:: Institute for Learning & Teaching
Program Staff
| Institute for Learning and Teaching Director of the Institute: Lucia Mayerson-David |
| Financial Manager: Karen Herrea |
| Project ALERTA Director: Katie Graham Project Coordinator: Lily Rabinoff-Goldman Program Assistant: Whitney Buckley |
| Boston Writing Project Director: Glenn Mitchell & Peter Golden |
| Talented And Gifted (TAG) Latino Program Director: Lucia Mayerson-David Associate Director: Ilyitch N Tábora PANAS Mentoring Coordinator: Joel Mora |
| Massachusetts Studies Project Director: Joanne Riley Associate Director: Heather Cole |
| Staff Biographies |
| Whitney Buckley is the Saturday Coordinator for Project ALERTA and assumes a role in ILT special projects. In 1999, she earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Texas-Austin and was awarded a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2000. Before working at the ILT, Whitney was employed from 1995-1997 as the Member Services personnel at a non-profit cooperative housing project for college students in Austin, Texas. She began her career with the ILT in 1998 as a graduate assistant for Project ALERTA. From 2000 until 2004, she was employed as the ILT Administrative Coordinator. Since June of 2006, she has worked closely with Project ALERTA in its expansion efforts and maintains a role of responsibility in special projects related to the Institute. Back to Top >>> |
| Heather Cole is the Associate Director of the Massachusetts Studies Project at the University of Massachusetts Boston, with primary responsibility for managing the Mass. Memories Road Show, a public scanning project. Cole holds a Master of Arts degree in history from Salem State College. She has worked in the field of public history for five years, with positions in museum education, research, archives/library services and K-12 teacher training. Prior to earning her Masters degree, she worked in higher education administration managing large-scale Teaching American History grant programs. Ms. Cole currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Norwood Historical Society, co-authored a pictorial history of South Norwood with Patricia Fanning, and produces the Society's "Tales from Tiot," a local history television program on NPA-TV. Back to Top >>> |
| Peter Golden is a founding member of the Boston Writing Project (1979), the first Massachusetts site of the National Writing Project, and served as its summer institute co-director for twenty-five years. During that period he also designed and led institutes on Teacher Research, Literature and Writing, and Writing Across the Curriculum. In 1990, he was the academic coordinator of the Hemingway Institute, an NEH funded project designed to improve the teaching of Hemingway and the teaching of writing by using the Hemingway manuscripts at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. He has made numerous conference presentations on teaching writing at the local and national level for the National Writing Project and the National Council of Teachers of English. In addition he has extensive classroom experience: he taught in Boston public secondary schools for over 30 years, attaining Lead Teacher status. A trained Mentor teacher, he has worked closely with colleagues new to the profession, and guided numerous student teachers from area colleges through their Practicum experience. In 2005 he was nominated for Massachusetts Teacher of the Year. He is a member of the National School Reform faculty and a trained coach of the Critical Friends Group. Back to Top >>> |
| Katie Graham has been working with Project ALERTA since March of 2006. Before coming to the ILT, Katie served as Program Director at East Village Youth Program, a college readiness program for 6th-12th grade students on the northwest side of Chicago. There she gained experience in nonprofit management and programming, and worked closely with volunteers, students, schools, and families. Prior to her experience in Chicago, Katie was a member of Teach for America, and spent three years teaching high school Spanish in the Baltimore Public Schools. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, and a Master's of Arts in Teaching from Johns Hopkins University. Back to Top >>> |
| Karen Herrera is the Financial Manager for the ILT. An alumnus of the TAG Program, Ms. Herrera graduated from Boston Latin School in 2004. She has worked as an employee of the TAG Program in various capacities since 2001. Given her superior work, commitment, and dedication to TAG, in January 2009 Ms. Herrera was promoted to Financial Manager for the ILT. Ms. Herrera is currently a student at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Social Psychology with a minor in Criminal Justice. In September of 2010, Ms. Herrera plans to continue her education at UMass Boston by obtaining her Master’s in School Counseling. Back to Top >>> |
