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Be unafraid of growing slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Jerry Ellsworth Fluellen, Jr. has but one simple life goal: fulfill his Dharma. That means he wants to use all of his intelligences for the betterment of humankind. Presently, he serves as a Washington, D. C. based Educational Psychologist. In that role, he has been collaborating with his wife Ingrid Fluellen, an English Teacher, and 120 English II students at McKinley Technology High School. By co-creating the Planet Flat Prototype, he empowers both the teacher and the students to co-create standards-driven thinking classrooms. While serving as a Literacy Coach for the District of Columbia Public Schools, Jerry participated on the Superintendent’s Roundtable for Curriculum, the textbook adoption committee, and the training for trainers in standards. He served on the standards professional development team at Woodson Senior High School. The faculty there elected him to serve on the School Improvement Team, and the Principal selected him to serve on the Leadership Team. He designed a whole school plan for literacy across the curriculum. Educated at Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Howard University (147 graduate hours to date), Jerry has published several papers, a book on multiple intelligences, and two curriculum maps in the ERIC international database (16 documents in all). Jerry has been researching his next book: “Planet Flat Prototype.” Drawing on Thomas L. Freidman’s provocative news book, The world is flat: A brief history of the 21st century, Jerry’s book will explore an interdisciplinary problem: “By 2054, how might the average class in DCPS become a standards-driven thinking classroom?”

He has delivered papers and facilitated workshops at several conferences including nine (9) international research forums in ethnography and education at University of Pennsylvania where he once served as a Spencer Foundation Fellow for Teacher Research. As a member of the Philadelphia Writing Project, he studied inquiry approaches for teaching with Susan Lytle and facilitated summer institutes for teachers also at University of Pennsylvania. As a member of the District of Columbia Area Writing (DCAWP) project at Howard University, he is the editor of “Quill and Keyboard” online newsletter, writes DrumTalk (a column to foster thinking classrooms), and authors an occasional paper series about cutting edge developments in the teaching thinking field. Additionally, he facilitates workshops about thinking classrooms for Teacher Consultants and teachers in the district area. He is a charter member of the Visible Thinking Network at Harvard University and former apprentice faculty member at its world-renown summer institute “Views on Understanding.” He studied multiple intelligences theory with Howard Gardner et al and participated in four of the ten summer institutes at Harvard University Project Zero Research Center. He was twice a merit raise-winning Instructor at Temple University and, as a Grade School Teacher, a finalist for teacher of the year in the Philadelphia Public Schools. He won Teacher of the Year for the Germantown Cluster, completed the National Board Certification process, and ended as a distinguished teacher in Philadelphia’s enhanced compensation program. Jerry has come here to serve.