Linda L. Baker

University of Southern Maine, B.S., English and Education
University of Southern Maine, M.S., Exceptionality: Concentration in Gifted Education
National Board Teacher Certification, Adolescence and Young Adulthood/English Language Arts

Extracurricular positions
Academic Coordinator, 1992-; Independent Study Coordinator, 1992-; Advanced Placement Coordinator, 1994-; NEASC Coordinator, 1992 - ; NEASC Steering Committee, 1995-97; Student Assessment Team, 1996 -

Professional service
NEASC Steering Committee; MSAD 75 Gifted and Talented Committee, 1987- ; NEA, 1980 - ; MEA, 1980 - ; NEASC, 1980 - ; MEGAT, 1987 - ; ASCD, 1995 -

Community service
Topsham Finance Committee 1980-86; Topsham Selectman, 1987, 88, 89; Domestic Violence Task Force, 1995 - ; St. Paul's Education Commission, 1986-9;1 Publication "Teaching the Novel, " Writing Units that Challenge High School Students: A Guidebook for & By Educators 1990

Etc.
Taught 9th grade English, Bath Middle School, 1980-85; Third Maine Civil War Re-enactment Unit, 1993 -

Claudette Lachance Brassil

University of Southern Maine, B.S., Theater/Communications
University of New Hampshire, M.S.Ed., Writing and Teaching
National Board Teacher Certification, Adolescence and Young Adulthood/English Language Arts

Extracurricular positions
Aquila Advisor, 1994-present; Class Advisor, 1987-93; Hockey Cheerleading Coach, 1977-86; Basketball Cheerleading Coach, 1975

Professional service
NEASC, Assessment Committee; President, Maine Council for English Language Arts,1993-94; Participant at English Education Conference on Outcomes Based Education, U of ME at Farmington, 1994; Presenter at Professional Workshop Day, Waynflete School,1994; Executive Board of MCELA, 1985-1997; MCELA Most Valued Member Award, 1991; MCELA Conference Chair,1991,1992; MSAD#75 Regional Resource Team, 1986;Conference Co-chair,1987-88; Mt.Ararat School Improvement Team, 1990-92; Presenter, Maine Council for English Language Arts, Collaborative Teacher Reasearch on Student-Teacher Writing Conferences, 1989; Presenter, MSAD#24 Staff Development Day, Writing as a Way of Learning, 1989; Presenter, MCELA Conference, A Writing Program's Odyssey, 1988; Presenter, Van Buren High School, Writing and Learning, 1987; Presenter, Lawrence High School Writing Workshop and MCELA Conference, Collaborative Learning,1987; Presenter, MCELA Conference, Learning Logs in the English Class,1986

Publication
"The High School Writing Center" Northwords, MCELA Professional Journal, 1992

Etc.
Attended Institute on Writing and Teaching, Northeastern University-Martha's Vineyard Summer Workshops, 1989, 1990.

Jeffrey Fischer

Antioch College, B.A., Literature
Yale University, M.A., English Literature
National Board Teacher Certification, Adolescence and Young Adulthood/English Language Arts

Extracurricular positions
Civil Rights Team, 2001- , Yearbook Advisor, 1978-79

Professional service
Taught English at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey 1991 - 1992; as director of the Maine Literature Project, published Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Literature now in its 8th printing

