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Dr. Tom Hairston

Tom is the Managing Director of the Network for Educator Effectiveness. Tom has worked with NEE since 2011. Prior to his work with NEE, he worked for two years as a Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports Consultant for the Heart of Missouri Regional Professional Development Center at the University of Missouri. He began his career

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Dr. Marc Doss

Dr. Marc Doss has 30 years of classroom and education administration experience at the building and district levels. Following his K-12 career, Dr. Doss was hired by the University of Missouri to serve as the director of the Regional Professional Development Center, which provides educator training services to 56 mid-Missouri school districts. During this period

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Dr. Christi Bergin

Dr. Christi Bergin is the co-founder of the Network for Educator Effectiveness and Associate Dean for Research & Innovation at the University of Missouri College of Education. She conducts research on teaching effectiveness, particularly as it relates to social-emotional learning in students.
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Erica Kassel

Erica is project manager for NEE’s IT team and provides customer support. No one knows the NEE Data Tool quite like Erica. She has an extensive background in materials and curriculum development. Prior to her work with NEE, she worked for 15 years at the Instructional Materials Laboratory at the University of Missouri developing written

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Kendra Christians

Kendra joined NEE in 2018 as marketing director to help NEE reach new clients and serve existing clients even better. Kendra is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and Crosby MBA Program at the University of Missouri. She previously worked in the news industry as a marketing specialist for a television station and

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Cheri Patterson

Cheri joined the NEE team as a trainer in 2013 after an extensive career in K-12 schools. She began her teaching career as a special education teacher and preschool teacher before becoming an elementary principal. During that time, she was named the Missouri Association of Elementary Principal’s National Distinguished Principal. Cheri then became director of

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Dr. Terri Steffes

Terri is a retired Missouri school principal and teacher. Dr. Steffes earned her National Board Certification in teaching in 1995, the first in Missouri to do so. She is a graduate of Columbia College, Lincoln University, and Saint Louis University, where she received her doctorate in 2012. She joined the NEE team in 2015.
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Cathie Loesing

Cathie creates professional development materials for the EdHub Library and provides user support for customers of both EdHub and NEE. She has extensive experience as an elementary teacher, school librarian and instructional coach with Missouri public schools. Cathie provided professional development training for K-12 teachers throughout Missouri and other states before joining NEE.
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Javier Leung

Javier is an instructional designer for NEE. He develops online professional development for the EdHub platform that serves the professional development needs of teachers. He is a seasoned instructional designer and e-learning developer in public and private organizations. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri.
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Bridget Murphy

Bridget is a senior researcher with NEE. Her research background is in rural sociology, with a specific interest in the sociology of food and agriculture, race and inequality, and rural poverty. She is experienced in research design, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, survey development, and report writing.