Deborah founded LearningBond to:

• Support public education to enable each individual to find and develop their unique cababilities.
• Promote a transformation of learning reaching more students and families with engaging, effective, uplifting learning
• Integrate curriculum, media, and technology driving personalized, project-based, adaptive, authentic learning and assessment.
• Uplift the teaching profession with support for quality professional development, tools, work conditions, pay, and respect.
• Collaborate with a network of talented, experienced education, technology, business, and assessment experts
• Deploy a comprehensive knowledge of the education industry and the public education system enabling analysis and guidance.

Lifetime dedication to supporting individual worth through learning innovations:

• Development of Kaplan educational centers throughout the western U.S. delivering services to over 20,000 students per year.
• Leadership of Kaplan national college and graduate school admissions and licensure test preparation product development.
• Founding of TeacherUniverse to support teachers with professional development, media, adaptive learning and assessment.
• Growth of GALAXY Classroom K-5 STEM hands-on, story-based, online media, lab, and communications program.
• Creating and accomplishing state adoption of Georgia AssessOnline computer adaptive teacher assessment.
• Consulting to the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards on video and portfolio assessment in teacher evaluation.
• Support of Expeditionary Learning Schools for online professional development, project-based learning, and student work display.
• Integration of NBC News Learn media into core curriculum for districts in Texas and California and the state of Delaware.
• Work with foundations, districts, nonprofits, and for-profits to develop proposals for education reform grants.
• Developing online apps and sites for AwesomeStories, First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, Ceeds of Peace, Parents for PPS-Hawaii.
• Creation of peacebuilding Co-Op Toolkit – a dynamic database of community-sourced peacebuilding strategies.
• Development and delivery of “iFogey” – digital media course for seniors course for Vassar College Lifelong Learning.
• Board service since 2010 founding of Parents for Public Schools of Hawai‘i including communications and policy.

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  2020 PSA for Parents for Public Schools of Hawai‘i

  
  
  2018 Quick Video from a Campaign to Fund Hawai‘i Public Schools

Articles, Sermons, Flipbook=

• Deborah’s Work flipbook
• Soulful Learning in a Wired World Sermon at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship
• Teach Each Education Challenges and Worthy Goals
• Powerful Data, Questionable Conclusions Review of “Waiting for Superman”
• Responsibility for Learning Sermon at the First Unitarian Church of Honolul