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Kate Abell
E-mail: kabell@pipeline.com
Education: BS, Hofstra University; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: computer teacher; math specialist; 4th/5th grade teacher; math staff developer
Academic interests: science; math; writing; spiders
Candy (Constance) Anderson
E-mail: candyanderson@mac.com
Education: BA, SUNY Purchase; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: special education teacher, middle school (grades 5-8)
Academic interests: reading and writing; social cognition
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Amy Bauman
E-mail: abauman@speakeasy.net
Education: BA, University of Pennsylvania; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education; PhD, University of North Carolina
Practitioner background: middle school teacher - social studies, history and math; staff development around multicultural and gender equity in schools
Academic interests: early adolescence; social identity in schools; schools as sites of cultural transmission; qualitative research with children
Gregory Benedis-Grab
E-mail: gbenedis@yahoo.com
Education: BA, Haverford College; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: teacher of middle school science, high school science, elementary school
Academic interests: science education
Julie Broderick
E-mail: jbroderick@theschool.columbia.edu
Education: BA, College of William and Mary; MS, Georgetown University; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: grades 1-5; multi-age classrooms; Spanish-English transitional bilingual, dual-language, and monolingual classrooms; in independent schools and NYC public schools
Academic interests: constructivist teaching and learning; mathematics; developing classroom community; integrated curriculum; classroom discourse; English-language learners; bilingual and dual-language education
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Velma Cobb
E-mail: vcobb@nul.org
Education: BA, Brandeis University; EdM, Harvard University; EdD, Columbia University
Practitioner background: 1st and 2nd grade teacher; K-12 reading specialist
Academic interests: teacher development; educational policy; organizational development; leadership
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Laurel Danowitz
E-mail: laureldg@nyc.rr.com
Education: BA, Brooklyn College; MFA, Brooklyn College; MS, Pace University
Practitioner background: high school art teacher; assistant principal / supervision of fine arts; art education consultant
Academic interests: high school art education; teacher training; NYCDOE Blueprint Implementation
Kirsten DeBear
E-mail: storebjorn@aol.com
Education: BS, NYU; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: practical occupational therapist, private practice
Academic interests: special education; developmental psychology
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Kathy Ernst
E-mail: katernst@sover.net
Education: BA, SUNY at Stony Brook; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner Background: classroom teacher (Pre-K-6), G/T Coordinator, co-founder of an alternative elementary school, math staff developer, educational consultant
Academic Interests: Math teaching and learning; professional development; school leadership and improvement; application of Thinking Maps (R) to processes of teaching, leading, and learning
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Abbe Futterman
Education: BFA, Pratt Institute; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: founding teacher of the Earth School; preK-6 science teacher; staff development; member of Prospect Center
Academic interests: science; curriculum development; teacher education
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Edith Gwathmey
E-mail: egwathme@bankstreet.edu
Education: BFA and MA, Hunter College/CUNY
Practitioner background: art teacher in the Bank Street School for Children, ages 4-13
Academic interests: art education and curriculum
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Kyle Haver
E-mail: ProfDevOne@aol.com
Education: BA, Connecticut College; MA, Teachers College, Columbia University
Practitioner background: NYC public schools - district administrator, staff developer, teacher educator, school leader, and cluster/classroom teacher
Academic interests: professional development; systemic reforms; urban schools; preservice-to-inservice teacher development; administration
Elizabeth Henley
E-mail: henleyb@optonline.net
Education: BA, Connecticut College; MSEd and EdM, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: 3rd grade teacher; middle school reading teacher
Academic interests: reading and literacy
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Joseph Kleinman
E-mail: jkleinman@ecfs.org
Education: BA, Hunter College/CUNY; MSW, Hunter College School of Social Work; MSEd, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: public middle school teacher (grades 7-9); private school teacher (6th grade)
Academic interests: history; adolescent psychology
Betsy Knafo
E-mail: betsykn@aol.com
Education: BS, University of Buffalo; MA, University of Wisconsin; MS, NYU; Certificate, Bank Street College of Education
Practitioner background: teaching in a 2nd grade classroom; technology coordinator in school for children with special needs; technology, literacy and curriculum consultant
Academic interests: technology in special education; early childhood literacy and adapted curriculum; early childhood curriculum development