Presenters
Our
dynamic presenters, most of whom have more than 20 years
classroom experience, provide hands-on
workshops that motivate
teachers and give them tools crucial to helping their students
excel.
We understand what it's like to work with children
and teenagers and are especially sensitive to the limits and
demands of the educators they work with during our inservice
programs.
Your teachers will leave our inservice
workshops eager to use
what they learn the very next day!
Get to Know our Presenters
Frank A. Cerreto has taught mathematics at Richard
Stockton College since 1976. In addition, he has coordinated
Stockton's Basic
Studies program and designed mathematics courses for liberal
arts students and prospective teachers. He holds a doctorate in
mathematics education from Rutgers University and has offered
professional development programs for teachers for more than 25
years. His favorite workshop topics include promoting
mathematics as sense making, test preparation, and integrating
technology and mathematics.
Barbara Doherty was a K-8 classroom teacher, a G/T teacher,
program coordinator, author, and consultant. Barbara has authored
over 100 student activity books and simulation games for various
publishers and has written special supplements for the
Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition, Barbara has been a judge for
the NJCTE annual writing contest and was featured in the
November 2003 edition of the NJEA Review.
Joe Duffy is the recipient of two Arts in Education grants from
the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He recently retired from 25
years of teaching drawing at Atlantic City High School where he
was voted Teacher of the Year by his colleagues. He has also worked as an artist for The Press of Atlantic City
and has extensive freelance experience. His clients have
included Trump Casinos, Atlantic City Beach Patrol and Van Duyne Surf
Boats. Joe
studied at the Philadelphia College of Art.
Douglas Goetsch has taught writing, literature, and
history for 22 years on the high school, college, and graduate
levels. He has been on faculty at the University of Iowa Writing
Festival, the Stuyvesant High School English department,
numerous conferences, and college programs and has extensive
experience teaching incarcerated and special needs individuals.
He holds a degree in American studies from New York University,
has written six collections of poetry, and is a recipient of the
Donald Murray prize, given by the National Council of Teachers
of English for the best essay published in 2007 on the subject
of writing and education. Visit Doug online:
www.janestreet.org.
Keith Gradziel has over 16 years experience teaching
social studies and US History, including Advanced Placement, at
Atlantic City High School. He has nearly a decade of experience
in curriculum development and in-service training, specializing
in history and using technology in the classroom. He holds
degrees in Criminal Justice and History from Pace University.
Patricia L. Hans, a master teacher of
literature and writing at the secondary and
collegiate levels and a past two term President
of the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English
(NJCTE), is the 2007 New Jersey Council for the
Humanities Teacher of the Year and a two-time
recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry
Fellowship. She has led teacher workshops at
conferences and programs including Bard
College's Thinking and Writing Institute,
the NJEA Convention, the NJCTE State conference,
the New Jersey Writers Alliance, and the
National Council for Teachers of English
Convention.
Lois Marie Harrod teaches writing
and supervises student teachers at The College of New Jersey.
Retired from 22 years of high school teaching, she taught
Poetry, Creative Writing, AP English, Sophomore Honors, Film,
Composition, American Literature, and supervised the Creative
Writing at the NJ Governor’s School of the Arts. Ms. Harrod has
led workshops for poets, student teachers and public school
teachers since 1980. She is the author of 9 books, most recently
Furniture.
Mary Jo Hennessy has been a certified Sign Language
Interpreter under the National Registry for the Deaf since 1984.
She has more than 20 years experience in the classroom as an
Interpreter/Tutor working with deaf and hard of hearing students
in New York City intermediate, high, and alternative schools and
currently interprets at LaGuardia Community College. Ms.
Hennessy can
interpret the fundamentals of the three R's, make the sciences
sparkle, social studies breathe, and can even make poetry come
to life on her hands! She has also interpreted for the National
Theatre of the Handicapped, at Lincoln Center, and, most
recently, for Pope Benedict XVI, during his visit to New York.
Julia Hollman has over 15 years
experience teaching history courses including AP US History, AP
American Government, Contemporary American Studies, Diplomatic
History, and heterogeneously grouped US History II with
inclusion. She has studied teaching pedagogy including multiple
intelligences and personality styles in the classroom. In 2008,
Ms. Hollman served as an ETS reader for the AP US History exam.
She holds a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor and a M.A.T. from Tufts University and currently
teaches at James Caldwell High School in West Caldwell, New
Jersey.
