Contact Information
Use the following information to contact the Teaching with Primary Sources Colorado Rural Partnership:
Phone: (970) 351.1555
Email: primary.sources@unco.edu
To see what Workshops are coming up, please check our calendar.
You can also contact our staff directly. See staff information below.
Dr. Anne Ryan Bell, Grant Director
Anne Bell has spent the past seven years overseeing grant-funded professional development activities. She thoroughly enjoys supporting teachers with resources, tools and strategies, as well as exploring issues of 21st century learning. With degrees in English, Radio-TV-Film and Educational Technology, her varied background includes teaching at the high school and college level, as well as communication and training in the fields of education, television, health care, and child advocacy. She lives in the Denver area with her husband and their home-on-breaks college age son.
Anne's favorite site on the LOC website is the collection Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century, including the Collection Connections resource materials for teachers.
Contact:
anne.bell@unco.edu
Phone:
970.351.1523
Kathy Ferrel, Assistant Director |
| Kathy Ferrel comes to the TPS grant with a background that includes 13 years experience in middle school , 3 years in higher education on a PT3 grant, and a 2 year foray into the world of software development as an education specialist for a GIS (Geographical Information Systems) company. Her Master’s Degree is in Computer Information Systems and she considers herself somewhat of a “techno junkie.” |
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In her spare time Kathy likes to travel. She and her husband recently learned to Scuba which allows her to travel to tropical locations like Hawaii, Bonaire, and Mexico. When she runs out of money she gardens, dabbles in digital photography, scrapbooks, and enjoys her grandson. She lives in Windsor, Colorado with her husband, two dogs, a cat and assorted fish.
Kathy’s favorite section of the Library of Congress website is the Teacher page because it is a one-stop shop for educators at all grade levels.
Contact:
kathryn.ferrel@unco.edu
Phone: 970.351.1517
Visit Kathy's Web site |
| Kim Paxton, Professional Development Coordinator |
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Kim Paxton is the newest addition to the Teaching With Primary Sources/Colorado Rural Partnership team. Even though her degree is in business, she has great passion for helping teachers help students. She is married to a teacher and has 3 school-aged children, so she has accumulated almost 14 years of volunteer classroom experience.
Kim’s favorite LOC feature is the Children and Families section. This is an amazing resource for school projects at any grade level.
Contact:
kimberly.paxton@unco.edu
Phone: 970.351.1555 |
| Akio Yamanaka, Graduate Assistant |
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Akio’s educational background began with an undergraduate degree in International and Intercultural Studies. Upon graduating, she moved to France where she began studying International Relations. During this time, she began to realize the positive impact educators had in developing a socially and culturally conscious society. She returned to the United States where she began her Masters’ studies in the field of Education. Akio’s professional experiences include working as a coordinator for numerous exchange programs as well as developing constructivist learning environments for students studying abroad. Most recently, she has begun her doctorate studies in Educational Technology, researching teachers’ metacognition in instructional objectives design and curriculum development. Her hobbies include watching films, snowboarding, eating exotic foods, video editing, and buying and breaking various electronic devices.
Currently, Akio’s favorite exhibit on the LOC website is Herblock’s History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium. |
Jessica Ellis, Student Employee
Jessica is a student employee at the Teaching with Primary Sources office. She is a freshman at UNC this year, majoring in Elementary Education with a Bilingual/Bicultural concentration. She is originally from Wray, Colorado, where she graduated high school this past May. She is currently living on campus in Greeley, but returns home often to visit her parents, younger brother and sister, and grandparents.
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