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| Texas born Elaine
Ernst Schneider has
been
writing since she was a teenager and has published articles, songs, and
children's work. A graduate of the University of Texas in Austin,
Elaine
entered the classroom as a special education teacher in the 1970's.
Over
the years, she has taught mainstream English, music K-12, deaf
education,
psychology, Algebra, creative writing, social studies, psychology, law,
and science in both public and private schools. In the 1990's, Elaine
created
an adaptive education program and implemented a student teacher program
in a cooperative effort with the University of West Florida. In the
reciprocity
agreement, Elaine received masters level course enrollment in exchange
for training teachers in her classroom. She opted to take the masters
level
courses in the area of learning disabilities. Through the West Florida
program and the actual classroom demands of her adaptive education
program,
Elaine learned to create curriculum that met the students' needs.
Reading levels and test scores improved and Elaine knew she was
creating
curriculum that was "user friendly" and student navigable. This led to
more curriculum writing. Today, Elaine writes curriculum for several
companies,
as well as freelance articles on education. |
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| Joanne
Mikola is a retired/expired Operating Room
Registered
Nurse. Her nursing career progressed through staff, Team Leader and
O.R.
management positions at various hospitals in the Toronto area, but her
heart was always in the Trauma Center at Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Center.
She spent six years in a Teaching Master position at Humber College of
Applied Arts and Sciences in Toronto, Ontario, Canada relaying her love
of organized chaos and innovation to all of her Operating Room Post
Graduate
students. Her article "O.R. Preceptors Promote Competence"
published
in the Canadian Operating Room Nursing Journal, was recognized as the
winner
of the first national Surgikos Canada Award, 1983. Joanne has always
believed
that the term professional is synonymous with role model; that every
one
of us has the potential to be a mentor to someone else; and that
knowledge
should be shared, not hoarded. Her debut to the .com world has
been
relatively recent but already she has shown a great aptitude and the
requisite
stamina for success. She now understands much more fully why the
secretaries
always hid when she approached their desks... Re-writes, new ideas and
radical proposals... Now she has to make all those changes herself! |
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