CBE Ignited Board
Richard DeLorenzo
Richard’s passion for students is obvious as he guides districts, state commissioners and corporate leaders to embrace the vision of what their organization could become, given the right tools and processes With more than 20 years’ experience in leadership roles, Richard was instrumental in earning the first Malcolm Baldrige Award and enabling others to reach excellence. DeLorenzo is the co-author of Delivering on the Promise, Solution Tree Press, 2008.
Roxy Mourant
As a teacher, principal and administrator in Alaska for more than 20 years, Roxy brings the drive for making a difference and not allowing status-quo to the detriment of students. Always ready to explore partnerships and efficiency, she manages the day-to-day operations and partnership with the E4L 501(c)3 non-profit that administers CBE Ignited.
Mary Rubadeau
As a board member of Educating for Leadership, Inc. the 501(c)3 non- profit that houses CBE Ignited, Mary provides support and guidance. Her 20+ years in education includes special education, curriculum development, superintendent and a guide for others striving towards excellence.
Jessica Enderson
In her current business of Learner-Centered Leadership, Jessica has district, school and classroom experience in guiding others through the education practices. She has created numerous tools, online instruction and mentors several districts in their journey towards competency based education systems.
Advisory Committee
Prasad Ram
Dr. Prasad Ram (“Pram”) started Gooru as a “20% project” while at Google to develop a “GPS for Learning.”. In 2011, Pram left Google to establish Gooru as a non-profit to bring the simplicity and universal usefulness of a GPS-like experience to learning.
While at Google, Pram as the Director of Research, led Google Books for Education in Mountain View. Before that, he was the head of Google R&D in India. He developed the organization in India from about 20 engineers when he joined more than 300 engineers. He led projects on Google Maps, News, Language Technologies, Search, and Ads. In 2010, Pram received the Founders’ Award at Google for his work on Google Ads.
Prior to joining Google, Pram was Chief Technology Officer, Yahoo! India, where he created a complete organization for Yahoo! in India with capabilities for research, platform development, application engineering, product management, and market innovation. He led the creation of the media platform that underlies Yahoo! properties of News, Finance, and Sports and the launch of the behavioral targeting platform based on clustering and classification of users and ads using terabytes of activity data to result in increased click-thru on ads and platforms.
In 2000, Pram was the co-founder, Chief Technology Officer of Dynamx Technology Inc. Dynamx developed an Enterprise Information Integration (EII) solution for integrating data across departmental silos for effective and timely business decisions. This was implemented with media and entertainment customers such as McGraw-Hill, John-Wiley, Time Warner, RIAA, OCLC, and MusicNet. Dynamx Technology Inc. was acquired by Value Chain Pty. Ltd. based in Australia.
Pram started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox Research in 1994 where he developed patented trusted computing technology. He transitioned from research to a General Manager for a business where he conceived, incubated, and launched a Xerox company called ContentGuard (CG), a digital rights management business. Led the transaction that resulted in the sale of ContentGuard to Microsoft, Time Warner, and Thompson.
Pram holds a B.Tech. (1987) in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay and an M.S. (1990) and Ph.D. (1993) in Computer Science from UCLA.
Jon Bergmann
Though Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Classroom, he has shifted his focus to making mastery learning a reality one day at a time. He recently finished the book, The Mastery Learning Handbook, which is a practical guide to help educators make the shift to mastery learning. He has written or co-authored ten books which have been translated into thirteen languages. He currently teaches science and assists with staff development at Houston Christian High School.
Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Classroom. He has helped schools, universities, organizations, and governments all over the world introduce active and flipped learning into their contexts. He is a frequent keynote speaker who challenges and inspires audiences with stories and real-life examples from his classroom.
He has taught at urban, suburban, rural, and private schools. He spent twenty-four years as a classroom teacher in Colorado before becoming a technology facilitator in the Chicago suburbs. When Flip Your Classroom became an international bestseller, he traveled the world for eight years, helping schools and universities move from passive to active learning. In 2019, he returned to the classroom to further develop Flipped and Mastery Learning. This has amplified Jon’s voice with teachers and professors. They now see him as a fellow teacher working through the complexities and challenges of teaching today because his presentations include struggles and successes as he works every day with students.
Jon believes the two most important things that make good teaching good are active learning and relationships. Too much education is received passively, and Jon knows from both research and experience that students learn best when they are active participants. Students don’t care what you know until they know that you care, and Jon tries every day to connect with his students.
Jon has written and co-authored ten books that have been translated into thirteen languages. In 2002, Jon received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching; and in 2010, he was a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. He serves on the advisory board for TED Education. He teaches full-time science and assists with staff development at Houston Christian High School in Houston, Texas. Find out more about Jon at https://www.jonbergmann.com/ and find book resources at TheMasteryLearningHandbook.com.
