What Works in Public Education

People

Board of Directors | Foundation Staff | National Advisory Council


Board of Directors

  • George Lucas, Chairman
  • Stephen D. Arnold, Vice Chairman/CFO
  • Milton Chen, PhD, Secretary
  • Micheline Chau
  • Kim Meredith
  • Kate Nyegaard
  • Marshall Turner

Foundation Staff

Administration

  • Milton Chen, PhD, Executive Director
  • Cindy Johanson, Chief Operating Officer
  • Brian Chan, Controller
  • Sheila Tuck, Staff Accountant
  • Silvia Tisell, Accounts Payable Accountant
  • Colleen Reichling, Grants & Contracts Administrator
  • Sharon Murotsune, Executive Assistant & Office Manager
  • Sandy Miller, Administrative Assistant

Sales

  • Chip Fesko, Senior Director of Advertising Sales and Strategic Alliances
  • Gerry Woodworth, Consultant, Advertising Sales (East)
  • Jim Benjamin, Consultant, Advertising Sales (MarketPlace)
  • Leona Hanafin, Ad-Traffic Coordinator

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National Advisory Council

  • Anthony Armstrong, U.S. History Teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator, Del Mar Middle School, and developer of a digital model for integrating wikis into the curriculum (Tiburon, California)
  • Craig Brandenburg, Media Production Instructor, YES Prep North Central, and Teach for America alumnus (Houston)
  • Nínive Clements Calegari, Cofounder of 826 Valencia and CEO of 826 National, a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization (San Francisco)
  • Chris Dede, Professor of Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and researcher exploring immersive and semi-immersive simulations for learning (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  • Kati Delahanty, English Teacher, Charlestown High School, and mentor teacher with the Boston Teacher Residency program (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
  • Leslie Fenwick, Dean, Howard University School of Education, and former teacher and administrator at an urban school (Washington, DC)
  • Ted Hasselbring, Research Professor of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, and creator of the Read 180 reading software program (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Jason Kamras, Director of Teacher Human Capital Strategy, District of Columbia Public Schools, and 2005 National Teacher of the Year (Washington, DC)
  • Larry Leverett, Executive Director, Panasonic Foundation, and former mentor superintendent of doctoral interns in Harvard University's Urban Superintendents program (Secaucus, New Jersey)
  • Doug Martin, Graphic Design and Illustration Teacher, Mingo Career and Technical Center; former Walt Disney Imagineer (Delbarton, West Virginia)
  • Pablo Muñoz, Superintendent of Elizabeth Public Schools and graduate of the Broad Education Foundation's Superintendents Academy (Elizabeth, New Jersey)
  • Susan Patrick, President and CEO, International Association for K-12 Online Learning, and former Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education (Vienna, Virginia)
  • Kathleen Petersen, former Principal at Santa Clara Elementary School, and National Association of Elementary School Principals 2007 National Distinguished Principal (Santa Clara, Utah)
  • Will Richardson, Learner in Chief, Connective Learning, and Weblogg-ed blogger exploring the use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 education (New Jersey)
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