Leni von Blanckensee was an Education for the Future associate, starting in 1993.  She collaborated with school and school district leaders throughout Northern California to support their overall reform efforts, using school portfolios based on data for continuous improvement.  She also assisted the Pacific Bell Education First Demonstration Sites in integrating telecommunications technology across the curriculum and throughout their organizations.  Her later work was supported by Education for the Future partnerships with the Northern California Comprehensive Assistance Center at WestEd (funded by the US Department of Education), the Pacific Bell Foundation, and the SBC Foundation.

Before joining Education for the Future, Ms. von Blanckensee was a classroom teacher for 22 years.  She taught kindergarten for more than 10 years, and taught children of all ages, including a special program for teenage mothers and their infants.  Early in her career, she began to read child development literature and connect its principles to her own instructional practices.  When Apple Computer gave a computer to every California school in the early 1980s, she received it by default--no one else wanted it--and so began her interest in integrating technology into the curriculum.   At the school level, she was an instructional leader who was involved with program development, review, and improvement.  As the president of the local teachers association, she worked collaboratively with the district to involve all staff in district-wide reform efforts.

Ms. von Blanckensee is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and has a Masters degree in Educational Technology from San Francisco State University. 

Affiliation

Independent Consultant