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Nínive Clements Calegari is an educator in the United States. Following ten years of classroom experience in public schools, she became an author and founded a national literacy program. ==Biography== Calegari went to Santa Catalina School and graduated in 1989, later going to Middlebury College to receive her bachelor's degree in 1993 and a Masters in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1995.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= Santa Catalina School web site )〕 She worked at Leadership High School, San Francisco's first charter school, where she also served on the Board of Directors, and then taught in her family's hometown in Mexico,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.leadershiphigh.org/pages/about_leadership-board_of_trustees.html )〕 Calegari was a co-founder of 826 Valencia in April 2002 and the founding executive director. The group and the seven other related chapters of 826 National (which she also co-founded and headed) are a group of non-profit writing centers for students ages 6–18. Calegari, along with Dave Eggers and Daniel Moulthrop, co-authored the book ''Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers'', published by The New Press in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= The New Press web site )〕 It argued that increasing teachers' salaries is a critical piece to meaningful school reform and essential to making sure that US students consistently get quality teachers.〔 Book Review of ''Teachers Have It Easy''.〕 Calegari also founded and serves as president of The Teacher Salary Project, a non-profit designed to build the political will necessary to transform how US society values effective teachers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= official web site )〕 The project uses film, the Internet, and the general public to communicate its mission. The Teacher Salary Project's film, ''American Teacher'', held its first preview screening in May 2011 at the San Francisco International Film Festival and is scheduled to be officially released in major US cities in the Fall 2011.〔 The film was produced by Calegari and Eggers, and directed and produced by filmmaker Vanessa Roth. The film is narrated by actor Matt Damon with music composed by San Francisco musician Thao Nguyen〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://differentfurstudios.com/blog/?p=4948 )〕 In 2007, Calegari received Edutopia's 2007 Daring Dozen award. In 2008, Calegari was appointed by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to the San Francisco Arts Commission. She served on the board of Learning Points Associates,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Learning Points Associates )〕 and as an advisor to the George Lucas Education Foundation.〔 She has been the recipient of an National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the William Coe Award for study at Stanford University and the Andrew Mellon Fellowship. The Jim Henson Community Honor in 2010 was awarded to 826 National. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nínive Clements Calegari」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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