Board of Directors

Soaring Eagle Academy

where students learn to soar

Members

Deanna Tyrpak
President

Jonathan Lotsoff
Director

Jerry Sapp
Treasurer

Dan Baldassano
Secretary & Director

Linda Cervenka
Director

Mark Montana
Director

Current/Past Affiliations

Co-Founder, Executive Director, SEA

Speech Language Pathologist

American Speech-Language Hearing Association

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Director of Finance & Accounting, First Presbyterian Church, Evanston

President/Owner JS Business Designs, Inc.

Former Finance Director, Village of Burr Ridge

Regional Vice President, Elasticsearch, Inc.

Co-Founder, DIR® Expert Clinician, Soaring Eagle Academy Speech Language Pathologist, Private Practice

Profectum® Senior Faculty

Senior Vice President, Avison Young-Chicago LLC

Former Principal/Founding Partner CresaPartners, Chicago, LLC Founding Member, Vistage Chicago

Honorary Advisory Board

Lisa deFaria, L.C.S.W., B.C.D.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Sima Gerber, Ph.D., CCC
Speech & Language Pathologist

Dr. Neil Margolis, FCOVD
Optometrist

Ruby Salazar, L.C.S.W., B.C.D.
Clinical Social Worker

Diane Selinger, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

Anju Usman, M.D.
True Health Medical Center

Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology

Amy Zier, M.S., OTR/L
Occupational Therapist

Our Mission

To provide an academic and social learning environment for students with special needs that supports their individual strengths and learning styles and integrates learning and interaction within Developmental Language Models and Developmental Individual-Difference Relationship (DIR®) based approach principles.

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Soaring Eagle Academy shall admit students of any race, creed, color, national or ethnic origin, gender and disability to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students of the Academy, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national or ethnic origin, gender, disability or marital status in the administration of its educational policies, admissions and employment policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic or other school administered programs, or in any other activity, program or policy.

Soaring Eagle Academy is a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization ID # 20-2286699

Soaring Eagle Academy is approved by the Illinois State Board of Education

Soaring Eagle Academy

where students learn to soar