Leadership Council

Leadership Council

Purpose: To give all former fellows a continuing connection to BSWP, participation at a level comfortable for them, and a way to do significant work and provide important service. To promote Continuation, Service and In-Service opportunities for Idaho teachers, and programs to promote student and community literacy.

Practice: Every former fellow will either be assigned to the Leadership Council itself OR will be attached to a Leadership Group, whose coordinator will be on the Council.

The Council will meet four times annually:

1) late summer,
2) at the fall ICTE/BSWP meetings, 23 January, around the winter workshop,
3) at the April orientation and reunion meetings. Members should try to attend at least 3 of the meetings, and send a substitute and/or reports along to any meetings they cannot make. (We understand this may be a challenge for those from far-flung places in the state.)

The Leadership Council members and their groups are charged with creating services or programs that create value for teachers and students in ways aligned with their designated area. Each group will receive funding at their request to undertake such initiatives. They are also charged with making the rest of the BSWP membership aware of programs, funding, possibilities for service in their designated area.

Leadership Council Members will serve a three-year term (except for a few initial members who will be asked to serve four or five years so that we will have staggered terms). During the last year of their term, they will apprentice a member of their leadership group to take over their slot.

Directors and Co-Directors
	Jeff Wilhelm Director of Boise State Writing Project Professor of English, Boise State University jwilhelm@boisestate.edu www.jeffreywilhelm.com 208.426.1199 Liberal Arts Building 211C 1910 University Drive Boise, ID 83725-1525	Jeff has many multifarious interests. Professionally his interests include teaching, teacher research, creating collaborative inquiry curricula with students. His intervention techniques and studies involve teaching with drama/action strategies, with technology, with visualization strategies, with inquiry environments, with various questioning schemes, discussion and group structures. He has researched expert engagement in adolescent readers, and has extensively studied struggling adolescent readers. He is currently studying the effects of inquiry environments on students and teachers, and is researching students who intensely engage with non-traditional texts typically marginalized by schools. Personally Jeff loves the arts (reading, writing, movies, dance, theater and composing of all kinds) and the outdoors (backpacking, whitewater kayaking, rafting, nordic skiiing, mountain and road biking).
	Jim Fredricksen Co-Director of Boise State Writing Project Assistant Professor of English, Boise State University jimfredricksen@boisestate.edu 208.426.4881 Liberal Arts Building 101A 1910 University Drive Boise, ID 83725-1525	After being a middle school teacher for 11 years in Ohio and Illinois, Jim earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy from Michigan State University in 2008. His dissertation, “You Know What I Mean?" National Writing Project Teachers Explaining Their Judgment: A Case Study of Teacher Rhetoric reflects his research interests of how teachers think and how they share their thinking with others. In addition to being an Illinois Writing Project fellow, Jim also earned a Masters in Writing from DePaul University, a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction from North Central College, and a B.A. in English from Indiana University. As a Chicago Cub fan, Jim has enormous amounts of patience and hope.
	Paula Uriarte Senior High Co-Director of Boise State Writing Project paula.uriarte@boiseschools.org rameyandpaula@hotmail.com 208.854.8584 (work) 208.841.5820 (cell) Capital High School 8055 Goddard Boise, ID 83704	A Chicago native (Go CUBS!) Paula Uriarte started teaching at-risk middle schoolers at a private school in Pensacola, Florida. She then moved to Boise and taught for ten years at Centennial High School. She spent a year in the Meridian School District office as an Instructional Support Specialist, then moved to Capital High School where she currently teaches concurrent enrollment with Boise State for English 101, AP Literature and Composition and Creative Writing. Her first love is her family which keeps her very busy, but she also loves to travel and write when she can. She has authored several articles on teaching appearing in InLand, Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction and English Journal. She was an original Buzzwhooper in 2005 (Full Moon Goddesses :) and is excited to be working with the secondary fellows in providing professional development.
	Yvonne Georgeson Middle School Co-Director of Boise State Writing Project yvonne.georgeson@boiseschools.org 208.854.6450 West Junior High School 8371 W. Salt Creek Ct. Boise, ID 83709	Yvonne Georgeson has been part of the Virtual Professional Development Site for the last two years, collaborating with student teachers in teacher research. She also took part in the inquiry summer institute in 2006. Yvonne participated in the advanced reading course last year and the summer reading clinic, “Reading Rocks!” Yvonne is interested in helping with a mentoring program for teachers in their first years of teaching. She began teaching language arts classes in 1991 at Middleton High School. In 1999, and was the lead teacher at Middleton Transition School. In fall of 2000,she transferred to West Junior High School in Boise and currently teaches eighth grade reading. Goals: To continue incorporating inquiry into my classroom and to use technology more efficiently and effectively.
	Jerry Hendershot BSWP Co-Director and Writing/Publication Coordinator 2005 BSWP Fellow 2006-07 Summer Institute Co-Director Jerry.Hendershot@boiseschools.org TIMBERLINE HIGH SCHOOL Ceramics, Painting & Drawing 854-6278	Jerry has been working in Idaho public schools for 11 years, teaching classes ranging from Remedial Reading and Creative Writing to Ceramics and Communication Leadership. He began his teaching career in 1995 as a Writing, American History/Culture, and Drama teacher at the Bydgoszcz Pedagogical College of English in Bydgoszcz, Poland. After two years there, he returned to Boise and began his teaching at Eagle High School from 1999-2004 and then transferred to Timberline High School. Currently, he teaches Creative Writing, Ceramics, AP 3D Design, Painting and Drawing at Timberline and operates as the BSWP Writing and Publications Coordinator. Jerry received his B.A. in English from Boise State University in English with an emphasis on Writing in 1995.