Robert Tinker, President, holds a Ph.D. in experimental low-temperature physics from MIT. Internationally recognized as a pioneer in constructivist uses of educational technology, he developed the MBL and Network Science concepts and has directed numerous educational research projects. Bob has extensive teaching experience at several colleges, on TV, and in many professional development contexts. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3476
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Stephen Bannasch, Director of Technology for the Educational Technology Lab, directs technical planning and development, pioneered the technology used in educational applications of computer interfaces to laboratory experiments (so-called microcomputer-based labs or MBL). Most recently, he served as co-Project Director of the Global Laboratory project at TERC developing the technology that enabled student worldwide to participate in scientific projects. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3477
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Jack Barnett serves as User Services Coordinator, delivering technical support to our staff and serving as technical purchasing agent. He holds a BA in English from Bates College. Jack's most recent prior position was that of system administrator at The Recorder, a newspaper in Western Massachusetts, where he supported 60+ users and 5 networks, including Mac, DOS and Windows machines. His other interests are his family, designing energy-independent housing, gardening and brewing beer. e-mail: [email protected] phone:978-371-3491
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Kristin Barr is the Administrative Assistant for Finance & Administration. Kristin has a very versatile role in the Concord Consortium. She acts as Finance's liaison to the CSF office in Vermont, handles Consultant contracts and billing, travel arrangements, preparation of financial data, and assists the individual projects with a variety of tasks. Kristin comes to us from American International Chemical, Inc. where she served her time as Credit Manager and Accounts Manager. Kristin graduated from Moravian College in Pennsylvania with a degree in Ancient/ Medieval History and Latin. e-mail: [email protected] phone:978-371-3484
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Boris Berenfeld is Director of the International Center and serves as Senior Scientist to two projects. Boris holds a Ph.D. in radiation biophysics from Moscow State University and has extensive research experience in biology, ecology and the application of technology. He serves as co-Principal Investigator for the GLOBE. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-369-1214
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Anne Bijur is the Project Assistant for the Center for a Sustainable Future. She is responsible for maintaining administrative and budgetary records, editing public relations and educational material, managing CSF's web pages, as well as managing and maintaining the CSF office. Anne is an experienced writer, editor, and environmental educator. She has worked as an editor and a freelance travel writer for Fodor's Travel Publications, as a teacher for the Echo Hill Outdoor School and the University of Vermont's school of Natural Resources. Anne did her undergraduate work at Cornell and will be finishing her master's degree, in natural resource planning, from the University of Vermont in June. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 802-985-0789
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Ed Burke is Senior Software Systems Designer for the GenScope project. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Bowdoin College in 1976 and his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1978. Since then he has worked on a wide variety of software systems and products, including operating systems and communications at BBN, expert systems at Palladian, and real-time OS research at KSR, Concurrent, and OSF-RI (now Open Group Research Institute). e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3245
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Jack Byrne is Project Director of the Center for a Sustainable Future (CSF) and co-Project Director of Education for a Sustainable Future (ESF). The Center's mission is to educate learners of all ages to act sustainably at a personal, family, community and global scale. Jack is in charge of all curriculum and dissemination efforts for ESF. Previously, he was co-founder and Executive Director of River Watch Network, a national nonprofit organization that provides organizational and technical assistance to establish and strengthen community-based watershed monitoring and protection programs. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 802-985-0789
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Mary Ann Christie focuses on Research and Evaluation of constructivist technologies (e.g. GenScope and BioLogica). She is interested in the ways in which technology improves both education and educational research. She holds an M.A. (psychology) from Harvard University, an M.S.(computer science) from Boston College, and a B.S. (statistics and operations research) from New York University. Mary Ann is currently a Ph.D. candidate in educational studies at the Lesley College School of Education in Cambridge, MA. Her research interests include the impact of educational technology on the classroom environment, issues of urban schools, and evaluation of technology in these settings. e-mail: [email protected] phone:978-371-5851
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George Collison is a Senior Developer at CC who holds an Ed.D. in Science Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. George is also the Academic Director of the INTEC project, the International Netcourse Teacher Enhancement Coalition. He authors instructional modules, designs assessment instruments, recruits and supports faculty, content experts, and moderators for the INTEC offering. Technology and equity have been consistent themes in his work. He is also deeply interested in teacher preparation using technology in support of educational reform. e-mail: [email protected] phone:978-371-3478
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Kathryn Costello manages the Science Learning in Context project and provides support to the development effort. She is trained in multimedia productions and creates and maintains web pages, publications, and public relations materials. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3479
