Aaron Kaio, M.A. Education 2004

Aaron Kaio, currently a seventh grade humanities teacher for the International School Port of Spain, has just accepted an offer to teach in Bogota, Columbia, next year in Colegio Nueva Grenada s their ninth grade social studies teacher. His wife, Katie Gilbert, M.A. Education ’04, will be teaching ninth grade English at the same school.

Understanding Israel, M.A. Education 2008

Understanding Israel just recently campleted a full year towards her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership at Argosy University in Seattle. She is currently the operations manager for the National Association American Indian Children and Elders.

Kelly Locklin, M.A. Education 1993

Kelly Locklin received National Board Certification in Social Studies/History in November 2008, and moved to Ballard High School in September of 2009, where he teaches U.S. History and Honors World History. Last month he presented at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference (”A Matter of Social Justice: LGBT Issues in the Social Studies Classroom”).

Betty Patu, B.A. 2007, M.A. Education 2009

Betty Patu, B.A. ’07, M.A. Education ’09, a retired Rainier Beach High School teacher who has toiled for more than 30 years in the Seattle Public Schools trenches, is one of several new faces on the Seattle School Board representing District 7. She is eager to improve the school district, saying she wants to unite the board in an effort to ensure a quality education for all students.

Betty, who was outspent by almost five to one and was managed by her daughter, won her race by a huge 68% to 31% margin. She has been active in the Seattle community, serving on a number of boards including the Rainier Beach Community Empowerment Coalition, the Asian Counseling Referral Services and the Rainier Beach Foundation, and is the Founder/President of Islanders Children & Youth Services (ICYS).

Debbie McLaughlin, M.A. Education 1999

Debbie McLaughlin is now the High School Learning Specialist for Forest Ridge School in Bellevue, and the Coordinator for the South King Council of Human Services. Both are part-time jobs, which is just perfect, because 1) she’s back at her alma mater doing more focused work on teaching & learning, 2) she gets to retain some involvement with human services, and 3) she has a little more time to pursue some artistic work in mosaic, a new and rapidly developing passion.

Leslie Smith Duss, M.A. Education 2002

An article, “Teaching a pedagogy of peace: A study of peace educators in United States schools in the aftermath of September 11,” by Pamela Bolotin Joseph (University of Washington Bothell) and Leslie Smith Duss was published in the Seeptember 2009 issue of the Journal of Peace Education http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713624882

Abstract:

This qualitative study, based on in-depth semi-structured interviews, depicts practices of seven peace educators in public elementary and secondary classrooms in the United States during the time of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 through the US engagement in war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Focusing on individual perceptions of practice and classroom experiences, the participants described how, despite teaching at a time in which terrorism and war had become national preoccupations, they taught a pedagogy of peace that included recognition and rejection of violence, understanding of differences through dialogue, critical awareness of injustice and social justice, and imaginative understanding of peace. The study discloses a multitude of examples of both peacemaking and peacebuilding in their teaching and development of classroom cultures but a lack of emphasis on anti-war curriculum.

It also reveals the teachers’ motivations for teaching peace education, theoretical influences on their practice, their identities as activists and examples of their curriculum leadership.

Alumna Happy With Decision

Helen Maynard, M.A. Education ‘01, included this comment on the back of her scholarship donation card - “My education and receiving a MA ED degree has provided me with opportunities to teach in the teacher preparation program at Antioch University Seattle. Thanks AUS.”

Corll Morrissey, M.A. Education 1992

Corll Morrissey has accepted the position of Program and Partnership Specialist for the Professional Educator Standards Board in Olympia effective Oc. 5 (many PESB members and staff already know and have high regard for Corll, as she has served as Coordinator of City University’s Alternative Route Partnership Grant Program and manager of their M.Ed. program since 2005).

Corll brings experience in project management and teaching from the business sector and public education. In the field of public education, Corll’s path includes outdoor education, classroom teaching grades 6-12, and design/management of numerous projects for underserved populations in K-12.

As essential ingredients to effective design, Corll has worked with the Washington Education Association and other organizations with interpretation of data and facilitation of effective organization communications. She has been an adjunct instructor, consultant, and guest presenter with universities, schools, agencies, businesses, and the Dept. of Defense.

She has a B.S. in Secondary Social Sciences Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a self-designed Masters in Education from Antioch University,Seattle, applying principles of whole system design and psychology to educational systems. She holds additional endorsements in Psychology and K-8 Elementary Education. Corll’s commitment and her art reside in the design of instructional services to meet multiple organizational, community, and student needs.

Cornelia (Deedee) Holt, Graduate Teaching Certificate, 1998

The Antioch University Seattle Alumni Office was recently notified that Cornelia (Deedee) Holt passed away May 19, 2007. She was a substitute school teacher for Lake Washington School District for several years. She also worked for the Department of Ecology in Bellevue. She was a active member of Good Samaritan Episcopal Church and enjoyed singing, dancing, and spending time with her son John.

Sylvia Brown, M.A. Education 2007

Sylvia  Brown is currently teaching 6th and 7th grade students at Gray Middle School in Tacoma. Sylvia said that “I’ve never in all my employment years enjoyed a job as much as I am enjoying teaching. This is a life long dream that has been fulfilled”.

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