Dr. Aundrea Smiley gets #celebratED for being named the new On Site Administrator at the Center for Learning and Growth in Albemarle County Public Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia! At the same time, she continues teaching her Restorative Justice in Education (RJE) course at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Aundrea is the Owner of the Valor & Grace Literacy Cove, a former Literacy Coach for the Brunswick County, Virginia Public Schools and Teacher fo

Dr. Najla Staggers gets #celebratED for earning her Doctor of Education degree in Leadership and Learning in Organizations from Vanderbilt University! She currently serves as the Principal of the Hall School in the Bridgeport, Connecticut Public Schools, and prior to this, she served as Director of Mentor Training and Program Development for The Governor's Prevention Partnership, and as the Director of Grants for the Norwalk, Connecticut Public Schools. We celebrate Najla for

Courtney Gibbons gets #celebratED for being promoted to Professor of Mathematics at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York! She has been serving on the Hamilton faculty since 2013, and she has recently launched the MOTHERFUNCTOR Newsletter, providing weekly insights for mathematicians, educators and policymakers. In the last two years, Courtney has served the National Science Foundation (NSF) as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, and in the Directorate for Computer