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Marie Dokoupil is our Finance Associate. She is responsible for preparing quarterly tax returns, managing accounts receivable, assisting with month end reports, and monitoring the budgets for several projects. Marie comes to us from Resources Engineering Systems, Inc where she acted as comptroller. She bring CC a wide variety of financial knowledge backed by over 13 years of experience. [email protected] phone: 978-371-3486
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Bruce Droste is Director of the Virtual High School. He holds degrees from Harvard University and Marlboro College and served as president and COO of Second Nature, a nonprofit organization incorporating environmental principles in college and university curricula. He is also the founder and former headmaster of the Atrium School.e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3489
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Donald Eastlake is the Systems Administrator. He is responsible for maintaining our network, maintaining and upgrading hardware, as well as researching new technologies in hardware and software. Donald works with PCs, Macs, and Unix. He has extensive knowledge of web integration and database programming. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-369-2908
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Noah Fields is a software developer with the Center for a Sustainable Future. He is especially interested in designing network collaboration tools for simulations and role playing. Educated as an artist and designer, Noah has worked extensively on a variety of creative research and engineering projects developing unique custom hardware and software components. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3480
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Jeannie Finks is the Webmaster. She manages, designs, and consults on various design and technical issues for our web sites and staff. She has developed sites for many entities including UPS, Harvard Medical School, the Irondale Theater Ensemble, and the National Mental Illness Screening Project. Educated at Brandeis University with a degree in computer science, Jeannie has worked at various new media places, including George Lucas' special effects house. ILM. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3490
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Storie Frost works for both the Center for Sustainable Future and the Virtual High School as the Web Design/ Database Manager. She comes to CC from R.R. Donnelley & Sons where she held the position of Senior Application Analyst. She is working with ESF and VHS staff to maintain their web sites and develop dynamic backend applications using Lotus Notes and Cold Fusion. e-mail:[email protected] phone:978-369-4682
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Sarah Haavind is the Curriculum Design Coordinator for the INTEC project and a faculty member for VHS/TLC project. She holds a Master's degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education and has extensive experience with interdisciplinary, project-based curriculum design, including an award-winning Sunburst CD ROM, Orcas in Our Midst. Seven years as a high school teacher provide the foundation for her current work. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-5848
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Paul Horwitz is the Senior Scientist of the GenScope, C-BM, QSAD, and BioLogica projects. He has an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in physics from New York University. Paul is a theoretical physicist with broad experience in the fields of technology assessment, applied problem solving, operations analysis, system design and instructional development. As a Congressional Fellow of the American Physical Society, working in the office of Senator Edward Kennedy, and later as a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Policy Alternatives at MIT, he provided input into the role of the federal government in promoting and planning for technological innovation in education and other areas. Paul's research experience is in the fields of elementary particle theory, laser physics, and non-linear optics. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-5856
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Shari Jackson is a Software Coordinator with the Center for a Sustainable Future. Her professional interest is educational software design. She is interested in how to design interfaces that can meet the needs of a variety of learners and continue to support their changing needs over time. Shari has a S.B. and S.M. from MIT in Computer Science, and is completing a PhD at the University of Michigan in Computer Science. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-5854
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Paul Keefe is the Software Engineer for the GenScope project. He comes to us from Oasis Imaging Products where he held the position of IS Director. Paul started working with computers as a desktop technician for educational and business facilities. He began using computers for creating graphics and 3D animation over 10 years ago. Paul has always had an interest in developing educational software and has even designed several children's programs. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-5853
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Joanna Lu is our Media Specialist with the GenScope and BioLogica projects. Joanna has extensive experience producing television shows and educational programs. She assists with production on the GenScope web site and adds multimedia dimension to the GenScope and BioLogica projects. Joanna also connects the projects' activities to real world analogies, with particular emphasis on the social and ethical issues involved with genetics and molecular biology. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3341
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Lee McDavid is Director of Communications. She is managing editor of our @CONCORD newsletter and designer and editor of our publications. She manages our relations with the press and works on marketing strategies for our services. She has a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Colorado State University and Master's degree in liberal studies and communications from Dartmouth College. She came to Concord from the digital audio industry. She also works as a freelance journalist. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3492
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Shea McGovern is Director of Finance and Administration. She holds a Master's degree from Dartmouth College and has extensive experience in non-profit management, including project development, financial planning and administration. She oversees finance and personnel issues at Concord. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3482
