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EDUCATION
	School Administration
	Guilbert C. Hentschke, PhD Professor & Richard T. Cooper and Mary Catherine Cooper Chair in Public School Administration Rossier School of Education University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, California, USA Ph.D. Stanford University Guilbert C. Hentschke is a former dean of the Rossier School and a professor in the Division of Education Policy and Administration. Professor Hentschke specializes in the study of emerging for-profit and non-profit educational enterprises and their impact on educational opportunities for urban youth. His most recent publications include "Changing Resource and Organizational Patterns:The Challenge of Resourcing Education in the 21st Century" (forthcoming), with Brent Davies; "Beyond Competing School Reforms: a Redefinition of Public in Public Schooling," in Education and Urban Society; and "Radical Reform Versus Professional Reform in American Schools: a View from Southern California," in Dear et al (eds.),Rethinking Los Angeles(Sage Publications, Inc.).
	Professor Hentschke serves on boards of organizations whose primary missions are to improve the education of young people, especially those who reside in urban and metropolitan environments. Principal among these organizations are the National Center on Education and the Economy, Aspen Youth Services, WestEd Regional Educational Laboratory, the Galaxy Institute of Education, and Success Lab. At the Rossier School of Education he directs graduate programs which seek to enhance business expertise within educational organizations.
		Modules: 1. Innovation in Educational Organizations 2. Markets, Regulation & Performance in Schools and Colleges 3. Charter School Development & Growth
	Education Psychology
	Darnell Cole, PhD Associate Professor of Education Rossier School of Education University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, California, USA Ph.D. in Education with emphasis in Higher Education Administration & Education Psychology, Indiana University - Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana Dr. Cole is an Associate Professor of Education with an emphasis in higher education and education psychology. His areas of research include race/ ethnicity, diversity, college student experiences, and learning. Previously he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu). He was also a faculty member at Marquette University. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, at Charlotte and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is on the review board of Journal Educatioanl Foundations.
	He has published over 25 articles and book chapters and is featured in the major journals for higher education and other related fields including The Journal of Higher Education, Journal of College Student Development, NASPA Journal, Journal of Classroom Behavior, and Journal fo Creative Behavior. His most recent article "Do Interracial Interactions Matter? An examination of Intellectual Self-Concept" will appear in the Journal of Higher Education.
		Modules: Psychosocial Development: 1. Ethnic Identity Models 2. Gender Identity Models 3. Sexual Orientation
Secondary Science Education , Teaching Strategies
	Mike G. Rivas, PhD, M.E.d. Director, Summer Academic Enrichment Program Assistant Professor Secondary Education Department California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Northridge, California, USA  Education PhD University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. Ph.D. Teaching and Learning, with an emphasis in science education.  Areas of focus are issues of inclusion such as teaching strategies, classroom community/team building, gender equity, and multicultural instruction. M.E.d. University of Houston, Houston, TX. Science Education. B.A. Harding University, Searcy, AR. Bible, Minor Chemistry
	CURRENT POSITIONS: 2003 – Present            Director of the Summer Academic Enrichment Program (SAEP), California State University, Northridge, CA.  Serve as the Director of a program that has 27 teachers and a $300,000 budget working with 600+ middle and high school students in academic, elective and enrichment subject areas.  2000 - Present             Program Specialist, National School Safety Center, Westlake Village, CA.  The major focus is to develop, modify and present educational seminar modules throughout the country.  These seminars are sponsored by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) of the Department of Justice for recently funded collaborations between policing organizations and school districts and by NSSC itself through its School Safety Leadership Trainings.  In these seminars, school resource officers, who will be stationed at various schools, and administrators of those schools are brought together in a team building environment that helps prepare them to address school safety through the community policing paradigm.  Areas of specialty include classroom strategies and child development, with a special emphasis on classroom/school community building as the foundational piece to providing a safe and secure environment where optimal learning can take place.  There is also involvement in research and writing on issues such as zero tolerance, best/promising practices, school attendance, character education and motivational topics. 2003 – Present            Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, CA.  Teach various courses in the Secondary Education Department such as SED 511 (Fundamentals in Education), SED 514 (Computers in Instruction), SED 554 (Student Teaching), SED 600 (Research in Secondary Science Education) and SED 625SC (Theory and Research in Science Education).  Serve as the Graduate Advisor for the Secondary Education Department.  Serve as the Coordinator for the Masters in Science Education program in the Secondary Education Department. PAST POSITIONS: Program Speaker, State D.A.R.E Training, Burlington, Vermont. Conducted training session for D.A.R.E training officers from throughout the state of Vermont.  Program Speaker, Center for Civic Education, Calabasas, CA.  Conducted seminar presentation for the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program Summer Conference.