Charlotte Jaffe, a former LAL teacher, G/T coordinator, and
educational consultant, has authored over 100 student activity
books, educational games, teaching manuals and newspaper and
magazine articles including Enchanted Castle, Missing
Persons, Space Race, Time Traces Curator,
Persuasive Writing, Succeeding With Literature Circles,
and Public Speaking for Kids. Charlotte has served as a
judge for the NJCTE’s annual statewide writing contest and was
featured in the November 2003 edition of the NJEA Review.
Joseph Leary is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker who began
his career as a photojournalist. He is best known for his
extensive coverage of the French space program in the 1980s.
Most recently, he published the book A Shared Landscape: a
History and Guide to Public Land in Connecticut. Between
1988 and 1990, he was the producer of the annual Asimov Seminars
with author, historian, and futurist Dr. Isaac Asimov. In 1977,
he and a partner created the first full-scale operating replica
of the Revolutionary War submarine Turtle, and made six dives in
the submarine before it was retired to a museum in Essex,
Connecticut.
Peter E. Murphy has taught English, creative writing,
and humanities for more than 30 years on the high school and
college levels. He has led professional development workshops
for teachers since 1986 and he founded Murphy Writing Seminars,
LLC and Inservice Solutions to share his successful teaching
more widely. He is also the founder of the Winter Poetry & Prose
Getaway, an annual conference for teachers, writers and artists
established in 1994, and is the author of two books of poetry,
most recently Thorough & Efficient.
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Susanne Pfaff-Manzini has taught
English for more than 20 years at the high school and middle
school levels. She has facilitated numerous in-service workshops
and developed language arts and Holocaust Studies curricula
which received a Best Practice Award from the NJ Department of
Education. Ms. Manzini holds a B.A. in Literature and a M.A. in
Instructional Technology from Richard Stockton College. She
currently teaches writing and language arts at Belhaven Middle
School in Linwood, New Jersey.
Janet Richards
has 25 years experience teaching elementary and
middle school. She has presented numerous
workshops on topics including brain-based
learning, differentiated instruction, and moral
development. Ms. Richards has regularly served
on curriculum, PTA, and strategic planning
committees. In addition to her full time
teaching job, she teaches EFL and is involved
with the Esteems Academy at Rutgers University.
Mimi Schwartz, a veteran teacher and writer for over
35 years, has published five books including Good Neighbors,
Bad Times - Echoes of My Father's German Village (University
of Nebraska Press), now out in paperback and on Kindle. Other recent
books include Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed and
Writing True and the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction
(with Sondra Perl), used in writing programs nationwide. She is
Professor Emerita at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey and
teaches at writer conferences, libraries, and teacher institutes
across this country and abroad.
Richard Schwartz teaches US History, American Politics
and Government, and World Affairs at Whippany Park High School
where he serves as Social Studies Department Coordinator. He has
received the Mildred Barry Garvin Prize for the Teaching of
Black History awarded by the New Jersey Historical Commission
and the NJ VFW High School Citizenship Teacher of the Year
Award. Other honors include being named an outstanding educator
by The College of New Jersey and an Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum/Horace Mann Teacher Fellow. Richard’s
narrative history of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates is scheduled to
be published by Cumberland House in the autumn of 2009.
David Shaman, an engaging and enthusiastic speaker, has been
leading Bullying Prevention workshops since 2006 as part of
his acclaimed School Peacemaker Program. In David’s 20+
years as a trainer, he has mastered the art of hands-on
instruction, easily reaching participants with varied
learning styles. A Master of Qigong and Kung Fu, he also
conducts Personal Empowerment and Self Defense seminars.
Joseph A. Tosh has
taught high school mathematics and computer
programming for 35 years and was named Teacher
of the Year of the Atlantic City school
district. An early adapter of the benefits of
using personal computers, he was the driving
force behind his district's integration of
technology in the classroom. Mr. Tosh has led
numerous workshops on classroom technology and
improving computer competency. In addition to a
secondary mathematics certificate, he holds
certificates for both Supervisor and Principal.
Richard K. Weems has taught rhetoric and
argumentation, language arts and creative writing at the grade
school, high school and collegiate levels. He currently directs
the Creative Writing program for the New Jersey Governor's
School of the Arts and teaches English in the IB (International
Baccalaureate) program at Bergen County Academies. He has
published two short story collections: Anything He Wants
from Spire Press (2006) and The Need for Character from
Revelever Publications (2004).
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