NDTAC regularly facilitates and hosts presentations from experts in the N or D field. Here you can find out more about these individuals and review their presentations from previous Webinars, Conferences, and Q&A calls. 

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Tarek Anandan

Tarek Anandan, Senior Advisor to NDTAC, supports the project's technology and evaluation activities.  He is also a member of the Center's Expert Panel.  Beginning in 2004, he helped NDTAC redevelop its website and establish an online communications plan.  He also helped the Title I, Part D program develop its National evaluation framework including its performance and efficiency indicators; led numerous technical assistance efforts; and contributed to the program's PART review. He previously served as NDTAC's Director (2007-2008)and Deputy Director (2005-2007) and also led the Center's marketing and technology work (2004-2008). He has a background in public policy and Internet communications.

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Robert Bakke

Robert Bakke currently works for the California Department of Education's California Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM).  He has also been the lead program consultant in the development and implementation of the California State-mandated Alternative Accountability System since February of 2001.  Before that, Mr. Bakke managed the Office of Research and Development for the School of Graduate, International, and Sponsored Programs at California State University, Chico.

 

Thomas Blomberg

Thomas G. Blomberg is dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. Since 1998, he has served as principal investigator of the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program (JJEEP). He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He has published widely with more than 100 books, articles, and monographs. His most recent books include Punishment and Social Control: Enlarged Second Edition (2003), Data Driven Juvenile Justice Education (2001), and American Penology (2000). He is an expert in juvenile delinquency, corrections, and evaluation research and policy. His current research is focused on identifying and validating best educational practices for delinquent and other at-risk youth.

 

David Brown

David E. Brown is the executive director of the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), a nonpartisan network of more than 250 youth employment, training, and development organizations dedicated to promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners, productive workers, and self-sufficient citizens. Since joining NYEC in 1998, Brown has been responsible for spearheading NYEC's policy and advocacy efforts, tracking the implementation and reauthorization of the youth provisions of the Workforce Investment Act, and leading an effort to connect youth employment and juvenile justice. Prior to joining NYEC, Brown was a senior policy analyst with the National Governors' Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices. During his 6-year tenure at NGA, he focused on youth-related State policy issues, including youth development, school-to-work, employment and training, National and community service, and juvenile justice.

 

Sherese Brewington-Carr

Sherese Brewington-Carr is a system’s change agent with more than 20 years experience in the field of correctional management, correctional program development, implementation and evaluation, community/volunteer development and professional consultation. Her work has garnered her local and National recognition for contributions to the criminal justice field and community service. To date, she has worked in the States of North Carolina, Connecticut, and Delaware in multiple positions, including, but not limited to State juvenile services director, warden, associate warden, and treatment services superintendent. She has held appointed political positions in Democratic, Republican, and Independent Party administrations.

 

Sandy Brown

Mr. Paul Sanders (Sandy) Brown is a program analyst in the Department of Education’s Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs office. As a program analyst, he oversees the allocations of Title I funds and works on program policy issues. Title I is the largest elementary and secondary education program in the Federal Government with a budget of over $12.7 billion (fiscal year 2005). The program serves approximately 15.8 million students in more than 13,200 school districts and 51,000 schools in all 50 States. Prior to coming to Title I, Sandy served as a program and budget analyst in the Department’s Budget Service for 14 years working on Title I and vocational and adult education issues. His career in Government started in 1975 when he joined the staff of the first elected City Council for the District of Columbia under DC Home Rule as an executive and legislative assistant for Councilperson Julius W. Hobson and later for Councilperson Hilda Mason.

 

Mike Bullis

Dr. Michael Bullis is the interim dean of the College of Education at the University of Oregon and the Sommerville-Knight Professor of Education. He also is the director of the college’s Secondary Special Education and Transition Research Unit and Director of the National Post-School Outcomes Center, a Technical Assistance and Dissemination Center funded through OSEP. Dr. Bullis has conducted both quantitative and qualitative longitudinal studies of the school-to-transition experiences of adolescents with disabilities, directed community-based vocational programs for adolescents with extreme emotional and antisocial behaviors, and developed transition skills assessment instruments. Most recently, he directed statewide studies of the facility-to-community transition experiences of incarcerated youth returning to their home communities. He serves as the research and evaluation consultant for Trillium Family Services, the largest residential treatment center for children and adolescents with mental illness in the Pacific Northwest and for the Oregon Youth Authority, the State’s juvenile correctional system. Dr. Bullis teaches doctoral level research design courses in the College of Education and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin.

Joyce Burrell

Joyce Burrell is currently the Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Rehabilitative Services for New York's Office of Children and Family Services. From 2002 to 2007, Ms. Burrell served as NDTAC's Project Director and as a Principal Research Analyst with the American Institutes for Research (AIR). During her time at AIR, Joyce made countless contributions to NDTAC's products and activities, including the establishment of its technical assistance systems. Earlier in her career, she served as a leader for 2 large urban systems, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, PA. Combined, she brings more than 20 years of experience in the field of juvenile justice.

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Michael Canada

Michael W. Canada is the Lead Teacher at Griffin Regional Youth Detention Center. He began teaching at Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center in 1998 after retiring from the United States Army. He was the first participant of the pilot Teacher Certification Program of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice to earn a Master’s Degree from Armstrong Atlantic State University. In 2008, he received a Specialist in Education degree from the University of West Georgia in Special Education Administration. Michael has been married 30 years, has two grown sons, and two grandsons who keep him young.

Tim Canter

Tim Canter has provided transition and educational services to youth between the ages of 11 and 24 for over nine years. He is currently employed by the Springfield School District to work with at risk and adjudicated youth as a Community Transition Specialist. Before working for Springfield School District, he served in the Marine Corps and a reserve program for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Mr. Canter is also a foster parent for the State of Oregon.

Terry Cash

Terry Cash, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director of the National Dropout Prevention Center, College of Health, Education, and Human Development, at Clemson University in South Carolina. His responsibilities include research, grant writing, and program evaluation for a wide range of intervention strategies designed for youth at-risk of school failure and dropping out. He also serves as an adjunct instructor in the Clemson University School of Education, Educational Leadership Department. Dr. Cash has over two decades of experience as a teacher, principal, and district level administrator in North and South Carolina. He has been a foster parent for “difficult to control” adolescents and has developed and implemented multiple programs in the public school domain that serve students at-risk. His professional background also includes experience with the South Carolina Department of Education as the Director of Volunteerism and Training Coordinator for at-risk youth mentoring programs across South Carolina.

 

Marcia Calloway

Since 2002, Marcia Calloway has been the Title I Consultant at the Nevada Department of Education.  She serves as the State Director for Title I, Part D, Subparts 1 and 2 and Assistant State Director for 21st Century Community Learning Center program (CCLC).  She is an Education Specialist and holds a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction.

 

Jack Catrett

Mr. Catrett has been employed with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) as the director of special education for the last 10 years. Prior to this appointment, he served as a special education teacher in a DJJ institution and as a teacher and principal in local school systems in Georgia. Mr. Catrett began his college studies at Jacksonville State University in Anniston, AL, and he currently holds an education specialist degree. He serves on a statewide special education advisory committee.

