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About Us: MultipleMinds Curriculum and Instruction
MultipleMinds Educational Foundation is a digital media and learning organization. Our proactive method of teaching enables young learners to raise their academic achievement levels and prepares them for the demands of the 21st century workforce. Students learn by constructing knowledge through research and, this in turn, is articulated in the form of multimedia projects. These activities and projects are inquiry and creative courses anchored to national standards of excellence and to each student’s unique learning needs and strengths.
MultipleMinds uses its proprietary Helical Learning Strategy, where learning begins with simple and familiar concepts and activities and cumulatively grows into individually-created and professionally- oriented multimedia projects. With this learning strategy, students are guided with scaffoldings that help them to successfully complete engaging and exciting projects of the highest quality.
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Tony Carlson is the Executive Director of MultipleMinds. He is a commercial photographer, filmmaker, and creative director. As a teenager, Tony Carlson began his professional career, working as a free-lance photographer for CameraPix, the Nairobi, Kenya based affiliate for United Press International. His clients represent a diverse range including Hewlett Packard, McCann Erickson, The Sharper Image, The Wine Spectator and the United Nations Environment Program. While living in Asia, in 1988, Tony co-founded PowerPlay Interactive, a multimedia production house where he served as art and creative director, publisher and video director. In 1999, Tony co-founded OurTurf.com, an on-line universe for teenagers. Carlson taught teenagers how to channel their energies and talents into creative initiatives, and showcase their works online. In 2002, he served as Director of the Digital Media Academy at Stanford University. He is currently working on two new films about teachers and students in America. For more information about Tony, check out www.tonycarlsonphotography.com. |
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Juanita Pascual is Director of the administrative affairs of MultipleMinds. She has provided the San Francisco bay Area community with thirty-six years of exemplary service as an educator and administrator, the past twenty-six years of her career having been dedicated to City College of San Francisco. After teaching for 14 years, Juanita held progressively more responsible administrative positions in the San Francisco Community College District including, Vice-President of Administrative Services, Interim President/Provost of Campuses, Vice Chancellor of Administration and Finance, and Acting Chancellor. Juanita's recent activities included Board membership in Council for Educational Improvement, Board membership in Filipino American Foundation of New Mexico, Board Chairperson of Filipino Federation of America, Inc. Currently, she is the Scholarship Coordinator for the Filipino American Foundation of New Mexico and Board Member and Secretary of GROW, Santa Fe Community College. Juanita is an educator, administrator, and mentor. |
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Gigi Carlson is the principal curriculum designer of MultipleMinds. She brings more than twenty-five years of experience in art, new media education, and participatory learning. In the capacities of teacher and multimedia professional, Gigi designed and led the implementation of Multiple Minds, a statewide program integrating documentary movie-making in K12 curricula for the New Mexico Public Education Department in 2004-2005. Gigi has taught digital media strategies at the Digital Media Academy at Stanford University. An exchange instructor with the Division of International Development on Participatory Learning at the University of Calgary from 1987-1992, Gigi is the only Adobe Master Teacher in New Mexico. Her book, Digital Media in the Classroom published in San Francisco in 2004 has garnered five stars from her readers at www.amazon.com. Her book provides teachers and school administrators with strategies to transform traditional classrooms into state-of-the-art 21st century learning environments. Gigi taught English as A Second Language (ESL) and Special Education at the Menlo-Atherton High School, and ESL & Entrepreneurship for high school and middle school at the Monte Del Sol Charter School in Santa Fe. She was CEO and co-founder of PowerPlay Interactive, a digital media production center in the Philippines and was member of the Philippine Educational Theater, a member-organization of the International Theater Institute for 25 years. Her theater training has brought Gigi in co-productions with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Black Tent Theater Japan, Maya Theater in Thailand, Berlin Ensemble, and the Improv Theater Company in Canada. Gigi is a writer, music composer, director, and producer. |
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Leonard Pascual is the Technology Director of MultipleMinds. He is also the President of J & L Pascual of Santa Fe, Inc. dba as A Sound Look, an integrated electronics firm established in 1994. The firm specializes in smart home control systems and custom installations of video, sound, lighting, telephone, and security. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was a market maker of stock options on the Pacfic Stock Exchange in San Francisco. He graduated from San Francisco State University in Business. He is married to Jessica Pascual, a Compensation Leader at Los Alamos. They have two sons--Leland (a student at St. Michaels High School) and Lorenzo (a student at Rio Grande Elementary School) and Lorenzo (a student at Rio Grande Elementary). |
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Carole Brito is president and founder of LEAD (Leadership, Education, Assessment and Development) for Excellence
after retiring from New Mexico Highlands University in June of 2006. Ms. Brito has thirty years of experience as
an educator (kindergarten through graduate level). She has served as a teacher, administrator and executive director
at the local, state and national levels. The majority of her work at the state level has consisted of policy
development through facilitating statewide taskforces and advisory councils mandated by the New Mexico Legislature.
Highlights of her professional profile are the following:
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Tobias Hoellrich Senior Computer Scientist Adobe Systems Engineering Manager at Adobe Systems April 1994 – Present |
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Adélamar N. Alcántara, Ph.D. Senior Demographer University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research |
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Ted Jojola, Ph.D., Regents' Professor School of Architecture and Planning University of New Mexico |
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