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Executive Team
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Dan
French, Executive Director, Former Director of Instruction and
Curriculum for the Massachusetts Department of Education, and special
educator. Ed. D. from UMass./Amherst. Author of 1998 Phi Delta Kappan
article, “The State's Role in Shaping a Progressive Vision
of Public Education.” |
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Dania
Vazquez, Associate Director, Ed. D., Teachers College, Columbia University.
Diverse experience in NYC as bilingual special education teacher,
staff developer, facilitator, and principal of small schools from
K to 12. Areas of interest and experience include ESL, language
development, literacy, curriculum development, and school reform. |
Boston Pilot Schools Team
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Amy
Bayer, School Development Coach , Ed. D., worked as a teacher and a
principal at the Met School in Providence RI for six years. Prior
to the Met, Amy taught in schools and nonformal education programs
in Massachusetts and in NYC. She is passionate about using the
outside community to create authentic project-based learning and
is committed to creating small, personalized schools where students
play an active leadership role. |
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Lenora Jennings, School Development Coach , has worked as a teacher and administrator for over 30 years. She served as charter school leader, central office administrator, principal, and assistant principal in Cambridge. She is committed to helping schools improve student outcomes. |
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Lynn
Stuart, School Development Coach , worked in the Cambridge Public
Schools as a bilingual teacher, curriculum specialist, primary
education coordinator and principal of the K-8 Cambridgeport School.
She works with students, teachers and families to create strong
learning communities. Lynn serves on the National Commission on
Teaching and America’s Future. |
School Redesign Team
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Brenda Lewis-Collins, Director of School Redesign, was principal of a successful turnaround middle school in New Britain, CT. Before then, she was an assistant principal of both a middle and a high school, and a secondary English teacher. She has conducted training in data driven decision making, linking school improvement planning and classroom instruction, differentiated instruction, SIOP model for English Language Learners, and interdisciplinary instruction. |
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Arnold
Clayton, Ph. D., School Development Coach , works with teachers to
develop strategies where all students become self-directed, engaged,
skillful learners. For 32 years in Cambridge he worked with immigrant
youth and their families and taught social studies and history
courses in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Haitian Creole. He
also founded and led the Academy, a Small Learning Community,
and served as a restructuring coordinator. |
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Mary Ann Connery-Simmons, School Development Coach, has a special interest in curriculum development, teacher preparation, and urban school reform. She has more than 30 years experience working in the Springfield Public Schools, as district administrator, principal, assistant principal, curriculum specialist, and teacher. She has also taught a number of mathematics and education courses at Massachusetts colleges and universities. |
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Sara
Freedman, Ed.D., School Development Coach . is an experienced urban educator
who has worked as a teacher, program director, and evaluator in
sites ranging from elementary schools to doctoral seminars in urban
education. |
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Courtney Harter, School Development Coach, is a former high school humanities teacher and small school conversion headmaster. She is passionate about comprehensive school transformation as a route for greater student support and achievement. Areas of interest include curriculum, instruction, and assessment; teacher training and support; and strategic planning. MAT Tufts University. |
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Susan Westlund, School Development Coach, served as a school improvement coach with the Small Schools Project/CESNW in Seattle after many years as a teacher and administrator of small schools designed for underserved youth in Alaska and Minnesota. |
Los Angeles Pilot Schools
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Agustin Vecino, School Development Coach, has worked in LAUSD and NYC public schools as a teacher and literacy coach, both in large, traditional and small, alternative schools. WIth the arrival of Pilot schools in his home town, his work has shifted from classroom-based to school-wide based development of personalized, equitable schools in Los Angeles. |
Principal Residency Network
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Meg
Anderson, Director, was a teacher and director in alternative
education for high risk urban youth for 16 years in Michigan,
and Dean of Curriculum for Cambridge Rindge and Latin in Cambridge
for three years. She is a passionate advocate for student voice
and the right of all people, children and adults, to learn in
ways that best support their understanding. |
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Larry
Myatt, Advisory Board, founder of Fenway High School,
co-founder and Senior Associate of CCE, and consultant on small
schools and leadership.
