Brett J.

Served as "Project Director" for the Corey Hilber Memorial Scholarship Fund in the Kyrgyz Republic to oversee web design, fund raising operations of $24,000 in funds, scholarship applications and interviews, and creation and disbursement of donor incentives to the scholarship fund. This project will send five Kyrgyz students to elite private schools in the Talas province of the Kyrgyz republic, and will pay for all of their tuition and living expenses for two years. More information about this… Show more

Served as "Project Director" for the Corey Hilber Memorial Scholarship Fund in the Kyrgyz Republic to oversee web design, fund raising operations of $24,000 in funds, scholarship applications and interviews, and creation and disbursement of donor incentives to the scholarship fund. This project will send five Kyrgyz students to elite private schools in the Talas province of the Kyrgyz republic, and will pay for all of their tuition and living expenses for two years. More information about this scholarship can be found at www.talawesome.com Show less

One of my most successful projects to date has been the organization, translating, printing, and distributing of Teach Like a Lion/Арстандай сабак өт/Обучай как лев, a multilingual English, Kyrgyz, and Russian teacher training manual (attached, below).

The work on these translations took over one year, countless revisions, and eight translators to complete. Once it was finished, we wrote a grant to finance distribution of the book to each of the country's seven regions, as well as to… Show more

One of my most successful projects to date has been the organization, translating, printing, and distributing of Teach Like a Lion/Арстандай сабак өт/Обучай как лев, a multilingual English, Kyrgyz, and Russian teacher training manual (attached, below).

The work on these translations took over one year, countless revisions, and eight translators to complete. Once it was finished, we wrote a grant to finance distribution of the book to each of the country's seven regions, as well as to every school in the western region of Talas and to every individual Peace Corps Volunteer. The book also includes a DVD that demonstrates local teachers using methods from the book. Show less

Directing the 2011 FORUM Annual Conference, funded by a grant from the US Embassy in Bishkek. 140 teachers from every region in the Kyrgyz Republic participated in this weeklong conference on teaching methodology and technology. As conference director, I oversaw the funding, planning, and execution of this program including travel logistics, catering, participant lodging, conference scheduling, and project reporting.