Biographies
Environmental Science - John Madden
John received his bachelor’s degree in Geosciences from the University of Missouri – Kansas City and his master’s in Secondary Education and Geochemistry from the University of Arizona. After teaching environmental science, chemistry and geology for 20 years in the public school system in Tucson, Arizona, John spent two years as the Science Education Program Coordinator for SAHRA, an NSF Science and Technology Center for Riparian Studies in Semi-arid Regions headquartered in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Arizona before accepting the Science and Math Department Chair position at the Ashley Hall School in Charleston, SC.
John has been involved in the Advanced Placement Environmental Science program since 1996 when he participated in the first Environmental Science AP “Train-the-Trainers” workshop held at the University of Arkansas – Little Rock where approximately twenty-five high school teachers and college faculty members gathered to design and explore the initial AP Environmental Science curriculum and develop appropriate laboratory experiences for the new course. He has been a College Board Consultant since 1998 and had run numerous one-day workshops as well as summer institutes in Arizona, Washington, Maine, Michigan and California. He has participated as a Reader, Table Leader and Question Leader for ten years at the AP Environmental Science Exam Readings.
In addition to his work with the AP program, he has served as a consultant with the Praxis Teacher Certification program in Earth Sciences. John is also a trainer and workshop leader for IEEIA (Investigating and Evaluating Environmental Issues and Actions), a project-based inquiry model of instruction developed by the Center for Instruction, Staff Development and Evaluation (CISDE) at Southern Illinois University. Since 1995, John has taught the Earth Science Teaching Methods course for the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona as well as the Inquiry and Water Issues graduate course for teachers in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources. In 2003-04, he served as the Teacher-In-Residence for the UofA College of Science Teacher Preparation Program. And in 2006, he received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Special Guest Speaker - Heather Jersild
Heather received her Bachelor’s degree in Rural Development from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN and then went on to receive two Masters Degrees from the University of California at Davis in International Agricultural Development and in Textiles. She is also a Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural Ecology from UC Davis and is currently completing yet another degree, the Masters of Public Health at Old Dominion University.
Her work for the past 25 years has involved teaching at the university level here and in China, agricultural consulting both domestically and internationally, statistical analysis and research design, and most recently, teaching high school at the private college preparatory school of Norfolk Collegiate in Norfolk, VA where she is the Senior Science Teacher. For the past 13 years she has been teaching Advanced Placement Environmental Science and Advanced Placement Human Geography in addition to senior science electives in Astronomy, Environmental Geology, Meteorology and Epidemiology. She also served as a reader for the AP Exam in Environmental Science from the initial introduction for 10 years! The best part of her teaching job is getting out in the field with her students and she has led extensive field studies to the Galapagos, Costa Rica, Spain, Mexico and China. Last summer she team taught an AP Summer Institute with John Madden in California and is really looking forward to working with him again this summer.
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