Academy Class of 2016

The Learning Forward

Academy
The Learning Forward Academy experience
Bring your biggest challenge, related to
adult or student learning, to the Academy
coaches and other participants.

In collaboration, clarify the authentic

problems of practice.

Study the problem, build knowledge

and skills, and work together to develop
solutions.

Transform your practice and your

organization.

Class is
forming now! Measure and evaluate your results.
Application deadline
March 15

The Learning Forward Academy includes:

4 2 ½ years of learning with educators from around the world
4 12 face-to-face, team-based learning days
4 2 Learning Forward conferences included (complimentary registration – valued at more than $1,748!)
4 Phone and virtual learning for continuous process improvement
4 Ongoing support from an experienced coach who is also an Academy graduate
4 Access to resources, relationships, and real results with a complimentary Learning Forward
membership for three years (a $477 value!)
4 A formal graduation at Learning Forward’s Annual Conference
What graduates say. Thanks to our partners

Kathryn Meyers – Teacher

“
I have greatly enjoyed my experience with the Academy.  The learning
sessions and the annual conference have been a highlight for me as a
professional over the past two years.  I had an opportunity to meet like-minded
and eager educators who believe in innovation and the simple statement that all
students can learn.  Most importantly, the Academy guided me in completing
meaningful work for my educational community.  For all the Learning Forward
educators, facilitators, supporting crew; it truly has been a highlight of my
career.  I am looking forward to continuing the professional practices that will

”
support our kids and my colleagues in a life of educational fulfillment.

Andrew Maoury – Assistant Principal

“
Due to my Academy teammates, other academy members, and conference
attendees, I have made connections and communicated with folks with whom
I would have otherwise never made association. I have had phone calls, emails,
and Skype sessions with others who have made an immediate impact on my
day-to-day operations. Being able to work with a curriculum director from
New York, professional developers from Arizona and Illinois, as well as well as
an Assistant Superintendent from Oregon has provided me both a depth and Standards-based
breadth of perspective that has been unparalleled. We have been able to idea professional learning
share, be critical listeners, and work off of each other’s successes and failures. It
has been this networking that has been the most valuable and has increased my
Improvements in
proverbial toolbox of resources in my job and overall growth and development.
educator knowledge, skills,
While giving up time during the school year is always a challenge, and and dispositions
working on Saturdays and Sundays at a conference while missing college and
professional football games has been a bit of a chore, it has been a sacrifice to Improvements in
benefit the greater good.  The personal reflections, learned skills, strategies, and educator practice
experiences have been transferred to benefit the learning and growth of our
students.  The experience with the Learning Forward Academy is one that I will Improvements in

”
cherish. student results

Join the Learning

Forward Academy!
Application deadline March 15

For an online application or to learn more

about the Academy and scholarship opportunities,
visit www.learningforward.org/academy.
Kristin Buehrig | Programs Associate | 972-421-0900
www.learningforward.org/academy
 Join the Learning
Forward Academy!
Congratulations Class of 2016 Application deadline March 15

BECCY BALDWIN JENNEE GREGORY KEVIN J. MCCLURE JEAN SCHEDLER

Director, Northwest Regional Assistant Director, Northwest Illinois Licensed Educator Reading & Dyslexia Specialist
Professional Development Center Missouri Regional Professional Illinois State Board of Education Schedler Educational Consulting
Development Center
JULIE A. BARKER GRETCHEN MCENDARFER MATT SCHIEBEL
Director of the Teacher Center AMANDA GRIER Principal, South Bend Principal
Pittsford Central Schools Assistant Principal Community School Corp. Ft. Wayne Community Schools
Andover Public Schools TRACY SLATTERY
KELLY BIKLE KATHRYN MEYERS
Professional Learning Director LAURA A. HEINECK Teacher, Cook District 204 Curriculum Facilitator, South Bend
Palo Alto Unified School District Principal Lyons Township High School Community School Corporation
Souderton Area School District STACI M. SOHN
LAURA CAIN GREG M. MILLER
Assistant to the Superintendent KIMBERLY C. HINTON Chief Student Achievement Online Professional Learning
for Strategic Initiatives School Director Officer Facilitator, Clarksville-Montgomery
Fort Wayne Community Schools CICS Ralph Ellison HS Boyertown Area School District County School System

