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Faculty: Super School University Afterschool & Summer School Program Bob Barboza, MS Robert L. Barboza, MS. Founder/President Super School University Mr. Barboza is an educator, software designer, and pioneer in project-based distance learning. As educational technology consultant to Apple Computer's FileMaker Inc, he has presented at local and national levels. He is the CEO and founder of Super School University, a cyber organization that includes Junior Medical School, Junior Business School, Junior Law School, Super School Teen TV and Kids Talk Radio. He is the author of numerous software titles, among them Lesson Plan Designer, IEP Writer Supreme, The Super School Electronic Portfolio, Test Designer Supreme, Journalist in a Box, and Science and Database Projects for Kids. Mr. Barboza graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a Bachelors of Science degree in sociology and holds a Masters degree in education from Mount Saint Mary's College. He earned administrative and teaching credentials from California State University Long Beach. In 1997, he received the California Computer Using Educator's Leadership in Technology Award. Mr. Barboza is currently training Kids Talk Radio Backpack Journalism Teams to report on global warming and climate change in Antarctica, the Amazon Jungle, and the North Polar regions. Heather Rush Heather Rush Communications & Public Relations Department Heather Rush is the founder of Write for Life, an innovative afterschool program that helps kids read, write, and speak more effectively in the fun, real-world context of broadcast journalism.    In developing the curriculum for Write for Life, Heather draws on her broad communications experience in both the non-profit and corporate realms, with a focus in public relations, journalism and entertainment marketing.   Most recently, Heather served as director of Project Leg Up (PLU), a Los Angeles based non-profit that supports the effective use of technology in education.  Under her direction, PLU initiated and provided seed funding for the development of a 1:1, project based laptop initiative at the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles.  PLU also collaborated with the Jewish Bureau of Education in Project Laptop 2008, where PLU gifted 50 new laptops to qualifying students.   Prior to her work with the foundation, Heather served as the Vice President of D.S. Ventures.  Most notably, she and acted as a liaison between the company's founder and international statesmen and scholars from the US and Middle East in the company-developed conference, "The Children of Abraham: A Trialogue of Civilizations," hosted by Harvard University.    Heather graduated from Florida State University in 1997 with a degree in Communications and Public Relations, and immediately began her career as an Event Coordinator with the world-renowned, international non-profit, Up With People.  For one year, Heather traveled to more than 15 states in the U.S. promoting and coordinating events for touring casts of 170 international students.    Immediately following Up With People, Heather moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the international PR firm Shandwick Public Affairs executing public information and media campaigns in the top 20 markets. She worked alongside The Union Steel Workers of America and management from the top U.S. steel companies coordinating press conferences and rallies for a national tour aimed at thwarting foreign steel dumping in the late Nineties.  She also acted as a liaison between the national press corps and White House officials for the White House initiative on Y2K.    Heather later served as production coordinator on the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary "A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict."  In addition, she worked as an Audience Producer for PBS, the Washington Week in Review road tours and for National Geographic through Hill & Knowlton Public Relations.   During her nine-year residence in Los Angeles, Heather has served as Creative Services Director and Head Writer for the award-winning entertainment marketing company, Merry Media, Inc.  where she created and produced promotional campaigns for clients including The NBC Television Network, The ABC Television Network, The CW, CBS Television Distribution and PBS.  Her professional experience also includes news writing for the CBS affiliate KNX News Radio and reporting and producing news segments for El Segundo Cable TV. Stuart Borden, Technology Dept. Stuart Borden, MA. Technology Department     Stuart Borden earned his B.A. in Spanish from the University of Southern California, and his M.A. in Educational Administration from California State University, Los Angeles.  In addition to being fluent in Spanish, Mr. Borden is conversant in French and German.  Mr. Borden has a long history of applying and teaching technology.  He was a teacher in the Paramount Unified School District for twenty-six years.  During that time, Mr. Borden introduced technology in education to school staffs district-wide.  He set up and managed computer labs at two schools.  Mr. Borden taught the basics of computer use to students, parents and teachers in after-school classes as well as during the course of the school day in his classes.  Mr. Borden also taught his students the connections between language arts and math with music, by playing folk music on the guitar.   Mr. Borden served as the school district's Mentor Teacher in technology.  He was a key member of all district-level technology committees, and was instrumental in writing the district's educational technology curriculum plans.  Mr. Borden conducted many school site and district-level workshops covering all aspects of technology use.  He also wrote successful grant proposals which enabled schools to implement Smart Board electronic white boards and facilitated the purchase of computers for school use.   Mr. Borden has used his extensive experience with both the Apple Macintosh and the Microsoft Windows operating and networking systems to set up networks and conduct troubleshooting and repair.  He is familiar with and has extensive experience in the analysis and implementation of educational software. He enjoys working with students, seeing them employ technology to achieve academic success.   Mr. Borden volunteers on a regular basis at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. He works several hours each week in the Rehabilitation unit's Internet Cafe, where he assists patients and their families when they use the Internet to look up information, check e-mail, and visit web sites of interest.  Additionally, he is working with the hospital's Memorial Heart and Vascular Institute, creating a patient-to-family and patient-to-hospital staff Facebook page. Dr. Jane Adair Dr. Jane Adair Communications  Department My name is Jane Adair.  I retired from teaching 2 years ago after teaching for 40 years.   I was a National Board Certified Special Education teacher by day-teaching study strategies and coordinating services for high functioning special education students among teachers, parents and students.  I also taught at night for Cal State University, Long Beach-teaching in the Psychosocial Aspects of sport, Women in Sport, History of Sport,  Psychology of Sport.  I have a PHD in Physical Education with a specialty in Psycho-Social Interactions in Sport from Temple University.   I saw Special Education as a place where I could use my training in helping athletes to attain their best thorough mental strategies.  It is what I did in my SPED classes.   As I teach I like best to combine disciplines  and ask my students to place themselves in history, psychology and sociology (in context) of what they are studying.   My favorite project for students is for them to create some work of art that represents themselves in their present world (no collages please) in an historical, psychological and sociological place. This helps them to see and understand the forces from inside and out that are working in history when they study it.   I now also teach a class  on the Olympics for OLLIE, I like to call it Senior University, at the Cal State Long Beach branch.  It is a fascinating place to get stories about people's Olympic experience.  Many of the students helped out at the 1982 Olympics in Los Angeles.  For example one person drove around the Singapore Athletes and later became friends with their families.  Another worked for the government on traffic control.  My interests now have also turned to animals and emergency rescue.  I have taken government and animal organizations training in search and rescue and sheltering for animals during disasters.   My most recent training was in ground support for emergency animal helicopter rescue.  I helped out at the Trabuco Canyon Fires a few years ago handing out supplies for a shelter set up for horse rescues.  At the Seal Beach Animal Shelter, I am co chair of the committee making emergency preparations. I was very fortunate to have been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran.  For two years from 1965 to 1967, I taught English as a Foreign Language in Iran, first in a college for girls in Tehran and then at a k-12  public school in a small town, Malayer.   It was there that I realized the importance of education and that I wanted to be a teacher.  I started out as a Social Studies teacher in Philadelphia and Florida. I have meditated and done Hatha Yoga for almost 30 years and have studied meditation in India.  I am studying homeopathy and use it in working with animals.  I enjoy drum circles. I love to travel and meet people from other countries and find out how people live.