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William K. Preble, Ed. D. Professor of Education New England College Henniker NH, 03242 wpreble@nec.edu

Fall, 2013

Curriculum Vita Education

Doctor of Education: 1991 University of Maine, Orono, ME Master of Education: 1982 University of Washington, Seattle, WA Bachelor of Arts: 1975 New England College, Henniker, NH

Honors: Invited as Keynote Speaker, Louisiana Safe Schools Initiative Annual Conference, Shreveport, LA, Louisiana Department of Education, June, 2012 Recipient of the 2011 Robert A. Kilgore Faculty Award, which honors excellence in teaching at New England College. Nominated and finalist for the 2011 New Hampshire Excellence in Education Award. Teaching Experience 1996-Present Professor of Education, New England College, Education Department

Undergraduate Courses: Current Events in a Global Context, Educational Psychology, Professional Practice and Practicum I, Methods of Teaching Elementary and Secondary Social Studies, Overcoming Prejudice and Discrimination, and Supervision of Practicum Students and Methods Interns and Student Teachers. Graduate Courses: M.Ed. and C.A.G.S. Programs: Introduction to School Climate Leadership, Rigorous Respectful Schools for the 21st Century; Adult Culture in the Respectful School, Dynamics of Educational Change, and Collaborative Action Research I and II. Ed.D. Program: Critical Issues in Education, Dissertation Seminar and Advising.

1990-1997 Adjunct Professor, University of Maine, Department of Education and

Graduate Outreach Program. Advance Educational Psychology. 1979- 1989 Middle and High School Social Studies Teacher, Maranacook

Community School, Readfield, Maine. Taught World History and

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Geography, Affirmative Action Coordinator, Varsity Football Coach, Student Equity Leadership Team Mentor, Co-founder of the Soviet American Memorial Exchange (Project S.A.M.E.) and Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS).

Organizational Leadership and Administrative Experience 2013 Associate Dean of Education, New England College. Responsibilities include assessment and implementation of the B.A., M.Ed., C.A.G.S., and Ed.D. programs, scheduling, hiring faculty, marketing, budgeting, and administration. 2011-Present Program Director, School Climate Leadership Program, New

England College School of Graduate and Professional Studies. This new M.Ed./ C.A.G.S. program has been designed to develop a cadre of highly skilled school climate leaders and school improvement facilitators who are prepared to help transform schools for the 21st century.

2010- Present Co-Founder and Executive Director, Center for School Climate and

Learning. Developed a school climate technical assistance and research center whose mission is to design and disseminate school climate improvement and student leadership programming to support systemic improvement of school climate, safety, respect, and learning. www.thecscl.com Clients include: TN Departments of Education Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, National Dropout Prevention Center, Clemson University, Benchmark Education, Inc., Catapult Learning, Inc., Columbus, OH Public Schools, Pittsfield, NH Public Schools, Andover Elementary Middle School, Turners Fall, MA High School, Nelson NH Elementary, Grantham, NH Community School, Merrimack Valley, NH Public Schools, Raymond, NH High School, Louisiana Safe and Supportive Schools Initiative.

2001-Present Founder and President, Main Street Academix, A professional

development, educational research, and program evaluation firm specializing in school climate research, program development and technical assistance to schools. MSA created and patented the SafeMeasures™ School Climate Improvement Process that is being used nationally to evaluate and improve school climate, safety, respect, and learning. www.msanh.com

Clients include: The NH Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, APEX Dropout Prevention Program, Sullivan County, TN Public Schools, the Tennessee Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, Broward County FL Public Schools, The Maine Respectful Schools Alliance, Benchmark Education, Inc., The U.S Justice Department, Maine Office of the Attorney General, Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, The Anti-Defamation League, Maine Rural Schools Project, The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, The NH Alliance for Community Supports, The UNH Institute on Disabilities, Very Special

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Arts (VSA) of NH, Sunburst Visual Media Corp., Howbright, Inc., Master Innovations, L.L.C., Plus Time NH.

1999-2001 Dean, Graduate and Continuing Education Programs, New England

College, Henniker and Dover, NH Campuses. Development of new graduate programs, oversight of Master’s Degree Programs in Business Administration, Community Mental Health and Counseling, and Education.

