For Middle and High School Teachers and Curriculum Coordinators

 

Chris DeMattia - New York

 

 

Recently, he has advocated for sustainability and environmental awareness as a science teacher, club advisor, and member of the district sustainability committee at Fox Lane High School in Bedford, NY. He has also served as an education consultant and presenter for CELFand is a member of the Green Schools Coalition of Westchester.

 

As a science educator Chris has a history of designing and implementing forward-thinking strategies that integrate Education for Sustainability (EfS) within the classroom. He has developed an innovative curriculum for chemistry, as well as Take Action! Support a Sustainable Community, an online course that requires students to take community-linked action for sustainability.

 

Sherie McClam - New York

Dr. Sherie McClam has worked to reform science education for over fourteen years in richly diverse contexts inside and outside of the United States. After receiving her PhD in science education and social foundations from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2004, Sherie took an appointment as a member of academic staff in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia. While at the University of Melbourne,Sherie was able to bring her social justice scholarship in the underrepresentation of women and minorities in science together with her passion for environmental justice. She served as a Deputy Director for the University of Melbourne’s Office for Environmental Programs (OEP) assisting the Director in the management and further development of their internationally recognized, multidisciplinary Graduate Environmental Program (GEP). In this capacity she worked with university colleagues from across the disciplinary spectrum as well as community and industry partners to develop courses that promoted scholarship and action in the areas of education for sustainable development and stakeholder/community engagement.

In July, 2009 Sherie began her current appointment as an Assistant Professor in Curriculum & Instruction in Manhattanville College’s School of Education. Committed to developing an Education for Sustainability focus in the School of Education, she co-chairs the Education for Sustainability Special Studies Group for the American Association for Teacher Education. She is a member of the K-12 & Teacher Education Sector Steering Committee of the US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, serves on the program committee for the Green Schools Coalition of Westchester and is the chair of Manhattanville’s Campus Sustainability Committee.

 

Scott Beall - Boston, New York

Scott Beall is a teacher, lecturer, author and international education consultant. He received his master’s degree in mathematics education from Stanford University with an emphasis in interdisciplinary curriculum and education reform. His first book, Functional Melodies-Finding Mathematical Relationships in Music (Key Curriculum Press, 2000) integrates the teaching of mathematics and music and is used by teachers and students worldwide.

Scott's curricular focus is in project-based interdisciplinary designs that utilize systems thinking and community-based learning in themes of sustainable development, entrepreneurialism and social responsibility. He has consulted and lectured in school districts and universities from Central America to Kazakhstan, and has taught extensively and developed programs for secondary, middle, and elementary school levels. Scott is also an adjunct professor at the College of New Rochelle Graduate School of Education, the enrichment teacher for the Brewster Central Schools in Brewster, New York, and has co-designed and taught the CELF Summer Institute for Sustainability Education for the past three years.

 

Henry "Jake" Jacoby - Boston

Dr. Jake Jacoby is Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which is a world leader in integration of the natural and social sciences and policy analysis in application to the threat of global climate change. He is director of the design and application of the social science component of the Joint Program's Integrated Global System Model — a comprehensive research tool for analyzing potential anthropogenic climate change and its social and environmental consequences — and he is a leader of MIT research and analysis of national climate policies and the structure of the international climate regime.

An undergraduate mechanical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Jacoby holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University where he also served on the faculties of the Department of Economics and the Kennedy School of Government. He has been Director of the Harvard Environmental Systems Program, Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Associate Director of the MIT Energy Laboratory, and Chair of the MIT Faculty.

 

Katie Ginsberg - Boston, New York

Katie Ginsberg, CELF Founder and Executive Director, oversees and manages organizational development and assures that program objectives are met. She established the CELF Summer Institute in 2005 and has continued to work with leading educators from across the world to bring the latest information to K-12 educators and organizations.

Katie has conducted and participated in a broad range of seminars, conferences and courses on sustainability and on re-orienting education through global and interdisciplinary education. She works with thought leaders in this emerging educational paradigm who are advising schools and educational systems worldwide. 

Katie is a Founding Member of the Westchester Green Schools Coalition and serves on the Westchester County Climate Change Advisory Panel. She served as Chair of the County Executive’s Westchester Global Warming Task Force for the education sector, which developed a blueprint to integrate sustainability across the campuses, curriculum and communities of Westchester, NY schools.  Katie also serves on the Board of the Women's Climate Initiative and on the Advisory Board for Teatown Lake Reservation.