Down East Educational Partnership
DEEP is a regional collaborative designed to assist school systems in Hancock County in attaining common goals by sharing resources to enhance educational endeavors for students, staff and administrators.TOP | VISIT MY WEB PAGE
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Informational Panel
Educators such as superintendents, principals, guidance counselors, and teachers. Parents of elementary, middle and high school students. Students - recent graduates and current students.TOP
Wendy Allen
Wendy Allen is the CISE (Center for Inquiry on Secondary Education) Program Consultant for the Maine Department of Education.TOP
John Almarode
John, a passionate educator and staff developer, has worked with learners of all age groups, from kindergartners to graduate students. John has taught mathematics, physics, and chemistry. As a mathematics and science teacher, he created an innovative and unique experience for each of his students, matching instruction with how the brain learns. Since that time John has trained with Eric Jensen, world-renowned brain-based learning expert and staff developer, and has become certified by the Jensen Learning Corporation.John continues to do referral work for Eric Jensen, as well as neurokinesiologist Jean Blaydes Madigan. As a staff developer, John has presented locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally on the role of brain research in education. John allows audiences to experience brain-based learning in his action-packed workshops. He offers participants ready-to-use strategies and the brain rules that make them work. John has authored several publications on brain-based learning and is currently working on a children’s book to help educators inform students about their amazing brains.
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Panel of Maine Educators and Policy Makers
Maureen Fox, Robin Fleck, Celeste Goslin, Chris Kaufman, Walt Kimball, Nancy Mullins, and David Stockford.TOP
Pam Anderson
Pam Anderson, M.A.T., J.D., was the director of Maine Law & Civics Education at the University of Maine Law School for 12 years before retiring at the end of 2009. She is currently an educational consultant with the Restorative School Practices Collaborative of Maine, a program of the Restorative Justice Project in Belfast. Pam has trained educators to implement school-wide programs in law-related education, peer mediation, bullying prevention, and restorative practices. She has taught graduate-level school law courses for the University of Southern Maine, College of Education and Human Development.TOP
Dolores Appl
Dolores Appl is a faculty member in the departments of early childhood and early childhood special education at the University of Maine at Farmington.TOP
Anita Archer Anita Archer, Ph.D., is the recipient of eight Outstanding Educator awards. She has taught elementary and middle school students and has been a faculty member at San Diego State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Oregon. Currently, she serves as an educational consultant to school districts on effective instruction, classroom management, language arts instruction, and study skills instruction. She is a nationally known presenter and has authored numerous curriculum materials, chapters, books, and training materials. Among her works are the acclaimed REWARDS reading program and the Tough Kid Video Series.
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Thomas Armstrong
Thomas Armstrong is the author of eleven books including Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, In Their Own Way, Awakening Your Child’s Natural Genius, The Myth of the A.D.D. Child, ADD/ADHD Alternatives in the Classroom, and Awakening Genius in the Classroom. He has appeared on several national and international television and radio programs, including “The Today Show,” “CBS This Morning,” “CNN,” the “BBC” and “The Voice of America.” Articles featuring his work have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, Good Housekeeping, and hundreds of other newspapers and magazines around the country.TOP | VISIT MY WEB PAGE
Richard Allan Aronson
Presenters: Richard Allan Aronson, MD, MPH - Dick lives in Hallowell, Maine. He is grateful for the wonderful opportunities for education and inspiration that he has had throughout his life. Dick is deeply committed to peace, social justice, and equality for all people. He is especially dedicated to making the world better and more humane for children and youth. He has aspired to put his ideals into action through his leadership as a healer (pediatrician) and public servant (public health needs). He really enjoys teaching that engages everyone in interactive dialogue, and conversation in which all voices are deeply respected.TOP
Jim Artesani
Jim Artesani, Ed.D. received his Doctorate in Special Education from West Virginia University. He is an Associate Professor of Special Education and teaches graduate level courses in the areas of emotional and behavioral disorders, students at risk and autism. Over the past two years, Dr. Artesani has provided ongoing staff development in RtI for behavior for school teams in the Penobscot River Educational Partnership, and more recently to schools in northern and downeast Maine. Before coming the University of Maine, he was the Co-Principal Investigator of a federally funded grant to provide training in PBIS to teams from schools and community service providers throughout the state of Hawaii.TOP
Alfredo Artiles
UMA Presenter - Dr. Alfredo Artiles and a panel of Maine educators and policy makersTOP
Mary Banfield
Mary has taught in public schools for seventeen years. She currently teaches at Deer Isle/Stonington High School where she has been instrumental in developing and implementing a School-to-Work Program for regular and special education students.TOP
Nelson Beaudoin
Nelson Beaudoin is a recently retired high school principal. He spent 35 of his 37 years in education in Maine schools. He was named Maine’s high school principal of the year in 2001. He is currently working part time as an educational consultant and keynote speaker. Nelson has authored three books and numerous articles on educational leadership. Well versed in many school reform initiatives, he has been presenting at conferences and workshops throughout the country for the past decade on topics such as personalization, student voice, school reform, inspirational leadership, and school change.TOP
Jane Bell
Jane Bell serves as an Autism Information Specialist throughout New England and is the mother of a young man with autism. She lives on a ninth generation farm and returned to the University of Maine Machias in 1990 to complete her BS degree. She and her son have presented many workshops to increase the understanding of autism, employment and farming with autism.TOP
Lisa Bernier
Lisa teaches in a multiage classroom (grades 5 & 6) at Dr. Levesque School. She also taught for ten years at the 6th grade level.TOP
