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| Janie Evans, Trainer |
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Ms. Evans has taught kindergarten, fourth, and fifth grades in multicultural environments and speaks fluent Spanish. She has hands-on experience as a teacher in a MRSH elementary school and served as Instructional Guide at another MRSH site, both in San Antonio, Texas. Ms. Evans received her Bachelor of Arts degree with bilingual emphasis from California State University. She currently serves on the MRSH Module Development Task Force.
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| Bunny Frost, Trainer |
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 Ms. Frost is a retired elementary teacher with 34 years experience, 30 of those in English as a Second Language. She currently is writing an ESL curriculum for the Garland ISD, creating a standards-based learning environment. She has mentored numerous ESL teachers and supervised student teachers. She began her experience in Miami, Florida working in the first bilingual school in the U.S., Coral Way Elementary. She then went to Mexico City and taught at the American School. After a brief return to her hometown in Ohio, she finished her career in Texas, working for Dallas ISD for 11 years and Garland ISD for 13 years. Always active in her school's PTA, she held several different positions and attended state conventions. She has presented many workshops for the local and state organizations for ESL, TexTESOL. Ms. Frost earned her B.S. in elementary education from Kent State University in 1967 and her Master's in education from Texas Woman's University in 1991. |
| Donna Gibson, Trainer |
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 Ms. Gibson has 32 years of classroom experience. She taught at the elementary level for ten years, language arts and math at the middle school level for ten years, and English at the high school level for 12 years. She holds a B. S. and an M. S. in education from the University of Tennessee at Martin. For the last six years, Ms. Gibson has contracted with the Tennessee Department of Education as a presenter for Language Arts Gateway Institutes and has been a trainer for Tennessee Highly Qualified Academies for the last two years. |
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| June Gregory, Trainer |
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Prior to affiliating with the MRSH Institute, Ms. Gregory worked as the chief of staff for the superintendent of the District of Columbia Public Schools. She has served as an elementary teacher, counselor, and principal. She has master's degrees in Administration and Supervision and in Elementary Education from Ball State University. She currently chairs the MRSH Leadership Task Force.
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| Dr. Ruth Grimes-Crump, Trainer |
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 Dr. Ruth Grimes-Crump has over 25 years of increasingly responsible experience in the field of public education. Areas of specialization include instructional delivery, educational policy analysis, professional development for educational leadership, and educational program implementation at the district, state, and federal level. Dr. Grimes-Crump’s bachelor of science degree in special education was earned at Virginia State University. She earned her master’s in education administration and supervision from Virginia Commonwealth University and her doctorate from Virginia Polytechnic and State University concentrating in education policy and research. Dr. Grimes-Crump began her career as a special education teacher. Years later, she worked for the Virginia Department of Education supervising the implementation of Title I programs for nineteen school districts in the northern and southwestern areas of the state. Continuing to work with the Virginia Department of Education in a different capacity, Dr. Grimes-Crump served as a state-level expert in Virginia’s school accreditation and accountability system, assisting in the development of the State’s Academic Review process that continues to be used as a means to support schools and districts in need of improvement.
In Dr. Grimes-Crump’s capacity as Education Program Specialist with the U.S. Department of Education, she served as a national expert in the implementation of the provisions that strongly impact teaching and learning under the No Child Left Behind Act. Dr. Grimes-Crump traveled extensively in this role, conducting national presentations and observing and evaluating diverse strategies and approaches designed to achieve school reform and improvement. Dr. Grimes-Crump served as Executive Director of External Programs for Atlanta Public Schools where she managed the implementation of federally funded programs. She now works in a broader professional capacity as an educational services consultant and advocate for improving the quality of education for students in our country’s most challenged schools. Dr. Grimes-Crump has received numerous awards and recognition for her contributions to public school reform and improvement, and based on her doctoral dissertation entitled “Virginia Teacher Licensure Policy: Intended and Unintended Effects on Teacher Availability and Minority Representation,” received the 2006 American Educational Research Association’s Distinguished Paper Award.
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| Jo-Ann Heidenreich, Trainer |
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 Ms. Heidenreich has thirty-two years of educational experience. Her work crosses two states and six high schools. She was a teacher of English and history, an assistant principal, and coordinator of an adult high school. Upon retirement from the Metro-Nashville Public School system, she served as Vice President of NashvilleREAD, a nonprofit literacy organization. She is presently a docent at Nashville’s Parthenon, a member of the Board of Directors of Homework Hotline, Inc., and a tutor and member of the Board of Directors of Nashville Adult Literacy Council. She earned a B.A. from Mount Saint Mary College, teaching certification at Glassboro State and Rutgers, and a M.Ed. at Tennessee State University. |
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| Martha Jobe, Trainer |
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 Ms. Jobe is a former middle school language arts and social studies teacher. During her 32 years of work in the classroom, she taught academically gifted language arts students as well as exceptional children in an inclusion program. Ms. Jobe served as a member of the school-based leadership team, a mentor to initially licensed teachers, and a peer evaluator for the last 13 years of her tenure. She also helped develop district-wide pacing guides and a scope and sequence for eighth grade language arts. Ms. Jobe has presented sessions at the North Carolina Middle School Conference, the North Carolina Reading Association Conference, and the Southeastern Regional NCTE Conference on using a reading/writing approach to teaching language arts and developing a school-wide literary magazine using desktop publishing. To stay connected with young people, Ms. Jobe continues to work as a substitute teacher, as a mentor to new teachers, and as an instructor at Sylvan Learning Center. |
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