 

Anne Charles

Anne Charles is currently the project director of the Corrections Learning Network (CLN)and a distance learning instructor with Educational Service District 101's (ESD 101) telecommunications division in Spokane, Washington. During her 14-year tenure with ESD 101, Anne has conducted program development activities including site expansion efforts resulting in an increase of more than 2209 percent in national site participation with CLN over a 5-year period. Concurrently, Anne shares her talents, developing and implementing curricula for the workplace preparedness classes she teaches via satellite. As a 28-year classroom educator, corporate trainer, curriculum developer, public speaker, and satellite teacher, Anne delivers a message of motivation and significance to dislocated workers, youth and adult offenders, and young adults preparing for the workplace.

 

Arlene Chorney

Dr. Chorney has been with the Rhode Island Training School for 16 years, prior to which she was an administrator at Johnson & Wales University. She began as a reading teacher and was promoted to the position of principal in 1985. She is the immediate past president of the State Directors for Correctional Education and was elected to the delegate assembly of the Correctional Education Association to represent juvenile education. Dr. Chorney is currently in her second year of that term.

Bryant Claiborne

Bryant Claiborne has worked in the field of Human Services for over 15 years providing youth and families with counseling, mentoring and advocacy. In addition, he has coordinated and directed several best practice youth prevention programs. Throughout his career he has received several citations and acclamations from families, community organizations, public officials for his professionalism, energy, commitment, and level of integrity rendered to the lives of many youth and their families located in Baltimore City

Mr. Claiborne is currently the Director of the Community and Family Center (CFRC), a community -based initiative dedicated to strengthening families and the community by providing information, education and support to families, especially those children who have been involved in or at risk of entering the Juvenile Justice Center.

 

Melva Clarida

Melva Clarida is the educational facility administrator (principal) of the Illinois Youth Center at Harrisburg, one of the largest boys’ prisons in that State. She has been there as first a teacher and then an administrator since 1990. This center (IYC-Harrisburg) houses about 400 adjudicated boys between 13 and 21 years. IYC-Harrisburg does many innovative programs, among them Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS).

 

Greta Colombi

Greta Colombi, Technical Assistance Task Leader of NDTAC, is responsible for the Center's technical assistance activities. Since joining the Center in 2007, she has been overseeing responses to direct assistance requests related to Title I, Part D, the launch of peer-based, problem-solving communities of Title I, Part D administrators and practitioners; and the coordination and development of web-based conferences on a variety of ND-related topics. She has a background in program monitoring and reporting, technical assistance, and research in both the education and health and human services fields.

Zelma Cooper

Zelma Cooper is the administrator for the Title I, Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk Children and Youth Program for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has worked as a teacher of elementary, secondary, and special education in Los Angeles. Previously she worked as a special education teacher for the Grand Rapids, Michigan public schools. In 1997, Ms. Cooper was selected by the superintendent of public instruction for the State of California to serve as a member of the Title I Committee of Practitioners. In 2001, she was selected to serve as its co-chair. Ms. Cooper serves on several committees in Los Angeles County that link and coordinate services for foster youth, probation, and camp returnees. She brings 23 years of experience in providing academic support to ensure that children and youth in out-of-home placement have the same opportunity to graduate from high school as all other students.

 

Carol Cramer-Brooks

Carol Cramer-Brooks is the director of Program Development and Support for the Michigan Department of Human Services, Bureau of Juvenile Justice. She is responsible for the education, training, quality assurance, policy and the juvenile assignment units for the State-run confinement facilities and community-based programs. Mrs. Cramer-Brooks has participated in juvenile confinement education and programming since 1982. Prior to her current position, Mrs. Cramer-Brooks was the principal of the Kalamazoo County Juvenile home Schools in Kalamazoo Michigan, where she also was special education teacher for sixteen years. Mrs. Cramer-Brooks is the former director of Training and Confinement Education for the National Juvenile Detention Association’s Center for research and professional development.

 

Michael Cummings

Since 1996, Michael Cummings has been the juvenile detention transition coordinator for the prevention/intervention program for at-risk youth in the cities of Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven, Connecticut. He extensively reviews the transitional systems currently in place in each of these three cities and also examines those in place in other States. He provides leadership in developing collaborative transition systems between juvenile centers and their community schools in Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven, and works with each city’s advisory committee in developing a systematic model of service delivery to effectively transition youth back into local schools.

 

Mary Beth Curtis

Mary Beth Curtis's expertise in developing reading strategies for at-risk and delinquent populations was honed during her tenure as director of the Girls and Boys Town reading center in Nebraska, where she helped develop the Boys Town Reading Program. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Adolescent Reading: Trends in Recent Research and Implications for Instruction, which reviews her study of instruction methods for teaching reading skills.

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Karen Denbroeder

Karen Denbroeder is a Senior Educational Program Director for the Florida Department of Education's Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Service. Ms. Denbroeder, now responsible for the oversight of the education programs of all the juvenile justice facilities in Florida, was instrumental in making the push for a common assessment instrument for the State of Florida. She was also responsible for developing the assessment reporting format for the juvenile justice programs. Her work has led to a State law mandating a single test, as well as implementation of this law in Florida.

 

Nicole Deschenes

Nicole Deschenes, M.Ed., B.Sc., is the director of the National Technical Assistance Center on Youth Transition, which dedicates itself to improving practice, systems, and outcomes for youth and young adults with emotional and behavioral difficulties. Ms. Deschenes is also a faculty member in the department of child and family studies, at the Louis de La Parte Florida Mental Health Institute in Tampa, Florida. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Université de Moncton, Canada, and a master’s degree in education from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Ms. Deschenes has more than 30 years of experience as a community mental health nurse, educator, consultant, and researcher. Throughout her career, Ms. Deschenes has assisted local, national, and international organizations in developing improved supports and services for individuals with emotional and/or behavioral issues.

 

MaryAnn Donovan

MaryAnn Donovan is a policy analyst with the Office of Youth Services in the Employment and Training Administration [ETA]. Her responsibilities include representing the Youth Office on the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act. Prior to coming to the Youth Office, Ms. Donovan was a staff member for 6 years with the Departments of Education and Labor's National School-to-Work Office. She has also worked in ETA's Office of Policy Development, Evaluation, and Research and the Department of Labor's Congressional Affairs Office.

 

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer is an education and mental health consultant who has served children and families and teachers for over 45 years. He is one of the few leaders in school psychology honored with his profession's life-time achievement award. He also received the Tipper Gore friend of children award from the National Mental Health Association. In 2007 he and his wife received a mental health child advocacy award from the state of Maryland's coalition of Families for children's Mental Health. Kevin is on many boards and presently chairs the board of ROOT Inc in Washington, DC to reduce youth and gun violence.

