Instructors

Bill Holiday has been teaching in the Windham Southest Supervisory Union in Vermont for 37 years and been an Adjunct Faculty member at Keene State College since 1985. Holiday has developed and led many teacher training opportunities including the White Rose Project for integrated instruction and writing curriculum; ‘Writing Civil Rights Curriculum' through Keene State College; field studies with groups in Dallas, Texas to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy; a field study in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi for veteran teachers and undergraduate students; and a trip to the Republic of Ireland where group participants studied the Great Hunger and Easter Rising. During the summer of 2003, Holiday was selected to participate in the Teach Vietnam Teachers Network and during summer of 2007 visited Vietnam with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Most recently, Holiday led a group of educators to Italy in 2008 to write curriculum using the local environment. Holiday is a graduate of Windham College 1972 – BA American Studies and Keene State College 1975 – Masters in Education.

Doug Klette has been teaching graduate school courses focusing on communication, counseling, and conflict resolution skills through Castleton State College and The University of Vermont for the past 35 years. He also works as an independent consultant with school systems, as well as with business and medical personnel. His message is simple. When people interact authentically, respectfully and courageously; students, customers, and patients benefit.

Jane Wilde is a self proclaimed computer geek. She thoroughly enjoys technology and loves to teach people how to use it. Having the rare combination of technical skills and the ability to speak English (rather than computer-ese) she can show you how to engage your students and enrich your curriculum with computers, the internet, and multimedia materials. Having begun her teaching career in Special Education, Jane enjoys working with even the most computer challenged student. A twenty-five year veteran educator, Jane has taught at every grade level from Kindergarten to Graduate School. She is a doctoral student at the Univeristy at Albany in the field of Instructional Technology.

Judy F. Carr, Ed.D. is Co-Director of the Center for Curriculum Renewal working as a consultant, leadership coach, facilitator, professional development specialist, workshop presenter and program evaluator with educators and policymakers throughout the U.S. and in the Caribbean. She has developed tools and protocols to support system-wide processes linking curriculum, instruction, and assessment to identified standards and priorities. She is co-author/co-editor of the following books:
How to Use Standards in the Classroom (ASCD, 1998);
Succeeding with Standards: Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Action Planning (ASCD, 2001);
Creating Dynamic Schools Through Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration (ASCD, 2005)
Improving  Standards-based Learning: A Process Guide for Educational Leaders (Corwin, 2009).
Integrated Studies in the Middle Grades: Dancing Through Walls (Teachers College Press, 1992);
Living and Learning in the Middle Grades: The Dance Continues: A Festschrift for Chris Stevenson (NMSA, 2001);
“A Pig Don't Get Fatter the More You Weigh It:” Classroom Assessments That Work (Teachers College Press, 2006.)
Teaching and Leading From The Inside Out (Corwin Press, 2007).
Judy also is Scholar in Residence in the College of Education at the University of South Florida at Sarasota-Manatee, where she teaches half-time in the Educational Leadership Program with a focus on school curriculum improvement, administrative analysis and change, and theoretical and historical aspects of curriculum and leadership. Judy was originally a teacher and curriculum director in Vermont, and in 1995, she was recipient of the Second Annual Vermont ASCD Outstanding Education Leadership Award. Judy Carr: ccrlearn@aol.com Center for Curriculum Renewal: www.curriculumrenewal.com

Kate Hudson is a Special Education teacher at Brattleboro Union High school . She is part of The Language Consortium at the high school where she teaches language arts, writing strategies and reading fluency. She has given numerous workshops and trainings in the district. She has spent considerable time and research on the subject of  literacy, fluency and technology.

Marie Paige has worked both in the classroom and as a teacher leader during her twenty plus years in the education field. For eighteen years she was an elementary educator working in a variety of classroom configurations. For the last three years she has been the differentiated instruction coordinator organizing and implementing professional development for Windham Southwest Supervisory Union. In this capacity she has worked with teachers pre-k -12 both in large professional groups and as a collaborative peer/coach in individual classrooms. She has a master's degree in elementary education from Lesley College in Cambridge, MA.

Meredith Wade has been an elementary classroom teacher, science educator at Boston's Museum of Science, and a curriculum developer and presenter with Mother Goose programs (Vermont Center for the Book's early childhood initiatives). She has been a staff member on two National Science Foundation funded projects. Meredith has consulted with school districts on curriculum and has taught a variety of science courses for adults and classes for children. She holds a Master of Science Teaching degree from Antioch New England.

Wendy Cohen, M.Ed. is currently a consultant who works with teachers and administrators around New England to support their work in building sustainable learning communities in which all students learn. She facilitates K-12 school district in-services which cover a variety of topics: developing curriculum aligned to standards; developing local standards-based assessments; using backward design to plan and implement standards-based instruction; and looking at student work to develop levels of proficiency and common assessments. Wendy also trains teachers and administrators in leadership facilitation skills, the development of collaborative learning communities, and writing across the curriculum. In addition to working with school districts, she is also Education Consultant for SmART Schools, EDC, where she designs and facilitates professional development trainings for districts working towards arts integration; as well as consultant to the Center for Curriculum Renewal, providing support in curriculum audits in New York State and South Carolina. Additional projects outside VT have included: consultant to the state of Maine in the revision of their state arts standards; curriculum specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts New England Summer Institutes; consultant to the New Hampshire Department of Education in arts integration; and curriculum specialist to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their Springfield, MA summer institutes. Prior to her work as a consultant, Wendy taught middle school for ten years in Burlington, VT. wcohen@edc.org