2000-2001 Grant Evaluator and Consultant, Education Commission of the States (ECS), Denver, CO. Reviewed grant applications and conducted site visits to State Departments of Education across the country that applied for eleven million dollars in national service learning grants under W.K. Kellogg K-12 Service-Learning Initiative Policy and Practice Demonstration Project.

1992-1995 Principal, Readfield Elementary School, Readfield, ME. Provided

leadership to improve student learning and teacher evaluation. Initiated programs in the arts, service-learning, multi-age classrooms, special education inclusion, project-based learning, technology-based learning, parent involvement and student enrichment.

1989-1992 Director, University of Maine Aspirations Project. Developed and lead

the University of Maine Aspirations Project, designed to promote critical thinking, participation, leadership, post-secondary attendance, and improve life chances for Maine students. The focus was on student leadership to promote dialogue about schooling and educational practices that reduced barriers to student motivation and success.

Research and Consulting Experience 2013-2014 Lead Investigator, The Effects of Effective English and Spanish

Literacy Instruction on Student Literacy Development Among Students in A Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Program . Designed and in the process of implementing a year-long study for Benchmark Education, Inc., of the effects of the Benchmark English and Spanish Literacy Program on students' English and Spanish academic achievement who are participants in a Two-Way Spanish English Immersion program in Reston VA.

2012-2013 Lead Investigator, The Effects of Effective Literacy Instruction on

Student Literacy Development. Designed and implemented a year-long study for Benchmark Education, Inc., of the effects of the Benchmark literacy Program on student academic achievement in Reston, VA .

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2011-2012 Lead Investigator, The Effects of Effective Literacy Instruction on Student Literacy Development. Designed and implemented a year-long, six-school, experimental study for Benchmark Education, Inc., in the Fort Smith, AR public schools and Fairfax, VA Public Schools.

2009- 2010 Lead Investigator, The Effects of School Climate on Student Academic

Performance. Funded by a grant from the TN Dept of Education and Sullivan County Public Schools, a team of investigators from New England College and the University of Massachusetts conducted a 30 school study of the effects of the SafeMeasures™ Process on school climate and student academic achievement between 2003 and 2006.

2009 National School Climate Standards Equity Review Session, Brown

University, Co-Sponsored by the New England Equity Assistance Center and New England College. Over 30 educational equity experts from New England met to evaluate and provide feedback on the newly developed National School Climate Standards.

2008-2011 Education and Development Consultant. Worked with Retrieve

Technologies, Inc. assisting in the design of a virtual instructional platform for providing professional development and training to teachers and other professionals using interactive, video-based instructional and innovative performance-based assessment tools.

2009- 2010 Program Developer, Expanding Extended Learning Opportunities

(ELO) Through Student Leadership. Designed and implemented a project in collaboration with Plus Time NH, the NH Dept of Education, the Nellie May Foundation, and the Franklin Public Schools to empower student leaders to expand the use of ELOs.

2008-2009 Lead Investigator, Evaluating the Uses and Effects of SMART Boards.

Worked in Sullivan County, TN Public Schools to design and implement an evaluation of ways teachers used SMART boards and the effects of these instructional tools on student motivation, learning, and classroom climate.

2008-2009 Lead Investigator, The Effects of Differentiated Instruction on Student

Literacy Development. Designed and implemented a year-long, six-school, experimental study for Benchmark Education, Inc., in the East Hartford Public Schools, E. Hartford, CT.

2004-2009 Program Developer, APEX II –NH Dropout Prevention Program.

Worked with the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability and the Alliance for Community Supports to provide technical assistance to ten NH high schools that had the highest dropout rates.

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2002-2010 Research and Evaluation Consultant, School Climate in Sullivan County Public Schools, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Worked with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division to evaluate school climate and safety for minority students and to document progress made toward eliminating racism and harassment of targeted students in thirty Sullivan County K-12 schools.

