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Cindy Coleman, M.Ed.
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Dr. Penelope Speaker
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Award winning teacher-turned-social entrepreneur Cindy Coleman has earned both a Master’s Degree in Education in Instructional & Curricular Studies with an emphasis on technology and a B.S.B.A. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Cindy has taught students ranging from Pre-K -12 in both public and private schools and taught teachers and administrators on two continents and several states. She is the recipient of The Valley High School Red Valley V Award of Excellence and the Moonbeam Gold Medal Award in publishing.
After Cindy created a high-tech middle school and taught 7th grade at a small private school in San Diego, she began designing and engaging, innovative content using a modern, blended approach to education. Cindy created her company with her husband, Take Pride Learning® has been creating award-winning learning experiences for children of all ages ever since. She volunteered time and resources to work with Dr. Ginger Hovenic and the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation, a non-profit organization focusing on educational reform, collaborated with a New York Times best-selling author to create online learning modules. created a DVD Box Set and animal ABC cards in partnership with the world-famous San Diego Zoo. This was the birth of iKnow. Cindy and her team created iKnow ABC School + Home Adventure to put the power of learning to read in a child’s hands.
Cindy and her team created Read2Play, a football, literacy and entrepreneurial program for middle school students. Read2Play uses football as a vehicle to teach literacy and life skills and inspires inner- city middle school youth to apply the passion they have for football to improve their reading skills, learning, and develop a commitment to excellence by doing their best, on and off the field. Our proven methodology is recognized and celebrated across multiple industries and media. In the fall of 2018 a successful pilot of this program was run in partnership with the Las Vegas Union 12U team, Nevada League Las Vegas Youth Football. The players from the LV Union team who participated in the program saw incredible gains on the field – they won the Nevada State and South West Regional championships and earned a berth at the National Youth Football Championships, held in Florida in December of 2018, where they placed THIRD IN THE NATION.
Sal employs a combination of creative and technical skills to create content that entertains, educates and informs users of the iKnow ABC program in both English and Spanish. Before devoting his full time to iKnow ABC he served in the United States Marine Corps for 21 years on Active Duty. While in the Marine Corps he held positions of Administrative Clerk, Security Guard at two U.S.Embassies, Career Planner, Career Planner Inspector, Career Planner Instructor, Curriculum Developer and Career Planner Supervisor. Deployments in the Marines sent him to Iraq, Australia, Senegal, Germany, Serbia, Mexico, Thailand, Japan, Kuwait, Panama, Italy, Spain, and Hungary. With his sights on retirement Sal embarked on a Media Arts education, he obtained his Bachelors of Science from Platt College San Diego in 2012.
Fabio’s creative abilities are without limits. He is a digital media specialist and architect. The integration of Educational State Standards into curriculum layout, account creation and maintenance and creating digital content to teach are some of Fabio’s areas of expertise. Fabio speaks three languages fluently. His commitment to excellence and customer service are at the core of his work ethics. Fabio earned a degree in Digital Media from the Art Institute of California, San Diego. Fabio has developed eBooks, applications, websites and printable materials. Fabio is well versed in PhotoShop, After Effects, Final Cut, Type Life DVD Pro, Illustrator, Compressor, In Design, WordPress, Office Suite, and other productivity software.
