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Community of Practice (CoP)

The Upper Valley Teaching Place Collaborative's Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of professional development providers from organizations that support place-based education in VT and NH. The members of the CoP support one another, learn together, collaborate, provide leadership for the UVTPC and serve as subject matter experts.

Members

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Education Director

Kathleen stowell

kstowell1@lakesunapee.org

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Founding Director

Jacqueline Labate

info@thegrowingpeaceproject.org

Climate & Environmental Education Program Manager

Dante Frontani

dante.frontani@montshire.org

Director of Education

Adam Blankenbicker

adam.blankenbicker@montshire.org

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Education & Interpretive Programs

Christine scales

cscales@billingsfarm.org

Executive Director

Mary Russ

mary@whiteriverpartnership.org

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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park Education Specialist

Jennie Friedman

jennie_friedman@nps.gov

Senior Director of Education

Hannah Gelroth

hgelroth@vinsweb.org

Educator

Laurie Goldsmith

lgoldsmith@vinsweb.org

Director, Wildlife Ambassador Programs

Anna Morris

amorris@vinsweb.org

Educator

kelly Gadouas

kgadouas@vinsweb.org

Nature Camp & Family Programs Coordinator

kelly Marqua

kmarqua@vinsweb.org

Environmental Educator

Kassian Jensen

kjensen@vinsweb.org

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Principal and Founder

Joan Haley

joan@ed4climateresilience.org

Administrator

Leigh Ann Reynolds

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School & Youth Program Coordinator

Mollie Surprenant

msurprenant@billingsfarm.org

Director of Conservation Science

Ryan Rebozo

rrebozo@vtecostudies.org

Community Science Coordinator

Dana Williams

dwilliams@vtecostudies.org

Grow More Waste Less

Change Facilitator

Cat Buxton

catduffybuxton@gmail.com

Four Winds Nature Institute

Founder & Executive Director

Lisa Purcell

VT Abenaki Artists Association Executive Director

vera longtoe sheehan

vera.sheehan@abenakiart.org

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Ferndean Farm

Founder

Madeline Raynolds

ferndeanfarm@gmail.com

Education Programs Manager

Kelsey Head

kelsey@cedarcirclefarm.org

Summer Camp Director & Education Lead

zack herman

Zack@cedarcirclefarm.org

Education Lead

Elly Thomas

elly@cedarcirclefarm.org

Founder & Co-Director

Jamie Rosenfeld

Jamie@replayarts.org

Founder & Co-Director

melanie adsit

melanie@replayarts.org

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Vital Communities

Project Manager, Food & Farm; Farm to School: Farm to ECE

Anna Hubbard

ahubbard@vitalcommunities.org

PBE Coordinator

Kat Robbins

kat.robbins@mtnviews.org

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Project Director

Karen Ganey

karen.nrcd@gmail.com

Executive Director

Emily Shipman

emilys@kidsgardening.org

Sustainability Educator

Emily Emerson

eemerson@sullivancountynh.gov

Executive Director

sophia danforth

sophia@veep.org

District Manager

laura Sokoloski

lsokoloski@graftoncountynh.gov

Sustainability Coordinator

Jeannie Kornfeld

jeanniekornfeld@gmail.com

Children’s Program Associate at Upper Valley Haven and

Naturalist Educator at Four Winds

Skylar Claud

sclaud@uppervalleyhaven.org

skylar@fwni.org

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