Metro East GLRS Professional Staff

Terri

Jenkins

Metro East GLRS Director

• Joined the staff in November 2012
• Served as the Dekalb Coordinator for Teaching and Learning before joining the GLRS Staff

Britshunla

Wood

Administrative Assistant

• Began her career in Dekalb County in 1999
• Worked at EDC before joining the GLRS staff
• Joined the GLRS staff in 2007 

Dr. Tasha
Etheridge
Program Specialist

Current Projects: LRE and Parental Involvement

• Joined the staff in 2009
• Former Lead Teacher for Special Education and Special Education Teacher
• Research Interests: Behavior Management and Effective Leadership
• Certified Trainer: Boys Town, Thinking Maps

Lodus
Schreiner
Project
Facilitator

William "Bill"
Duncan
Project
Facilitator

Fran
Bay
Collaboration 
Coach

Debbi
Weed-Johnson
Project Facilitator

Current Projects: Math in the Fast Lane, Disproportionality

• Joined the staff in 1996
• Former GLRS Director, Lead Teacher for Special Education, Diagnostician, and Special Education Teacher
• Research Interests: School Improvement and Behavior Management
• Certified Trainer: CHAMPs, Thinking Maps, Dibels, Differentiated Instruction, SRA Reading Mastery, Struggling Reader

Current Projects: Successful Mathematics

• Joined the staff in 2005
• Former Principal, Assistant Principal, Instructional Lead Teacher, and General Education Teacher.
• Research Interests: Effective school leadership and School Improvement
• Certified Trainer: Thinking Maps,  Differentiated Instruction, MRESA Best Practices Modules, Catching Kids UP

Current Project: GraduateFIRST!

• Joined the staff in 2005

• Former Director of Special Education, Project Facilitator, Regional Assessment CenterCoordinator, School Psychologist, and General Education Teacher

• Research interests: student engagement, most especially affective engagement

• Joined in 2011
• Current Projects: Effective Instructional Practices for Improving Social Emotional and Adaptive Skills in Preschool Students with Disabilities
• Former Special Education Coordinator, Lead Teacher for Special Education, and Music Therapist
• Research Interests: Preschool Special Education, Behavior Management
• Certified Trainer: Mindset
• Thinking maps
• Write from the Beginning and Beyond

The Production Center Professional Staff

Kelly
Phipps
Media Production Technician

• Joined the staff in 1996
• Former freelance artist/illustrator
• Worked as a graphic artist before joining the GLRS staff