Academic Partners are organizations that VAIS chooses to align with in an effort to advance excellence in Virginia’s independent schools.
Raising the quality of teaching is the most effective way to improve pupil attainment and equity, so that’s exactly where we focus our efforts. We enhance teaching and learning expertise through research-led, innovative, impactful and engaging professional learning.
Drawing on input from a diverse team, we have combined years of experience in teaching and school leadership to develop the Great Teaching Toolkit. Because sustainable school improvement starts with great teaching.
John Jenkinson
john@evidencebased.education
Carla Silver
carla@leadershipanddesign.org
Dustin Haase
haase_d1@lynchburg.edu
James Campbell
jcampbel@richmond.edu
World Leadership School, a Founding B Corp, partners with K-12 schools in order to reimagine learning and create next-generation leaders. Since 2007, our diverse community has grown to 50+ staff, instructors, teacher coaches, and country coordinators around the world.
Our US-based staff coordinates World Leadership School’s travel and professional learning programs. Our instructors are amazing, intrepid, humorous, and wise experiential educators. Our teacher-coaches partner with educators to create learner-centered, purposeful classrooms. Our coordinators live and work near our host communities and nurture the long-term relationships that are the bedrock of the work that we do.
Jessica Catoggio
jessica@worldleadershipschool.com
James Madison University College of Education
Danette Murray
murraydy@jmu.edu