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Steven Ellis

Steven Ellis, M.P.A. is Senior Manager for Research and Evaluation at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute. He works extensively with education, health care, and economic development initiatives and governmental entities in the areas of customer satisfaction, impact measurement, and organizational and market research. Mr. Ellis has experience with a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, including survey research, case study, interviewing, focus groups, and literature review. He has practical experience working with non-profit and quasi-public organizations, public agencies, and private businesses. Mr. Ellis received a master's degree in public administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his B.A. from North Adams State College.

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Akin Fadeyi

M. Akin Fadeyi is currently employed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) as the implementation director of the U.S. Department of Justice, OJJDP-funded Performance-Based Standards (PbS) project for youth correction and detention facilities. Mr. Fadeyi provides guidance and assistance to participating sites to implement the PbS goals, standards, expected practices, and processes, and to complete the project’s data collection, reports, and improvement cycle. He also oversees and monitors the consultants who work with participating sites in the project.

Randall Farmer

Randall Farmer has 19 years of experience teaching at-risk youth. Randall earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska in Anthropology, with minors in Philosophy and Geology and spent 6 years working for the National Park Service Midwest Archeological Center. He then earned Educational Certification in Broad Field Social Sciences, and Administration. He also has a M.Ed. from Temple University, Philadelphia, in Educational Psychology. He has taught in a variety of settings; a psychiatric hospital, alternative middle school, a residential school for inner city youth from primarily Philadelphia and New York, a juvenile detention center, and is currently the Educational Director of the Lancaster County Youth Services Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller, M.ED., L.P.C., RPED, currently serves as the manager of the educational liaison department of the Texas Youth Commission in Austin, Texas. Mr. Fuller received his master’s degree from Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. His career spans 41 years of education-related service. He has been a classroom teacher, a college instructor, a rehabilitation counselor, a special education supervisor, and an assessment specialist. In addition, Mr. Fuller served as the director of special education for 13 years before retiring and taking a position with the Texas Education Agency as a contract monitor. He joined the Texas Youth Commission in 2001 and was promoted to manager in September 2003.

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Diane Gadow

Diane Gadow is currently deputy director of the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. Prior to her current position, Ms. Gadow was superintendent of Ferris School, the maximum secure care facility for court adjudicated juveniles in Delaware. She was recruited to lead the staff through a new facility design and total program transformation. At the time, Ferris School was under an ACLU lawsuit and noted for lack of adequate programming. The new Ferris School facility and program opened in May 1997. Within 2 years, it was cited nationally as a model program by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice in their Conditions of Confinement Report, 1999. In 2002, Education Disability & Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) recognized Ferris School as a model educational program for youth corrections institutions. Ms. Gadow has assisted other States in developing new facilities and enhancing program design, organizational structure, and implementing a process whereby staff and youth promote and support positive social skill development, treatment, and education.

 

Lili Garfinkel

Lili Garfinkel, an outspoken and passionate advocate for children and families, has worked for more than 35 years to serve underrepresented populations in the United States and Canada. Since joining PACER 25 years ago, she has coordinated the Lets Prevent Abuse project and currently coordinates the Juvenile Justice Project, the first project of its kind in the U.S. to consider the relationship between the juvenile justice system and the presence of disabilities. From 1999-2006 she was the Assistant Director of the National Center on Education Disability and Juvenile Justice or EDJJ, a unique partnership that provided research, training and technical assistance as well as parent advocacy in this emerging field. Mrs. Garfinkel has been published widely and has presented across the country on a variety of topics pertaining to mental health, juvenile justice, special education and working with families. She has developed a handbook on juvenile justice and mental health titled "Unique Challenges, Hopeful Responses," which is currently being revised and expanded and she co-authored 1995's No One Saw My Pain: Why Teens Kill Themselves with Dr. Andrew Slaby, which shares the stories of eight families who lost a child to suicide. Ms. Garfinkel is a loving wife, mother of three adult daughters, and grandmother to two granddaughters.

Simon Gonsoulin

Mr. Gonsoulin, NDTAC's Director, brings to the Center 30 years of experience in education, special education, and juvenile justice. He is an expert in issues related to juvenile justice education and administration as well as special education administration. Most recently, as the Deputy Secretary of the Office of Youth Development within the Governor's Cabinet in Louisiana, he served as the lead administrator for the State's juvenile justice system, including its secure care facilities, statewide probation and parole functions, contracted community-based programming, and a newly-created stand-alone State agency of juvenile justice. Prior to that, he served as the State Director of Education for the same office. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gonsoulin worked directly in schools and classrooms as both an instructor and principal.

 

Heather Griller Clark

Dr. Heather Griller Clark has been working with and on behalf of juvenile justice and neglected and delinquent populations since 1993. She has served as special education teacher and a transition coordinator for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections; a special education teacher for Peoria Accelerated High School; a research associate for the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice; and is currently the project director for the Arizona Detention Transition Project, 4-year OSEP-funded Model Demonstration Project, and Learner Outcomes for Merging Two Worlds, an Arizona State Department of Education training grant.

 

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Michael Haley

In 2000, Michael Haley was one of 12 people awarded the North Carolina Governor’s Public Management Fellowship Award. That same year, Michael joined the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as a Researcher/Grant Writer. In October 2001, Michael was made the Grants Administrator for the Department. Since November 2005, he has been the Youth and Family Services Administrator for the Department. In order to better reflect the needs of the youth, families, and communities the Department serves, the Youth and Family Services Administrator acts as a facilitator and resource for community and family services for the Department. As such, Michael is responsible for developing, implementing, enhancing, and monitoring community, institutional and special program services for youth and families. Michael works to coordinate processes, protocols, and procedures between the Department’s divisions for connecting youth and families to the most appropriate services.

 

Maceo Hallmon

Maceo Hallmon is the Executive Director of East Baltimore Youth & Family Services. He is an active participant in juvenile detention in Baltimore, bringing the voice of the community on a variety of issues, particularly racial disparities in the juvenile justice system. He also served as the Acting Director of the Community and Family Resource Center, a new program at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center.

 

Kia Harris

Kia Harris currently serves as the director of training at the National Juvenile Detention Association's Center for Research and Professional Development (CRPD). Prior to this position, she worked as an intensive probation officer at Ingham County Family Court Juvenile Division. There she co-facilitated girls' social skills groups and initiated the Intensive Probation Community Service for Girls program. She also served on the Child Benefit Fund executive board where she assisted in the distribution of funds and coordination of fundraising programs for neglected, abused, and delinquent children in need. In addition, Ms. Harris has experience as a youth development worker at the Eaton County Juvenile Detention Facility.

 

Jessica Heppen

Jessica Heppen holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Rutgers University. She has over five years of experience in education research and policy and over ten years of experience in conducting research in the areas of education, health care, stereotypes of special populations, and student identity and self-esteem. Her research studies have been published in academic journals and presented at national conferences. Dr. Heppen is currently the Deputy Director for the National High School Center.

