Amy Nystrand
Executive Director
Amy joined the Educators’ Cooperative as a Cohort 2 Member because the promise of community it offered seemed like exactly what she needed to keep teaching after a particularly challenging school year.
She then helped build EdCo into what it is today. Working with Founder Greg O’Loughlin, Amy spent the next 8 years co-developing EdCo’s professional support capacity into a year-round Programmatic Calendar, initially as a Member; then as Program Coordinator; and now as Executive Director.
As EdCo’s Executive Director, she still remains active in the classroom as a half-time 5th Grade Math teacher. She does so because she loves teaching and, as a teacher, knows it is vital that Leadership in professional education maintain a personal and experiential understanding of day-to-day teaching in order to be effective.
This combined perspective of Leadership and teaching practice informs Amy’s belief that EdCo’s one-of-a-kind approach to professional support—a cross-sector mutual aid network—provides a uniquely viable way for ALL teachers to access what they need to improve their craft while also maintaining their joy of teaching, thereby improving outcomes for ALL students, regardless of sector.
Amy has 10+ years of classroom experience in both Metro Nashville Public Schools and public charter schools in Nashville. She graduated from Sewanee with degrees in Classical Languages and Psychology. Additionally, she holds a masters degree in Elementary Education with an English Language Learners endorsement from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.
Amy joined the Educators’ Cooperative as a Cohort 2 Member because the promise of community it offered seemed like exactly what she needed to keep teaching after a particularly challenging school year.
She then helped build EdCo into what it is today. Working with Founder Greg O’Loughlin, Amy spent the next 8 years co-developing EdCo’s professional support capacity into a year-round Programmatic Calendar, initially as a Member; then as Program Coordinator; and now as Executive Director.
As EdCo’s Executive Director, she still remains active in the classroom as a half-time 5th Grade Math teacher. She does so because she loves teaching and, as a teacher, knows it is vital that Leadership in professional education maintain a personal and experiential understanding of day-to-day teaching in order to be effective.
This combined perspective of Leadership and teaching practice informs Amy’s belief that EdCo’s one-of-a-kind approach to professional support—a cross-sector mutual aid network—provides a uniquely viable way for ALL teachers to access what they need to improve their craft while also maintaining their joy of teaching, thereby improving outcomes for ALL students, regardless of sector.
Amy has 10+ years of classroom experience in both Metro Nashville Public Schools and public charter schools in Nashville. She graduated from Sewanee with degrees in Classical Languages and Psychology. Additionally, she holds a masters degree in Elementary Education with an English Language Learners endorsement from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.