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Home > About C3 > Staff Profiles : Nancy Major Nancy MajorNancy Major has over a decade of experience educating young people in classrooms, at museums, on the internet, and in her own family. After graduating from the American University, in Washington, DC with a BA in early childhood & elementary education, she worked for two years in the DC public school system. Soon thereafter, she and her husband moved to Hawai'i to try living in a completely different culture. There she taught the Gifted and Talented program at a rural, predominantly Polynesian neighborhood school, kindergarten at an urban school, and 1st and 2nd grade at the state's first charter school, Wai'alae Elementary. She also worked as an educator and manager at the Hawaii Children's Museum for a time.Professionally, Nancy has been attracted to issues involving multi-cultural education and language arts skills in the elementary grades. At Wai'alae, she took an active role in school community-based management, and a leading role in developing a portfolio assessment system to replace traditional standardized measures. At the same time, she earned her M.Ed. degree in education from the University of Hawai'i, concentrating in Curriculum & Instruction, Elementary Language Arts. Nancy and colleagues in her school's Portfolio Committee presented their school's portfolio system at an Authentic Assessment Conference at Harvard University. At C3, Nancy has been cataloging lessons and resource materials for the MarcoPolo Search Engine and developing lesson plans for EconEdLink. In web-based education, she sees an ideal medium for the educational philosophy she applied in the classroom, lessons whose interconnected themes and content allow a holistic unit approach, constant evaluation of student achievement, and flexibility in the direction and speed of a student's progress through lessons. |
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