For the YDC Pilot staff development program, we worked with a number of professional and experienced trainers, including the following:

Dr. Cornelia Brunner
Deputy Executive Director
cbrunner@edc.org
http://www2.edc.org/CCT/cctweb/

Dr. Brunner has been involved in the research, production and teaching of educational technology in a variety of subject areas for thirty years. In addition to conducting research projects about the relationship between learning, teaching, and technology, she has designed and implemented educational materials incorporating technologies to support inquiry-based learning and teaching in science, social studies, media literacy, and the arts. She has worked extensively with staff and students in a variety of school environments on curriculum development projects, teacher support and training, and informal education. She has taught experimental courses at Bank Street College and the Media Workshop New York, in which teachers are introduced to new technologies, learn how to integrate technology into their curriculum, and learn how to use multimedia authoring tools to design their own educational programs. Dr. Brunner has also been an industry consultant for the design of educational and entertainment products for children of all ages during the past thirty years.

Robert Price
Consultant
National Urban Alliance for Effective Education
robert@eggplant.org
http://www.eggplant.org

Robert Price is an education consultant living in Brooklyn, NY working with children and adults on projects involving literacy, arts, and technology throughout the United States. Projects include the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education with various school districts including New York, Indianapolis, Seattle, and others; The Morino Institute in Washington D.C.; Professional Development Laboratory at NYU, and various other projects. His experience includes teaching and learning in self-contained first through third grade classrooms located in lower socioeconomic multicultural settings in California and Connecticut. He has coordinated projects that provide various forums for student voices to be heard and understood. More information and links are available on his website at www.eggplant.org.

His classroom methodology is a whole learning approach thematically threading all aspects of the curriculum including:

• use of manipulatives and language development in mathematics, science, social science, visual arts, and music
• collective approach within the classroom and throughout the school site
• regular student assessment by the teacher and student through regular analyzing of student work with video, audio, and student examples
• extensive focus on reading and writing
• accelerating low performing students
• student publishing
• technology as a tool

He has presented numerous hands-on workshops in language arts, visual arts, video, animation and computers for educators at The Friends of Photography, California State Art Association, California Computer User Educators, SIGGRAPHICS - SIGKIDS, California Museum of Photography Riverside, and and at various school districts throughout the United States.

Started ongoing collaboration in 1991 with the California Museum of Photography Riverside. For five years students learned the photography process including pinhole cameras, hands-on processing, video, animation, computer digitalizing, and mail art using Photoshop via e-mail culminating with a month long exhibit at the museum. The VidKids program continues today with many more schools participating.

Website development including design, databases, online scheduling, startup and maintenance of dedicated server, listservs, and training.

He has taught university courses on language arts and technology at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY and California State University, Fullerton. In previous years he has been involved with pondering the infinitudes in various central and south pacific destinations, and was involved with the design and production of flexible picture phonograph records.

Influences include the McCrackins, Augusta Mann, Helen Brown, Jan Donaldson, David Hornsby, Bill Martin, Jr., many educators at the school sites, California Writing Project, Junior Great Books, and ELIC.

Eileen Wasow
Associate Dean, Continuing Education
Bank Street College
Eileen@nyo.com

Eileen Wasow is currently the Associate Dean of the Division of Continuing Education at Bank Street College of Education in New York City. She has worked in early childhood education for the past twenty years as a classroom teacher, teacher trainer and staff developer for schools in a variety of settings, including private and public schools throughout the United States. She has presented both nationally and internationally at conferences and is a sought after keynote speaker.

Ms. Wasow has also trained as a family therapist. Upon completing her program at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, she worked in their School and Family Collaboration Project for six years.

Since returning to Bank Street, she has coordinated a number of nationally recognized programs, including Project Healthy Choices, a drug education program for young children and their families, which was funded through the U.S. Department of Education.

Through Bank Street's Division of Continuing Education, Ms. Wasow is currently providing strategic planning and technical assistance to teachers, directors and executive leadership staff in three new areas: after school education, Universal Pre-Kindergarten education and working with women in transition from welfare to work.

Her most recent essay "Families and Schools: New Lenses, New Landscapes" was published in Revisiting a Progressive Pedagogy (SUNY Press, March 2000).