2005-2008 Program Evaluator, 21st Century Community Learning Centers

Program Evaluation. Evaluated the effectiveness of The Community Association of Progressive Dominicans’s (ACDP’s) 21st Century after school programs in three inner-city elementary and middle schools and three high schools in Harlem, Upper Manhattan, and Washington Heights, NY.

2005-2007 Lead Investigator, Benchmark Literacy Research. Developed and

implemented an experimental study of the effects of Benchmark Education’s leveled readers and differentiated instruction training on literacy development of 3rd through 5th grade students in six schools in Tyler, TX.

2004- 2008 Advisory Board Member, NH Coalition of Essential Schools, Antioch

New England College, Keene, NH. The boards role is to guide the implementation of the principles of the CES in NH schools.

2004-2005 Program Evaluator, Effects of Math Line on Math Achievement.

Worked with colleagues from New England College and Main Street Academix to develop and implement an experimental study of the effects of this hands-on, manipulative-based math program on student achievement in mathematics.

2004-2005 Program Evaluator, Effects of Master Ruler on Students’ Mathematics

Achievement. Developed and implemented an experimental program evaluation for Master Innovations, a mathematics education publisher from Alpha, New Jersey.

2004-2005 Program Evaluator, Arts Education Evaluation Project. Developed a

program evaluation for the NH Department of Education’s arts-integration leadership program (SAIL). The design was distributed nationally to arts educators by the NH DOE.

2003- 2006 Advisory Board Member, CARE NH and NH PBIS Family and Youth

Engagement Partnership. Worked with leaders of the NH Dept of Education, Child and Family Services, NAMI of NH, the Parent Information Center to include youth and families as leaders in all future state-funded initiatives.

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2004-2005 Design Team Member. The Integrated Learning - Arts Integration Committee, New Hampshire Department of Education. Worked to identify current challenges affecting integrated arts education, including the education of students with disabilities. Developed a set of best practices and disseminated these statewide for use in NH schools.

2003-2004 NH Department of Education, Social Studies Standards Revision

Committee. Served as Chair of the Geography Committee and as a member of the Policy Committee to make revisions to the NH Social Studies Curriculum Standards.

2003-2004 Research and Evaluation Consultant, Amber Charter School, East

Harlem, NY. Worked as a partner with this inner-city elementary school to evaluate school safety and climate and the impact of urban poverty, recent immigration status, and international terrorism on students’ perceptions of safety. This work led to the development of a comprehensive school safety plan for Amber Charter.

2000-2004 Lewiston High School Peer Leaders Project Evaluation. Developed

and implemented a longitudinal study of the effects of a Peer Leaders Program initiated by the University of Southern Maine’s Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence on students’ attitudes and behavior, racism, harassment, and school climate following the influx of hundreds of Somali families into Lewiston, Maine.

2003-2004 Research and Evaluation Consultant, Integrated Day Charter School, Respectful Teaching Research Project. Evaluated the impact of

constructivist pedagogy, service learning, and the use of other progressive pedagogical techniques on student safety and school climate in an ethnically diverse urban school.

2003-2004 Research and Evaluation Consultant, Epping Middle School and

Brentwood School. Evaluated the impact of arts integration on student learning and school climate with particular attention to the experiences of students who have special behavioral and learning needs.

1999-2003 Founder, New Hampshire Best Schools Student Leadership Initiative.

MSA worked with the NH Department of Education, NH Public Television, Measured Progress, and the NH Teen Institute to design and implement a state-wide student leadership program as part of the NH Best Schools Leadership Initiative.

1998-2000 Evaluator, Maine Civil Rights Teams (MCRT) Project, Maine

Department of the Attorney General. Developed and implemented a two year evaluation of the effects of the MCRT Project in 154 Maine schools. This project lead to the development of the SafeMeasures™

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School Climate Improvement Process. Results of the study were presented to the Justice Department Office of Justice Assistance and were published in our first book, The Respectful School (2003) published by ASCD.

Presentations Nov, 2013 (scheduled) Keynote Speaker, 2013 Safe and Supportive Schools

Conference, Anaheim, CA. A Continuum of Respect: How to Empower Teachers and Students to Create Safe, Respectful Schools.