3.3 minute video outlining Jon’s work: https://youtu.be/X9BYhoa5ekM
Angela Maiers
Angela Maiers is considered one of today’s most influential thought leaders in education and
transformative thinking. It is fair to say when she speaks, she leaves no room unchanged.
She has been praised by leaders in business, the military, and administrators of schools of every level from elementary to graduate, around the globe for the life-changing, world-changing impact she has had on the hundreds of thousands of lives with whom she has reached with her message of Mattering. Most recently, she has been named by Forbes as one of the Top 5 Edupreneurs to Watch; by IBM as one of the Top 20 Global Influencers, among the Top 100 Women in Technology by Onalytics, and among the Top 20 Education Thought Leaders by TrustEd. She is the author of 9 books on education, including the noted Genius Matters and Classroom Habitudes, and was for many years a prolific contributor to the Huffington Post on innovation, technology, and education.
A much sought-after speaker at conferences, organizations, schools and communities around the globe, Angela’s singular focus is on transforming the people she reaches to set in motion a change of behaviors and perspectives that will draw out the potential in every person and result in a positive impact on the world. She describes her transformative message and methods as common sense put into common practice, though deeply-grounded in science. An educator for 30 years, Angela’s work in 78,000 classrooms across 100 countries has rallied more than a million children who have banded together to launch 170 social enterprises and pass 17 laws. In 2011, she gave a TEDTalk on the power of two simple words: You Matter, and the video went viral. What resulted was the start of a movement which became the global non-profit organization, Choose2Matter. As its Founder, Angela’s mission is to help individuals recognize their value and potential contribution to change both their own lives and the world.
With her background in education and neuroscience, she initially sought to challenge and inspire students to work collaboratively to develop innovative solutions to social problems. In recent years, Choose2Matter has evolved into a movement that supports parents, educators, employees, and members of the military everywhere. As a result of her work, organizations across all industries are finding new ways to ignite the genius of their employees, successfully addressing a $15 trillion employee engagement problem.
Futurist. Innovator. Educator. Entrepreneur. Change Maker. Angela Maiers is on a mission to disrupt the status quo and to empower every individual to change their own world, if not the world around them, for the better. Angela earned a Bachelor of Science in Education and a minor in Neuroscience from the University of Iowa and completed her graduate and post-graduate work at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Angela holds two master’s degrees in Literacy and Ed Leadership and today lives in Lone Tree, Colorado.
4.3 minute video on YouTube outlining Angela’s work. https://youtu.be/BS7kleRUkk4
Fred Fulton Berrios
A results orientated, forward thinking, tenacious multilingual manager and team member with high personal standards. A strong networker and bridge builder with excellent interpersonal skills and a wide and varied network of contacts across many sectors and geographies. Socially and culturally sensitive, has a firm desire and determination to make an impact and difference with a strong focus on social and environmental issues through sound management of teams and programs in nascent as well as established organizations in cross-functional and multi-cultural environments in various working contexts including public, private and non-governmental settings. Fred works at the IFRC in Geneva as coordinator, learning systems. He is Chilean and British focusing on education, technology, entrepreneurship and Movement Coordination.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
As Learning Systems Coordinator, Fred provides coordination on learning systems throughout the Red Cross Red Crescent system. His work focuses on support to development of cultures of learning and frameworks and programs to achieve them in Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies (NS’s) through initiatives like Learn to Change (www.welearntochange.org); exploration of collaborative, peer to peer Social Learning; engagement of innovation in Learning (cutting edge, high tech, foresight activities, as well as low tech offline). Built extensive network of partners both internal to the RCRC as well as external including Ed Tech companies, Multi-National Corporations, Development Banks, and Academic institutions.
Fred owns and manages the IFRC Learning Network, the IFRC’s training and learning initiative providing high quality learning and development opportunities to all RCRC volunteers and staff worldwide. This organization www.ifrc.org/learning, contributes to ‘saving lives and changing minds’ by building strong National Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) Societies through supporting the strengthening of competences, skills and behaviors of staff and volunteers in RCRC National Societies. The online network allows Fred to maximize the number of RCRC staff (500 thousand) and volunteers (17 million) by taking courses and trainings in the framework of the learning and knowledge-sharing network by marketing its components, products and services, implementing, developing and generating new growth opportunities, and expanding it through various channels to local nation regional and global RCRC markets
Fred also supports the development of the Red Cross Red Crescent “Humanitarian Education” initiative, an initiative designed to foster values based, humanitarian behaviors in children of school age in the formal and informal education system worldwide though direct teacher engagement (through e.g. partner organizations) and through education policy makers (through e.g. attendance and presentation at the Education World Forum the biggest forum of education policy makers worldwide)