GAAE Officers 2015-2016
Georgia Association for Alternative Education
"Developing the Potential in ALL Georgia Students"
Dr. Melinda Strickland - President
Retired Floyd County Schools Administrator
"Reading, writing and arithmetic does not constitute an education any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner."
-- John Lubbock
Email: drmelindastrickland@gmail.com
Website: http://about.me/melinda.strickland
Phone: 706-346-3904
Facebook: facebook.com/MelindaStrickland
Twitter: @MelindaStrick
Dr. Ja’net Bishop, Ed.D - President Elect
Principal, Columbia County Alternative School
"Be the change that you want to see in the world"
-Ghandi
Email: janet.bishop@ccboe.net
Website: http://www.edline.net/pages/Columbia_Co_Alternative_School
Location: 628 Gibbs Road, Evans, Georgia 30809
Phone: 706-868-5715
Twitter: @DrJanetBishop
Tammy Brinkley, Ed.S - Treasurer
Hightower Academy
"Do not ever underestimate your power as an educator: your power to make all of your students feel included, and perhaps, most importantly, your power to plant hope"
—PC Wu.
Email: tbrinkley@dawson.k12.ga.us
Location: 175 Tiger Circle Dawsonville, GA 30534
Phone: 706-265-1244
Dr. U.S. Davidson, Jr. - Historian
Executive Director, Alternative Education Programs
" No one ever contributed their success to a worksheet"
-Unkown
Email: usdavidson@cobkk12.org
Location: 1560 Joyner Avenue, Marietta, Ga 30060
Phone: 678 -594-8635
Dr. Donita Cullen - Secretary
Academic Coordinator
Douglas County Performance Learning Center"Programs do not change kids....relationships do." - Bill Milliken
Email: donita.cullen@douglas.k12.ga.us
Website: http://douglasperformancelearningcenter.ga.dcs.schoolinsites.com/
Location: - 2300 Shoals School Road, Douglasville, GA 30135
Phone: 770-651-6475
Sandy Denham - Conference Chair
Principal - Harris County Performance Learning Center
"You can mean business without being mean,
You can disagree without being disagreeable
and if you focus on it you can fix it"
S. Denham
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Email: denham-s@harris.k12.ga.us
Website: http://harriscounty.ga.schoolwebpages.com/education/district/district.php?sectionid=1
Location: 6533 Beaver Trail, Midland, GA. 31820
Phone: 706-457-1326
Leslie Myles - Public Relations Chair
Field Support Coordinator, Communities in Schools of Georgia
""The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight with no vision."
-Helen Keller
Email: lmyles@cisgeorgia.org
Location: 260 Peachtree Street, Suite 700, Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404- 936-2904
Facebook: facebook.com/leslie.myles.5
Jaquelyn Whitt - Past President
"If a child has experienced failure before, he or she does not want to experience it again." -- Crystal Kuykendall
Email: jackiewhitt2@gmail.com
Website: http://www.the-naea.org/NAEA/
Location: 1720 Durley Down Ct, Smyrna, GA 30082
Phone: 678-239-4457
Jerry Randolph
Alternative Ed director
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says... i;m Possible"
-Audrey Hepburn
Email: claypren@gmail.com
Phone: 768-773-8469