March, 2013 Featured Speaker and workshop leader, Massachusetts Department of

Elementary and Secondary Education, Statewide WAZ Training Event. Building Respectful Schools Together: Transforming School Climate & Culture with Students as Partners.

Nov, 2012 Presenter, Sanborn Regional High School, Kingston, NH. Faculty

Presentation. What is Restorative Justice? An Alternative School Discipline Model.

June, 2012 Keynote Speaker, 1st Annual Safe and Supportive Schools Conference,

Shreveport, LA. The Dignity of Expertise: Utilizing Student Leadership to Build Safe, Respectful Schools.

June, 2011 Featured Speaker, 19th Annual Model Schools Conference, International

Center for Leadership in Education, Nashville, TN. Unleashing the Power of Student Leadership to Improve Schools (2 sessions).

June, 2011 Featured Speaker, 19th Annual Model Schools Conference, International

Center for Leadership in Education, Nashville, TN. Transforming School Climate and Learning (3 sessions).

June, 2011 Keynote Speaker, Tennessee Department of Education, Safe Supportive

Schools Conference, Lessons From Sullivan County: Transforming School Climate and Learning. Worked with teams of teachers and school leaders to prepare for participation in a 3-year Safe Supportive Schools Grant.

May, 2011 Featured Speaker, New Hampshire Department of Education, Safe

Supportive Schools Conference, Transforming School Climate and Learning.

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May, 2011 Featured Webinar Speaker, International Center for Leadership in Education, Rexford, NY, Transforming School Climate and Learning. Presented virtually to a worldwide audience of over 300 educators.

April, 2011 Keynote Speaker, 6th Annual Data Conference, Connecticut Department

of Education, Waterbury, CT. Improving School Climate to Support Academic Achievement.

Jan, 2011 Keynote Speaker and workshop leader for elementary teachers and

school leaders. North Kingston, RI Public Schools, Taking Action to Build Respectful Schools.

Jan, 2011 Keynote Speaker and workshop leader for teachers and school leaders.

Nelson and Harrisville, NH Public Schools, Taking Action to Build Respectful Schools.

Nov, 2010 Featured Speaker, Oklahoma Department of Education, Oklahoma City,

OK, Transforming School Climate and Learning, Statewide Professional Development Conference on Safe, Supportive Schools.

Oct, 2010 Presenter, Hillsboro-Deering Public Schools, NH, Teacher Workshop,

Engaging Learning Using Understanding by Design. August, 2010 Keynote Speaker and workshop leader for K-12 teachers and school

leaders. Lin-Wood Public Schools, Woodstock, NH, Taking Action to Build Respectful Schools.

August, 2010 Keynote Speaker and workshop leader for district administrators.

Keene Public Schools, Keene, NH, Beyond Compliance: Addressing NH’s New Anti-Bullying Law through Prevention and Student Leadership.

August, 2010 Student Leadership Facilitator, NH Department of Education’s APEX

Summer Institute, Attitash, NH. NH’s New Anti-Bullying Law: A Three-Tiered Approach to Effective Implementation.

July, 2010 Technical Assistance Consultant, Merrimack Valley Public Schools, Administrative Team Summer Retreat, Plymouth, NH, Linking School Climate Improvement to Implementation of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program.

July, 2010 Workshop Leader. National School Climate Center Summer Institute

Fordham University, NY, NY. Improving School Climate and Learning through Student-Led, Collaborative Action Research.

June, 2010 Conference Organizer and Keynote Speaker, Meridith, NH, New

England Center for School Climate and Learning: Regional Anti-Bullying

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Conference. Keynote address to introduce the Center for School Climate and Learning and to introduce Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education. Conducted workshop presentations for teachers and administrators on the SafeMeasures™ School Climate Improvement Process and the role of student leaders in school climate improvement.

May, 2010 Keynote Speaker and workshop leader for K-12 teachers and school

leaders. Exeter Public Schools, Exeter, NH, Taking Action to Build Respectful Schools: Integrating School Climate into Comprehensive School Reform.

