has designed, implemented, and validated innovations in curriculum, instruction, literacy, and staff development. A former national director of professional development for Scholastic, Inc., she is an experienced middle and high school reading, language arts, and Spanish teacher; secondary school principal; and district administrator. A prolific writer, her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Educational Leadership, Kappan, American Secondary Education, Principal Leadership, and The National Staff Development Journal. She is co-author of Literacy Leadership for Grades 5–12 (ASCD, 2003). She received a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Supervision, Education Specialist in Counseling Psychology, and an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University and a B.A. in Spanish and English from the University of South Florida.

Ronald D. Williamson, Leadership Development Specialist
Ronald D. Williamson is Professor of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan University and President of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform. He was Executive Director of the National Middle School Association; Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; adjunct instructor at Eastern Michigan University; and teacher, Assistant Principal, Principal, Executive Director of Instruction, and Interim Deputy Superintendent of Instruction for Michigan’s Ann Arbor Public Schools. A member of the Middle Level Council of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and of the writing team for the forthcoming book on middle schools, Breaking Ranks in the Middle, he is the co-editor of the Journal of School Leadership. He received an Ed.D. and an M.A. in Educational Leadership from Eastern Michigan University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.

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Middle Grades Advisory Panel

Lois Adams-Roger
Deputy Commissioner, Kentucky Department of Education, Learning and Results Services

Adrienne Bailey
Education Consultant

Dick Deasy
Director, Arts Education Partnership

Kathy DiRanna
Principal Investigator/Project Director, WestEd, K–12 Alliance

Ken Fish
Director, Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Barbara Hunter-Cox
Project Director, Foundation for the Mid-South

Janet Hurt
Assistant Superintendent, Logan County School District, Adairville, Kentucky

Debbie Kasak
Executive Director, National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform

Judy Johnson
Executive Director, Costens Family Foundation

Joseph Loeb
CEO and Founder, Break Away Technologies

Michael Miller
Director, Division of Curriculum Development, Kentucky Department of Education

Hayes Mizell
Director, Program for Student Achievement, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

Peter Murphy
Executive Director, California League of Middle Schools

Michelle Pedigo
Director of Affinity Marketing, Met Life Resources

Rosemarye Taylor
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Central Florida, Orlando

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