Faculty & Staff TED

• MA in Education, University of Phoenix, Las Vegas

• BA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• MS, Nova Southeastern University, Las Vegas

• MEd, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Jeff Grandy began working in higher education at the University of Western Ontario, where he oversaw the athletic curriculum taught during the summer youth programs. While working for Medicine Hat College he taught freshmen and sophomore physical education labs. He is currently an Athletic Academic Advisor at UNLV.

Outside of the classroom Jeff enjoys distance running and cycling as well as going swimming with his wife and daughter.

• MEd, Nova Southeastern University

LaDonna Henderson is an Assistant Principal with the Clark County School District (CCSD) with over 15 years experience teaching special education students. Her educational philosophy is that we must teach each and every student to succeed.

• MA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• B.S., Elementary Education, New Mexico State University
• M.A., Teaching, Grand Canyon University
• M.A., School Administration, University of the Southwest

Mrs. Darian Jaramillo has been in education for 22 years as a classroom teacher, high school assistant principal, and high school principal. She currently works for the Los Lunas School District as principal of Valencia High School. Mrs. Jaramillo specializes in Instructional Leadership.

• M.Ed., Sierra Nevada College

• B.S., Psychology, Roosevelt University of Chicago, Illinois
• M.A., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Roosevelt University of Chicago, Illinois
• Ph.D. Candidate, Learning & Technology, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Marissa Owens’s research interests include: collaborative argumentation, social media, online learning, and science education. Her dissertation explores the impact social media has on collaborative argumentation in an online classroom setting. She has taught online courses both at the undergraduate and graduate level in Educational Psychology, Educational Assessment, and Educational Leadership.

• BS, in Business Administration, Robert Morris College
• MS, in Management, Argosy University

Linda Patefield, MSM is currently teaching the online ALDR 505 class. Linda began teaching online for Sierra Nevada College in the summer of 2011. She has over twenty years experience in Human Resources and currently works as a Human Resource Director at a college in Indiana. Linda received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Robert Morris University; and a Masters of Science in Management from Argosy University.

• MA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• MA. in Educational Leadership, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Robert began his career in education as a classroom teacher over 16 years ago with the Clark County School District. He has been a teacher leader within the District’s training and assessment departments and expanded his teaching working with adults as an adjunct faculty member at the university level for several years, loving every minute. For the past 10 years he has beenan assistant principal and principal in Clark County.

As a current elementary school principal, he savors the time he has with children and the opportunities to work with talented educators. He has also have been supporting SNC Administrative Interns as their SNC Administrative Internship Supervisor,which provides him with additional opportunities to fulfill his passion to coach and mentor other educators as future administrators.

• BS in Education, Central Michigan University
• MAT in Administration, Sierra Nevada College

Patti Wamsley serves as a Performance Zone Instructional Coach, Project Facilitator for the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has attended the University of California Los Angeles, University of California Riverside, Western Michigan University, and Central Michigan University graduate schools, where she studied brain research for language acquisition and literacy development.