The
following people are members of the "Exemplary PBL Projects"
team. They are all experienced teachers, educators, and
researchers whom you may contact as resources. This team
includes people who are also actively doing and creating
new exemplary PBL projects, pre-service and continuing
teacher professional development, and integration of technology
into the curriculum.
Dr.
Ted Kahn and Frona Kahn both have over 30 years of experience
in the use of computers for early learning, K-12 education
and lifelong learning, including leading and pioneering
advanced research and development roles at Xerox PARC,
Atari, and the Institute for Research on Learning (Ted)
and The Learning Company and Compaq Software (Frona).
Their experience includes the development and support
of numerous award-winning commercial educational multimedia
products, action research, learning systems, and Internet-based
collaborative design and learning projects for K-12 classrooms,
school-to-careers, and informal/family learning in museums
and homes. For more information about Ted, Frona and the
DesignWorlds team, see the DesignWorlds web site, as well
as
http://www.designworlds.com/team.html.
Dr.
Bo De Long-Cotty currently serves as a Project Director
for three projects in the Technology in Education (TIE)
Program at WestEd. She directs Techscape (a science education
and technology project developing curricula, hands-on
kits, and websites that provide support for design- and
project-based learning for 9 to 13-year-olds), The Tech
Teacher Institutes (a project to develop and deliver professional
development to middle level teachers interested in using
design and innovation to teach science), and the Galaxy
Science Classroom Evaluation (an evaluation of a multi-media,
hands-on science curriculum for grades K-5). As part of
the Galaxy project, she is also working with Teacher Universe
to develop web-delivered, simulations-based embedded science
assessments. She brings to these positions over fifteen
years of research and development experience in PreK-12
education and professional development, including extensive
work in evaluation and assessment, technical assistance,
systemic reform, teaching, curriculum development, research
in child development, and educational and instructional
technology. Dr. DeLong-Cotty earned an M.A. in Developmental
Psychology from Teachers' College/Columbia University
and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University
of California, Berkeley.
Phil
Cotty has over 25 years of experience as a classroom teacher,
administrator, education consultant and practitioner of
PBL in 2nd - 12th grade classrooms and schools in New
York, Maine, California and Kenya. He has won several
awards for excellence in education, including the Exemplary
Middle School Award from the Maine Association of Middle
Level Educators, and was a state finalist for 1997 Maine
Teacher of the Year. Mr. Cotty was core editor of Maine's
current Science and Technology Standards, and served as
Chair of the Brooksville, ME School Board, Union 93, and
the Superintendent Evaluation Committee. Mr. Cotty has
been a consultant to WestEd and the Tech Museum of Innovation
in San Jose, and has made many presentations at education
conferences, addressing such issues as assessment, standards,
curriculum integration, project-based learning, and building
middle school communities. Mr. Cotty earned a BA in Biology
from Earlham College, Richmond, IN and a MA in Science
Education from Teachers College/Columbia University. An
outstanding PBL teacher and practitioner, Phil is currently
teaching 6th and 7th grade Science at Calvin Simmons Middle
School in Oakland, CA.
Ron
Fortunato
President, Power Learning Solutions
(760) 944-9134 rfortunato@att.ney
For
over 15 years, Ron Fortunato has been actively involved
in creatively integrating technology and the Internet
with the curriculum through project-based learning. He
has been a classroom teacher and has directed several
federally-funded projects, as well as commercial educational
software development. He is a NASA Teacher in Space Finalist,
one of the original Christa MacAuliffe Educators, and
helped design and implement the Co-NECT project at BBN
(one of the New American Schools "break the mold" school
design projects, which is now Co-nect.net). Ron has pioneered
many exciting and unique ways of using technology and
the Internet for exemplary student achievement, integrating
science, mathematics, music and performing arts, and social
studies.
Monica
has over 30 years of experience in education, including
teaching, curriculum development, writing, editing, project
management, extensive public speaking, and staff development
for schools in the United States and abroad. She has been
an independent consultant in educational technology since
1997. Her clients include the Burns Telecommunications
Center in Bozeman, MT; the Paterson, NJ, public schools;
the Human Capacity Development Center of USAID, the National
Geographic Society, the ASTL Project in Israel, and the
Arlington County, VA, public schools. She has also taught
technology courses for educators at the University of
California/Irvine.
