Board Members & Executive Director
- Betty Sue Sparks
- Center for Education Leadership, Assistant Professor of Practice, The University of Tennesse
- Gordon Fee
- Chair, Public School Forum of East Tennessee
- Chris Henson
- Chief Operating Officer, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
- David Keim
- Communications Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Cheryl Hickman
- Executive Director, Secondary Schools, Knox County Schools
- Robert M. Thomas
- Executive Director, Distinguished Professionals Education Institute
- Charlene Becker
- Director, Distinguished Professionals Education Institute
- Mary Martin
- Director, Distinguished Professionals Education Institute

Partnering with educational organizations across Tennessee to address their unmet critical course needs with Distinguished Professionals who hold teaching licenses for those critical courses.