Therese Bernier Burns
Therese Bernier Burns consults state wide in a number of areas including positive behavioral support, differentiated instruction, and developing personalized school improvement plans. Her professional background includes 25 years of meeting the needs of all learners in the regular classroom. She is currently the President of the Maine Federation of CEC and the Assistant Director of the Maine Support Network.TOP | VISIT MY WEB PAGE
Cynthia Bernstein
Cynthia is the ACAT (Augmentative Communication Assistive Technology) director at the Pine Tree Society in Bath.TOP
Denise Bishop
Denise Bishop's education includes a M.A. from Boston College in counseling psychology, a M.S. from the University of Southern Maine in school psychology and a Ph.D. (in progress) from the University of South Florida in school psychology. She has been employed in school settings for 10 years as a school psychologist and organizational consultant, and most recently as an assistant director of student services. Denise enjoys conducting training workshops for public schools in the areas of social and problem solving skill development, aggression management and a systemic approach to dealing with bullies and harassment.TOP
Barb Blazej
Barb Blazej, M. Ed., is the coordinator of the Restorative Practices Collaborative of Maine, and instructor in the Peace & Reconciliation Studies Program at the University of Maine, Orono. She has been working in the field of conflict resolution education, youth violence prevention and restorative practices in Maines K-12 schools for the past 14 years.TOP
Michelle Boos Stone
Michelle Boos-Stone is a corporate graphic recorder and founder/principal of Gecko Graphics. Graphic recording is the unique process of transforming ideas and concepts into a powerful, highly visual, graphic format of pictures, images, words and key icons. Michelle captures the “flow” of learning sessions in real time (as a presenter orspeaker is talking) in bold, colorful images to help stimulate visual learners to better follow and understand processes and to clearly see interrelationships, while synthesizing thoughts and information.
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Michelle Boos-Stone
Michelle M. Boos-Stone is a corporate Mindscape artist specializing in corporate Mindscaping. Mindscaping is the unique process of transforming ideas and concepts into a powerful, highly visual graphic format of pictures, images, words and key icons....TOP | VISIT MY WEB PAGE
Elaine Boulier Elaine is a literacy specialist at Fort Street Elementary School in Mars Hill. She has been teaching in SAD 42 for eighteen years and is currently working with students in grades one through seven. Elaine is also a certified Reading Recovery teacher. She has a master's degree in literacy from the University of Maine at Orono.
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Murray Bourne
Murray Bourne is a teacher and former school administrator with long and varied experience in public and independent schools in Quebec, New Brunswick, and the eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. Since 2007 he has been employed as a teacher of students with mild to moderate disabilities at Winslow High School in Winslow, Maine. Murray’s interest in proactive, and non-punitive problem-solving alternatives began early in his career and gained momentum during his tenure as vice-principal at a small, rural, and culturally distinct K-12 school where conventional disciplinary measures were the norm and the dropout rate was high. Encouraged by district wide PLC (DuFour, Eaker, et al.) and Invitational Education (Purkey) initiatives, he turned increasingly to colleagues, parents, and students for help in finding solutions to chronic behavioral challenges which focused on teaching for enduring behavioral change. Though an untrained novice in Dr. Greene’s Collaborative Problem Solving method, Murray believes that in Plan B he has found the logical next step in this enterprise for, as Dr. Greene so succinctly observes, office referrals, detentions, suspensions, and expulsions “are ineffective for most of the students to whom they are applied.” We can, and really must, do better.TOP
Candice Bray
Candice Bray is a learning disabilities consultant throughout the State of Maine. In addition, she teaches for the University of Maine system, presents a range of workshops and provides diagnostic evaluations.TOP
Susan Browne
Susan Brown graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington with an elementary education degree. She is certified in elementary education and special education. Susan has taught 7th and 8th grade English in the regular classroom. For the past six years she has been teaching at Hall-Dale Middle School as a special education teacher. Sue has been trained in the Language!, Wilson Reading and S.P.I.R.E. programs and in phonemic awareness and phonological processing.TOP
Deb Burwell
Deb Burwell is a facilitator with educational groups, non-profits and small businesses throughout the state. She works with groups on communication, conflict, building and sustaining collaborations, project development and strategic planning. Deb has gained her experience in teaching tolerance through the running of listening forums for people of different cultures and perspectives as well as leading women’s leadership process groups.TOP
Joan Cameron
Joan Cameron is a staff member of the Maine Transition Network/Committee on Transition. She is the transition coordinator for the Penquis region and has a B.A. in social work.TOP
Carol Carriuolo
Carol Carriuolo has lived and worked in Maine for close to thirty years. She has a deep commitment to assisting groups in realizing their dreams. As an educator she has served as a director and founder of a day care center, as a public school principal, a private school administrator, a teacher, a trainer, and a facilitator. Currently she is a consultant to non-profit groups, small start-up projects, and schools requesting assistance with strategic planning, board development, leadership support, susceptibility, and aligning with their vision.TOP
David Celiberti
David Celiberti is currently the director of training and research at Eden II Programs in New York City. Eden II Programs provides life-span services to persons with autism. Dr. Celiberti has taught courses related to applied behavioral analysis, supervised doctoral students in the provision of behavior intervention, and conducted applied research. He has authored several articles in professional journals and presents frequently at national and international conferences on a wide range of topics including understanding, assessing and treating challenging behaviors, behavior analytic teaching, supporting students with autism, staff development, parent training and sibling intervention.TOP
Carolyn Chapman
