Dr. Pamela Moran, superintendent, serves the learners of Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. For more than 30 years, she has held a wide variety of teaching and leadership roles in elementary, middle, and high schools as well as at the district level. As an adjunct instructor for the University of Virginia, Pam Moran has taught instructional and leadership courses across the state. The experience of working at all levels of public schooling provides her with a deep understanding of both the vertical and horizontal challenges and opportunities being explored by PK-12-16 learning communities today.

Connecting with other public school educators to make sense of needed transitions in our field as we close in on the second decade of the 21st Century is a passion. Pam is energized by conversations with young people who get Daniel Pink's work, relish emerging technologies as learning and communication tools, and see themselves as contributors to the communities in which they live. Engagement with teachers and principals who believe, as did Horace Mann, "when a child has no hope, a nation has no future" inspires her. She holds a B.S. degree from Furman University and a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction and a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Virginia.