Richard and Didi Acosta
Richard and Didi have been involved with education since 1968 in teaching, innovative curriculum design and implementation, mentoring, professional development, and consulting.
The Acostas have been team teaching since 1984, their philosophy being that a focused, integrated, disciplined teaching team is a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Their credits include:
Collaboration in the design of the ESL curriculum at the University of New York at Albany (1969)
Design of the Camelot program in the NYC Public Schools (1970)
NCTE Center of Excellence humanities curriculum at John Adams Middle School in Albuquerque, NM (1985)
Finalists in the National Teacher of the Year (1991)
Quality Education Award — New Mexico Research and Study Council, University of New Mexico (1994)
Harry N. Lancaster Award-Journalism Teacher of the Year, NMSPA and New Mexico State University (1998)
Most Recently they have been working with New Mexico and Texas School Districts to create school cultures that nurture life-long learners.
Their work encourages school communities to examine their culture through the lens of PLAY:
Playful
Learning
Academic
Yearning
Click on the links below for the elements of PLAY
•Learning Games I: An Alternative to Drill and Kill
•Learning Games II: Going Cerebral
•Motivation and Management - Engagement: The Big E
•Collaborative Student Learning - We're in This Together
•Creating Learning Communities of Commitment
•Creative Approaches to Higher Thinking
•Essential Questions and Culminating Demonstrations of Achievement
•Including Students in the Assessment: Creating Student Portfolios
•Nurturing the Inquiring Mind in Our Kids
•Transformational Coaching for Educators
•Lessons From Lucy
•Under the Gun: Raising Test Scores and Student Expectations
Contact Richard and Didi at hooz-who.com inc.
(505) 450-2153 fax (505) 856-0273
didi@hooz-who.com richard@hooz-who.com
