UVTI has a small administrative and program staff and a dedicated group of field supervisors. The Executive Director, Robert L. Fried, is the author of many books and monographs on the art of teaching, including The Passionate Teacher and, most recently, The Game of School. Dr. Fried has been a professor of education at Northeastern University in Boston, as well as a consultant to universities and school districts on topics related to passionate teaching and authentic learning. He has also been Director of the New Hampshire State Office of Community Education. The Assistant Director for the Elementary Program is Pat Thomas, a long-time early childhood and kindergarten teacher who has also served as Assistant Head of School at the Grammar School in Putney. The Assistant Director for the Secondary School Program is Lyn Swett Miller, who has taught U.S. History at the high school level and has extensive experience in the integration of education and technology. Carrie Brown, Ph.D., an author and former museum curator, is the Assistant Director for External Relations. Katie Roach, the new Coordinator for Intern Applications and Placement, has a master's degree in Special Education and eight years of teaching experience. The Office Manager, Tamara Chapin, has experience in many aspects of higher education from working for ten years at Dartmouth College before joining the UVTI staff. Office assistance is provided by Jane Leonard, who has worked in offices in New York and California and has experience in computer programming and information systems.

Program supervisors are experienced educators who meet regularly with interns and mentor teachers. They observe interns in the classroom, give advice and support, and determine whether interns have mastered the competencies required for graduation. Each supervisor is responsible for no more than five or six interns, making it possible for each intern to receive an unusual amount of personal attention.

Joanna Carr taught children in pre-school and in grades K-8 for twenty years before taking on the task of teaching and supervising adults preparing to become teachers. She holds a B.A. in psychology and a master's degree in education.

Signe Daly has taught social studies at the high school level for more than ten years. She holds a Master of Education degree from Montclair University. In addition to being a UVTI supervisor, she teaches as an adjunct for Champlain College.

Libbet Downs has taught in Kenya, Cambodia, and Thailand, as well as in the United States. Most recently, she founded and ran a small K-5 school in Vermont. She holds a master's degree from Bank Street College.

Pat Eastman recently retired after more than 25 years teaching at the State Street School in Windsor, Vermont. Over the years, she has served as a mentor to five UVTI interns.

Nancy Farr holds a Master of Education degree from Antioch University. She recently retired after 38 years of teaching first, second, and fourth grades in New Hampshire and Vermont. She also mentored beginning teachers over the years. She taught remedial reading and was a migrant tutor for Trinity College.

Susan Farrelly earned a B.S. in Zoology and a master's degree in secondary teaching. She has taught junior high, high school, and adult education classes.

Sandy Flemer has taught kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, as well as special education. While teaching at the Bernice A. Ray school in Hanover, New Hampshire, she also served as a mentor teacher for many UVTI interns. She now lives in Burlington, Vermont, and supervises UVTI interns in the Burlington area.

Becky French is a UVTI graduate and has served as a UVTI mentor teacher. She has taught third and fourth grade at small schools in New Hampshire and Vermont. Before becoming a teacher, Becky worked as a child advocate attorney.

Mary Victor Giersch has degrees from Mt. Holyoke and Lesley University. She taught in Massachusetts public and private schools for almost 20 years. She has special expertise in writing instruction, and she has mentored and supervised teaching interns for 17 years.

Sarah Glass of Hanover is an art teacher with 14 years of classroom experience in settings that range from large public schools to small, private alternative programs. Sarah holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts College of Art. She recently moved to the Upper Valley from Massachusetts.

Frank Gould has 23 years of teaching experience, primarily in third grade, and is also a K-12 Reading Specialist. Frank earned his M.Ed. from Plymouth State University.

Ken Grossman has been a middle and high school science teacher, a professor of philosophy and education, and director of an alternative school. He holds a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts.

Bob Hagen began teaching English since 1968. He has taught in New Jersey and Massachusetts as well as in Vermont. He also spent six years as media generalist.

