As Treasurer/Secretary, Beth Madison keeps the work moving—minding the details, stewarding decisions, and staying in the thick of middle level education. She spent decades as a principal in Portland, Albany, and Eugene, and earlier as a Spanish teacher in Corvallis. Currently, Beth is developing the Human Ease Initiative, a company that uses artificial intelligence to make tools and systems to make life easier. She spends her time as a nomad traveling the US and Latin America narrating to her chat while writing the first of her four-volume novel set.

Gail Anderson has volunteered for OMLA and AMLE for the past 15 years and enrolled our affiliate in the national Schools to Watch program. She currently is an assistant principal at Reynolds High School in Portland.

Katherine Holden taught high school at the Wilderness Charter School for ten years and middle school for three years before becoming Associate Principal at Ashland Middle School. In that role, she led grading reform efforts, trained staff, and helped implement a schoolwide shift to standards-based grading using Essential Learning Rubrics. She has presented this work at conferences nationwide and has provided professional development for over 1,000 educators focused on writing clear and explicit rubrics across all content areas and student habits. Katherine co-developed key resources such as the “Rubric for Rubrics,” “Rubrics Dos and Don’ts,” the “Rubrics Facilitator’s Checklist,” and the SmartScore gradebook for SmartEd Systems. In recognition of this work, she was named the 2022 National Assistant Principal of the Year.

Chloe Minch began her career in education after earning her undergraduate degree from the University of Portland and completing her Master’s and Principal’s License through Concordia University of Chicago. With a strong foundation in middle-level education, Chloe spent eight years teaching middle school math and Leadership in Newport, Oregon, where she also coached both middle and high school volleyball and ran a Rubik’s Cube Club.

Her passion for serving middle-level learners led her into administration, first as Assistant Principal and Athletic Director at Newport Middle School, then in the same role at Toledo Jr/Sr High School. She is now in her third year as Principal at Toledo Jr/Sr High, where she continues to champion student voice, school culture, and academic growth.

Chloe is married to a dedicated special educator and is the proud mom of two beautiful daughters, ages three and one. Outside of school, she enjoys camping, all things water-related, live music, performances, sports, exploring new restaurants—and never misses the opportunity to appreciate (or deliver) a good pun.goes here