Diane Darrow

Diane Darrow is an Information Media Specialist at Bel Aire Elementary School in Tiburon, CA. This past year she joined the tribe of Apple Distinguished Educators. She constantly entertaining innovative ways mobile devices such as the iPad can improve instruction in our schools. Her teaching training is in Early Childhood (Montessori), and Reading Recovery. Diane also studied gifted education in the University of Connecticut's masters program. Currently she is pursuing an Online Teaching Certificate through CUE's Leading Edge Certification program. In her spare time she contributes Web reviews for TeachersFirst.com.
Diane lives in a household of creative souls. Her first passion was for painting and drawing. She earned a BFA at Indiana University and then an MFA at the Univ. of Delaware. Her husband, John McNamara is also a painter and teaches in the Art Practice Department at University California, Berkeley. Together they have two teenage sons. The oldest loves to skateboard, and create films. The youngest enjoys spending hours composing songs on his computer. Everyone in her family enjoys creating and sharing their work with the world.