		Modules: 1. Nature of Science 2. Building Community in the Classroom 3. Developing Strength Based Learning Strategies 4. Helping Teachers Become Researchers: Making the Informal Formal
Elementary Education
	Susan Belgrad, EdD Associate Professor Elementary Education Department California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Northridge, California, USA  Susan Belgrad is an associate professor of education at California State University, Northridge. She specializes in promoting the learner-centered classroom through authentic assessment, cooperative learning, and portfolios. Belgrad teaches courses in reflective practice, graduate research, curriculum development, and technology-supported learning. Her research is on teacher efficacy and student learning and the impact of brain development—particularly on students living in low socioeconomic-level families. She is currently leading research into student voice in the classroom—particularly as promoted by the portfolio process. Belgrad has had articles published in journals such as the Journal of Professional Development and the Illinois Journal of Gifted Education. She has written book chapters and co-authored The Portfolio Connection: Student Work Linked to Standards (Corwin Press, 2002). Areas of Expertise: - Authentic Assessment in the K-12 Classroom - Cooperative Learning Strategies that Promote Student Motivation and Social Skills - Creating an Electronic Portfolio - Designing the Professional Portfolio - Developing Student Voice in the Assessment Process - Portfolios as Assessment Tools - Positive Discipline Strategies and Student Success - Student Led Portfolio Conferences - Technology in the Engaged Learning Classroom - The Brain Compatible Classroom
		Modules: 1. Authentic Assessment 2. Portfolios as Assessment Tools 3. Cooperative Learning Strategies 4. Brain Development, Poverty and Learning
Learning Disabilities / Learning Differences / Accessibility
	Marshall H. Raskind, PhD Former Director of Research & Special Projects, Schwab Learning San Mateo, California, USA Former Director of Learning Disabilities Program, CSUN Education Department Northridge, California, USA  Marshall H. Raskind, Ph.D. is former Director of Research and Special Projects at Schwab Learning in San Mateo, California. Immediately prior to his position at Schwab Learning, he served as Director of Research at the Frostig Center in Pasadena, California. He is Associate Editor of Intervention in School and Clinic, Consulting Editor to the Journal of Learning Disabilities, Learning Disability Quarterly, Annals of Dyslexia and the Journal of Special Education Technology. Dr. Raskind is a Fellow and Vice President of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, a member of the Research Committee of the Council for Learning Disabilities, and a former member of the Professional Advisory Board of the National Center for Learning Disabilities.
	Dr. Raskind has served on the faculty of Claremont Graduate University and California State University, Northridge. He is also former head of the Learning Disabilities Program and the Computer Access Lab at California State University, Northridge. His research interests are in the areas of technology as well as of learning disabilities across the lifespan. His research has been cited in the media, including Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and The New York Times, as well as on MSNBC. Dr. Raskind is a frequent presenter at international learning disability conferences and is the author of numerous professional publications on learning disabilities. Dr. Raskind has a Ph.D. in Education, with a focus on Learning Disabilities, from Claremont Graduate University.
		Modules: 1. Dyslexia 2. ADHD 3. Resources for Parents
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Leadership and American Government
	Michael A. Genovese, PhD Professor, Political Science Director, Institute for Leadership Studies Loyola Chair of Leadership Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California, USA Fellow, The Queen's College Oxford University Oxford, England Michael A. Genovese received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1979. He currently holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies, is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University. In 2006, he was made a Fellow at the Queens College, Oxford University.