Betty LeRoy has been a classroom teacher (French and English), a department chair, a principal, and a curriculum coordinator. Since retiring, she has been involved in mentoring beginning teachers in local schools. Betty holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and a master's and CAGS from the University of Vermont.

Margot Maddock holds an M.Ed. in computers in education from Lesley University. She most recently taught eighth grade math in Hanover, New Hampshire, and she has served as a mentor for many interns from both Dartmouth and UVTI.

Margaret Parsons recently retired from 30 years of teaching high school French in Westchester County, New York. As department leader, she often worked with beginning teachers of foreign language.

Shirley Richardson has teaching, counseling, and administrative experience at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. In addition to being a UVTI intern supervisor, she is working with the new PRN (Principal Residency Network) at UVTI.

Kent Rosberg has been an educator for forty years. He has been principal of three high schools in New Hampshire and Maine, and he most recently served as principal at Barrington Elementary School. Before Barrington, he was Superintendent of Schools in Bethel, Maine. He also teaches at Plymouth State University.

Margaret Snelgrove has 31 years of teaching and leadership experience in middle and high school and 15 years of graduate level teaching, working with teachers. She continues to offer coursework in Excelling Learners, Differentiated Classrooms, and Standards-based Curriculum and Assessment.

Dan Swainbank retired in June 2007 after 36 years of teaching high school English, the last 27 at Lebanon High School. He now lives in Danville, VT, and in addition to supervising interns in the UVTI program, he will be teaching part-time in the English Department at Lyndon State College.

Marty Whitney comes to UVTI from the Winchester, Massachusetts, public schools where she taught 6th grade and served as a teacher-trainer and consultant for many years.

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UVTI Board of Directors

The members of UVTI's board have diverse backgrounds in education, business and law, but they share a commitment to education and to UVTI's mission, the development and support of great teachers.

Tracy L. Bach, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Helen Beattie, Vermont-based licensed school psychologist and educational consultant

Jim Borchert, Procurement Manager, Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc.

Carolyn M. Clinton, Program Design & Development Manager, Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth

Peter D. Coburn, President, Commercial Logic Inc.

G. Christian Jernstedt, Professor of Psychology, Dartmouth College

Nancy Maville, UVTI graduate and fifth grade teacher at Ottauquechee School

Cappy Nunlist, Associate Attorney with Stebbins Bradley Harvey Miller & Brooks; Assistant Director, General Practice Program, Vermont Law School

Neil C. Rose, Chair, Performance Learning Systems

Anne Segal, Superintendent of Schools SAU #43, retired

Peter Swart, Acting Deputy to the Commander of the Engineer Research and Development Center

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UVTI Advisory Council

David Grant, Executive Director of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, co-founder of the Mountain School of Milton Academy.

Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont, U.S. ambassador, and Deputy U.S. Secretary of Education

Deborah Meier, founder of the Mission Hill School, senior scholar and adjunct professor of education at Steinhardt School of Education, author of The Power of Their Ideas.

John Merrow II, host and executive producer of The Merrow Report on both PBS and NPR, president of Learning Matters, and author of Choosing Excellence: "Good Enough" Schools Are Not Good Enough.

Seymour Sarason, professor of Psychology emeritus, Yale University, and author of more than 40 books, including The Culture of School and the Problem of Change.

Nancy Sizer, lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, former co-principal at the Parker School, author of many books and articles, including Crossing the Stage.

Ted Sizer, Chairman of the Coalition of Essential Schools and Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Author of Horace's Compromise and, with Nancy Sizer, The Students Are Watching.

Tony Wagner, Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Author of How Schools Change and of Making the Grade.

James Wright, President of Dartmouth College.

Donald F. Cook, Board Liaison, founder of Geographic Data Technology (now TeleAtlas), member of the National Academy of Science's Mapping Science Committee, and a leader of GDT's school outreach programs.

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