Y'All R Real Ones: Middle School Moments

Team

Camilla Calamandrei

Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor

Award-winning director/producer of independent feature documentaries: The Tiger Next Door (Animal Planet), Prisoners in Paradise (PBS) and children’s media for The Jim Henson Company, LEGO, and Scholastic. Program Manager for Clinton Global Initiative (CGI America) and Head of Programs for Urban Green Council. MA, Documentary Film Production, Stanford University. BA, Literature, Brown University.

Bernadine Colish

Editor

Editor of numerous award-winning documentaries, including: Love, Cecil, Herb & Dorothy, Peggy Guggenheim, A Whale of a Tale, Bringing Tibet Home, Band of Sisters, The Tiger Next Door, Body of War, Rise and Dream, Absolute Wilson, The Buffalo War, Muslims, Beyond the Motor City, A Touch of Greatness, Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, Toru Takemitsu: Music for the Movies, Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For.

Joel Goodman

Composer

Garry Waller

Graphics

Donaldson Callif Perez

Legal Counsel

Women Make Movies

Non-profit Fiscal Sponsor

Funded in part by Middle Grades Collaborative

PENNY BISHOP, EDD

Consulting Subject Matter Expert: Middle School Education

Dean of Education, University of Maine
Past Professor of Middle Grades Education, Univ. of Vermont
Founding Director Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education
EdD Leadership and Policy Studies, Univ. of Vermont
Sr. Advisor and Past Chair, American Educational Research Assoc. Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group
Co-Director of Middle Grades Collaborative
Author of seven books, including: The Successful Middle School (Assoc. for Middle Level Education, 2021)

LISA HARRISON, PHD

Consulting Subject Matter Expert: Middle School Education,
Diverse Learners, Educational Equity, Teacher Education

Associate Professor, Ohio University
Middle Childhood Education program coordinator
PhD Middle School Education, University of Georgia
Researcher, teacher educator, former middle school teacher

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Nancy Deutsch

Director, Youth-Nex Center to Promote Effective Youth Development

Penny Bishop

Dean, College of Education and Human Development
University of Maine

Stephanie Simpson

CEO, AMLE (Association for Middle Level Education)

James Nagle

Co-Director, Middle Grades Collaborative

NIOBE WAY, PHD

Consulting Subject Matter Expert, Psychology & Adolescence

Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University
Past President for the Society for Research on Adolescence
PhD Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University
NIMH postdoctoral fellow, Psychology Department, Yale Univ. re. social and emotional development of adolescents.
Editor & Author books/articles, including: “The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences, and Solutions” (NYU Press, 2018); Featured in David Brooks’ NY Times editorial column October 12, 2018
Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships (Harvard Univ. Press, 2011),
Research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, The National Science Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, The Spencer Foundation.

RON TAFFEL, PHD

Consulting Subject Matter Expert: Child Development & Adolescence

Chairman of the Board, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
PhD Clinical Psychology, New York University
Director of Treatment, Child and Adolescent Division,
Downstate Medical Center
Author eight books re. child/family development, adolescence, parenting, psychotherapy, including: “Childhood Unbound.”

CHERYL R. ELLERBROCK, PHD

Discussion Guide Development, Lead

Associate Professor, University of South Florida
AERA Middle Level Ed. Research Special Interest Group Chair
Coordinator Undergraduate Middle Grades Ed. Program
Doctoral Teacher Education Program Co-Coordinator
PhD Curriculum, Teaching, & Teacher Ed., Univ. of Florida

Y’All R Real Ones: Middle School Moments is a documentary short, created as part of a larger MIDDLE SCHOOLERS documentary project, developed in conjunction with child development experts, psychologists, researchers and teacher educators. For use with pre-service and in service professionals (teachers, principals, school counselors, psychologists, teacher educators, after-school counselors, religious school educators, wellness leads) as well as students and families.

Director/Producer Camilla Calamandrei