Our Professional Development Experts
Our Professional Development Experts Dr. Kevin T. Brady formed the American Institute for History Education and CICERO Systems to revolutionize the modern classroom. Content is king in all of Brady’s programs; yet substantive content is always presented in signature Common Core methods and strategies that engage modern students. Students learn to master content as a means to explore, discover, and construct salient conclusions, using modern technological tools. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Brady has conducted well over 1,000 professional development sessions throughout the United States. Dr. Brady is an enthusiastic, animated speaker who always gets teachers to challenge conventional wisdom, helping them to re-impassionate their approach and their interaction with students. TM
Dr. Brady’s Liberty Fellowship Professional Development model has helped thousands of urban, suburban, and rural teachers at all levels make gains of 20 points (35%) on content assessment-evaluations, 30% higher than control groups of like teachers. Teachers have modernized the way they teach content to students and the students score 11 to 15 points higher on assessment-evaluations. The students th scored 25-35% higher than control groups. In one district, all students moved from a district score of the 59 th percentile to the 79 percentile on state assessments, within in two years of the program. Dr. Brady helped write the New Jersey Framework and the State’s Social Studies Assessments in the 1990s. He also wrote questions for Maryland’s, Georgia’s and California’s assessments for ETS. From these experiences, Dr. Brady continues to show teachers how to prepare for state assessments by explaining the “mystery” of how the questions and answers are created. He shows teachers how to use their state and Common Core standards to create standards-based curricula that help students prepare for assessments. Dr. Brady will not have teachers “teach to the test.” Rather, they will dynamically teach to the standards, which are required by state law. Dr. Brady can show you how to bring up test scores. Educational Speaking Topics:
Increasing Test Scores because Students are Actually Learning and Enjoying It TESTOT™ Ten Effective Steps To Optimum Teaching Mastering English Language Arts Common Core Becoming a Leader Using Models from History Significantly Increasing Literacy Using Substantive Content st Getting Serious about Teaching in the 21 Century V.I.R.T.U.E. (Teaching Character in the Classroom)
History Speaking Topics:
What were the Founders Thinking? Really! Geographic Causes for Slavery The Immigrant Tradition in America How did American get so Rich? Eugenics: The Secret Whitewashed from the Textbooks Were the Communists Among Us?
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Presentations:
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development California Council for the Social Studies James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions Middle States Council for the Social Studies National Council for History Education National Council for the Social Studies New Jersey Council for History Education New Jersey Council for the Social Studies New Jersey Italian, Italian-American Heritage Commission New Jersey Department of Education Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies Texas Law Related Education Virginia Council for the Social Studies
Publications and Works: 2012
Program Director, historian, and contributor, www.CICEROkids.com.
2006-2012
Program Director, historian, and contributor, www.CICEROHistory.com (History Beyond the Textbook).
2010
Program Director, historian, and contributor, www.SojournerHistory.com (African American History: Past, Present, and Beyond).
2010
Executive Editor and contributor, New Jersey State Amistad Commission’s online infusion African-American History curricula for every teacher in the State of New Jersey. N.J. Amistad Commission and the New Jersey Department of State.
2009
Author, There is a Critical Need for Professional Development for Social Studies Teachers. SEEN: SouthEast Education Network, Volume 11.2, Fall 2009.
2005-2010
New Jersey Italian, Italian-American Heritage Curriculum
2010 2008 2007 2006 2005
Infusion Model online curriculum. “Italian and Italian American Women.” “Italians and the Holocaust.” “Italian, Italian-American, K-5 Curriculum.” “Italian, Italian-American, K-5 Curriculum.”
N.J. Italian, Italian-American Heritage Commission and the New Jersey Department of Education. 2004-2006
Author and instructional designer, An Interactive 270-lesson 6 CD-ROM series: Roots of the American Nation, Birth of Liberty, Creating the United States, Antebellum America, The Civil War, Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration.
2005
Contributor, Italians in New Jersey, New Jersey Network Documentary, NJN-PBS.
2004
Author, "Abolitionists among the Founding Generation," Middle Level Learning, National Council for the Social Studies, 2004.
2003
Co-author and instructional designer, Citizenship and Character: Exploring Civic Values From the Founding to Today. Arlington, VA: The Bill of Rights Institute.
2001
Co-author, editor, and instructional designer, The Bill of Rights and You: Teacher's Guide. Washington, DC: The Bill of Rights Institute.
