Coaching Team


	Betsy Broyles Breier Post-Secondary Success Coach - Contact Betsy has been involved in school reform and with Houston A+ Challenge since 1996, when she helped to write the original Annenberg Beacon School grant for Poe Elementary. Since that time she has been active in non-profit work in the environmental and education areas. Betsy has served as PTO president at Lanier Middle School and Challenge Early High School in Houston ISD, and worked at the Center for the Reform of School Systems writing teaching case studies and helping to develop training programs for school boards. Betsy earned an MBA from Harvard, worked for Exxon Chemical Americas for 9 years, and co-produced an Academy Award™-nominated documentary about the Apollo lunar missions, For All Mankind.
	Charlotte Parker Leadership Coach - Contact Charlotte Parker is a 33-year veteran of Houston ISD with a long track record of improving student success in schools at all levels. Most recently, she served as principal at Kashmere High School, where she was recruited to help turn the school around after four straight years on the state’s low-performing list. After just 10 months on the job, the school escaped closure as it shed the failed rating and moved up to Academically Acceptable. Charlotte began her career as an elementary school teacher; in 1992, she was appointed to her first principal position at Roosevelt Elementary, where her leadership helped the school attain the state’s Exemplary rating for five consecutive years. She was hosted at the White House by President Bill Clinton, and she and Roosevelt were featured on an episode of the CBS News program “60 Minutes”. The school was identified by the state as a model of excellence and a mentor school, and in 1999 Charlotte was named Principal of the Year by the National Alliance of Black School Educators and a Texas Reading Leader by the Texas Education Agency. She was named Principal of the Year for Houston ISD’s North Central District in 2005, and the next year was named Region 4’s Principal of the Year from Houston ISD’s North Region. Dr. Parker holds a B.S. in Elementary Education, a Master’s in Public Administration, and a Doctor of Education degree, all from Texas Southern University.
	Cicely Greene Performance Coach - Contact As a literacy content specialist in Houston ISD’s North Region, Cicely spent the past two years coaching teachers and school administrators to improve classroom instruction through critical thinking, research-based strategies, and analysis of student data. Her coaching style is informed by seven years of exemplary, student-centered teaching experience, including bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL), as well as several campus-based teacher leader positions.
	Dave Weldon Performance Coach - Contact Dave Weldon joined the Houston A+ Challenge coaching staff in January 2011, where he serves as a Performance Coach for Atascocita Middle School in Humble ISD. Dave's career as a middle school teacher of reading, writing and mathematics began in 1982. Most recently he served as a 6th grade math teacher at Lanier Middle School, where he was named Teacher of the Year in 1995-96 and again in 2006-07.
	Jennifer Fowler Performance Coach - Contact Jennifer started teaching middle school in Houston ISD in 1995, and served as a cluster leader and department chair until 2007. She then spent a year as a campus-level middle school literacy coach, before moving to the West Region as a content specialist. In that position, she worked with 15 secondary schools to improve their literacy programs, also providing model lessons, instructional strategies and student data reviews for teachers.
	Jennifer Mascheck Performance Coach - Contact Jennifer started at A+ in May 2010, after spending the 2009-10 school year as a Secondary Numeracy Curriculum Specialist in Houston ISD’s West Region. For the 10 years prior, she worked as a Mathematics Coordinator for the Upper School at St. Stephen’s Episcopal. In both roles, Jennifer served as a teacher of teachers, with responsibilities ranging from the development of mathematics curriculum and assessment tools to the recommendation and coordination of professional development.
	Lachanda Landry Leadership Coach - Contact Lachanda comes to Houston A+ Challenge from Shotwell Academy in Aldine ISD, where she served as International Baccalaureate Coordinator and provided teacher training and curriculum supervision. She spent three years as an Assistant Principal at Lamar High School in Houston ISD, and also has more than eight years of experience as a high school English teacher. Lachanda holds an Ed.D. in Education Administration and Foundations and an M.Ed. in Education Mid-Management, both from Texas Southern University, as well as a B.A. in English from Dillard University in New Orleans. She has attended the New Principals' Academy at Trinity University, The Principals' Center at Harvard University, Houston A+ Challenge's Critical Friends Group training, and she is also an examiner for the University of Texas Center for Performing Excellence Baldridge National Quality Program.
	Stephanie Sandifer Technology Coach - Contact Stephanie Sandifer joined Houston A+ Challenge in August 2011. Her work focuses on increasing adult capacity with "connected learning" across the entire Challenge Network. Stephanie is an educator, consultant, and author with more than 20 years of experience as a teacher and administrator, and she currently teaches online courses in general pre-service teacher education, art, and humanities at the college level. Her teaching experience includes traditional brick-and-mortar schools at the K-12 and college levels, blended learning environments at the high school level, and 100% online environments at the college level. Her work in the classroom has always included the use of emerging technologies with a focus on student-centered learning. She has also served in a variety of leadership roles as a Literacy Coach, School Improvement Facilitator, Dean of Instruction, and Curriculum Specialist during her 10 year career with the Houston Independent School District. As a School Improvement Facilitator and Dean of Instruction she was directly involved in leading comprehensive school reform initiatives at two inner-city high schools in the city of Houston. As an educator who enjoys sharing and learning with colleagues, Stephanie began exploring the use of blogging as a tool for connecting, collaborating, and communicating with others in March of 2006 when she launched the Change Agency blog. From there she has explored the use of wikis, social networking, and other Web 2.0 tools to develop a global Personal Learning Network of hundreds of other educators who share her curiosity and passion for learning. She is also a contributing blogger at the Education Week blog LeaderTalk. Stephanie is the author of the books Wikis for School Leaders (Eye on Education, 2011) and Wikified Schools (Wakefield Publishing, 2009), and has co-authored a chapter on the use of wikis in What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media (Jossey-Bass, 2011.)

