TEEAM Contact Information

Amy Gensemer
email: Amy_N_Gensemer@mcpsmd.org

Amy Gensemer is the Science and Engineering Content Specialist for Montgomery County Public Schools. She has been a master teacher for Project Lead The Way and a curriculum specialist with ITEEA-Engineering by Design (EbD). She is the lead writer for the latest edition of EbD’s Foundations of Technology.

President Elect

Thomas J. “Jason” Bullerman
email: tbullerman@bcps.org

Jason Bullerman joined Baltimore County Public Schools in January 2003 as a Technology Education teacher at Dundalk High School, teaching Foundations of Technology to ninth grade students. During his four and a half years at Dundalk, he also taught Introduction to Engineering & Technology Concepts, Audio Video I, and Honors Engineering - covering grades nine through twelve. In 2007, he joined Chesapeake High School as the department chairperson for Technology Education.

TEEAM recognized him with the New High School Teacher Excellence Award, while the Technology Education program at Dundalk High earned the High School Program Excellence Award. Dundalk was also recognized at the 2004 ITEEA conference in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2008, the Technology Education department at Chesapeake High won TEAM’s High School Program Excellence Award. The program was also recognized at the 2009 ITEEA conference in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition, Jason received the 2010-2011 Region III Teacher of the Year Award from Magnet Schools of America.
Jason has written curriculum for Baltimore County Public Schools; and he has led professional development sessions for TEEAM, ITEEA, and Magnet Schools of America. Furthermore, he has implemented a VEX Robotics team at Chesapeake that has participated in the VEX World Championship for two consecutive years. As department chairperson, his leadership duties include Technology Education and Project Lead The Way Engineering.

Executive Director

Position currently vacant

Douglas Handy
email: dhandy@bcps.org

Douglas H. Handy, Supervisor
Technology Education, Engineering & Manufacturing
Office of Career & Technology Education
Baltimore County Public Schools
phone: 410-887-8927
fax: 410-821-1719

Karen Taylor-Boone
email: Karen_D_Taylor-Boone@mcpsmd.org

Karen Taylor-Boone is a Technology Education teacher at John F. Kennedy High School in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS). She teaches Foundations of Technology, in addition to several advanced Technology Education courses. Karen arrived in MCPS for the 2009-2010 school year from Georgia, where she obtained a certification as a specialist of education related to curriculum and learning (spring 2008), a masters of education (winter 2006) and a bachelor of science in technology education (fall 1998). During her career in Georgia she coordinated and articulated between the Special Education department and the Technology Education department to develop hands-on activities that promoted special education students in achieving technological literacy. She advocated for special education students at various parent teacher association meetings and civic organizations. She also was a member of the Technology Student Association (TSA).
She continued her passion for extending technology education student activities beyond the classroom while at Kennedy High School in MCPS. Last year she bused eight teams of students to the Robot Challenge at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.

Kimberly Miller
email: ksturdivant@bcps.org

Kim Sturdivant-Miller teaches at Southwest Academy in BCPS. She is the science department chair and science & engineering magnet program coordinator. She has taught PLTW-Gateway To Technology since 2007-08. She is also a member of Baltimore County’s learning team for the Maryland STEM Portfolio Project.

K. Sturdivant-Miller
Southwest Academy
Science Department Chair
Magnet Coordinator
410.887.0825
ksturdivant@bcps.org

Treasurer

Kathleen Setzer
email: ksetzer@bcps.org

Kathleen Setzer, the Technology Education department chairperson at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County Public Schools, spent the first fourteen years of her career in the corporate arena responsible for monthly accounting reporting and consolidations via the Hyperion Reporting system. In 2003, Kathleen transitioned to the field of education as a Computer Science teacher at her Alma Mater, Baltimore City College in Baltimore, Maryland. She then moved to the Baltimore County Public Schools as a Business Education teacher and a Work-Based Learning Coordinator until 2007. She left teaching to open her own successful Edible Arrangements franchise. After her franchise was off the ground she returned to her true career calling in education as a Technology Education teacher in 2009. As department chairperson, her leadership duties include technology education and Project Lead The Way Engineering. She is a current member of TEEAM.
Kathleen Setzer has earned an Associate of Arts Degree in Accounting from the Catonsville Community College, a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Business with a specialization in Accounting and Computer Information Systems, a Masters of Arts degree in Secondary Education and a post Master’s certificate in Administration and Supervision from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She has returned to the College of Notre Dame to pursue a Doctorate of Philosophy in Education Leadership for a Changing Population.

Luke Rhine
Email: lrhine@msde.state.md.us

Specialist, Career & Technology Education
Maryland State Dept. of Education
200 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410-767-0177
Fax: 410-333-2099

Position currently vacant

Website Coordinator

Christopher Putnam
email: cputnam@bcps.org

Middle School Technology Integration Teacher
Hereford Middle School
Baltimore County Public Schools