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Los Angeles Principal Residency Network
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Irene Herrera-Stewart, Director, served as the Administrator of Instruction supervising K-12 curriculum/ instruction for the schools in Local District 7 of the LAUSD. She has also served as a middle school principal and assistant principal. She has worked as a parent/ community advisor, English Language Learner Program advisor and a facilitator of professional development. She is committed to ensure that every child receives a quality, rigorous, standards-based education in a community school. |
Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency
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Anita Moultrie Turner, Program Director, has previously been Literacy Director at Urban Education Partnership, the Secondary Principal at the Accelerated School (a charter school), and program coordinator for DELTA (Design for Excellence: Linking Teaching and Achievement). Within LAUSD, she has also been a teacher, mentor teacher, and instructional advisor. |
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Esmeralda Mora, Field Director, has been a Secondary Literacy Leadership Partner for UCLA, a Teaching and Learning Specialist for the Los Angeles Educational Partnership, and a coach for the Achievement Council. She has also overseen migrant education for the San Joaquin County Office of Education and been a Spanish language high school teacher. |
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Molly Arevalo, Recruitment & Placement Director (incoming), has served as a bilingual teacher and mentor in public and charter schools, and has been an adult ESL teacher. She earned Master’s degrees in Bilingual/Multicultural Education and in TESOL from CSULA. She has been an Instructional Advisor for Teacher U, and is an alumna of Teach For America. |
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Whitney Willis, Office Manager, has been a Senior Student Supervisor with Associate Students of UCLA, and volunteered at Casa Heiwa Angelina Mentorship Program and Los Angeles Small Schools Center. |
Research and Evaluation
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Rosann
Tung, Director, studied teacher professional development, standards
based curriculum implementation, and museum exhibit design; passionate
about urban issues and social justice; belief in the use of data
to inform school change; Ph.D. in biochemistry/biomedical research;
dancer and jewelry maker. |
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Laurie Gagnon, Senior Research Associate, has taught English in Fukui, Japan, and history at Charlestown and Framingham High Schools. She earned an M.A. from the Fletcher School where she focused her studies on human security, social justice and processes of change. |
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Pamela Stazesky, Senior Research Associate. Ph.D. in Educational Psychology focused on quantitative research methods. She has taught mathematics at the middle and high school level as well as college. Areas of expertise include program evaluation, assessment, data-informed decision making, and statistics. |
Program Services
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Vivian
Unterweger, Comptroller. Diverse past teaching experience in
private school, Head Start, clinic for autistic children and one-room
schoolhouse in Africa, and administrative experience in public and
private schools and universities. |
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Robert
Frank, Director of Communications and Technology, has taught
high school, Upward Bound, and university courses, and is committed
to multiculturalism and to maintaining high expectations for students.
He has written and edited for a variety of print publications and
web sites. |
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Leah
Rugen, Publications, has worked at CCE since 1997
as writer, change coach, and program director of the national Turning
Points network. Her other education experience includes Expeditionary
Learning, the New York City Outward Bound Center, and teaching English
and writing in public school. She received her M.A.T. in English
from Brown University. |
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Administrative Support
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Alethea Pratt, Office Manager, Chief Event Organizer and Orderer of Food for the masses. With a background in both office administration and human services, Alethea is part administrator, part office machine technician, and even a little bit counselor when needed. She is a resource for CCE staff as well as those we work with. |
Special Initiatives
Performance Assessment Initiative
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Christina
Brown, Director, Ed. M. Harvard University Graduate School of
Education, has worked in diverse educational environments as a teacher
and school administrator with experience in charter, pilot, and
traditional school settings from K-12. National Board certified
in Early Adolescent English Language Arts. Areas of interest and
expertise include school leadership, curriculum development, writing
workshop, teacher evaluation, portfolio assessment, and multicultural
education. |
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Susan Westlund, School Development Coach. See full listing in School Redesign Team, above. |
Turning Points Network
Coalition of Essential Schools
Board
of Directors
Executive Committee
Jim Darr, Chair
Joe Dello Russo, Treasurer; Retired Senior Executive - MFS Investment Management
Joan Connolly, Recorder; Academic Director of Professional Programs, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Irwin Blumer, Chair, Department of Educational Administration
and Higher Education, Boston College Lynch School of Education
Avram Goldberg, President, AvCar Group, Boston
Peggy Kemp, Headmaster, Fenway Pilot High School, Boston
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Members
John Cawthorne, Assistant Dean for Undergraduates, School of Education, Boston College
Cathleen Finn, New England Program Manager, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM
Deb Goldberg, Member, Board of Directors, Commonwealth Covenant Fund
Terry Herndon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rob Hollister, Dean, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service,
Tufts University
Samuel Hurtado, Coordinator, Latino Education Action Network, Massachusetts Advocacy Center
Deborah L. Johnson, Esq. , Account Manager, Resolute Management, Inc.
Karen Mapp, Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School
of Education
Deborah Meier, Senior Scholar, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
Linda Nathan, Headmaster, Boston Arts Academy, Boston
Monalisa Smith, Vice-President, Community Relations, Citizens Bank of Massachusetts
Bak Fun Wong, Principal, Quincy Upper School, Boston
Emeritus members
of Board:
Vito Perrone,
Director of Teacher Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Advisory Board
(forming):
Paul Reville, Massachusetts Secretary of Education; President, the Rennie Center for Education Research
& Policy
Chuck
Turner, Boston City Councilor
Sam Yoon, Former Boston City Councilor
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