 

Joseph Hiznay

Joseph Hiznay is a program consultant for educational and social service systems in Pennsylvania.  He is also the chairman of the board of directors of Circle C Youth & Family Services.  Additionally, he serves on various committees promoting the educational rights of children and is a member of Correctional Educators of America.  Mr. Hiznay is involved in program development, monitoring, and project oversight relating to Title I in neglected and delinquent institutions in Pennsylvania.  Additionally, he has served for the past 8 years on the N and D Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

David Houchins

Dr. David Houchins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education in the Georgia State University College of Education. He earned his doctorate from the University of Florida in 1998. His primary research is with court-involved youth. Principally, he is interested in court-involved youth who have mild disabilities (learning disabilities, mental retardation, and emotional-behavioral disabilities). Research with this population focuses around (1) instructional practices (reading and math) and (2) transition/aftercare issues. Currently, he is the principal investigator on several federal grants including Project Liberate and the PRIDE Project. Project Liberate is a $3 million IES goal three grant examining the most effective reading, spelling, and writing instruction for incarcerated youth. The PRIDE Project is a doctoral preparation OSEP grant focusing on preparing researchers to work in the field of juvenile justice and special education.

Barbara Huff

Barbara Huff is the parent of a daughter who grew up with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse challenges. Her struggle to get appropriate services, supports and treatment for her daughter led her to advocating on a larger scale. It eventually drove her away from her career in interior design to developing a statewide family-run advocacy organization in Kansas. As founder of Keys for Networking, she became involved in a national movement to involve families in their children’s care, in systems change, and in the evaluation of services and supports. She became one of the founders and the first president of the national Federation of  Families for Children’s Mental Health. She served thirteen years as the Federation’s Executive Director. Barbara’s appointment to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Advisory Council raises the family voice to a new level of influence on policy and systems change. Barbara takes great pride and delight in the development of over 130 family-run advocacy and support organizations across the country and making families a part of important decisions, as well as the family movement moving forward in the future. Barbara is currently a part time project coordinator for the Federation of  Families for Children’s Mental Health and a part time consultant.

 

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Rufus Johnson

Dr. Rufus Johnson is the Regional Principal for Northwest Georgia for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. He earned a Bachelor’s and Masters’ in English and Secondary Education from Mercer University, a degree as an Education Specialist at Georgia State University and a doctorate in Education from Nova Southeastern University. Rufus’ extensive background in education includes fourteen years as a high school English teacher, seven years as a high school assistant and supervising principal and three years as the principal of Macon Youth Development Campus.

 

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Kathleen Karol

Kathleen Karol, Ph.D., is the superintendent of education for Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections.  Prior to this position, Dr. Karol administered secure care programs in Coconino County in juvenile detention and jail settings. She has 14 years experience as a public school administrator in the principalship and superintendency roles. She is respected throughout the State for her work with at-risk populations and her ability to lead educational change.

 

Lonnie Kaufman

Lonnie Kaufman, M.S. is a Research Manager at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute specializing in local, state, and federal educational initiatives and programs. Mr. Kaufman has over twenty years of experience working within and on behalf of public schools at the secondary and higher education levels throughout the U.S. His work has focused on conducting research and evaluation, managing projects, and providing professional development. He employs both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and has extensive experience writing reports reflecting key findings of data analysis. Mr. Kaufman received his M.S. in school counseling from San Diego State University. He earned his B.A. in anthropology and secondary teaching from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

 

James Keeley

Dr. James Keeley is currently the State field director for correctional education for the Maryland Department of Education, having recently retired from being the director of juvenile correctional education for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. He started his 32-plus-year career as a teacher in a juvenile and adult co-correctional institution. From there, he became an institutional education administrator and has been in his current position for the past 16 years. During this time he has been a member of many professional organizations, most notably as the president of the Correctional Education Association for 2 years. Mr. Keeley is currently serving as a commissioner on the Standards Commission for the Correctional Education Association and just received his Ph.D. in education leadership from Widener University.

 

Sheppard Kellam

Sheppard G. Kellam, M.D. is a public health psychiatrist who has played a major role in establishing concepts and methods for prevention science, and has contributed to knowledge about early risk factors and their malleability. From 1982-1993 He was Chair of the Department of Mental Health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is now Professor Emeritus. In March of 2000 Dr. Kellam accepted an invitation of the American Institutes for Research to come full time to AIR and develop a new Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research in Schools (Ed/Prev Center). His theoretical, methodological, and substantive contributions began with the early intervention studies in Woodlawn, an African American community on the South Side of Chicago, from 1963 through 1982. He and colleagues coined the name developmental epidemiology, i.e., mapping the variation in developmental paths leading to health or disorders within defined populations. In 2004 Dr. Kellam was elected to be a Fellow in the Academy of Experimental Criminology. As the first president of the Society for Prevention Research elected by the full membership(1998-2001), he worked to build and strengthen SPR as a broad, inclusive international scientific forum and organization for the advancement of prevention science worldwide.

Patrick Kelly

Patrick Kelly, a Research Assistant at AIR, serves as a State technical assistance liaison, works on the data team, and contributes research support for the Center Web site and related products. Patrick has an interest and experience in mental health in juvenile justice, as well as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) implementation and empirical research. In addition to his work on the NDTAC Center, he also helps coordinate policy forums related to promoting and disseminating education research. Patrick received his B.A. in History and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christine Kenney

For the past 6 years Christine Kenney has been the Director of Educational Services at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. In this position Ms. Kenney oversees the delivery of educational services in all residential programs as well as transition and vocational services. Prior to holding this position Ms. Kenney worked as the Executive Assistant to the Commissioner, victim advocate, caseworker and teacher at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. Ms. Kenney holds a Master's in Public Administration from Suffolk University and a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from Salem State College.

Tal Kerem

Tal Kerem joined NDTAC in December 2006 as a data specialist and has recently assumed the role of task leader for the Center's data collection and evaluation activities. His work for the Center has included, among other projects, presentation of CSPR data for the ND State Fast Facts, development of a CSPR data collection tool, and several ND Briefs. Tal holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yeshiva University and a master's degree in Risk and Prevention from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

Marcia Kingman

Marcia Kingman oversees the Striving Readers grants from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.  Before moving to the Department of Education, Ms. Kingman taught English at Colorado State University and in the Montgomery County, Maryland Public School system where she also helped design and deliver language arts professional development.

 

Barry Krisberg

Dr. Barry A. Krisberg has been the president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) since 1983. He is known nationally for his research and expertise on juvenile justice issues and is called upon as a resource for professionals and the media. Dr. Krisberg received his master's degree in criminology and a doctorate in sociology, both from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held several educational posts. He was a faculty member in the School of Criminology at the University of California at Berkeley, and was also an adjunct professor with the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Krisberg is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Hawaii and a lecturer in the legal studies department of the University of California at Berkeley.