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Anthony J. Fitzpatrick is a nationally renowned author, speaker, professional development provider and instructional coach. Working in conjunction with acclaimed authors Robby Brown and Fran Macko; they developed the Common Core Learning Framework. The Framework is a systematic professional development experience that unlocks the Common Core Standards for Reading, Writing and Informational Text. He has developed numerous teaching strategies that translate current research into classroom practice in order that teachers may elicit critical thinking and historical inquiry in their classrooms. A consummate professional, Anthony will build a professional development experience catered to the needs of your district! One of the country’s most requested speakers; Anthony has given workshops for over 150 school districts. He is requested to assist teachers with teaching strategies in Language Arts, Social Studies, Integrating Technology in the Classroom, Problem-Based Learning, Curriculum Development and Lesson Planning. Anthony brings an enthusiasm and dynamism to workshops that engage every teacher and inspires them to investigate their content and teaching to reach new professional heights. Teachers from around the country attest to the success of his methods as well as his passion for teaching! Writings:
Social Studies Can be SPECtacular: and six more strategies for activating critical thinking and historical inquiry CICERO: History Beyond the Textbook Sojournerhistory.com New Jersey AMISTAD Curriculum
Presentations:
Central Valley Computer Using Educators Conference – Spring 2010: Teaching Technology and Innovation as a Matter of Habit.
National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2010: Solve for Y – Integrating Cultural Literacy into Social Studies and Language Arts Classrooms
National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2011: White Out! Making Connections through your Student Detectives
Florida Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2011: What’s My Return Address? Unlocking Informational Text and Determining Author’s Purpose in a fun, effective way!
Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2011: True to Their Word: Examining Foreshadowing in American History through Benchmark Primary Sources and Informational Text.
Piscataway School District 2012: Problem-Based Learning and the Common Core Standards; Perfect Together
ExtraordinaryED Community Workshop 2012: Memorial Day in American History and Mystery.
1514 Kings Highway • Swedesboro, NJ 08085 • Tel: 856.241.1990 • WWW.AIHE.INFO Page 3 of 6
Robby Brown is a native of Cleveland County, North Carolina and has over fifteen years of classroom teaching and administration experience including directing large academic projects. Robby has taught in almost every area and level of the social studies curriculum including Civics, Economics, Advanced Topics in American History, US History, and European History; the last two include at the Advanced Placement level. Robby has a bachelor’s degree in History, master’s degree in School Administration, and is National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certified in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Social Studies – History. Robby is currently completing his thesis for a master’s degree in History. During his teaching career Robby worked with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction on developing End-Of-Course test questions for US History and writing the statewide curriculum support document for US History. This comprehensive document includes state standards with core concepts and content, instructional pacing guidelines, and classroom activities. In addition, Robby also co-wrote the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for integrating Advanced Placement United States History with state standards. Publications:
Kings Mountain and Cowpens: Our Victory Was Complete – an examination of the fighting in the Carolinas backcountry during the American Revolution, and an analysis of how these two battles fundamentally changed the course of the war.
Classroom Historians: Building Student Understanding of the Past – co-written with Dr. Fran Macko, explores the need for students to be able to think and read like historians. This book includes detailed information on the proprietary Common Core Learning Framework, and how social studies teachers can systematically address the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. The underlying concept of Classroom Historians has been recently selected by the National Council for the Social Studies for presentation at the 2012 national conference.
Two chapters on North Carolina history for McGraw-Hill/Glencoe’s middle school American history text The American Journey dealing with Colonial America and Civil War and Reconstruction.
Classroom activities for teaching the Constitution for McGraw-Hill/Glencoe’s high school civics text, Civics Today.
