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Named
one of the top 10 educational speakers in the country by Consulting Magazine
Online, Ian Jukes' rambunctious, irreverent and highly-charged
presentations emphasize many of the practical issues related to
restructuring to meet the needs of students.
Ian has been a teacher,
and administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and
keynote speaker. He is now the Director of the InfoSavvy Group, an
international consulting group that provides leadership and program
development.
Ian has written 12
books, nine educational series and had more than 100 articles
published in various journals. Ian is also the publisher and co-editor
of the Committed Sardine Blog, creator and co-developer of TeachWorks,
the internationally successful K-8 technology framework, and was the
catalyst of the NetSavvy and InfoSavvy information literacy series.
Ian has worked for
several years with architectural firms to help facilitate planning new
learning environments by taking school groups through a visioning
process. Over the past 20 years he has been involved in the design
process for more than 60 new schools.
Ian is an educator first
and foremost. As a registered educational evangelist, his self-avowed
mission in life is to ensure that children are properly prepared for
the future rather than society's past. As a result, his material tends
to focus on many of the pragmatic issues that provide the essential
context for educational restructuring.
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In
19965, Fred Bramante received the Alumni Achievement Award from Keene
State College, where he received his Bachelor's Degree in Science
(1970). In 2009, Fred was awarded the alumni Achievement Award from
Plymouth State University where he received his Master's Degree in
Educational Leadership (2006). In 1964, Fred graduated 206th out of
212 students in his high school; that year his applications for
admission to both colleges were rejected.
Fred is a former eighth
grade Science teacher, a former candidate for governor and the past
Chairman and a current member of the New Hampshire State Board of
Education. He is the longest standing member of the state board and
has been appointed and re-appointed by Republican and Democratic
governors. Fred led a full-scale effort to redesign public education,
especially at the high school level and his work has received rave
reviews in education circles around the nation.
Fred has served as a
consultant to numerous education groups including the Ohio Department
of Education and the National Association of State Boards of
Education. He has recently been named a Senior Consultant by the
International Center for Leadership in Education.
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