The school and family connection is stronger at JLSA than any other school. The commitment is on both parts, to collaborate, to communicate, and to support one another. This is a small community and children and families get to know each other closely.
Some specific ways families are invited to get involved with Jordan Lake School of the Arts are:
- Family members are encouraged to participate in art shows, performances and fundraising
- Each family is required to provide 25 school service hours each year
- Mentorship program participation (to our older students) is strongly encouraged by both parents and grandparents
Parent Advisory Committee:
The Parents Advisory Committee serves two year terms with the responsibilities of annual review of policies and procedures, organization of community events and fundraisers, and outreach.
Theresa DiMaria Caffo, President
Theresa is a seasoned professional with key competencies in the areas of leadership, strategic planning, problem solving and analytics, business development, project management, and team development and mentoring. After almost 10 years in the top-tier management consulting and educational consulting industries, Theresa joined Microsoft in 1998 to run Business Operations in the “Travel Business Unit”, which ultimately became known as Expedia Travel. In her 7 years with Expedia, Theresa held several key positions, including Vice President and General Manager of Partner Marketing and Integration, Senior Director of the Merchant Hotels Program, and Senior Director of Business Management. After leaving Expedia, Theresa founded her own consulting firm focused in the hospitality industry as well as served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Travel Tripper, a technology company specializing in hotel booking engine products.
Today, Theresa still does management consulting on a limited basis but focuses more on her life outside corporate America, including her daughter, husband, and two dogs. Theresa’s interests include reading, camping, cooking, and decorating.
Dawn Martin: Dawn and her husband Mark are Colortyme franchisees with stores in Goldsboro and Raleigh. In 2001 they moved from Connecticut to Florida to open our first store and relocated to NC in 2006. She holds a BA in Psychology from Central Connecticut State University. Dawn and her husband have been married for 18 years and have 2 terrific kids. Mandi is 12 and a student at JLSA and Drew is 14. She organizes and runs the monthly parents' coffee, serves on the parent committee and assists on all off-campus activities at JLSA. In her free time she enjoys volunteering, reading and traveling with her family. They are avid sports fans especially of their beloved New England Patriots.
Nancy Maynard: Nancy Maynard graduated from Penn State University with a B.S. in Microbiology. She has over 19 years of experience as a microbiologist. She has worked for various companies such as American Sterilizer, Magellan Laboratories/Cardinal Health and Apex Laboratories. As a microbiologist she carried out testing of pharmaceutical products and ingredients to ensure safety and quality. She also designed experiments to analyze novel products.
Nancy is originally from Pittsburgh, PA and has lived in North Carolina for 19 years. She has lived in Holly Springs for 13 years with her husband and two children. She loves traveling around the country, going to the beach, reading, scrapbooking, learning Mandarin Chinese and cycling.
Marilyn Metcalf: Marilyn is the Director of Benefit Risk Evaluation at GlaxoSmithKline, an international pharmaceutical company. Her team leads GSK’s efforts to measure and monitor the favorable v. unfavorable effects of medicines and vaccines.
Marilyn began working in health related research while completing her doctorate in sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Beginning in 1990, she worked in clinical research at Family Health International, a nonprofit agency specializing in reproductive health research, primarily in developing countries. Her work in contraceptive clinical trials and HIV vaccine research took her to Pakistan, India, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic. She joined Glaxo Wellcome in 1995 where she studied the health economics and health outcomes of HIV therapies, and remained with the newly merged GlaxoSmithKline. She moved to the UK in 2001, where she built GSK’s international decision sciences team and was the interim director for the portfolio management team for late stage pharmaceutical products. Marilyn returned to the US in 2003, leading and managing project development teams for GSK. In 2004 she moved to Centocor, a biopharmaceutical company, where she led their portfolio management and decision analysis team to track and value Centocor’s drug development pipeline. Marilyn returned to GSK in 2006 as the Director of the Quantitative and Decision Sciences team that analyzed risks, benefits, costs and rewards of pharmaceuticals.
She began her current role in 2011, creating and building the BRE team. In her non-work life she has been happily married for 23 years, is a proud mom of two sons, and enjoys reading, creating art projects, and whitewatering.