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Paul Reville is the president of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, and also serves as the Director of the Education Policy and Management Program and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Paul is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform, and was the founding executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. He also served on the Massachusetts State Board of Education from 1991-96 and chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, as well as the Massachusetts Education Reform Review Commission. He recently served on Governor Patrick's Transition Team and as chair of the Governor's Pre-K - 12 Task Force on Governance. He is a former teacher and principal in urban, alternative schools. Paul is a trustee of Wheelock College and the Nativity School of Worcester, and serves on numerous other boards and advisory committees. Last year, he edited the book, "A Decade of Urban School Reform: Persistence and Progress in the Boston Public Schools." He is a graduate of Colorado College and holds a Master's degree from Stanford University.
Christopher R. Anderson is president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. Before becoming president in January 2001, he served as the Council's vice president and general counsel. He joined the Council in 1984 and has helped shape state policies that have improved the business climate for the Massachusetts high technology industry. In June 2001, he was appointed to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust Advisory Committee. In March 2001, he was appointed to serve as a member of the State Advisory Council to the Department of Employment and Training. Mr. Anderson graduated from Lexington High School in Lexington, MA. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame, and a law degree from Suffolk University School of Law.
Harneen Chernow directs the Massachusetts Division of the 1199SEIU Training and Upgrading Fund. A partnership between 1199SEIU and healthcare employers, this fund provides incumbent healthcare workers with a wide range of training and career ladder opportunities. Previously, Ms. Chernow served as the Director of Education and Training for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and engaged in public policy and advocacy efforts to promote a workforce development system focused on low-wage and lesser-skilled workers. Ms. Chernow has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing labor/management workforce partnerships that create career ladders and opportunities leading to worker advancement. She also participates in numerous advocacy efforts to build a strong workforce system accountable to multiple stakeholders. She serves on a number of boards and commissions overseeing workforce development initiatives, including the Massachusetts Workforce Board Association, Boston PIC Workforce Development Committee, the Robert Woods Johnson Jobs to Career Initiative, and the Extended Care Career Ladder Initiative. Harneen is the recipient of the AFT-Massachusetts Hero in Education Award, Massachusetts AFL-CIO Outstanding Service Award, the UMass Dartmouth Labor Education Center Fontera Memorial Award and the UMass Boston Labor Resource Center Foster-Kenney Award. Ms. Chernow received her B.A. from Wellesley College and M.A. from University of California, Berkeley.
Gerald Chertavian is founder and CEO of Year Up, a one-year, intensive training program that provides urban young adults 18-24 with a unique combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate apprenticeship. Gerald began his career on Wall Street as an officer of the Chemical Baking Corporation and then became the head of marketing at Transnational Financial Services in London. He co-founded Conduit Communications in 1993. Between 1993-1998, Conduit ranked as one of England's fastest growing companies. Gerald earned a B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He currently serves as a Trustee of Cambridge College, Bowdoin College and The Boston Foundation and is on the Board of Advisors for the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Club and New Sector Alliance.
Thomas E. Fortmann began his career teaching at Newcastle University in Australia and then spent 24 years as a high-tech engineer and executive at BBN Technologies in Cambridge. After retiring in 1997 he taught mathematics and science as a volunteer at two high schools in Boston. In 2003, in collaboration with EMC Corporation and Mass Insight Education, he founded the Massachusetts Mathematics Institute, an intensive professional development program in mathematics content for K-6 teachers. Dr. Fortmann holds a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T., and the rank of Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the author of two textbooks as well as numerous journal articles and policy briefs.
Jeff Howard is founder and president of The Efficacy Institute, Inc., a national, not-for-profit agency of education reform. The Efficacy Institute is committed to the mission of developing all young people to high standards, particularly children of color and the economically disadvantaged. The work of The Efficacy Institute is based on a model of learning developed by Dr. Howard based on the idea that intelligence can be built through Effective Effort. The Efficacy Institute aims to help adults operate from a simple belief: all young people can learn at very high levels in the process of education is effectively organized. For five years, Jeff Howard served as a Governor's appointee to the Education Management Audit Council, the agency that evaluated the operations of districts across the state. Dr. Howard holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. He is also the founder of J. Howard and Associates, a corporate training and consulting firm that is now part of the Novations Group, Inc.
