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. 


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