| Lucia Mayerson-David has been working at the University of Massachusetts-Boston's Institute for Learning and Teaching (ILT) for thirty-two years. At the ILT, she has developed and participated in several programs that have defined the urban mission of this university, especially within the Boston Public Schools. Specifically, Ms. Mayerson-David has designed and directed model K-16 intervention strategies for Latino and other under-served students, such as the TAG Latino Program, Project ALERTA, GEAR-UP, the Teacher Development Collaborative and Teach Boston. Ms. Mayerson-David is a member of several inter-collegiate committees and is chair of the Latino Coalition, actively involved in the development of an agenda that links the University to the Latino community. She also serves as the Vice President of OISTE, the Massachusetts Latino Political Organization. She is a member of several education and political committees at the local and state level. Most recently she is serving on Governor Patick's Extended Teaching and Learning Time Subcommitee. Ms. Mayerson-David has extensive fund-raising experience and has taught at UMass-Boston and Boston University. She studied Economics at the University of Chile, holds a degree in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, and an M.Ed in Psycho- and Socio-Linguistics from Boston University. She has also completed advanced studies in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingual Education at Boston University. Back to Top >>> |
| Glenn Mitchell has been the Director of the Boston Writing Project since December, 2004. A former high school English teacher and a teacher of young children with and without disabilities, Glenn has been a faculty member within the Graduate College of Education since 1990 where she has designed and taught a number of courses in the Graduate Special Education Program and has served as Graduate Program Coordinator and Associate Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Glenn has served as the academic liaison on several federally funded special education teacher preparation grants and was the Principal Investigator on a state-funded inclusion capacity-building grant with the Boston Public Schools. She has designed and conducted numerous professional development workshops in the areas of individualized assessment, differentiated instruction, classroom and behavior management, and literacy. Glenn graduated from the University of Houston and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, an MA from Lesley University, and a Ph.D. from Boston College. Back to Top >>> |
| Joel Mora began working as the Program Coordinator of the Jack Kent Cooke/PANAS Mentoring Program in November of 2006. He now coordinates both components of PANAS. Joél graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in Spanish and Education. While in college, Joél was a Jumpstart member and a Pearson Teaching Fellow. He also served as the coordinator of Casa Latina, the Latino Student Center at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and as the President of the Coalition of Latino Universities (CLU). He was a member of the Latino Leadership Opportunity Program in 1998 and 1999, as well as the Beacon Leadership Program in 1998. Prior to his career at the Institute of Learning and Teaching, Joél worked as a lead pre-school teacher. He now combines his passion for community service and education and is inspired to help Latino youth excel in their dreams. Back to Top >>> |
| Lily Rabinoff-Goldman iis the Project Coordinator for Project ALERTA. Before joining ALERTA, Lily served as the Director of Literacy Project and Special Programs at StreetSquash, a youth enrichment program in Harlem. She also taught 6th grade literacy and social studies in the Bronx through the Teach for America program. Lily holds a BA in History from Brown University and a Master's of Science in Education from Bank Street College of Education in New York City. Lily is currently enrolled in the fiction writing Master of Fine Arts program at UMass Boston. Back to Top >>> |
| Joanne Riley is Director of the Massachusetts Studies Project in the Institute for Learning and Teaching, Graduate College of Education. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, with a Masters of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Masters of Science in Education from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at the middle school, high school, college and graduate levels. As a technology specialist, she has served as Technology Coordinator for the Medici Archive Project in Florence, Italy, and as a faculty development consultant in institutions of higher education. Along with a dedicated Board of Advisors, Ms. Riley is focusing on expanding the reach and services of the Mass. Studies Project at UMB, the mission of which is to engage students in their communities by localizing the curriculum, providing resources and training across the Commonwealth. Back to Top >>> |
| Ilyitch N. Tábora is the Associate Director for the Talented And Gifted (TAG) Latino Program. She began working as the TAG Coordinator in 2003, but has been part of the TAG program for many years. As a high school student at the Boston Latin School, Ms. Tábora was the President of the TAG Latino Club, and served as a Teacher Assistant in the Summer TAG Program for various years. Upon entering college, Ms. Tábora served as a TAG tutor at Boston Latin School, and as a Study Skills Teacher in the summers. She graduated in 2003 from Boston College with a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a minor in Latin American Studies. In 2005, Ms. Tábora earned her Masters degree in Social Work (MSW) from Boston College, where she concentrated in Community Organizing, Policy, Planning, and Administration. Aside serving as the Associate Director of the TAG Program, Ms. Tábora also volunteers her time as a mentor in the PANAS Mentoring program, as an organizer at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), and as a member of the Elections Advisory Council to the Boston Election Department. Back to Top >>> |