STEERING COMMITTEE
Our Steering Committee is dedicated to shaping Take 2 into an organization that meets student and teacher needs.
Molly Schen, Ed.D., has worked for over 25 years in education, always with an eye on cultivating thoughtfulness among educators as well as adolescents. She got her start as the first coordinator of the Coalition of Essential Schools with Ted Sizer, taught high school English in New England, was an assistant superintendent in central Maine, and helped open several small schools with the Big Picture Company. At Facing History and Ourselves since 2005, she supports a network of small schools, organizes professional development for schools and districts all over North America, and gets into classrooms as often as she can.
Sharon Peters is a high school teacher of English and computer studies as well as technology integration coach at The Study, an independent school in Montreal. She recently completed an M.A. in educational technology with a focus of online collaborative learning for high school students and has worked as an independent consultant creating curricula for the online school in Quebec. During the summer of '08, she joined two teams who served with Teachers Without Borders in the townships of South Africa and Kenya. Her students have participated in several award-winning international online collaborative projects with classes around the world using various online tools and environments. In her spare moments, Sharon enjoys webcasting a weekly show called Women of Web 2.0 and extending her personal learning network through reading blogs and participating in lively global conversations.
Marguerite Kling is a high school social studies teacher at Nature Coast Technical High School in Brooksville, Florida. Mrs. Kling has worked for the Hernando County School District since 1999, teaching at the elementary, middle, and high school levels during her tenure. Currently Mrs. Kling teaches varied grade levels and courses, which include American History, American Government, Multicultural Studies, and Global Studies. Mrs. Kling also serves as the faculty advisor for Nature Coast’s Invisible Children club and the school’s STAND chapter. Her main educational goal is to help students recognize that they have both the responsibility and the ability to make a difference in the world.
Mrs. Kling is a member of several organizations including Teachers Against Prejudice (TAP), Genocide Intervention Network, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. She has partnered with agencies such as the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Beyond Drought Exhibit) and the Florida Center for Instructional Technology (No Strings Attached: Wireless Laptops in Education).
Mrs. Kling has been the recipient of several grants totaling over $300,000 for the Hernando County School District from organizations such Teaching Tolerance, Facing History and Ourselves, Southwest Florida Water Management District, and EETT (Enhancing Education Through Technology). Mrs. Kling has represented her schools twice for Teacher of the Year recognition, as well as being nominated for the DisneyHand Teacher Award.
Rory Brennan completed his BA (Comm.) in 2005 at the University of Technology, Sydney. Since then he worked on a variety of independent films and video art works featuring at the likes of the Seattle Indie Film Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. In 2007, Rory was employed as an assistant editor at Nitrous Ltd. in New York, a premiere boutique Post-Production facility. Nitrous Ltd. strives to maintain a technological edge, especially with the move to Digital High Definition and Rory has played an integral role in the implementation of new workflows and systems. Rory maintains the integration of Editorial, Sound and VFX departments sporting software from major brands like Adobe, Apple, Autodesk and Avid.
Rory recently finished as assistant editor on the feature documentary One Country (Dir. Ana Nogueira) and is currently editing the 30-minute drama Landing for Lincoln Labs.