Ted McConnell, Executive Director
Ted McConnell is the Executive Director of the Campaign for the Civic
Mission of Schools, and is responsible for all aspects of the Campaign's
operation. Prior to joining the Campaign, McConnell directed the Campaign
to Promote Civic Education, a fifty state effort to revitalize and strengthen
civic education at the state and district levels, an initiative of the Center
for Civic Education. McConnell also served as Co–Coordinator of the
Congressional Conferences on Civic Education 2003-2006. McConnell was a
founding member of the CMS Executive and Steering Committees.
McConnell has been involved in the political, governmental and non-profit
sectors for over thirty years, and has worked in the management of over thirty
other political campaigns across the country. He attended the University of Nebraska
at Lincoln
where he majored in Political Science and Business Administration.
Ted can be reached at ted@ncss.org or at 301-588-1800, extn. 123.
Kenneth Holdsman, Deputy Director Kenny Holdsman is the Deputy Director of the Campaign and senior program officer at the Academy for Educational Development. He directs the W. K. Kellogg Youth Innovation Fund and serves on the team managing the National Service-Learning Partnership. Prior to joining AED, Holdsman was Director of Service-Learning for the Philadelphia School District from 1999-2002, managing the creation of the District's Service-Learning Initiative, a graduation requirement adopted in 1998 for all 210,000 students. Holdsman is also an adjunct faculty member at Temple University’s College of Education and serves on the board of the Philadelphia Student Union, which promotes youth-led organizing and activism among Philadelphia's school students. He holds a law degree from Temple University School of Law.
Jon Gould, Program
Associate
Jon
Gould is the program associate at the Campaign for the Civic Mission of
Schools, where he works closely with the executive director on a variety of
projects including communications strategy and federal policy. Gould is a
rising junior at Harvard
College, where he studies
political theory. He chairs the policy program at Harvard's Institute of Politics,
and has worked for a variety of political campaigns, including those of John
Kerry and Deval Patrick, in his home state of Massachusetts.
Gould
has shown a commitment to civic education through his leadership of the Harvard
Civic Education Policy Group, a group dedicated to reinfusing civic education
into state and national education policy. For the past two years he has
also taught a weekly civics course to students in Boston
and Cambridge
public schools.
To
contact Jon, please e-mail jon@ncss.org or call 301-588-1800, extn. 112.
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