Carolyn Chapman continues her life's goal as an international educational consultant, author and teacher. She supports educators in their process of change for today's students. She has taught in kindergarten to college classrooms. Her interactive, hands-on professional development opportunities focus on challenging the mind to ensure success for learners of all ages. All students DO learn. Take control of that learning by putting excitement and quality in effective learning! Carolyn walks her walk and talks her talk to make a difference in the journey of learning in today's classrooms.TOP | VISIT MY WEB PAGE
Pamela Chernesky
Pamela was the fine arts coordinator at Governor Baxter School for the Deaf for 11 years where she taught in the Parent Infant Program, preschool and K-12 programs. While at GBSD she received the National Milken Educator Award. She then taught American Sign Language, theatre and art for 7 years at Bonny Eagle High School. Pam is certified in deaf education, theatre and art and currently resides in Houlton. She enjoys working with learners of all ages and abilities at schools, workshops and professional conferences.TOP
Sheila Clark-Edmands
Presenter: Sheila Clark-Edmands is the author of S.P.I.R.E., Specialized Program Individualizing Reading Excellence, as well as an Orton-Gillingham fellow. She is certified in the areas of Learning Disabilities K-12, Special Education K-12, General Education K-8, and has completed the DIBELS training. Ms. Clark-Edmands has more than 35 years of educational experience ranging from classroom teaching to undergraduate and graduate college instruction. She has received numerous teaching and speaking awards, and honors from several school systems. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal as well as several other industry publications. Ms. Clark-Edmands is very committed to giving every child the tools they need to become a successful reader.arts.
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Elizabeth Collins
Elizabeth Collins has been a parent training and information specialist since joining Maine Parent Federation in February, 2006. She has four children, one of whom is a 15-year-old son who has Down Syndrome. She provides information to families, providers and educators of children, ages birth to adulthood, through a variety of workshops.
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Jim Creed
James M. Creed, M.Ed, LD Specialist and Trainer for the WJ-III has taught regular education classes, run special education programs at the high school and middle school levels, and coordinated group assessment activities for a city school district. He has also taught courses in educational assessment at the graduate level, helping students to develop knowledge of theories of cognitive processing from both historical and contemporary perspectives. First and foremost he is a practitioner, conducting educational assessments for public and private school systems. In the effort to provide total quality assessment throughout the process, he strives to discover and use the best tools available.
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Diane Curtis
Diane Curtis has worked at Manchester Elementary School for twelve years. She currently teaches 4th grade and has experience in the resource room.
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Anne Davies
Anne Davies has been an educator for twenty-five years in a variety of roles including classroom teacher, school district coordinator, department of education curriculum planner, school administrator, university instructor and, more recently, an international consultant and author.
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Bill Davis
Bill Davis is a professor of education and the director of the Institute for the Study of Students at Risk, College of Education and Human Development, University of Maine. He is the author or coauthor of 24 books and monographs, and more than 70 articles, within the fields of education and mental health. He also has presented more than 100 papers at national and international conferences and has delivered several keynote addresses.
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Julie Davis
Julie Davis has been a professional educator for 18 years. She earned her master’s in education from Southeastern Nova University. She has been on the Network’s design team for fifteen years.
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Stan Davis
Stan Davis has worked as a child therapist, family therapist, and guidance counselor for 30 years. Stan has served as a consultant and presenter on bullying prevention for the last 5 years. He was a trainer for the national BULLYING Project, and was the subject of an article entitled “Teaching Kids to Care” for the Family Therapy Networker.
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Deb Dimmick
Deb is a senior assistive technology specialist at ALLTech.
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Brian Doore
Brian is a research associate at the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies.
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Pat Doyle
Pat Doyle teaches English and social studies at Oak Hill High School. Patti leads participants in exploring the team teaching process.
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Patti Drapeau
Peter Duffy
Peter Duffy has been teaching at Maranacook Community School for nine years as well as having taught in New York City and New Jersey. He has performed as a writer, musician and actor. Most recently “Nothing Again”, an interactive musical Peter wrote and composed, was performed for five days off-Broadway this past May. Peter is also the artistic director of ArtWorks, an arts organization dedicated to working with schools, teachers, business people, individuals in correctional facilities, youth at-risk and recent immigrant populations.
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Cynthia Dyer-Hutchison
Cynthia is the parent of three adult children, one of whom has developmental disabilities. Cynthia has worked in early intervention for ten years.
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Valerie Emerson
Valerie Emerson is a newly retired teacher with 27 years experience in elementary school. As the RSU #38 Director of Teacher Induction, Valerie was responsible for the program for beginning teacher mentors and their mentees, as well as the training of many experienced teachers to be mentors. Valerie, a long standing member of the Certification Team, wrote the new guidelines for RSU #38, bringing the district into compliance with the new Ch.118 state regulations.
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Judy Enright
Judy Enright is a Maine native, educated K-12 in Greenville. She received her B.A., M.Ed., and C.A.S. from the University of Maine. She has worked in Maine schools as a regular and special education teacher and a special education and middle school administrator. Since 1991 she has worked as an independent educational consultant. The last five years she has worked nationally for the Middle School Partnership.
