Staff
Meet the Team
At C-L Education Consultants, LLC, we are proud to provide the highest quality service to those in need. Our team of seasoned professionals are dedicated to the field that we work in and we are raising the standards.
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Cheri M. Peterman-Grimaldi currently teaches ESL classes at Hollidaysburg Area School District at all grade levels. Additionally, she is the ESL Coordinator for the entire district and a certified WIDA Screener and WIDA ACCESS test administrator. Not only a Pennsylvania certified ESL Program Specialist for the last 19 years of her 29 years in education, she is also certified and experienced in teaching English 7-12, Reading Specialist, and Elementary Education.
For the last 9 years, Ms. Peterman-Grimaldi has also taught all 10 graduate level courses in the 16 credit, PDE-approved, ESL Program at Appalachia IU8 in the evening, serving many district, charter, and private schools, and teachers seeking certification as a PA certified ESL Program Specialist. Her specialty is teaching the administration of all WIDA tests and the WIDA Standards.
She has excellent communication skills with ESL families and children of diverse cultural, religious, and linguistic backgrounds. Often going above and beyond her school responsibilities to assist ESL families with issues such as poverty, medical needs, and homelessness with a deeply caring heart, she is also devoted to her own four children.
Ms. Cheri Peterman-Grimaldi has been the recipient of many awards, including the award of “Above and Beyond Excellence” during a PDE Audit/Monitoring of the ESL Program at Conemaugh Valley School District; the Penn State University WPSX 3/FM “Great Teacher Making a Difference” Award; Parent/Student Reading Night Activities; and presentations to intermediate units, districts, and schools across west-central Pennsylvania.
Her specialty in this area is “Teaching ESL in Small and Rural Schools”. More recently, she co-presented with Leonard J. Shurin statewide for the Pennsylvania Department of Education at the 2021 PDE English Language Development Virtual Professional Learning Summit on the topic, “Access to Equitable, Affirming, and Socially Just Education”.
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Leonard Shurin has been teaching English literacy to grades PreK-12 and adults for over 30 years. With a B.A. in English/British Literature, and minors in foreign languages and math, Bethlehem Steel Corporation (BSC) hired him as a remedial Math and English Instructor in their Mechanical Department to correct employee deficiencies. Later, he acquired a B.A. in Education with PA certification in English. Subsequently, the Greater Johnstown Career and Technology Center hired him to teach and write grants.
Grants included Workforce Literacy, GED, Pre-GED, ESL, Adult Remedial Reading and Math, Family Literacy, and a Barbara Bush Literacy Grant. Eventually the grants included Altoona CTC, Admiral Peary CTC, and Somerset CTC.
At that time, the National Association of Bilingual Educators (NABE) invited Leonard to present at their annual conference held in Pittsburgh, PA, on the use of portfolios in ESL. The grants offered the opportunity to teach ESL to adults and children after school at GJCTC, and train Literacy teachers/tutors with the University of Pittsburgh. Concurrently, he helped establish the Cambria County Literacy Council.
Many years spent testing and teaching ELs permitted him to acquire PA ESL Program Specialist certification. Soon Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8 offered a position as the Curriculum and Staff Developer/ESL. With a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Pennsylvania State University, he became published in “Curriculum and the Cultural Body”, a book envisioning distance/remote learning.
More recently, he co-presented with Ms. Cheri Peterman-Grimaldi statewide for the Pennsylvania Department of Education at the 2021 PDE English Language Development Virtual Professional Learning Summit on the topic, “Access to Equitable, Affirming, and Socially Just Education”.