Project RED - Who we are
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Project RED Management Team
Leslie Wilson
CEO, One-to-One Institute
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Leslie is a founding member of the One-to-One Institute. She created and implemented the programs and services model based on Michigan’s Freedom to Learn Program. Leslie directs and manages the Institute's programs and operations while working with a collaborative cadre of state and national service providers. Leslie ensures hands on, shoulder to shoulder collaboration with each client wherever they are on the continuum of development or implementation. This includes help with planning, design and launch, curriculum and content integration, on-line assessment, leadership, and sustainability. Leslie and the team offer comprehensive professional development and/or program templates for teachers, administrators and technology personnel to ensure success around the organizations’ project goals.
Leslie served public education for 31 years in seven school districts. She held positions of executive director of curriculum and instruction, high school principal/assistant principal, special education administrator/teacher, and adventure-based counselor. She was recruited to co-lead Michigan’s one-to-one teaching and learning initiative, Freedom to Learn (FTL), in 2003.
As co-chair of the National Steering Committee of One to One Directors, Leslie facilitates the network and collaboration among one to one visionaries. She has extensively authored and presented around 21st century teaching/learning/leadership, one to one best practices and research. She serves on national and state committees aimed at transforming the education industry.
As an Education Policy/Program Fellow with the Institute for Educational Leadership, Leslie facilitated the creation of an advanced fellowship program for educational technology leaders in Michigan. She completed her doctoral coursework in education leadership at the University of Michigan. She holds a master’s in instructional technology from Wayne State University, a special education administrative endorsement from Eastern Michigan University and a bachelor of science in education from the University of Michigan. Leslie was a certified adventure based counselor through Project Adventure, an offshoot of Outward Bound.
Michael Gielniak, Ph. D.
Director, Programs and Development, One-to-One Institute
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Mike is Projects and Development Manager for the One to One Institute and is currently working with staff to develop internal procedures, development and marketing strategies, as well as key programs and services. Michael comes to OTO with executive director experience at both the Anton Art Center and the Center for Creative Learning and Teaching. At the Anton Art Center, Michael orchestrated the financial turnaround of the organization and successfully completed a 1.7 million dollar renovation and addition to their facility in the historic Carnegie Library building in downtown Mount Clemens.
Both a Fulbright Scholarship and an Emmy Award winner, Michael has been working with creative and educational environments around the globe for 25 years. While working as a consultant at the Macomb Intermediate School District, he developed and directed the Macomb New Teacher Academy where he trained over 1,000 teachers. Michael has worked with the Michigan Department of Education on a variety of projects for the past seven years. He managed the development of arts content for the Clarifying Language in Michigan Benchmarks (MIClimb), served on the rubric development committee for Michigan’s school assessment program, Education, Yes!, and reviewed Michigan's teacher preparation standards.
Michael holds degrees in elementary and secondary education, musicology, as well as an Education Specialist degree in curriculum and instruction. He recently finished his Ph.D. work in cognitive neuroscience at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
Thomas W. Greaves
CEO and Founder, The Greaves Group, LLC
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Mr. Greaves is recognized as a visionary in the conceptualization, design, engineering and marketing of technologies for schools. He holds multiple patents and patent disclosures for student computing technologies and has been involved in hundreds of 1:1 computing projects at the district, state and federal level. He has published widely and is currently is the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) Mobile Computing Trends Watch Report Editor. Mr. Greaves’ recent work is highlighted by the 2006 and 2008 America’s Digital Schools surveys which have extensive coverage of 1:1 computing devices and implementations.
Mr. Greaves has 40 years experience in the computer industry, including 26 years at IBM. During the last several years at IBM, he was a member of the IBM EduQuest senior management team, responsible for educational hardware product marketing and development. His group developed many educational products including the IBM Personal Science Lab, and Mammals, a Multimedia Encyclopedia, the first commercial software product using software video playback.