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Stephanie Lampron

Stephanie Lampron, a research analyst at AIR, currently serves as Deputy Director of the Neglected and Delinquent Technical Assistance Center. Over the past several years she has worked closely with the U.S. Department of Education on the development and implementation of the National evaluation framework for Title I, Part D programs. In addition, she has overseen the collection and presentation of publicly available data for the "Fast Facts" pages, where States can compare their program data to National averages. Ms. Lampron has participated in research and evaluation projects that span both the education and health fields, including issues such as school reform, neglected and delinquent student education, student financial aid, nursing education, the stress-cancer relationship, and children's health insurance. Ms. Lampron received a Master's degree in Social Psychology from the Ohio State University, where she concentrated in attitude measurement, survey design and quantitative analysis.

 

Peter Leone

Dr. Leone is a Professor of Special Education at University of Maryland, College Park. His experience includes direct service to troubled youth as well as field-based research which examines the multidimensional problems associated with behavior disorders. Dr Leone's research interests focus on program environments for troubled youth, educational entitlements of incarcerated youth, and policy studies. He currently directs The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ), a research, training and technical assistance project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Leone’s research on literacy programs for incarcerated youth has been published in a number of professional journals, and he has made many presentations at national, state, and local conferences on topics related to the effective treatment and instruction of behaviorally disordered youth.

 

Joy Lewis

Joy Lewis is a research associate with WestEd's Assessment and Standards Development Services (ASDS) group. She has been with WestEd for 4 years, working previously with the policy center at WestEd and the math and science Program. Joy has been the ASAM Project Coordinator since 2002. Her other work at WestEd includes the development of large-scale assessments for various States around the country. Joy earned her M.A. in international education and policy analysis at Stanford University and her B.A. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

John Linton

John Linton was appointed to an education specialist position in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, United States Department of Education, on January 16, 2001. There he headed the Office of Correctional Education. Since September 2002, Mr. Linton has served in the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, which subsumed the duties of the former Office of Correctional Education. Prior to his Federal appointment, Mr. Linton was director of correctional education for the Maryland State Department of Education. His responsibilities included direct management of the education and library programs in the 23,000-bed adult correctional system. Mr. Linton provided direct support to the legislatively mandated Educational Coordinating Council for Correctional Institutions, which included membership by both the State superintendent of schools and the State secretary of public safety and correctional services.

 

Edward Loughran

Edward (Ned) Loughran is the executive director of the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, an organization representing the CEOs of State juvenile correctional agencies. He was the director of juvenile justice programs for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial from 1993 to 1996 where he administered a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to give technical assistance to several juvenile correctional agencies throughout the country.

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Dennis Maloney

Dennis Maloney was the president of Community Justice Associates. He was a senior program manager with the Balance and Restorative Justice Project at Florida Atlantic University. Dennis had more than 30 years of experience in corrections and community corrections. For 16 years he served as the Director of the Deschutes County Department of Community Justice of Oregon. There he initiated a variety of juvenile and adult corrections programs that gained national attention. Dennis wrote two books and more than 30 published articles. His book on probation is the most widely distributed journal in the history of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. In the past decade, Dennis provided technical assistance to all 50 States. Nearly 30 States revamped their entire juvenile justice system based on Dennis' writings on the balanced approach to juvenile justice. The U.S. Department of State distributed his writings to more than 250 countries, and his work is utilized worldwide as a foundation for justice system reform.

 

Sarup Mathur

Dr. Sarup R. Mathur currently serves as clinical associate professor in the special education program at Arizona State University. She is also an associate director of the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) where she is responsible for developing and evaluating the EDJJ professional development activities. She has accumulated extensive experience in program development and quantitative and qualitative evaluation of program processes and outcomes. She is an active member of Arizona Professional Development Leadership Academy, a leadership group involved in implementing and evaluating professional development activities in the State of Arizona. Currently, she is a co-principal investigator of the Arizona Detention Transition Model Demonstration Project funded by the Office of Special Education Projects (OSEP). She has published a number of research articles on behavioral disorders and juvenile delinquency and has presented at State and national conferences.

 

John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin is the Federal Program Manager for the Title I, Part D Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk Program. He also manages the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program. Prior to that, he was the State Coordinator for homeless, neglected and delinquent education programs with the Minnesota Department of Education. He has been an educator in the fields of teaching English as a Second Language, migrant education, teacher education and service learning. John started out as a counselor at a group home for youth in New Haven, Connecticut in 1988 and has been an advocate and volunteer community and labor organizer for immigrants, migrant farm workers, refugees and the homeless in California, Japan, Michigan and Minnesota. He received his doctorate from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Temple University, PA.

 

Robert Michels

As school program manager, Robert (Bob) Michels works with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics character education initiatives, including working with teachers, administrators, and other school personnel in county offices of education and school districts throughout the State to develop and implement the Character-Based Education Program (CBL), ethics camp, and programs for parents. Michels is an adjunct lecturer in the counseling, psychology, and education division at Santa Clara University. Bob has been a teacher and administrator in both elementary and high schools. He has served on various statewide committees on alternative education and been a pioneer and leader in the development of court and community schools. Bob received his bachelor's degree in elementary and secondary education from San Francisco State University and his master's in public school administration from San Jose State University.

 

JoAnn Murphy

JoAnn Murphy is a Principal at Foothill High School, a high school for incarcerated youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She has been at the school for just over a year and prior to this position she had experience in the field of education as a classroom teacher, school psychologist, assistant principal and special education coordinator. 

 

Thomas Murphy

Thomas Murphy is a 5-year veteran at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Mr. Murphy worked the first 2 1/2 years at OJJDP in the special emphasis division where he managed and monitored more than 40 discretionary grants targeting youth who are at risk, gang involved, and delinquent. Mr. Murphy monitored a variety of federally initiated grant programs that included juvenile mentoring programs, the youth environmental services program, and an array of delinquency prevention and intervention programs throughout the country.

 

Eve Munson

Eve N. Munson is the director of detention reform at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ).  She is responsible for the organization’s first foundation-supported project with the charge of reforming the juvenile detention system through intensive training and technical assistance to CJJ’s Governor-appointed member State advisory groups.  Ms. Munson has also worked as a counselor in the field with both court-appointed girls and incarcerated adults and in the field of prevention research and evaluation.  She received her degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

 

Howard Muscott

Dr. Howard S. Muscott is professor of education and director of undergraduate special education programs and graduate programs in emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in the department of education at Rivier College. Dr. Muscott currently co-directs the New Hampshire Center for Effective Behavioral Interventions and Supports, a statewide technical assistance and training network aimed at enhancing the mental health of all children in schools including those with EBD. Muscott received his doctorate in educating students with EBD from Teachers College, Columbia University and joined the Rivier faculty in 1992. He has more than 25 years of experience in education ranging from preschool through high school and higher education.

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Diego James Navarro

Diego Navarro is the Founder and PI for a National Science Foundation ATE funded project, the Digital Bridge Academy (DBA), which serves under-prepared Latino students and is in the process of being replicated in community colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area serving urban African-American, Latino and Asian students. Mr. Navarro has over twenty years experience in research and management positions in the computer industry with Hewlett Packard Labs, Apple Computer, NCR Corporation, and CEO of two start-up high-tech companies. Diego started his career in 1976 as a computer support specialist at Bank of America (while attending Pasadena City College). Diego received his master’s degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business, and holds an undergraduate degree in Information Systems from Antioch University.

