Dr. Suzanne Simons

Suzanne’s leadership work has focused on building sustainable equity across public educational systems in order to ensure parity of access for all teachers and students. As LDC’s founding Chief Academic Officer, Suzanne set the vision and oversaw the design, delivery, and quality of LDC’s resources, tools, and professional supports.

Nephi Wright

Nephi began his career in 2004 building eLearning and business simulation software. He used his ability to learn quickly and work with teams to convert instructional designers’ concepts and content into educational web applications. Later, Nephi jumped into creating and maintaining tools for big data analytics. Today he works

Nicole Barrick Renner

As LDC’s Director, Curriculum and Assessment, Nicole’s work focused on ensuring that LDC’s curriculum and assessments provide rigorous, equitable, and scaffolded experiences for all students. Her work focused on the meaningful use of performance assessment as an integral part of authentic disciplinary curriculum for both formative and summative purposes.

Dr. Dwight Nolt

Dr. Nolt holds both B.S. and M.S. degrees in English Education from Millersville University, Principal Certification in Educational Leadership from Penn State University, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he holds a Superintendent’s Letter of Eligibility from the University of Pennsylvania. His experiences

Rob Kasher

Rob believes that the key to dismantling educational inequity is to develop a system of empowered leaders—including teachers, instructional specialists, and administrators at every level—committed to providing all students with rigorous instruction. He executes on this vision by overseeing the design, delivery, and quality of LDC’s resources, tools, and

Dr. Barrie Olson

Barrie believes in the power of educators to maximize the potential of all students. She believes that in every American classroom is a future scientist, a future pulitzer prize winner, a future novelist. Recognizing the challenges that students and educators alike face, Barrie’s work at LDC focused on the

Chad Vignola

Chad has worked in public education and public service for over 30 years, spinning LDC off from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s primary common core implementation grant-making strategy in order to create a national edtech hub for innovation and school transformation in effectively delivering—and measuring—rigorous instructional classroom practice. Prior