Betsy Broyles Breier

Post-Secondary Success Coach - Contact

Betsy has been involved in school reform and with Houston A+ Challenge since 1996, when she helped to write the original Annenberg Beacon School grant for Poe Elementary. Since that time she has been active in non-profit work in the environmental and education areas. Betsy has served as PTO president at Lanier Middle School and Challenge Early High School in Houston ISD, and worked at the Center for the Reform of School Systems writing teaching case studies and helping to develop training programs for school boards. Betsy earned an MBA from Harvard, worked for Exxon Chemical Americas for 9 years, and co-produced an Academy Award™-nominated documentary about the Apollo lunar missions, For All Mankind.

Charlotte Parker

Leadership Coach - Contact

Charlotte Parker is a 33-year veteran of Houston ISD with a long track record of improving student success in schools at all levels. Most recently, she served as principal at Kashmere High School, where she was recruited to help turn the school around after four straight years on the state’s low-performing list. After just 10 months on the job, the school escaped closure as it shed the failed rating and moved up to Academically Acceptable. Charlotte began her career as an elementary school teacher; in 1992, she was appointed to her first principal position at Roosevelt Elementary, where her leadership helped the school attain the state’s Exemplary rating for five consecutive years. She was hosted at the White House by President Bill Clinton, and she and Roosevelt were featured on an episode of the CBS News program “60 Minutes”. The school was identified by the state as a model of excellence and a mentor school, and in 1999 Charlotte was named Principal of the Year by the National Alliance of Black School Educators and a Texas Reading Leader by the Texas Education Agency. She was named Principal of the Year for Houston ISD’s North Central District in 2005, and the next year was named Region 4’s Principal of the Year from Houston ISD’s North Region. Dr. Parker holds a B.S. in Elementary Education, a Master’s in Public Administration, and a Doctor of Education degree, all from Texas Southern University.

Cicely Greene

Performance Coach - Contact

As a literacy content specialist in Houston ISD’s North Region, Cicely spent the past two years coaching teachers and school administrators to improve classroom instruction through critical thinking, research-based strategies, and analysis of student data. Her coaching style is informed by seven years of exemplary, student-centered teaching experience, including bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL), as well as several campus-based teacher leader positions.