Publication
The Business Partner: Raising the Aspirations of Youth. A Publication of the Maine Aspirations Foundation, 1995; "Why Can't School Be Like Piano Lessons?" Arts Every Day: The Journal of the Maine Alliance for Arts Education, May 1990 (Reprinted from Maine Times) ; Change in Maine Schools, A Publication of the Maine Leadership Consortium of the University of Maine, 1990; Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Literature (editor) , Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, 1989; Four Years for Life Maine Times (special education issue) , June 1988; Working Hard: A History of American Kids At Work (unpublished film script) 1987, Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; "Starting School: Being the Right Age Isn't Everything" Maine Times, September 4, 1987; "Learning to Ski: It's Not As Scientific As You'd Think, " Maine Times, February 1987; "Technologying Teachers Teach: How Maine Spent $2 Million on 'Good Ideas, ' " Maine Times, October 17, 1986; "Joint Custody: Ten Years Ago It Was An Alien Concept, " Maine Times, January 1, 1985; "A Maine Teacher Looks At What Transpires in the Classrooms of America's Most Academically Prestigious Secondary School, " Maine Times, January 1985. Reprinted by Philips Exeter Academy in 1985 as an issue of the alumni magazine; "Paddling for Pleasure: Relearning the Traditional Ways Means Increased Efficiency and More Leisure, " Maine Times, August 24, 1984; "A Decade Later: College of the Atlantic Graduates Leave Have Proved the Experiment is Valid, " Maine Times, May 20, 1983; Note: as education reporter for Maine Times from 1983 to 1988, I wrote dozens of articles and columns for the paper, including those mentioned above; "Love Restored: A Defense of Masquing" in Renaissance Drama VIII, Leonard Barkan, ed. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1977

Etc.
Directed two Summer Institutes in Maine Literature Studies at Bates College; during the sabbatical year 1986 - 1987 researched and wrote Working Hard: A History of American Kids at Work with filmmaker Mary Lampson, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; member of the Board of Directors at the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance; twice runner-up in the Maine Fiction Chapbook Competition, sponsored by the Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance: in 1995 for The Language of Ice Cream and Other Stories and in 1986 for Over Me and Other Stories; taught English in New Haven, Connecticut, 1976 - 1978

Janet Ruth Galle

Miami University (Ohio) , B.A., Speech/Drama
University of Maine (Gorham) , M.S., Reading/Education

Extracurricular positions
Drama Director (musical) , Mt. Ararat Stage Company, 1989-97; Newspaper co-advisor (Talon) , 1987-1995

Professional service
NEASC School Climate Committee

Community service
Vice-president, Board of Directors, Bowdoinham Public Library, 1988- (Maine) ; Editor, newsletter for Bowdoinham Public Library, 1992-; 911-E Road Committee, Town of Bowdoinham, 1995; Board of Directors, Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Maine, 1976-1985; Board of Directors, Merrymeeting Audubon Society, 1978-1982 (Maine) ; Editor, newsletter for Merrymeeting Audubon Society, 1979-1982; Planning Committee, Jordan Acres School, Brunswick, Maine 1970-1972

Publication
Ecology Discovery Activities Kit: A Complete Teaching Unit for Grades 4-8 (co-author) , Prentice-Hall Publishing Company, 1986; Bath-Brunswick Times-Record, Brunswick, Maine, monthly columnist "Country Ways, " 1981- ; Times-Record feature writer and free lance writer includes 4 years of garden features, 1982- ; Lutheran Woman , 1981; Family Life Today, 1981; Fairfield Glade (TN) Gazette, 1987; "The Call" newsletter of Merrymeeting Audubon Society, editor 1979-1982

Etc.
Taught school since 1964 with interruptions 1969-1975; teaching assignments have included grades pre-school through university level, all in Maine; subjects taught include speech and language development, English, science, children's literature (University of Maine, Gorham) , performing arts; developed the original Title I program in speech and hearing for Topsham, Maine schools; co-wrote journalism curriculum for Mt. Ararat High School, Topsham, Maine; wrote performing arts curriculum for Mt. Ararat; one of 3 women who co-founded a cooperative preschool in Brunswick, Maine, 1972-1975; member of Maine Educational Assessment (11th grade) Arts and Humanities Content Advisory Committee, 1994- ;

Diana Krauss

Colby College, B.A., English
Boston University, M.F.A., Theatre
National Board Teacher Certification, Adolescence and Young Adulthood/English Language Arts

Extracurricular positions
At Dexter: Drama Director, 1990-1993; Student Council Advisor, 1995-1998

