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NORTHSTAR CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION SERVICES, LLC.
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Who is Northstar Correctional Education Services? Cindy Borden and Penny Richardson
OUR BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP Cindy and Penny have been successful instructors and administrators for 43 collective years. They each moved from public schools to corrections where they impacted the lives of thousands of inmate students. For over 10 years as colleagues in the Idaho Department of Correction they worked together on multiple projects where they recognized they could achieve more as a team than individually. They launched Northstar Correctional Education Services to assist schools in realizing their highest potential. Cindy and Penny are an effective team because they: · Approach persistent problems with a can-do attitude, blending both linear and conceptual solutions · Identify challenges and immediately troubleshoot solutions with speed, creativity and practicality · Combine Penny’s organization and technical skills with Cindy’s creative and analytical abilities · Believe that the more people own a process, the more change is possible While working together in Idaho they: · Created ground-breaking distance learning programs that received national attention at the Correctional Leadership Forum in Baltimore · Hosted regional conferences in education technology · Assembled panel discussions on the potential for using the Internet in correctional education · Wrote successful grants that yielded thousands of dollars for Adult Basic Education, vocational, post secondary, distance learning, and transitional programs statewide Cindy and Penny returned from a year bicycling 15 countries in Europe from Scotland to Italy, with a renewed passion for correctional education and are eager to assist your school in the quest for excellence.
INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Penny Richardson Penny has 18 years experience in both public and correctional education where she developed the Business Education/Technology program and coordinated statewide distance learning. As an administrator of Outreach Programs throughout Idaho’s prison system, she supervised instructors and managed budgets. Penny’s work on distance learning earned her the respect of educators nationwide when presented at the Correctional Education Association’s forum in 2001. Her colleagues praise her ability to maintain morale and productivity by hiring the best people available and coaching non-productive personnel to success. Penny earned a Masters in Education Technology and has an extensive background in both female and male prisons, developing new programs and managing federal grants. She is a certified Intel Master Teacher. Penny received the Idaho Correctional Education Association’s Cutting Edge Award for Excellence, and a Proficiency Award in recognition for developing and delivering parity programs between men and women.
Cindy Borden After 11 years as a public high school English teacher, Cindy moved into Idaho’s correctional education where she taught a variety of disciplines. She created and managed a successful evening school staffed entirely by civilian volunteers. From there she earned her Masters in Education Administration and became principal of four prison schools in southwest Idaho. Her colleagues and subordinates value her ability to manage complicated personnel matters with straightforward professionalism, balancing compassion with compliance. Cindy earned a reputation nationally for designing innovative and effective programming for offenders with a particular aptitude for streamlining processes. Her background in journalism and art make her a creative problem solver and detailed observer. Cindy served as presidential assistant for the State Directors of Correctional Education in Washington, D.C. and President of the Idaho Coalition for Adult Literacy addressing Idaho’s legislature on literacy issues 1999-2002.
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