	Professor Genovese has written seventeen books, including The Paradoxes of the American Presidency, (co-authored by Thomas E. Cronin), Oxford University Press, 2nd ed 2004; The Presidency and the Challenges of Democracy (co-edited with Lori Cox Han), Palgrave, 2006, The Presidency and Domestic Policy, (with William W. Lammers), CQ Press, 2000, The Power of the American Presidency 1789-2000, Oxford University Press, 2001, The Presidential Dilemma, Longman, 2nd ed 2003, The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Facts-on File, 2004 (winner of the New York Public Library, “Best of Reference” work of 2004), and Memo to a New President: The Art and Science of Presidential Leadership, Oxford University Press, 2007. Professor Genovese has won over a dozen university and national teaching awards, including the Fritz B. Burns Distinguished Teaching Award (1995). Professor Genovese frequently appears as a political commentator on local and national television. He is also Associate Editor of the journal, White House Studies, has lectured for the United States Embassy abroad, and is editor of Palgrave Macmillan Publishing’s, “The Evolving American Presidency” book series. In 2004-05, Professor Genovese served as President of the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association. Courses Taught The Presidency, Political Films, Leadership and Ethics, US and British Politics, Introduction to American Government Education B.A: St. Mary's College M.A.: University of Southern California Ph.D.: University of Southern California
		Modules: 1. Presidential Power 2. Inventing the Presidency 3. The Modern Presidency
PSYCHOLOGY
	Pamela L. Gist, PhD Professor and Chair Psychology Department Mount St. Mary's College Los Angeles, California, USA As a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, Pam earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1995. Her passion for teaching next led her to Mount St. Mary’s College (in Los Angeles), one of the few remaining women’s colleges in the United States. Pam works with an ethnically rich, service-oriented student body at associate, baccalaureate, and masters degree levels at “The Mount,” where over 13 rewarding years she became an expert instructor, and where she continues to develop her teaching. Pam particularly enjoys working with first generation college students and students who are underprepared for college, helping them learn how to succeed in college and watching them thrive as they learn the ropes and develop confidence in their abilities.
	Pam teaches a wide variety of courses, including, most recently, Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Prejudice, Sexism and Self, Psychological Assessment, Careers in Psychology, Graduate Research Methods, and Masters Thesis/Project. Her research investigates how stereotype structures may serve to maintain and strengthen the stereotype and associated prejudice, and the relationships between self stereotypes, stereotype structure, and prejudice.
		Modules: 1. Forms of Prejudice 2. Individual Differences in Prejudice 3. Psychological Fundamentals of Prejudice 4. Learning Prejudice 5. Intergroup Dynamics of Prejudice 6. Experience of Prejudice 7. Combatting Prejudice
	Richard L. Russell, PhD Professor of Psychology Social Science Department Santa Monica College (SMC) Santa Monica, California, USA
		Modules: 1. Psychology Module 2. Psychology Module 3. Psychology Module
	Jackie Lanum, PhD Professor of Psychology Social Science Department Santa Monica College (SMC) Santa Monica, California, USA
		Modules: 1. Systems Leading to Modern Psychology 2. Evolution in Psychology 3. Stress, Health and the Environment
ANTHROPOLOGY
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
SOCIAL WORK
	Devon Brooks, PhD Associate Professor Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs School of Social Work University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, California, USA Education Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2000 M.S.W. University of California, Berkeley, 1993 B.A. George Mason University, Psychology, 1991 Devon Brooks joined the faculty in 1999 and teaches human behavior and research methodology in the M.S.W. program and research methodology in the Ph.D. program.
	His research and practice interests generally revolve around the reduction and treatment of child maltreatment, with a focus on racial and ethnic disparities in the permanency and mental health outcomes of children and families served by public child welfare agencies; risk assessment; assessment of formal and indigenous service needs and utilization; transracial adoption and racial matching policy; gay and lesbian adoption and foster care placements; family preservation; and child welfare innovations. He regularly provides consultation and technical assistance in the area of child welfare and presents at national conferences. He is principal investigator of both "The SPIN Initiative: Evaluation of an In-Home, Strengths and Video Based Intervention for at-Risk Families" and "Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Transracial Adoptive Families Following Implementation of the Multiethnic Placement Act and Interethnic Adoption Provisions." Dr. Brooks is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Association of Black Social Workers, the Council on Social Work Education, and the Society for Social Work and Research. He is a member of the editorial board of Children and Youth Services Review, and has most recently published in Child and Family Social Work, Child Welfare, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology and Social Work.
		Modules: 1. Child Welfare / Maltreatment 2. Risk assessment 3. Prevention & Treatment 4. Policy
ECONOMICS
	Jernej Copic, PhD Assistant Professor of Economics Department of Economics University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California, USA
		Modules: 1. Game Theory 2. Market Design 3. Voting and Political Economy 4. Fundamentals: Supply & Demand
GEOGRAPHY
	Curt Robinson, PhD Executive Director Geothermal Resources Council Davis, California, USA  Curt Robinson is currently the Executive Director of the 1,100-member Geothermal Resources Council (GRC), headquartered in Davis, California. GRC has built a solid reputation as one of the world’s leading geothermal associations. The GRC serves as a focal point for continuing professional development for its members through its outreach, information transfer and education services. GRC has members in 30 countries and 33 states. Curt served previously in four executive assignments in higher education and government and has twice worked in energy. He has also taught at six universities and colleges.
	Prior to his work at GRC, he was an Assistant Vice President at California State University, East Bay and also served several California state government agencies: the Department of Water Resources, State Teachers’ Retirement System Board, and Department of Education. He served as Director of Public Affairs, Deputy to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Assistant State Superintendent respectively. Before working in state government, he served as Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the University of California, Davis. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees, all at the University of California, Davis.