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Cynthia McIntyre is the INTEC Project Coordinator. She holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and religion from Bowdoin College and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School. She oversees many aspects of the INTEC netcourse, including online registration, writing HTML, designing the course calendar, ordering curriculum supplies, updating the Domino discussion areas, and generally keeping track of things INTEC. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3496
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Carla Melucci is the Program Coordinator for Virtual High School. Carla has participated in numerous population studies of endangered sea turtles in US and abroad. She comes to us with prior experience as Director of Development for Second Nature, and Program Coordinator at Earthwatch. She has also served as part time faculty at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3494
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Bob Miner is a Senior Software Architect. Bob received a B.A. from Dartmouth College, majoring in Engineering, and a MSME from MIT. Since then Bob has worked for a number of software startups, including Centra Software, Object Design and Cognition. Bob's software interests and experience include user interface, multimedia, networking and database software, using both Java and C++ on many platforms. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3235
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Allen Parker is the Chief Financial Officer. Allen is an expert at making the bridge between the legal & accounting world and the non-profit world. Allen's doctorate from Harvard University emphasized the management of innovation in educational R&D organizations. He has extensive administrative, project, and financial experience in such organizations, having started one and been long involved with TERC. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 617-547-5658
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David Pitkin is the Technology Specialist for the Virtual High School. David works in system administration and information services, and provides Lotus Notes support for VHS staff, teachers, and site coordinators. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3495
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Raymond Rose is Director of the Educational Technology Lab. He directs several projects, including INTEC and VHS. He has taught science, advised schools, managed many educational projects, and conducted extensive professional development for teachers and school administrators. He has 15 years experience at the Regional Laboratory and the Network. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-369-4925
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Joyce Schwartz is Senior Education Specialist for the GenScope and BioLogica projects. She has been active in the testing of and creating curriculum for GenScope in the classroom. Just recently she has directed a series of workshops training teachers in the use of GenScope, including one at SUNY Purchase for New York teachers. She received her B.S. from Marietta College and her M.S.and Ph.D. in cell physiology from the University of Iowa. She is a member of the National Association of Biology Teachers and the National Science Teachers' Association. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-5852
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Robin Sebesta is an Assistant in Finance and Administration. Her position includes various tasks in accounting, ordering materials for projects, and general administration. She comes to us with a strong background in purchasing and sales management. Her previous experience has also included buying educational materials, text, and reference books for several local Boston colleges, including Wheelock, Emmanuel and Harvard Medical School. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3475
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Alice Smith is the Technical Tutor for the Virtual High School project. She serves as the project technical writer, course designer, and mentor for the teachers of the Teacher Learning Conference. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-5850
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Carolyn Staudt is a Curriculum Designer for technology- and Internet-based projects, including SLiC, VHS, KAGS (Kids As Global Scientists), and NetAdventure. Carolyn is especially intrigued with allowing students to collect real-time data with microcomputer-based lab (MBL) probes. She has 20 years experience teaching science and math, including physics, chemistry, geoscience and space science. She holds a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in science from Kent State University. She was a Christa McAuliffe Fellow in 1990 and the Fairlawn, Ohio, Citizen of the Year in 1991. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3483
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Barbara Tinker is Assistant Director of the International Center. Barbara holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has extensive clinical experience. She has facilitated teacher contributions and telecommunications for the Global Laboratory Project for five years. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-369-2261
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Keith Wheeler is Director of the Center for a Sustainable Future (CSF). He is co-Project Director for Education for a Sustainable Future, a Concord project based in Georgia, which is bringing sustainable studies into the classroom. Before coming to Concord, Keith served as the first Executive Director of the Global Rivers Environmental Education Network, a 136 member nation NGO. Keith has considerable international experience, including extensive international resource management consultations while at Cornell University, and with the United States Department of Agriculture. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 313-761-6903
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Also contributing to on-going efforts include:

Bruce Seiger is the co-PI for our Hands on Physics project. He is a physics, robotics, and design technology teacher at Wellesley High School, Wellesley, MA. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3487

Dick Walton coordinates video production and helps with curriculum design. Dick is a writer and naturalist with special interests in birds, butterflies, and dragonflies. e-mail: [email protected] phone: 978-371-3481