Vanessa Brown
Director
Vanessa
Brown is a School District of Philadelphia teacher on special
assignment serving as full-time Director of the Philadelphia Writing
Project since 2001. She is PhilWP’s Site Coordinator for
Project Outreach and chairs the expanded leadership team. She
is a K-12 Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Scholarship
of Teaching.
Education
| 1974 |
M.Ed |
Special Education,
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1973 |
B.S. |
History, Secondary
Education, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland |
Additional accredited coursework
Environmental Education, Introduction to Therapeutic
Recreation, Professional Refinements in Developing Effectiveness,
Teaching through Learning Channels, Teacher Effectiveness and
Classroom Handling, Reaching the Student at Risk, Whole Language:
Getting Students to Love Reading and Writing, Effective Discipline,
Philadelphia Writing Project (PhilWP), summer Institute I and
II, PhilWP Leadership Inquiry Seminar
Professional enrichment coursework
Senior Portfolios, Portfolio Assessment, Standards-Driven
instruction, Teaching in the Block, Writing across the Curriculum,
Multi-cultural Literature and Film in the Middle School Classroom,
Multi-cultural awareness, Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution,
Peer Coaching, Innovative Instructional Techniques, Nurturing
Student Writers
Employment History
- Philadelphia Writing
Project, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education,
director, Teacher Consultant, Professional Development Designer
and Co-facilitator
- Germantown High
School, Learning Support teacher
- Jay Cooke Middle
School, Resource Room teacher
- Austin Meehan Middle
School, Resource Room teacher
- Districts four
and seven, Instructional Advisor, workshop facilitator
- George Washington
Elementary School, Teacher of Socially and Emotionally disturbed
children
- Community College
of Philadelphia at Raymond Rosen Housing Project community site,
Adult Basic Education (ABE) and General Education Diploma (GED)
programs
Professional
Teacher Leadership Experience
- PhilWP Coordinating
Team, Chairperson
- PhilWP Project
Outreach Network, Site Coordinator
- PhilWP Coordinating
Team, Member
- PhilWP Leadership
Inquiry Seminar, Co-designer and facilitator
- Germantown High
School, School to Career Coordinator, Professional Development
Leader
- Germantown High
School, School to Career Curriculum Developer
- Germantown High
School and Jay Cooke Middle School, Colleague Mentor
- Germantown High
School, Cultural Awareness Teacher
- Germantown High
School, Before and After School Tutor
- PhilWP at the University
of Pennsylvania, Penn Scholars Summer Youth Multi-Cultural
Literature Seminar Co-Facilitator
- School District
of Philadelphia, Middle School Seminar in teaching and Learning
Co-Facilitator
- Jay Cooke Middle
School, CSET Coordinator and Special Education Liaison
Professional
Conference Presentations
- Spring Meeting
of National Writing Project
Making
Writing Matter: Connecting Reading and Writing across the Curriculum
(2003)
- Annual Meeting
of National Writing Project
Independent
Student Projects: Publishing student work on the World Wide
Web (2000)
The
Study of Urban Learning and Leading: SOULL searching (2000,
2001, 2002)
- Urban Sites Conference
of the National Writing Project
Inquiry
into Teacher Leadership (2000)
Independent
Student Projects: Publishing Student Work on the World Wide
Web (1999)
- National Council
of Teachers of English
The
Literate Lives of Urban Youth (2001)
- Ethnography in
Education Forum, American Educational Research Association Annual
Meeting
The
Study of Urban Learning and Leading (SOULL): Perspectives on
Teacher Leadership (2001)
Professional
Affiliations
- National Writing
Project
- Philadelphia Writing
Project
- Urban/Suburban
Ecumenical Partnership
Teacher
Research Association Affiliations
- Arthur-Vining Davis
Foundation, PorTraits
- The Carnegie Foundation
for the Scholarship of Teaching
- Spencer and MacArthur
foundation, Project SOULL (Study of Urban Learning and Leading)
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