Christine Baron, Principal, Baron Consulting

Christine@BaronEducationConsulting.net

Christine Baron has been an educator for more than 10 years. She began her career as a teacher at the Landmark School in Beverly, MA, teaching and developing social studies curricula. She was later recruited by the Harker School in San Jose, CA, to be a founding member of the faculty at their new high school. Actively involved with the development, articulation and implementation of the new history curriculum, student life program and procedures necessary to run a school, Ms. Baron was named the Sophomore Dean. Upon her return to the East Coast, Ms. Baron worked as a museum educator at the Higgins Armory in Worcester, Massachusetts.

In 2001, she joined the Essex National Heritage Commission and served as the Director of Education. There, she developed countywide historic and educational resources and programs in consortium with local museums, historical and natural history sites. Most notably, she coordinated the successful statewide campaign to reinstate maritime history and coastal geography into the Massachusetts History and Social Studies Curriculum Frameworks. She is currently the Principal Consultant for Baron Consulting, Beverly,MA and a member of the Department of Education Faculty at Salem State College, Salem, MA. Ms. Baron holds a Bachelor's Degree in History from Marist College and a Master of Science in Education, Special Needs, from Simmons College.

Adam Groff

Editor
Wordsworthedits@hotmail.com

Adam Groff, owner of WordsWorth Editing, has been writing and editing for over a decade as a teacher, journalist and copyeditor. As a freelance copyeditor and proofreader, Adam’s work is characterized by meticulous attention to detail and an insistence on clarity and accuracy; he has worked on everything from novels to engineering studies, from academic papers to encyclopedia articles, and from press releases to marketing research reports. Adam has taught middle school reading and social studies at Carson Long Institute, a private boys' school in Pennsylvania, and he has taught and tutored standardized test preparation classes for Princeton Review. He also spent a year as an editorial assistant at dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, Inc. He has two degrees in history, a bachelor’s from The Citadel and a master’s from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and he spent three years as a newspaper reporter at the Union Leader in New Hampshire and The Eagle-Tribune in Northeastern Massachusetts.

Mark Wylie
Web Design

www.markwylie.com

Mark Wylie is a multi-talented web-designer, graphic designer and photographer. He has extensive experience designing, developing and producing web, print and video content and materials. Mr. Wylie has worked for organizations as divergent as national retailer Sears Roebuck and BackonTrackAmerica.com, a nationwide program reaching out to the community of small business owners. He is currently a web designer for Workscape, Framingham, MA and owner of Mark Wylie Photography, Worcester MA. He lives in Worcester, MA with his dog Jack.