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Mark Fairman
Mark Fairman is a staff member at the Maine Transition Network/Committee on Transition. Mark’s areas of expertise include state and federal legislation impacting transition, and utilizing evaluation data for continuous improvement of transition practices.
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Karen Fessenden
Karen Fessenden was a special educator for ten years in M.S.A.D 11 in Gardiner. In 1990-1991, she was awarded Maine Special Education Teacher of the Year. She was a special education administrator from 1992-1997. She served as a distinguished educator for the Maine Department of Education special services from 1997-1999. She is currently teaching part time and providing staff development and consultation to school districts.
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Jim Fitzpatrick
Jim Fitzpatrick brings over twenty years experience to his in-service programs. He draws on his role as teacher, assistant principal and superintendent to illustrate how schools can improve school behavior.
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Pam Flood
Dr. Pamela Flood serves as the Assistant Director for Leadership and Systems Change at Syntiro. Pam has her doctorate in Educational Leadership. She has worked with Syntiro for over 4 years and brings extensive educational leadership experience and expertise to her work. She uses research to inform and guide her practice. She has presented research on Celebratory Learning and Cultural Competence at the American Educational Research Association. Pam is a bright and articulate educator and a compassionate leader. She guides teams, schools, and organizations in processes to identify and achieve goals of learning, collaboration, and creative problem-solving through the recognizing and leveraging resources, talents, and passion. She has presented workshops and seminars on creating Celebratory Learning environments to promote holistic learning and responsive communities locally, regionally, and nationally.
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Cynthia Hillman Forbush
Cynthia is the mathematics program director for grades K-8 at the Houlton office of the Maine Math and Science Alliance.
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Bette Freedson
Ms.Bette Jonas Freedson is a clinical social worker and experienced presenter with a passionate interest in how the mind and the emotions affect the ability to cope and manage stress. Bette combines the practical with the humorous to offer presentations that are both instructive and engaging.
Bette is a past facilitator of the "Kids First" program in York County Maine.
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Louis Gervais
Louis is a Portland-based dancer, choreographer and teacher. He has brought creative dance experiences to students in K-12 classrooms throughout Maine.
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Debbie Gilmer
Debbie is the Syntiro Director for Project Development and Center for Self Determination and a Team Leader for the Healthy & Ready to Work National Resource Center.
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Ray Glass
Ray Glass is chair of the department of special education at the University of Maine at Farmington where he teaches courses on classroom and behavioral management. Ray is a frequent presenter throughout Maine on positive discipline and developing school based behavioral support teams. He also works as a behavioral consultant in several school districts in Maine.
Susan Hodgkins has been a professional educator for 22 years and has spent six as special services director. She earned her master’s in education from the University of Maine and is currently working on her doctorate through California Coast University.
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Dr. JoEtta Gonzales
Keynote Speaker: Dr. JoEtta Gonzales, Director, Equity Alliance,
Arizona State University
And a panel of Maine Educators and Policy Makers
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David Greenberg
David Greenberg is known for his dynamic and expressive presentations, “refreshingly fun in tone, yet practical in content.” The Monday presentation will help teachers through the use of numerous, unique, and compelling writing lessons that can be implemented immediately in content classes.
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Ross Greene
Dr.Greene specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents who are easily frustrated, inflexible, and explosive, He is the author of The Explosive Child and Lost At School. In these books, Greene shows how the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach can help parents, educators, and therapists better understand and meet the challenges these young people find hard to manage.
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Mary Carol Griffin
Mary Carol Griffin, Bereavement Services
Coordinator, Hospice of Hancock County
Pat Manning, Clinical Educator, Oncology,
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Claire Hall
Claire is an ADHD coach and a social worker with 13 years experience with children and families. She has great credibility as the mother of a daughter with ADHD and dyslexia.
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Lilly Hanlon
Lilly works at the Windham Real School.
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Jenny Hartung
Jenny Hartung is a graphic/web designer for Syntiro. She also runs her own design firm, Design Initiatives (www.diwebsites.com). She has her BA in Studio Art from Smith College and has been working in graphic/web design since 2003 both in the U.S. and internationally. She is an avid digital photographer and loves connecting with the design community online and sharing what she learns on her blog vividorchid.blogspot.com.
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Vauna Haza
Vauna Haza is a licensed clinical social worker as well as an Adjunct Professor at Husson University and the University of Maine, teaching sociology, psychology, and counselor education courses. She has been in private practice as a psychotherapist in the Bangor area for the past ten years and has also worked as a therapist for adolescents and families in residential treatment centers. She is currently finishing her doctoral studies in counselor education and is concentrating on teacher and student well-being.
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Maureen Higgins, LCSW
Ellen Holmes
Ellen Holmes, from rural Maine, fell in love with the profession of teaching about 25 years ago. She is passionate about teacher quality, teacher leadership, and the development of teaching and learning cultures. This passion is evident in her facilitation style.
After 15 years of classroom teaching (elementary, adult education, and higher education), and two years as part of Education and Public Outreach for NASA Langley Research Center, Ellen now works with the Maine Education Association. She is currently on special assignment at the Maine Department of Education. Her specialty areas are Teacher Leadership, National Board Certification, Collaborative Cultures, and Teacher Quality. She routinely works among, between, for, and with policy makers, decision makers, school leaders, and school professionals around the policies and practices that can best support student learning.
