martha ban

Martha Aastrup Ban is a third-generation Adventist educator. Knowing that she wanted to be a teacher at an early age, she began her teaching “career” in 8th grade as a tutor for 1st grade students learning to read. A graduate of Atlantic Union College (BS in elementary education) and Framingham State College (MS in Education with an emphasis in Reading and a CIT in Instructional Technology), she has taught all ages – from kindergarten through college—in Massachusetts (including several 1- and 2-room schools which resulted in a passion for helping our overworked/overwhelmed teachers in any way possible) and Maine. She particularly enjoyed integrating technology into her teaching. While she loved working with all ages, she enjoyed grades 5-8 the most. “It’s a great age group and has great content to teach,” she says. Martha also was editor and writer for the Atlantic Union Teacher Bulletin and has worked extensively for Griggs International Academy as curriculum specialist, webmaster, and instructor.

After some two dozen years teaching, Mrs. Ban transferred her passion from classroom teaching to working for the North American Division Office of Education where she is the Director of Technology and Support. The majority of her responsibilities are with the technology aspects of our education system. Bottom line - she loves helping in any way she can with technology for our NAD educators.

Martha’s interests are technology and integrating technology with learning, camping, gardening, model railroading, reading, and being with family. She and her husband Gerry have been married for 30+ years. Gerry is Associate Director of Education for the Mid-America Union Conference. They have two children: Kaitlynn—a graduate of Atlantic Union College with a business administration finance/accounting major, who is working on adding veterinary medicine to her list of degrees—and Christopher, a software developer in Portland Oregon. They live with a menagerie of 3 cats, 2 dogs and fish in Lincoln, Nebraska —totally immersed in Adventist Education at its best.