Ben Leddy Human Development and Psychology Hometown: Charleston, Illinois Then:
Middle school social studies teacher Now: Director of curriculum at Poly, a new education startup
Not exact matches
Scott,
now an assistant professor of
social studies education and history at the University of Delaware, points to a
middle school math
teacher who asked his students to interview adults about the ways math comes up in their everyday lives.
As long - time classroom
teachers now working as
teacher educators preparing future
middle - and high -
school language arts and
social studies teachers, we persistently seek ways to improve our coursework and clinical experiences.
Lauren S. Brown taught U.S. history, sociology and world geography in public
middle and high
schools, supervised
social studies pre-service
teachers at Northern Illinois University, and has
now returned to the
middle school history classroom.
James Encinas teaches fourth grade at Westminster Avenue Elementary
School; Kyle Hunsberger teaches math at Cochran
Middle School; Michael Stryer, a former Fairfax High
School social studies teacher, leads
teacher union reform efforts at Future is
Now Schools
Now booking these shows: American Library Association Annual Conference International Literacy Association National Assn. for the Education of Young Children Association of
Middle Level Educators American Association of
School Librarians National Council of
Teachers of English National Council for the
Social Studies American Library Assn..
He also served as co-investigator with OSLC scientist Dr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr. (
now director of the Center for Equity Promotion in the College of Education at the University of Oregon) on a variety of projects through the Oregon
Social Learning Center Latino Research Team, including the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project I and II, which developed and tested a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems; the Adolescent Latino Acculturation
Study, which was designed to learn more about how Latino families and their
middle school youth who have immigrated to the U.S. adapt to life in this country; and PREVENIR, which developed and refined a culturally specific parent and
teacher training program in four countries in Central America.