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QUOTE: “A Fabulous, life-affirming way to get in touch with all my personal possibilities.” (Dr. Ebba McArt – Performance Improvement Manager – Rochester , New York ) QUOTE: “Ellen has been a pioneer in applying the ideas to secondary schools and colleges and has inspired others to make similar applications.” (Dr. Howard Gardner, Harvard University ) QUOTE: MITA is an excellent program – it makes me think of untapped potential in me! Roger Smith – Online business owner. QUOTE: MITA is a program to get your blood jumping! (health care worker) QUOTE: MITA is not only stimulating but fun! Jerry Callan – Hillside Center QUOTE: There are not enough words to express how fantastic, exciting and superb the MITA Program has been for me! I recommend the program for everyone. (Mary Bell, Monroe County Government ) QUOTE: I find MITA to be innovative and challenges life as I see it. Thanks! (Marilyn Maher - Monroe County Government) QUOTE: MITA is a refreshing restatement of ideas! (Rochester Chamber member) QUOTE: MITA gives personal growth and professional growth which leads to corporate growth! ( New York Business) QUOTE: “Ellen exudes joy and passion for human potential! (Mary Jo Conrad, Access Over Time— Rochester , NY ) QUOTE: MITA is for those who want to expand their horizons and to help others expand. (Businessman in Rochester ) QUOTE: MITA will reinforce all you know (Barbara Bruce Author Speaker, New York ) QUOTE: Perfect for Business and High Schools! ( Rochester , New York ) QUOTE: MITA adds innovation and creativity! ( New York personal renewal participant) QUOTE: MITA is for those organizations that are open. …there is great opportunity to improve effectiveness. (New York workshop participant) QUOTE: MITA works for leaders, teachers, managers, and organizations….to anyone seeking business improvement. CEO – Rochester QUOTE: “I have known Dr. Weber for years… the MITA facility will be a world class Center!” Dee Dickinson, CLO – New Horizons for Learning. QUOTE: “MITA
program takes Howard Gardner's theory of eight intelligences to the QUOTE: “ Weber’s work is both visionary and eminently practical.” (Dr. David Marshak, Seattle University ) QUOTE: “As a well-known and respected author and internationally recognized speaker and workshop leader, you’ve proven your eagerness to share your knowledge as you create new applications for MITA!” Diane Cheatwood Aurora, CO QUOTE: “Ellen prepared Online Web workshops for WNET at Channel Thirteen, and I am in total support of MITA! Al Doyle (Director of Internet Training, WNET Thirteen -- New York . QUOTE: “The MITA Center encourages new facts about human brains that can forge vibrant partnerships between business and learning communities, in alliances that prosper both.” Wellsville Reporter – Nov 5, 1999 . QUOTE: There
is no doubt that you have been long in realizing the MITA Center’s potential
to make a significant impact at both a national and international level.
Dr. Mike Watts. Professor of Science, Roehamption Institute, London
,
QUOTE: “We
look forward with great expectation the creation of the International MITA
Center
which
will serve as a formal link between our mutual interest in reform for
a new millennium.” Jose Pedro Izquierdo, executive Director INACAP Corporation,
Santiago
,
QUOTE: “Dr. Weber' extensive publication record challenges school curricula which, until recent years, has been filled with mainstream academic knowledge. A reformer by scholarship and practice, Weber advocates transformative thinking and practices that produces innovative and fruitful people. As more young people face a world of poverty, unemployment and diminished social opportunities, Dr. Weber's scholarship creates opportunities for underrepresented people in inclusive collaborative learning environments. Her education initiative the MITA Center for Education Renewal represents emerging critical thinking about teaching and learning based on extensive and in-depth research. Her model of knowing, Multiple Intelligence Teaching Approach (MITA) provides practical teaching and learning implications for Gardner 's Multiple Intelligence Theory.” (Dr. Akosua Addo – University of MN .)
“As I enter this next chapter of my life – Mental Pause – Ellen’s approach has taught me new techniques to keep my ‘dendrites’ popping.” (Kathy Frey, New York )
”A
capable and accomplished research scholar, practitioner and writer, Dr.
Weber has modeled clear thinking in her teaching, and also, in the numerous
national and international workshops and presentations she has provided.
At the fore of international education, Dr. Weber's work places the QUOTE: MITA creates new assumptions about what it means to be smart, based on current brain science ideas, stated in everyday language and applied… (Ann Marie Przbyl, Director WNY Professional Development Consortium.) QUOTE: Great Program for possibilities that stimulate my interests! (New York Business owner) EditRegion3 |