David Penberg
Bank Street College of Education
New York City, USA
E-mail: dpenberg@bnkst.edu

I am working on two fronts. One in a school reform project called the Middle School Initiative, a Carnegie based school reform initiative which collaborates with 12 New York City public middle schools to redesign the ways they work with students. I am a staff and curriculum developer with this. The other hat I wear is with a large scale pre-service initiative done in conjunction with 3 community colleges and the Stevens Institute of Technology to encourage teachers to integrate the internet into their teaching repertoire.

I have two articles being published this year. One is for Bank Street's Occasional papers called "A Little Bit of Everything: Teaching and Travelling Abroad." The other, which is being published by EI is a personal and pedagogical reflection on 9.11 called "Acts of Conscience and Acts of Care: Rejecting Normalcy in a Time of Terror." Finally, this Spring I will be completing a multimedia worked entitled The Rebeka/Zora Chronicles 1980-1990: A Father's Diary.