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Ms.
Bernice Stafford
Bernice Stafford, Retired Vice President of School Strategies and
Evaluation at PLATO Learning, Inc., was a Lightspan, Inc., co-founder.
She moved to PLATO in November 2003 when Lightspan was acquired.
Before joining Lightspan in fall 1993, she was Director of Sales
Programs for Jostens Learning Corporation. Prior to Jostens Learning,
she was a marketing executive for the Tandy Corporation/Radio Shack
Education Division.
Ms. Stafford began her career as a classroom teacher more than 40
years ago, transitioning shortly thereafter to early childhood administration.
Throughout her career, she also taught college-level early childhood
development and early childhood courses, public and private, in this
country and abroad. In the early 1980s, she lived and worked in Riyadh
, Saudi Arabia , leading an international team of educators in the
design and initial implementation of the Kingdom’s kindergarten
(ages three through grade two) program. Over the span of a 20-year
corporate career, Ms. Stafford has mastered the art and science of
combining business strategy with education policy and funding and
is recognized by her peers as one of the leading experts in those
areas.
A past chair of the National Education Knowledge Industry Association,
Ms. Stafford currently serves on the boards of the Southeast Regional
Vision for Education, Partnership for Dynamic Learning, Agency for
Instructional Technology, and was recently appointed a member of
the WestEd Regional Educational Laboratory Board. She is also a member
of the California Public Schools Accountability Act Advisory Committee
and the Alternative Accountability Subcommittee, having been appointed
by the State Superintendent of Public Education. Ms. Stafford is
co-author of “A Science-based Development and Implementation
Model for Online and CD-ROM Curriculum Programs,” included
in the Second Edition of the Handbook on Literacy and Technology
published by Lawrence Ehrlbaum Associates. In addition, Ms. Stafford
is a frequent presenter at education conferences on topics ranging
from how to close the minority achievement gap to the use of state-of-the-art
learning technology in the teaching and learning environment. She
has a B.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Early Childhood Development
from the University of California at Berkeley .
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