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| Loretta Kerr, Trainer |
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Ms. Kerr has 17 years experience as a middle school science teacher and 11 years experience in secondary administration. She received her B.A. in biology and psychology from Friends University and her M.S. in education administration (secondary) from Fort Hays State University. She was the principal of a Modern Red schoolhouse – a middle school in Walsenburg, CO – and currently does independent consulting for CTE Educational Consulting. She is the teacher induction program coordinator for Santa Fe Trail Board of Cooperative Education Services in La Junta, CO and serves as a Colorado School Support Services team member and grant advocate for the Colorado Department of Education. She is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International and Phi Delta Kappa. Prior to becoming an educator, Ms. Kerr was a social worker with the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. She grew up in a farming community in southeast Colorado where her maternal and paternal grandparents were homesteaders in the early 1900’s. |
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| Jan Krause-Greene, Trainer |
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 Ms. Krause-Greene is a former high school English teacher and department head. She served as the Associate Director and Executive Director of the Alliance for Education in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1998 to 2002. During this time, she worked closely with public school districts to design and provide professional development in response to the Massachusetts Education Reform initiative. She directed one of the first district-based, teacher certification programs in Massachusetts for Worcester Public Schools and also developed a beginning teacher-mentoring and support program that included Summer Institutes for new mentors. Ms. Krause-Greene has worked as a consultant for the Best Schools Initiative and HOPE Institutes, sponsored by the New Hampshire Department of Education, to aid schools and districts in their school improvement planning. She has also worked as a facilitator and trainer for a number of organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, the National Conference for Community and Justice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Northeastern University, and numerous school districts. She has presented at ASCD's international conference in 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2001. Ms. Krause-Greene earned her B.A. in English from Boston College and has completed several hours of post-graduate work through the University of Connecticut, Fitchburg State College, and Worcester State College. |
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| Doris Lawson, Trainer |
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| Ms. Lawson received her B.A. in elementary education and M.A. in reading from the University of Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX, and she is completing coursework in the area of school administration at Texas A&M University – Kingsville. She taught at the elementary level for 28 years as a regular, special education, and reading teacher, and during the past four years, Ms. Lawson was a Campus Instructor Coordinator for the San Antonio Independent School District and trained all levels of teachers – elementary, middle, and high school. |
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| Marylin Leasure, Trainer |
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 Ms. Leasure received her Bachelor of Science and Masters’ degrees from West Texas State University. She taught high school mathematics and has been a middle and high school assistant principal, a middle school principal, and a district level administrator. In addition, she has taught math at the university level and worked on a state-wide mathematics and science project; it assisted 60 rural Texas school districts on the implementation of standards-based instruction to improve student achievement. Currently, Ms. Leasure is the Director of Curriculum and Instruction for a Texas school district where she assists PK-12 educators and administrators in curriculum development and student assessment and oversees federal and state programs. Her focus is implementing research-based instructional strategies and using data to make informed instructional decisions. |
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| Dr. Maryann Leonard, Trainer |
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 Dr. Maryann Leonard is an experienced educator who has taught students from pre-school through graduate school. She has taught language arts, reading, mathematics, and science at the elementary and middle school levels and high school technology skills in special education settings and in the regular classroom. Dr. Leonard continues to work with pre-service and in-service teachers in middle level education and literacy as well as supporting new teachers seeking alternative licensure. She earned her B.A. degree in psychology and English and an M.S. in therapeutic education from the College of New Rochelle. In addition, she has earned advanced certification in instructional technology and a Ph.D. in middle grades curriculum and instruction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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| Lynn Lewis, Trainer |
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 Ms. Lewis has 31 years of classroom teaching experience, three in French and English at the high school level and 28 in language arts at the middle school level. She has taught numerous staff development classes in local school districts, served as an adjunct faculty member in the education division at Brewton-Parker College, and currently does independent consultant work with First District Regional Educational Services Agency. Member of the state and local Retired Educators Association and the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, Ms. Lewis was chosen Teacher of the Year for J. R. Trippe Middle School and for Vidalia City Schools in 2000, was selected 1st runner up as Middle School English Teacher of the Year by the Georgia Council of Teachers of English in 1995, and has been elected three times to Who's Who Among America's Teachers. She received a B.S.Ed. in French (secondary education), M.S.Ed. in elementary education, and Ed.S. in middle grades from Georgia Southern University. Ms. Lewis currently serves as editor of the MRSH quarterly newsletter, The Standard. |
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| Jerita Maynard, Trainer |
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 Having participated in the Modern Red Schoolhouse process from selection to success, Ms. Maynard is intimately familiar with the main tenets of this process from the classroom side as well as from the facilitator’s point of view. She was a self-contained special education teacher and chair of the School Management Committee when the school began investigating whole school reform models. As an inclusion teacher, Ms. Maynard worked with a team to develop units that included entry points for all students and was very much involved with implementation of the MRSH design in the classroom. Integrating technology into assessment, curriculum design, and instructional strategies was a critical part of her role as the school’s Technology Facilitator. Ms. Maynard holds a B.A. from Lincoln Christian College in Illinois, an M.A. in curriculum and technology from Houston Baptist University, and a NJ Teacher of the Handicapped Certification from Glassboro State College. |
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| Dr. Roxie McBride, Trainer |
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Dr. McBride has 12 years experience in elementary, middle, and high school reading instruction (remedial, reading specialist) and 16 years as elementary principal. She has trained nationally for both Core Knowledge and Ruby Payne, among others. She received her B.S. in elementary education, M.A. in reading/language arts, K-12 reading certification, and certification in early childhood education from Southern Nazarene University, her certification in elementary administration from University of Central Oklahoma, and her Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction, children's literature/reading emphasism, from Oklahoma State University. |
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