DAWN R. CONNELLY JOHN HOOD PAMELA R. MOORE MICHAEL STOUDT

Principal Principal District Technology Resource Principal
Lebanon School District Good Hope High School Teacher, Mobile County Public Boyertown Area School District
School System IRIS TOMITA
JAMES CURRAN LATHERESA N. KING
Administrator
Instructional Technology Curriculum Coordinator MICHAEL MURPHY
Professional Development and
Coordinator Fort Wayne Community Schools Assistant Superintendent
Educational Research Institute
Cherry Creek Schools Lebanon School District
MICHELLE KING MACARRE A. TRAYNHAM
LARRY DARNELL DASHIELL Associate Director of LEANN ANDIES MYERS Executive Director of Teaching
Senior Director of School Communities Principal, Greene County Schools & Learning
Support (Retired), Portland Learning Forward Chuckey Elementary School Minneapolis Public Schools
Public Schools
ED KRANKOWSKI SUZANNE NEWELL SANDRA G. VECERA
TIFFANYE DAVIS MITCHELL Principal Director of Humanities Leadership Development
Director of Special Education Reynolds School District Grapevine-Colleyville ISD Facilitator, Howard County
Cullman County Board of Public School System
Education LARRY LABUE JR. NATASHA PARRILLA
Director of Professional Learning Professional Development SARA L. WERTMAN
BRUCE ELLARD and Instructional Services Specialist, Apple Tree Institute Principal
Technology Director Allen ISD for Education Innovation Fort Wayne Community Schools
Cullman County Schools
STEPHANIE L. LANDIS BARBARA PATTERSON-ODEN BRANDON C. WHITE
SUE ELLIOTT Principal Professional Development Principal
President, LFBC Learning Forward Boyertown Area School District Specialist, Suffolk Public Schools Fort Wayne Community Schools
British Columbia
KARLA D. LEE STEPHANIE PETRI KIMBERLY WHITE
DIANA ELY Director of Intermediate Services Assistant Principal Curriculum Coordinator
Director, Organizational and Staff South Bend Community School Boyertown Area School District Allen ISD
Development, Northside ISD Corporation
LYNNETTE RAINEY JOHN P. WILLIS
RICHARD H. FAIDLEY ANTONIO LOPEZ Professional Development Coordinator, Office of
Superintendent Assistant Superintendent Coordinator Staff Development
Boyertown Area SD Portland Public Schools Penfield Central Schools Gwinnett County Public Schools
HELEN F. FITZGERALD CARLTON MABLE BRIAN J. ROHN MELISSA L. WOODARD
Technology Integrator Principal Principal, New Hanover-Upper Chief Academic Officer
Coordinator, Gr. 5 - 8 and Fort Wayne Community Schools Frederick Elementary Boyertown Area School District
Mathematics Facilitator NEIL B. YOUNG
Merrimack School District BRIAN J. MAJONEY JEANNIE ROWLAND
Special Education Division Chair Educator Effectiveness Specialist Principal
VIRGINIA P. FOLEY Lyons Township High School Utah State Office of Education Lebanon School District
Associate Professor JOAN ZARETSKY
East Tennessee State University ANDREW T. MAOURY
Assistant Principal Consultant
Boyertown Area School District Education Solutions Manitoba

A special thank you to our Academy coaches, Mike Murphy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Lisa Casto.

Learning Forward’s mission is to build the capacity of leaders to establish and sustain
highly effective professional learning. We are the only association devoted exclusively
to advancing excellent teaching and learning every day through professional learning.

Kristin Buehrig | Programs Associate | 972-421-0900 | www.learningforward.org/academy