Crafts Co-Coordinator (Basteln-Mitmeisterin) - Frau Moll has been teaching German in Pennsylvania since 1993. She loves to teach so much that she moonlights as a driving instructor on the weekends. She loves to travel and currently teaches German to levels 2-AP at the North Penn High School.

Games & Trivia  Co-Coordinator and Popmusik Coordinator (Spiel- und Popmusikmeisterin) - Leanna Goodrich is a German teacher in the Pennridge School District and the head of the World Language Department.  Frau Goodrich is also the advisor for Pennridge's GAPP (German American  Partnership Program) exchange and the German club.  She has been teaching in the Pennridge School district for over 20 years. She began her studies in German at Cumberland Valley High School, continued them at the University of Richmond and, while there, had her first experience in Germany as an intern for Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart, Germany. She feels most free while running outside in Germany, listening to German singers like Wincent Weiss, Mo-Torres, Sido, and Mark Forster.

Trivia Co-Coordinator (Spielmeister) – Mike Garrison is a German teacher in the Pennridge School District, teaching both at Pennridge High School & the Middle Schools.  Herr Garrison is also the advisor for Pennridge's GAPP (German American Partnership Program) exchange with the Peter-Vischer-Schule in Nürnberg, Germany.  He began his teaching career at Saucon Valley High School and along with Pennridge, he’s been teaching for over 20 years.  He began his studies in German at South Western High School in Hanover, PA, and then attended college at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, during which he studied at the Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg for a semester.  Outside of school, Herr Garrison is an avid Philadelphia sports fan (especially the Eagles & Phillies) and loves supporting the Deutscher Fußball-Bund in whichever tournament they may be playing!

Sports Coordinator (Sportmeisterin) – Frau Alderfer has been teaching German (and sometimes French and Spanish - she holds all three PA Certifications K-12) since 2000. She is a self-proclaimed word nerd and grammar geek. The only thing she loves more than learning (and teaching!) languages is traveling with her students. She has been teaching German since 2000, first in Quakertown Community School District and now - since 2022 - in Schuylkill Valley SD. She currently teaches at both the MS and HS, Exploratory German through level 4. She studied in Marburg, Germany and in Caen, France and has visited 26 countries and 45 of the 50 Unites States so far. She has been traveling with her students since 2005 and has no plans to stop!

Frau Alderfer is very excited to be a part of the GROW event.