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Dr. Mark David Milliron is an award-winning
leader, author, speaker, and consultant best known for
exploring leadership development, future trends, learning
strategies, and the human side of technology change. Mark
works with universities, community colleges, K-12 schools,
corporations, associations, and government agencies across
the country and around the world. He serves as Board Chair
for the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in
Education and as a Trustee for Western Governors University
and Spruce Pine Montessori School. He is also the founder
and CEO of the private consulting and service group,
Catalyze Learning International (CLI). In addition, he
serves on numerous corporate, nonprofit, and education
boards and advisory groups; guest lectures for educational
institutions nationally and internationally; and authors and
moderates the Catalytic Conversations Blog. |
Dr. Mark David Milliron
President & CEO
Catalyze Learning International |
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Laura Walker earned a BA in English from
Sweet Briar College and an MS in School Administration from
the University of Miami. She has been an educator for 27
years as a teacher and head of three schools: St. Thomas
Episcopal Parish School, Palmer Trinity School, and St.
Joseph’s Episcopal School. She served on the boards of the
Florida Council of Independent Schools and the
National Association of Episcopal Schools. She
presently serves as a Senior Associate Consultant for the
National Association of Episcopal Schools. Married for 41
years, she also has three grown children and one splendid
grandson.
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Laura Walker
Senior Associate
Consultant
NAES
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Rick Kellogg is trustee and Treasurer of the
Southwestern Association of Episcopal Schools. He has
previously served as treasurer and finance committee chair
for several private schools and has 21 years experience in
education finance. He is Chairman of BMI, a land and utility
holding company in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Chairman of
GrupoTransmerquim, an industrial distribution company with
operations in Central and South America, headquartered in
San José, Costa Rica. Rick also serves as Chair of the
Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia,
as trustee of the Alumni Association of the University of
Virginia, and as trustee and President of the Center for
Furniture Craftsmanship (Rockport, Maine.) |
Richard C. Kellogg, Jr.
Trustee & Treasurer, SAES |
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Dr. Brené Brown is a writer, researcher, and
educator. She is a member of the research faculty at the
University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work where
she has spent the past ten years studying connection,
specifically authenticity, belonging, and shame, and the
affect these powerful emotions have on the way we live,
love, parent, work and build relationships. Dr. Brown
teaches graduate courses on shame and empathy, global
justice, qualitative research, and women's issues. She has
won numerous teaching awards, including the College's
Outstanding Faculty Award.
In 2008, Brené was named
Behavioral Health
Scholar-in-Residence at the Council on Alcohol and
Drugs Houston. She also serves on the working board of The
Nobel Women's Initiative, a peace and justice initiative
established in 2006 by six Nobel Peace Laureates to help
strengthen work being done in support of women's rights
around the world. |
Dr. Brené
Brown, PH.D.
Writer, Researcher, Educator
University of Houston |
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The Rev.
Dan Heischman began his tenure as Executive Director of NAES
in July, 2007. Prior to NAES, Dr. Heischman served as
chaplain at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut; head of
the upper school and assistant headmaster of St. Albans
School, Washington, D.C.; executive director of the Council
for Religion in Independent Schools (now the Council for
Spiritual and Ethical Education); and chaplain and assistant
headmaster of Trinity School, New York City. A noted
speaker, workshop leader, and author, Dr. Heischman is an
adjunct instructor for the Doctor of Ministry in Educational
Leadership program at Virginia Theological Seminary in
Alexandria, Virginia. He is president of the Graduate
Society of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in New Haven,
Connecticut and a member of Berkeley’s Board of Trustees. |
The Reverend Daniel R. Heischman, D. Min.
Executive Director, NAES |
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Bill Simmer brings over 14 years of
independent school and business administrative experience to
ISM. Spanning both secondary and post secondary level
education, Bill possesses a breadth of experiences from
various educational institutions. This, coupled with his
successful business management background, is the basis for
his approach to independent school management from a variety
of perspectives. Bill has also taught at the middle, upper,
and college levels.
Bill’s areas of interest include student
services, admissions, strategic planning, leadership, and
faculty development. With a background as a faculty
member, administrator, private school student, and private
school parent, Bill is well prepared to deal with the full
range of independent school constituents. He has
worked extensively with non-profit and religious school.
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Bill Simmer
Consultant
Independent School Management, Inc. |
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Michael Brisciana, who joined ISM in early
2006, brings more than 18 years of experience in human
resources management in nonprofit, Fortune 500, and small
business settings. His HR expertise factors into all areas
of ISM’s services: consulting, workshops, employee benefits,
and publications.
Michael specializes in conducting employee
handbook consultations and comprehensive human resources
assessments, providing practical, customized, and hands-on
guidance to private-independent schools on all aspects of
their employment-related policies and practices. He
regularly contributes articles in ISM’s publications,
Ideas & Perspectives
and To The Point.
Michael leads Human
Resources 101 and
Human Resources 201 at the annual ISM Summer
Institute, in addition to one-day workshops on
Protecting Your School from
HR Risks and other customized training. Michael
speaks on HR topics before school associations on a local,
regional, and national basis. |
Michael Brisciana, Consultant
Independent School Management, Inc. |
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After teaching preschool for 10 years in
Northern California, Susan became the founding director of
Noah’s Ark Preschool at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in
Danville, California. In addition to her role as Director,
she also served as Curriculum Coordinator and Head Teacher.
From 1999 to 2001, Susan served on the Selection Committee
for the California Early Childhood Mentor Program at Diablo
Valley College in Pleasant Hills, California. In 2002,
Susan founded her consulting business, Singing Bag
Solutions, to provide preschools and teachers with
additional tools and techniques necessary for creating
interactive and stimulating age-appropriate environments for
young children. In 2003, Susan became a registered trainer
with the Texas Early Care and Education Career Development
System. Since 2002, she has served as the Support Group
Leader for the Kingwood/Humble/Atascocita Chapter of
Attention Deficit Disorder Association – Southern Region (ADDA-SR). |
Susan MacHugh
Consultant
Singing Bag Solutions |
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The preacher for the Opening Service is no
stranger to SAES. He was the chaplain of the SAES Board of
Trustees during the five years (2002-2007) that he was head
of school at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin. His
career in Episcopal schools began as a chaplain, teacher and
coach at St. Alban’s School in Washington, D.C. Interrupted
only by a Peace Corps assignment in Tonga and Fiji, Roger
was a chaplain or administrator in five other Episcopal
school settings over a span of 27 years. He retired from
St. Stephen’s, Austin, in 2007 to become a full time
volunteer in supporting his beloved Episcopal school
ministry in Haiti. He and his wife, Kennon, live in
Staunton, Virginia. |
The Rev. Roger Bowen
Serving Episcopal Schools in Haiti |
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A team of teachers from St. Mark’s Episcopal
School in Altadena, California will demonstrate how their
school moved from theory to practice in the effort
to individualize instructional expectations for the students
in their school. They will share sample lesson plans,
teaching methods, and report cards, in addition to
describing the adjustments they have made in a program that
is designed to effectively address a wide range of academic
aptitudes and abilities among St. Mark’s students. The
instructional methods they use in a PK3-6th grade school
could be adapted to other grade levels. |
Lisa Heidel
Shannon Epino
Jayasri Ghosh
A Team of Differentiated Instruction Specialist
St. Mark's Episcopal School
Altadena, CA |
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