Dr. Ross Danis This is Me

Education

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1. 1. www.nj.com

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   Published on: 6/6/2008   Last Visited: 6/6/2008

   The other two finalists were Donald Evans, the superintendent in Providence, R.I., and Ross Danis, a former Morris County educator who is a program director with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

2. 2. Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation - a society more humane a world more livable

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   Published on: 5/26/2008   Last Visited: 5/26/2008

   Ross DanisGeraldine R. Dodge Foundation - a society more humane a world more livable
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   Ross Danis Program Director, Education
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   Ross Danis - Program Director, Education"Our collective success,even survival,hinges upon all of us stepping up to the challenge of improving the schools we have while creating the schools we need.Our children need more than basic literacy skills to negotiate the terrain ahead.They need to be able to think critically and creatively and they need us: teachers, parents, policymakers, business leaders,everyone with a stake in the future,to lock arms in an all out effort to educate the whole child in every child."
   
   Prior to joining Dodge, Dr. Danis worked at all levels in the New Jersey public school education system, including serving as the Assistant Superintendent of the Randolph Township School District, and as Principal of Clinton Public School.A past president of the Board of Trustees of the Principals' Center for the Garden State, he currently holds tenure as a charter member.As a Dodge Fellow, he was the subject of a PBS documentary on the principalship entitled "Quicksand and Banana Peels: A Year in the Life of Two Principals."For the past 10 years he has taught educational leadership at Seton Hall University, in South Orange, New Jersey.He also serves on the National Faculty for Nova Southeastern University in Miami, Florida, where he teaches Educational Leadership and Change to school leaders across the United States.
   
   Ross served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Educational Mandate Commission, as a member of the Abbott School Facilities Taskforce, the Quality Teaching and Learning Taskforce, and as the chairperson for the review and revision of the arts and education component of the statewide Arts Plan,all in New Jersey.Most recently he served on the Education Policy Transition Team for current New Jersey Governor, John Corzine.Ross currently is a member of the Board of Trustees of the NJEA's Center for Teaching and Learning, the Educational Advisory Board for Liberty Science Center, the Community Advisory Board for New Jersey Network, and the Advisory Committee on Educational Leadership for William Paterson University.Ross earned a B.A. in social studies education from Trenton State College, Ewing, NJ; an M.A. in curriculum and instruction from Georgian Court College, Lakewood, NJ; and an Ed.D. in educational administration from Nova Southeastern University.

3. 3. www.grdodge.org

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   Published on: 1/1/2008   Last Visited: 4/19/2008

   Workshop led by Ross Danis