From
1980 through 1997, she was a managing editor in National
Geographic's Educational Media Division, where she led
development of award-winning computer software and curriculum
kits, most notably the NGS Kids Network series of telecommunications-based
science units for grades 4-9. More than 1.5 million children
in 50 countries took part in Kids Network school collaborations
by 1997. Ms. Bradsher received the 1997 Susan Hadden Award
for Pioneering in Telecommunications from the Alliance
for Public Technology in Washington, DC. Prior to 1980,
Ms. Bradsher was a classroom teacher for 11 years in Massachusetts,
Hong Kong, Virginia, and Washington, DC. She graduated
from Swarthmore College with High Honors and won a Fulbright
Fellowship to India. She earned an M.Ed. at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education.
Dave
Master was a middle school and high school classroom teacher
for over 25 years. For the past five years, Dave was Director
of Training and Artist Development for Warner Bros. Feature
Animation, and he is therefore a unique resource for those
interested in school-to-career and PBL programs in high
school. Founder of the internationally recognized Animation
Program at Rowland High School in Rowland Heights, CA,
Dave was the winner of the 1991 IBM/Technology & Learning
National Technology Teacher of the Year. His students
have made thousands of award-winning animated films, and.
A large number of his former students are now professionally
employed in all the major Hollywood studios, as well as
in many other media, technology and communications companies.
Dave has been on the national Arts Education Standards
committee, and he co-directs the ACME Virtual Training
Network, an innovative distance learning program to bring
top artists and media professionals into contact with
students and teachers at remote locations. He is also
actively involved with a major teacher professional communities
and initiatives with Workforce LA, as well as being a
speaker and presenter at education and media conferences
all over the world.
Sherman
Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
Co-Director, The Golden Way Project
Science Teaching Dept., Weizmann Institute of Science
and consultant, MIGAL Research Institute ahava@inter.net.il
Dr.
Sherman Rosenfeld is a leading international expert on
science education and informal science learning. He has
over 25 years of active experience in research, curriculum
development, award-winning commercial educational software
development, and teacher professional development. For
the last five years, he has been actively involved with
the professional development of middle school science
and technology teachers in Israel, using a PBL framework
and a set of technology-based navigational tools for exemplary
research-based PBL. This project, called The Golden Way,
is the most extensive middle school science education
curriculum and professional development efforts in Israel.
Sherman is a frequent presenter at international education
and research conferences, as well as having published
many professional articles on science education and informal
learning.
Linda
Ullah
Teacher in Residence, Center for Innovation, Foothill
College ullahlinda@fhda.edu
Linda
Ullah has been a teacher for over 25 years. Her experience
includes special education, G.A.T.E., and extensive elementary
classroom experience a in low-income elementary school
in San Jose. She has been one of the leading Technology
and Learning coordinators for the Challenge 2000 Multimedia
Project, where she helped develop and spread the exemplary
curriculum and professional development methodologies
for integrating multimedia with PBL across over 50 K-12
schools Silicon Valley. A frequent consultant and collaborator
with DesignWorlds for Learning, Linda has pioneered new
kinds of global collaborative PBL projects using the Internet,
and she has developed curricula and teacher professional
development programs for the Santa Clara County Office
of Education and for Connected University, an online professional
development program of Classroom Connect. She was also
finalist for the 2000 Intel Teaching Innovation Awards
program.
Bernie
has over 25 years of experience in researching, developing
and delivering innovative learning environments that use
the power of technology to engage all learners. He has
worked in both education and industry as an instructional
designer, researcher, program developer, trainer, producer
and manager, including 10 years at Hewlett-Packard Company
helping to run a worldwide distributed learning network.
Bernie is currently the Director of the Technology In
Education (TIE) Program at WestEd and is the Principal
Investigator and Director of the WestEd Regional Technology
in Education Consortium (RTEC) serving California, Arizona,
Nevada and Utah.
We
also wish to thank the following people, who were also
involved in the Exemplary PBL Projects project:
