Office of the President
Dale Winkler
Interim President and Senior Vice President, School Improvement
Dale Winkler is interim president of the Southern Regional Education Board. He was named vice president of school improvement in April 2018 and senior vice president July 2023.
His service as SREB interim president began June 22, 2025.
He joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2015 as special assistant to the senior vice president of the organization’s school improvement team.
Winkler has decades of experience in leadership and policy in the areas of college and career readiness and career pathways, including leading two commissions on pathways at SREB.
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Dan Mollette
Chief Development Officer
Dan Mollette is chief development officer for SREB. He previously served as director of school improvement programs and resources. He joined SREB in 2010 as the director of training and lead math consultant for the school improvement team, where he led literacy and mathematics efforts in six SREB states. Prior to SREB, he was a math teacher and math specialist for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Linda Tyree
Program Director, SREB Crisis Recovery Support Network
Linda Tyree leads the Crisis Recovery Support Network at SREB, managing, directing and providing professional learning for the crisis recovery counselors across the SREB region. She joined SREB in 2025, bringing more than 35 years of experience in the public education sector. Linda served as a teacher, school counselor and school safety consultant. She led crisis response teams in Kentucky at both the regional and state level. She is also a past president of the Kentucky School Counselor Association.