Our Team

Research and Leadership Teams

- W. Richards Adrion, UMass MCICS, PI
- Michelle Balch, Chief Instructional Officer, Interim Superintendent, SPS Lead
- Shannon Collins, SPS Chief Schools Officer ZONE 2
- Keisha Green, UMass CEd, CoPI
- Darcia Milner, SPS Chief Schools Officer ZONE 1
- Rachel Miller, SPS Supervisor DLCS, SPS CoLead
- Brendan Sheran, RPP Manager,
- Robert St. Lawrence, SPS Lead, Director of Information Management
- Deanna Suomala, SPS Sr Administrator of Performance and Evaluation
- Sneha Veeragoudar, UMass MCICS, CoPI
- Rebecca Woodland, CEd, CoPI
- RAs: Emrah Pektas, Injila Rasul, Chenyang Xu
SPS Advisory Committee (includes Leadership, Research, Coordinators, and Evaluators teams)
- Kate Asher, SPS Supervisor PreK-3
- Lakia Baymon, SPS Principal, Lynch Elementary School
- Jose Escribano, SPS Chief of Family and Community Engagement
- Laura Mendes, SPSDirector of Literacy, PreK-52
- Terry Powe, SPS Principal, Elias Brookings School
- Thomas Rachele, SPSDirector of Humanities
- Sarah Truoiolo, SPS Director of Mathematics
- Ronald St. Amand, SPS Director of Science
SPS Teacher Coordinators
- Katie Bevan, Lead Coordinator
- Laura Rita, K, 1st & 4th and Zone 1 Coordinator
- Scott Wohlers, 2nd, 3rd & 5th and Zone 2 Coordinator
- Melissa Zeitz, Lead Technology & Curriculum Coordinator
- Danalyn Haynes, Curriculum Coordinator
700+ SPS Teachers (10,000+ students)
- 18 K & 3rd Innovators & Advisors, 18 1st & 4th Innovators & Advisors, 18 2nd & 5th Innovators & Advisors
- 40+ K & 3rd Early Adopters, 40+ 1st & 4th Early Adopters
- 260+ Cohort A K-5 classroom teachers, 11 Cohort A Lead teachers
- 170+ Cohort B K-5 classroom teachers, 9 Cohort B Lead teachers
- 140+ Cohort C K-5 classroom teachers, 6 Cohort C Lead teachers
- 140+ Cohort D K-5 classroom teachers, 6 Cohort C Lead teachers
SageFox
- Stacey Sexton, Project Leader
- Shannon Lei, Evaluator & Data Analyst
Alumni
- Enobong (Anna) Branch, DEI Consultant [until 9/1/2022]
- Darrell Earnest, FoK [until 9/1/2021]
- Paul Foster, SPS Lead [until 9/1/2022]
- Annie Leonard, RPP Manager [until 9/1/21]
- Jennifer Randall, FoK [until 9/1/2021]
- Marla Solomon, CoPI [until 7/1/2020]
- Florence Sullivan, CoPI, DBIR, FoK [until 6/1/2022]
- RAs: Lian Duan, Itza Martinez, Sandra Sweeney

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