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About UsDrs. Bynoe and Colby formed Partners for the Advancement of Teaching (PARTNERS) in 2010 while serving as adjunct research faculty in the Department of Liberal Studies at the California State University, Monterey Bay. The first years of this project focused on research and development of a professional development (PD) methodology, Dynamic Linking. This comprehensive professional learning process addresses the needs of implementing the common core standards while infusing the arts, culture, community and ecology. Professional development workshops in STEM, arts integration and curriculum design were offered in PARTNERS’ Teaching Resource Center in Seaside. In 2014 Drs. Bynoe and Colby became Professional Development Coordinators for the Gear Up grant at CSUMB. PD workshops on the common core, literacy, arts integration, school culture and inquiry based social studies were provided in five middle schools in Monterey County. During the 2016 - 17 school year, PARTNERS provided Arts Integration Workshops for Monterey Peninsula Unified School District. In 2021 PARTNERS will be moving their office into the First Mayor's House, 20 Station Place, Salinas, CA.
PARTNERS is now a program of the 501c3 non-profit Action Council for Monterey County, serving California. |
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Dr. Linda Turner Bynoe, Professor Emeritus, CSUMB, received her Ed. D. in International Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco and has prepared undergraduates at CSU Monterey Bay for the teaching profession for over fifteen years. Her research and teaching has been in the areas of Social Foundations of Education, Research Methodologies and Leadership. Dr. Bynoe has lectured at universities throughout the United States and Cuba. Dr. Bynoe has worked with community organizations to create multicultural community partners for underrepresented youth in various cities in California. Her particular locus for teaching embraces education for a culture of peace and the concept of teaching students to use cognitive, self educating, exploratory processes to discern mechanisms of exploitation and identity patterns that permit students to seek self liberation (spirituality), community transformation (activism), and generational reciprocity (manners, respect and appreciation). She received the California Faculty Association's 2006 Mario Savio Equal Rights Award.
Dr. Jennifer Colby received her PhD in Humanities from the California Institute of Integral Studies, a Masters in Studio Art from Fresno State University, and a Masters of Theology, Religion and the Arts from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where she became the director of Contemporary Art at the Badé Museum, Pacific School of Religion for eight years. Dr. Colby has taught Arts Integration (AI) to teachers since 1990 while serving as an artist-in-residence and most recently in the Lesley University masters program. Dr. Colby has prepared undergraduates for the teaching profession for over twenty years at CSU Monterey Bay. She presently teaches the CSUMB course “Arts in Schools and Communities”, an introduction to visual art, music, drama, dance and poetry and arts integration. Kendal Hunt is publishing her textbook for the course in 2021. Her research and teaching is in the areas of Arts Education, Service Learning and STEM, Arts and Culture and Equity. Dr. Colby is an artist, curator, and founder of Galeria Tonantzin in San Juan Bautista. She was the project director for two California Council for the Humanities California Stories projects / multimedia exhibits combining art and watershed restoration, and named 2007 Champion of the Arts – Educator for Monterey County. |