Richard Bernato Ed.D.

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Tell our School Leadership 2.0 community a little bit about yourself. Feel free to post your email address and website. Also feel free to list your areas of interest. This will help other members dialogue with you.: I was a principal, Director of Pupil Personnel Services, Director of Humanities, and Assistant Superintendent for Instruction before I left the district to become an educational consultant and Professor of Educational Leadership, Adminstration, and Technology for Dowling COllege where I have also become that school's NCATE Coordinator.

My professional passions are many, chiefly centered around helping potential leaders practice and master the skills and dispositions of 21st century leaders. This often takes the form of teaching strategic planning skills, high involvement and shared planning behaviors.Curriculum planning, instructional design and active learning , interactive activities round that out.

Bottom line, all of us who care about how the children of our own children will fare in a global society know that extraordinary leadership challenges await our most gifted administrators and none of us is as smart as all of us.

Comment Wall:

Clifford Steinberg

Hey Doc,

Glad to see you have joined the charge! I look forward to all that you will add to this professional learning network.

Did someone say system?

Mar 14, 2008
Michael Keany

Welcome aboard Rich! You will be a wonderful addition to the community.

Mar 15, 2008
Robin Natman

Hi Dr. Bernato, I'm happy to see you here! I look forward to your observations, as always. :)

Mar 18, 2008
Carole L. Polney

Hi Rich, I hope all is well with you. I'm so glad you remember me. I'm still hoping to one day work with you! :) Yes, I'm now, by marriage of a year and a quarter, "Italian". LOL ~cpm

Mar 26, 2008
Carole L. Polney

Yes, after seeing your forum post I did take a look and recently registered at reinventingeducation. I'm looking forward to exploring it more. Thanks for sharing it! Hmmmm.....how can we get to work on a project together? Always, please, keep me in mind for anything I can assist with in the Dowling program. I'm still teetering about beginning the doctoral program. :) ~ cpm

Mar 26, 2008
Richard Bernato Ed.D.

I am really trying to figure out a way to make that website work on LI. One of my doctoral students is considering it for a dissertation. Maybe you and I should find each other and bat some ideas around.

Mar 26, 2008
Richard Bernato Ed.D.

ps why are you teetering?

Mar 26, 2008
Marilyn J Bartlett

Hi Rich, Of course I remember you! I was so proud to learn that you finished your doctorate!!! I'd like to think that I had some small part in that accomplishment.
MJB

Mar 27, 2008
Marilyn J Bartlett

my personal email is bartlettm@tampabay.rr.com

Mar 27, 2008
Jay Matuk

Hi Rich. Good to hear from you. Yes, I am enjoying life in the "Harbor' which is, to say the least, quite different then any place I have ever worked. Though we are a Suffolk County district, we are for all intent and purposes a Nassau County community...and again, what a world of cultural (and educational) differences. How's by you?

Mar 30, 2008
Mary T. Kelly, Ed.D.

Doc,
Saying hello to you in cyberspace. You've got mail. How's your conference?

Apr 1, 2008
Jay Matuk

Rich-
I was hoping I could ask you a favor, or at least for some information. I know that Dowling usually does not hire adjunct w/o Doctorates, but was wondering if you could point me in the right direction if there were any opportunities. I sent Clyde a copy of my curriculum vitae as per Dianne Impagliazzo's suggestion. I used to work with the Principals Academy.

I have been doing some workshops for Hofstra and Nassau Principals Assoc., but I do miss the classroom...

Jay

Apr 8, 2008
Richard Bernato Ed.D.

ps- then again you could do what I suggested to you many moons ago.. it's 3 years of your life.

Apr 8, 2008