User:Gibranmajdalany

Gibran Majdalany is on faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University,NYC, he is the deputy director of a doctoral program for school administrators, and also of a national conference for superintendents of schools.

At Teachers College, and for several years, he worked closely with former NYS Commissioner of Education, Dr. Tom Sobol, and now he is working with Dr. Arlene Ackerman, former Superintendent of Schools in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco; Dr. Majdalany was also a research associate at Teachers College and at the Institute of Social Research, working with Dr. Francis Ianni on several research projects sponsored by Spencer, Ford and other foundations on topics that included Youth Culture, Home, School and Community in Adolescent Education, and Caring.

Dr. Majdalany's expertise is in the areas of Staff Development; information systems; implementation of integrated technology in education; Distance Learning; youth culture; program evaluation, and system dynamics in education, one of his articles appeared in the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education # 150, December 1999, “Implementing Distance Learning in Urban Schools”. He teaches a course on Information Systems, and has served on over 120 doctoral dissertation committees. He has been conducting district-wide workshops at school districts in New Jersey and New York, instructing teachers on ways to bring the Internet into the classroom and to integrate it with curriculum. He has also conducted seminars and made presentations on technology and education at several conferences in New York and elsewhere to various local, national, and international groups.. A couple of years ago he made two presentations on Distance Learning at the annual convention of the Near East and South Asian Council of the American Overseas Schools in Cairo, Egypt, and also in the U.S. Island of St. John in the Caribbean. He also went to Lebanon by invitation of the new president of the American University of Beirut, Dr. John Waterbury, and conducted an assessment of their educationl division and programs. Dr. Majdalany was a special assistant to former Governor Gaston Caperton, who headed the Institute on Education and Government at Teachers College. Dr. Majdalany is also fluent in French and Arabic.Gibranmajdalany 19:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC)