Kolt (we call her KBP) was born and raised in Massachusetts. Kolt moved to metro Atlanta in 2006 as a Teach for America Corps member where she started her career teaching at West Manor Elementary School – for every year Kolt was a classroom teacher, she produced a future valedictorian!
For almost 2 decades Kolt has served as an instructional coach, district level coordinator, leadership coach, and founded a charter school. Kolt lives in the community with her husband, son, loves her Rotties, is a huge horror movie, anda. former collegiate level ice hockey player. Everyday Kolt tries to live up to Maya Angelou’s ask “when you learn, teach. When you get, give”.
Although a military brat, Tia Reynolds is a native of Fort. Smith, Arkansas. She is a Teach for America Alumni and holds a BA in Business Marketing, a Masters in Early Childhood Education, and an Education Specialists Degree in Instructional Technology from Kennesaw State University.
As a former educator, she prides herself on cultivating an operations team that allows teachers to keep the main thing the main thing – teaching & nurturing scholars! In her free time – Tia loves to travel, binge a good show, and dive into a good book. As an avid reader, Tia truly believes the words of one of her favorite authors – ” When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else.” – Toni Morrison.
Chasity McCrary is a native of Atlanta, GA. She has always had a love for learning which led her to major in Psychology at Tuskegee University and later to pursue her Masters in Special Education Studies at Clark Atlanta University. During her free time Chasity enjoys spending time with her highly active Goldendoodle Georgia Rose and volunteering with several different organizations in her local community.
Ms. McCrary truly embraces the words of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education. “
