Profile
Melanie Wade
Principal, Fremont Adult School
Fremont Unified School District
Melanie currently serves as Principal of Fremont Adult School in Fremont, California. Previously she served in Garden Grove as administrator for adult education ESL and vocational programs (computer applications), site technology coordinator, and website manager for Garden Grove Adult Education. She was a high school English and ESL teacher in Garden Grove Unified and Huntington Beach Union High School Districts. She also taught ESL and computer applications in adult education programs.
In addition, Melanie spent eight years in private industry: four years in sales and four years as an educational technology consultant and trainer. She served for three years as District Technology Facilitator and also as Digital High School Coordinator in Culver City Unified School District.
Melanie facilitated a course for teachers to develop WebQuests from 1998 to 2003 at the UCI Summer Science Institute. She is also a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine in conjunction with UCLA. Her dissertation topic is Laptops and Computer Fluency: Investigation of the Gender Gap in a High School Core Curriculum Program.
Her memberships include the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA).
Her favorite websites include the Outreach and Technical Assistance Network for adult educators in California and Sheppard's Useful Links.
Among her varied interests are travel, yoga, and reading. Originally from Canada, Melanie moved to California in 1983.