1514 Kings Highway • Swedesboro, NJ 08085 • Tel: 856.241.1990 • WWW.AIHE.INFO Page 4 of 6
Dr. Fran Corvasce Macko is currently a Professional Development Coordinator for the American Institute for History Education. She has 13 years of experience as a content literacy specialist and has developed and facilitated workshops in integrating literacy into social studies. Among her other curricular initiatives were the customized New York City Social Studies scope and sequence and supporting unit guides and the project-based learning curriculum. Dr. Macko served as a regional instructional supervisor for k-12 literacy, social studies and libraries for Region 7, the director of middle school programs for Community School District 20 in Brooklyn, the NYC Regional Director of the New York State Middle School Association, as well as teaching social studies and humanities for 22 years. She has presented at numerous local, regional and national conferences. Presentations: New York City Department of Education, 1999 - 2009: Regional and citywide professional development workshops in strategies for literacy acquisition and content literacy integration into the social studies classroom k-12. American Institute for History Education, 2009 - present: National professional development presentations in the Common Core State Standards and strategies for content literacy integration into the social studies classroom k-12. Conference Presentations:
NCSS (National Council for Social Studies) NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) PCSS (Pennsylvania Council for Social Studies) FCSS (Florida Council for Social Studies) MSCSS (Middle States Council for Social Studies) NYSMSA (New York State Middle School Association) Carnegie State Middle School Initiative National Conference Annenberg School Reform Initiative National Conference CEI (Center for Educational Innovation) National Conference
Publications:
Classroom Historians - Building Student Understanding of the Past, 2012
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Lucinda Evans taught middle school for over 20 years in Topeka, Kansas (home of the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education court case and historic site). She has taught a variety of subjects in grades 6, 7 and 8, but her specialty is in American History. Lucinda has a bachelor's degree in history and secondary education and is continuing her graduate studies in History through Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. Throughout her teaching career, she has done curriculum development at the district level as well as the state level. She has chaired district middle-level textbook committees through 3 textbook adoptions. She has written test items for her state social studies assessment and is currently working on aligning Kansas Social Studies Curriculum to the Common Core standards. She has received numerous awards and honors including nomination by her district for Kansas Teacher of the Year. Conference Presentations:
Kansas Association of Middle Level Educators Kansas Council for the Social Studies Kansas Council for History Education National Council for History Education National Council for the Social Studies
Common Core Background:
Common Core Lessons designed for New Jersey, Texas, Ohio, Florida, California, Oklahoma, Michigan Lesson Plan Development for Kansas State Historical Society: Aligning Social Studies and Language Arts Curriculum, 2008-2012 State Standards Development with Alignment to the Common Core 2011-2012 Statewide Standards Trainer for Kansas 1995-2005
Honors and Awards:
Topeka Public Schools Kansas Teacher of the Year 2009 Stratford Hall Seminar on Slavery-1999 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 5 time nominee Distinguished Staff Award Topeka Public Schools 2003 Gilder Lehrman Seminar on Civil Rights, Cambridge, U.K. 2007 Gilder Lehrman Seminar, The Age of Lincoln, Oxford, U.K. 2009 President, Kansas Council for History Education 2009-2012
1514 Kings Highway • Swedesboro, NJ 08085 • Tel: 856.241.1990 • WWW.AIHE.INFO Page 6 of 6
Dr. Brady’s Liberty Fellowship Professional Development model has helped thousands of urban, suburban, and rural teachers at all levels make gains of 20 points (35%) on content assessment-evaluations, 30% higher than control groups of like teachers. Teachers have modernized the way they teach content to students and the students score 11 to 15 points higher on assessment-evaluations. The students th scored 25-35% higher than control groups. In one district, all students moved from a district score of the 59 th percentile to the 79 percentile on state assessments, within in two years of the program. Dr. Brady helped write the New Jersey Framework and the State’s Social Studies Assessments in the 1990s. He also wrote questions for Maryland’s, Georgia’s and California’s assessments for ETS. From these experiences, Dr. Brady continues to show teachers how to prepare for state assessments by explaining the “mystery” of how the questions and answers are created. He shows teachers how to use their state and Common Core standards to create standards-based curricula that help students prepare for assessments. Dr. Brady will not have teachers “teach to the test.” Rather, they will dynamically teach to the standards, which are required by state law. Dr. Brady can show you how to bring up test scores. Educational Speaking Topics:
Increasing Test Scores because Students are Actually Learning and Enjoying It TESTOT™ Ten Effective Steps To Optimum Teaching Mastering English Language Arts Common Core Becoming a Leader Using Models from History Significantly Increasing Literacy Using Substantive Content st Getting Serious about Teaching in the 21 Century V.I.R.T.U.E. (Teaching Character in the Classroom)
History Speaking Topics:
What were the Founders Thinking? Really! Geographic Causes for Slavery The Immigrant Tradition in America How did American get so Rich? Eugenics: The Secret Whitewashed from the Textbooks Were the Communists Among Us?
1514 Kings Highway • Swedesboro, NJ 08085 • Tel: 856.241.1990 • WWW.AIHE.INFO Page 1 of 6
Presentations:
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development California Council for the Social Studies James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions Middle States Council for the Social Studies National Council for History Education National Council for the Social Studies New Jersey Council for History Education New Jersey Council for the Social Studies New Jersey Italian, Italian-American Heritage Commission New Jersey Department of Education Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies Texas Law Related Education Virginia Council for the Social Studies
Publications and Works: 2012
Program Director, historian, and contributor, www.CICEROkids.com.
