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ROUNDTABLE
STAFF
Connie Nelson, Director
Connie has twenty 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, Western Massachusetts Coordinator
Fran has over ten years of experience in workplace education. He has taught
foreign languages, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), adult
basic education (ABE) communications and computer literacy most recently
in the award-winning Labor-Management Workplace Education Program at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Fran coordinates Roundtable projects in Western Massachusetts. He is also
Roundtable's webmaster and listserv administrator as well as production
coordinator of our newsletter. 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 served on the committee developing licensure of adult basic education
teachers for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Jenny Utech, Training and Curriculum
Coordinator
Jenny has fifteen years experience as an adult educator. She has taught
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Adult Basic Education
(ABE) and developed curricula in a variety of community-based and workplace-based
programs. After several years of teaching in the SEIU Local 285 Worker
Education Program, she became its director and is familiar with the administrative
aspects of developing and running programs.
Jenny has recently developed a five-day teacher training curriculum based
on the experiences of teachers in the Roundtable network. She has also
developed and taught professional development courses in Workplace Education
for SABES, the System for Adult Basic Education Support in Massachusetts
and has presented at conferences locally and nationally. She has a B.A.
from Williams College and a M.A. from Harvard University.
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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