BIOGRAPHY
Barnett Berry is the founder and President of the Center for Teaching Quality — a nonprofit dedicated to dramatically increasing student achievement by advancing teaching as a 21st-century, results oriented profession. His new book, Teaching 2030, penned with 12 expert teachers from CTQ’s Teacher Leaders Network, poses a provocative and hopeful future for teaching.
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Fred Frelow is the Education and Scholarship program officer for the Ford Foundation’s Educational Opportunity and Scholarship Unit. Previously he served as the Director of Early College Initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation where he was responsible for managing the development of 14 early college high schools. Prior to joining the Woodrow Wilson, Frelow was Associate Director in the Working Communities division of the Rockefeller Foundation where he was in charge of the continuing development and implementation of the Foundation’s school reform program. He has also served as Director of National Affairs and Associate Director of Urban Initiatives for the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future at Teachers College, Columbia University; Director of Curriculum for the Nyack, New York public schools; and Director of the US Department of Education’s Magnet School Assistance Project at Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, New York.
Emily Vickery is an innovator educator who has worked in a wide variety of settings, from teaching in an economically disadvantaged urban high school to serving as a consultant to a state governor. The constant in her work has been a love of teaching, learning, and technology. Vickery has served on the Alabama Governor’s Council on Education Technology and represented the state of Alabama on a task force for the U.S. Department of Education. From 1997 to 2003, Vickery served as a private educational consultant focusing on technology. Her clients included the governor of the State of Colorado, the Education Commission of the States, and Apple, Inc. In 2009, she accepted the position of 21st-century learning specialist at an innovative parochial school in Florida. There, she supports teachers in curriculum, instruction, assessment, learning management, and the use of digital tools.
Jose Vilson is a math teacher, coach, and data analyst for a public middle school in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, as part of the NYC Department of Education. He is beginning his 6th year as a teacher, having finished the New York City Teaching Fellows program in 2007. He is on CTQ’s TeacherSolutions 2030 team, co-authoring the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools–Now and in the Future. He has worked on creating professional development for his fellow teachers on such topics as working on goals for the classroom and using the ARIS system, a data management system under the NYC Department of Education. He is also a committed poet, Web designer and developer, mentor, and blogger for the Education section of The Huffington Post, named one of the top 20 teacher blogs by Scholastic Inc.
Ashley Merryman is the co-author of NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, a revolutionary new perspective on children that upends a library’s worth of conventional wisdom. She is an award-winning journalist who has written on the science of child development for Newsweek, Time, and New York – with a recent Newsweek cover story on “The Creativity Crisis.” She’s appeared on The Charlie Rose Show, Anderson Cooper’s AC360, CNN’s This American Morning, MSNBC, and Studio 360.
Scott Noppe-Brandon, executive director of Lincoln Center Institute, has spent the past fourteen years proudly leading the arts-and-education branch of the world’s foremost performing arts center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. A practicing educator and performer for 12 years prior to taking the helm of the Institute in 1995, Noppe-Brandon is known internationally as a speaker, writer, and advocate for education in and through the arts. Noppe-Brandon is one of the founders of Imagination Conversations, summits of leaders from all walks of life who care about fostering a culture of imagination. Currently, he is leading a campaign for all 50 states to hold the Conversations, with the goal of presenting the resulting ideas on education reform to policy makers. Noppe-Brandon has on numerous occasions contributed a column toEducation Update. He is the co-editor of Community in the Making: Lincoln Center Institute. In 2009, he co-authored with Eric Liu the book Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility. A revised edition of the book is slated for paperback release in 2011.