Community service
Director, School Board SAD 68 1994-1997; Trustee, Monson Library Board, 1986-

Professional Service
Director, State Program for Excellence in Literary Magazines, MCELA, 1999-2001

Etc.
Taught English and Drama, Dexter Regional High School 1988-1998; recipient, Mellon Grant, 1991; participant, NEH Seminar, 1990; AP English Literature Reader 1994-; Consultant to the College Board, 1996-; Presenter, National AP Conference, Washington, DC, 1999; mentor for new AP teachers as part of new federal grant program, 2000-; leader of AP summer institute, Brewster Academy 2001, Bates College 2002.

Leonard Commet Krill

University of California, Berkeley, A.B., English
Yale University, M.A., English
University of Bridgeport (Connecticut) , M.S., Counselling (Family Therapy)
National Board Teacher Certification, Adolescence and Young Adulthood/English Language Arts

Extracurricular positions
Computer Resource (Web Site Coordinator) 1996-2004 ; Newspaper co-advisor (Talon) , 1987-95

Professional service
Statement of Purpose NEASC Committee; MEA building rep, 1987-95; MEA negotiation team member, 1988-92; MEA chief negotiator, 1992-93; Dissemniation Committee, Beacon Schools Project, 1991-93; Co-recipient of VF Pugh Corporation grant to establish computer-based Reading and Writing curriculum for juniors and seniors (with John Brassil) ; Planning Committee, University of Connecticut Writing Project, 1984

Community service
Graphic design (T-shirts, flyers, posters, Mother's Day cards) for the Family Crisis Shelter, 1990-96; residential tutor, ABC (A Better Chance) House of Darien, CT, responsible for academic progress of inner-city scholarship students attending Darien High School, 1980-83

Etc.
Currently teaching Internet courses for Merrymeeting Adult Education; taught Internet courses for AICE (American Institute for Creative Education) , 1995-96; taught 10-12 English at Darien High School, Darien, Connecticut, 1977-86; counselling intern at Bridgeport (CT) Child Guidance Center, 1982-83; Teacher of the Year, Darien High School, 1983; Young Teacher of the Year, New England Association of Teachers of English, 1979; Mt. Ararat, MSAD 75 and regional nominee, Maine State Teacher of the Year, 2000; taught freshman composition, Central Connecticut State College, 1976-77; owner, Horizon Graphic Services, 1988-

Tom Meyn

Ithaca College, B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies Emphasizing Twentieth Century Thought
University of Southern Maine, M.A., American and New England Studies

Extracurricular positions
Middle Level Cross-Country 1996; 7th grade girls basketball, 1996; Boys Middle Level Basketball, 1979-94

Professional service
NEASC, Secretary Curriculum Committee

Community service
Topsham Recreation Basketball and Soccer Boards 1990-present; Youth soccer coach 1990-present; Youth basketball coach 1988-present; Youth Travel basketball team coach 1995-present

Etc.
Writing Instructor in the Upward Bound Program, Bowdoin College, 1992-present; Recipient NEH summer grant "Studies in American Culture 1930-45" at Kenyon

Stu Palmer - Department Head

Bowdoin College, B.A., Psychology and English
Bridgewater State College (MA), M.A., English

Extracurricular positions
Junior Varsity Boys' Soccer 2002-Present; Volunteer Ice Hockey Assistant 2003-Present; Head Boys' Spring Track 2003-Present; Assistand Boys' Spring Track 2002;

Etc.
English Teacher 9-12 at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School (MA) 1994-2001; Taught all subjects to self-contained room Germaine Lawrence School, Arlington (MA) 1987-1990; Cross-Country and Spring Track Coach at Dover-Sherborn Regional HS (MA) 1988-1993; Winter Track Coach at Medfield High School (MA) 1991-1994; JV Soccer Coach, Cross-Country, Winter, Spring Track Coach at Dighton-Rehoboth Reg. HS (MA) 1994-2001.