Kendra Alston, a native of Chapel Hill, NC, is the founder and owner of KOPPERTREE, LLC. Creating a company that catered to the immediate needs of students, educators, community members, and businesses, has been a dream of Kendra's since she entered the teaching profession in 1995.

Her ability to motivate educators to develop and enhance their pedagogical skills and encourage business professionals to refresh their writing skills, is demonstrated in her 20 years of teaching, facilitating, and coaching experience in grades K-12+. She has a B.S. in Elementary Education and an M.Ed in Middle Level Education. Kendra is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher and has succesfully coached teachers through the National Board Process. She has trained over 1500 teachers across North Carolina and the surrounding states in the areas of differentiation, rigor, assessments, parental involvement, socratic seminar, vocabulary instruction, schema activation, and brain based learning.

Kendra has worked with UNC Charlotte as a North Carolina Instructional Coach, where she coached beginning first-third year teachers in Rowan-Cabarrus, Hickory, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Her most rewarding year came when she coached 12 beginning Teach For America Teachers.

Kendra Alston has represented her district as lead presenter at both State and National conferences, sharing instructional practices that have been proven to increase student achievement in the areas of literacy.

She is currently a Curriculum Specialist for 21st Century Community Learning Centers. She also serves as a reading and writing instructor at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte , North Carolina.

Kendra has a variety of published reading strategies that can be found in several of Dr. Barbara Blackburn's books and she works closely with districts to implement effective teaching strategies across all subjects and grade levels. Her experience with teaching "at risk", high performing, and unmotivated students gives our company an edge up on other staff development companies.

Kendra says that creating a company that focused on developing the "whole professional" and employing a staff that consisted of real teachers was very important to her. Thus, our seminars are differentiated and our KOPPERTREE Facilitators are real teachers, teaching now.

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