Meet The Team

Kimberly Simmons , Ed.S, currently serves as Director of Metro West GLRS. She has been a dedicated educator for over twenty-seven years and has had the opportunity to work in various levels of leadership at both state and district levels. She has served as both a general and special education teacher. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University, where she earned her Master's Degree in Educational Leadership and her Specialist Degree in Teaching & Learning. Some of her specialty areas include facilitative and transformational leadership, implementation of job-embedded professional learning, coaching, and building and sustaining effective teaching teams and of course everything Special Education. Ms. Simmons believes in the importance of creating classroom environments that are enriching and meaningful, as well as equipping teachers with the necessary tools to help students achieve success.

 

Beverly Maxwell Beverly Maxwell serves as a Program Specialist for Metro West GLRS. Mrs. Maxwell has spent the past 20 years working in special education. She has enjoyed various experiences in self-contained, resource, co-taught classes, and department leadership. She's been awarded Atlanta's Power 30 under 30, Turknett Leadership Character Award for the City of Atlanta, Channel 11 Class Act Teacher, and wife of the year (just kidding!) Mrs. Maxwell is passionate about maintaining dignity and restoring hope in students with differing abilities by advocating for our most vulnerable population to receive quality instruction. Most of her current role with Metro West GLRS is providing relevant support via professional development, technical assistance, and coaching to special education teachers and leaders in the areas of instructional coaching, Specially Designed Instruction, explicit instruction, HLPs, new teacher support, and restorative practices. Beverly’s core values are approachability, humor, efficiency, and belonging. Her commitment is to serve her assigned districts with expertise and fun.

 

Kimberly Gregory, Ed.S., serves as a Program Specialist for Metro West GLRS. She provides professional development to administrators and educators across Metro Atlanta school districts and institutions in the areas of behavior management, intellectual disabilities, and improving the performance of struggling learners in social studies. She is a graduate of Spelman College, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a minor in Secondary Education. Ms. Gregory earned her Master of Science Degree in Mild to Moderate Disabilities from Johns Hopkins University and then went on to earn an Educational Specialist Degree in Leadership and Administration from Cambridge University.