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Nancy Hubbard
Nancy is a speech pathologist from West Rockport, Maine.
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Nancy Ibarguen
Nancy Ibarguen is the coordinator of the division of certification at the Maine Department of Education.
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Nancy Intrieri
Nancy has a master's degree in psychology from Lesley University and is committed to helping individuals on the autism spectrum reach their full potential.
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Jill Irving
Jill is an artist, teacher and learning facilitator with VSA arts of Maine, located in Portland.
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Cathy Jacobs
Cathy is the Dean of Students at Maranacook Community Middle School. She has been there 10 years. Prior to that she taught 7th grade math at Mt. Blue middle school in Farmington. She also spent several years as a trainer for the Connected Mathematics program with the Maine Math and Science Alliance.
At Maranacook she is the coordinator of the Student Assistance Team, which has now morphed into the RTI team. The main purpose of this group has been to develop and compile strategies for struggling learners.
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Thomas Johnson
Thomas Johnson is a Harvard, UC Berkeley & Duke trained psychologist with interests and subspecialities in health psychology, family psychology, school psychology and addictionology. He serves as the contributing editor for alternative perspectives in psychology for the NASP Communique. The recent focus of his practice in Auburn and his writing has been on trying to understand some of the relationships between nutrition, health, learning and stress management.
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Randy Judkins
Randy Judkins is a unique motivational speaker, facilitator and performer. He offers original, interactive presentations on humor in our lives, change, stress, self concept, and teamwork for numerous professional groups. Randy has presented in over 20 U.S. states, Canada, and Europe.
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Spencer Kagan
Dr. Spencer Kagan is the author of Cooperative Learning and numerous books, book chapters, and scientific journal articles on cooperative learning. A former Professor of Psychology and Education, University of California, Dr. Kagan is internationally acclaimed as a researcher and presenter. He developed the structural approach to cooperative learning and many cooperative learning structures, such as Pairs Check, Numbered Heads Together, and Three-Step Interview.
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Christopher Kaufman
Christopher Kaufman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, certified School Psychological Service Provider, and Lead Psychologist for the Portland Public Schools. He also provides trainings and consultations for school districts, colleges/universities, and public service agencies throughout northern New England via his private practice, Kaufman Psychological Services. He has practiced for 19 years as both a school and child psychologist across a range of educational and clinical settings. An entertaining and engaging speaker, Dr. Kaufman has long specialized in the evaluation and treatment of learning disabilities, ADHD (and related executive functioning struggles), pediatric anxiety disorders, and pervasive developmental disorders (i.e., Asperger Syndrome).
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Martha Kendrick
Martie is a research associate at the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disabilities Studies. She has worked extensively with schools and child care programs around positive supports.
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Gayla LaBreck
Gayla LaBreck, M.Ed., is a K-12 Literacy Specialist, Educational Consultant (G & P Enterprises, Inc.) and a professor at Thomas College teaching in the Master’s of Science in Education Program. She works with public school systems throughout the State of Maine offering professional development for teachers in best practices in literacy instruction. She presents at conferences, provides workshops during the school year and summer months and she is willing to model successful strategies in the classroom working with students.
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Corda Ladd Kinzie
Corda Ladd Kinzie is an educational consultant to teams, teachers, schools, school committees, districts and businesses. Facilitating the change process with care, thought, and purpose is her mission. She is a seminar/workshop facilitator who uses a balance of "hands-on/heads-on" experience and theory. Corda’s areas of expertise include multiple intelligences theory, brain-based education, inclusion, the change process, strategies for teaching all students, social skills, team development, parent/professional relationships, Maine’s Learning Results, standards-based learning, and cooperative learning.
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Kate Laidman
Kate is a research associate at the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disabilities Studies. She provides technical assistance and training for early care and education providers.
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Donna Lee
Donna Lee is a retired special education teacher who now consults in schools from Fort Kent to York.
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Charles Lincoln
Charles Lincoln, who resides in Winthrop, Maine, is a retired teacher who spent thirty-six years in public education as a classroom teacher. Charles also spent another two years as a regional mentor who trained local certification support systems in mentoring, assisted in the design and delivery of statewide summer institutes, planned with regions for implementing the induction model and ensuing enhancement of teacher content knowledge, pedagogy, standards and methods of mentoring and support of teachers, and planned for the overall coordination of the AARBEC Project, which was instrumental in Chapter 118.
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Robin Lurie-Meyerkopf
Robin Lurie-Meyerkopf, M.Ed., is the associate director of the Asperger’s Association of New England. She has 20 years of teaching experience and has run social skills groups for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), ADHD, and Non-Verbal Learning Disorders. She has a certificate in ASD from Antioch University New England. She consults to schools and families, and presents throughout the country on understanding our socially challenged students.
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Jerry Lynch
Jerry Lynch has been an educational practitioner for over thirty years. During that time he has been a teacher of math and social studies, a coach, a substance abuse counselor, an assistant principal, a principal, an adjunct professor and consultant to the Maine Commissioner of Education.
Currently Jerry is the president of Educational Design and Development, Inc.
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Sharyn Mann
Sharon is a speech pathologist for Griffiths Associates in Augusta, Maine. She has taught college classes for Kennebec Valley Community College to rave reviews.
