Meet Us

Six guiding principles drive the work of our small but mighty team:

Our children deserve an excellent education and our community is responsible for making it available.
Our community benefits from highly valued, successful public schools.
An informed public is important to successful public schools.
Vital schools depend on the support, interest, and involvement of the families and community they serve.
An independent community-based organization can help citizens contribute to their public schools and can build confidence in them.
Supporting teachers, who are at the core of the educational process, fosters educational success.

staff

Executive Director

Interim TBD

We appreciate your patience during this transition period.

General inquiries:

admin@reachingheights.org

Urgent matters: Send an email to Board Chair Adaora Schmiedl

Your message is important to us and will be directed to the appropriate person as quickly as possible. Thank you for your continued support of Reaching Heights.

Best regards,

The Board of Directors
Reaching Heights

Many Villages, Interim Program Manager

Shaquira Johnson

Serving as a consultant and interim program manager to launch the Reaching Heights - Many Villages Practice Partners Program for the 2024-25 academic school year.

Shaquira is the founder of Monarch Promise Consulting, LLC, supporting organizations to achieve peace of mind while on the trajectory to growth, profitability, and continued success. Shaquira brings a 25-year diverse professional corporate and nonprofit executive background in strategy, implementation, marketing, development, operations, and customer service.

Parent Mentor

Joy
Howard

Joy Howard has been a University heights resident for 12 years and proud mother of 5 children. Joy has 20 years’ experience in the medical field and 8 years of experience as an informatics specialist. She is a highly energetic parent advocate with valuable experience leveraging outstanding organizational, communication and leadership skills. She has worked with ECAG for several years providing support and resources to parents in need. Joy brings her medical knowledge, technology skills and 28 years of personal experience nurturing and supporting her exceptional children.

Administrative
Assistant (Interim)

Linda Dudzinsky

Linda and her husband have lived in Cleveland Heights for over 33 years and are the proud parents of a daughter and son who attended Fairfax Elementary School, Roxboro Middle School and Cleveland Heights High. She is a past Fairfax PTA President and former member of the CH-UH PTA Council Executive Board. Linda also worked for eight years as Media Ancillary at Fairfax Elementary School. She is an active member at her church and also volunteers for Thea Bowman Center, a community center in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. She is proud to be working in support of the important mission of Reaching Heights.

board

Reaching Heights is a membership organization that is governed by a board of directors who live or teach in the school district. One director is a member of the CH-UH board of education. The superintendent of the CH-UH schools is an ex-officio member.