Left to Right: Jean Detlefsen, Susan Brockrath (LINC Grant Evaluator),
Guy Trainin, Nancy Andrzejczak and Monique Poldberg

Faculty Biographies:

Guy Trainin
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Trainin is an assistant professor of Literacy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He focuses his research in the areas of reading acquisition and the integration of literacy and the arts. Both a general and special education teacher for more than 10 years, Dr. Trainin has also had extensive administrative experience. Dr. Trainin teaches pre-service teacher education courses as well as graduate courses in literacy research. He is currently serving as an external evaluator to the Nebraska Reading First grant and a large demonstration grant in Literacy and Art. He is co-founder and co-director of The Great Plains Institute for Reading and Writing at UNL.

Nancy Andrzejczak
Project Director of Arts and Literacy Integrated in Nebraska and California Grant
Lake Elsinore Unified School District, California 
Nancy is the current project director for Arts LINC. She was the past director of Project RAISE, Lake Elsinore's first federal arts in education project. She is finishing her dissertation at University of California, Riverside in the area of  instructional policy. In 2005 she was named the Art Educator of the Year for the Pacific Region of the National Art Education Association. In 2000, she was the California McAuliffe Fellow and spent the year working with the state on arts assessment.  She was one of the writers of the Califor ia Standards in Visual Art. She has over 24 years of teaching experience at both primary and secondary level.

Monique Poldberg
Classroom Teacher & Co-Director of Arts and Literacy Integrated in Nebraska and California Grant
Lake Elsinore Unified School District, California      
Monique Poldberg, is currently the State Director for Project Arts LINC. She has worked directly with teachers providing ongoing support for the Art and Literacy project. Her second grade classroom has been a “lab” classroom for arts integration ideas. She is responsible for engaging and supporting 40 classroom teachers at the K-3 model intervention site for Project Arts LINC. Originally a Nebraskan, Monique is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Recently, the California Art Education Association selected her as the Elementary Art Educator of the Year for California. She was chosen by the Los Angeles Music Center as a finalist in the General Education Category for the 2003 Bravo Awards. She was also chosen as Butterfield Elementary (LEUSD) Teacher of the Year in 1996-97. Monique was a recipient of the exclusive Toyota tapestry grant in 2005 which allowed her to investigate the intersection of the Arts literacy and science.

Jean Detlefsen
Co-Director of Arts and Literacy Integrated in Nebraska and California Grant
Art Education Lecturer, Learning and Teacher Education
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jean Detlefsen is a lecturer of art education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently the State Director for Project Arts LINC in Nebraska.  She has worked in art education in Nebraska as the Coordinator of the Mentors Program and member of the National Curriculum Committee for the Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge Getty-Annenberg Grant, as leadership throughout the Prairie Vision Consortium and as the Coordinator of Nebraska Visual and Performing Art Frameworks project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation. Jean’s work has been recognized by the Nebraska Art Education Association as Art Educator of the year, Higher Education Award, Supervisor of the Year Award, Roscoe Shield Service Award as well as Community Awards such as Columbus’ Outstanding Educator Award and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce National Athena Award.  Jean has taught in K-16 classrooms, worked in staff development and currently teaches pre-service art education courses, exhibits her personal art works and is pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.