Staff

	Jayson Franklin

Jayson Franklin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood Education from Indiana University in 2002.  In 2006, he received a Master of Education at Xavier University and is a licensed Gifted Intervention Specialist K-12.  From 2002-2005 he taught Social Studies and Reading at the top performing school in Cincinnati, the W.E.B. DuBois Academy. In his first year of teaching, he received the W.E.B. DuBois Academy Excellence in Education award and helped to raise his students Social Studies test scores to the highest scores of any public school in the city.  In 2005 he helped to open Cincinnati's first charter school for gifted students, the Veritas Academy.  Mr. Franklin was a 2005 Featured Panelist at the "Making Good Citizens - The Role of Civic and Character-Education in 21st Century America." forum sponsored by the University of Dayton and The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.  He is a Direct Honors Program member of the Pi Lambda Theta national professional honor society of educators, as well as a member of both the Council for Exceptional Children and the National Association for Gifted Children.