Since 2006
We're a small team of teacher trainers who believe great instruction starts with understanding how people actually learn.
Berkeley LTC was founded in 2006 by Josh Kurzweil and Jenn White, two teacher trainers who shared a conviction that professional development should be grounded in evidence, not guesswork. Since then, we've grown into a small, tightly-knit team that designs and delivers training for union programs, higher education faculty, K–12 schools, and language instructors — always returning to the same core question: what does the science of learning tell us about how to teach well?
Our Team
Three educators with decades of combined experience teaching, training, and designing professional development around the world.
Josh began his teaching career in 1990 and has taught and trained in Japan, Spain, the Republic of Georgia, and the United States. He holds a Master's in teaching from the SIT Graduate Institute as well as the Cambridge CELTA and DELTA. Josh has trained with the Peace Corps and designed teacher development programs for labor unions and higher ed institutions, and is the author of Understanding Teaching Through Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2006). His interests include the science of learning, reflective practice, and learning design. Outside of work, he plays pool, studies foreign languages, and travels.
Jenn earned her Master's degree in TESOL from St. Mary's College of California. She has been teaching since 1999 and training since 2004, and has taught in Spain and Korea before settling into teaching and training work in North Carolina. Outside of work, she loves photography, cooking, yoga, and snow-skiing.
Susan earned her MA in TESOL at the SIT Graduate Institute in 1999 and has spent over 20 years teaching international students and training teachers, both in the US at Boston University's CELOP and abroad in Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Brazil, Ecuador, and New Zealand. Her work helps bridge pedagogical gaps for subject-matter experts, and she has recently specialized in building English-Medium Instruction initiatives for faculty across STEM, hospitality, and education disciplines in Taiwan and China. For fun, Susan rides her bike and restores her old Victorian house.
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