In 1996 Mr. Greaves co-founded NetSchools, along with his mentor, Jim Dezell. NetSchools was the first company to focus on comprehensive curriculum integrated, Internet connected 1:1 laptop solutions. Working with Federal and state legislators, he implemented technology-transformed schools in several National 1:1 Educational Technology Demonstration programs, bringing substantial achievement gains to the poorest and most remote of America’s schools.
Following the sale of NetSchools to PLATO Learning in 2002, he founded The Greaves Group, a strategic education consulting organization. Along with his partners, the Greaves Group focuses on assisting clients develop their own vision of the future in educational technology and then implementing programs that help realize that vision.
Mr. Greaves believes the work has only just begun which will lead to dramatic improvements in student achievement.
Eric L. Peterson
President and CEO, Peterson Public Sector Consulting, LLC
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Eric Peterson, as President and CEO of PPSC, and through his prior affiliation with Michigan School Business Officials (MSBO), is known by educators, State of Michigan executives and legislators throughout the state. Mr. Peterson has worked with the Michigan Departments of Education, Treasury, and Management and Budget, Michigan Legislators, and both the House and Senate Fiscal Agencies over the last nineteen years. He has collaborated with various State of Michigan Departments and the legislature to solve challenging public policy issues, served as legislative resource, developed organizational development, process compression, and informational seminars encompassing all areas of public school administration.
Having worked with over 500 school districts, Mr. Peterson has developed numerous techniques for customizing entity specific operational, instructional and financial solutions. He has been engaged to assist rural, urban and suburban districts. Most recently, he worked with the Detroit Public Schools, in partnership with another consulting firm, in district’s quest to right size the organization and reduce debt.
During the last six years, Mr. Peterson has presented at National Council of Governments, Intel Corporation, Consortium of School Networking (CoSN), Michigan School Business Official (MSBO), Michigan Institute for Educational Management (MIEM), Michigan Association of School Administrators (MASA), Michigan Association of School Boards (MASB) and various intermediate school district conferences, seminars, and workshops relative to central and site office public school organization, property tax administration, fraud and abuse, ethics, budgeting in difficult financial times, the utilization of technology as a tool to enhance financial, human resource, student, and operational administration and the total cost of educational technology ownership. In addition, Eric performs process and organizational studies for public schools and business’ throughout Michigan. In April 2004, Eric was presented the Distinguished Service Award by the MSBO Board of Directors for 13 years of outstanding support to Michigan Schools’ business officials.
Jeanne Hayes
CEO and Founder, The Hayes Connection
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In 2005, Jeanne Hayes established “The Hayes Connection” to consult for both established and start-up education market companies and school districts. Hayes‘ 30 years of strategic insights gained from building a business, creating databases, analyzing market trends and helping clients market to schools enable her to connect her clients to the education market.
Hayes founded Quality Education Data, (QED) in 1981. Her vision was to create the highest-quality education database possible. To grow the business, she established a marketing research division in the early ‘90s and later expanded the database through QED’s National Registry of Teachers™. After she facilitated the sale of QED to Scholastic Inc. in 1999, she served as VP of Marketing Development at Scholastic through 2004.
A former educator and debate coach, Hayes has testified before congress and speaks at conferences nationwide about instructional technology and other education issues. With her partner and co-author, Tom Greaves, she has researched and written America’s Digital Schools 2006 and America’s Digital Schools 2008, both of which look at ed tech trends, such as 1:1 computing, learning management systems, mobile devices, and broadband access. She has presented findings from these reports at numerous webinars and conferences to both educators and publishers.
As part of her industry connections, Hayes served as one of the founding members of the CEO Forum on Education and Technology, as a corporate member and treasurer of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and as a board member of the Education Section of the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA). Hayes was recognized as CoSN’s Private Sector Champion for 2002, as well as Converge Magazine’s ‘Those Who Make a Difference 2000’ and the eSchool News’ Impact 30 for 2001. In December 2002, she was inducted into the Association of Educational Publishers’ Hall of Fame. In 2005, she was recognized as a recipient of the ‘Making It Happen’ award. Currently, Hayes serves on the board and is the past-president of the board of Creating Caring Communities, a Denver-based nonprofit focused on making schools safe through the creation of positive models and the elimination of bullying.