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Joe Brooks—Founder and Executive Director of Community Work Institute. and the publisher of Community Works Journal—Learning Experiences that Build Community. Joe is a veteran educator who has worked closely with students from the primary grades through graduate level, with a special focus on service-learning and place based education. He provides coaching and technical support for schools and organizations from the local to international level—including through a long term series of graduate level institutes on service-learning. Joe taught middle school students in Vermont for many years, initiating and nurturing a nationally recognized service-learning program which spanned K-16. During his time at Guilford Central School he was instrumental in cofounding and developing the student published community newspaper The Guilford Gazette—a curriculum project which continues to thrive in its sixteenth year. |
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Susan Bonthron—Senior Editor with Community Works Journal, and core faculty member and Documentation Specialist for Community Works Institute. Susan has provided technical assistance, workshops, and other support for service-learning to schools throughout New England. She has co-designed and taught graduate level institutes on service-learning. Susan has also worked extensively with the National Study Group on Service-Learning and Assessment, Vermont Rural Partnership, and others. She volunteered for many years as a founder and advisor for the widely acclaimed Guilford Gazette, a community newspaper published by 7/8 students. Susan is a graduate of Antioch, NE and is a professional bookbinder.
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FULL TIME CORE FACULTY MEMBERS |
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Jen Cirillo—Professional Development Director at Shelburne Farms, Jen is the past Coordinator of Shelburne Farms' Sustainable Schools Project (SSP) Jen provides hands-on support and professional development to classroom teachers at SSP's pilot schools. During her graduate studies she focused on community sustainability and education and experienced the power of service-learning first hand. As a former coordinator for a city wide sustainability project in Burlington, VT Jen brings a strong background in organizing community improvement projects to her work with schools. She has worked with many local schools and non-profit education programs in Vermont to enhance school-community partnerships and service-learning opportunities. Jen is a contributing editor for Community Works Journal. |
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Pat Haggerty—has been involved in education in various capacities for 33 years---as a classroom teacher K-12, as a curriculum director, as an assistant superintendent, and most recently as an elementary school principal at Bryn Mawr School in Auburn, Massachusetts. At Bryn Mawr Pat infused aspects of service-learning across the grades. Pat has also served as the Auburn Public Schools District Coordinator for Service-Learning. Over the past decade as a core faculty member of Community Works Institute, Pat has worked closely with hundreds of educators from diverse K-16 backgrounds in advancing their service-learning practice. She is also a founding member of the Massachusetts Service-Learning Partnership and a former Christa McAuliffe Fellow who used service-learning as the platform for her fellowship. Pat continues to be passionate about service-learning, sharing the methodology through dynamic workshops, publications, and practice. She is presently working on a booklet for the Linking Learning with Life Series through the National Drop-out Prevention Center at Clemson University.
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Susan Hessey—Librarian/Media Specialist at Guilford Central School in southern Vermont. Susan has been working in public school libraries for more than twenty years. She has been a faculty member of Community Works Institute since its earliest days in the 1990s. In her work at Guilford Susan has provided curriculum development support for place-based and service-learning projects K-8, and helped to document the outcomes. Susan is a graduate of Antioch New England Graduate School and is active in literacy initiatives and information literacy curriculum development at the state and district level She is a past contributor to Community Works Journal.
