Global Source's teacher education programs have featured over 250 selected presenters including: academic scholars,
teacher educators, community leaders, government
officials, business leaders, civil society, authors, journalists, artists, tradition bearers, activists, and refugees, who represent a wide range of voices from
academia and the larger community. Our program facilitators are experienced K-12 educators and teacher educators
from our professional learning community.
We're grateful to be working with a network of so many accomplished professionals who bring their enthusiasm for enriching educational
practices that contribute to the vitality of community and promote more engaged learning.
Beth Balas: Trust for Working Landscapes
David Bennett: Social Studies Teacher, The Overlake School
Gerard & JoAnn Bentryn: Bainbridge Island Vineyards
Kim Bush: West Sound Academy, Kitsap County Council for Human Rights
David Cowan: Healthier Kids Bainbridge
Gail Davis: Multiage Teacher (Gr. 2-4), Breidablik Elementary School
Mary Fox: Teacher Librarian, Breidablik Elementary School
Judy Friesem: Catalyst Mediation Services
Christine Fulghum: Family Consumer Sciences Teacher, Woodward Middle School
Kat Gjovik: Earth Charter Network, Great Turning Initiative
Leah Green: The Compassionate Listening Project
Edward Mikel: Center for Programs in Education, Antioch University Seattle
Katha Miller-Winder: Kitsap Mountaineer’s Salmon Safari Program
Bobbie Morgan: Natural Landscapes Project
Vern Nakata: Town & Country Market
Shan Oglesby: Social Studies Teacher & Human Rights Advisor, Kamiak High School
Walter Parker: College of Education, University of Washington
Caleb Perkins: WA State Office of Public Instruction (OSPI)
Nawang Phuntsog: Associate Professor of Education, California State University, Fullerton
Rob Purser: Suquamish Tribe, Kitsap County Council for Human Rights
Jonathan Scherch: Center for Creative Change, Antioch University Seattle
Douglas Selwyn: Associate Professor of Education, SUNY Plattsburg
Brian Stahl: Kitsap County Conservation District
Paulette Thompson: Social Studies Teacher, Garfield High School
Sarah Van Gelder: Executive Editor, Yes! Magazine
Judith Weinstock: Food Muse Inspired Catering, West Sound Academy
Betsey Wittick: Laughing Crow Farms
LEAD ADVISORS
Edward Mikel, Ph.D., Lead Advisor for Professional Education
Ed has been a teacher educator for 15 years, and currently
serves as core faculty at the Center for Programs in Education
at Antioch University Seattle. Before that, he worked
as social studies teacher, research and evaluation specialist,
and a central office administrator in a national educational
laboratory and a large urban school district. Ed's interests
have been in curriculum design and school-wide academic
programs, democratic classrooms and schools, and, more
recently, in programs of study on ecology and economics.
He is author of numerous articles and co-author of Cultures
of Curriculum (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000).
Kim Bush, M.A., Lead Advisor for Curriculum Development
Kim has been a high school teacher in both public
and independent schools off and on for the past 20 years.
During those years he has written and revised a wide
variety of curricula, usually with the goal of infusing
contemporary issues into topics studied. Interspersed
with his time in the classroom he has worked and traveled
in many regions of the world, ranging from community
development in Africa to refugee assistance with the
United Nations to human rights accompaniment in Guatemala.
He has written for Social Education, Harvard Educational
Review and Facing the Future. Kim currently team teaches
integrated humanities at West Sound Academy (Suquamish,
WA), and serves as Vice Chair for the Kitsap County
Human Rights Council.