2006-2012
Program Director, historian, and contributor, www.CICEROHistory.com (History Beyond the Textbook).
2010
Program Director, historian, and contributor, www.SojournerHistory.com (African American History: Past, Present, and Beyond).
2010
Executive Editor and contributor, New Jersey State Amistad Commission’s online infusion African-American History curricula for every teacher in the State of New Jersey. N.J. Amistad Commission and the New Jersey Department of State.
2009
Author, There is a Critical Need for Professional Development for Social Studies Teachers. SEEN: SouthEast Education Network, Volume 11.2, Fall 2009.
2005-2010
New Jersey Italian, Italian-American Heritage Curriculum
2010 2008 2007 2006 2005
Infusion Model online curriculum. “Italian and Italian American Women.” “Italians and the Holocaust.” “Italian, Italian-American, K-5 Curriculum.” “Italian, Italian-American, K-5 Curriculum.”
N.J. Italian, Italian-American Heritage Commission and the New Jersey Department of Education. 2004-2006
Author and instructional designer, An Interactive 270-lesson 6 CD-ROM series: Roots of the American Nation, Birth of Liberty, Creating the United States, Antebellum America, The Civil War, Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration.
2005
Contributor, Italians in New Jersey, New Jersey Network Documentary, NJN-PBS.
2004
Author, "Abolitionists among the Founding Generation," Middle Level Learning, National Council for the Social Studies, 2004.
2003
Co-author and instructional designer, Citizenship and Character: Exploring Civic Values From the Founding to Today. Arlington, VA: The Bill of Rights Institute.
2001
Co-author, editor, and instructional designer, The Bill of Rights and You: Teacher's Guide. Washington, DC: The Bill of Rights Institute.
1514 Kings Highway • Swedesboro, NJ 08085 • Tel: 856.241.1990 • WWW.AIHE.INFO Page 2 of 6
Anthony J. Fitzpatrick is a nationally renowned author, speaker, professional development provider and instructional coach. Working in conjunction with acclaimed authors Robby Brown and Fran Macko; they developed the Common Core Learning Framework. The Framework is a systematic professional development experience that unlocks the Common Core Standards for Reading, Writing and Informational Text. He has developed numerous teaching strategies that translate current research into classroom practice in order that teachers may elicit critical thinking and historical inquiry in their classrooms. A consummate professional, Anthony will build a professional development experience catered to the needs of your district! One of the country’s most requested speakers; Anthony has given workshops for over 150 school districts. He is requested to assist teachers with teaching strategies in Language Arts, Social Studies, Integrating Technology in the Classroom, Problem-Based Learning, Curriculum Development and Lesson Planning. Anthony brings an enthusiasm and dynamism to workshops that engage every teacher and inspires them to investigate their content and teaching to reach new professional heights. Teachers from around the country attest to the success of his methods as well as his passion for teaching! Writings:
Social Studies Can be SPECtacular: and six more strategies for activating critical thinking and historical inquiry CICERO: History Beyond the Textbook Sojournerhistory.com New Jersey AMISTAD Curriculum
Presentations:
Central Valley Computer Using Educators Conference – Spring 2010: Teaching Technology and Innovation as a Matter of Habit.
National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2010: Solve for Y – Integrating Cultural Literacy into Social Studies and Language Arts Classrooms
National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2011: White Out! Making Connections through your Student Detectives
Florida Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2011: What’s My Return Address? Unlocking Informational Text and Determining Author’s Purpose in a fun, effective way!
Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2011: True to Their Word: Examining Foreshadowing in American History through Benchmark Primary Sources and Informational Text.
Piscataway School District 2012: Problem-Based Learning and the Common Core Standards; Perfect Together
ExtraordinaryED Community Workshop 2012: Memorial Day in American History and Mystery.
1514 Kings Highway • Swedesboro, NJ 08085 • Tel: 856.241.1990 • WWW.AIHE.INFO Page 3 of 6
Robby Brown is a native of Cleveland County, North Carolina and has over fifteen years of classroom teaching and administration experience including directing large academic projects. Robby has taught in almost every area and level of the social studies curriculum including Civics, Economics, Advanced Topics in American History, US History, and European History; the last two include at the Advanced Placement level. Robby has a bachelor’s degree in History, master’s degree in School Administration, and is National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certified in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Social Studies – History. Robby is currently completing his thesis for a master’s degree in History. During his teaching career Robby worked with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction on developing End-Of-Course test questions for US History and writing the statewide curriculum support document for US History. This comprehensive document includes state standards with core concepts and content, instructional pacing guidelines, and classroom activities. In addition, Robby also co-wrote the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for integrating Advanced Placement United States History with state standards. Publications:
Kings Mountain and Cowpens: Our Victory Was Complete – an examination of the fighting in the Carolinas backcountry during the American Revolution, and an analysis of how these two battles fundamentally changed the course of the war.
