Educational Services Team
Scroll down to read all Educational Services bios for our USA & Canada team leaders and members.
DIRECTORS OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
Ashley Rebiskie, Director of Educational Services
Ashley joined the Greenfield Learning team as an Implementation Partner in 2018 after an eleven year teaching career. She received a B.A. from Sonoma State and earned a Masters in Education and Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from UC Santa Cruz. Since then Ashley has taught various grade levels in Santa Cruz County and North Monterey County School districts. Ashley is an avid reader and as an educator one of her greatest goals was helping students learn to love reading. As an Implementation Partner she is passionate about helping educators find reading success with their students
Ashley was born in Santa Cruz, California but spent an early part of her childhood in Rockport, Massachusetts. She now resides in Scotts Valley, California with her husband and three children, Atticus, Owen and Lucy. As a family they enjoy hiking in the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains and sunny days at the beach.
Ashley can be reached at ashley@greenfieldlearning.com.
Jessica Rockwood, Director of Mathematics Innovation
Jessica joined the Greenfield Learning team in 2016. She resides in Napa and supports educators and schools across Northern California. Jessica earned her BA in Cultural Anthropology at San Francisco State University, then spent some time traveling, including an extended stop in Granada, Spain to study Spanish at Centro de Lenguas Modernas. Upon her return, Jessica completed her teaching credential and MA in Education at Chapman University. Jessica taught at several Monterey County public schools and was a member of leadership teams and Parent-Teacher organizations, acted as administrator for after-school and Saturday school programs, and managed partnerships with outside student support organizations promoting literacy, STEM education, and physical education. Jessica’s favorite teaching assignment has been, without a doubt, third grade. She loves eight-year-old minds, teaching multiplication, Charlotte’s Web, and spontaneous classroom dance parties. She also loves having the opportunity to apply her teaching experience to her current work with educators.
Jessica and her husband have two young daughters, Ayla and Emerson. She stays extra-busy as owner of a small handmade/sewing business and as an active member of both her neighborhood elementary PTO and local mothers’ club. She loves crafting, reading, and coffee.
Jessica can be reached at jessica@greenfieldlearning.com.
Kristie Clements, Director of Literacy Innovation
Kristie joined the Greenfield Learning team as an Implementation Partner in 2017 and is from Long Beach, California by way of Canada and Minnesota. Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada she attended Grande Prairie Regional College (Alberta, Canada) and Augsburg University (Minneapolis, Minnesota) on athletic scholarships where she received her B.A. in Elementary Education. Moving to California, she began her career in education teaching in the Long Beach Unified School District. During this time, she received a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from California State University Long Beach. This began her deep passion and commitment to urban education and literacy across the country. She has worked with children and adults across multiple grade levels for 18 years in education as a teacher, literacy consultant, instructional coach, and administrator in both the public and charter school environments.
Kristie can be reached at kristie@greenfieldlearning.com.
Rebecca Bittner, Sr. Director of Educational Technology
Rebecca began her teaching career around the corner from her childhood home in Los Angeles. With a deep and personal passion for education, she's worked as a classroom teacher, an instructional designer, and a district personalized learning manager. When she's not teaching, she can be found learning. Rebecca earned her BA in Literature from the College of Creative Studies at UCSB and completed her Single Subject Teaching Credential program in English at California State University Long Beach. She earned her MA in Social Entrepreneurship from Goldsmiths College, University of London, completing her thesis on the impact of commoning on innovation within schools.
She is eternally curious about technology and helping others leverage it to lighten their load. She is also deeply and compassionately committed to doing "the work" so she can show up in service to others. On the weekends, you'll find her staying active with her toddler and Huskies.
You can connect with her at rebecca@greenfieldlearning.com.
Lindsey Keenan, Director of Social and Emotional Learning Innovation
Lindsey joined the Greenfield Learning team as an Implementation Partner in 2020. She was born and raised in a small town near Monterey, CA, and moved to Chico, CA for college. She graduated with her B.A. and M.S. in Psychology from California State University, Chico, and went on to support a variety of clients as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Lindsey ultimately decided that her skills and interests would be better suited in education and completed her Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential through CalState TEACH. She has since taught kindergarten, third grade, and sixth grade. Through her experiences in the fields of mental health and education, she has developed a passion for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). She will never forget her experience with one of her 3rd-grade classes that proved just how important community and a sense of belonging are to students and their ability to learn. She is excited to be able to support both educators and learners build their capacity for SEL.
Lindsey and her husband currently reside in Northern California. In her free time, she can be found indulging in her obsession with musical theater, reading, meeting friends for coffee, or binge-watching her favorite TV shows.
Lindsey can be reached at lindsey@greenfieldlearning.com.
EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS PARTNERS
Gillian Baldocchi, Sr. Educational Success Partner
Gillian joined Greenfield Learning in 2019 after working as an elementary teacher and instructional coach for 18 years. She started her teaching career working with special needs students in London, England before getting hired in LAUSD. She graduated from Pepperdine University with an MA in Education and a California Teaching Credential. In 2018, she earned an MS in Educational Leadership and a California Administrative Credential.
