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Rae Bruce (cybercoach for poetry writing) had taught English,
grades 7-12, for 26 years in Massachusetts and New Hampshire until she
retired in June 1999. She spent the last 16 years at Merrimack (N.H.)
High School, where she taught American literature and creative writing,
started an inter-disciplinary writing center, and wrote a creative writing
curriculum. She has been a frequent presenter at both NEATE and NHATE.
In 1991, she was a finalist for New Hampshire teacher-of- the-Year;
and in 1996, she was NEATEíS Poet-of-the Year. She is presently poetry
chairperson for NEATE and co-chair of NHATEís Spring Conference.
Her poetry has appeared in Touchstone, Embers, Ad Hoc Monadnock,
Spoon River Poetry Review, Compass Rose, and The New Hampshire College
Journal. Contact
Rae. |
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Russ Cobbs (cybercoach for multicultural literature and cooperative
learning) is a past-president of NEATE and taught composition, American
literature, and world literature at Longmeadow (Massachusetts) High School
for 25 years, where he also served as English Department Chair. Prior
to teaching in Longmeadow, he taught and served as English Department Chair
at J.F. Kimball (Texas) High School in Dallas and at DoD American high
schools in Newfoundland, Puerto Rico, and Germany. He is a consultant
with National Evaluation Systems, Inc., a scorer for the Massachusetts
Teacher Certification Tests, a mystery and thriller fiction database coordinator
at Richard Salter Storrs Library in Longmeadow, and a volunteer reader
for the Longmeadow elementary schools.
Contact
Russ. |
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Nancy Disenhaus (cybercoach for peer writing groups and multi-draft
process) has taught English for over 25 years (including two
years at the University of Vermont). She currently teaches three
high school English classes, including Advanced Expository Writing, at
U-32 Jr.-Sr. High School in Montpelier, Vermont, and serves as a hands-on
writing consultant for fifth and sixth grade teachers and their students
in five local elementary schools. Nancy has presented workshops on
the teaching of writing at NEATE fall conferences, as well as those
of the Vt.-NEA and the New Hampshire Association of Teachers of English,
since 1996: "Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge: A Model for Writing
and Revising"; "A Living, Breathing Research Paper: Making It Happen";
and most recently "Brain Research and the Writing Process: The How
and Why of Peer Writing Groups." Contact
Nancy. |
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Liz Foster (cybercoach for world literature)
is a past-president
of NEATE and has taught English literature, world literature, composition,
and creative writing at Chelmsford (Mass.) High School for 27 years.
She has been a member of the NCTE Instructional Technology Committee and
served on the NEATE Executive Board in several capacities. She is
the co-author of three books of curriculum materials:
Shakespeare Persona,
American Persona,and British Persona. Contact
Liz. |
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James Getty (cybercoach for national board certification), Jim
Getty is a teacher/department head at Missisquoi Valley in Swanton, Vermont.
He is currently awaiting the results of his National Board Certification.
Jim became interested in National Certification through the diligence of
members of the Vermont World Class Teaching Project, a support group for
teachers attempting National Certification. He is also a member-at-large
for NEATE and has presented workshops at the Fall Convention in Nashua,
New Hampshire. He welcomes any comments or questions you may have on the
National Certification process. Contact
James. |
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Patty Haggerty (cybercoach for service learning), Patty Haggerty
has been teaching middle school students for the past fourteen years.
She is a past president of NEATE and the Massachusetts Christa McAuliffe
Fellow for 1998-1999. Besides language arts, her special area of
interest is service learning, on which she has published numerous articles.
Her most recent publication is a booklet called Oral History: Let Their
Voices Be Heard (National Drop-Out Prevention Center, Clemson University).
Patty has presented at several National Service Learning Conferences as
well as at New England and state conferences. Contact
Patty. |
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Scotti Miller Jencks (cybercoach for critical thinking skills) has
been teaching for 24 years and is coordinator for language arts, social
studies, and world languages at John Stark Regional High School in Weare,
N.H. (1996 N.H. High School of Excellence). She teaches tenth-grade
English and two senior English seminars. The most fun sheís had this
year? Hooking up her tenth graders with a criminal justice class
(grades 11 and 12) for a three-week study of the death penalty. Contact
Scotti. |
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Karen Kurzman (cybercoach for Holocaust studies and standards/standardized
tests) is a nationally certified teacher in English Language Arts/Young
Adults and is a Teacher Associate for Language Arts/Writing at the State
Department of Education in Vermont. For 12 years she taught grades
K-3, but she has taught high school language arts for the last 13.
She was awarded her schoolís teacher of the year award at both levels.
She is an Executive Board member of NEATE and was the 1997 and 1998 conference
chair. She is also the State Coordinator of the NCTE Achievement
Awards in Writing. Contact
Karen. |
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Bruce Penniman (cybercoach for designing a writing program and long-range
planning). The 1999 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year, Bruce has taught
journalism, composition, oral communication, American literature, and world
literature at Amherst (MA) Regional High School for 30 years, where he
also advises the student newspaper. He is co-director of Western Massachusetts
Writing Project, current president and former journal editor of NEATE,
and co-chair of the NCTE Assembly on American Literature. Contact
Bruce. |
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Debbie Woelflein (cybercoach for classroom management), is an
assistant principal and former English department head at Merrimack High
School in New Hampshire and has 26 years of experience teaching at the
high school and college levels. Past president and conference chair
for NHATE and NEATE, she was 1996 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year and
a 1998 US-NIS Excellence in Teaching awardee. Contact
Debbie. |