Educator Spotlight

Rebecca Brennan gets #celebratED for being appointed Head of Lower School for The St. Paul's Schools in Timonium, Maryland! In accepting this exciting new opportunity, Rebecca shared: "I am drawn to St. Paul’s rich tradition of academic excellence and its dedication to character development. I am honored to contribute to its mission as Head of Lower School." Prior to this new role, she was a Principal and an Assistant Principal with the Anne Arundel County Public Schools and

Sara Barber-Just gets #celebratED for receiving the inaugural Commonwealth Pride Award, a newly-founded annual event sponsored by the Massachusetts legislature’s LGBTQ Caucus, celebrating the rich accomplishments and talents of the Massachusetts’ LGBTQ+ community! She was nominated by Representative Mindy Domb (D-Amherst) and Representative Aaron Saunders (D-Belchertown). Sara is the English department chair at Amherst Regional High School, where she has been a teacher for 28

Shirnesha Simpkins Church gets #celebratED for being recognized as an Outstanding School-Based Leader during the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Honors ceremony! She serves as the Director of Student Services at Herndon Middle School in Fairfax County Public Schools. In celebrating Shirnesha, Dr. Monika Guerrero Vereb shared, “Having worked closely alongside Shirnesha at Herndon Middle School over the course of four years, I have seen firsthand how she leads with a rare

Diran L. Cowell gets #celebratED for being named a new Assistant Principal at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia! Prior to this, he was a District Behavior Specialist and a Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Trainer & Certified Master Level CPI Instructor in Arlington County Schools, as a Relief Probation Counselor at the Juvenile Detention Center in Fairfax County, Virginia, and as a Special Education Teacher & Administrative Intern with the District of Columbia Publi

Rock Magis gets #celebratED for being named Principal of Campus Administration for the Crowley Independent School District in Fort Worth, Texas! Before this appointment, he served as an Assistant Principal with Crowley, and prior to that he was the Founding Principal of Business Operations for Rocketship Public Schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and as an Assistant Principal with the Castleberry Independent School District in Fort Worth. We applaud Rock across his le

Travis L. Reeves gets #celebratED for being named the next Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators (NCASA)! He retires the end of June as Superintendent of the Surry County, North Carolina Schools, and he previously served as Superintendent of Ashe County Schools in Jefferson, North Carolina, and as Principal at Eastern Guilford High School in Gibsonville, North Carolina. We celebrate Travis for an extraordinary career of service, and we

Jake West gets #celebratED for joining the International School Bangkok, Thailand as a Middle School & High School Curriculum and Learning Specialist! Previously he served as the Learning Coordinator and Middle School Science & Math Teacher for Saigon South International School in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, as well as a secondary teacher at the International School Aberdeen, Scotland. We congratulate him on this new role, and we look forward to hearing great things ahead! In

Kim Alvin De Lara gets #celebratED for being named the 2026 Educator of the Year by Rotary-Chandler USD and Chandler City Council! He is a Gifted Education Teacher for the Chandler, Arizona Unified School District, and he previously served as an Intern for the Army Educational Outreach Program, and as a Fellow with the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University. We celebrate Kim for this outstanding recognition of his contributio

Elizabeth Montanaro gets #celebrated as a new Clinical Assistant Professor at Loyola University Maryland School of Education! Prior to this, she served as a Reading Specialist for Lab School Of Washington, DC and as Clinical Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America, also in Washington. We are grateful for all the ways she serves the profession, and we are excited for her new role at Loyola! Loyola University Maryland Lab School Of Washington The Catholic Univ

Kim Gameroz gets #celebratED for receiving the International Impact Book Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement in Leadership- Education Theory for her title, Becoming the BISON! She is the founder of Teaching Inside Out as well as SELebrate Good Times, helping educators improve work and life for everyone around them. We congratulate her on this recognition and we look forward to her next steps! International Impact Book Awards Becoming the Bison Teaching Inside Out Linke

Andre Shaw gets #celebratED as a new Assistant Principal with Community Consolidated School District 15 at John G. Conyers Learning Academy in Rolling Meadows, Illinois! He is serving as Coordinator of Extended School Year, as well, and previously he was a New Teacher Mentor and Professional Learning Strand Leader for the Niles Township High Schools District 219 in Skokie, Illinois. We congratulate him on this new leadership role, where we know he will continue to make a diff

Jenna Triano gets #celebratED as the new Director of Special Services at The Patrick School in Elizabeth, New Jersey! Previously she has served as a Writing Tutor at Guidance College in Houston, Texas, and she has also served as the Executive Director and President of Innovations in Modern Education, based on Sparta, New Jersey. We applaud her on this new role, and we wish her much future success! The Patrick School Innovations in Modern Education Guidance College LinkedIn

Stephanie Bell gets #celebratED for being selected as the new 504 Coordinator at The Heron Institute in Greenville, South Carolina! Before this, she served as a Special Education Coordinator for Reason & Republic, and as a Special Education Teacher with the South Carolina Preparatory Academy, both located in Anderson, South Carolina. We celebrate her continued leadership in education, and we look forward to her next steps in this new leadership role! The Heron Institute Rea

Charmaine Weston gets #celebratED as the new Campus Dean at Montgomery College in Germantown, Maryland! Previously she served as Campus Dean and as a Professor of English at Montgomery, as a Visiting Professor at Macau Millennium College in China, and as a part-time Professor at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina. We lift her up as she continues her leadership journey, and we look forward to hearing great things ahead! Montgomery College Macau Millennium C

Oktay Ince gets #celebratED as the new Director of Teaching and Learning at Concept Schools in Columbus, Ohio! He also serves as a STEM Content Reviewer for Common Sense Networks based in Los Angeles, California, and he teaches Biology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Previously, he was an Assistant Principal at Horizon Science Academy Columbus High School in Columbus, Ohio. We congratulate him for this new appointment, and we know he will do great thing

Holly Davis gets #celebrated for joining the American International School of Vienna, Austria as a classroom teacher in August! Previously, she served as Interim Deputy Principal, Positive Discipline Coordinator, and Teacher at the International School of Düsseldorf in Germany, and as an Elementary Math Team Leader, and Grades 1 & 2 Teacher at the Anglo-American School of Sofia, Bulgaria. We are grateful for all the ways she serves students, and we know she will continue to m