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Joe Brooks—Founder and Executive Director of Community Works, Inc., and publisher of Community Works Journal for educators. Joe has provided technical support for schools and initiatives on the regional and national level for many years—including through a longterm series of graduate level institutes on service-learning. He previously taught middle school students at Guilford School in Vermont for twelve years, initiating and nurturing a nationally recognized service-learning program there. During his time as a middle school teacher Joe was instrumental in founding and developing the student published community newspaper The Guilford Gazette as a curriculum project over a ten year period. |
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Susan Bonthron—Senior Editor with Community Works Journal for teachers, and Documentation and Research Director for Vermont Community Works. Susan has provided technical assistance and 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 has volunteered for many years as a founder and advisor for the widely acclaimed Guilford Gazette, a community newspaper published by middle school students.
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FULL TIME FACULTY MEMBERS
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Jean Berthiaume—Social studies teacher at Harwood Union High School in Vermont. Over the years he 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. Jean recently partnered with 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. Jean is a network member of Vermont Education for Sustainability and past participant at Community Works Summer Institute, and contributor to Community Works Journal.
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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—Currently principal of Bryn Mawr School in Auburn, Massachusetts. Bryn Mawr is a primary school where Pat is infusing aspects of service-learning in that community. For the past two years, Pat has served as the Auburn Public Schools District Coordinator for Service-Learning. Pat is a regional advisor for the Atlantic Exchange and a founding member of the Massachusetts Service-Learning Partnership. Pat is a former Christa McAuliffe Fellow who used service-learning as the platform for her fellowship. She continues to be passionate about service-learning sharing the methodology through presentations, 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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Beverly Maddox Moon—Associate Dean for Assessment & 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. A longtime faculty member with the Institute (she is also a past participant) and a contributor to Community Works Journal. |
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SPECIAL GUEST FACULTY MEMBERS INCLUDE
Marc Chabot—Marc is 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 National School Reform Faculty.
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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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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. In her work at Guilford she has provided curriculum development support for service-learning projects K-8, and helped to document the outcomes. Susan has an M.Ed from Antioch New England Graduate School, is active in literacy initiatives and information literacy curriculum development at the state and district level and is a past contributor to Community Works Journal.
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Patricia Nabti—Founder and Director of the Association for Volunteer Services (AVS) in Beirut, Lebanon. AVS is an organization that “promotes, facilitates, and improves volunteering and community service throughout Lebanon and beyond.” Patricia was previously a Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the American University of Beirut, after teaching at Stanford in both its Anthropology Department and its program in Culture, Ideas, and Values (CIV). Her passion for volunteerism is motivated by the powerful impact volunteering has on the volunteer. After leading a pilot program in service-learning in Lebanon she felt that a more comprehensive approach to school service programs was needed, and so she researched and wrote the book Learning to CARE: Education, Volunteering, and Community Service. Patricia has provided consulting and training in volunteerism and school service programs in Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Syria, as well as Lebanon. She is the National Representative of Lebanon for the International Association for Volunteer Effort. |
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Maureen Charron-Shea—Mrs. Shea, or Mo as her students call her, is a speech-language pathologist who has been working in Harwood’s Learning Resource Department since 1988. Mrs. Shea is currently coordinating a dynamic service-learning project titled “Speak Out for Understanding” involving a group of high school students of varying abilities who want to raise awareness and increase tolerance for people with disabilities. In her other roles at Harwood, Mrs. Shea enjoys being a Teacher Advisor, Class Advisor for the Class of 2008, and mentor for students interested in careers in speech-language pathology.Maureen maintains the Certificate of Clinical Competence granted by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and achieved secondary level training in the Orton-Gillingham Approach. |
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Martha Jane Rich—Head of School at Thetford Academy in Vermont for the past twelve years. Thetford is a National Service-Learning Leader School with a long history of service-learning that is still evolving and growing. Martha’s collaborative leadership style has enabled Thetford’s staff to develop a rich and diverse approach to service-learning within a shared framework. 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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