President
Cheryl Dressler, Ed.D., Harvard University specializes in research on language and literacy development for Dual Language Learners, and developing vocabulary curricula (Wordly Wise 3000, VIOLETS). She has taught education courses at Lesley University and the University of Massachusetts, and English as a second language at the primary, secondary and university levels in the U.S. and Switzerland. Cheryl believes in the power of nature and an active, arts-infused, embodied curriculum to promote not only required academic competencies but also excitement about learning. |
Vice President
Loan Nguyen, B.A., Tufts University, is a cultural producer and certified Teacher to Speakers of Other Languages specializing in education and interdisciplinary media. She has over 10 years of experience working across interactive media, early education, higher ed, film, and theater with primary interests in creative communications that center play-based learning initiatives, specifically with an eye towards cultivating equity through place-making, decolonized language, and partnerships. Most recently, she taught with Company One's in-school theater program at the Josiah Quincy School in Boston's Chinatown, prior to which she was an Extended Day Pre-Primary Teacher at the Torit Montessori School. She is a new mother and Lynn resident. |