Consulting Team
Our team of expert educational project specialists, subject matter experts and instructional designers have a combined 200 years of K-College and Adult education experience in some of the most innovative and high performing public, private, charter and non-profit educational programs internationally. Meet a few of our key team members
Meet the CEO- Dawn Fregosa
CEO and Founder, Dawn Fregosa comes with over 30 years experience working with non-profit, small business and educational youth programming as well as over 11 years of NFTE teaching experience as one of the highest performing teachers in the last 12 years of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
Dawn's deep knowledge whirlwind of energy are infectious, both with her business clients and the secondary/ post secondary educational programs she works with. She has led teams of innovators to win over $100,000 in Local and National Hack-A-Thons, innovation and engineering tournaments, digital and live, including the SAP Hack-a-thon, World Series of Innovation, and Moody Innovation Challenges won by teams designing solutions to our business and societal problems. She is well known as a ‘technophile’ and has been teaching in a blended/ flipped classroom for over 10 years. She trains in a plethora of Ed Tech solutions, automation software as well as Google Education for the last 15 years and is considered an expert in instructional design and training for STEAM, leadership, PBL, design thinking and cross-curriculum content and experiences During her early career, she was the post-Hurricane Andrew Program Manager for the Girl Scouts USA, Council of Tropical Florida, rebuilding both sites in the Maker-Ed style primarily for educational and recreational programming and social responsibility, as well as reestablished all regional program development after the Level 5 hurricane devastated South Florida. She then became the sole proprietor of Mad Science of South Florida, a science edu-tainment franchise serving youth k-8 with content aligned to the national science standards. Dawn has extensive experience in educational and program facility build-outs due to her varied career experiences. From construction to re-purposing she has been working and leading design teams for program spaces for over 20 years. She’s specialized in mixed use for self guided and instructional led outdoor educational facilities, Maker spaces, CTE workspaces, entrepreneurial and student-run business spaces, STEAM facilities, secondary and post secondary education laboratories, culinary instructional areas, robotic and agricultural science learning and testing program sites. Keeping all users engaged in the process, and making sure that spaces are utilized for maximum success in learning and showcasing work. After selling her Mad Science franchise, she went on to become a business and educational consultant, which she has continued for over 20 years, specializing in large project management, automation, business analytics and scale up, call centers, branding, product marketing and database CRM, as well as web and print advertising, market research & vertical product and service expansions for small businesses and entrepreneurs. In 2002, she came to California, and through Teach For America, became an instructor in inner-city San Jose, serving urban, at risk youth. She has been instrumental in the CA Charter school movement, as a founding teacher at both Leadership Public Schools San Jose, and Lighthouse Community Charter Schools as well as with OUSD as the founder of Madison Park Academy, holding credentials in English/ ELD, Biology and Marketing, Finance, Business Operations and Sales and Service She has begun successful student-run enterprises at several of the schools she has taught, as well as achieved top academic API, AP and CAHSEE scores with the students she has served. She has a reputation for a loving, deeply passionate teacher, consultant and learner, who attempts to see her community partners, clients and students as humans first. As the previous core instructor with Eden Area ROP, at San Leandro Academy For Business and Finance, was a rewarding experience , as she was able to teach in a 3 year pathway cohort of business classes. Dawn was recognized in 2012 as the Bay Area Entrepreneurial teacher of the year as well as a Microsoft Hero in Education. Again, in 2016 she was honored to receive the Bay Area Entrepreneurial teacher of the year recognition, and the inaugural 2016 John C. Whitehead Global Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year Award. Dawn holds a Bachelors of Arts in Communication Management from the University Of Dayton. She holds Clear California Teaching Credentials in Biology and English, with a second language learner focus. In addition, she has held Career Technical Education Credentials in Marketing, Business, Finance, Sales and Service and Entrepreneurship. www.linkedin.com/in/dawnfregosa
Featuring Locally Grown Public Schools: Lighthouse's homegrown teacher LCCS Alumni Corner Jodie Woodruff - SME, PBL Trainer, Overseas Program Coordinator |
Jodie Woodruff, Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Education (the MET) in Providence, Rhode Island, the model school for the Big Picture Learning organization.
Jodie has established herself firmly as a leader, innovator, and inspiration to those around her through her work in special education, being a high school principal, and from concept to creation spearheading the Met’s entrepreneurial programs including the building of the nations first freestanding entrepreneurship center for a public high school. Under her tutelage there have been six students named as the Ernst & Young's New England's Youth Entrepreneur of the Year, as having had students qualify for six years back to back at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship national business plan competition.
Since 2019, Jodie has helped expand PBL for K-12 across China, securing and desligning opportunities for students there to engage in Project Based Learning experiences aligned to industry-relevant labor skills, and extensive hands-on and experiential programs.
Jodie was recognized as the 2017 Henry Ford Innovative Teacher, 2017 District Teacher of the year, 2016 Allen Distinguished Educator of the Year, the Global Enterprising Educator in 2014 from the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and the 2014 Alumni of the Year for her pursuit of educational reform and entrepreneurial education from her Alma mater The University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. She is a dedicated educator, passionate about her work as a teacher, an advocate for underprivileged youth, an advocate for educational reform and social justice.
Jodie has established herself firmly as a leader, innovator, and inspiration to those around her through her work in special education, being a high school principal, and from concept to creation spearheading the Met’s entrepreneurial programs including the building of the nations first freestanding entrepreneurship center for a public high school. Under her tutelage there have been six students named as the Ernst & Young's New England's Youth Entrepreneur of the Year, as having had students qualify for six years back to back at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship national business plan competition.
Since 2019, Jodie has helped expand PBL for K-12 across China, securing and desligning opportunities for students there to engage in Project Based Learning experiences aligned to industry-relevant labor skills, and extensive hands-on and experiential programs.
Jodie was recognized as the 2017 Henry Ford Innovative Teacher, 2017 District Teacher of the year, 2016 Allen Distinguished Educator of the Year, the Global Enterprising Educator in 2014 from the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and the 2014 Alumni of the Year for her pursuit of educational reform and entrepreneurial education from her Alma mater The University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. She is a dedicated educator, passionate about her work as a teacher, an advocate for underprivileged youth, an advocate for educational reform and social justice.