CONTACT LIST
Oral Com Blended Course Approvals & Licensure's
Stacy Smith
Learning Services
501-682-4250
Dr. Debra Bruick-Jones
Dir. Of Curriculum/Instruction
501-682-7442
Meagan Witonski
Asst. Commissioner
501-683-4800
Ivy Pfeffer
Asst. Commissioner Human Resources/Licensure
501-682-4210
Annette Barnes
Asst. Commissioner
501-682-1298
Tony Wood
Commissioner of Education
State Board of Education – Next Meeting August 14 @ 10am, August 15 @ 9am
Samuel Ledbetter
Chairman and Attorney in Little Rock
Believ es all students should receive a “world class education”
Lives in Little Rock
Toyce Newton
Vice-Chair and President/chief executive officer of Phoenix Youth and Family Services, Inc.
Believ es “the state must continue to p rovide innovative and p roven p ractices to help schools, communities and
families”
Lives in Crossett
Joe Black
Member and president of Capital Partners, a subsidiary of southern Bancorp
Believ es “ Education is not a static p roduct line, but instead has to be up graded and tweaked from time to time to meet
the needs of the market p lace”
Lives in Newport
Alice Williams Mahony
Member and Vice president and co-founder of the El Dorado Education Foundation
Provides grants for innovative teaching
Lives in El Dorado
Mireya Reith
Member and Executive Director of Springdale based Arkansas United Community Coalition
Works “to bring the inclusion of diverse p ersp ectives to the development of Arkansas’s education p rograms and
p olicies”
Lives in Fayetteville
Vicki Saviers
Member and Former Executive Director of the Public Education Foundation of Little Rock
Believ es in “working to improve student achievement in chronically failing schools”
Lives in Little Rock
Jay Barth
Member and Chair of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Hendrix College
He is “focused on the role of high-quality out –of-school experiences in helping to lose the achievement gap and
preventing the loss of learning that occurs for less advantaged y oung p eop le”
Lives in Little Rock
Diane Zook
Member and serving on the administrative board of Manna House in Izard county and vice chair of Ozarka college
Foundation Board
Believ es in “children f irst” “this is a time of wide ranging change in education”, “help our schools become more
effective and efficient in teachin g every student the skills needed to be successful in school and beyond”
Lives in Melbourne
North Little Rock HS Admin – Tell these people the position of ACTAA.
Kelley Rogers
Superintendent
501-771-8006
Dr. Beth Stewart
Deputy Superintendent of
Instructional Services
501-771-8009
Randy Rutherford
9-12 Principal
501-8100
Lee Tackett
Principal
501-771-8200
Caroline Faulkner
Principal
501-771-8250
Karla Whisnant
Principal
501-771-8275
Scott Miller
School Board Secretary
501-952-3133
Dorothy Williams
School Board Member
no phone number
JT Zakrzewski
School Board President
no number
Luke King
School Board Member
Scott Teague
School Board Member
501-688-1809
Darrell Montgomery
School Board Member
no number
Ron Treat
School Board Member
no number
West Memphis –offering a career communications course through their business depart – The position of
ACTAA
John Collins
No email
870-735-1915
Roge rs ’ Technology High School – The position of ACTAA
Dr. Janie Darr
Superintendent Rogers School District
479-636-3910
Mark Sparks
Deputy Superintendent
479-636-3910
Dr. Virginia Abernathy
Asst. Superintendent
479-636-3910
Dr. Roger Hill
Asst. Superintendent
479-636-3910
Bentonville Schools – looking into having 9th AP English to get Oral Com Credit – The Position of ACTAA
Mike Poore
Superintendent
479-254-5013
Dena Ross
Executive Director Instructional Services
479-254-5017
Chad Scott
Principal Bentonville High School
479-254-5100
Allison England
Asst. Principal
479-254-5100
Eric Hipp
Asst. Principal
479-254-5100
Jack Loyd
FLC Principal
479-254-5100
Tanya Vaughn
Asst. Principal
479-254-5100