Renelle Nelson

Renelle Nelson has worked for more than 30 years with and on behalf of children and youth with mental health and special education needs. Currently she is the Coordinator for the Emotional or Behavioral Disorders Project at PACER Center, which coordinates local, state and federal agency efforts to provide systems advocacy, promote family-driven service systems, and develop parent leadership to meet the needs of these individuals and their families. Ms. Nelson also currently facilitates the Youth Advisory Board on Mental Health at PACER Center. This board is made up of 8 young people with mental health disorders and works to dispel the stigma associated with a mental illness, develop self-advocacy and leadership skills, and provide information to other youth, their families and providers on how to help a youth with mental illness be successful at home, in school and in the community. During her time with PACER, Ms. Nelson also managed and directed Minnesota’s Statewide Family Network, a federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Association designed to work with family members, policy makers and service providers to improve service access and quality of services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and their families. Ms. Nelson has her Masters in Psychotherapy and Counseling and is the mother of 4 children, one of whom has received special education services through county support programs.

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Edna O'Connor

Dr. Edna R. O'Connor is the executive director of Oak Hill Academy in Laurel, Maryland, a District of Columbia public school for middle and high school-detained and committed adjudicated youth. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Goucher College. Dr. O'Connor has worked in the field of education for more than 25 years. She is dedicated to bringing about excellence and equity in education for all children. Her fields of special interest and expertise are multicultural education, curriculum development, behavior management, and restructuring schools at risk.

 

Mindee O'Cummings

Mindee O'Cummings, a Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research, has worked in the field of education for over ten years. Her experiences include teaching in special and general education settings; working as a school-based technology coordinator; serving as an elementary and middle school vice-principal; conducting research and program evaluations; providing technical assistance to educators, researchers, and developers; and working with families whose children have disabilities. Dr. O'Cummings currently serves as a National High School Center technical assistance liaison and the Coordination and Collaboration task leader of NDTAC. Dr. O'Cummings holds a B.S. and M.S. in Special Education from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University.

 

Tom O'Rourke

Dr. Tom O’Rourke has traveled many roads in education including positions as a 5^th-grade teacher, a principal, and as the director of secondary education, as well as the assistant superintendent and associate superintendent for the DeKalb County School System. After his retirement from the Dekalb School System, he served as the associate director for the College Board, and for the last 7 years has served as the associate superintendent for education for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Dr. O’Rourke counts his 7 years with the Department of Juvenile Justice as his most rewarding years in education. His philosophy of education is quite simple: “as educators we must always remember that not only do we teach english, science, social studies and mathematics, but more importantly, we teach kids.”

 

David Osher

David Osher, Ph.D., principal investigator for NDTAC, has authored or co-authored more 225 books, monographs, chapters, articles, and reports and serves on many national advisory boards. His recent publications include: Schools as Part of Systems of Care: Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health; Schools as Part of Systems of Care: Promising Practices; Early Warning, Timely Responses: A Guide to Safe Schools; and Safeguarding our Children: An Action Guide. Dr. Osher has nearly three decades of experience in examining and crafting effective prevention and treatment approaches.

 

 

Trina Osher

Trina W. Osher is President of Huff Osher Consulting, Inc. She speaks with a family voice to the mental health, education, child welfare, and juvenile justice communities and works to build collaborative alliances between families, policy makers, and providers in all of these arenas. Additionally, she collaborates with the research community in studies that will result in information that can improve the quality of life for children, youth, and families. Ms. Osher has served as a consultant to a number of government agencies and policy organizations. Her scholarly work is published in such publications as the Journal of Child and Family Studies, the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, and the Journal of Behavioral Services are Research. She also served as a family member on the Maryland state advisory council. Ms. Osher spent 12 years with the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health and prior to that worked as a special educator for 30 years. She was educated at Pratt Institute, Columbia University Teacher's College, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has three children, two with serious mental health needs, and six grandchildren.

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Natalia Pane

Natalia Pane, Center Co-Director, is a principal research analyst at the American Institutes for Research and offers expertise in strategic planning, particularly as it relates to the Federal Government and the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA); data analyses and data quality issues; and qualitative and quantitative data collection methodologies (e.g., survey design). Ms. Pane has authored more than 40 articles, papers, presentations, and book chapters on the implementation of GPRA and data quality issues.  Ms. Pane did her doctoral work in social psychology with an emphasis in statistics and methods at the University of Delaware and received her M.B.A. at the University of Maryland.

 

George Pesta

George B. Pesta is research coordinator for the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program (JJEEP). He has worked in the field of juvenile justice education for the past 8 years. His publications have focused on the effectiveness and outcomes of juvenile justice education programs. His prior experience includes teaching at Mount Marty College in South Dakota and the Tolton Alternative Education Program in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. from Florida State University and his M.A. from DePaul University and is currently completing his Ph.D. at Florida State University. His current research deals with the role of educational opportunity as a turning point in the delinquent life course.

 

Frank Plaistowe

Frank Plaistowe is a program administrator in education programs, a division that offers one of the largest alternative education programs in the United States. As the developer of Studata C, Frank has also directed the implementation, staff development, and day-to-day operations of the system that provides extensive student information to the more than 100 sites that comprise Alternative Education and Juvenile Court and Community Schools.

 

Barbara Presler

Dr. Barbara Presler has been a teacher from kindergarten to college and an alternative education administrator in the public schools. She currently works for the Arizona Department of Education as the Coordinator of Title I, Part D. Dr. Presler received her doctorate in Educational Leadership in December 2006 from the University of Nevada. Her dissertation framework was based on the 12 Standards for professional development by the National Staff Development Council (2001).

 

Ted Price

Ted Price, Ph.D., is presently serving as the assistant superintendent of Alternative, Charter, and Correctional Education Schools and Services (ACCESS) for the Orange County (California) Department of Education (OCDE). He is responsible for programs and services for at-risk, delinquent, incarcerated and home-schooled youth and adults. Dr. Price has served as chair of the Student Programs and Services Steering Committee of the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association, president of LeARN, consultant for U.S. Department of Justice, and superintendent of schools for the Department of Correctional Education in Richmond, Virginia. He has also worked with the Los Angeles Office of Education as director of Juvenile Court and Community Schools and is past-president for the International Correctional Education Association, where he was instrumental in creating the strategic plan for this association.

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Mary Quinn

Mary Magee Quinn, Ph.D., is a principal research scientist at the American Institutes for Research. She is experienced in designing and conducting research and has extensive experience in developing, delivering, and providing training and evidence-based technical assistance. Dr. Quinn has designed and taught numerous in-service training modules for teachers, paraprofessionals, and school-related personnel on topics such as providing appropriate services to children with emotional or behavioral problems and their families, conducting functional behavioral assessments, and creating safe and drug-free learning environments. Prior to coming to AIR, Dr. Quinn taught for more than 13 years. She has experience teaching in general education and special education classes from elementary through secondary schools for public schools throughout the country as well as for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools in the Republic of the Philippines and the Federal Republic of Germany. She has 3 years experience teaching at the university level as well as supervising student teachers. Dr. Quinn holds a B.S. in mental retardation, an M.Ed. in learning disabilities, and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in antisocial behavior.