Classroom Historians: Building Student Understanding of the Past – co-written with Dr. Fran Macko, explores the need for students to be able to think and read like historians. This book includes detailed information on the proprietary Common Core Learning Framework, and how social studies teachers can systematically address the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. The underlying concept of Classroom Historians has been recently selected by the National Council for the Social Studies for presentation at the 2012 national conference.
Two chapters on North Carolina history for McGraw-Hill/Glencoe’s middle school American history text The American Journey dealing with Colonial America and Civil War and Reconstruction.
Classroom activities for teaching the Constitution for McGraw-Hill/Glencoe’s high school civics text, Civics Today.
1514 Kings Highway • Swedesboro, NJ 08085 • Tel: 856.241.1990 • WWW.AIHE.INFO Page 4 of 6
Dr. Fran Corvasce Macko is currently a Professional Development Coordinator for the American Institute for History Education. She has 13 years of experience as a content literacy specialist and has developed and facilitated workshops in integrating literacy into social studies. Among her other curricular initiatives were the customized New York City Social Studies scope and sequence and supporting unit guides and the project-based learning curriculum. Dr. Macko served as a regional instructional supervisor for k-12 literacy, social studies and libraries for Region 7, the director of middle school programs for Community School District 20 in Brooklyn, the NYC Regional Director of the New York State Middle School Association, as well as teaching social studies and humanities for 22 years. She has presented at numerous local, regional and national conferences. Presentations: New York City Department of Education, 1999 - 2009: Regional and citywide professional development workshops in strategies for literacy acquisition and content literacy integration into the social studies classroom k-12. American Institute for History Education, 2009 - present: National professional development presentations in the Common Core State Standards and strategies for content literacy integration into the social studies classroom k-12. Conference Presentations:
NCSS (National Council for Social Studies) NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) PCSS (Pennsylvania Council for Social Studies) FCSS (Florida Council for Social Studies) MSCSS (Middle States Council for Social Studies) NYSMSA (New York State Middle School Association) Carnegie State Middle School Initiative National Conference Annenberg School Reform Initiative National Conference CEI (Center for Educational Innovation) National Conference
Publications:
Classroom Historians - Building Student Understanding of the Past, 2012
1514 Kings Highway • Swedesboro, NJ 08085 • Tel: 856.241.1990 • WWW.AIHE.INFO Page 5 of 6
Lucinda Evans taught middle school for over 20 years in Topeka, Kansas (home of the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education court case and historic site). She has taught a variety of subjects in grades 6, 7 and 8, but her specialty is in American History. Lucinda has a bachelor's degree in history and secondary education and is continuing her graduate studies in History through Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. Throughout her teaching career, she has done curriculum development at the district level as well as the state level. She has chaired district middle-level textbook committees through 3 textbook adoptions. She has written test items for her state social studies assessment and is currently working on aligning Kansas Social Studies Curriculum to the Common Core standards. She has received numerous awards and honors including nomination by her district for Kansas Teacher of the Year. Conference Presentations:
Kansas Association of Middle Level Educators Kansas Council for the Social Studies Kansas Council for History Education National Council for History Education National Council for the Social Studies
Common Core Background:
Common Core Lessons designed for New Jersey, Texas, Ohio, Florida, California, Oklahoma, Michigan Lesson Plan Development for Kansas State Historical Society: Aligning Social Studies and Language Arts Curriculum, 2008-2012 State Standards Development with Alignment to the Common Core 2011-2012 Statewide Standards Trainer for Kansas 1995-2005
Honors and Awards:
Topeka Public Schools Kansas Teacher of the Year 2009 Stratford Hall Seminar on Slavery-1999 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 5 time nominee Distinguished Staff Award Topeka Public Schools 2003 Gilder Lehrman Seminar on Civil Rights, Cambridge, U.K. 2007 Gilder Lehrman Seminar, The Age of Lincoln, Oxford, U.K. 2009 President, Kansas Council for History Education 2009-2012
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