Managing Partner, Open Source Teaching

Sage Leadership Partners, Inc.

Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is seeking a Managing Partner with the drive,
training, compassion and vision to transform teaching and learning
environments through the application and implementation of open source teaching
(www.opensourceteaching.org). Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is a non-profit
corporation founded in April of 2006 focused on knowledge management and
strategy for tomorrow’s world, today. Our key deliverable is the capturing of
applied expert knowledge in a manner that is relevant and engaging to emerging
student leaders and learners. Our primary tool to achieve this objective is open
source teaching.

Over the course of two years, Sage Leadership Partners will capture the applied
research of over 200 top academic professors and 200 top graduate students
through new media. This new media platform of knowledge management, based
on student centered descriptions of applied research will eliminate the traditional
barriers to equal educational opportunity and provide the platform for more in depth
applications of open source teaching to all environments which involve training,
learning, or professional development.

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 Qualifications

The ideal candidate must have a passion and commitment to eliminate the
traditional barriers to equal education opportunity, through the application of
innovative learning platforms and new media.

The ideal candidate will have advanced graduate level training, including at
least an earned Masters Degree in Teaching and Learning, Public Policy,
Business Administration, or Human Services. Candidates with an earned
doctorate or ABD in the fields of education policy, organizational leadership,
instructional technology, or other related areas are preferred.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic problem solver, coalition builder, risk
taker, and innovative professional, fluent in relating to high profile executives
within the fields of academe, K-12 education, and private industry.

The ideal candidate must be fluent in the emerging tools for technology based
communication.

The ideal candidate will be an outstanding communicator, writer, and manager

of innovative employees and Open Source Teaching Fellows, with the expectation
that all employees and Fellows will substantially apply their skills to constantly
improve the capacity of a learning organization to achieve its mission focused on
eliminating the barriers to equal educational opportunity through innovative
teaching and learning platforms.

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 Application Process

Only applications sent to the following email address will be considered.

jobs@opensourceteaching.org

Sent directly via email to the attention of:

Art Fuller, Founder and Chair

Sage Leadership Partners, Inc.
P.O. Box 330951
Murfreesboro, TN 37133

● All candidates must include a cover letter with their submission.

● All candidates must submit a personal statement of no more then 1,000

words, specifically addressing how their training, knowledge, and
experience substantially exceeds each of the indicators related to the ideal
candidate.

● All candidates must submit a resume or curriculum vitae.

All applications will be thoroughly reviewed by the Board of Sage Leadership

Partners, Inc.

Salary & Benefits: Pending available funding and based on demonstrated

knowledge and skills.

Location: Must have access to high speed internet connection.

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Open Source Teaching is the deep understanding and application of
personalized knowledge through new media.

The emerging tools of a knowledge-based economy make it possible for all

learners to benefit from new forms of media, where access to people with expert,
applied knowledge is the new status quo for communication, teaching, and
learning. www.opensourceteaching.org.

The benefit of open source teaching is equal and pervasive access to learners of
diverse perspectives, interests, and socioeconomic capital. Users will become
immersed in new paradigms of learning networks where the deep
understanding and application of personalized knowledge is the overwhelming
and primary expectation.

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 Open Source Teaching

Art Fuller, Founder & Chair

Sage Leadership Partners, Inc.

Yi Cui, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Vanderbilt University

Mike Dishman, J.D.

Murphy, McLocklin, & Dishman, LLP

Thomas Ford
Regional Director
Pearson Achievement Solutions

Jessica Lewis
Project Manager, Peabody College
Vanderbilt University

Lance Lott
Assistant Superintendent
Information Technology & Strategic Planning
Metro Nashville Public Schools

Judith Pennywell
Director
International Student and Scholar Services
Vanderbilt University

David Sevier, Ed.D.

Policy Adviser
State Board of Education

Mary Catherine Sevier, J.D.

Executive Director, Foundation Relationships
Sage Leadership Partners, Inc.

Sage Leadership Partners, Inc.

P.O. Box 330951
Murfreesboro, TN 37133
(615) 849 - 1170

art.fuller@opensourceteaching.org
www.opensourceteaching.org

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 Sage Leadership Partners, Inc.

Our Board

Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is comprised of seven board members focused on

the organizational management, implementation, and institutionalization of open
source teaching. The founder and chairman of Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is
Art Fuller, Executive Assistant and Fiscal Budget Officer for the Tennessee State
Board of Education. Mr. Fuller has served in the field of education for twelve
years holding public policy, project management, professional training,
information technology, media consultant, and teaching positions. The vice-
chairs of Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. are Judith Pennywell, Director of
International Student and Scholar Services at Vanderbilt University, and Mike
Dishman, J.D., partner of McLocklin, Murphy & Dishman, L.L.P. The secretary of
Sage Leadership Partners, Inc. is David Sevier, Ed.D., a policy adviser for the
Tennessee State Board of Education. Dr. Sevier has over fifteen years of
experience in K-12 education including serving for five years as a physics
teacher, five years as a music teacher, and five years as an assistant school
administrator.