May, 2010 Keynote Speaker and workshop leader for K-5 teachers, school board,

and parents. Hopkinton Public Schools, Hopkinton, NH, Using SafeMeasures™ to Improve School Climate and Learning.

April, 2010 Radio Program Guest Clemson, SC, Clemson University National

Dropout Prevention Center/Network, Radio Program, School Climate Through Students’ Eyes. A webcast with NH student leaders on how schools can improve school climate and learning and reduce dropouts.

March, 2010 Keynote Speaker and workshop leader for school administrators and

middle school team. Newport Public Schools, Newport, NH, Integrating School Climate Improvement into Comprehensive Middle School Reform.

Jan, 2010 Keynote Speaker, Murfeesboro, TN, The TN Department of Education’s

Office and Safe and Drug Free Schools and School Guidance Counselors, School Climate Through Students’ Eyes: How Sullivan County TN Schools Improved School Climate and Learning, a presentation to Tennessee principals and teachers on our work in Sullivan County schools.

Oct, 2009 Workshop Leader, Raymond, NH, Understanding By Design Teacher

Workshop, Raymond Middle and Elementary Schools, developed UBD Units of Study over a two day period with 120 teachers.

Sept, 2009 Panelist and Moderator for Review of National School Climate

Standards, Providence, RI, Brown University, Hosted a design meeting to develop National School Climate Standards for 30 educational equity experts. Participants provided editorial feedback on the development of National School Climate Standards for the National School Climate Council. Recommendations from this meeting were adopted and included in the new National School Climate Standards.

July, 2009 Workshop Leader, Nashua, NH, NH Department of Education School

Redesign for 21st Century Schools. Conducted a workshop on Student Leadership and School Change featuring a Student Leadership Simulation

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that provides participants with skills and strategies for school reform and advocacy for organizational change.

June, 2009 Presenter, Meridith, NH, NH First Annual Bullying Prevention

Conference. Workshop Presentation for teachers and administrators on Improving School Climate and Learning using the SafeMeasures™ School Climate Improvement Process.

March, 2009 Presenter, Jacksonville, FL, Engaging Student Leaders for Dropout

Prevention at PBIS High Schools. Presented our work on dropout prevention in NH and how we have expanded leadership and empowerment roles for students as a universal level intervention with PBIS.

March, 2009 Featured Speaker, ASCD Annual Conference, Orlando, FL. The

Respectful Schools Alliance: An Online Learning and Action Community. Featured presentation with Larry Taylor & Tom Unwin, Educational Leader Network, Surry British Columbia, Canada, on our online professional development alliance and the ways we are using technology to reach professionals globally using web-based platforms.

March, 2009 Featured Speaker, ASCD Annual Conference, Orlando, FL. Writing for

Educational Leadership. Featured presentation with Marge Sherer, Editor of Ed. Leadership, and authors Betty Gardner, James Strong, about the publishing process and tips for effective writing.

Aug, 2008 Speaker and Workshop Leader, Attitash, NH. Students as Leaders for

School Reform: Preventing Dropouts in NH High Schools. APEX II Leadership Institute, Worked with student leadership teams from four NH high schools to create and present a student leadership workshop for NH Dept of Education officials, school administrators, and teachers involved in dropout prevention to share strategies for empowering students to help improve their schools.

July, 2008 Featured Speaker and Workshop Leader, Fort Lauderdale, FL Building

Respectful Schools: A Leadership Development Summer Institute. Worked with leadership teams of teachers and principals from four Broward County Public Schools to provide training in the process of using collaborative action research, collecting and using school climate data to evaluate and improve school climate, safety, respect and learning.

July, 2008 Presenter, Concord, NH, NH Department of Education, Supporting

Student Success through Extended Learning Opportunities. Developed a student panel presentation for NHDOE leaders, school administrators about the value of extended learning opportunities for academic credit as a

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part of the process of high school redesign and improving student learning, engagement, and academic success.

June, 2008 Featured Speaker and Workshop Leader, Juneau, AK. Developing

Student Leaders as Partners in Improving Schools. Worked with Alaska Staff Development Network and administrators, teachers, and student leaders from Juneau Public Schools to help reduce dropouts through the engagement of student leaders as school improvement partners.

