Educational Leader Dee Dickinson Added to the Cambridge Who's Who Network
Dee Dickinson received the prestigious International Junior League's Mary Harriman Award for Leadership

COLUMBIA, MD, November 4, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dee Dickinson, the retired CEO and founder of New Horizons for Learning, a non-profit (501-c-3) education network based in Seattle, Washington and on the Internet at www.newhorizons.org, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in education.

Dee Dickinson has been a school administrator and has taught on all levels from elementary school through university, has produced several series for educational television, and has produced nine international conferences on education. She is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and has been a consultant to educational systems and organizations, community colleges and universities, policy-making groups, and corporations including Motorola, IBM, and Prudential. She has also worked as a consultant to software companies including Microsoft, Disney Interactive, Word Perfect, and Sierra/Bright Star.

Formerly, she was vice-president of the International Accelerative Learning Association, based at the University of Rio de Janeiro, and director of the Seattle Creative Activities Center. She founded the Northwest Art Project, which is now the longest lasting project for the Seattle Junior League. She has served on a number of local, national, and international boards, including the University of Washington College of Education, KCTS TV, the Institute for Research on Learning, Child Research Net (Japan), the Learning Forum/SuperCamp, the Whitehouse Task Force on Learning, the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, the International Association for Accelerative Learning (Brazil), the European Lifespan Learning Initiative (Belgium), and the National Inventive Thinking Association (U.S. Patent Office). She has been the recipient of the Maverick Award by the Washington Governor's Leadership Institute, the Annual Leadership Award by the Citizens Education Center, and the Dorothy Stimson Bullitt Award for Community Service. She has also received the prestigious International Junior League's Mary Harriman Award for Leadership. Past awardees include Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Her report Positive Trends in Learning: Meeting the Needs of a Rapidly Changing World was commissioned and published by IBM in 1991, and her book Creating the Future: Perspectives on Educational Change was published by Accelerated Learning Systems in England also in 1991. She is co-author (with Linda Campbell and Bruce Campbell) of Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences published by Allyn and Bacon, new edition, 2004 (now translated in six languages.) Further publications are online at www.newhorizons.org. This website now has received up to nine million hits a month. Since her retirement, the website has been transferred to Johns Hopkins University's Graduate School of Education and their Neuro-Education Initiative. She is now a member of the Johns Hopkins University Interdisciplinary Studies in Education Advisory Board. She also heads the Wellness Team at the Mirabella, where she now lives and thrives.

For more information, visit http://hb.education.jhu.edu/newhorizons.

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