The Board of Sage Leadership Partners is also comprised of three additional

voting members. Yi Cui, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. Professor Cui's research focuses
on networking systems and streaming media technology. He currently holds two
patents in distributed streaming media systems and networks. Lance Lott is an
Assistant Superintendent, Information Technology & Strategic Planning for
Metro Nashville Public Schools. Lance's past positions include serving as the
controller and vice president of administration for HCA Health Alliance, the
Chief Information Officer of Health Trust, and the Founder and Chairman of
InfoAdvantage, Inc. (1993-2005). Thomas Ford is Regional Director for Pearson
Achievement Solutions and rounds out the voting members of the board. Mr.
Ford is an experienced professional trainer and has serviced the needs of major
metropolitan urban districts throughout Florida and Georgia for the last eight
years. Mr. Ford was selected as teacher of the year for Broward County Florida
(1997), one of the country's largest school districts.

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 Our Staff

The Executive Director for Foundation Relationships is Mary Catherine Sevier,

J.D. Mrs. Sevier has a Bachelors of Arts in English from Converse College (1986)
and a Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University (1989). Mrs. Sevier served for
three years as a corporate attorney before deciding to devote her professional
focus to the mission of education and quality teaching in middle and secondary
schools. She has thirteen years of experience in teaching the Language Arts,
inclusive of six years as a teacher of gifted and talented students (grades 6 – 12).
Mrs. Sevier also serves as an independent contractor for the Tennessee
Department of Education, providing training to teachers on best teaching
practices related to improving student performance on Tennessee's High School
Exit Exam in English.

The future Managing Partner of Open Source Teaching is Jessica Lewis, Project
Manager for the National Center on Performance Incentives, Peabody College,
Vanderbilt University. Jessica Lewis is a third-year doctoral student at Peabody
College (Vanderbilt University). Mrs. Lewis is pursuing her doctorate of
education in the area of K-12 Education Leadership and Policy. Her professional
interests and efforts are focused on the importance of stimulating greater
teaching quality within the education system, with particular attention to
enhancing teacher learning opportunities, recruitment and retention
mechanisms, and pathways for professional growth. For the past two years, Mrs.
Lewis has worked as a legislative policy analyst for the State of Tennessee’s
Office of Education Accountability. During her time, she has completed several
statewide evaluation projects on a variety of education topics, including
alternative schools for high school students, public charter schools, as well as
schools on the state’s high priority list for NCLB.

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 The Traditional Paradigm of Teaching

Defined Roles
(1) Student, (2) Teacher, (3) Curriculum, (4) Community, and
(5) Traditional Notions of Instruction and Time

Curriculum covered within

a particular training, course, classroom, or school
during a defined scope of mandated time.

Peers
A single teacher Collaboration
within a single section Community Expectations networking,
of the day. Primarily and dialogue.
lectures, tests, and homework.

Student
Primarily passive,
periodically engaged. Many
interests and skills under
utilized.

Many students arrive in classrooms with a multitude of multi-tasking and

knowledge-based skills that are untapped by traditional methods of instruction.
The traditional paradigm of teaching and training does not provide the
articulated platform for learners to build upon their existing expertise to acquire
new knowledge. The goal within the traditional paradigm is to cover the
material, regardless of whether a learner’s existing strengths are maximized.

Open source teaching begins by allowing individuals to maximize their existing

knowledge, interests, and skills as the basis for transformational environments
that incorporate the expert knowledge of people, using media-embedded
strategies and concepts of open source.

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 Open Source Teaching
Defined Roles
(1) Learner, (2) Open Source Facilitator,
(3) New media archive of people with expert knowledge

Global
Global Economy
Economy

People with
expert knowledge Open source
facilitators

Learners People with

Knowledge, & expert knowledge
Open source Media Tools
facilitators
Open source
Global facilitators
Economy People with Global
expert knowledge Economy

People with expert knowledge. Interviews of professors, business professionals, and classroom
teachers will not only capture subject-matter expertise and applied knowledge, but also provide
insight related to the academic and personal experiences which drive an individual to become an
expert. All interviews remain the property of the individual and will not be posted on any media
platform without their express written consent.

Open source facilitators & teachers. The primary function of open source facilitators is to
maximize the capacity of individuals to take full advantage of a digital media archive of people
with expert knowledge.

Digital media tools. Digital medial tools include all forms of emerging technology and platforms
with the capacity to convey digital media.

Learners. All learners, ages three through adult.

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 Open Source Teaching
all subjects, fields, and domains

Open source teaching is not confined or defined by the traditional notions of

time. The learner is the central focus and the personalization of people with
expert knowledge is our bottom line.

• Open to all learners

• Maximizing and adapting to all emerging new media tools for

communication.

• A learner’s existing strength’s are used to build the foundation for

developing new knowledge and skills.

• The learner is engaged based on their personalized interests and choices.

• Depth is valued substantially over breadth.

• The learner can choose multiple people with expert knowledge.

• Knowledge is conveyed from an expansive selection of diverse experts.

• Knowledge is conveyed using all forms of media- based tools and

technology.

• Knowledge is personalized based on the preferences of the learner and

supported by open source facilitators.

The benefit of open source teaching is equal and pervasive access to learners of
diverse perspectives, interests, and socioeconomic capital. Users will become
immersed in new paradigms of learning networks where the deep
understanding and application of personalized knowledge is the overwhelming
and primary expectation.

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