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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Frank Kelly is an architect and planner with Stantec in Houston, Texas. He has a deep interest in education and all the elements that comprise the environment teachers and students experience in our schools.

Frank often lectures at U.S. school conferences. The Texas Association of School Administrators and Texas Association of School Boards have recognized projects for which he provided planning and programming services with Caudill Awards in 2007 and 2008. His work also received the 2008 Council of Educational Facility Planners International’s MacConnell Award. (This organization is now the Association for Learning Environments.)In 1984, he was elected to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows (Design) and in 2009, the Association for Learning Environments (then Council of Educational Facility Planners International) Southern Region named him planner of the year. He coauthored with Ted McCain and Ian Jukes Teaching the Digital Generation: No More Cookie-Cutter High Schools. He authored the paper “Artifacts of Schooling” for the Journal of Applied Research on Children for the CHILDREN AT RISK organization.

A graduate of Rice University, Frank has taught design in the school of architecture at the University of Tennessee and worked with architectural classes at Rice University and Texas A&M University.

Ted McCain, first and foremost, is an educator who has taught high school students at Maple Ridge Secondary School, British Columbia, Canada, for over thirty years. Although he has had several opportunities to take other jobs, both inside education and in the private sector, he has felt his primary calling is to prepare teenagers for success as they move into adult life. He is the coordinator of Digital Arts Academy for the Maple Ridge School District in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has taught computer networking, graphic design, and desktop publishing for Okanagan University.

In 1997, Ted received the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence. Ted received this prestigious Canadian national award for his work in developing a real-world technology curriculum for grade 11 and grade 12 students that prepares them for post-graduation employment in website design and computer networking. The Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence recognized Ted’s work in creating his innovative problems-first teaching strategy, his “4D” approach to solving problems, his unique use of role playing in the classroom, and his idea of progressive withdrawal as a way to foster independence in his students. Ted wrote or cowrote eleven books on the future, effective teaching strategies, educational technology, and graphic design.

Prior to entering the teaching profession, Ted worked for several years in the computer industry as a programmer, salesperson, and consultant. In addition to his work as a teacher, Ted has also consulted with school districts and businesses since the 1980s on effective teaching for the digital generation and the implementation of instructional technology. His clients have included Apple, Microsoft, Aldus, and Toyota, as well as many school districts and educational associations.

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