The Dr. Will Show (Episode 18 - Talking Quick Key App with Co-founder Walter Duncan IV)
Walter has spent the past fifteen years committing his life to teaching and closing the achievement gap. As the husband of a young professor whose career has taken her across the country, Walter has had the opportunity to teach in all sorts of classrooms, from private to public, urban and suburban, privileged and underprivileged. He has a record of success in building consensus and bringing together all stakeholders to solve shared problems.
Walter has consistently improved achievement for his students, throughout his career. During his time at KIPP, a charter school management organization known for effectively closing the achievement gap, his students showed dramatic improvement on the DC CAS and NWEA MAP exam. As an English teacher at South Shore Charter Public School, his students scored in the top 15% on the MCAS ELA in 2012!
As Director of Administration at the Brooklyn Waldorf School, a small private early childhood and elementary school in its second year of operation, Walter added an extra early childhood class, and doubled the school’s student population for the 2007/2008 school year!
It is this attitude and work ethic that he brings to his transition to entrepreneurship. Walter has accumulated 15 years of experience as an educator, which he applies to his day-to-day activities as the head of Marketing for Design by Educators, Inc., the company he co-founded in 2012.
Walter has consistently improved achievement for his students, throughout his career. During his time at KIPP, a charter school management organization known for effectively closing the achievement gap, his students showed dramatic improvement on the DC CAS and NWEA MAP exam. As an English teacher at South Shore Charter Public School, his students scored in the top 15% on the MCAS ELA in 2012!
As Director of Administration at the Brooklyn Waldorf School, a small private early childhood and elementary school in its second year of operation, Walter added an extra early childhood class, and doubled the school’s student population for the 2007/2008 school year!
It is this attitude and work ethic that he brings to his transition to entrepreneurship. Walter has accumulated 15 years of experience as an educator, which he applies to his day-to-day activities as the head of Marketing for Design by Educators, Inc., the company he co-founded in 2012.
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Hi! My name is Savanah Moore and I am in Dr. Strange's EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I really enjoyed browsing your blog! I really enjoyed learning about Walter and can't wait to try out the Quick Key app!
The Dr. Will Show (Episode 17 - Find Your Ed Calling with Maria Vibandor)
Maria was born in Manila, Philippines and immigrated to Chicago, IL with her family at the age of three. She spent most of her adult life in the Greater Chicago land area and graduated from DePaul University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Science with a concentration in Health Studies.
Although happy at her corporate job and the view of the big city from her cubicle, she was inspired by a group of 8th grade students at an after school mentoring program to join the world of education.
By 2008, she left corporate America and found herself joining Teach For America and moved to New Orleans with only two suitcases and a positive attitude. She spent her first years teaching 9th and 10th grade math and science and then elementary grade levels as a reading and writing teacher. Soon she realized that reliving high school was more attractive than having her skirt tugged by small children, so she transitioned back to the high school setting as a math specialist. Needless to say, numbers is her game! Little did she know that she would soon catch the EverFi bug and join the Gulf Coast team as a Schools Manager.
She continues to be passionate about developing young adults into great leaders of the community and also training them to read food nutrition labels. Once in awhile you’ll catch wind of her inner foodie and may even get a taste of her newest culinary delight.
Maria and her family reside in New Orleans, LA, and oversees EverFi implementation in both Louisiana and Gulf Coast Mississippi.
My Comment: Hi! My name is Savanah Moore and I am in Dr. Strange's EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I really enjoyed browsing your blog! I think that it is awesome that Maria got to teach so many different ages and subjects!
When you copy material produced by someone else you MUST enclose what you have copied in quotation marks and you must indicate that it is not written by you. You must also indicate the source of the material. So in these two cases, if you copy and paste the text (which is NOT what I want you to do - see below) you must say something like this: Dr. Will Deyamport, in his blog post The Dr. Will Show - Episode 18 of May 26, 2014 writes … then the material quoted must be in quotation marks, or when extensive as is the case here, indented. Note that I have a link to the page from which the text was copied. The same is true for the second part of this post.
ReplyDeleteTechnically you have plagiarized twice in this post and you could suffer serious penalties if i were to bring charges against you. I am not going to do that, but since you were in EDM31o last semester and we covered the necessity to use quotation marks or indentations to avoid plagiarism I would be justified in doing so.
In addition, you did not follow the instructions. See p. 15 of project instructions where you will find the following: "Then POST to your blog a summary of the main issues, ideas, projects, applications or other subjects addressed in the posts you have read. " You did not summarize the posts which you read.