Workshop Presenters JANE ALTEMEN Jane teaches science to kids in Grade six through 12 and runs science clubs for elementary kids. Over the years she has created 50+ activities that K to 12 teachers use to nurture authentic scientific thinking. The activities work because they are not confounded by subject content; they focus only on scientific thinking. Jane has been a teacher and administrator since 1988 in her native Canada and in the Middle East, Europe, and now South-East Asia. With a first degree in neuroscience, Jane’s teaching practice is dominated by Brain-Based Learning coupled with Visible Thinking Routines and the Understanding by Design paradigm. JAY ATWOOD Jay is the EdTechTeam Regional Director for India, Middle East, Africa & Asia. He brings more than 20 years of experience teaching, developing curriculum and assessment and training teachers in local, government and international schools. His current hedgehog is helping teachers develop as workshop presenters. Most recently he worked at Singapore American School as the High School Educational Technology Coordinator-where he was responsible for leading ed tech planning, professional learning, and technology integration. He’s a Google Certified Innovator, Google Certified Trainer, a Coach and Lead Learner at Google Teacher Academies and Innovator Academies in Asia-Pacific, Australia, Europe and the US, an Apple Distinguished Educator and a Common Sense Digital Citizenship Certified Educator. PAUL ANDERSEN Paul is an educational consultant and YouTube creator living in Bozeman, MT. Paul is an experienced educator having taught science in Montana for 20 years. Paul was the 2011 Montana Teacher of the Year, and was also one of four finalists for the 2011 National Teacher of the Year. In addition to teaching Paul has created hundreds of YouTube science tutorials that have been viewed millions of times by students around the world. In 2012 Paul was selected by YouTube as one of ten YouTube Edu Gurus. Paul has provided training for thousands of students, teachers, administrators, and professors around the world. Paul’s specialties include the Next Generation Science Standards, educational technology, the flipped classroom, and effective classroom design. Paul enjoys providing meaningful professional development that can be applied immediately in the classroom. JESSICA BALLI A graduate of Jakarta International School, is a mathematics educator with ten years of classroom experience. She has taught in both a small charter setting and a large, comprehensive high school, teaching a wide range of math courses. Jessica has taken on a variety of roles over the past several years as a leader in transitioning to the Common Core at the school, district, and national levels. She has worked on several grants that have allowed her to work closely with teachers and mathematics education experts in order to create meaningful and authentic classroom experiences for students and teachers. Jessica is a reflective educator who enjoys sharing her trials and successes with other teachers. Jessica was raised in Jakarta, Indonesia and incorporates her international experience when helping teachers make their classrooms more inclusive and engaging. WAKA BROWN Waka is the Manager/Instructor for Stanford e-Japan, an online distance-learning course for Japanese high school students about the U.S.-Japan relationship; and a Curriculum Specialist for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). In 2004 and 2008, Waka received the Franklin Buchanan Prize, which is awarded annually to honor an outstanding curriculum publication on Asia at any educational level, elementary through university. Waka has presented teacher seminars nationally for the National Council for the Social Studies in Seattle; the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia in both Denver and Los Angeles; the National Council for the Social Studies, Phoenix; Symposium on Asia in the Curriculum, Lexington; Japan Information Center, Embassy of Japan, Washington. D.C., and the Hawaii International Conference on the Humanities. She has also presented teacher seminars internationally for the East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools in Tokyo, Japan, and for the European Council of International Schools in Amsterdam, Netherlands. PATRICK CALLAHAN Dr. Patrick began his career as a mathematics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, while doing research as a topologist. After several years of teaching at the university level, he became involved in education research. During this time, he helped revolutionize the university’s secondary teacher preparation program by helping design and implement UTeach, a secondary STEM-focused program that has gained national recognition and replicated across the country. Over the past two decades, Dr. Callahan has held a variety of positions in different areas of mathematics education, including the Executive Director of the University of California Science and Mathematics Initiative, a Senior Research Scientist at WestEd, and the Statewide Co-Director of the California Mathematics Project. As a mathematician who has been deeply involved with improving education for twenty years, Dr. Callahan offers broad experience, multiple perspectives, and relevant, practical content for teachers and administrators. DAN CHASSAGNE Middle School science teacher and Department Head at Singapore American School, has been a teacher for over twenty-five years in the US, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Dan has taught science from elementary to high school. He currently appears on the Nat. Geo. Channel show “Food Files” as a science consultant. On this show he demonstrates and explains to the audience complex science concepts related to food in an easy to understand way. Dan also does consulting work at other international schools where he shows teachers and students how to make NGSS practical in the classroom. Dan has been passionate about science for his entire life and he loves making it come alive for his students in meaningful and relevant ways.
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