		Modules: 1. Cultural Landscape 2. Plant Diffusion
	Norman L. Miller, PhD Adjunct Professor, Geography Department University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA   and Staff Scientist, Climate Science Department Earth Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Education Ph.D. in Meteorology University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987. Current Positions Dr. Norman Miller is Staff Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab, where he leads the Regional Climate System Modeling Group, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Geography Department at the UNiversity of California - Berkeley and at the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona - Tucson.
	Research Dr. Miller is focused on understanding hydroclimate processes and related impacts based on modeling and analysis of regional climate, hydrology, and ecology, and their impacts on energy and water supply and demand, water quality, agriculture, and impacts to other sectors of society. This includes, coupled atmosphere- land surface-groundwater modeling from the site scale to continental scale; climate variability and change analyses; water and energy resources impacts, scaling theory; nonlinear coupling, feedbacks and sensitivities with climate systems; and high performance computing. His group investigates past, present, and future climate on regional and sub-regional spatial scales and at temporal resolutions representative of weather and climate. His research includes conceptual models, numerical code development and evaluation, statistical analyses of historical and projected global and regional climate, numerical weather and streamflow ensemble prediction, seasonal forecasts, and scaling theories. We use remote-sensed observations, reanalysis data, and IPCC AOGCM projections as input forcing to our limited area models and statistical downscaling schemes to understand climate and impacts at site-to-regional scales. The Berkeley Regional Climate System Model (RCSM) is a primary tool for our research. Contribution to Nobel-winning climate work Dr. Miller is an IPCC author since 1995, and is among more than 2,000 scientists worldwide who have conducted groundbreaking research for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC was established in 1988 and has issued three major studies that analyzed climate change causes, impacts and what can be done about it. They share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. He hopes that this Nobel Prize "helps to raise awareness, especially among public policy-makers, about the very real problem of climate change, and how we as a society need to act more responsibly with our diminishing natural resources."
		Modules: 1. Climate Change Module 2. Climate Change Module 3. Climate Change Module
LAW
Corporations
	Michael Chasalow, JD, MBA Director, Small Business Clinic Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law School of Law University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, California, USA Michael Chasalow directs the USC Small Business Clinic, where students gain hands-on experience handling transactional legal problems and providing basic corporate legal assistance to small businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. He also teaches Counseling the Start-up Company, Partnerships & Limited Liability Companies and Business Organizations. Professor Chasalow’s scholarly interests involve the development and structure of business ventures as well as corporate governance issues and issues relating to the governance of partnerships and LLCs. Professor Chasalow is also a principal at Onondaga, Inc., a small private equity group focused on the development and financing of start-up and early stage companies. Professor Chasalow attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a B.A. in both English and economics. He received his J.D. from Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and his M.B.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles. After law school Professor Chasalow practiced law for several years, initially as a transactional attorney with Latham and Watkins in Los Angeles, where he specialized in such complex corporate transactions as mergers and acquisitions and the issuance of sophisticated debt securities. In 2004, Professor Chasalow was given the Outstanding Adjunct Professor Award by USC Law’s Student Bar Association. He has also taught at Whittier School of Law and Loyola Law School.
		Modules: 1. Corporate Entity Structures (Overview) 2. Fiduciary Duties 3. Understanding the Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Contracts & Negotiation
	Russell Korobkin, JD Professor of Law School of Law University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California, USA Russell Korobkin is professor of law at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where he teaches Negotiation, Contracts, Health Care Law and Law and Behavioral Science.  Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2001, he held appointments at the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs, and he taught as a visitor at the University of Texas School of Law.  Professor Korobkin is the author of the textbook Negotiation Theory and Strategy (Aspen Law & Business, 2002), as well as more than 30 scholarly articles on negotiating in the transactional and dispute resolution contexts and other topics that combine law, economics, and psychology.  Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Korobkin received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Stanford University, clerked for the Honorable James L. Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and worked as an associate at the law firm of Covington and Burling in Washington, DC.
		Books: 1. Negotiation Theory and Strategy (Casebook) 2. Stem Cell Century: Law and Policy for a Breakthrough technology
Constitutional Law
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Civil Procedure
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Criminal Law
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Education & Special Ed Law
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Employment Law
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Entertainment Law
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Evidence
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Immigration Law
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Intellectual Property Law
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
International Law
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Public Policy
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Remedies
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Tax
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Torts
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.
Wills and Trusts
		Modules: 1. 2. 3.

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