Groves Academy

Prior to coming to Groves Academy in July 2005, John was Head of School at the Greenwood School in Vermont, a boarding school for dyslexic boys.  He also headed Chartwell School, a school for dyslexic students in California.  John holds a master’s degree in reading and language disabilities from Harvard University and has taught graduate-level classes in language structure and diagnostic-prescriptive teaching.  John served on the Minnesota Board of Teaching’s State Reading Task Force and was instrumental in the creation of new reading rules to better prepare teachers to teach literacy skills to struggling and emerging readers.