Prior to her appointment to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Ruth Kaplan served for four years as an elected member of the Brookline School Committee, chairing the subcommittees on Policy Review and Government Relations. She was also a board member of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees and a member of its Advocacy and Resolutions committees. Prior to her school committee service, Ms. Kaplan co-chaired the Brookline Special Education Parent Advisory Council. Ms. Kaplan is a member of the Massachusetts Parent Teacher Association and is the first parent representative appointed to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Members. She is a founder of the Alliance for the Education of the Whole Child, a coalition of more than 45 education and civil rights organizations which organized to critique the over-reliance on standardized testing in the public schools and advocate for an assessment system consisting of multiple measures. Ms. Kaplan is a member of the Massachusetts bar and was associated with the firms of Widett, Slater & Goldman and Peabody & Brown. She practiced in the areas of Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization as well as Labor and Employment law. Her state service consisted of a position as Senior Researcher to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and work with the Department of Youth Services as a caseworker and program evaluator. She also assisted in the establishment of the Adolescent Day Treatment Program at Danvers State Hospital. A resident of Brookline, Ms. Kaplan is a graduate of Brookline High School and has two daughters one of whom attends the high school, and the other of whom is a 2007 graduate. Ms. Kaplan holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School, as well as an M.ED. from Boston University and an M.A. from Brandeis University. She holds a B.A. degree in history from Barnard College and a Bachelor of Hebrew Letters degree from the Seminary College of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Ms. Kaplan also attended Wellesley College and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Dr. Sandra Stotsky is an independent scholar, consultant, and researcher in education. She also directs a one-week summer institute on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, titled We the People: the Citizen and the Constitution, co-sponsored by the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation and the Center for Civic Education in California. From 2004 to 2006, Dr. Stotsky was a Research Scholar in the School of Education at Northeastern University. From 1999 to 2003, she was Senior Associate Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. During that period, she directed revisions of the state's licensing regulations for teachers, administrators, and teacher training schools, the state's tests for teacher licensure, and the state's PreK-12 standards for mathematics, history and social science, English language arts and reading, science and technology/engineering, early childhood and instructional technology. From 1984 to 2000, Dr. Stotsky was a research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education affiliated with the Philosophy of Education Research Center (PERC). She has taught elementary school, French and German at the high school level, and undergraduate and graduate courses in reading, children's literature, and writing pedagogy. She is editor of What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers (Peter Lang, 2000) and author of Losing Our Language (Free Press, 1999, reprinted by Encounter Books, 2002) and appraisals of state English language arts and reading standards for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in 1997, 2000, and 2005. Dr. Stotsky has published many research reports, essays, and reviews in many areas and disciplines in education, including mathematics, history, literature, composition, and reading. In May 2006, she was appointed to the President's National Mathematics Advisory Panel, which will advise the President and the Secretary of Education on matters relating to mathematics education. She currently serves as Chair of the Sadlier-Oxford Mathematics Advisory Board and as a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for School Reform at the Pioneer Institute, Boston, and for the Carus Publishing Company. She is also on the ERIC Steering Committee for the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences. She served on the Steering Committee for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment framework for 2009. Dr. Stotsky received her B.A. degree with distinction from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in reading research and reading education with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Zachary Tsetsos is the 2007-2008 Chair of the State Student Advisor Council, elected by fellow students in June 2007. Zachary has been a member of the council for the past two years, having served as Council Secretary his first year, and Co-Chair of the Enriched Curriculum group during his second year. Zachary is about to enter his senior year at Oxford High School. In addition to SSAC, Zachary participates in various extra curricular leadership activities which include serving as Student Council Representative, Class President, Massachusetts Youth Leadership member, National Honor Society President, Environmental Club member, Cultural Enrichment Club member, School Advisory Council Representative, Community Tutor, and Central Mass. Regional Student Advisory Council Representative. Zachary also plays Varsity Soccer, serves as a Youth Soccer Referee, Church Youth Group/Altar Server, and Religious Educator. He will spend the summer of 2007 as an Intern for Senator Richard T. Moore. Zachary enjoys playing the piano, composing his own music, and traveling internationally.
Acting Commissioner Jeffrey Nellhaus began at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in 1986, serving in a number of roles, including Associate Commissioner for Curriculum, Assessment and Instructional Technology until he became Deputy Commissioner in 2005. As Associate Commissioner, Mr. Nellhaus oversaw the development and implementation of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), and the refinement of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks. For his work on MCAS he was awarded the Manuel Carballo Governor's Award for Excellence in Public Service and the Friend of Education Award from the Massachusetts Association of Secondary School Administrators. As Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Nellhaus serves as the Department's Chief Operating Officer, and is responsible for strategic planning, operational planning and oversight of the Department's major organizational units. Prior to joining in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Mr. Nellhaus traveled extensively. Immediately after earning his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts he joined the Peace Corps, where he spent two years as a teacher trainer in India. After that he returned briefly to the United States before going abroad again to work as an educational coordinator for a Southeast Asian refugee resettlement program in Thailand. In between his work overseas, Mr. Nellhaus worked briefly at the Fernald School in Waltham, taught high school chemistry and math, and managed the Common Ground restaurant in Brattleboro, VT. He and his wife Betsy Bedell live in Jamaica Plain. In his free time he enjoys running, playing tennis, cooking, and birding. |
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