Shawn Joseph

Pencil Foundation provides community resources to Nashville public schools to help young people achieve academic success and prepare for life. The company was founded by Sue Spickard in 1982 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Learning Forward is an organization that provides information, tools, and advocacy tutorials for professional learning to novice teachers. The private company is based in Oxford, OH. The company aims to ensure that mentoring experiences for new teachers develop their potential. The organization also offers a web-based teacher survey called the Standards Assessment Inventory, which provides leaders with data on the quality of their professional learning. Learning Forward's newest publication offers action steps and reflection questions to transfer principal learning to practice.