TPS Staff
Dr. Anne Ryan Bell
Grant Director
Anne Bell has been overseeing grant-funded professional development activities since 2001.
She thoroughly enjoys supporting teachers with resources, tools and strategies, as well as exploring issues of 21st century learning.
With degrees in English, Radio-TV-Film and Educational Technology, her varied background includes teaching at the high school and college level, as well as communication and training positions in the fields of education, television, health care, and child advocacy.
She lives in the Denver area with her husband and a spoiled cat; they have two grown sons and a daughter in law.
Among Anne's favorite resources on the Library's website is the American Folklife Center, documenting the culture of everyday Americans through music, arts, story and visuals.
Contact: anne.bell@unco.edu or Phone: 970.351.1523
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Mary Hart, MA
Instructional Designer and TPS Workshop Facilitator
Mary has been involved in professional development projects for the past 11 years, having previously written assessment plans for courses and programs, developed and taught assessment courses to faculty as the Assessment Coordinator. She has developed workshops as an Instructional Designer to train faculty in design models for courses and programs. Mary, also, has taught college English and literature courses, as a full-time community college instructor.
Her BA in Communication Development/English, and her MA in English are from Colorado State University, where she is three-quarters through a PhD program in Teacher Training and Staff Development.
Mary is impressed by the scope and depth of the material available online from the Library of Congress and eager to share these materials with teachers for their own classrooms through TPS.
Contact her at mary.hart@unco.edu or Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays at 970.351.1525.
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Lori A. Brown, Ph.D.
Professional Development Coordinator
Lori's educational background is in Classics & Emerging Democracies and Developing Political Systems (BA from CU-Boulder), Spanish (BA from UNC), Romance Languages & Literatures (MA from UNC-Chapel Hill), and Educational Technology (PhD from UNC).
Her teaching and research interests include: Common Core State Standards & Creative Curriculum Development, K-12 Technology Teacher Training, Brain-based Learning, 360° Motivation & Learning, Spanish, Second Language Acquisition, English as a Second Language, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Online Collaboration, Visual Literacy, and Aesthetics in Instructional Design.
The digitized gallery of the Abraham Lincoln papers, specifically the first draft of the Emancipation Declaration, is one of Lori’s favorite online collections from the Library of Congress.
Please feel free to contact Lori with general questions regarding Teaching with Primary Sources, upcoming workshops, graduate credit, outreach opportunities, etc.
Phone: 970-351-1555 or Email: Lori.Brown@unco.edu
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Erin K. Hunt, MA
Contract Designer and Workshop Facilitator
Erin served as instructional designer with the TPS grant at UNC for four years, and now makes encore appearances as a workshop facilitator and designer on contract.
Hunt journeyed into the teaching world first through a PT3 grant and then as a middle and high school computer teacher. She got her feet more than wet in the exciting world of online learning for 3 years as the Program Manager of Online Learning at Centennial BOCES.
She holds two Master's degrees, in Educational Technology and Library Science. She lives in Greeley with her husband (a special education coordinator for Poudre School District) and her three children whom she home schools.
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Dan Yergert, Studying English (BA) at UNC
Student Employee
Dan is the student employee for Teaching with Primary Sources at UNC.
He studied for one year at the Metropolitan State College of Denver before deciding the cow town was more his speed than the hustle and bustle of the big city.
Working at TPS between classes, he is a sophomore and an English Secondary Education major and attends UNC with his identical twin brother with an identical major.
His favorite aspect of the Library of Congress website is sifting through old Spider-Man comic strips.
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