Curriki Leadership Team

A dedicated team of education and technology professionals has been working to create the Curriki community.

Dr. Kurshan has spent her career committed to using technology to improve children's learning. She has founded several successful companies focused on technology and education. In her new position as the Executive Director of Curriki, she plans to build a global community that will provide the best open source curricula just a click away.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Kurshan developed the first children's software products for Microsoft - Creative Writer and Fine Artist and also created award-winning products for McGraw-Hill, Apple, CCC (Pearson) and others. As a professor, she helped students research the impact of technology on learning. Dr. Kurshan also publishes articles based on personal research exploring women's attitudes toward technology, how kids use computers, and new ways of learning through understanding. She has been quoted in many influential journals and serves as a reviewer and advisor to research projects for the National Science Foundation and other government and business groups.

Currently, Dr. Kurshan serves on the boards of WorldSage, a for-profit higher education system to address education for the 21st Century and Interschola, a company that helps education clients turn idle assets into cash by selling the goods via online auctions, as well as several education technology companies, including Fablevision. Among numerous honors, Dr. Kurshan received the Education Academic Society's Making It Happen Award and the Highest Leaf Award from the Women's Venture Fund. She is listed in Who's Who in Technology Today.

Dr. Kurshan received her Ed.D. and M.S. from Virginia Tech University and her B.S. from Newcomb College, Tulane University.

Click here to read Dr. Kurshan's January message to the Curriki community.

Anne Schreiber has over 20 years experience as a multi-media publisher, product designer and educator. She is currently the Chief Academic Officer of Curriki – Global Education and Learning Community. Curriki, which was founded by Sun Microsystems is an organization dedicated to the creation of validated, open source K-12 curricula, which is completely free and available globally.

Before joining Curriki, Anne was Vice President of Product at the Grow Network/McGraw-Hill, an assessment and instructional reporting company, providing customized instruction based on summative assessment data.

As Publisher of secondary products at Scholastic, Anne was responsible for content and instruction for reading language arts and assessment products for upper elementary and secondary students. During her tenure at Scholastic, Anne also published “Scholastic Reading Counts” and “The Scholastic Reading Inventory”. Anne created and directed the development of science content for two award-winning science products: “The Magic School Bus” television series and “Scholastic Science Place”. She also directed the creation of Scholastic's highly successful, award-winning beginning literacy system, “WiggleWorks”.

As Vice President of Content and Programming at bigchalk, Anne was responsible for the educational programming and the editorial voice of the “bigchalk.com” Web portal.

Anne was the Managing Editor of Time Warner's parenting Web site, “ParentTime”. Anne and her team created a highly trafficked site that featured content from “Parenting Magazine”, parenting advice from top experts and useful child health advisory tools.

At Children’s Television workshop (now Sesame Workshop), Anne developed curriculum for the school and community markets utilizing the assets of the flagship science show, “3-2-1 CONTACT”.

Anne began her career as an elementary school teacher, developing staff and student enrichment programs. Anne did both her undergraduate and graduate work in Curriculum and Instruction and Science Education at Cornell University. She is the author of more than a dozen books for young children.

Joshua Marks has focused his 20-year-long career on using emerging technologies to enable and improve learning opportunities for all children in both formal and informal settings. As Chief Technology Officer, Joshua oversees all technology development and hosting infrastructure for Curriki.org. In this role Joshua sets the technical direction, manages the development teams and collaborates with partners, contributors and the open source software community to design and provide the tools needed to realize Curriki's innovative vision. Joshua is also the point person for engaging with standards groups such as IMS Global and SIF (The schools Interoperability Framework).

Before joining Curriki, Joshua was a Senior Systems Architect at CTB/McGraw-Hill where he was responsible for enterprise technology renewal and completed a total re-design of the company's online assessment system to enable back-end integration with legacy 'paper and pencil' scoring and reporting systems. Prior to that, he was Senior Director eLearning Technology at Harcourt Education where he was instrumental in launching Harcourt Education's e-learning group to foster technological innovation within and across the traditionally print-based Harcourt publishing companies. He also spearheaded a first-of-its-kind tablet PC 1-to-1 e-learning pilot project with 150 middle school students in partnership with Microsoft and HP as vision for the future of educational publishing.

Earlier in his career, Joshua was co-founder and CTO for the ZapMe! Knowledge Network, a broadband satellite delivered network for K-12 education. Before the advent of the internet, Joshua pioneered the use of personal computers in learning as a Producer of award winning early learning games at Electronic Arts and as the 20th employee of The Learning Company with credits that include the original Reader Rabbit, The Children's Writing & Publishing Center, The Bilingual Writing Center, Challenge of the Ancient Empires, the School House Rock series, The Story Painting series, Scooter's Magic Castle, among many others. Joshua started his career as a Software Librarian for the Mendocino County Superintendent of School in Northern California where he grew up. Joshua holds a degree in Mathematics from University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) where he now lives.