During her time in the classroom, Gillian loved watching the excitement on her students’ faces as they learned something new and strived to make her classroom a safe and engaging place for her students. As an Instructional Coach, she worked closely with educators to build blended learning classrooms that differentiated instruction and helped meet the needs of all students.
She is passionate about the work Greenfield Learning does in supporting administrators, educators, and students. In her spare time, Gillian loves spending time outdoors with her husband and 2 children. She enjoys hiking, paddle boarding, mountain biking, and camping. Gillian can be reached at gillian@greenfieldlearning.com.
Lisa Bartels, Educational Success Partner
Lisa has over 35 years in the field of education. She began her career teaching in Fresno County and has taught most grade levels from 1st through high school. Her favorite is 5th grade. She served as a master teacher for CSUF, curriculum rep for both math and reading, and was volunteered for most committees. Her passion has been making sure students of all abilities found success in school.
Lisa earned her degree in Liberal Studies and has a multiple subject and an English credential from CSU Fresno. She is bilingual in German after attending school there. Both of her daughters are SPED teachers following the family educational path.
She joined Greenfield Learning as an Educational Success Partner for the Central Valley in California. She loves digging into data and providing successful implementation sessions for educators and school leaders.
When not working, she enjoys her menagerie of pets and spending time with her grandson.
Lisa can be reached at lisa@greenfieldlearning.com.
Kristina Cram, Educational Success Partner
Kristina Cram joined Greenfield Learning in 2016. She is a former elementary classroom teacher and Intervention Coordinator of 15 years teaching primarily in Los Angeles. She earned a B.A in Communications and a M.S in Education from the University of Southern California (USC). She also holds an additional M.A in Educational Administration from California State University, Northridge. Kristina recently fulfilled one of her lifelong dreams of teaching abroad, by teaching at international schools in both Brazil and West Africa as the Learning Support Coordinator. Educational Technology has always been an integral part of Kristina’s teachings, so she is thrilled to now be training other educators with how to see the same success with their students that she had as a teacher throughout the years using these programs herself.
Kristina currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, enjoying traveling as much as possible, meeting new people and exploring different cultures and languages.
Kristina can be reached at kristina@greenfieldlearning.com.
Daryl Brook, Educational Success Partner
Daryl joined the Greenfield team after having been a teacher and school principal for over 20 years in both California and Canada. For the entirety of his career, Daryl has been committed to equity and social justice education. This commitment informs his support of schools with the design and implementation of comprehensive literacy programs, especially for readers in the upper elementary and secondary grades. He lives in the Echo Park hills of Los Angeles and supports schools in Southern California and across Canada.
Daryl began his career in the elementary grades, gaining expertise in foundational literacy instruction while teaching grades one through three. Moving to upper elementary and middle school, he earned a Specialist Accreditation in Adolescent Literacy from York University and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, in Toronto, Canada. He served as a Literacy and Numeracy lead teacher to the Ontario Focussed Intervention Program, as well as Adjunct Professor for York University’s Inner-city Education Programme.
Moving to Los Angeles, Daryl led schools in the implementation of best practices to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards English Language Arts standards. After 7 years as a teacher leader, he completed his administrative credential at UCLA’s Principal Leadership Institute with a fieldwork inquiry into inequitable school assessment practices. As principal, he sought to improve his school’s culture of care through fairer assessment practices and better systems of support. A major component of this project was the redesign of the school’s intervention programming. His time as principal affirmed his core belief in the capacity of teachers, and helped him establish a career goal of becoming an exceptional coach of assessment, planning, and instruction.
Daryl is also the father of two young readers, Desmond and Sadie who, together with his wife, love adventures in the great outdoors. When not working you can always find him and his family hiking, camping, or perhaps back up in Canada enjoying “the great white north.” He concurrently works with the Culture & Equity Project, and UCLA’s Center X.
Daryl can be reached at daryl@greenfieldlearning.com.
Jenny Graham, Educational Success Partner
Jenny came to the Greenfield Learning team as an Educational Success Partner via a 10 year teaching career in special education. She received a B.A. from UC Davis and earned a Masters in English Literature from San Francisco State University. She later earned her Special Education teaching credential from CSUN. Since then, Jenny has taught at the high school and elementary school levels in the Conejo Valley, where she herself was a student. Jenny loves to read, and is passionate about helping her students develop critical early reading skills which is how she came to know and love educational technology programs.
Jenny was born and raised in Southern California, where she still lives today with her twins, Gracie and Nathan. They love the ocean, the plentiful hiking trails of Thousand Oaks, and spending time with their wonderful friends and family.
Jenny can be reached at jenny@greenfieldlearning.com.
Himilcon Inciarte, Educational Success Partner
Himilcon was a classroom teacher in Boston Public Schools before becoming an education consultant. He works with districts across the country to implement the science of reading and engage in sound assessment practices. As an English Learner himself, Himilcon is particularly interested in supporting dual language students and their teachers. When he's not working, he enjoys spending time with his three kids and watching Korean soap operas with his wife, Rachael.
Himilcon can be reached at himilcon@greenfieldlearning.com.
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