Dave Weldon

Performance Coach - Contact

Dave Weldon joined the Houston A+ Challenge coaching staff in January 2011, where he serves as a Performance Coach for Atascocita Middle School in Humble ISD. Dave's career as a middle school teacher of reading, writing and mathematics began in 1982. Most recently he served as a 6th grade math teacher at Lanier Middle School, where he was named Teacher of the Year in 1995-96 and again in 2006-07.

Jennifer Fowler

Performance Coach - Contact

Jennifer started teaching middle school in Houston ISD in 1995, and served as a cluster leader and department chair until 2007. She then spent a year as a campus-level middle school literacy coach, before moving to the West Region as a content specialist. In that position, she worked with 15 secondary schools to improve their literacy programs, also providing model lessons, instructional strategies and student data reviews for teachers.

Jennifer Mascheck

Performance Coach - Contact

Jennifer started at A+ in May 2010, after spending the 2009-10 school year as a Secondary Numeracy Curriculum Specialist in Houston ISD’s West Region. For the 10 years prior, she worked as a Mathematics Coordinator for the Upper School at St. Stephen’s Episcopal. In both roles, Jennifer served as a teacher of teachers, with responsibilities ranging from the development of mathematics curriculum and assessment tools to the recommendation and coordination of professional development.

Lachanda Landry

Leadership Coach - Contact

Lachanda comes to Houston A+ Challenge from Shotwell Academy in Aldine ISD, where she served as International Baccalaureate Coordinator and provided teacher training and curriculum supervision. She spent three years as an Assistant Principal at Lamar High School in Houston ISD, and also has more than eight years of experience as a high school English teacher. Lachanda holds an Ed.D. in Education Administration and Foundations and an M.Ed. in Education Mid-Management, both from Texas Southern University, as well as a B.A. in English from Dillard University in New Orleans. She has attended the New Principals' Academy at Trinity University, The Principals' Center at Harvard University, Houston A+ Challenge's Critical Friends Group training, and she is also an examiner for the University of Texas Center for Performing Excellence Baldridge National Quality Program.

Stephanie Sandifer

Technology Coach - Contact

Stephanie Sandifer joined Houston A+ Challenge in August 2011. Her work focuses on increasing adult capacity with "connected learning" across the entire Challenge Network. Stephanie is an educator, consultant, and author with more than 20 years of experience as a teacher and administrator, and she currently teaches online courses in general pre-service teacher education, art, and humanities at the college level.

Her teaching experience includes traditional brick-and-mortar schools at the K-12 and college levels, blended learning environments at the high school level, and 100% online environments at the college level. Her work in the classroom has always included the use of emerging technologies with a focus on student-centered learning. She has also served in a variety of leadership roles as a Literacy Coach, School Improvement Facilitator, Dean of Instruction, and Curriculum Specialist during her 10 year career with the Houston Independent School District. As a School Improvement Facilitator and Dean of Instruction she was directly involved in leading comprehensive school reform initiatives at two inner-city high schools in the city of Houston.

As an educator who enjoys sharing and learning with colleagues, Stephanie began exploring the use of blogging as a tool for connecting, collaborating, and communicating with others in March of 2006 when she launched the Change Agency blog. From there she has explored the use of wikis, social networking, and other Web 2.0 tools to develop a global Personal Learning Network of hundreds of other educators who share her curiosity and passion for learning. She is also a contributing blogger at the Education Week blog LeaderTalk.

Stephanie is the author of the books Wikis for School Leaders (Eye on Education, 2011) and Wikified Schools (Wakefield Publishing, 2009), and has co-authored a chapter on the use of wikis in What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media (Jossey-Bass, 2011.)

Our Team

Betsy Broyles Breier

Charlotte Parker

Cicely Greene

Dave Weldon

Jennifer Fowler

Jennifer Mascheck

Lachanda Landry

Stephanie Sandifer