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Kathryn Markovchick
Kathryn Markovchick is an educational consultant to teams, teachers, schools, school committees, districts and businesses. Facilitating the change process with care, thought and purpose is her mission. She is a seminar/workshop leader who uses a balance of “hands-on/heads-on” experience and theory. Kathryn has facilitated active learning communities locally, nationally, and globally.
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Fred Martel
Fred has been a teacher in alternative science since 2000. He loves physical science and has been a whitewater guide since 1990.
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Peter Martin
Peter Martin has had 28 years of testing experience in educational and clinical settings. He specializes in comprehensive psychological, behavior, cognitive and educational assessments and is a senior associate faculty member of the Antioch New England Graduate School.
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Vaughn Martin
Vaughn Martin is a fourth grade science teacher at Easton Elementary School. Vaughn has been teaching fourth grade for eighteen years. He has a BS in Education from the University of Southern Maine and has been awarded a State Outstanding Science Teacher award and a National Milken Educator award.
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Cathy Masse
Cathy Masse has been an Educational Technician for 16 years in Maranacook Area Schools. She lives in Readfield with her husband, Dick. She has been very active in her school community through their Professional Development Committee. She has also been involved in some grant writing and works to promote access for all students, and support Ed Techs with a variety of learning opportunities.
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Leola McAtee
Leola McAtee has been involved in the education of students at the Conner Consolidated School for 18 years. She works as an Ed Tech III in Title I, and as a Reading and Writing Tech for grades K-6. In the past 10 years Leola has integrated the use of computers into her reading and writing curriculum.
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Mary McDonough
Mary McDonough, Educational Consultant and ASCD faculty member. Mary McDonough, an educational consultant who works with Marzano, and is an ASCD faculty member, has more than a decade of educational experience in inner-city and rural schools. Visiting and observing in more than a
thousand preK-12 classrooms has provided her with practical experience for translating research into
practice to improve student achievement. She has collaborated with administrators and teachers in
the areas of curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, and supervision. Her sense of respect, awe, humor, and efficacy, regarding the hallenges and opportunities facing educators today, is evident in her engaging presentation style.
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Tom McDowell
Tom McDowell, BS, MSEd, CAS, has worked in Special Education in Connecticut and Maine for seventeen years. He is currently a special educator at Yarmouth High School.
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Jodi McGuire
Jodi McGuire, BS, MSEd, CAS, has worked in Special Education for twenty years in New Mexico, Florida, and Maine. She is currently an instructional strategist at Yarmouth High School.
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Peggy McPhee
Dr. Peggy McPhee is a neuropsychologist, parent and consultant on Asperger Syndrome.
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Barbara Melnick
Barbara Melnick is a special education consultant and director of the Aucocisco School in South Portland. She has a bachelor’s degree in special education from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky in special education.
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Shawn Mercer
Shawn Mercer has over ten years experience teaching at the middle level, and is currently the Alternative Education Teacher at the Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast, Maine. He is trained by the Peace and Justice Center of the U. of Maine and has been a Circle Detention Facilitator for four years. Shawn has worked with Rise Together Consulting for the last five years helping to implement bullying prevention initiatives and student-lead initiatives at the high-school level.
Using his training and experience with the Adventure Education model, the Restorative Justice model and The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, Shawn has brought an innovative and hands-on approach to workshops and programs provided to area schools. This variety of training and experience allows him to pull from an extensive knowledge base in order to make each session fun, meaningful, and applicable to most any setting.
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Karen Merrill
Karen Merrill is an Oak Hill High School special education teacher.
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LaNae Moline
LaNae Moline, M.A., CCC-SLP/A is a DIR® Certificate Candidate, Level II for the treatment of autism and disorders of relating and communicating. She works as a Speech-Language Pathologist at Waldo County General Hospital in Belfast.
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Beatrice Moore Luchin
Beatrice Moore Luchin is an outstanding mathematics educator who genuinely cares about children and is passionate about the teaching of mathematics. She has devoted her 28 year career to working with struggling students, especially in the area of mathematics. She is a past member of the Board of Directors for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is the co-author of Algebra I, Algebra II, Mathematics Applications and Connections Courses 1, 2, and 3, and Helping Your Struggling Student Be More Successful in Mathematics (Grades 5-8).
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Joan Morin
Joan is a former educational technician and presently works for NEA as an advocate for educational technicians in Maine. This is the second time Joan has joined us in the Western region for a Professional Learning Opportunity. Participants from Joan’s last session asked for her to return with additional workshops.
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Argy Nestor
Argy Nestor taught middle school visual arts for 30 years before joining the Department of Education as the visual and performing arts specialist. She taught on an interdisciplinary team and bookmaking was an important part of the curriculum. She continues to learn about books and enjoys making all types.
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William O'Connell
William O’Connell was trained as a school psychologist. He has served as guidance director for New York schools and more recently as a school superintendent in Maine. He currently has a private practice limited to child and adolescent psychology, serving schools in the Aroostook county area.
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Kathleen Oliver
Kathleen Oliver, retired school library media specialist, began working with The Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast at Troy Howard Middle School 6 years ago. As a member of the Restorative Practices Collaborative, she travels around Maine to present at institutes and workshops, training educators in restorative practices based on her experience in working with students.
