Valeria Brown of Winter Springs, Florida, and Sharon Contreras of Greensboro, North Carolina, have been elected to the Learning Forward Board of Trustees. Their terms began at the conclusion of the 2016 Annual Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Scott Laurence is the new president of the board. John Eyolfson is immediate past president, and Alan Ingram is president-elect. All are returning board members, as are Steve Cardwell and E. Leigh Wall. VALERIA BROWN is coordinator of Leadership Pathways for Seminole County Public Schools in Florida, where she supports the implementation of a comprehensive approach to building internal leadership capacity for teachers and administrators. Brown has been with the district since 2008 and has served as language arts and gifted education teacher at Jackson Heights Middle