Moving Forward
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Together Everything is Possible
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Meet Dana Cope
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Dana Cope, M.Ed. in Innovative Learning is an educator and parent with over 28 years of experience in the field of education. Her first 20 years were spent in public school as a classroom teacher and coordinator of district-wide programs that supported students, parents, teachers, staff, and administrators. Dana is currently in her 8th year of private practice as founder and president of Cope Consulting LLC. She helps those she serves to understand the system, question their fearful thoughts, and move forward with love and compassion for all stakeholders while making the system work for them.
She believes that there are many pathways to a desired destination and supports families in finding the right path forward, public or private for their youth. Whether it is children, teens, young adults, adults, families, school teams or our wisdom filled senior citizens, Dana has a passion for visualizing creative options to push through challenges on behalf of humans of all ages. She shares her life with her husband who is a middle school educator and their wonderfully creative, twice-exceptional son who has now launched to independence.
Dana spent fifteen years as a classroom teacher at Title 1 schools in Eureka and Napa, California. She knows the complexity of differentiating for the many students that are in our classrooms, and understands that when a student is not thriving in the classroom it can be stressful for everyone involved. She believes that when we focus on anything we can make it better. She has found that by keeping the school team and family strength based and student centered, everyone benefits.
Dana then moved forward spending 5 years in district-level leadership positions for Napa Valley Unified serving two roles as K-12 Teacher Support Coach and K-12 GATE Teacher on Special Assignment. Dana's role as District K-12 Teacher Support Coach enabled her to assist teachers through BTSA induction and beyond at every stage of their careers, so they could then help the complex students within their classrooms. In her role as K-12 advanced learner support she was instrumental in conceptualizing and restructuring Napa Valley Unified's GATE program to what is now Advanced Learner Programs and Services (ALPS). This incredible work connected her to every department from Human Resources to Special Education to Curriculum and Instruction and beyond!
Her teaching experience enables her to provide support directly to students of all ages and her work as coordinator of district-wide programs has enabled her to understand the complexity of developing new pathways to better serve learners within our education system. Multiplying resources and uniting teams to help our youth, our future, learn, grow, and move forward toward reaching their full potential is what she has been put on this earth to do!
Dana was named Napa County Teacher of the Year in 2008 and most recently earned the 2014 California Association for the Gifted Distinguished Service award.
She believes that there are many pathways to a desired destination and supports families in finding the right path forward, public or private for their youth. Whether it is children, teens, young adults, adults, families, school teams or our wisdom filled senior citizens, Dana has a passion for visualizing creative options to push through challenges on behalf of humans of all ages. She shares her life with her husband who is a middle school educator and their wonderfully creative, twice-exceptional son who has now launched to independence.
Dana spent fifteen years as a classroom teacher at Title 1 schools in Eureka and Napa, California. She knows the complexity of differentiating for the many students that are in our classrooms, and understands that when a student is not thriving in the classroom it can be stressful for everyone involved. She believes that when we focus on anything we can make it better. She has found that by keeping the school team and family strength based and student centered, everyone benefits.
Dana then moved forward spending 5 years in district-level leadership positions for Napa Valley Unified serving two roles as K-12 Teacher Support Coach and K-12 GATE Teacher on Special Assignment. Dana's role as District K-12 Teacher Support Coach enabled her to assist teachers through BTSA induction and beyond at every stage of their careers, so they could then help the complex students within their classrooms. In her role as K-12 advanced learner support she was instrumental in conceptualizing and restructuring Napa Valley Unified's GATE program to what is now Advanced Learner Programs and Services (ALPS). This incredible work connected her to every department from Human Resources to Special Education to Curriculum and Instruction and beyond!
Her teaching experience enables her to provide support directly to students of all ages and her work as coordinator of district-wide programs has enabled her to understand the complexity of developing new pathways to better serve learners within our education system. Multiplying resources and uniting teams to help our youth, our future, learn, grow, and move forward toward reaching their full potential is what she has been put on this earth to do!
Dana was named Napa County Teacher of the Year in 2008 and most recently earned the 2014 California Association for the Gifted Distinguished Service award.
