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 2013 MapStory Teaching Fel lows

Steve Goldberg

 The founder of Triangle Learning Community Middle School (TLC) in Durham, North

Carolina, Steve has more than a decade of teaching experience at some of the most

prestigious schools in the country. Steve served for four years (2007-11) as a history

teacher at Cary Academy, a world-class school where all students and teachers are issued

tablet computers. Before that, he was Lead Technology Teacher at The Potomac School,

a private K-12 independent school just outside of Washington, DC. Steve is excited to use

MapStory with his students at TLC for their project of making a multi-media history of 

Durham, NC.

Jessica Hanzlik

Jessica Hanzlik is currently in her second year of teaching math, science, and social

studies to 8th grade students at a public charter school in Chicago through Teach for

 America. She graduated from Ohio State University in 2008 with degrees in physics and

French, after which she attended the University of Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. At

Oxford, she earned masters degrees in particle physics and comparative social policy.

Kate Hayman

Kate graduated from Washington College in 2004 with a Bachelor’s in Sociology and

Drexel University in 2005 with a Master’s of Instruction. Since 2005, she has been anelementary school teacher. Over the past few years, she has been nominated and

awarded Queen Anne’s County Technology Teacher of the Year for her work with

technology integration in the general education setting. In addition to teaching, she also

works as an education consultant for the Geographic Information Systems office at

Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. For this MapStory project, she plans to

develop a lesson focusing on the major events during the American Revolution.

Jessica Marshall

Jessica is a US History and Civics teacher at Alcott College Prep in Chicago, where shesponsors the Mikva Social Justice and Gay-Straight Alliance clubs. Through a project of 

the Chicago Public Schools, the Global Citizenship Initiative, she is helping to pilot,

evaluate and revise a senior capstone course in Civics. Before returning to Chicago, a CPS

graduate herself, she taught for several years at a small, public HS in the Bronx. Her

interests in education lie in the areas of civic education, performance assessments, small

schools movement, and teacher evaluation. She is a Chicago Teachers Union member

and activist.

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 Emily Mitarai

Emily Mitarai is currently a second grade teacher in Arlington, VA. Emily noticed the

importance of storytelling after she found in order to make her Japanese American aunties

talk about themselves was like trying to eat ramen with a spoon. You know there are a lotof noodles in the bowl, however, you just get one or two strands at a time. Each person

has an important story to share. After receiving a B.A. in Humanities at Brigham Young

University, Emily joined Teach For America and taught 4th grade in New York City for four

years. She also studied at Bank Street College of Education in M.S. General Childhood

and Special Education where she developed skills to help students become life-long

learners.

Thomas Nevil le

 Tom has lived in Washington, DC since 2008, excepting a train trip around the US, a shortstint in Paris, and a one-year program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He

currently teaches History at Flint Hill School in Virginia. His classes run the spectrum from

critical exploration of primary sources and artifacts to digital publication, deploying new

tools as they best serve us. His next project utilizes MapStory and the rich collections of 

the Historical Society of Washington to trace the genesis and evolution of alley life in DC.

Jan Patton

Jan has been working in libraries with computers for almost 20 years. Over the course of 

her career she merged her interest in information access and delivery with a growing

fascination with computer science. She’s been involved in instruction in programming(Alice and Scratch), academic technology for students and faculty (mostly Mac based) and

information literacy. Last summer, she was the recipient of a grant to study Thoreau’s trip

through the Maine wilderness with a Native American. Out of this came a proposal for a

trip with High School students that involves stops in Walden, the Penobscot Reservation,

4-day canoe/camping trip and ends with a summit of Khatadin. She will work with

Mapstory to develop this curriculum.

Sarah Randice

Sarah teaches 4

th

grade at Abingdon Elementary School in Arlington, VA. She is interestedin launching MapStory projects focused on the Civil War and Reconstruction that focus on

slavery in Virginia, the rise of industrialization and the growth of cities as well as westward

migration.