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Pendred Noyce, Chair of the Board
Dr. Noyce is a trustee of the Noyce Foundation and a doctor of internal medicine by training. She was Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Massachusetts State Systemic Initiative Program and of PALMS, a $16 million dollar NSF-funded State Systemic Initiative to improve mathematics, science and technology education in Massachusetts. She was also Co-Principal Investigator of the Massachusetts Parent Involvement Project. Currently, Dr. Noyce serves on the Advisory Board at the Center for Study of Mathematics Curriculum at Michigan State University and the Board of Directors of COMAP. She is on the Board of Directors of TERC, Concord Consortium, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, and a Trustee for the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Libra Foundation. She is also on the Dean's Council at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been a Trustee of the Noyce Foundation since its inception in 1990.
William Dandridge, Treasurer
Dr. Dandridge most recently served as Vice President for Urban Initiates and Associate Professor of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Prior to that, he served as Dean of the School of Education there. Dr. Dandridge was formerly the Dean of the Graduate College of Education at UMASS Boston, and Executive Director of the MA Field Center for Teaching and Learning at UMASS Boston. He is also a former Deputy Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools where he held various administrative roles. Dr. Dandridge received an Ed.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an M.P.A. at Temple University and a B.A., from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Dandridge currently serves on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Educational Personnel Advisory Council.
Maura Banta
Ms. Banta is the Regional Manager of Corporate Community Relations for IBM. She joined IBM in 1973 as a marketing representative and held positions in Sales, Insurance Industry Consulting and Marketing Management before joining the External Programs Department in 1989. Maura was promoted to manager of the department in 1993, and became corporate community relations manager in 1996. In 2006, Maura was named Eastern Regional Manager, for IBM’s corporate philanthropy, government relations and community relations. Ms. Banta is a board member of United Ways of New England, ACCESS, Mass Taxpayers Foundation, Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, Boston Plan for Excellence, Carroll School of Management at Boston College and the John Adams Innovation Institute Governing Board a division of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. Maura chairs the board of the Mass Business Alliance for Education and has recently completed six years of service to the Massachusetts Educational Management and Audit Council, a position she first held under Governor Jane Swift.
Laurie Brennan
Laurie Brennan has been at TERC since 1994 and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer. As Coo, Ms. Brennan oversees all administrative departments and business development and is a member of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees. Previously Ms. Brennan was the Budget Director for the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind. Ms. Brennan received her B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Lowell and her M.B.A. from University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Ms. Brennan currently serves as Co-chairperson of the Central Middlesex Region Citizen Advisory Board for the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services.
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann is the Levy Institute Research Professor at Bard College and a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard. Until July 2009, she was the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at Harvard University. A historian of education, Dr. Lagemann is a former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former president of the Spencer Foundation. She has served as president of the National Academy of Education and of the History of Education Society and is a former trustee of the Russell Sage, Greenwall, and Markle Foundations and a former vice-chair of the board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Stanford, California. Dr. Lagemann is currently a senior advisor to the District Management Council in Cambridge, MA, as well as chair of the National Research Council’s Committee on Teacher Preparation. She is the author or editor of nine books as well as numerous articles, reviews, reports, and book chapters.
Robert Schwartz
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Harry Spence
Mr. Spence is currently a Lecturer on Education at the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He served from December 2001 until June 2007 as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, where he was responsible for the Commonwealth's child welfare program, supervising 3,400 employees, with an annual budget of $750 million. He developed the "next generation" child welfare practice model, which involved the teaming of social workers, a national innovation that won the Kennedy School Innovations in Government Award in 2006. He served from 1995 to 2000 as the Deputy Chancellor for Operations for the New York City Board of Education, and from 1991 to 1995 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance as the Receiver for the City of Chelsea, where his responsibilities included the rebuilding of the city school system and enactment of municipal charter reform. He has provided consulting services to major national organizations with a focus on education and held a Lecturer appointment at the Kennedy School of Government from 1988 to 1991. Mr. Spence holds a JD from Harvard Law School (1974).
