Ammie Akin

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ABOUT AMMIE AKIN

Ammie Akin is a career educator with a background spanning all levels of administration, from elementary to high school and college. She has served as a teacher, elementary administrator, assistant superintendent, college professor, and most recently Interim Superintendent of Briarwood Christian School. Ammie’s experience spans 22 years with 18 years spent in upper-level school leadership. Ammie completed her undergraduate training at the College of Education at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She earned a Doctorate degree in Educational Leadership at Samford University. Ammie has taught as adjunct staff — both undergraduate and graduate level courses — at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Samford University. Her courses of study included methods for teaching math and graduate level courses for future administrators and developing teacher leaders.As the executive director for an organization committed to improving literacy for elementary students. Ammie authored, implemented and trained local service providers on a scientifically based curriculum to stop the summer reading slide. The program was a success and is still active across the state of Alabama. Ammie served as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies (ELPTS) at the University of Alabama. She was a leadership facilitator and developed programs for aspiring and current principals and superintendents. Ammie also assisted with The University of Alabama\'s Superintendents\' Academy for active school leaders with aspirations of careers at the superintendent level. Ammie is christening her next education challenge in the spirit of entrepreneurship with an exciting new project that promotes goodwill and community. Called,\"Hub in the Hills,\" she and her husband, Will, are busy repurposing a dormant school into an expansive and contemporary space for non-profits and organizations to gather and grow. As its first tenant, Unless U, a non-profit for adults with developmental disabilities, is a key partner in Hub in the Hills and that\'s a strong start. As the board chair for Unless U, Ammie has remained steadfast in watching many of her former students from her first teaching position at Hoover High School, become productive adults. Today, she\'s setting the stage for a new phase of Unless U, while attracting other growing non-profits to a new home in Birmingham\'s Hub in the Hills.