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Beverly Maddox Moon—Dean of Research, Assessment, and Planning at Delta State University in Mississippi, and Associate Professor of English. She has served as DSU's Faculty Liaison for Service-Learning, directed the Honors Program, coordinated the Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies degree program, and currently directs the university’s accreditation and strategic planning efforts through the Office of Institutional Research and Planning. Beverly was an inaugural winner of the University’s Foundation Faculty Prize in Service. In her various incarnations, she has organized faculty development sessions, training, and grants and is particularly interested in accreditation efforts, particularly with a view towards improving the documentation of learning outcomes. Beverly’s passion for service-learning is driven by the desire to provide multicultural, cross-disciplinary experiences for students that will enhance their learning: the diversity of the Mississippi Delta provides many such opportunities. She is a longtime core faculty member of Community Works Institute, and a past participant. |
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SPECIAL GUEST FACULTY MEMBERS INCLUDE
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Marc Chabot—spent the past year working on assignment as an interning principal. He is also the science teacher at Thetford Academy in Vermont and has taught high school chemistry and/or physics for twenty years. His curriculum includes several excellent examples of service-learning, among them the Physics Problem-Solving Unit. He was a Christa McAuliffe fellow based on his project “Reaching Mainstreamed Students in Chemistry using Computers.” Marc was awarded the Radioshack National Teacher Award in 2004 and was a state finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 2002. He has trained as a National Facilitator for the School Reform Initiative.
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Corey Dolgon—is Chair of Sociology and Director of the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement at Worcester State College. He is an award winning author and singer/songwriter who has performed a singing-lecture on folksongs and the U.S. Labor Movement both nationally and internationally. Dolgon's research and teaching focuses on social movements and urban politics, and the ways in which community organizing relates to cultural identities, activities and networks. |
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Jim Flint—is founder and executive director of Friends of Burlington Gardens, a grassroots nonprofit organization in Burlington, Vermont. As a community gardening advocate and activist, he has helped to establish 20 new community, school, and neighborhood gardens in the Burlington area. Jim taught in public and private schools for 10 years, later working for many years with the National Gardening Association to expand the GrowLab and Youth Garden Grants programs. Jim has traveled extensively throughout the United States visiting and documenting community and school garden projects and has presented workshops at several national conferences. He is the editor of Patchwork: Stories of Gardens and Community. |
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Jen Kramer— is currently a middle school social studies teacher, exploring the history of the world, the U.S. and local Vermont history with her students. She previously taught 6th grade as well as a 5/6 combination. A major focus of her teaching has always been on making local history and culture relevant to her students through service-learning and place-based teaching projects. |
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David Sobel—is a preeminent voice and writer for integrating place-based education in American schools. He is a core faculty member and director of Teacher Certification programs at Antioch University New England and he was identified as one of the 2007 Daring Dozen educators in the United States by Edutopia Magazine. He has served as a staff development and curriculum consultant for public and independent schools and has been a keynote speaker for many colleges, national conferences, state agencies and environmental organizations. He serves on the editorial board of the journal, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice and is the author of Children's Special Places, Beyond Ecophobia, Mapmaking with Children, Childhood and Nature and most recently Place- and Community-based Education in Schools. He has written many articles on children and nature including regular essays in Community Works Journal on Place and Education. He is just finishing up a book on parenting children into nature which will be published by Sierra books in winter 2011. |
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ADDITIONAL GUEST FACULTY—Away for 2010 |
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Jean Berthiaume—Social science teacher at Harwood Union High School in Vermont. Over the years Jean has developed, and taught a number of service-learning and sustainability related courses. He is also active in promoting institutional development of service-learning at his school—through the use of study groups and other means. He is a network member of Vermont Education for Sustainability and past participant at Community Works Summer Institute. Jean recently partnered with Vince Franke of the Duxbury Land Trust to create a video about the history of six towns along Vermont’s scenic Route 100—one of the oldest north/south routes through the state. The result of this multilayered community-based service-learning project was not only a successful video, but a powerful learning experience for more than one high school class.
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Martha Jane Rich—Head of School at Thetford Academy in Vermont for the past seventeen years. Thetford Academy is a National Service-Learning Leader School and national headquarters for Operation Day’s Work USA (www.odwusa.org) as well as a Vermont Rural Partnership member. Martha’s collaborative leadership style has enabled Thetford’s staff to develop a rich and diverse approach to service-learning within a shared framework. As an administrator and facilitator, her interest is in finding ways to foster a culture of shared responsibility for both students’ and colleagues’ learning. She has fostered local study groups, summer institutes and other innovative means for staff and student development in the Thetford community.
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