 gls@globaleducationresources.com
Gek Lee Stevens, B.A., M.S.W., has worked in the field of international education and marketing since 1990. As the first Director of International Programs at a highly-ranked college preparatory school in Seattle, Washington, she created an effective academic curriculum for non-native English speakers and a residential life curriculum for its international boarding community. She hired faculty, created international summer camps and exchanges, and facilitated cultural training programs for adults and adolescents from many countries. For years Gek successfully marketed programs she created in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. She has also provided learning assessments, school placements, and extensive cross-cultural counseling for international students and their parents. Before beginning her career in international education, Gek earned a bachelor’s degree at Whitman College and a Master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Washington. She also owned her own retail business of 12 years in Seattle. Gek has served on several Seattle Mayor task forces, business and community organizations and was named outstanding business person of the year in her business community. Most recently she was a member of the Greater Seattle Trade Development Association’s trade mission to Japan. Gek has mastery in the English language and can converse in Chinese and Malay.
References for Gek Lee Stevens, Global Education Resources, are available upon request.
 gss@globaleducationresources.com
G. Scott Stevens, M.D. joined Global Education Resources after more than thirty years of private medical practice in Seattle. A native of Washington State in the U.S., Dr. Stevens spent a year as an AFS exchange student to Germany. He subsequently received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Whitman College. After two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in S. E. Asia, he returned to America to pursue a career in medicine. Upon graduating from the University of Washington School of Medicine, he specialized in Family Medicine and has remained continuously certified in this specialty ever since. He has maintained membership in multiple professional societies and has been recognized with numerous awards for excellence in his field.
Dr. Stevens has had extensive experience in health care and education. He has served as departmental and chief of his hospital medical staff and is a past trustee and president of the King County Medical Society. He has served on two separate hospital boards and has served as a clinical educator for the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine. He has been a teacher and lecturer for multiple professional events.
As an active owner in GER, he brings extensive experience and talent to the field of international education. Of course he possesses special expertise in the health care and medical field.
References for G. Scott Stevens, M.D. are available upon request.
 bmjames@globaleducationresources.com
Barbara James, B.A., M.A.T, has been a teacher in a variety of settings, public and private, for over thirty years. While taking a break from Whitman College, where she earned a degree in Sociology, she taught classes for the U. S. Cultural Center in Belem, Brazil. Her experiences there and later, as an instructor for adult education classes at a migrant labor camp in Oregon, inspired her desire to continue her education and obtain a masters degree in teaching at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. She began her teaching career as a middle school social studies teacher in Beaverton, Oregon.
Her husband’s medical training and practice took the family around the western United States, and during those years she home schooled their growing family and taught Spanish part-time in private schools. As the children left for college, she returned to classroom teaching back in Oregon, at the largest public high school in the Salem-Keizer School District. Her responsibilities there included teaching and curriculum development for regular and “sheltered” (for English Language Learners) social studies classes; teaching in and development of a new freshman house community; representing her colleagues on the school site council; and work for the school district, on committees to select new textbooks and to revise and update sheltered courses in social studies. As an ELL teacher, she considered it a special privilege and pleasure to work with students of many language backgrounds, from all over the world.
Recently retired from classroom teaching, Barbara looks forward to joining Gek and Scott in their work with international students and programs.
References for Barbara James, Global Education Resources, are available upon request.
 jheater@globaleducationresources.com
John Heater, B.A., M.A.T.E.S.L., has taught English as a second language in academic settings for over 25 years. At a college preparatory high school in Seattle, Washington, he taught courses in humanities and science for international students, and he developed a number of different models for adapting content-area curricula for English language learners and for integrating international students with mainstream classes. He designed and taught a variety of sheltered, linked, and integrated classes and for many years produced a school publication of writings done by international students. He continually explores the uses of technology in education, most recently developing a variety of ways to use interactive Internet tools.
As ESL department chair, he coordinated a multi-disciplinary curriculum and teaching staff and was active in matters of student admissions and placements, faculty hiring, creation of a master class schedule, communication with families, and advocating for the interests of international students throughout the school community. While on sabbatical, he attended parent association meetings in Taiwan and Korea and did guest teaching at associated schools in China and Japan.
He began his teaching career with a public school teaching certificate and an M.A. degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from The University of Washington. His professional experience includes running an ESL program at a public middle school in Vancouver, Washington, teaching and coordinating summer ESL programs, and teaching at an intensive academic English program in Seattle. He taught English for one year at a medical university in Shandong Province, China, and has returned to China several times to travel and visit colleagues.
John brings to the work of Global Education Resources his extensive knowledge and experience, and enthusiasm for international students and global education.
References for John Heater, Global Education Resources, are available upon request.
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