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Jennifer Fettig
Jennifer has twenty years' experience as a curriculum developer, teacher, trainer, and editor in New York, Connecticut, and California. Her experience includes developing new methodologies for English teachers while serving in the Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa, co-authoring and editing textbooks and teachers' books, and developing and implementing the statewide Project READ (Reading Enhancement and Arithmetic Development) program for the Alternative Incarceration Program for the State of Connecticut. She has a BA from Marquette University and an MA from The American University in Washington, DC.
Kathryn Voigt
Kathryn has twenty years' experience as a curriculum developer, teacher, trainer, and editor. She developed and integrated an English/Social Studies team teaching program for Downtown High School in San Francisco, an alternative high school. In conjunction with participation in both the Bay Area Writing Project and the District Literacy Collaborative, she created and implemented an integrated technology curriculum for a Communication Arts Academy in San Francisco Unified School District. In addition, Kathryn has served on English Curriculum and Standards committees in the districts in which she has worked. She has a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an MA in Education from the Claremont Colleges.
Suzanne Plank
Suzanne Plank has more than ten years of experience in teaching, management, and professional development with Northern California. She has worked as a bilingual educator, high school reading specialist, and community college instructor. Currently, Suzanne is traveling the world writing travel guide books for Lonely Planet. Suzanne holds an MA in Education from the University of San Francisco and an MA in Latin American Studies from Stanford University.
Current Curriculum Authors
Javier Gutierrez
Javier Gutierrez graduated from Stanford University with an MA in Education in 1996 in addition to his MA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University and a BA in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University. He taught for five years in a special education non-public school in San Francisco and has taught high school social studies for San Francisco, Pasadena, and Alhambra school districts since 1996. He has also been a part-time faculty member of JFK University, teaching courses in the CLAD credential program as well as technology in the classroom. He currently holds a California Professional Clear Credential with a CLAD emphasis.
Nancy Kwak
Over the course of the past ten years, Nancy Kwak has taught American history, urban history, and international politics for graduate, college and high school students. Nancy holds a BA in History from UC Berkeley, an MEd from Harvard Graduate School in Education, an MA in History from Columbia University, and is currently working towards a PhD in History at Columbia University.
Dr. Deborah Miller
Dr. Deborah Miller earned her Bachelor of Science with a major in Biology and minor in Chemistry, and a Bachelor in Science in Education from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. She worked as a laboratory technician in the Biology Department at Yale University before entering graduate school. She received her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Deborah received a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biosciences related to the Environment and used this fellowship for a research project at Wageningen Agricultural University in Wageningen, The Netherlands. During this time she received a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certificate and a Teaching English for Special Purposes (ESP) Certificate. She moved to Mexico, where she taught English as a Second Language at La Universidad del Sureste in Oaxaca, Mexico, and taught Cellular and Molecular Biology in Spanish at the Instituto Tecnológico Agropecuario de Oaxaca and the Instituto Tecnológico de Oaxaca. She returned to the US and worked as an editor at ETSI before returning to Oaxaca, Mexico. Of course, she is continuing her projects with ESubjects as a biology consultant and Curriculum Editing Supervisor.
Karen Toavs
Karen Toavs has been working in the education field for seven years, focusing in accreditation and secondary education. While attending Montana State University-Northern as an undergraduate student, she worked within the College of Education, specializing in NCATE Accreditation support. She has received numerous awards for her collegiate involvement in leadership and historical studies, including Western Model United Nations delegate and secretariat honors. Karen holds a BS in Secondary History Education, with a Native American Studies minor, as well as a BS in Secondary English Education. She taught for two years at New Town High School in North Dakota before becoming a US History curriculum writer and history editor for ESubjects.
Tracy Anne Wenzinger
Tracy Anne Wenzinger has been a teacher for sixteen years. For the last twelve years, she has been a member of the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware teaching a wide range of classes including Life Science, Health, Introductory Physical Science, Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry. Prior to working at Tower Hill School, Tracy taught Integrated Science, ESL, and Gang Intervention at Memorial Academy in the San Diego Unified School District. She began teaching in the Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa where she taught Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Anatomy.
