Instructional Technology Specialist (K-12)

Sue is the director of the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab (and Makerspace). Sue’s work involves designing maker learning experiences and supporting the systemic adoption of the maker mindset; using technology to facilitate and amplify meaningful, inclusive, and culturally responsive learning opportunities; and modeling and advocating for universal design and accessibility. She also teaches technology courses and directs the educational technology programs in the Graduate School of Education.

In the fall of 2017, Sue was appointed by the Superintendent of Cambridge Public Schools and the City Manager of Cambridge to sit on the Cambridge STEAM Advisory Committee, along with representatives from Harvard, Microsoft, Google, Cambridge Community Foundation, Biogen Foundation, MIT, Harvard, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge Science Festival, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge Innovation Center, and administrators from the Cambridge Public Schools.

Education: BA, Skidmore College; M.Ed., Emmanuel College

Diane Ronchetti Cooper is an associate director for academic advising and student services in the Graduate School of Education, where she is advisor for the middle school, high school, individually designed, instructional technology, and digital literacy and computer science programs.

She is a long-standing member of the Lesley community. She earned her BA from Emmanuel College; attended the George Washington University Law School; and received graduate degrees from Suffolk and Lesley University in both Business and Educational Administration. She is an active member of the American Association of University Women, the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), and various local school and community organizations.

Bill teaches physics and mathematics in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department.

He believes that learning is an ecological process, occurring between the ears, eyes, fingers and toes and among people, mediated by cultural and semiotic resources. A child reading a science book by herself is not learning alone. Over many years, scientists created the words and grammar that make up her book. The book itself is the product of print innovations. Chances are that many others have helped the child to the point where she can read the book. Should this child become a scientist, she too will contribute to advancing the field. Should she become an innovative teacher, she will improve how we teach science. In these ways, effective learning reshapes the cultural contexts that give rise to it.

Education: PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; BS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jo-Anne Hart is a full professor of Global Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and teaches in the Graduate School of Education at Lesley University. She is also an adjunct professor at the Watson Institute of international and public affairs, Brown University. 

She graduated with her BA from UCLA and received a fellowship to study Persian language at New York University (NYU), where she earned a PhD in Political Science, specializing in international relations. In addition to Lesley, she has taught at Brown, the Naval War College in Newport, RI, and Barnard College / Columbia University. Professor Hart also completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Lesley in early 2019.

Hart also works as a practitioner in international conflict resolution: she is active with the international peacemaking NGO Search for Common Ground. Hart is a founding member of a US-Iranian working group on avoiding incidents at sea in the Persian Gulf and she regularly participates in trainings with the US Army on mutual threat reduction. She has been invited on multiple occasions to the NYC / UN dinner Iranian presidents hold for American experts. She debated John Bolton live on national TV. Hart has years of experience in security decision making exercises at the national level and is a regular visiting expert on conflict mediation at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. The US Navy flew her out to an aircraft carrier at sea, with an “arrested landing” (tailhook), to discuss avoiding war with Iran with the senior battle group command. She lectures widely in the US and abroad, including Kuwait, Copenhagen, Moscow, Heidelberg, and Tehran. Her work has been translated into Arabic, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese, Urdu, French, Welsh, and an Indonesian language.

At Lesley, Hart teaches global interdisciplinary studies, contemporary Middle East, and Civics Education.

Susan joined the Lesley faculty in 2010. Having been described as an "unapologetic evangelical for the cause of technology in schools," her focus remains on working with classroom teachers on appropriate technology integration.

Susan started her professional career as a middle and high school teacher of history and economics. She lived and worked abroad for 10 years in Israel, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. 

Susan weighs in on ways to prevent bullying in schools.