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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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Lenora Jennings, Acting Director , 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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Nada Ahmed, Special Education Coordinator, started her work in education in Bronx, NY, with Teach For America. She has been a K-3 science teacher, a music and movement coach, a trainer of educators as a coordinator of curriculum and instruction, and an adjunct professor. She is passionate about creating equitable schools. |
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Meg
Anderson, School Development Coach. See full listing below, in Principal Residency
Network. |
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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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Ilene Carver, Community and Family Engagement Coordinator, worked as a teacher in the Boston Public Schools for 13 years, and helped coordinate family outreach efforts at several schools. She is passionate about building partnerships between schools and families. Past experience includes work in community and union organizing. |
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Lawreen Garnett, School Development Coach, has worked as a math teacher and administrator in public, parochial, traditional, and charter schools. She is committed to providing opportunities for all students to persistently uphold successful and sustainable habits. Her interests are school leadership, teacher coaching, and curriculum development. |
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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. |
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Dania
Vazquez, Associate Director, Ed. D. See full listing above in Executive Team. |
Pilot Schools Development Team
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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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Annmarie
Boudreau, School Development Coach , is an urban educator who has worked
in the Boston area for the last 10 years. Her specialties include
curriculum design, differentiated instruction, school-to-career
programming, Facing History and Ourselves curriculum implementation,
and new teacher training, She is committed to creating democratic
classrooms where students have a voice, take ownership of their
learning and are empowered to create their own successes. |
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Mary
Cavalier, School Development Coach , M. Ed. from Bank Street College
of Education, K-8 teacher, former principal of Amherst, MA, Regional
Middle School. She believes that schools are capable of creating
learning environments that support high academic achievement for
every single child entrusted to them. |
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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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Meenakshi
Khanna, School Development Coach , has taught deaf children K-12, and,
most recently, worked at the Urban Scholars Program at the University
of Massachusetts-Boston as staff development coordinator for three
Boston Public School high schools. |
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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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Rachel Bonkovsky, Director, Los Angeles Pilot Schools Initiative , has worked as a teacher-leader and principal in the Boston Public Schools, including work in Pilot, vocational, and alternative schools. She is passionate about serving the underserved of our communities and is eager to support schools that give all students a chance for academic success. |
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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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Marilynne Smith Quarcoo, Ph.D.,Associate Director, was a k-5 principal in Newton, a voluntary desegregation program director, a classroom teacher, multicultural specialist, and reading teacher. She brings a commitment to equity and excellence for all students and all adults. |
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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
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, Director of 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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Suzanne Wallen, Director of Development and External Affairs, has previously been a development professional at WGBH Educational Foundation, Brandeis University, and the City of Boston’s Office of Jobs and Community Services. In addition, she has over 15 years experience in program planning and grant making for international organizations. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Calvina King , Administrative Assistant, is one of the go-to people on our staff. Calvina has a background in reprographics, working at non-profits, tutoring, and facilities management. She loves to cook, walk around the city, and help others any way she can. She’s excited about working at CCE. |
Special Initiatives
Turning Points Network
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Mary
Cavalier, School Development Coach . See full listing in Pilot Schools Development Team, above. |
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Sara
Freedman, Ed.D., School Development Coach. See full listing in Pilot Schools Development Team, above. |
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Meenakshi
Khanna, School Development Coach . See full listing in Pilot Schools Development Team, above. |
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Dan Watt, Ph.D., Senior Writer, Strengthening Mathematics Teaching and Learning for English Language Learners Project. |
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
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
Deborah L. Johnson, Director of Youth Programs at the Boston Center for Community & Justice
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
Bak Fun Wong, Principal, Quincy Upper School, Boston
Emeritus members
of Board:
Vito Perrone,
Director of Teacher Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ted Sizer, Professor Emeritus, Brown University
Advisory Board
(forming):
Paul Reville, Massachusetts Secretary of Education; President, the Rennie Center for Education Research
& Policy
Chuck
Turner, Boston City Councilor
Sam Yoon, Boston City Councilor
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