In the days following TEDxDenverED, we’ve begun to navigate the ideas and visions that you sketched onto the problem solving towers and eno boards. There is a lot of work to do… videos to edit, emails to answer and hundreds of photographs and tweets and Facebook posts to sort out.
Perhaps the most challenging element of TEDxDenverED leading [...]
Hetlena Johnson, Sr. Professional Learning Manager at eChalk, taught in Aiken County Schools for 7 years before shifting to Instructional Technology Educator with Richland School District One in Columbia, South Carolina. From there, she realized that her true calling was professionally training teachers and administrators. After all, the students are the true beneficiaries of [...]
After more than 20 years as a teacher and principal, Dr. Fred Mednick founded Teachers Without Borders (TWB) in 2000. Believing that a commitment to global education is a universal responsibility, Dr. Mednick has traveled extensively throughout the world and lent his time, skills, and training to onsite development forums. Convinced that education and international [...]
Brian Crosby, an upper elementary teacher for 29 years, guides the learning in a model technology classroom in Sparks, Nevada. Coming from a background in outdoor education and educational technology, Brian fuses his “at risk” students’ use of technology with field trips, art, hands-on activities and a problem-based approach, to build their schema of the [...]
Pandora Thomas is Director and Curriculum Manager of the Environmental Service Learning Initiative for Global Exchange as well as the Environmental Educator for Grind for the Green. Both programs aim to reconnect youth of color to the earth using innovative strategies.
A certified teacher, Pandora Thomas received human rights advocacy and international education development training at Columbia [...]
Zakiya Harris received her B.A. in Political Science and History from Rutgers University and attended New College of Law in San Francisco before leaving to pursue her life long passion of teaching. Zakiya taught elementary through collegiate level in a variety of public and private settings.
In 2003, she became the lead trainer at the DJ Project [...]
14 year old Adrianna Svitak is an award-winning pianist and violinist hailing from Redmond, WA. Her teaching career started when she was nine years old (piano). Subsequently she offers violin lessons for beginning students. At 13, Adrianna co-authored Dancing Fingers with her sister Adora.
As a pianist, she played at events including the Seattle Young Artists’ Festival, [...]
