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“Thank you for working through this process with us. I look forward to the opportunities our staff has for a new level of collaboration. The most significant point in the workshop was having time to problem solve with colleagues about a collaborative focus/vision for our campus.”
Robin Hawley, Teacher
Ashland School District, Oregon
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INSTITUTE DIRECTOR, CO-FACILITATOR
Joe Brooks—has worked with and supported students at every level, from the elementary grades through graduate level education. He is a veteran professional development leader and facilitator and has provided consulting support for a wide spectrum of K-16 schools, public and private, along with regional and national initiatives. Joe has worked with educators from around the world and directed graduate level institutes for many years. Earlier in his career he taught middle school students in Vermont for twelve years while initiating and nurturing a nationally recognized K-12 service-learning and community partnership program. Among his longer term curriculum projects Joe developed and supported a student published community newspaper that introduced students to state of the art publishing methods that subsequently served local residents for more than fifteen years. Joe's current primary interest lies in creating innovative professional development experiences that, along with new social media, connect educators around the common purpose of advancing community focused curriculum. email
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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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Mary Whalen—is a veteran high school history teacher who has worked extensively with student voice and participation as democratizing principles in her classroom. She and her students have compiled a diverse array of experiences as participants in service-learning projects both locally and nationally. Mary brings first hand experience and professional passion to the question of how we create and nurture meaningful student voice within the constraints of a typical classroom and school. She is also a recent recipient of a Rowland Fellowship for Declaring Ourselves! An action research project concerning civic engagement in the 21st Century. Service-Learning, Participatory Action Research and Live Video Collaboration is her present focus. Mary also has a particular interests in the Eugenics Movement in Vermont, Genealogical Research and Comparative Education within the United States. She currently teaches at Twinfield Union School in Plainfield, Vermont. |
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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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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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Rick Cota—currently the Nutrition Services Director for Claremont Unified School District (CUSD) in California where he has initiated highly innovative changes which are catching the attention of school districts nationwide. He brings a diversified professional experience to his work, both in business and education. Rick has forged crucial partnerships with local sustainability groups, Cal Poly Pomona University, and Scripps College. With his partners, Rick has worked collaboratively to set the standard for healthy and sustainable food practices. CUSD now has organic working school gardens throughout the district and is one of the only “Styrofoam Free” school districts in California. The organic school gardens are also part of a K-12 service-learning partnership involving students and community members. As one result, CUSD has eliminated over 65% of all processed foods in their meal program and “Meatless Mondays” and “Fresh Food Fridays, comprised of locally grown, made-from-scratch meals prepared fresh daily for students. In the process, CUSD has increased food related revenues over 30% in the past two years. Rick has proven that you can be healthy, sustainable and be fiscally sound. He formerly served an audit manager with the largest CPA firm in California, specializing in auditing and consulting for school districts, community college districts, and other non-profit entities as well as having a strong background in the restaurant industry. Rick lives in Southern California with his wife and their three children, being often found on the softball diamond or soccer fields with his daughters. |
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Steve Colangel—veteran science and agriculture teacher in the Alternative Education Program at Middlebury Union High School in Middlebury, Vermont. Steve has a strong passion for sustainable agriculture and environmental science. For the past five years he has been involved in building school based greenhouses and gardens as outdoor classrooms. Steve, his students, and colleagues use the gardens and greenhouse as a base for a variety of service-learning projects that connect the curriculum to the community. Over the years Steve has been involved in a multitude of service-learning projects and is always inspired by the learning that students gain through this type of education. Steve lives in Charlotte with his wife Cory, and his son Aiden where they are working to create renewable energy sources within their home. |
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Peter McConville—is an English teacher at Burlington High School in Burlington, VT. Peter has a longstanding interest in the depiction of place in literature which he has recently spun into an interdisciplinary program at his school focusing on a sense of place and sustainability. Students in his program are responsible for creating meaningful change within their communities through project based service-learning. Peter is also involved in a study circle with Burlington area educators through the Sustainable Schools Project, sponsored by Shelburne Farms. Peter was recently awarded a Rowland Fellowship to continue building and expanding the reach of his program within the school. |
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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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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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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 CWI GUEST FACULTY away for 2011 summer events |
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Susan Bonthron—Senior Editor with Community Works Journal and longtime 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. 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 Graduate School and is also a professional bookbinder. |
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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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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. |
