Educational Services Team

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DIRECTORS OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS PARTNERS

Kristina Cram, Educational Success Partner

Kristina Cram joined Greenfield Learning in 2016. She is a former elementary classroom teacher and Intervention Coordinator of 15 years teaching primarily in Los Angeles. She earned a B.A in Communications and a M.S in Education from the University of Southern California (USC). She also holds an additional M.A in Educational Administration from California State University, Northridge. Kristina recently fulfilled one of her lifelong dreams of teaching abroad, by teaching at international schools in both Brazil and West Africa as the Learning Support Coordinator. Educational Technology has always been an integral part of Kristina’s teachings, so she is thrilled to now be training other educators with how to see the same success with their students that she had as a teacher throughout the years using these programs herself.

Kristina currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, enjoying traveling as much as possible, meeting new people and exploring different cultures and languages.

Kristina can be reached at kristina@greenfieldlearning.com.

Daryl Brook, Educational Success Partner

Daryl joined the Greenfield team after having been a teacher and school principal for over 20 years in both California and Canada. For the entirety of his career, Daryl has been committed to equity and  social justice education. This commitment informs his support of schools with the design and implementation of comprehensive literacy programs, especially for readers in the upper elementary and secondary grades. He lives in the Echo Park hills of Los Angeles and supports schools in Southern California and across Canada. 

Daryl began his career in the elementary grades, gaining expertise in foundational  literacy instruction while teaching grades one through three. Moving to upper elementary and middle school, he earned a Specialist Accreditation in Adolescent Literacy from York University and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, in Toronto, Canada. He served as a Literacy and Numeracy lead teacher to the Ontario Focussed Intervention Program, as well as Adjunct Professor for York University’s Inner-city Education Programme.

Moving to Los Angeles, Daryl led schools in the implementation of best practices to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards English Language Arts standards. After 7 years as a teacher leader, he completed his administrative credential at UCLA’s Principal Leadership Institute with a fieldwork inquiry into inequitable school assessment practices. As principal, he sought to improve his school’s culture of care through fairer assessment practices and better systems of support. A major component of this project was the redesign of the school’s intervention programming. His time as principal affirmed his core belief in the capacity of teachers, and helped him establish a career goal of becoming an exceptional coach of assessment, planning, and instruction.

Daryl is also the father of two young readers, Desmond and Sadie who, together with his wife, love adventures in the great outdoors. When not working you can always find him and his family hiking, camping, or perhaps back up in Canada enjoying “the great white north.” He concurrently works with the Culture & Equity Project, and UCLA’s Center X.

Daryl can be reached at daryl@greenfieldlearning.com.

Jenny Graham, Educational Success Partner

Jenny came to the Greenfield Learning team as an Educational Success Partner via a 10 year teaching career in special education. She received a B.A. from UC Davis and earned a Masters in English Literature from San Francisco State University. She later earned her Special Education teaching credential from CSUN. Since then, Jenny has taught at the high school and elementary school levels in the Conejo Valley, where she herself was a student. Jenny loves to read, and is passionate about helping her students develop critical early reading skills which is how she came to know and love educational technology programs.

Jenny was born and raised in Southern California, where she still lives today with her twins, Gracie and Nathan. They love the ocean, the plentiful hiking trails of Thousand Oaks, and spending time with their wonderful friends and family.

Jenny can be reached at jenny@greenfieldlearning.com.

Professional Learning Facilitators

Siobhan Clifford, Professional Learning Facilitator

Siobhan joins the Greenfield team after 31 years of teaching experience in the London, Ontario area.  She has worked with students from Grades 2-8 as a classroom teacher and with students from Grades JK-8 as a school-based resource teacher. Siobhan was also a board-wide Curriculum Support Teacher focusing on developing resources and providing professional development for junior division teachers in the areas of literacy and numeracy.  

In the final years of her teaching career, Siobhan worked as a Special Education classroom teacher at a Provincial Demonstration School, supporting students with severe learning disabilities in the area of reading. This experience highlighted, for Siobhan, the strength of an evidenced based Structured Literacy approach to teaching reading, and the need for all students to be given the opportunity to see themselves as readers.

Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, like so many other teachers, Siobhan was faced with the challenge of quickly pivoting through a mix of in-class, synchronous and blended learning models for her students. Online, digital edTech platforms provided much needed resources and support for her and her students as they moved from one learning model to another.  Siobhan is looking forward to supporting teachers as they introduce research proven programs to their students and confidently deliver data driven instructional responses to promote student success across the curriculum. 

Siobhan lives in London with her husband, Chris, who is a high school Administrator, their daughter, Brigid, and their golden-doodle-sheepdog, Puck.  She enjoys playing pickleball and golf, reading by the pool, and playing guitar.

Siobhan is excited to be a part of our dynamic team and to continue her lifelong learning journey with Greenfield.

Siobhan can be reached at siobhan@greenfieldlearning.com.

Taylour Matz, Professional Learning Facilitator

Taylour Matz, Restorative Practice Consultant, Full Circle Consulting

Taylour is a proud resident of Monterey County, California–lovingly known as Steinbeck Country. She earned her M.A. in Arts Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a focus on Healing-Centered Engagement, conflict resolution, creative thinking, innovation, storytelling, and program design. 

Her background includes a study of interpersonal neurobiology and has been published in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice with a paper titled "Restoring Relationships, Healing Trauma, and Creating Attached Classrooms." She has studied Transformative Justice with Harvard University’s Kaia Stern, co-founder of the Prison Studies Project, and was mentored in Transformative Practices by the Harvard Divinity School's Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the Reverend Melissa Wood Bartholemew. Taylour is trained in Restorative Practices through the International Institute of Restorative Practices,  Nonviolent Communication through the Center of Nonviolent Communication, and is certified in Bridging Differences and The Foundations of Happiness at Work from The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. 

Taylour also taught high school in a Title 1 school and alternative education, where she led support groups for students who struggled with mental health challenges and integrated Restorative and Mindfulness practices into her classroom. She is a former volunteer for the Restorative Justice Ministry for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, where she worked with Families of the Incarcerated and facilitated Restorative Circles with inmates and victims’ families. When she’s not resolving conflicts, you can find her outside, relieving stress by training for a Spartan Race or Half Marathon, competing in Trivia with friends, eating delicious food, and spending time with family.  

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