Stanford University
School of Education
2008 Stanford Summer Teaching Institute
Special Session for Administrators
Building English Learners' Academic Language and Literacy.
Jeff Zwiers is a Stanford lecturer and an induction mentor who conducts professional development for teachers around the world. He has written several books and articles on academic language and literacy development.
Moving All Students Forward! Leveraging Differentiated Instruction to Increase Academic Success.
Laura Gschwend is a Secondary Specialist at the New Teacher Center at University of California, Santa Cruz. She develops professional development curricula and workshops for mentors in the areas of differentiated instruction and literacy.
Groupwork in Heterogeneous Classrooms: Creating Groupworthy Tasks.
Paige Price is an English teacher and WASC Coordinator at Mountain View High School. She is also a STEP Cooperating Teacher and co-instructs the Heterogeneous Classrooms course at STEP.
Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn.
Heather Hebard is a doctoral student in Curriculum and Teacher Education at Stanford. A former elementary school teacher, Heather currently teaches elementary literacy courses at STEP and studies teacher learning.
Peter Williamson is the Director of Stanford's Teachers for a New Era initiative. He also instructs the English Curriculum and Instruction course at STEP.
Using Open Educational Resources and Web 2.0 Tools for Curriculum Development.
Mark Basnage develops and teaches technology- focused educational programs at the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). He works with educators in public and private schools as well as teacher preparation programs and museums.
Teaching and Learning with Art.
Jennifer Lynn Wolf, a former high school English teacher, is a lecturer in the Stanford School of Education. Her interests include the role of literature and the arts in learning.
Principles and Practices of Effective Mentoring.
Christa Compton is a Postdoctoral Fellow and instructor for STEP, where she supervises teacher candidates and conducts research related to supervision and mentoring.
Kelly Bikle is a Clinical Associate for STEP Elementary. She supervises teacher candidates, mentors beginning teachers, and provides support for cooperating teachers and supervisors.
Teaching Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: Problems of Practice.
Brad Fogo, a former middle school and high school history teacher, is a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Teacher Education at Stanford. He co-instructs the History/ Social Science Curriculum and Instruction course at STEP.
Daisy Martin, a former high school history and civics teacher, is currently the Co-Director of the National Clearinghouse for History Education and a post-doctoral scholar in the Stanford History Education Group. She works with teacher candidates, undergraduates, and experienced teachers.
Science Explorations Through the Lens of Global Climate Change.
Paul Grossi, Associate Director of Stanford’s Office of Science Outreach, is a former high school physics and astronomy teacher. Before coming to Stanford, he led teacher development programs as Director of Education at Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT).
Kyle Cole draws on seventeen years of teaching chemistry, biology and nanoscience to connect cutting-edge research with K-12 science in his role as the Associate Director of an NSF-funded Center at Stanford.
Jennifer Saltzman develops and manages educational opportunities for school kids, teachers, science journalists, and the broader public as the Educational Outreach Coordinator for Stanford’s School of Earth Sciences.
Building and Sustaining a Culture of Writing in Secondary Classrooms.
Marvin Diogenes is Associate Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric and Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford.
Andrea A. Lunsford is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English at Stanford, Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, and Co-Director of Ravenswood Writes and Project WRITE.
Clyde Moneyhun is Associate Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Director of Stanford's Hume Writing Center, and co-Director of Ravenswood Writes
Teaching Mathematics.
Keith J. Devlin, Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Informationand a Consulting Professor of Mathematics at Stanford, is a commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend EditionSaturday, where he is known as "The Math Guy."
Shoba Farrell teaches high school math in San Francisco. She got her Masters in Math Education from Stanford in 2006.
Megan W. Taylor is a National Board certified math teacher and a doctoral candidate at the Stanford School of Education. Her research focuses on helping teachers use their curricula more effectively.
Teaching Humanities.
Pam Grossman, professor of education at Stanford University, is the co-editor of Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Challenges to Implementation. She teaches the English C&I course for STEP.
Nikole Richardson, a former high school history teacher, is a doctoral student in the Stanford School of Education.
Bryan Wolf, is a professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University.
Teaching Elementary Math.
Aki Murata, a former elementary teacher, is an assistant professor of elementary mathematics education at Stanford.
Leadership for the Schools we Want.
Diane Tavenner is the CEO of The Summit Institute; an non-profit focused on developing teachers, leaders and model schools
Creating a Community of Writers in Elementary Classrooms.
Sheryl Dugan has over thirty years of elementary classroom experience. For the last eight years she has been the Literacy Specialist at Ponderosa School, Santa Clara Unified School District’s staff development school for the Noyce Foundation’s Every Child a Reader and Writer initiative, which has focused on the implementation of writing workshop.