Dr. Ed Harris
Principal, Cahokia High School
Developer of the QUO Process

Dr. Harris has worked in education for over 27 years and has won numerous awards, including the Good Apple Award and in 1999 the Illinois State Principal of the Year award.

Dr. Harris earned a Ph.D. in education curriculum at the University of Berkley, Michigan, a Specialist Degree in administration and the Superintendency at Truman University in Kirksville Missouri, a Masters of Education at Maryville University in St. Louis, and a Bachelor of Science
degree in social studies for secondary education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

He taught for 10 years in the Parkway School District. He has coached football and women’s basketball for more than 15 years at both the high school and college levels.

Dr. Harris has served as adjunct professor at both Maryville and Southern Illinois at Edwardsville Universities. He has been principal at Quincy, Edwardsville, and presently at Cahokia High School in Illinois, and at Oakville High School in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Harris has served as an administrator in a variety of locations; he served as Assistant Superintendent in the Normandy School District, and began his administrative career as assistant principal in the Parkway and Ladue School Districts in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. Harris has worked in rural, urban, and suburban schools which gives him a wide experience base. Dr. Harris has written several articles and in the year 2000 published a book about parenting teenagers entitled A Letter from the Principal. Click to download a PDF excerpt from the book.

He can be reached at:
harrised@stclair.k12.il.us

Ted Wohlfarth
Executive Director, EnTeam Institute

Ted Wohlfarth is a researcher who founded EnTeam. He invented EnTeam activities by combining the principles of game theory, experiential learning, and fun with a new methodology he developed for measuring cooperation objectively— the EnTeam Scoreboard.

Ted works with teachers and administrators to tailor EnTeam activities to support their learning objectives. His passion is in developing events that encourage people to solve problems collaboratively.

Ted’s goal in developing EnTeam activities is to help children understand win-win relationships as clearly as they understand win-lose rivalries. He believes that competition and cooperation are equally important for balanced development—and that overemphasis of either is harmful.

Ted has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stetson University, and his masters degree and doctoral studies are in the areas of human resource economics and urban economics from Florida State University. Ted worked in market research for 16 years and taught economics for six years prior to founding EnTeam.

Ted is author of the workbook entitled Learning to Win Together.

He can be reached at:
taw@enteam.org