About the Creators
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Elise ScottProject Director, Trainer and Project Manager BOSTnet.org Phone: 617.720.1290 x240 |
Elise Scott comes to BOSTnet with over a dozen years experience as a Trainer and Project Manager. She hails from rural Maryland, where she worked as a therapeutic instructor with emotionally and behaviorally challenged children and adolescents in a horse therapy program. She also developed and ran a large and vibrant volunteer program, engaging schools, family, and the community in the support of struggling children. Elise is completing a graduate degree in mental health counseling, and brings expertise in emotional and behavioral health needs, strategies, and interventions to the team. She provides training and technical assistance to programs statewide on BOSTnet quality improvement strategies through the Department of Early Education and Care, Professional Development, and CEUs. She also provides coaching, leadership roundtables, and is working on the Summer Literacy Collaborative.
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Susan VinovrskiProgram Manager Build the out of School Time Network (BOSTnet) Phone: 617.720.1290 x232 |
For over 25 years, Build the Out-of-School Time Network (BOSTnet) has developed educators and strengthened out-of-school time, early childhood and family care programs. We create and offer high impact training and resources to build quality programs for children and families. Susan Vinovrski joined the BOSTnet team in 2012, bringing with her hands-on expertise in multicultural literacy development and adult learning models. She holds an advanced Master's Degree in Comparative Literature and taught at colleges in New York City and Boston. BOSTnet's Summer Learning Collaborative (in partnership with the United Way of Mass Bay and the Merrimack Valley) -- a unique summer learning intervention focused on infusing literacy in summer programs -- first drew Susan to BOSTnet; she works year round to ensure successful implementation of the project. Susan is systems administrator and lead instructor for BOSTnet's online learning center. She develops and delivers trainings in alignment with best practices, including the QRIS, MA Curriculum Frameworks and WIDA standards. Susan leads CEUs, and coaches programs across Massachusetts through the Regional Educator Provider Support System.
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Mary Lu LoveLecturer, Director of Early Childhood Services Institute for Community Inclusion University of Massachusetts, Boston Office: 617.287.5925 EI Scholars: http://earlyinterventionfunding.wikispaces.com/ Post Master’s Certificate: http://postmastersechd.wikispaces.com/ http://communityinclusion.org/ecs/
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Mary Lu Love is Lecturer/Director of Early Childhood Services at the Institute for Community Inclusion at University of Massachusetts Boston, where she manages grants, evaluation projects and implement a variety of grants in the early childhood field. She holds a master’s degree in Child Care Administration and has worked in education for forty plus years, as a teacher and administrator in public schools, private, non-profits, and Head Start early childhood programs. She has taught in higher education part-time for over fifteen-years; co-authored the two, undergraduate early childhood programs at UMass Boston: teacher licensure in 2005 and EECIS in 2009.
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