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Maura O. Banta is IBM's East Coast Regional Manager for Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs. She joined IBM in 1973 as a marketing representative and held positions in Sales, Insurance Industry Consulting and Marketing Management before joining the External Programs Department in 1989. Maura was promoted to manager of the department in 1993, and became corporate community relations manager in 1996. In 2006, Maura was named Eastern Regional Manager, for IBM's corporate philanthropy, government relations and community relations. Ms. Banta is a board member of United Ways of New England, Mass Taxpayers Foundation, and Boston Plan for Excellence, Ronnie Center for Education Research and Policy, and the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Maura is the immediate past chair of the board of the Mass Business Alliance for Education. She served for six years on The Massachusetts Educational Management and Audit Council a position she first held under Governor Jane Swift. Ms. Banta Also served on former Governor Cellucci's Economic Development Task Force. She earned a B.A. in economics from Marymount College.
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.
Michael D'Ortenzio Jr. is the 2009-2010 Chair of the State Student Advisory Council, elected by fellow students in June 2009. Michael has served as a delegate to both the Greater Boston Regional Student Advisory Council and the State Student Advisory Council for one year, where he served on the Executive Committee and as Recorder. Michael is active in his school community, where he is entering his junior year at Wellesley High School. Michael is a member of Student Congress, and will serve as its Co-Vice-President this year, and represents students on the School Council, and will serve as Co-Student Moderator. Michael served as class President during his freshman and sophomore years. He referees middle school soccer, and loves to bike, hike, and be outdoors. He ran varsity cross-country his freshman year, and currently serves as manager for the cross-country and the track and field teams. Michael also enjoys singing, both at his church and in the select choir at his school, Keynotes. Michael holds a strong passion for volunteering and civic engagement, and is a fervent proponent of special education and 21st century skills.
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.
Beverly Holmes is a business leader, strategist, author and activist. She recently completed 25 years of service with MassMutual Financial Group, a fortune 100 financial services company. She was honored with her company's prestigious President's Leadership Award in 2000 after she successfully created, developed and grew a business designed to provide 401(k) retirement plans to small and medium size businesses. Under her leadership the new retirement business produced and added new distribution channels and grew to $4 billion of assets under management. Over 2600 new customers were added to the company's customer base. Today the business continues as a profitable, growth business for the company. Beverly is the first African American woman to reach the position of Senior Vice President, Executive Officer at MassMutual Financial Group. Beverly is focused on providing 21st century education skills for the children of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She also has a passion for and interest in advancing the financial security, economic growth and leadership opportunities for women and has traveled nationally and internationally speaking and advising on the positive impact of access to capital for business growth and expansion. She is Chair of the Board for the Center for Women's Business Research, a board member of WISER (Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement), a member of Office Depot Women's Advisory Board and one of the first inductees into Bay Path College' Twenty First Century Women Business Leaders Hall of Fame by. In 2008 she was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick to the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She is the founder and president of B.A. Holmes & Associates, a business and leadership development consulting firm. Beverly holds a Bachelors degree in Human Services and a Masters degree in Education from Cambridge College and Southern New Hampshire University respectively.
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 if 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.
Ruth Kaplan is currently employed by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies as the Director of the Boston-Haifa Connection, a multi-faceted partnership between the sister cities of Boston and Haifa. 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.
Dana Mohler-Faria is the president of Bridgewater State College and was the first member of his family to go to college. President Mohler-Faria is the first person of color to lead Bridgewater State College and, at the time of his inauguration in 2002, was only the second Cape Verdean in the United States to be elected the president of a higher education institution. Shortly after becoming president, Dr. Mohler-Faria undertook an aggressive plan to expand the number of full-time, tenure-track faculty at the college. He also founded Connect, a Southeastern Massachusetts partnership dedicated to advancing the regional mission of public higher education. He also presided over an extensive review of the undergraduate curriculum, modernized the college's general education requirements, initiated an institution-wide assessment of diversity opportunities and programming, established the highly-prestigious Presidential Fellowship to promote faculty scholarly and creative work, and channeled significant college resources into faculty and student scholarship endeavors. Under his leadership, the college endowment has grown to more than $17 million - the largest for any state college in the Commonwealth. Prior to becoming president, Dr. Mohler-Faria served for 11 years as the college's vice president for administration and finance, during which time he oversaw the largest construction and renovation program in college history. He has also held numerous senior administrative positions at Mount Wachusett Community College, Bristol Community College and Cape Cod Community College. Dr. Mohler-Faria holds a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, master's and bachelor's degrees in history from Boston University, and an associate's degree from Cape Cod Community College. He has participated in the Oxford Roundtable, the Millennium Leadership Institute, the New England Resource Center for Higher Education and Harvard University's Institute for Education Management and Senior Executives Program. In addition to his work as president, Dr. Mohler-Faria served as Governor Deval Patrick's special advisor for education and was instrumental in leading the Commonwealth's Readiness Project and establishing the Executive Office of Education.
In March 2008, Governor Deval Patrick announced his appointment of Paul Reville as the Commonwealth's new Secretary of Education, effective July 1, 2008, to oversee the recently created Executive Office of Education. Paul Reville is the former president of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, and formerly served 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.
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.
Mitchell Chester began serving as Commissioner of the Massachusetts public schools in May 2008 after being unanimously selected by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in January. Dr. Chester began his career as an elementary school teacher in Connecticut, and later served as a middle school assistant principal and district curriculum coordinator. From there he moved to the Connecticut State Department of Education where he oversaw curriculum and instructional programs. In 1997 he was named the Executive Director for Accountability and Assessment for Philadelphia, where he headed the offices of Assessment, Research and Evaluation, Student and School Progress, and Pupil Information Services. In 2001 he moved to Ohio, where he served as the Senior Associate Superintendent for Policy and Accountability for the Ohio Department of Education, where he oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning. Dr. Chester has presented nationally on accountability, assessment and teacher induction and retention. He has served as a consultant to states and school districts regarding curriculum and instruction, teacher evaluation, student achievement, and assessment and accountability. Dr. Chester holds a doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University, as well as advanced degrees from the University of Connecticut and the University of Hartford. He and his wife Angela live with their son Nicholas in Winchester. |
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