Director- Dr. Robert P. Yagelski
Director Dr. Robert P. Yagelski is Associate Professor of English Education in the Department of Educational Theory & Practice at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he teaches courses in literacy, composition, critical pedagogy, and research. He has participated in initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of writing in several states, and has served in leadership positions in national educational associations. A former freelance writer and high school English teacher, he is the author of Writing as a Way of Being: Writing Instruction, Nonduality, and the Crisis of Sustainability (forthcoming in 2011), Literacy Matters: Writing and Reading the Social Self (Teachers College Press, 1999), and Reading Our World: Conversations in Context (2010) as well as many other publications.
Co-Director- Carol Forman-Pemberton
Co-Director Carol Forman-Pemberton has recently retired from a 33 year career teaching secondary English in the Capital District. She has served as the Staff Development Coordinator for the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake CSD, planned and implemented activities through CELA and CASDA. She has a number of publications in the journals of the National Council of Teachers of English and New York State English Council as well as commercial publications. As co-director of the Capital District Writing Project, she has developed and implemented a growing inservice program and worked to implement the successful professional development program of the NWP model. She has served as a consultant to numerous area schools and school districts in the areas of literacy, writing across the curriculum, developing critical thinking and learning skills, and differentiated instruction. Carol has also made presentations at a many local, state, and national conferences, most recently the National Writing Project Conference in November, 2007 and the SUNY Council on Writing Conference in April, 2007.
Leadership Team
| Jamie Affronti | Farnsworth Middle School (Guilderland CSD) |
| Leah Claron | Niskayuna High School |
| Aosta Edelman | Bethlehem Central School District |
| Molly Fanning | Farnsworth Middle School (Guilderland CSD) |
| Carol Forman- Pemberton | NYSUT |
| Linda Grimes-Picarrazi | Bethlehem Central School District |
| Chris Mazura | Guilderland High School |
| Amy Salamone | Guilderland High School |
| Sandra Silva | Taconic Hills Elementary School |
| Liza Schofield | Guilderland Central School District |
| Aaron Thiell | Brittonkill Elementary School |
| Alicia Wein | Guilderland High School |
| Robert Yagelski | UAlbany |
| Agnes Zellin | Berne-Knox-Westerlo Elementary School |
