Danielle Morton
School Improvement Leadership Coach
Danielle Morton serves as a school improvement coach at SREB, where she works with schools, teachers, and district administrators throughout the nation on how to improve career and technical education within their community. Prior to joining SREB in 2021, Danielle served as an educator, director and principal, totaling over 29 years of CTE experience.
Danielle holds a Bachelor of Science in family and consumer science from the University of Montevallo and a master’s in education leadership from the Grand Canyon University. She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Marsha Moseley
Senior Leadership Coach
Marsha Moseley joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2018. As a School Improvement leadership coach, she works with administrative leaders and teachers to create a culture of high expectations and improve classroom instruction. A former early childhood and middle level language arts teacher, Marsha brings over 34 years of experience in public education. Her varied district leadership roles include overseeing child development centers, training curriculum specialists and literacy coaches, coordinating federal programs, and serving as ELA K-5 coordinator, executive director of special services, and director of middle level curriculum and instruction.
Kimiya Munni
Analyst II, State Strategy and Policy
Kimiya Munni joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2019 as a research associate to the state services team. In this role, she assists with researching education policies, monitoring and interpreting legislative actions and their effects, writing legislative reports, maintaining CRM database, and responding to stakeholder inquiries.
Her experience includes working with Fulton County Schools and Innovations for Poverty Action. Kimiya holds a master of public policy from Georgia State University and a master of economics from the University of Dhaka.
Nakeisha Myers
Meeting and Event Manager, School Improvement
Nakeisha Myers joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2023 as the meeting and event manager. She manages the Making Schools Work Conference and the Coaching for Change Conference, and helps coordinate various events in the organization. Nakeisha spent her career focused on events and marketing in education. She earned a bachelor’s in speech with a minor in hospitality administration from Georgia State University.
Sheniqua Pierce
Analyst II
Sheniqua Pierce joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2023 as an analyst on the teacher workforce team in the Office of Postsecondary Education. She collects and analyzes federal, state and local data about the teacher pipeline and current P-12 educators, and brings nearly a decade of experience as an educator in public schools across Atlanta.
Lee Posey
Vice President, State Strategy and Policy
Lee Posey is vice president for state strategy and policy. She joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2017 as director of legislative services. Prior to joining SREB, she worked for the National Conference of State Legislatures for 17 years.
Samantha Rife
Senior Accountant
Samantha Rife is the Senior Accountant for the Southern Regional Education Board. She joined SREB in 2005 as a Junior Accountant, bringing more than 17 years of experience in accounting, including 15 years in the nonprofit sector. While at SREB, Samantha has helped to improve payment turnaround, financial statement preparation, and corporate American Express reconciliation.
Samantha holds a bachelor’s of science in business accounting from the University of Phoenix.
Debbie Robertson
Senior School Improvement Leadership Coach
Debbie Robertson joined SREB in 2016 as a mathematics instruction coach, providing professional development and coaching support to teachers and district leaders. Prior to SREB, Debbie served 13 years as a middle school math teacher in Florida and two years as a district math and science instructional coach supporting nine schools.
Daniel Rock
School Improvement Instructional Coach
Daniel Rock joined the School Improvement team at SREB in 2013. As an instructional coach, he supports teachers, leaders and schools across the country as they work to improve learning outcomes for students at all levels. His work in schools focuses on literacy, building coaching models and sustaining continuous improvement teams. From 2014 to 2018, Daniel helped coordinate a grant that trained thousands of teachers across 13 states in designing quality literacy-based assignments.
Jon Schmidt-Davis
Senior Research Associate
Jon Schmidt-Davis is a researcher, writer and program manager working in the Development and Innovation division of SREB’s Office of School Improvement.
His current projects include serving as program manager for a postsecondary career pathways program serving rural students in West Virginia, and supporting the NSF’s DRK12 resource center. Jon’s areas of research expertise include school leadership, educator workforce preparation and induction, and career pathways.
Harriette Scott
Vice President, Postsecondary Education
Harriette Scott leads the postsecondary education team at SREB, where she supports, advocates, connects and collaborates with states to ensure postsecondary access and credential completion. She joined the team in 2024 and brings more than 20 years of postsecondary teaching and administrative experience from the SREB region states of Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Virginia. She also served in public and private institutions in Missouri and Massachusetts.
Tim Shaughnessy
Program Director, Career Pathways
Tim Shaughnessy joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2015 where he serves as director of career pathways and coordinates the SREB Dual Enrollment Initiative. Tim works with the school improvement team to develop and strengthen programs of study such as career pathways. These programs align the interest of students and the foundational learning of high school with the expectations of college and the needs of employers.
Ashley Shaw
Communications Specialist, School Improvement
Ashley Shaw joined SREB in 2023 as communication specialist for the Office of School Improvement. She brings more than 10 years of marketing, editing and communications experience from a range of industries including employment law, fundraising and education. She teaches higher education classes in composition and digital publishing, including early college (dual enrolled) classes for high school students across the state of Georgia.
Susan Simpson
School Improvement Instructional Coach
Susan Simpson joined SREB as an instructional coach in the office of School Improvement in 2017, bringing more than 28 years of experience working on issues of practice in the public education sector. In this role, Susan partners with districts and schools to design, implement and study research-based continuous improvement initiatives that align with district priorities and needs. In this role, she provides teachers and leaders with coaching support that empowers them to improve their school and classroom practices for maximum impact on student learning and success.
Gail Snider
School Improvement Instructional Coach
Gail Snider is a school improvement instructional coach. She joined the Southern Regional Education Board in 2011 when Arkansas piloted the Literacy and Mathematics Design Collaboratives statewide. She has a master’s in education with a teacher-leader focus from the University of Arkansas at Monticello. After teaching math in middle and high school for 15 years, Gail worked as a math specialist for the Arkansas Department of Education.
Bob Stokes
Director, State and District Partnerships
Bob Stokes joined SREB in 2012, bringing many years of experience in the work world, the military and the field of education. Prior to coming to SREB, he spent time in Kentucky and Tennessee as an academic, CTE and special education teacher as well as 10 years as a principal. In all of these roles, he saw the value of asking students about their career goals and helping them develop a clear vision for a successful future.