BERK12 Membership

Greater Efficiencies| Greater Access, Opportunity, and Equity | Greater Effectiveness

Nonprofit
Monthly Meetings
Focus on K-12

Partner Districts 2023-2024

The following districts are partner districts with BERK12. Educators from partner districts may participate in BERK12 professional learning and other opportunities at no cost. Non-partner district educators may participate for a modest fee billed to their respective district.

Berkshire Country Day School
Berkshire Hills Regional School District
Berkshire Arts and Technology Public Charter School (BART)
Farmington River Regional
Gateway Regional School District
Hoosac Valley Regional School District
Lee Public Schools
Lenox Public Schools
North Adams Public Schools
Northern Berkshire School Union
Pittsfield Public Schools
Richmond Consolidated School
Saint Agnes Academy

Current Board Members

William Cameron (Chair) - Superintendent, School Committee
Andrea Wadsworth (Vice-Chair) - Vice President of Finance and Administration - BCC, Lee School Committee
Ellen Kennedy - President of BCC, Various Committees Across Community
Will Singleton - Retired Educator, Pittsfield NAACP
Tom Matuszko - Executive Director, Berkshire Regional Planning Commission
Cindy Brown - Associate Commissioner of Regulatory and Veterans Affairs
Robert Vaughan - Chair, Lenox School Committee
Peter Dillon - Superintendent, Berkshire Hills Regional School District
Michael Case - Central Berkshire Regional School Committee Member
Brian Fairbank - Chair, Fairbank Group
Jason (Jake) McCandless - Superintendent, Pittsfield Public Schools
John Hockridge - Former Chair and Committee Member
Nat Karns - Former BRPC Executive Director
Carl Stewart - Former Southern Berkshire Regional School District School Committee
Ginger Armstrong - Founder of the Berkshire Educator's Action Network and Lee Educators Association President
Jonathan Butler - President and CEO, 1Berkshire
Vanessa Wassenar – Williamstown - Consultant - Education and Nonprofits
Dennis Sears - Southern Berkshire Regional School Committee Member
Shawn Armacost - Former Chair, Central Berkshire Regional School Committee
Lisa Donovan - Professor MCLA

H. Jake Eberwein - Project Director, Independent Consultant

Brendan Sheran - Project Manager, Independent Consultant

Bill Ballen - Project Facilitator

BERK12 Executive Team

Is composed of approximately six BERK12 Board members. These individuals include the chair and vice-chair, and four at-large members (selected by the full membership). Additionally, the project manager participates, but doesn't hold a vote. The purpose of the Executive Committee is:

To meet regularly to support agenda setting
Manage funding (spending and fund development)
Monitor project progress
Serve as liaison with governmental and legislative representatives
Act with decision-making authority about contracts and hiring as authorized by the full board
Develop near and long-term BERK12 strategy, with the chair serving as primary point-of-contact for media
The executive committee meets between full BERK12 board meetings and as needed.