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Nicholas Read

Nicholas (Nick) Read, a Research Associate at AIR, serves as a State technical assistance liaison as well as a regular research and writing contributor to the Center web site and other products. Nick has worked with youth of all ages from many backgrounds as a counselor and instructor as well as a tutor and mentor with inner-city elementary school students. Nick received his B.A. in Political Science from Wake Forest University and his Master's degree in Social Policy from the George Washington University, where he focused on juvenile delinquency and justice policy.

 

Joan Reeves

Joan Reeves has more than 30 years experience in the planning, policy development, managing, and executive leadership of complex human services systems. These systems include child welfare, juvenile justice, and child care. Her experiences also include the fiscal management of Federal, State, and local finances; media relations; intergovernmental relations; and community relations.

 

Patricia Rich

Patricia Rich has worked in a wide variety of fields relating to youth services for more than 28 years. These include functioning as a mental health therapist, teacher, counselor, assistant principal, and coordinator in the area of education and with high risk youth. Currently, Ms. Rich serves as the Title I neglected and delinquent coordinator for Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). LACOE operates the largest juvenile court and community schools program in California. Ms. Rich is responsible for the coordination and monitoring of this program. Previous to her work in the field, Ms. Rich graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a B.A. in political science and a M.A. in education.

 

Maggie Rivers

Since August 2003, Maggie Rivers has served as the Federal programs director for the Alabama Department of Education (ALDE).  Before that, Ms. Rivers was both the education specialist for ALDE and the Federal programs coordinator for the largest school district in Alabama County Public Schools.  Ms. Rivers also served as a Federal programs resource teacher for 6 years in the Mobile County public school system.  Ms. Rivers received a M.A. in administration and 1-8 elementary education from the University of Mobile.

 

Orlenda Roberts

Orlenda Roberts has worked as an educator for over 35 years, first as a teacher and later as an administrator. Her specialization is working with special needs and/or at-risk student populations. She currently serves as an Assistant Superintendent for Pinal County Schools in Pinal County, Arizona. She received her bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Arizona. Currently, Ms. Roberts is in the process of pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership.

 

Craig Rosen

Craig Rosen serves as the education administrator at the Iowa Juvenile Home (IJH) in Toledo, IA. Over the past 4 years, Craig has been involved in implementing School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports (PBS) across the entire campus at IJH and has been working at the State and national level to show that what is best practice in the public school system can be successfully implemented in juvenile justice and residential treatment settings. Craig has a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and a M.S. in administration from Drake University. In addition, Craig has additional graduate work in special education.

 

Robert Rutherford

Dr. Robert Rutherford was professor of special education and director of graduate programs and research in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University. He was an associate director of the National Center on Education Disability and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ), which was responsible for providing transition and aftercare services to youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system, and also served as principal investigator of the Arizona Detention Transition Project, an OSEP model demonstration project in the two largest detention centers in Arizona.

 

Gary Rutkin

Gary Rutkin is the Instructional Change Group Leader for the Student Achievement and School Accountability (SASA) program of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. He is also the former Federal program manager for the Title I, Part D Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk Program and the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program. He has worked in the areas of education and health and human services for the past 33 years. Previously, Gary worked with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education in the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers To Use Technology (PT3) Program. Before coming to the Department, Gary managed projects for Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) to implement a youth substance abuse prevention initiative. He also served as the deputy director of the Federal Resource Center for Special Education where he managed activities with States, regional centers, and other national technical assistance providers for the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).

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Kathleen Sande

Kathleen Sande has worked for the past 4 years as Program Supervisor for Juvenile Institution Schools and Title 1 D programs in Juvenile Corrections and Detention, at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in Olympia, Washington. She provides guidance and technical assistance to over 35 school districts serving incarcerated youth. Additionally, she serves on a variety of advisory committees promoting education for incarcerated juveniles and is a member of Correctional Education Association. Ms. Sande is involved in monitoring, data collection and project oversight relating to Title I D in neglected and delinquent institutions in Washington. Prior to this position, she worked as the Statewide Program Coordinator for Adult Offender Basic Education Services at the Washington State Department of Corrections for 7 years. In addition to her other duties, Kathleen has the responsibility of co-coordinating the statewide annual Collaboration Conference. The Conference focus is on building stronger community partnerships on behalf of students, communities and families, sharing innovative practices that assist in lessening student educational barriers and increasing transition for optimum educational achievement.

 

Anthony Sims

Anthony E. Sims, Ph.D., recently served as manager of specialized support services and state director of special education for the Illinois State Board of Education. Prior to that appointment, Dr. Sims served as a public health advisor with the Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to his appointment with the Federal Government, Dr. Sims served as a senior research analyst with the American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC. His responsibilities included coordinating national technical assistance to local school districts on special education issues, and facilitating and expanding sustainable Federal, national, and local interagency collaborations to improve outcomes for children and youth with, or placed at risk for poor academic and social outcomes.

 

Adrienne Smith

Adrienne R. Smith is president of education and workforce consultants.  She provides assistance to national and community clients in the areas of youth development, youth employment, workforce development, evaluation, sustainability and resource development.  She works with rural youth-serving organizations on community youth development in Crossett, AR; Monroe, LA; northern NM; and with urban youth-serving areas connected to the American Youth Policy Forum and the National Youth Employment Coalition.

 

Larry Springer

Larry Springer is currently the director of the Division of Juvenile Court and Community Schools, Los Angeles County Office of Education. As an exemplary teacher, he starred in the nationally televised documentary, Blackboard Jumble. As an assistant principal, he assisted the division in bringing quality educational programs to State licensed children's institutions housing hard-to-place juveniles. While serving as a school site administrator, he provided the instructional leadership in developing a model program in California combining academic excellence, state-of-the-art vocational/technical training, athletic competition, and nationally acclaimed visual and performing arts programming for older juveniles working toward emancipation.

 

Jean Steinberg

Dr. Jean Steinberg earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology in 1979 from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and her masters (in 1983) and doctoral degrees (in 1986) in clinical psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook, New York. She completed both her predoctoral and postdoctoral clinical training at Brown University's Program in Medicine. In 2001, Dr. Steinberg joined North Carolina’s Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as Clinical Director at one of the state’s five Youth Development Centers for adjudicated youth. She introduced innovative programming shifting staff focus away from sanction-based, behavior management approaches and toward more therapeutic efforts promoting behavior-change. In September 2005, she was selected by George Sweat, Secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to chair a multidisciplinary program development team that designed evidence-based programming to be introduced in smaller, community-based facilities that are to serve as replacements for the state’s aging Youth Development Centers. Since March of 2005, she has served as Director of the Jackson Project, a program testing out the environmental, staffing, and programming changes slated to be introduced in the replacement facilities on a state-wide basis in 2007.

