Teaching and Learning Team

This team provides leadership, professional learning, and classroom coaching for the district’s prioritized practices for teaching and learning. Working alongside school principals as school instructional leaders and guidance counselors, we strive to use academic and wellbeing data to personalize learning for students through opportunities, enrichment, and interventions. Personalizing a student’s learning could include specialized scheduling or credit flexibility, high-interest clubs, service learning, entrepreneurship, career internships, after school supports, College Credit Plus, advanced placement, self-paced instruction, alternative ways for assessment, and other results-driven services for unique learners. We aim to help every student access the Perry Learner Profile and the Perry Culture Playbook on their way to graduation.  We recognize the need and consider it a privilege to prepare students for a readily changing, socially responsible, and global workplace and strive to provide students those opportunities through and beyond the classroom.

Betty Jo Malchesky, Ed.D.
Assistant Superintendent
(440) 259-9200, x.9206
malcheskyb@perry-lake.org

Lori Langan
Administrative Assistant
(440) 259-9200, x.9206
langanl@perry-lake.org

 

Diane Pietrzak
District Psychologist
Multi-Tiered Intervention Specialist
pietrzakd@perry-lake.org
    

 Rob Renau
 IT/Data Specialist
 renaur@perry-lake.org 
    
 

Jodi Hicks
Gifted Specialist
hicksj@perry-lake.org 

 

Bob Gecewich
Social Emotional Skills Teacher
gecewichb@perry-lake.org

 

Lisa Shields
Special Education Director
(440) 259-9200, x.9203
shieldsl@perry-lake.org

Ann Aucelli 
Student Services Coordinator
(440) 259-9200, x.9216
aucellia@perry-lake.org

Christy Patriarca
Literacy/Remote Instruction Specialist
patriarcac@perry-lake.org

 

Rita Soeder
Career Exploration Specialist
soederr@perry-lake.org 



Jessica Siegel
English Learner Teacher
siegelj@perry-lake.org 

 

 Neisha Gonzalez Natal
 EL Educational Associate
 gonzalezn@perry-lake.org

 

 Kali West
 Student/Community Connector, Teacher
 westk@perry-lake.org