Steven Grubaugh is a professor of education with a specialty in literacy education. He joined the UNLV faculty in 1991. He has written and published numerous professional articles in national educational journals, authored funded grant proposals and presented professional papers at local, state, regional, national and international conferences. Dr. Grubaugh is currently teaching courses in children’s and young adult literature and other literacy courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
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Ryan Thompson is the co-owner and senior web developer at Vegas Website Designs, a digital marketing and strategic web design agency located in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has been working in the IT and web development field since 2007 after completing an Associates degree in Computer Science and Networking. Through his college training and work experience he has developed advanced skills in web design and development, web security, Windows and Linux server installation, maintenance and security, database design, large scale computer networks, PC repair, help desk support and more. Vegas Website Designs has a proud track record of 99.9% website uptime with all clients hosted on our platform with not a single website hacking due to careful monitoring and best security practices. One of his greatest accomplishments is helping a company grow from a small 10 server network with 200 employee workstations to a 20 server network with over 700 workstations. Once completed, the network was able to handle a much larger load of incoming phone calls and orders, monitor employee activity and internet usage, detect network intrusion through a firewall and store orders securely. When Ryan isn’t working on website design and web development, he enjoys running the sound board at church, Christian rock music, games, and fantasy football.
Marie Thompson is co-founder and Client Accounts Manager at Vegas Website Designs, founded in She is a highly driven entrepreneur under 40 looking to bring high quality, modern web design to Las Vegas. She helped grow the company from its engineer roots as a small web development company to a full scale digital marketing web design agency offering a comprehensive solution to organizations needing to scale fast. Customer support is a quick turnaround and great communication has been the foundation that has helped the company grow so fast. Some career highlights include web form and information security for UNLV projects such as Nevada NASA Programs and Nevada STEM Mentor Network. Students can safely enter confidential information through the site and it is safely received by privy individuals at the respective department branch. In her free time, she enjoys writing, reading and attending weekly women’s meetings at her home church.
Dr. Gregory A. Levitt is a Professor of Education at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). Dr. Levitt has extensive experiences working with charter and public schools. He consulted with the Agassi Director of School and Staff on issues such as curriculum development, diversity issues and designed and implemented the very successful UNLV-Agassi Urban Teacher Training Program. Dr. Levitt served as Content Expert on the 6.2 million dollar Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) – UNLV Curriculum Project where his team wrote curriculum content for twenty-eight online high school courses for the project in ten months. Dr.Levitt has served as the Co-Director of the Blended School Project. In this capacity, Dr. Levitt has provided leadership in designing add – on curriculum, software programs, pedagogical practices for blended and online schools, staff development activities, parent and community meetings, and school structures to address evaluating student progress, improving parental and community involvement, establishing the online- pilot school relationship and effective school leadership.
Dr. Speaker’s major goals in teaching and research are to communicate the complex range of behaviors that can be used effectively in the classroom and to end the idea that there are unstructured classrooms. Classrooms are complex social structures, and managing their complexity is one of the things that teachers do; recognizing the nature of interacting and recursive factors such as tradition, beliefs, climate, institutionality, generativity, personal agendas, and the interplay of personalities requires an envisionment of classrooms as postmodern language settings that both learners and teachers interpret. His research involves work on collection and critical selection as a metaphor for the development of teacher expertise.
Mrs. Speaker has worked as a classroom teacher, instructional resource teacher, and reading specialist in public schools in Ohio and California and in both public and private schools in Louisiana. Her classroom experience has included grades 1 through 10 with most years spent at the middle school level. She has taught in the teacher preparation programs at UNO and Tulane as a full time instructor and as an adjunct. Her areas of interest are literacy instruction, social studies education, and integrated curricula. Dr. Gregory A. Levitt is a Professor of Education at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). Dr. Levitt has extensive experience working with charter and public schools. He consulted with the Agassi Director of School and Staff on issues such as curriculum development, diversity issues and designed and implemented the very successful UNLV-Agassi Urban Teacher Training Program. Dr. Levitt served as Content Expert on the 6.2 million dollar Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) – UNLV Curriculum Project where his team wrote curriculum content for twenty-eight online high school courses for the project in ten months. Dr. Levitt has served as the Co- Director of the Blended School Project. In this capacity, Dr. Levitt has provide leadership in designing add – on curriculum, software programs, pedagogical practices for blended and online schools, staff development activities, parent and community meetings, and school structures to address evaluating student progress, improving parental and community involvement, establishing the online-pilot school relationship and effective school leadership.