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new4now ago

These people really like children, they all work with child subjects

Deborah Bond-Upson, M.Div., Chief Education Officer Intrepid education innovator,

Deborah Bond-Upson, has been writing stories all her life. At Swarthmore College, she was an English Literature major and taught in West Philadelphia schools.

After graduation she embarked on an MFA in painting and ceramics in Mexico before beginning seminary at Starr King School for the Ministry.

An ordained minister, Deborah has found her work in education, building networks to support students and teachers. Much of Deborah's work over the past 30+ years has been in using story, media and assessment to engage students and individualize learning.

Deborah has served as VP of Product Development at Kaplan, later EVP at Knowledge Universe, and founding CEO of Teacher Universe, Best Practice Networks and lead the online development of GALAXY Classroom.

In all of these learning organizations, Deborah has worked closely with teachers, students, staff and developers, convening in-person and online conferences. She has worked with scientists, screenwriters, producers, technical developers and public broadcasting to build and deliver story-driven, hands-on science curriculum and teacher professional development for K-6, with career technical teachers and administrators to build a full range of high school blended learning courses, and has developed assessments and courses funded by state legislators and delivered state-wide.

Awesome Stories is the perfect marriage, Deborah feels, of technology, evidence and story. Most exciting is the potential to take fiction and non-fiction stories and support them with evidence, creating a model for teachers and students to research and build their own learning experiences. Technology can finally fuel investigation and creation for teachers, students and families. Awesome Stories provides the platform to facilitate this exciting creative work.

https://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_dbu.htm

husband Leland

Both Unitarian Universalist ministers, for years we worked together in education before I began serving the Petaluma Unitarian Universalist Congregation as their regular preacher.

Ten years ago we moved from California to Miami to work on her company’s education initiative, delivering inquiry-based science to district teachers and students. For the first year, we developed and delivered online and personal tutoring for migrant children in agriculture camps of south Florida. It was illuminating and enriching to work with the families. After successfully piloting the science program in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, we moved back to California and I began my preparation for interim ministry.

My first interim church was the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu. My wife and I loved it there. She found she was able to do her education work from Hawaii, so she has stayed there ever since. She works from there with mainland and Hawaii educators and co-founded Parents for Public Schools-Hawaii. She maintains our family home on Oahu, visiting me on the mainland, and I am there as I am able. Since then I have served UU congregations in Fayetteville, AR; Bellingham, WA; Santa Barbara, CA, Vancouver, WA, and the Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church in Charlotte NC

https://lbuuu.org/family/

The husband sure does move around a lot while the wife stays in Hawaii...

Previous Positions 1999-2002 Treasurer UU Congregation of Marin San Rafael, CA

2010-2011 Interim Minister First Unitarian Church of Honolulu Honolulu, HI

2011-2012 Interim Minister UU Fellowship of Fayetteville, AR Fayetteville, AR

2012-2014 Minister UU(Interim) Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship Bellingham, WA

2014-2015 Senior Minister (Interim) Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

2015-2016 Minister UU(Interim) UU Church of Vancouver Vancouver, WA

2017-2017 Minister UU(Interim) Piedmont UU Church Charlotte, NC

https://my.uua.org/directory/people/29738

Vindicator ago

That is really strange. Why even be married?

I think we're going to find a lot more stuff about the Unitarians.

new4now ago

you know the saying born into it?

seems generations have found ways to be doing something with children

and what was that crap about pottery in Mexico?

doesnt fit with the rest of her story

acadamics, teacher, goes to Mexico to make pots?

then sees the light and goes to Californication to become a preacher?

Marries, back to kids, have kids, one goes to Hawaii, the other 1 yr stunts preaching, good way for a pedo to hit and run or maybe set up

stinks I tell ya