Tracy has a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Earth Sciences from the University of California San Diego and a Matrice de Pedagogie de Sciences Naturelles et Chimie Organique from the Cooperation Francaise de Zinder. While teaching in Delaware, Tracy has been awarded several grants and fellowships including one from the American Society of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She is also an active member of the American Chemical Society.
Past Contributors
Jenny Makofsky
Remembering JennySerena Makofsky
Serena Makofsky earned her BA in English and Art History at Mills College. She continued her studies at Holy Names College, where she received her California Teaching Credential with a CLAD emphasis. She is currently earning her Master's degree in Library and Information Science at San Jose State. She works for Oakland Unified School District, where she has taught bilingual Spanish, sheltered English, and English-only classes. Her writing credits include two novels, a collection of short stories, and a manual of cooperative activities and non-competitive games. She also wrote and edited information for Worldview, an online travel magazine. She gained fluency in Spanish while volunteering for Grassroots, an organization in Oaxaca, Mexico dedicated to building literacy among the indigenous population.
Jim Barrett
Jim has a BS from Marquette University with a double major in Mathematics and Biology and an MS in Mathematics from Marquette University. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of California Davis in Resource Economics. Jim has taught or assisted in teaching: Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Statistics, Introduction to Data Bases, Windows, Intermediate Economics, Mathematical Programming, Environmental Economics, and Resource Economics. Jim has ten years experience as a Computer Programmer in Medical Environments. He has worked as a Mathematician for the National Biomedical Center for Electron Spin Resonance, Director of Data Services for a company that analyzed data for HIV and AIDS, Director of Fundraising for an Environmental Political Action Committee, and is currently working with ESubjects to develop innovative math curricula and workshops.
David Steinore
David Steinore has been designing and building software systems in support of businesses for 25 years. For the last 15 years he has been an expert in Oracle databases and related tools, building systems for corporations such as Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, Levi Strauss and Pacific Bell. He has worked in and developed software for four startups, including e-commerce companies Gazoontite.com and Snapfish.com. He received his BA in Computer Science from U.C. San Diego.
David Goldberg
David Goldberg has been working with digital technology since the age of 13, working in the visual arts since consciousness, and making (turntable and electroincs-based) music since the age of 17. A San Francisco native raised in the communities of jazz and dance, David attended the French American Bilingual School from kindergarten to seventh grade. 8th grade marked the beginning of his engagement with Hip Hop culture, making writing (graffiti) , breakdancing, DJing and rhyming a part of his artistic and social awareness. Integrating these interests with programming computers, playing video games and reading/writing science fiction carried him through high school and into Howard University where, in 1993, he received his bachelor of science degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
Before leaving Washington D.C., David had already broadened his approach to technology beyond the summer internships at various Hewlett Packard sites where he became involved in corporate R&D, including user interface technology for medical imaging equipment. He found himself designing a curriculum for electronic media at the Smithsonian Institution, lecturing in a Howard Intro To Philosophy class, and teaching kids on probation how to develop their own digital multimedia. This last activity, coupled with the early explosion of the Internet, would propel him beyond corporate concerns with technology and into the realm of art and education.
Since graduating from college, David has worked in various artistic and educational contexts including the Exploratorium, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Ontario Science Center, SIGGRAPH, the California Governor's Conference On The Arts, the De Young, and ZEUM. He is a founding member of the Beta Lounge, one of the oldest online music sources on the Internet. This has parlayed into a strong career of DJing in the Bay Area for various art and electronic cultural events.
Currently, David teaches at the French American International School, is a member of its long range planning committee and has built and maintained the new media curriculum for grades 6 through 12. He enjoys making music, working with young people, looking for the inherent merits of digital art, and exploring the increasingly complex relationships between culture, technology and the ideological flux of the 21st century.
Lisa Morehouse
Lisa has been teaching English for ten years in public middle and high schools. She is currently teaching 10th grade English at Balboa High school in San Francisco where she founded the Action Academy, a 10th grade social justice small learning community in it's sixth year. Lisa is also the founder of Balboa's Journalism classes.
Doris A. Santoro
Doris has been an educator for over 10 years, working primarily in the areas of literacy and educational theory. She has taught in elementary, middle, and high schools as well as undergraduate and graduate courses. Doris is completing her dissertation on "The Space of Good Teaching" in the Philosophy & Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Currently, Doris works as an educational consultant in New York and New Jersey and is an instructor at Teachers College.
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