Margaret Jean Campbell

I'm part of MAT@USC's November 2010 cohort. For the 2010-2011 school year, I work one day per week with my charter school on special projects. Most recently, I was successful in guiding the school through the processes and paperwork necessary to gain approval as a sponsor/site for an independent Federal Reimbursed School Meal Program. In September 2010, I was asked to relinquish my position as a full-time teacher at the school, which I started with other teachers and community members, because I did not have a CA teaching credential. I could see the budget cuts coming last year and that motivated me to decide to invest in the MAT@USC program. I am a June 2010 graduate from Full Sail University's Education Media Design & Technology MS program. The program is a project-based approach to preparing teachers to incorporate technology into the classroom and into curriculum design. Each month of the program is focused on developing projects using a different technology (for example: filmmaking, game design, music production, collaboration software, content delivery systems and social networking). My thesis (an action research project) is "Clutter and Hoarding: Behaviors that seriously undermine the quality and effectiveness of learning environments." I presented my findings at the 2010 OCD Foundation Conference in Washington D.C. and was invited to present at the 2010 Midwest Achievement Gap Conference in Chicago, IL. I have initiated a research project in collaboration with one of my professors at Full Sail University to study hoarding behaviors in sixth graders. I am a May 2009 graduate from CSU Chico (Social Science with Single Subject Waiver).

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