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 Founder
& Executive Director, Stephen Sexton
Stephen Sexton is Executive Director of Lighthouse Community Charter
School. Mr. Sexton has taught in urban, rural, and suburban communities
and has worked as an instructional leader in many capacities.
Getting his start in education through the national teacher corps,
Teach for America, Mr. Sexton taught science for two years in
the Watts community of Los Angeles at Gompers Middle School. Continuing
to build upon his teaching experience, he taught math, science,
and technology at the Francis W. Parker Essential School and Regional
Teacher Center where he worked under the tutelage of Ted and Nancy
Sizer. Through Teach for America, Mr. Sexton worked as a mentor
and advisor to incoming teachers and as a school director for
three consecutive summers at the TFA Summer Institute. He has
also worked as the Director of Curriculum for Teach for America.
In this position, he wrote and implemented a comprehensive and
rigorous curriculum for at least 1,000 new Teach for America teachers.
In addition, Mr. Sexton served as the After School Coordinator
and Community Liaison at ASCEND, one of the first new autonomous
schools to open in Oakland.
 Founder
& Director of Strategic Development, Jenna Stauffer
Jenna Stauffer is Director of Strategic Development. She was a
Teach for America corps member in Los Angeles in 1995 where she
taught middle school science and leadership at Gompers Middle
School, after which she served as lead teacher at a start-up,
parent-run private school in upstate New York called the Wilderness
Community School. She received her M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate
School of Education in 2000. Since August of 2000, Ms. Stauffer
served the Lead Developer of the Lighthouse Community Charter
School during which time, she also taught in part-time positions
at the San Francisco Community School and ASCEND.
 Director
of Instruction, Melissa Barnes Dholakia
Melissa Barnes Dholakia is the Director of Instruction at Lighthouse
Community Charter School. Ms. Barnes Dholakia has spent the past
twelve years focused on the goal of ensuring academic excellence
for all children. For the first half of her career, she focused
on mastering the art of teaching - at the elementary, middle,
and high school levels. In the latter half, she moved on to transfer
her knowledge and lessons learned in the training of new cadres
of teachers. As an instructional leader, she has worked with both
pre-service teachers and thirty-year veterans to develop and hone
their curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices. She holds
a BA from Whitman College, an MA from University of Oregon, and
was a 2002 New Leaders for New Schools Fellow. Ms. Barnes Dholakia
grew up in Oakland and joined Lighthouse in 2003.
Administrative Assistant, Lily Talley
 Chief
Security Officer, Durango
Ms. Durango received her training at Puppy U., where she graduated
with honors. She has handled security for the Sexton house hold
for 8yrs.
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