Bay Area Science Education Collaboratory - Educational Advisory Board

Hewlett Collaboratory

San Francisco Bay Area 6th Grade Science Collaboratory Project

Educational Advisory Board

Dr. Rick Berg Web Content Director, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose Webmaster, DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc.	Rick was formerly a research scientist at Institute for Research on Learning (IRL), where he was involed in several innovative NSF-funded math education and technology-based curriculum projects.
Dr. Michael Berman Vice President of Instructional and Information Technologies, Cal Poly Pomona.	Mike's department at Cal Poly has an outstanding streaming media server and interactive multimedia/instructional design, and applications group (e.g., see <http://video.csupomona.edu>) and he has a special interest in use of interactive media in museums, the visual and performing arts, as well as using technology to help us learn from those in the developing world.
John Couch Apple Education
Dr. Mattanjah deVries Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB	Mattanjah has done world class research in the use of lasers for mass spectrometry and is now doing advanced and applied cross-disciplinary research with lasers in studying individual biomolecules; he has also been very active in innovative approaches to science learning, from K12 - doctoral students. <http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/devries/index.shtml>
Herb Kohl Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Social Justice and the Institute for Social Justice in Education at USF	Herb and Ted Kahn have been colleagues and worked on educational projects together for over 25 years. He is a teacher, internationally-known educator, and author of over 40 books on education, children, teaching and learning (including winning of the National Book Award with his wife, Judy, for "A View from the Oak," a book about the science of ethology). He is also the recipient of a recent urban educational reform grant from the Hewlett Foundation.
Krishen Laetsch Director of the local office of Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, Office of the President, Mills College Former Chair of the Oakland Education Cabinet	Krishen is the former co-director of the NSF-funded LITES project (Leadership Institute for Teaching Elementary Science). LITES was a key model upon which our Collaboratory teacher professional development project model is based <http://www.nsdc.org/library/jsd/ridgway212.html>.
Bonnie Marks Executive Director of the California Technology Assistance Project's Bay Area Region (CTAP Region IV)	Bonnie is a California school administrator with over 25 years experience. She has provided state and national leadership in working with schools and districts to improve teaching and learning through the use of technology, including being past President of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and longstanding involvement with Computer-Using Educators (CUE).
Steve Mayer
Dr. Ida Oberman Director of Program Development and Evaluation at Partners in School Innovation, an organization to enable public Bay Area schools in high poverty areas to achieve educational equity through school-based reform	Ida was formerly Education Program Associate at the Hewlett Foundation, where she was instrumental in supporting the original discretionary Hewlett Foundation research grant on Bay Area informal science learning resources (received by Rockman, etc. and DesignWorlds) which directly led to our current Collaboratory grant.
Judy Scotchmoor Director of Education and Public Programs at the UC Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley Board member of the Natural Sciences Collection Alliance	Prior to her role at UCMP, she was a middle school science teacher for over 25 years, with special interests in paleontology and technology. UCMP, one of the UC Natural History museums, was one of the first museums in the world to launch a site on the Web in the mid-1990's.
Dr. Jim Spohrer IBM Almaden Research Center
Dr. Art Sussman Director of the Southwestern Eisenhower Regional Consortium in Science and Math Education at WestEd. He has recently helped catalyze the Bay Area Science Alliance Co-directing the California Building a Presence in Science project with the CSTA and NSTA.	He is a leading science educator who has been involved in both California and national science education and science teacher professional development activities, and he is the author of "Dr. Art's Guide to Planet Earth: For Earthlings Ages 12 to 120"--an excellent learning resource for both students and teachers interested in a systems view of earth science.
Dr. Herb Thier Academic Administrator Emeritus at U.C. Bekeley, where he recently retired from a long and distinguished career at the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)	Herb was former Associate Director of LHS and co-director of numerous major NSF-funded science curriculum and informal science learning projects, including most recently Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP), Chemical Education for Public Understanding, as well as earlier innovative programs such as Outdoor Biology Instructional Strategies (OBIS) and Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS).
Bernie Trilling Director of Technology in Education at WestEd, where he leads a team of educational technologists in integrating technology into the instructional and administrative worlds of education	He co-directs the U.S. Dept. of Education's Regional Technology in Education Consortium. A strong advocate of Project-Based Learning, Bernie was the co-creator of Techscape, a web-based resource of PBL design and invention challenges and related learning resources. He has a former background in environmental education, as well as corporate multimedia work at Hewlett-Packard.