| Dr. George McCloskey: George McCloskey, Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of School Psychology Research in the Psychology Department of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is also the Director of the SPARK Project (School Psychologists Adopting Refined Knowledge) for the New York City Department of Education, which involves updated skills training for 1100 school psychologists. He maintains a private practice that involves consulting with state departments of education, universities, and school districts, and performing independent evaluations and conducting interventions for schools and private clients. Dr. McCloskey frequently presents at national, regional and state meetings on executive function assessment and interventions, the neuropsychology of learning, neuropsychologically-oriented psychoeducational assessment, cognitive processes, use and interpretation of cognitive and academic assessment instruments, classroom interventions for cognitive process problems, and linking assessment with interventions. Dr. McCloskey is a certified school psychologist and also has been involved in test development and publishing activities for more than 20 years and was formerly a Senior Research Director and the Clinical Advisor to the Wechsler Test Development Group for The Psychological Corporation and Associate Director of Test Development for AGS. |
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Dr. Bob Greenleaf:
Robert Greenleaf was formerly a professional development specialist at the Education
Alliance at Brown University. Having taught in all grades K-12, he has 20 years experience
in public education ranging from superintendent of schools to assistant superintendent of
schools, elementary school principal, teaching principal, teacher, and special education
assistant. He served as adjunct professor at Thomas College in Maine. President of Greenleaf Learning, a human resource development company he founded in 1987, Bob specializes in educational strategies for understanding behaviors, building esteem and achievement, and brain-based learning. Bob is the author of eight instructional books, the creator of two double-sided albums and he publishes a bi-monthly newsletter. He is the 1991 recipient of the "Outstanding Educator Award" from the Waterville Public Schools in the state of Maine. Bob holds a doctorate in education from Vanderbilt University, a master degree in educational administration from Southern Maine and a bachelor degree from Nasson College in psychology. |
| Dr. COLLEEN Megowan-Romanowicz: Colleen taught high school science for 20 years, and has used modeling in physics classes since 1998, when she attended her first modeling workshop at UC Davis. That workshop had such a profound effect upon her thinking, learning, and teaching that she moved to Phoenix in 2001 to do graduate studies under the direction of David Hestenes (one of the originators of modeling) in Physics Education Research. She is currently Assistant Professor of Science Education at Arizona State University's Polytechnic Campus, where her research interest is in student reasoning and discourse around the construction and sharing of white-boarded representations in physics modeling. In addition to her teaching duties on the Polytechnic Campus she directs research for the Modeling Instruction Program on the Tempe Arizona Campus and actively pursues funding and partnership opportunities to help make the Modeling Instruction Program sustainable in the long term. |
| Dr. Matt GreenwolfE: Dr. Greenwolfe has a BS in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Physics from the University of Michigan. He is a former assistant professor at Union College in New York, and is currently a physics teacher at Cary Academy, with over ten years of experience teaching physics at independent schools. Matt participated in the two year Physics Modeling workshop at Appalachian State University during 2001-2003, and the Advanced Modeling Workshop at Arizona State University in 2005. He has taught several modeling workshops, given presentations on modeling physics at professional meetings in North Carolina, Ohio, Arizona, and at the National Science Teachers Association 2007 annual conference. He is vice president of the American Modeling Teachers Association, the national membership organization for modeling teachers. |
| Robert Coven: Robert Coven has been teaching history and architecture in independent schools for the past fourteen years. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Chicago. He has advanced degrees in history from the universities of Delaware and Chicago and in architecture from the University of Wisconsin. His BA, in international relations, is from UC Berkeley. He finds modeling an ideal additional tool for helping students make interdisciplinary connections and find the deeper meaning in history. |
| Carole Hamilton: Carole Hamilton has taught English at Cary Academy since it opened in 1998. She has a Master of English from the University of Virginia, a B.A. with highest honors in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2001, she and two Cary Academy colleagues earned the prestigious Internet Innovator Award and in 2006 she was awarded the United States Department of Education Presidential Award for Teaching. Her passion for connecting brain research with classroom methods has received additional inspiration from her learning curve in playing bridge, where the only path to success is deep understanding, not memorization. |