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ROUNDTABLE
STAFF
Connie Nelson, Director
Connie has twenty-five years of experience in work-related learning. While
completing her own apprenticeship in machine tool repair at General Electric
Company, she became interested in on-the-job and workplace-based classroom
learning. She went on to teach at GE and then at Women in Building Trades,
a pre-apprenticeship program.
As director of the Roundtable since 1995, Connie has concentrated on providing
basic skills for employed workers. She has a B.A. in Adult Training and
Development from University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Ed.M. and Ed.D.
degrees in Community Education and Lifelong Learning from Harvard University.
Her research focused on sustainability of workplace learning programs.
She has presented at numerous conferences and taught in professional development
programs for workplace educators. She is Vice-President of the Massachusetts
Coalition for Adult Education and serves on the Massachusetts Workforce
Alliance and several policy boards and committees.
Fran Fortino, Technology Coordinator
Fran has over 15 years of experience in workplace education. He has taught
foreign languages, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), adult
basic education (ABE) and computer literacy and application courses. He is currently
the IT coordinator and instructor in the award-winning Labor-Management Workplace Education Program at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Fran coordinates Roundtable technology projects and is
Roundtable's webmaster and listserv administrator. He has served as production
coordinator of our periodic newsletter as well. He has a B.A. from State University of
New York at Oswego and a M.A.T. from University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He was a member of the committee that developed licensure of adult basic education
teachers for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Diana Satin, Curriculum Development Specialist
Diana Satin has a Masters in Intercultural Relations with a specialization in teaching ESOL. Since 1994 she has worked as a classroom teacher, staff development consultant, and curriculum developer. Her publications include Project Care: Health Care Case Studies, Multimedia and Projects for Practicing English and Learning Computers, Speaking English (University of Michigan Press) and Your Government, Your Taxes, Your Choices (Massachusetts DOE). She is currently a distance-learning instructor for several ESOL programs. Diana is also an educational consultant serving as a mentor to adult basic education programs and developing online professional development courses for adult educators as well as courses for ABE learners.
Roundtable also calls on the professionals in our network to
work on specific projects…
Roundtable has many other experienced workplace educators in its network,
with expertise in program development, teaching, curriculum development,
research and evaluation, etc. The network also includes experienced bilingual
interviewers so we can reach employees in many native languages. We have
worked in several industries: health care, manufacturing, education, transportation,
retail distribution. We can put together a team for a wide range of projects
in the fields of workforce development and workplace education.
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