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My whole life is one continued effort to bring something to pass for the improvement of the great body of people.
Horace Mann, 1839
About Us
Jane E. Pollock, Ph.D., Learning Horizon, Inc. specializes in teaching and supervising learning. Dr. Pollock consults on long-term contracts with schools worldwide to improve student learning and teaching practices. Dr. Pollock is the co-author of Dimensions of Learning Teacher and Training Manuals (1996), Assessment, Grading and Record Keeping (1999,) and Classroom Instruction That Works (2000). Dr. Pollock authored Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time (2007) and the companion text Improving Student Learning One Principal at a Time (2009). Her current projects and manuscripts include i5: Using Technology to Teach Thinking, and Minding the Gap that addresses improving teaching and learning in the areas of ELL and Special Education. She is adjunct faculty for ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), various universities. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. Pollock earned degrees at the University of Colorado and Duke University.
Learning Horizon Associates
Sharon M. Ford, Ed.D., most recently served as an Assistant Professor in the department of Administrative Leadership and Policy Studies in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Colorado at Denver primarily focused on supervision where she advised doctoral and masters degree students seeking licenses as school principals and superintendents. Dr. Ford worked for a State Department of Education, as an administrator in a large school district, and as a regular and special education classroom teacher. Dr. Ford has many publications in refereed journals that include the Journal of School Leadership, The Executive Educator, Educational Administration Quarterly, and a National Council of Professors of Educational Administration yearbook. She served as the regional representative for a seven state area to the Professors of Secondary School Administration, National Association of Secondary School Principals and as President of the Colorado Association of Professors of School Administration. Dr. Ford earned degrees at the University of Colorado and at Whittier College in California.
Gary S. Nunnally teaches 9th grade U.S. History and Junior/Senior level Economics. Gary has a passion to help educators improve student learning in their classrooms and has worked with teachers and administrators in school districts around the nation to help them make the same kind of changes in their classrooms that literally transformed his own classroom. Gary is pursuing his doctorate in Educational Leadership while continuing to work to improve his craft as a classroom teacher. He wrote a chapter for Jane E. Pollock’s Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time (ASCD, 2007). Gary earned degrees at Nebraska Wesleyan University and Doane College, a Masters in Educational Leadership. Currently a High School Social Studies Teacher, Gary is also Boys Varsity Basketball Coach in Waverly, Nebraska where he recently led the basketball team to the third most wins in school history.
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