May, 2008 Workshop Leader, NH Office of the Attorney General, Concord, NH.

Improving School Climate, Safety and Respect in Schools Through Collaborative Action Research. Presented a workshop for school leaders on the use of collaborative action research to improve school climate.

April, 2008 Workshop Leader, PBIS International Conference, Chicago, IL APEX

II: How Student Leadership and PBIS are Helping to Reduce Dropouts in NH Schools.

March, 2008 Workshop Leader, ASCD Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Building Respectful Schools: How Student-Led Collaborative Action Research is Changing School Climate and Learning.

May, 2007 Presenter, ASCD Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA. Student Leadership

and School Improvement. Aug, 2006 Presenter, University of NH, Institute on Disabilities and NHDOE

Dropout Prevention Leadership Conference. Waterville Valley, NH. What is APEX II and How Student Leadership Can be an Effective Tool for School Improvement.

May, 2006 Featured Speaker, San Bernardino Public Schools, San Bernardino, CA.

How to Engage Youth in Data Collection and Leadership to Improve School Climate, Safety, and Learning.

April, 2006 Presenter, ASCD Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. The Effects of Math

Manipulative on Student Academic Performance: Results of an Empirical Study of the Effects of Master Ruler.

March, 2006 Presenter, Annual Conference. NCLB Federal Programs Institute,

Washington, D.C., The Effects of Math Manipulative on Student Academic Performance: Results of an Empirical Study of the Effects of MathLine.

June, 2005 Keynote Address, NH Dept of Education Annual Conference, Plymouth,

NH. What Respect Means: A National K-12, Perspective on Student and Teacher Perspective of School Safety, Respect, and Climate.

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March, 2005 Featured Speaker, ASCD Annual Conference, Orlando, FL. When Failure is Not an Option: Addressing Racism and School Climate at a Systems Level in Sullivan County Public Schools.

Nov. 2004 Presenter, East Harlem, NY. Using Art Therapy Techniques, Student

Interviews and Surveys to Explore School Climate and Safety. This session was part of a two-year project designed to improve school safety in this inner-city school.

Nov. 2004 Featured Speaker, Integrated Day Charter School, Parent, Teacher and

Student Forum for Leadership and Change, Norwich, CT. Using School Climate Research to Improve an Exceptional School.

Oct, 2004 Presenter, Manchester, NH. Creating a Climate for Success: High School

Leadership through Positive Behavioral Supports, Authentic Family/Student Involvement and School-to-Career Services.

June, 2003 Keynote Address, Maine KIDS Consortium, Annual Conference,

University of New Hampshire, Durham. Systems of Respect: Service Learning as a Tool for Improving School Climate.

May, 2003 Presenter, New Hampshire Alliance for Arts in Education, Annual Conference. Manchester, New Hampshire. Keynote Address, Building Dignity and Respect for ALL Learners through Arts Integration. March, 2003 Presenter, ASCD Annual Conference, San Francisco, California. Seeing Respect through a Beeper: Looking Deeply into the Issue of Respect In Schools. Recent Publications Preble,W.K. & Fitzgerald, C. (2012) Welcoming New Americans: Leading Our Schools Forward, NH Journal of Education, The NH Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Plymouth State University: Vol. XV, Spring 2012 (p.33-38). Preble, W.K. & Fitzgerald, C. (2011) What New Americans Can Teach Us All, Educational Leadership, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA: Sept. 2011, Vol. 69, No.1, (p.16-21). Preble, W.K. and Gordon, R. (2011) Transforming School Climate and Learning: Beyond Bullying and Compliance, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Preble, W.K. and Taylor, L (2008/2009) School climate through students eyes, Educational Leadership, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009, Vol. 66, No. 4 (p.35-40).

