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  Deborah Muscella is an educator with over 25 years of experience. She taught students with special needs in the Philadelphia Public Schools and in the Head Start program in Austin, Texas. She completed her doctorate in education at The University of Texas at Austin. While there she studied how the social and cultural context influences teaching and learning. She continued this research in several national and international projects in which she worked with classroom teachers to establish best practices. She has led projects with funding from the United States Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the United States Department of Commerce. For the past several years, Deborah has worked with a national group of teachers to establish electronic communities that support teachers and showcase their expertise. Robert Kopicko is a veteran classroom teachers with almost three decades of experience. He has pioneered several nationally-acclaimed programs in his classroom. As a middle school science teacher, he brought Star Schools-one of the nation's first telecommunications programs--to his Bloomington, Michigan classroom. Robert also has been a teacher leader and facilitator for National Geographic's KidsNetwork program and LabNet, an electronic community for science and math teachers. |
