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School / Work Affiliation: Principal of Lonsdale School

About Me: Hello! I am the principal of Lonsdale Elementary School. The teachers in my school are ambitious and collaborative. I am looking forward to the discussions they have on this site, and I am excited to be a part of them.

I have recently moved to Lincoln, RI after taking the job as principal. I live here with my wonderful family (husband Paul, son Ross, age 10, daughters Aisnley and Lydia, ages 8 and 3). Prior to this, I worked for the State Department of Education in a fellowship position and I taught Special Education and 4th grade for 14 years at Aquidneck School in Middletown, RI.

My plan is to stay at Lonsdale for a long time, so that I can be an agent of change and culture building. I believe in longevity and commitment. Eventually, I would like to get into curriculum work and district leadership, maybe in about 10 years.

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At 1:49am on December 31, 2008, Andy Pethan said…: Hello,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Andy Pethan. I am a 21 year old student from Olin College of Engineering (near Boston). I am a part of a group of six Olin students who are taking a year off to pursue interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, which brought us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! Our company is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

"We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. We hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, teamwork, personalized learning, goal setting, reflection, effective feedback and evaluation, and the ability to work with groups across classes and schools to more effectively let students follow their interests and let teachers share their knowledge. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009."

Our team is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com ending 11:59PM central time today. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs. We would love your support in the form of a vote, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving.

Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, or check out alightlearning.com if you're interested in learning more or getting involved when we begin piloting the software!

Thanks,
Andy Pethan
andrew.pethan@students.olin.edu