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Associates Our collective expertise includes instructional and user interface design, market analysis, competitive analysis, functional specifications development, use case development, standards correlation, systems analysis, school and classroom implementation models and software interoperability standards.
Michael Jay
Mary LeDonne
Since leaving the classroom Mary has worked on guides to grant writing, driven strategic curriculum correlations and cataloged digital and video assets. Her intuition about classroom implementation combined with a seasoned perspective about how schools work has proved invaluable to the organizations with which she has consulted. Mary holds B.A. and M.S. degrees from Mills College where she later served as a master teacher.
David Longdon
At Educational Systemics, David plays a hands-on role in working with our clients. As a team, David and Michael have worked together off and on since 1994, and have a long history of collaborating to develop novel solutions for educational enterprises. David holds a B.S. in Zoology from UC Davis and an M.A. in Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Shaun Taylor
Mr. Taylor won special recognition from the New York Film Festivals for the Science Sleuths series and was nominated one of the Top 100 Multimedia Producers by the Video and Multimedia Producer magazine. To fund the development of science education products, Mr. Taylor has written more than $8.9M in SBIR and other federal grants through the NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, and Dept. of Education. He has also developed $1.3M in joint venture product funding. As a research associate with Educational Systemics he has designed and implemented technology for CD-ROM programs, web enabled databases, and online content management systems and correlation tools. He has also worked on a white paper on open source technologies for CoSN and serves as a lead on CoSN’s Open Technologies Initiative. Mr. Taylor has a B.S. in Zoology from University of Washington and a M.Ed. in Science Education from Montana State University.
Marci Goldberg
Marci Goldberg has extensive experience in management, marketing, and K-12 education. After several high-tech ventures early in her career, Marci spent 1998 through 2002 at Tom Snyder Productions (TSP) in various marketing roles including VP of Marketing. During her tenure at TSP, she led all aspects of marketing and Professional Development, including product marketing, direct marketing, e-commerce, marketing communications, conferences, and general branding initiatives. Marci served as a key member of the management team setting strategy and managing budgets. More recently, Marci has worked as a Management Consultant to Chicago Public Schools, helping with the district-wide implementation of a new Student Information System. At Educational Systemics, Marci has driven product and business development projects for several clients including McDougal Littell and SRI International. Marci has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University with a BA in Mathematics and a BS in Secondary Education.
Dr. David Vogt
Paget Hetherington
Paget has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Virginia. She attended the University of Cambridge, Churchill College during her Junior Year, as well as the Sorbonne. Paget also completed the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course in 1986 after graduating from UVA. Paget lived in Europe for 14 years and speaks fluent French. ABOUT US | SERVICES | NEWS | CLIENTS | ASSOCIATES | CONTACT | HOME © 2003-2007 Educational Systemics |
Michael
has committed his career to ensuring that learners and education professionals
have tools and services to support quality education. A long time educator,
Michael taught Science in San Jose, California where he also worked in
developing the first set of Technology in the Curriculum materials for
the State of California. He left the classroom in 1986 to join Apple
Computer's Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) research and development project,
serve as Apple’s Education Competitive Analyst, and lead major
curriculum related marketing initiatives. During his tenure at Apple,
he remained a contributor to science education through many projects
including being one of the authors of California's Science Framework
of 1990.
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Shaun Taylor specializes in curriculum development, technology,
and learning systems design. He has taught middle school and high school
science and has been spent a large part of his career developing science
curriculum: first through the auto-tutorial biology lab at University
of Washington and then with the hands on energy education activities
with the Alternative Energy Resources Organization in Montana. He served
for 17 years as Vice President for Product Development at Videodiscovery,
Inc, Seattle, Washington during which time he has directed the design
and development more than 30 videodiscs, 44 CD-ROM titles and an complete
online science collection, the Videodiscovery Digital Library (VDL).
He has unique expertise in creating interactive simulations that use
dramatized scenarios to teach and assess higher-level thinking and process
skills. 
Dr.
David Vogt as the Director of Digital Learning Projects within the Office
of External Programs and Learning Technologies at the University of British
Columbia and is a Senior Research Associate with Educational Systemics.
David has extensive experience in educational technology & new media
and is currently the David Robitaille Professor of Mathematics and Science
Education. While Director of Science at Science World, he developed an
award winning interactive science program for schools called Science Brainium.
More recently David was VP Technology and Chief Research Officer at the
New Media Innovation Centre. David’s expertise includes research
into the design and integration of rich learning environments and enabling
devices into K-12 environments. David plays a key role in Educational
Systemics’ work with Project Inkwell and supporting clients involved
with 1:1 related initiatives.
Paget
Hetherington's 20-year career has been focused on helping to provide the
tools children need to learn. Paget began her career working for Dorling
Kindersley as their US and Canadian sales director selling children’s
books to publishers. She then went on to market and sell both children's
books and CD-ROM's to many other countries around the world . After 11
years with Dorling Kindersley, Paget moved to Vivendi Universal Publishing
in Paris where she successfully launched and marketed their interactive
children's publishing program across Europe. In 2002, after Houghton Mifflin
was purchased by Vivendi Universal Publishing, Paget relocated from Paris
to Boston to help the supplemental textbook division, Great Source, enter
the electronic publishing business. Since then Paget joined Soliloquy
Learning and there was responsible for the sales and marketing efforts
of Soliloquy’s speech-recognition fluency program into the school
channel.