Staff

Staff

 * Sheila Adams || | || Steve Schulten ||
 * Gini Littlefield (on leave) || | || Wendy Crowley ||
 * Mike Middleton || | || Dave Shannon ||
 * Bert Cohen (retired) || | || Jerry Kelly (retired) ||

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Staff meeting on the island, March, 2008. Sheila, Mike, Jerry, Bert, Gini, Dave, Wendy



__Staff Biographies__

 * Sheila Adams** currently teaches 7th grade science at Rye Jr. High School. She has been involved with the Belize program since its beginning and tries to involve her classes each year with her travels to Belize. At UNH, she was also involved with the Live, Learn, and Teach Program for 3 years. Outside of school, she is involved with NHSTE, a technology and education group, and webcasting. Another interest of hers is geocaching.


 * Wendy Crowley** teaches 6th grade at North Hampton School where she has taught for the past 30+ years. She traveled to Belize with the UNH program for three years and has a special interest in seeing the Lubantuun ball court markers, currently housed at Harvard, returned to the Belize City National Museum. She lives in North Hampton with her husband, 1 of their 3 kids, and 2 golden retrievers.


 * Michael Middleton** is an associate professor of education at UNH. His area of specialty is educational psychology, with a research focus on the impact of learning environments on student motivation and well-being. Previously, he was a math teacher at Lincoln-Sudbury High School in MA.


 * David Shannon** has been with the Belize-UNH program since 2000. David has been teaching since 1981 and is currently a physical education teacher at Exeter High School. He lives in Barrington with his wife Donna and their two children.

I am **Steve Schulten**. I live in Dover, NH with my wife of 38 years. I have been to Belize 7 times.....4 as a participant and 3 as a staff member. I began teaching in 1973, 17years of driver Ed at Portsmouth High School, 22years of elementary PE at Little Harbour School in Portsmouth and am currently teaching PE in Newburyport, Mass. at a Montessori charter school. I am proud to have two daughters in the teaching profession and three granddaughters living with their parents in the area. I am excited to be a part of the Belize/UNH Teacher program again and look forward to meeting and traveling with this years participants.

__On Leave__
 * Gini Littlefield** has been involved with the Belize-UNH program since 1995. She is recently retired from teaching 7th & 8th grade social studies at Barrington Middle School. She also has twenty years experience at the elementary level. Gini has one son and lives in Strafford not far from Bow Lake...a great place to kayak!

__Retired Staff__
 * Bert Cohen** is founder of the Belize-UNH Teacher Program and has been part of the staff from its origin. Currently he teaches courses on sustainability at UNH and is active in bringing sustainability practices to his community and the Piscataqua Region. Over the past 40 years he has taught elementary education in the inner city of Los Angeles and at Little Harbour Elementary School as well as being part of the UNH Masters Program in experiential education for 29 summers. Gardening, grandchildren and walking currently give him delight.


 * Jerry Kelly** has been traveling to Belize with the program since 1991 and has been working with the Independence Project since its inception ten years ago. A former English teacher at Exeter High, he has special interests in Belize's oral literature and language policy. In Belize, he is also a great fan of barracuda for breakfast, Garifuna drumming and blue-eyed spiders!