Bob Keddell

Bob Keddell has enjoyed a rich thirty-three year career including experiences in rural, suburban, and inner-city education positions. Education innovation has been a hallmark of Bob’s career as he has written curriculum for the Volvo Round the World Sailing Race, Chicago Public Schools, the EPA, USGS, Virginia Magnet Schools, Howard County Public Schools, and the Ingenuity Project of Baltimore City Public Schools. National recognition has included two Presidential Teaching Awards, the OHAUS Award for Creative Teaching, national consultant opportunities, and over $450,000 in grant awards.

Bob’s current education positions include teaching Action Research for School Improvement and the Capstone Course in Teacher Leadership in Johns Hopkins University’s Teacher Leadership graduate program, as well as a position as Program Developer and Evaluator for Wilde Lake Middle School and Lime Kiln Middle School in Howard County Public Schools. His latest project finds him serving as Director for a new organization entitled “Educators for Connecting Research to the K-16 Classroom – ECRC.” ECRC and its MOTIVATION EDUCATION philosophy will this month be featured as the lead education organization behind Shared Summits ― a historic attempt at climbing K2 by the Earth Treks Climbing Centers, Inc. This summer, ECRC be finalizing its Rainforest Researchers curriculum in cooperation with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute of Panama, and will conduct its first Sailing Through History onboard cruise program for Princess Cruise Lines. ECRC has just begun to align its 6-year-old Aqua Havens For Education program which partnered with the American Cichlid Association and their excellent mission in 2002, to combine with the C.A.R.E.S. Preservation Program ― Aqua Havens C.A.R.E.S. in 2005. Bob lives in Columbia, Maryland with his wife Karen and his two daughters, Katherine and Jennifer.

The C.A.R.E.S. Preservation Program is about our fish,
and it is about people.
We are one team, working together. Please, clear a tank ~ save a fish!
Because of you, we are making a difference!