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ELMLE Speakers for 2008 - Vienna Carol Ann Tomlinson Carol Ann Tomlinson’s career as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher, including 12 years as a program administrator of special services for struggling and advanced learners. She was Virginia’s Teacher of the Year in 1974. More recently, she has been a faculty member at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, where she is currently Professor of Educational Leadership, Foundations and Policy. Also at U.Va., she is Co-Director of the University's Summer Institute on Academic Diversity and Best Practices Institutes. Carol was named Outstanding Professor at Curry School of Education in 2004. Special interests throughout her career have included curriculum and instruction for struggling learners and advanced learners, effective instruction in heterogeneous settings, and encouraging creative and critical thinking in the classroom. Carol is a reviewer for eight journals and a section editor for one. She is author of over 200 articles, book chapters, books, and other professional development materials. For ASCD, she has authored or co-authored How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed Ability Classrooms, The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, Leadership for Differentiated Schools and Classrooms, Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom: Strategies and Tools for Responsive Teaching, Differentiation in Practice (K-5, 5-9, 9-12), Integrating Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design: Connecting Content and Kids, and facilitators’ guides for several video professional development programs. For Corwin Press, she is co-author of The Parallel Curriculum Model: A Design to Develop High Potential and Challenge High Ability Learners and The Parallel Curriculum in the Classroom: Books 1 & 2. For National Middle School Association, she is co-author of Smart in the Middle Grades. Carol’s books on differentiation have been translated into twelve languages. She works throughout the U.S. and abroad with teachers whose goal is to develop more responsive heterogeneous classrooms.
Patrick M. Jones, Ph.D.
Dr. Patrick M. Jones is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Music Education for Graduate Studies Professor at Boston University where he teaches graduate courses in curriculum, research, and foundations of music education. In addition to his academic career, he is a Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Air National Guard Bands being responsible for budgeting and policy for all 11 Air National Guard bands in the United States. He has enjoyed an international career as a conductor of military and youth bands and is Conductor Emeritus of the Sinfonisches Blasorchester Eifel-Ardennen. He has served as an officer and on boards of various professional organizations such as the College Music Society Northeast Chapter, Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, and Philadelphia Academies Inc. He regularly presents research papers at conferences throughout North America and Europe, is a contributing author to four books, and has published articles and reviews in ACT – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, Arts Education Policy Review, Clarino, ISME Proceedings, Journal of Band Research, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, M-Musik Zum Lesen, PMEA News, Visions of Research in Music Education, and the College Music Society’s Critical Issues in Music Teacher Education. Dave Youngs
Elizabeth Schroeder, EdD, MSW
Dr. Schroeder is the co-founding editor of the American Journal of Sexuality Education (Haworth Press), co-author of Making SMART Choices: A Curriculum for Young People and Being Out, Staying Safe: An STD Prevention Curriculum for LGBQ Youth, and editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Controversial Issues in Family and Personal Relationships, 5th, 6th, and 7th editions. She is also the author of chapters in Health Counseling: Applications and Theory and The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality, and of a lesson in New Expectations: Sexuality Education for Mid- and Later Life. Before becoming a consultant, Dr. Schroeder was the Associate Vice President of Education and Training at Planned Parenthood of New York City, and the Manager of Education and Special Projects at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she coordinated the production of their multiple award-winning video kit for families with adolescent children, "Talking About Sex: A Guide for Families." As a trainer and educator, Dr. Schroeder specializes in facilitation and presentation skills, adolescent sexuality, lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender issues, and depictions of sexuality in the media. She also serves as a sexuality expert for the SEX, ETC. and Internet Friends Network Web sites. Elizabeth Schroeder has been honored with the Schiller Prize by the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists for the best paper submitted to their annual conference dealing with group approaches to sexuality education; the Mary Lee Tatum award, given to "the person who most exemplifies the qualities of an ideal sexuality educator"; and the national Apple Blossom Award, recognizing a Planned Parenthood Education or Training Director who has "risen quickly to the forefront with new ideas, energy, and commitment." The current Chairperson of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) Board of Directors, Dr. Schroeder earned an EdD with a specialization in Human Sexuality Education from Widener University, and a Master's Degree in Social Work from New York University. She can be reached online through her Web site, www.elizabethschroeder.com
Melvyn Ramsden
His book 'Rescuing Spelling' (1993) created waves with its message that English spelling makes complete structural sense; its message provoked invitations to visit English-speaking schools in various countries to spread the word. The Teacher's Tool Box for Real Spelling made its appearance in 2001. Shortly afterwards came the Real Spelling Residential Study Week in France, an experience of orthography fortified by gastronomy that continues to grow in popularity and frequency. 'Real spelling' is not a method or scheme that packages spelling activities to fit a curriculum or timetable. It is simply a presentation of the linguistic facts of the English orthographic system, undisguised by invented terms or gimmicks, and undistorted by spurious ‘rules’ with their inevitable ‘exceptions’. Real spelling is based thoroughly on the principle that engagement with orthography is cognitive. Ramsden practises what he preaches. He teaches in classes of all ages from pre-Kindergarten to universities, as well as in rescue work with dyslexics and others for whom other interventions and schemes have failed. His principal resources for real spelling are now interactive eBooks, and the Real Spelling Podcasts and InfoSpell blog. All is revealed on his website: www.realspelling.com.
Beverly Carroll
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Dave Youngs is a professor in the School of Education at Fresno Pacific University where he directs the Graduate Math/Science Education Program. Before moving to the university level in 1987, he taught elementary school for 13 years including four years in international schools in Iran and Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo). He is also a Director and Research Fellow with the AIMS (Activities Integrating Math and Science) Education Foundation and is the author of numerous AIMS publications including Problem Solving Just for the Fun of It! Volumes 1 & 2, Puzzle Play, and The Sky’s the Limit with Math and Science. He has done staff development and conference presentations on five continents.
Melvyn Ramsden is an Egyptian-born resident of France, whose career has taken him to teaching and headship in English primary schools, seven years at King's College Cambridge, and five years in the Education Faculty at Exeter from which he escaped into independent international consultancy.
Beverly is the Middle School art teacher at the American International School (AIS) Vienna. Beverly’s hands–on pre-conference will explore German Expressionism through the painting techniques of Austrian artist, Egon Schiele.