Staff and Advisors

Founder and Managing Director

Jonathan Garfunkel, M.A.Ed.

Jon has been working across the landscape of K-12 education for the past 18 years. Half of that time has been spent working in schools, teaching global social studies to grades 5-12, and directing a wide variety of school programs. The other half has been spent working as a program director, teacher educator, curriculum developer, visiting instructor and consultant. Jon's interests are in exploring the boundaries of global education and transformational learning, and developing uncharted areas of study for K-12 education. He is a recipient of the Human Rights Day Award from the Seattle Chapter of the United Nations Association for his work with Tibet Education Network. This groundbreaking project was the origin of Global Source. Since 2003, Jon has also been teaching at the Center for Programs in Education, Antioch University Seattle.

Advisory Board

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.

David Bennett, B.A.
Social Studies Teacher, The Overlake School

Gail Davis, Ed.D.
Multiage Elementary Teacher (2-4), Breidablik Elementary School

Phil Davis, M.A.
Teacher, Spectrum Community School

Joan Yasui Emerson, M.S.S.
Community Organizer

Mary Fox, M.A.Ed. Candidate
Teacher Librarian, Breidablik Elementary School

Christine Fulghum, M.S.Ed.
Family Consumer Sciences Teacher, Woodward Middle School
Human Rights Education Board, Amnesty International-USA

Wayne Mickaelian, M.A.
Former Principal, Laguna Hills High School

Shan Oglesby, M.A.Ed.
Social Studies Teacher and Human Rights Advisor, Kamiak High School

Nawang Phuntsog, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education, California State University, Fullerton

Douglas Selwyn, Ph.D.
Faculty, Center for Programs in Education, Antioch University Seattle
Co-Author of History in the Present Tense (Heinemann, 2003)

Paulette Thompson, M.A.
Social Studies Teacher, Garfield High School

 

Program Presenters and Faciliators

Global Source's teacher education programs have featured over 250 specially 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.

Global Source Associates, Partners and Sponsors