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Advisory Board

The eMINTS National Center is advised by a group who represent the stakeholders invested in the programs administered by the Center:

  • eMINTS
  • e-Learning for Educators: Missouri

The eMINTS National Center Advisory Board provides guidance to the center's director in the areas of policy formation, strategic planning, fiscal planning and resource development and ensuring overall program accountability.

eMINTS National Center Advisory Board members are challenged to sustain the program by acting as

  • Representatives of the program who help build critical relationships
  • Sponsors who advocate on behalf of the program’s interests
  • Reliable advisors who act as a sounding board for the program’s leadership team
  • Resource developers who help the program secure essential resources and connections

Advisory Board membership

Membership of the eMINTS National Center Advisory Board includes individuals representing Missouri constituencies who serve three-year terms as well as those whose position or status as a national consultant allows them to serve indefinite terms. Members representing various constituencies are nominated by current program participants and selected to provide geographical and district size representations from across the state.

Members serving three-year terms
  • A Missouri superintendent whose district is involved in one or more program(s)
  • A Missouri principal from a school serving some combination of grades K-5
  • A Missouri principal from a school serving some combination of grades 6-12
  • A Missouri eMINTS teacher (any grade or subject area)
  • A technology coordinator or chief information officer from a Missouri district
  • A certified eMINTS instructional specialist who has completed the PD4ETS program or a library media specialist from a Missouri district
  • A representative of an institution of higher education that is involved with eMINTS
  • Two eMINTS staff members elected by eMINTS staff
Members serving unlimited terms
  • Executive Director of eMINTS National Center
  • Director of eMINTS program
  • Director of e-Learning for Educators program
  • Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Assistant Commissioner for School Improvement (or designee)
  • Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) Director of Instructional Technology
  • Missouri Department of Higher Education Commissioner (or designee)
  • University of Missouri Office of Academic Affairs representative
  • Representative of Utah state eMINTS implementations
  • Dr. Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University faculty and educational technology consultant

The eMINTS National Center Advisory Board meets twice annually in person and once via e-conference.

The eMINTS National Center Advisory Board also includes work groups that represent each of the programs administered through the Center. The work groups are composed of individuals representing the program constituents. Work groups meet on an ad hoc basis throughout the year to provide input and feedback to the Advisory Board on topics of current interest to the Board.

Current Advisory Board members

eMINTS National Center

Monica Beglau - Executive Director
Lorie Kaplan – Program Director
Christie Terry - e-Learning for Educators: Missouri Program Director
Cara Wylie - Area Instructional Specialist (AIS)
Terri Brines - eMINTS Instructional Specialist (eIS)

Missouri Department of Education and Secondary Education (DESE)

Stan Johnson – Assistant Commissioner
Deborah Sutton – Director of Instructional Technology

Missouri eMINTS

Benjamin Dorson – Principal, New Franklin R-I
Linda Henke – Superintendent, Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District
Angela Neria – Technology Coordinator, Joplin School District
Tricia Scott – eMINTS Instructional Specialist, North Kansas City 74
Jennifer Steiler - Principal, Perry County 32 School District

Missouri Higher Education (DHE)

Robert Stein - Associate Commissioner, Missouri Department of Higher Education

National Consultants

Bernie Dodge – Professor, Dept. of Educational Technology, San Diego State University

eMINTS National Participants

Jim Henderson - Assistant Superintendent, Granite School District, Utah

University of Missouri

Zac March, UM Office of Academic Affairs

Past Advisory Board members

Stephanie Bengtson – eMINTS Instructional Specialist (eIS), eMINTS National Center
Gayle Cantrell - eMINTS Instructional Specialist (eIS), eMINTS National Center
Susan Cole - Coordinator of State Programs, MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Jim Flanagan – Consultant
Jayne James – Co-director, Private and Independent Technology Education Consortium (PI*TEC)
Michelle Kendrick - Area Instructional Specialist (AIS), eMINTS National Center
Roxanne Kerwood – Area Instructional Specialist (AIS), eMINTS National Center
Becky Kline - Technology Coordinator, Raymore-Peculiar R-II School District, MO
Jennifer Kuehnle - Area Instructional Specialist (AIS), eMINTS National Center
Stephen Lehmkuhle – Vice President, UM Office of Academic Affairs
Deborah Noble - Assistant Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, UM
Jo Peukert – Principal, Trojan Intermediate, Potosi R-III School District
Julie Phelps - eMINTS Instructional Specialist (eIS), eMINTS National Center
Jeri Phillips – eMINTS Teacher, Parkade Elementary, Columbia Public Schools
Bernajean Porter – Education Consultant, Bernajean Porter Consulting, Sedalia, CO
Kandis Smith – Assistant Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, UM
Gail Tiemann - Senior Project Coordinator, Private and Independent Technology Education Consortium (PI*TEC), Lawrence, KS
Peggy Wald Library Media Specialist and eMINTS Instructional Specialist, Parkway C-2 School District
Leonard Zanatta – Superintendent, Bolivar R-I School District


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Reviewed December 28, 2009.

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