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Kathleen Oliver
Kathleen Oliver, retired school library media specialist, began working with The Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast at Troy Howard Middle School 6 years ago. As a member of the Restorative Practices Collaborative, she travels around Maine to present at institutes and workshops, training educators in restorative practices based on her experience in working with students.
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Informational Panel
Educators such as superintendents, principals and teachers. Parents of elementary, middle and secondary school students. Students including recent graduates.
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Raelene Parks
Ann Pike
Ann Pike, M.Ed. is a consultant for the Western Maine Partnership. Ms. Pike has served as a regional director for SEED, a statewide regionalized initiative. She designs and delivers professional learning opportunities state wide that range from coaching school districts in their professional development events, to designing statewide institutes and graduate level courses. She will commit to designing and facilitating regional work and professional development.
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Gordon Porter
Susan Potters
Susan is founding director of MAAE's "Building Community Through Arts" project, which has brought dance and theater residencies into 25 rural Maine high schools.
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Many exciting presenters!
JoAnne Putnam
Paula Ray
Paula Ray has been a developmental therapist with the Washington County Children’s Program for 17 years. She has provided early intervention services to three-to-five year olds in a developmental preschool, and home-based developmental therapy to families with special needs children. For the past year she has been a case manager for children with the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders.
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Scott Richardson
Scott Richardson has been involved in the field of special education since 1978. He graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington with a degree in speech corrections and elementary education in 1978. He received his M.S. in administration from the University of Maine in 1985. He has worked nine years as a speech therapist and fourteen years as a director of special services in SAD 29 (southern Aroostook) and currently is director in SAD 70 (Houlton).
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Julie Ross
Julie Ross is a Certified Special Educator in the areas of Learning Disabilities, Behavioral Disorders, and Educable Mental Handicaps with over 20 years of teaching experience in both the public and private school sectors. As the S.P.I.R.E. Coordinator for the Extended School Year Program held each summer in the Alton Community School District in Alton, Illinois, Ms. Ross is responsible for scheduling and grouping all S.P.I.R.E. students in grades K-8 as well as training and supporting the teachers who are implementing S.P.I.R.E. throughout the program. Ms. Ross first implemented S.P.I.R.E. in her own classroom in 2003 and has been using it daily ever since. Ms. Ross has been conducting S.P.I.R.E. training throughout the country since 2006.
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Sue Rubin
Hector Sapien
Hector Sapien is a clinical social worker (LCSW) who has provided practical learning opportunities to people of all ages in various roles and settings. He has an extensive history of cultivating and leading teams to excel under very challenging conditions.
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Chuck Saufler
Chuck Saufler received an M.Ed. from Northeastern University in Community Mental Health in 1979. He has worked in public and private mental health organizations and schools since that time. He developed and led a statewide bullying prevention initiative in Maine from 1997-2009 and is a founding member of the International Bullying Prevention Association. He is currently a trainer/consultant for Safe Schools for All and the Restorative School Practices Collaborative of Maine.
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Mary Scamman
Mary Scamman has worked as a special education/autism consultant. She has a master’s degree in special education and is currently completing a master’s degree in school psychology at the University of Southern Maine. She also is a therapeutic foster parent and has cared for children with severe disabilities similar to autism.
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Lisa Schofield
Lisa teaches English 9-12 at Hampden Academy. She has 11 years teaching experience in public school and has taught in Kenya and Leeds, England.
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Somersworth High School Educators
There will be 5 presenters from Somersworth High School who each bring a different perspective to the presentation.
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Kimberly Schroeter
Kimberly Schroeter has experience as a classroom teacher, a Title 1 Director, and mathematics and assessment specialist. She has worked for Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance and TERC as a professional developer. While working as a mathematics specialist for Measured Progress she was a test developer for the MEA and the alternate assessment. Kim currently is an Educational Specialist for Maine’s alternate assessment system.
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Terry Scott
Terry Scott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Florida and is a partner in National Centers for Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports and the Study of the Implementation of K-3 Behavior Intervention Models - and is the Principal Investigator of a positive behavior support model/demonstration project for the U.S. Dept. of Education. Dr. Scott has published extensively on a variety of issues involving behavioral support systems and children with challenging behavior. In addition, he has made over 100 professional conference presentations and has conducted over 150 invited training activities in the area of positive behavior support throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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Crystal Scott
Crystal is currently a regional mentor with the Maine Department of Education.
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Stephen Shore
Diagnosed with "Atypical Development with strong autistic tendencies" Dr. Shore was viewed as "too sick" to be treated on an outpatient basis and recommended for institutionalization. Nonverbal until four, and with much help from his parents, teachers, and others, Stephen completed his doctoral dissertation at Boston University focused on matching best practice to the needs of people on the autism spectrum.
In addition to working with children and talking about life on the autism spectrum, Stephen presents and consults internationally on adult issues pertinent to education, relationships, employment, advocacy, and disclosure as discussed in his books Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences with Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Ask and Tell: Self-advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum, and the newly released Understanding Autism for Dummies.
President emeritus of the Asperger’s Association of New England, Dr. Shore serves in the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, for the Board of Directors for Autism Society of America Unlocking Autism, the Autism Services Association of Massachusetts, MAAP, and the College Internship Program.
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Lisa Smead
Lisa Smead is a special education teacher at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale. She has a bachelor of science degree in elementary education and special education K-12 from the University of Maine at Farmington and a master’s degree in education from the University of New England. Lisa has been trained in the Language!, Wilson Reading and S.P.I.R.E. programs and in phonemic awareness and phonological processing.
