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The
Evaluation Team is made up of experienced teachers who have taught in
public education at various levels. The team is made up four members, two
internal evaluators from the Castleton State College history department,
including the Project Director, and two external evaluators who have
extensive experience in public education. The Evaluation Team evaluates
the work of the teacher-participants and works with the Grant Evaluator
who evaluates the overall grant.
External
Evaluators
Lincoln
Fenn
Lincoln
was born and grew up in Gorham, New Hampshire. He was educated at public school there and earned his BA and MA
from UNH. He did his post grad history work in England at the
University of London. He taught American History for the University of Maryland at the European
division in England. He
taught history at Rutland Senior High School from 1963 to 1999. He was department chair and started an Advanced Placement
U.S. history course at Rutland High School and taught that
course for 13 years. He retired from public school teaching in 1999.
He is a member of the Castleton State College part- time faculty
and he teaches Political Science there as well as Comparative Government.
He is an amateur singer, handbell ringer and distance
runner.
Mary
Fregosi
Mary
Fregosi received her B.S. degree in history from U.V.M. and then was
awarded a Fullbright scholarship to the University of Florence, Italy
where she studied late medieval and early renaissance history under the
tutelage of Professor Ugenio Garin. Returning to U.V.M. as a graduate
assistant she received her M.A. in history in 1969. She began her teaching
career at Proctor High School and spent 32 years working in the Rutland
City school system, teaching for 19 years and serving in various
administrative assignments for 13 years. A graduate of C.S.C. she earned
an M.A. in educational leadership and a C.A.G.S. in curriculum and
supervision. She was a mentor in the Woodruff program at C.S.C. Now
retired, she dedicates her free time researching and writing local
history, golfing, traveling and sailing.
Alis Headlam
Alis Headlam is an educational consultant who works with schools and the
community to provide meaningful workshops, seminars and instruction in the
areas of literacy education and the development of racial harmony. She has
taught in schools both in the United States and the international
community, served as a classroom teacher at most grade levels and
continues to maintain a presence in schools by observing student teachers
and consulting. She works not only with children and adults, but also with
teachers and teachers-in-training. She has presented extensively
about issues related to international and multicultural literacy, use of
portfolios, emergent literacy, and reading/writing workshop. Her work in
race unity includes community workshops open to the public as well as
programs for the local police department.
Internal
Evaluators
Dr.
Jonathan Spiro
Dr.
Jonathan Spiro earned his Teaching Credential at UCLA and his Ph.D. at U.C.
Berkeley, and has been a professor of U.S. History at Castleton State
College since 2002. Before coming to Castleton he taught at the University of California (where he
won the "Distinguished Teacher" award in 1990 and 1994), and
before that he taught A.P. U.S. History for eleven years at a high school
in Los Angeles (winning the "Favorite Teacher" award five
times).In 2004 Dr. Spiro was presented the "Outstanding
Faculty" award by the students of Castleton.
Dr.
Mike Austin
Mike
is a member of the Castleton History Department and received his Ph.D. in
History from the University of New Hampshire. His dissertation dealt with
the marble workers of Vermont. He is a member of the Organization of
American Historians and was editor of the Rutland Historical Quarterly for
ten years. At the College of St. Joseph he received Outstanding Teacher
Award 15 times. Previously he earned a Masters Degree in English from
Southern Illinois University where he was nominated for the Modern
Language Association Excellency in Teaching Award. He is the recipient of
the prestigious Charles Swain Thomas Award from the New England
Association of Teachers of English. Mike is the director for the American
History Project and has written, directed, and participated in over 25
grants.
External
Grant Evaluator
Dr.
Brenda Russell
The
other component of the Evaluation is to evaluate the overall project. This
part of the project will be done by Dr. Brenda Russell. In order to
evaluate this part of the project we will use surveys and other such means
to seek to improve the Teaching American History Project. See evaluation
of grant.
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