 

Bobbi Stettner-Eaton

Dr. Bobbi Stettner-Eaton is a Management and Program Analyst for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD), EDFacts Initiative.  Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), Federal Interagency Coordinating Council (FICC).  She also previously worked as an Education Program Specialist with the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) where she served as a Project Officer for several OSEP programs. Dr. Stettner-Eaton has extensive knowledge in the areas of data collection, strategic accountability, performance measures and assessment, IDEA, and transitional services for young children with disabilities and their families. She has presented at numerous conferences and meetings, and has authored and co-authored several professional articles and papers.

 

Stephen J. Steurer

Stephen Steurer is currently the statewide coordinator of academic programs (literacy through high school) for all adult prison education programs and the male juvenile Hickey School under the authority of the Maryland State Department of Education (more than 25 years) and executive director of the Correctional Education Association, the largest association of educators in adult and juvenile corrections (17 years).

 

John Stewart

Dr. John Stewart is the superintendent of education for the Alabama Department of Youth Services School District. Dr. Stewart has been extremely active in working to gain accreditation for schools within juvenile facilities and centers, in addition to creating a separate school district for these schools. His efforts are recognized nationally and are considered revolutionary in the field of juvenile delinquent education.

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Joseph Tulman

Joseph B. Tulman, professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, directs the law school's Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic. From 1979 to 1981, Tulman was the deputy director of the Equal Justice Foundation, a National non-profit organization that addressed access-to-justice issues. He was in private practice representing children in delinquency and neglect matters until 1984, when he started his teaching career at the Antioch School of Law. Since 1988, Professor Tulman has been counsel for plaintiffs in Evans v. Williams, a conditions and deinstitutionalization class action on behalf of persons with mental retardation. Tulman has pioneered the use of special education advocacy for children in the neglect and delinquency systems. His publications include articles regarding the unnecessary detention of children, and he co-authored and co-edited a comprehensive manual regarding the use of special education advocacy for children in the delinquency system. Professor Tulman has taught at the National Judicial College in Nevada and has addressed audiences of attorneys, judges, and public and private agency personnel across the country. The Criminal Law Section of the American Bar Association awarded Professor Tulman its 1996 Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award. Professor Tulman is a Resource Fellow for the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice. From September 2001 to March 2003, Professor Tulman served under Mayoral appointment as Chair of the DC Juvenile Justice Advisory Group.

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Walter Varner

Walter Varner is a staff education program specialist with the Maryland State Department of Education. He has been the state coordinator for the homeless education program since 1995, the program manager for the neglected and delinquent programs since 1996, and a specialist for Title I services to private school children since March 2004. Mr. Varner has spent the last 23 years at the Maryland State Department of Education in the division of instruction and division of student and school services providing leadership, technical assistance and support to local education agencies, employment and training service delivery areas, community-based organization in developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating dropout prevention, employability development education programs, and State Title I programs.

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Hugh Walkup

Dr. Hugh Walkup directs strategic planning, performance reporting, and strategic plan implementation for the U.S. Department of Education. He also leads efforts to align and automate reporting systems, including the Performance-Based Data Management Initiative. Dr. Walkup first joined the U.S. Department of Education as state reform advisor after having directed Washington State's school reform planning process. Previously, he served as administrator, counselor, researcher and instructor in schools, universities, and State and local agencies. Dr. Walkup is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and earned a Ph.D. in measurement and evaluation from the University of Washington.

 

Marie Washington

Dr. Marie J. Washington has worked throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan Community promoting the integration of Educational and Economic development with human capital enhancement. She holds a BS Degree in History, a Master’s Degree in Social Work and Planning, A Master’s and Doctorial Degree in Public Health Administration. Dr. Washington serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the East Baltimore Community Corporation, (EBCC), a multi-faceted human service company serving the residents of Baltimore Neighborhoods. Through her leadership, the Corporation has evolved in providing services in the areas of Youth and Families, Substance Services, Housing Development, Employment Development, Economic Development, Health and Educational Services. Dr Washington also directs the development projects under E.B. Enterprise Incorporated.

 

Andrew Wayne

Dr. Andrew Wayne is a Senior Research Analyst at AIR. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study—a randomized field trial involving middle school mathematics teachers. Much of his work has focused on teacher development, including the evaluation of the Transitions to Teaching Program and the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind. He has also researched teacher participation in the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He earned his Ph.D. in public policy at the University of Maryland, where his dissertation addressed federal policies to improve teacher quality. He also holds degrees in physics and education and has been a teacher of science and computers.

 

Kelly Weaver

Kelly Weaver has been with the Orange County Department of Education's Title I programs since August 1988, first as an instructor, then promoted to management. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from University of California Irvine and a master's degree in public administration from California State University at Fullerton.

 

Andrea Weisman

Andrea Weisman is the Director of the Division of Behavioral Health Services for the Department of Juvenile Services in Baltimore, MD. In this position, she is responsible for the development, implementation and oversight of all behavioral health services for youth under the jurisdiction of the Department of Juvenile Services in Maryland.

Ms. Weisman is the former director of Alternative Pathways (AP), a locally- and federally-funded initiative to divert youth with mental health and/or substance abuse disorders from the juvenile justice system. AP spearheaded interagency collaboration among all the District agencies that touch youth involved in the juvenile justice system, including the Family Court, the Metropolitan Police Department, Court Social Services, Public Defender Services, Department of Mental Health, Youth Services Administration, the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth and Elders, and various community stakeholders.

 

Dorothy (Dottie) Wodraska

Dottie Wodraska is currently the correctional education specialist/director of Federal education grant programs for the Arizona Supreme Court, Administrative Office of the Courts, Juvenile Justice Services Division. Her responsibilities for the Court include administrative coordination and oversight of juvenile detention education programs statewide, directing the Federal education grant programs, coordinating the 40+ computer LEARN (Literacy Education and Resource Network) Labs throughout the State, and serving as chief GED examiner for the Court GED testing program.

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Jane Young

Jane Young, Ph.D., has been the Superintendent of Schools for the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention since 2000. Dr. Young began her career in education as a special education teacher, and has also served as a high school administrator and a senior administrator of the State residential school for blind and visually impaired students. Prior to her appointment in the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, she was the Director of Education for the Division of Prisons in the North Carolina Department of Correction.

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NDTAC Webinars

The Center hosts monthly Web-based seminars on a wide variety of topics on juvenile justice education and education for youth who are neglected Many of the presenters listed on this page have shared their expertise and experiences at these events.

 

NDTAC Conferences

The Center has hosted one national and four regional conferences. The conferences were designed to provide in-person technical assistance to researchers, administrators, and practitioners working with youth who are neglected and delinquent in all 50 States and Washington, DC.

 

Tuesday Talks

NDTAC takes on the questions of N or D professionals from across the country in an informal question and answer session. These informational teleconferences are designed for N or D professionals new to the field.

 

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