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Contact Us
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To contact the AHSI core staff at The Big Picture Company,
please e-mail ahsi@bigpicture.org
or call
(401)
752-3442.
To contact a specific organization in the AHSI
network, please go to the AHSI
Organizations page on this site
and follow the link to that organization.
AHSI Staff:
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Elliot Washor,
Ed. D. is the co-founder and co-director of The Big Picture Company
in Providence, Rhode Island. He is also the co-founder of The Met
Center in Providence, RI.
Elliot has been involved in
school reform for more than 30 years as a teacher, principal,
administrator, video producer and writer. He has taught and is
interested in all levels of school from kindergarten through
college, in urban and rural settings, across all disciplines. His
work has spanned across school design, pedagogy, learning
environments, and education reform. He is supporting others doing
similar work throughout the world. Elliot’s interests lie in the
field of how schools can connect with communities to understand
tacit and disciplinary learning both in and outside of school. At
Thayer High School in Winchester, NH, his professional development
programs won an “Innovations in State and Local Government Award”
from the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University. He has been selected as the educator to watch in
Rhode Island. His dissertation on Innovative Pedagogy and New
Facilities won the merit award from DesignShare, the international
forum for innovative schools. Elliot lives in sunny San Diego with
his wife and five dogs. You can e-mail him at ewashor@bigpicture.org. |
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David Lemmel, Ph.D.
is the National Director for the Alternative High
School Initiative, a national collaboration of youth development
organizations to create diploma-granting high schools for
disconnected youth. David brings tremendous knowledge and practice
to this work. He is well-versed in the theory and practice central
to many of the ongoing national school reform efforts and has served
on several collaborations around non-traditional education design,
education reform, and extended-learning policy. His academic work
examines psychosocial factors related to race and ethnicity and
their impact on access to education and opportunity, achievement
attitudes and behaviors, adolescent risk and resilience, and
transition to adulthood trajectories. In his spare time, David
enjoys listening to jazz while caring for his twins. He received his
BA from Bard College, and Ph.D. from UCLA in the Department of
Sociology. In 2001 David was awarded the postdoctoral Fellowship on
Race, Culture and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education. You can
e-mail David at dlemmel@bigpicture.org. |
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Sam Seidel began working with The Big Picture Company in 1999. After a three year hiatus, during which Sam was the director of the AS220 Broad Street Studio – a non-profit grassroots program working with young people transitioning out of juvenile prison – Sam rejoined the Big Picture staff in May of 2005 to work on the Alternative High School Initiative. Sam has taught in alternative and traditional settings for students in grade levels ranging from first grade to post-secondary. He has a degree in Education History and Policy, and as a student he attended 13 years of alternative public schools. You can e-mail him at sseidel@bigpicture.org. |
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Albert Saldana is the AHSI student intern. |