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Carole Smith
Dr. Carole Smith is the Director of Special Services, MSAD #35 in Eliot, Maine.
Her educational career includes work with special education populations as a teacher and as a director of special education. Carole has taught courses related to special education at the University of Southern Maine as well as at the University of New England.
Carole presents on many topics, including: behavior management and support plan development, functional behavioral analysis, pre-referral interventions, and, instruction designed for students who need intervention.
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Brenda Smith Myles
Diane Smith, Esq.
Diane Smith, Esq., is a staff attorney at the Disability Rights Center in Augusta. The Center is Maine’s Protection and Advocacy agency for people with disabilities. It is a non-profit agency, independent of state and federal government. In working with, and on behalf of, people with disabilities, they are committed to the principles that people with disabilities can make choices and that they are entitled to enjoy life’s benefits as full and equal members of Maine’s communities.
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Larry Starr
Larry Starr is a psychologist in a private practice in Camden. He is the consulting psychologist to the Thomaston school district. he specializes in children and adolescents, especially those with behavior and learning difficulties. Dr. Starr received his degree in school psychology from Rutgers University in 1975.
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Sue Stepick
Sue is a licensed instructor in the Educational Kinesiology curriculum: Brain Gym, Brain Organization Profiles, Visioncircles, and Movement Dynamics. She is currently an early childhood adjunct professor, and Head Start advisor, in New Hampshire.
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Cindy Stevens
Cindy Stevens, RN, CPON Maine Children’s Cancer Program
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Beth Stoddard
Beth Stoddard, MBA, is a licensed Brain Gym® Instructor and Educational Kinesiologist who, in addition to having a private Brain Gym® practice in Portland, travels and teaches throughout Maine. She has taught, coached, and consulted since 1960 and celebrates the many ways that Brain Gym® facilitates learning.
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Martin Swinger
Martin Swinger is a nationally recognized singer/songwriter.
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Deb Thibodeau
Deb Thibodeau is currently a certified Guidance Counselor in Union 47. She works as a consultant with the Autism Society, the J. Cromwell Disabilities Center and the Muskie School. She has also worked extensively in the community setting with adults and children with various labels in Residential, Day Program, Community Support and Case Management Services.
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Carrie Thurston
Carrie Thurston is an assistant director of special services. She has three years of experience integrating Maine's Learning Results with IEPs. Her teaching experience includes teaching at the Frankfurt International School in Oberursel, Germany. Her teaching career has emphasized developing curriculum to meet students’ needs.
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Maria Timberlake
Maria Timberlake is a Research Associate with the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, University of Maine, Orono. Her areas of specialty include inclusive education, educational reform and restructuring, students with multiple disabilities and/or complex needs, positive behavioral supports, curricular access and accommodation, alternate assessment and person-centered planning.
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Ruth Townsend
Ruth is a Learning Results facilitator in Union 93 and Union 91. She has taught in grades 6 through 12, most recently in the College of Education and Human Development, University of Maine. She is an adjunct assistant professor and is currently teaching an assessment literacy class for teachers on the Peninsula. Curriculum, instruction and assessment are her specialties. (
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Committee on Transition
The purpose of the Maine Transition Network is to establish and implement a statewide network or system of transition planning coordination services for youth with disabilities, ages 14-26, who are in transition from school to community.
Pam Tetley, Executive Director; PO Box 2219, Augusta, Maine 04338; 1(800)328-9549;
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Holly Trottier
Holly Trottier currently teaches fifth grade at the Albert S. Hall School in Waterville, Maine. This is her twelfth year of teaching, with three years in third grade and nine years in fifth grade. She has also taught in Naples, Florida. She is a Middle Childhood Generalist National Board Certified Teacher, and holds a master’s in Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment. This is her fourth year as the grade four and five math curriculum specialist for the Waterville Public School District.
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Joy Vaughan
Joy Vaughan, BA, is a free-lance artist and teacher working from her studio in South Bristol, Maine. She has been teaching art for 30 years. Joy has worked in schools at the elementary and secondary level. She has worked primarily with adults since 1987, concentrating on helping to inspire them to believe in their creativity, vision and imagination as valuable assets to their personal and professional lives.
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Kimberly Robinson Washburn
Kimberly is a Professor and Co-coordinator of the Special Education Master's Program at the University of Southern Maine. Her teaching/research interests are in the areas of positive behavioral supports and effective teaching strategies.
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Ira Weissman
Ira has been working with, and learning from, people with disabilities for over 30 years. He currently directs the Life Skills program at Hampden Academy.
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Jody Wood
Jody Wood, MSEd., is a 30-plus year veteran English/Language Arts teacher and department chair for the Cohasset (Massachusetts) Middle School. She has taught all levels of readers in grades 6-9.
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Susan Yentes
Susan Yentes is a certified Brain Gym instructor under the Educational Kinesiology Foundation in California. She works with individuals and groups of all ages on issues ranging from academics to phobias, allergies, self-esteem, relationships and more. She teaches an introductory Brain Gym course for the adult education program in Camden and the full course in Belfast and surrounding areas. She has been involved in alternative education and therapy for the last eighteen years. She has been a therapeutic foster parent and has volunteered in both public and private schools. She lives in Belfast with her two teenagers and is enjoying her private practice.
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