About the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Board of Directors
NWREL is governed by a 30-member Board of Directors from the Northwest region comprised of the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The Board of Directors includes chief school officers or representatives of the five Northwest states affiliated with the Laboratory; five representatives of NWREL institutions elected to three-year terms; and others who are appointed to three-year terms to represent constituent groups, both educators and noneducators.
Board Officers
- Dr. Richard McCullough
- (Chairperson)
Assistant Professor
College of Education
Seattle University
- Jerry Colonna
- (Vice Chairperson)
Superintendent
Beaverton School District (Oregon)
- Dr. Joan Parker Webster
- (Secretary-Treasurer)
- Associate Professor
- University of Alaska-Fairbanks
- Elaine Asmus
- Teacher
- Snake River School District (Idaho)
- Dr. Teresa Bergeson
- Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Steve Bradshaw
- Superintendent
- Sitka Borough School District (Alaska)
- Doreen Brown
- Regional Parent Representative
Supervisor, Indian Education
Anchorage School District (Alaska)
- Susan Castillo
- Oregon Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Karanja Crews
- Teacher
Beaverton School District (Oregon)
- Rubén Degollado
- Middle School Principal
Hillsboro School District (Oregon)
- Dr. Joanne Erickson
- Associate Professor of Educational Leadership
Montana State University-Bozeman
- Jeff Estes
- Manager, Office of Science Education Programs
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Washington)
- Dr. Patrick Haggarty
- Private School Representative
- Superintendent, Chief Diocesan Administrator
- Diocese of Helena
- Missoula (Montana)
- Jeri Harris
- Teacher
Seattle School District (Washington)
- Dr. Jannette R. Hill
- Chair, Division of Education
Lewis-Clark State College (Idaho)
- Wendy Horman
- School Board Member
- Bonneville Joint School District (Idaho)
- Jerry Keane
- Superintendent
Post Falls School District (Idaho)
- Tom Luna
- Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Linda McCulloch
- Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Dr. Bill McDiarmid
- Professor of Teacher Education
University of Washington
- Dr. Geoffrey Mills
- Dean
School of Education
Southern Oregon University
- Barbara Riley
- Regional Business Representative
Missoula (Montana)
- Dr. Perla Rodriguez
- Regional Parent Representative
Elementary Principal
Forest Grove School District (Oregon)
- Mo Sanders
- Principal
- Soldotna Montessori Charter School (Alaska)
- Corri Smith
- Teacher
- Great Falls School District (Montana)
- Dr. Doug Sullivan
- Superintendent
Sidney Public Schools (Montana)
- Barbara Thompson
- Interim Commissioner
- Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
- Carol VanDerWege
- Teacher
Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (Alaska)