Advisors
Advisory Group for Innovative Learning (AGILe)
Anita Bernhardt, Science and Technology Specialist, Maine Department of Education
Bill Burke, Author, Managing Director, Former GMRI Board Chair
Doug Caldwell, Former 5th-grade Teacher
Chris Corbett, Civic Leader
Suzanne Hamlin, President, Transformative Knowledge Group, Inc.
Rita Heimes, Director, Center for Law + Innovation
Dana Hutchins, Founder, President, and Creative Director, Image Works
Penny Noyce, Author, Trustee of the Noyce Foundation and Libra Foundation, GMRI Board Member
Derek Pierce, Principal, Casco Bay High School, GMRI Board Member
Jeff Sandler, Mr. & Mrs. Fish Marine Education Program
Steve Shane, Ed.D.
Digital Learning Strategy Advisors
John Seely Brown, Senior Fellow, Annenberg Center for Communications at the University of
Southern California
Scott Fisher, Professor and Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the USC School of Cinematic
Arts and a Fellow of the Annenberg Center for Communications, University of Southern California
Dana Hutchins, Founder, President, and Creative Director, Image Works
Christopher Mackie, Associate Program Officer, Program in Research in Information Technology,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Penny Noyce, Author, Trustee of the Noyce Foundation and Libra Foundation, GMRI Board Member
Roy Pea, Director, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, Stanford University
Erin Reilly, Research Manager, New Media Literacies project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Silvernail, Director, Center for Educational Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, University
of Southern Maine
Program Partners
Past and current program partners and professional affiliations include:
Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association
Institute for Learning Innovation
Maine Department of Education and Maine Learning Technology Initiative
Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Maine Department of Marine Resources
Maine Forest Service
Maine International Center for Digital Learning
Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance
Maine Sea Grant College Program
National Marine Educators Association
National Science Teachers Association
New England Ocean Science Education Collaborative
Program Evaluation and Research Group, Lesley University