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COLLABORATIVE COUNCIL

Board of Directors Executive Team

Chair: Lucinda Presley, ICEE Success Foundation

Secretary-Treasurer: Amanda Upton, NSTA

 

Implementation Leaders

Executive Director: Lucinda Presley

Strategic Advisor: Jonathan Katz, PhD​

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Board of Directors

  • Jamie Bell, Senior Advisor, Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC)

  • Alicia Conerly, EdD, 2024-25 President National Science Teaching Assn. (NSTA); Federal Programs Director, Marion County School District, Columbia, MS

  • Sharon Delesbore, PhD, President, Association for Multicultural Science Education (AMSE); Asst. Principal, LV Hightower High School, Ft. Bend, TX

  • Michael Jay, Chief Executive Officer, Matchmaker Education Labs; President, Educational Systemics

  • Jonathan Katz, PhD, Collaborative Strategic Advisor; Professor of Practice in Cultural Policy and Arts Management, George Mason University; former CEO, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA)

  • Roger Malina, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas; Executive Editor, Leonardo Publications, MIT Press

  • Jim Palmarini, Palmarini Arts Education Consultancy; former Director of Educational Policy and Executive Editor, Teaching Theatre Journal, Educational Theatre Association (EdTA)

  • Lillian Poats, EdD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Foundations, College of Education, Texas Southern University

  • Lucinda Presley, Collaborative Chair and Executive Director; Executive Director, ICEE Success Foundation (ICEE)

  • Amanda Upton, Collaborative Secretary-Treasurer; Sr. Manager, Shell Programs, National Science Teaching Association (NSTA)

  • Andrew Watson, Visual Arts Coordinator, Student Learning Department, Prince William County Public Schools, VA; National Art Education Association (NAEA) representative


Advisory Council

  • Michele Browning, Founder, SteamSteps and SMI Advisors

  • Melissa Collins, Second Grade Chair and Teacher, Memphis, TN, City Schools; Mentor,  National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

  • Amy D’Amico, Division Director of Professional Services, Smithsonian Science Education Center 

  • Amanda Daniels, Collaborative K-12 Innovation Fellows Leadership Team; Director, Gifted and Talented Services, Melissa ISD, Melissa TX

  • Katie Dawson, Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Theatre and Dance;  Director, Drama for Schools, College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin 

  • Donna DiBartolomeo, Principal Consultant, DiBartolomeo Consulting

  • Jennifer Edelyn, Director, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, VA

  • Rob Gorbet, PhD, Associate Professor, Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo

  • Erica Halverson, PhD, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Alex Hesse, Nonprofit Consultant

  • Lois Hetland, Professor Emerita, Art Education, MassArt

  • Gabriela Kane, Executive Director, Latinitas

  • Sharon Klotz, Executive Director, Design for America 

  • Merrie Koester, Science Literacy and STEAM Curriculum Specialist, Center for Science Education, University of South Carolina

  • Judy Koke, Senior Fellow and former Deputy Director, Institute for Learning Innovation

  • Kathi R. Levin, Consultant, Kathi R. Levin Consulting 

  • Anne Ludes, Collaborative K-12 Innovation Fellow; Asst. Superintendent for Pre-K-12 Education, Framingham Public Schools, Framingham, MA

  • Ashley Lupfer, Collaborative K-12 Innovation Fellows Leadership Team; Art Educator, Pierre Van Courtlandt Middle School, Croton Harmon Union Free School District, Croton-On-Hudson, NY

  • Susan McGreevy - Nichols, former Executive Director, National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)

  • Kimberly Olson, Collaborative K-12 Innovation Fellows Leadership Team; Pre-K through 2nd grade Art Educator, Centre School, Hampton, NH

  • Kylie Peppler, PhD, Professor of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences; Director, The Creativity Labs; Co-Director, The Connected Learning Lab, University of California, Irvine 

  • David Pyle, Instructor, Colorado State University; Principal + Founder, Pyle Creative Studio

  • Jie Qi, Co-founder and CEO, Chibitronics

  • Freddie Reisman, PhD, Emerita Professor, School of Education; Director of Freddie Reisman Center for Translational Research in Creativity and Motivation; Co-Director of Drexel/Torrance Center for Creativity & Innovation, Drexel University

  • Jasmine Sadler, CEO, The STEAM Collaborative

  • Brian Smith, PhD, The Honorable David S. Nelson Chair and Associate Dean for Research, Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College

  • Ed Spitzberg, Founder and Principal, Spitzberg Advisors

  • Hope (Bess) Wilson, PhD, Chair, Department of Special and Early Education, College of Education, Northern Illinois University

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