Summit Bios Master 2012
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Great Teachers for Our City Schools The 5th Annual National Summit: Building Community Support for Urban Student Success April 11-13, 2012 Denver, Colorado Plenary Session Presenters, Concurrent Session Panelists and Roundtable Hosts Brian Barhaugh is the executive director of Project VOYCE. Mr. Barhaugh was running a commercial general contracting firm before being inspired by a group of inner- city teens to go into community-based youth development work. He was the founder/director of YouthBiz, Inc. in Denver, an award winning business/leadership skills program for inner-city teens before starting Project VOYCE (Voices of Youth Changing Education) three years ago. Ellie-Ann Shahinian Baldwin is an associate professor of teacher education at Metropolitan State College of Denver. While pursuing her master’s degree at California State University, Chico, and doctoral study at Washington State University, she was involved in two federally funded grant programs that placed graduate students in high-need urban schools. She joined the Metro State faculty after teaching for five years at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado. Gwen Benson is associate dean of school and community partnerships at Georgia State University College of Education. She came to Georgia State University from the Georgia Department of Education, where she served as Coordinator of the Low Incidence Disabilities Unit in the Division for Exceptional Students. Previously, she served as Director of Educator Preparation for the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and Director of the Program for Exceptional Children with the Atlanta Public Schools. She was an associate professor at Southern University at Baton Rouge and an assistant professor at Louisiana State University. She has taught graduate courses at Clark-Atlanta University as an adjunct professor. Dr. Benson holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas. Heather Bilton is the recruiter and coordinator of the alternative certification program and the induction program for Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools. She holds advanced credentials in Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Bilton’s professional history has developed in several public sectors of Pre-K through post-graduate education and as a private consultant/trainer. Liz Buffington received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Communication with a Minor in Ethnic Studies from University of Colorado at Boulder. She earned her Secondary Teaching Certification with an emphasis in History from Metropolitan State College of Denver. She has worked as an intervention teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School, in Denver since 2007. Rebecca L. Canges received her doctorate in Educational Leadership with an emphasis in Teacher Education in Multicultural Societies from the University of Southern California (USC). She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Teacher Education Department at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Previous to her work in Denver, Dr. Canges taught in the Special Education Credential Program at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and was a special education in the Long Beach Unified School District in Southern California. In addition to teaching, Dr. Canges has worked as a research assistant and project director under Dr. Jana Echevarria on research regarding the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model. 1 Martín Carcasson works with the Public Engagement team at Public Agenda to develop, coordinate, and implement a wide range of engagement initiatives. As the founder and director of the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University, Martín is a national leader in issue framing, facilitation for public decision-making, and community engagement. His research on public deliberation, rhetoric, and conflict resolution has been published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the Journal of Public Deliberation, Higher Education Exchange, the International Journal of Conflict Resolution, New Directions in Higher Education, Public Sector Digest, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication at Texas A&M in 2004, and has received additional certification training by the National Issues Forum, the International Association of Public Participation, and the Institute for Participatory Management and Planning. Lorretta Chávez is currently an assistant professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She received her BA in Elementary Education and Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language at University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO. After 18 years of elementary teaching, including 3 years as an ESL resource teacher, Dr. Chavez decided to pursue a PhD at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Equity in Education and Cultural Diversity. For the past two years, Dr. Chavez has been hard at work at Metro creating, with her colleagues, an urban program for elementary candidates, through the Center for Urban Education. Jessica Cuthbertson is a P-12 Literacy Teacher Coach (TOSA) currently working at multiple sites in Aurora Public Schools. With ten years' experience in the teaching profession, Jessica is passionate about engaging middle school students and developing their voice through authentic, meaningful literacy experiences. Jessica's work with students, teachers, administrators and professional networks like the Denver New Millennium Initiative and National Writing Project give her great hope for the future of the teaching profession and the vision of Teaching 2030. Michael DiCicco is a doctoral student and instructor in the Department of Secondary Education at the main campus of the University of South Florida. He has taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade reading and language arts in a Title 1 school. His research interests include arts-based research methodologies, school experiences of diverse youth and families, and using visuals to teach reading. Thomas A. Dutton is an architect and the Cincinnati Professor of Community Engagement at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Dutton is founder and director of Miami University’s Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine (2002), which offers opportunities for faculty, student, and community learning in that inner city, Cincinnati neighborhood. He has been active in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood for thirty years. He and his students, through the Over-the-Rhine Design/Build Studio, have designed and rehabilitated housing for low- and moderate-income people there since 1996. In 2006, Dutton started the Over-the-Rhine Residency Program, which brings students to Over-the-Rhine for a full semester to work with community organizations. In 2009 Dutton was awarded the National Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award by Campus Compact, for “outstanding contributions to service-learning, engaged scholarship, and institutional and community change through collaborative engagement.” Jan Perry Evenstad is an assistant professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver in the Department of Elementary, Linguistically Diverse, K-12 and Secondary Education. She teaches an Educational Psychology and Philosophy class as well as, Issues in Multicultural Urban Education. She also serves as the CO-Principal Investigator of a regional Equity Assistance Center. She has worked in the area of educational equity for many years at two regional Equity Assistance Centers and the Colorado Department of Education as a race and gender Equity Specialist. She was one of the co-founders of the Colorado Chapter of NAME. Jan has a Ph.D. from the University of Denver in Education Administration where her doctoral research focused on educational equity and student assessment. Michelle Exstrom is a program principal at the National Conference of State Legislatures where she directs the Education Program’s work on teaching quality and educator effectiveness. Ms. Exstrom has been serving state legislators for 15 years. Prior to NCSL, Ms. 2 Exstrom served as a senior legislative assistant in the Office of Legislative Legal Services, a non-partisan legislative agency of the Colorado General Assembly. Elizabeth Franklin works in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. Dr. Franklin serves as Executive Director for the MAST-EL project. She is a faculty member in ESL and Bilingual Education in Hispanic Studies, speaks Spanish fluently, has been a chair of Elementary Education, a chair of Curriculum and Instruction, and a director of a School of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. She has extensive experience working with pre-service and in-service teachers in linguistically diverse schools and has published articles in this area. Elizabeth Fullerton has worked in the field of early childhood, in urban setting in the United States and overseas for over twenty-five years. She is currently the program area leader for the early childhood program at the University of North Florida a designated community-based transformation learning program. The program provides students with intentional urban experiences throughout the early learning community. Rosanne Fulton taught middle school and high school mathematics for 11 years. During the past 22 years, she has served in central office leadership roles including Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction in the Denver Public Schools and Assistant Superintendent of K – 12 Teaching and Learning in Tacoma, Washington. Her research interests include culturally responsive teaching, student-centered mathematics instruction, and building leadership capacity