Facilitator

Joe Rivers has been a teacher and administrator in Vermont Public Schools (grades 7-12) since 1981. He has been an administrator for twelve of those years and a middle grades social studies teacher for the remainder of the time. He has worked at Brattleboro Area Middle School for over twenty years. Joe attended the first Middle Grades Institute twenty years ago. He has been a student of the strands and has served as a facilitator.

Joe serves on the Vermont Association of Middle Level Education Executive Board and the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association Executive Board. He is also a Fellow with Student Achievement Partners and is a consultant with the Vermont Agency of Education concerning the implementation of the Common Core.

Joe earned his M.A. in administration from Castleton State College and his B.A. in history and education from Saint Michael's College.