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Leadership
Team | Professional Development Staff | Office Staff
The
Teacher's Workshop is dedicated to bringing you practical
staff development opportunities. Our workshops
have consistently been evaluated as highly effective, and we
are happy to provide you with evaluations of past events
as a part of our commitment to quality. Teacher's Workshop
professional development events feature outstanding,
nationally known speakers, as well as practical information on how
to implement many useful strategies. You will find no
higher quality inservice opportunity anywhere.
Our Leadership
Team
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Dr. Renet Bender's background includes a PhD.
in mathematics as well as ten years of professional
development experience with Teacher's Workshop. Among other publications,
she is the senior author of Computer-Assisted Instruction
for
Students At Risk for ADHD, Mild Disabilities, or Academic Problems.
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Dr. Renet L. Bender
President
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Dr. William N. Bender
Vice President
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Dr. Bender is an associate professor in the
Department of Communication Disorders and Special Education at
the University of Georgia.
He is a leader in distance education, having been involved
in
a number of innovative projects and endeavors in the field over
the years, including ADDNET, SETWEB, the Interactive
Teaching
Network, and, of course, Teacher's Workshop. He has hosted a
Public
Television Series, Education Today. He is a prolific author
(70 peer-reviewed articles and 11 books) and a popular workshop
speaker. Please see Dr. William
Bender's
page in the Speaker's Bureau section of the Teacher's Workshop
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Diana recently joined the leadership team
of Teacher's Workshop, bringing with her a wealth
of office management experience. She has years of experience
in organizing and managing large crews of people, and has become
a fixture of the management decisions in the Teacher's Workshop
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Ms. Diana Mixon
Office Manager
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Our Professional Development
Staff
Joan Beard, M.Ed.
Conference Director
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Ms. Joan Beard is a veteran educator, having
taught school for a number of years. She has also served as
Education Director for the Missouri State Teacher's Association,
a large, independent teachers' association located in Columbia,
Missouri. Her role there involved supervision of professional
development for educators throughout Missouri. She and her
staff directed some 125 to 150 professional development events
each year. While many of those events involved merely one speaker
for a particular school district, the MSTA State Convention
typically included in excess of 5000 participants. For these
larger meetings, Joan and her staff ran 20 to 25
concurrent sessions for each of several days.
Since her retirement from MSTA in 1998, Joan has remained
quite active in professional development. She is currently
doing work with the National Staff Development Council in
and around Missouri. Thus she has remained both current and
well connected.
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Ms. Diane Drewry has taught in the kindergarten
through third grade range for some 16 years. She completed
her Master's degree in 2001 at Piedmont College and she has
enjoyed her work in the professional development field for
several years now. Her teaching has been showcased on various
video products including videos featuring Dr. David Sousa and
Dr. Robert Sylwester. She is a veteran of professional development
conferences having worked with the Teacher's Workshop conference
series for five years.
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Diane Drewry, M.Ed.
Conference Coordinator
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Julie Libro, M.Ed.
Conference Coordinator
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Ms. Julie Libro has taught special education
in Georgia for twelve years. Working in a variety of both rural
and urban districts, with a large variety of students with
disabilities, Ms. Libro completed her Master's degree at the
University of Georgia in 1997. She is currently a student
in the Ph.D. program in Special Education at the University
of Georgia. She brings a wealth of experience to her role as
conference coordinator, having worked with professional development
conferenceing for the last two years. |
Greg Clinton, Ph.D.
Website Maintenance
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Greg Clinton has spent many years working
in educational media, instructional technology, and distance
learning staff development. He is the author
or co-author of several book chapters and peer-reviewed journal
articles, as well as the co-editor of the book Violence
Prevention and Reduction in Schools.
Greg holds a Ph.D. in
instructional technology from the University of Georgia.
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Our Office Staff
Ms. Vanessa Bullock, Accounts Manager
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