If you’re arriving at this page, odds are you already know me and are wondering what happened to my long-standing blog. (Short version: I found myself updating it less and less, and using my Facebook and Twitter accounts more and more.) But if you don’t ...
... my name’s Gary Weisserman. Professionally speaking, I wear a number of different hats. My main job is as Head of School at Oakland Early College (if you’ve never heard of us, check us out!). I’m also a core faculty member of the University of Michigan-Flint’s Technology in Global Education Master Degree Program (which meets each summer in Geneva, Switzerland--recently, one of our projects won a MacArthur Digital Media and Learning award!); a lecturer at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s School of Education, where I teach (among other courses) an EDU 362 course focusing on the Michigan Student Caucus program, which is formally aligned with the State of Michigan’s Special House Commission on Civic Engagement; and a long-time program director at the University of Michigan’s Interactive Communications and Simulations (ICS) group, where I’ve created, or been involved in creating, dozens of different innovative web-based programs (including the award-winning-but-now-defunct Conflix project, Place Out Of Time, the Arab-Israeli Conflict Simulation, and more). Prior to taking the Head’s position at OEC, I was Director of Early College and K-16 Initiatives at the University of Michigan-Flint, where I led a number of university-wide programs, including working with partners at the GISD to create Genesee Early College. And prior to that, I was a high school teacher for many years--still the best job I ever had. I serve as Trustee or Board Member for a number of different organizations, including the Community Systems Foundation, Michigan Region B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, and Temple Kol Ami.
On a personal, and much more important, note ... for the past umpteen years, I’ve been married to Dolly Kerin Weisserman, the most amazing person I know. (She’s a pediatrician practicing in Commerce, MI.) We have two terrific kids, Drew (aged 7) and Simon (aged 4). We live in White Lake, Michigan.
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Visit Oakland Early College, where I serve as Head of School.
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Join the Michigan Student Caucus, for which I serve as Faculty Advisor at the University of Michigan.
Check out UM-Flint's Master Degree in Technology in Education, Global Cohort, which I teach each summer in Geneva, Switzerland.