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Langdon, S.W. & Preble, W.K.(2008) The Relationship Between Levels of Perceived Respect and Bullying in 5th through 12th Graders, ADOLESCENCE, San Diego, CA: Vol. 43, (171) Libra Publishers. Preble, W.K., (2003) From Violence to Empowerment: A Continuum of Respect and Disrespect in Schools. The New Hampshire Journal of Education, Plymouth State University and NH ASCD: Vol.VI. Wessler, S.L. & Preble, W. K. (2003) The Respectful School: How Educators and Students Can Conquer Hate and Harassment. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Grants and Project Funding Over the past 10 years, I have successfully applied for, been awarded, or been funded by numerous state, federal, and local grants. Other funding for research and youth leadership projects have come through educational publishers, from local schools, and from a variety of state, federal, and regional sources. The technology, literacy and mathematics research projects we have been involved in have been privately funded by various educational publishers and program developers. 2013-2014 Main Street Academix designed and is in the process of implementing a

year-long study for Benchmark Education, Inc., of the effects of the Benchmark English and Spanish Literacy Program on students' English and Spanish academic achievement who are participants in a Two-Way Spanish English Immersion program in Reston VA.

2012-2013 The Center for School Climate and Learning received a contract from

Benchmark Education, Inc. to design and implement a year-long study of the effects of the Benchmark Literacy Program on student academic achievement in Reston, VA .

2011-2012 The Center for School Climate and Learning received funding from

Benchmark Education, Inc. to design and implement a six-school experimental study of the effects of Benchmark’s literacy training and materials on student reading achievement. The one-year research study was done in collaboration with the Fort Smith, Arkansas Public Schools and Fairfax, VA Public Schools.

2010-2012 Main Street Academix was awarded a contract to work with the TN Office

of Safe and Drug Free Schools and its new Center for School Climate to provide technical assistance to a statewide cohort of school districts which comprise 20% of all students in Tennessee.

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2008-2009 Main Street Academix received a grant to support our research on the

effects of school climate on student academic achievement from the TN Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools and the Sullivan County Public Schools.

2008-2009 Main Street Academix received a contract from Benchmark Education,

Inc. to design and implement a six-school experimental study of the effects of Benchmark’s literacy training and materials on teachers’ ability to differentiate instruction and on student reading ability. The one-year research study was done in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts and the East Hartford Public Schools.

2005-2008 Main Street Academix in collaboration with Sterner-Moscow Partnership

received a four year evaluation grant from the 21st Century School Project, to evaluate the effectiveness of The Community Association of Progressive Dominicans’s (ACDP’s) 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program. These programs are located in three inner city elementary and middle schools and three high schools in Harlem, Upper Manhattan, and Washington Heights, NY.

2005-2006 Main Street Academix received a contract from Benchmark Education,

Inc. to design and implement a six-school experimental study of the effects of Benchmark’s literacy training and materials on student reading comprehension, fluency, and phonemic awareness. The one-year research study was done in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts and the Tyler, Texas Public Schools.

2005 Main Street Academix, in collaboration with Plymouth State University,

received a grant to develop and implement a Summer Institute for NH teachers, administrators and student leaders called, Building The Respectful School, How to Improve School Climate to Help Our Most Challenging Students Succeed. The Institute was attended by over 120 students, administrators and NH teachers.

2004-2005 Main Street Academix received funding to support the evaluation of the

effects of two hands-on mathematics programs (MathLine and Master Ruler) on mathematics instruction and student learning.

2003-2007 Main Street Academix received funding from The Center for the

Prevention of Hate Violence and the Sullivan County Public Schools to conduct a longitudinal, pre-post assessment of school climate and safety in thirty-six schools in Tennessee.

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2002-2003 Main Street Academix, and SAU #24 received a New Hampshire Safe and Drug Free Schools Grant to support a pilot project from NH Dept of Education/ US Department of Education to collect school climate data in third through twelfth grades in NH schools and to develop and implement student, faculty, and administrative programs based upon results to address problems of bullying, bias-based harassment, and violence.

1999- 2003 State of New Hampshire, Department of Education’s Best Schools

Leadership Initiative. We have received three annual grants from the NH DOE to support student leadership development in NH. Funds are used to design and implement state-wide student leadership Teen Summits. We have held six statewide summits offering leadership training and support for over 1,200 middle and high school student leaders from over fifty NH communities over three years.