About Paula

Paula Sincero has over 12 years experience developing innovative, award-winning print and on-line curricula and multimedia interactives for K-12 educational publishers, educational television, zoos, nature centers and museums. She specializes in content-rich, inquiry-based distance learning projects connecting museums, classrooms, and communities.

Significant Accomplishment

Consultant to Museum of Science, Boston (June 2004-November 2005) Star Wars — Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit and Forum exhibit.

Consultant to World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC (November 2004-April 2005) Pennies for the Planet program.

Consultant to Smithsonian's National Zoo and Friends of the National Zoo (November 2001 to February 2004). Lead developer for award-winning online habitat conservation education initiative. Responsibilities include:

• concept/development of online & print, inquiry-based science and social studies middle school curriculum

• concept/development of Conservation Central Website including seven Flash-based Web interactives, curricula, Family Learning Activities

• content and media production for CD-ROM (Giant Panda Video Album)

• development of preliminary marketing plan

Develop hands-on conservation science workshops for middle school science camp (Girls & Science, Easton Children's Museum, and Borderland State Park/MA Department of Conservation Resources).

DISTANCE LEARNING
Interactive, Educational Television - Project management, curriculum development, content, production for 85 live programs and online curricula/websites in social studies, social sciences, science/health, world languages, K-12 (Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications); recognition includes two Emmy Award nominations, three first place national distance learning awards (Telecon/USDLA; GII/Ziff-Davis), semifinalist international GII Awards

Website development - Curriculum development, website and program development, and team management for three-time-national-award-winning teen violence prevention curriculum/interactive program (Telecon/USDLA; GII/Ziff-Davis)

Online, National Hunger Curricula - Conceived of, researched, and wrote middle school and high school curricula for Brandeis University's Center on Hunger and Poverty

Tolerance Curricula/Interactive Program - Curriculum and program development for two-time-Emmy-Award-nominated tolerance program for the Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation; developed Telecon/USDLA award-winning service learning curriculum/program for Feinstein Youth Hunger Brigade and Klein Foundation

Cyber Schoolhouse Website - Developed interactive home, school and Kid Central language arts curriculum activities for Simon & Schuster Cyber Schoolhouse website; managed site and e-discussion; wrote Technology Corner content

Developmental editor for museum's MIMC-award-winning broadband Web site providing online parenting resources using exhibit content (The Children's Museum, Boston)

Internet Activities Developer - Repurposed Web sites to develop 100+ interactive Internet activities for 8 books of leading middle school world history program (Prentice Hall, World Explorer)

PUBLISHING & TEACHING
Senior Editor/Project Manager, Spanish Reading Program - Spearheaded educational publisher's entry into dual literacy as senior staff developmental editor and project manager of Spanish reading program, grades 1-6 (DC Heath Reading Department)

Staff developmental editor for grade 4 Heath Literacy reading program; book editor for Images student theme books; grade 6 editor for integrated ESL program (DC Heath Reading Department)

ESL Program - Researched and compiled 65 multilingual, theme-connected bibliographies in over 15 languages for Addison Wesley K-8 ESL program

Managing editor for grade 4 Student Handbooks for Harcourt Brace Spanish reading program (McClanahans)

Core member of in-house, Spanish-speaking team of editors for Houghton Mifflin K-5 bilingual Spanish reading program

Teaching experience in Spanish, ESL and EFL; teaching practicum in grade 6 two-way Spanish-bilingual classroom (Amigos Program, Cambridge, MA)

(see Project Gallery) / (see Awards) / Contact Paula for a complete curriculum vitae and list of publications.