Board of Directors

David Shapiro – chairman

David is a professional musician and former president of a New York-based music production studio. He moved to Phoenix in 2013 and became a math tutor, volunteering at several of the local high schools. He subsequently earned his certification in secondary mathematics and has now taught regularly at Hope High School for the past two years. David is married and has raised three children.

Maggie Gall – secretary

Bio & More About Maggie

Maggie has been an educator in the public schools of Arizona since 1969. She graduated from NAU with a BA in Elementary Education and then received her Master's Degree at the same university. She taught at Manzanita Elementary School for 45 years working in grades 2, 4, 5, and 6. For the last 10 years, she has been in a position working with the new teachers. Maggie helped them with classroom management, lesson planning, team planning, and anything to make the job more rewarding. She provided Professional Development for all of her staff and was in charge of all their assessments throughout the year.

Education has been her passion and calling from a very early age. Having worked with children in many capacities: babysitting, tutoring, and Sunday school teaching from her early teens. As part of her work, she was able to be part of a Fullbright Scholarship Exchange Program. She changed homes and classrooms with a teacher in Glossop, England, and became part of the community as she taught the students. Maggie still keeps in contact with students and teachers from that amazing experience. Even though she retired a few years ago, she continues to assist with testing in the Saddle Mountain Unified School District.

In her spare time she likes to read, cook, garden, work with the Ladies’ Bible studies at her church and spend time with friends and family. She also had the opportunity to travel to many places around the world and especially enjoyed two mission trips to assist with mission work in Africa.

Maggie says, "I feel it is a privilege to work with Blueprint and especially Hope High School."

Mitch Horlick – board member

Bio & More About Mitch

Mitch is the CEO of nSpire, a technology company that provides web based incentive and motivation solutions. nSpire specializes in health and wellness, customer loyalty, employee recognition and sales productivity. Before founding nSpire in 2005, he demonstrated management and leadership abilities over 15 years in national sales for information technology, distribution and manufacturing based businesses. Mitch has extensive experience recruiting and building sales teams that have outperformed the competition. He previously started the firm, Aztech Consulting Group which provided recruiting and payroll services to clients as well as career counseling and mentoring to job seekers.

A common theme that runs through Mitch’s career life as well as social life is that of mentoring. He has helped guide many individuals through difficult decision making regarding their career path. He also has a strong interest in current worldly and political issues. This passion helps him understand and have great patience for how individuals from different backgrounds and cultures function. Mitch also has worked with mentally and physically disabled teens to teach them life skills and self-motivation. He has a strong desire to foster this passion, as it is self-fulfilling in a way very different than his everyday business career.

Mitch earned a Bachelors of Business Administration specializing in Economics and Public Policy from George Washington University.

Mitch lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife Nancy, and two kids, Megan and Andrew. He enjoys tennis, golf, hiking and trying to beat his kids at Xbox.

Mary Del Nero – board member

Bio & More About Mary

Born and raised in Arizona, Mary received her BS. from the University of Arizona. Both her Grandmothers and Mother were school teachers so she felt right at home going into education. The education path was not a straight one though. Art brought her to Los Angeles, CA where she worked as a designer and met her husband, but teaching lingered in her mind as a possibility.

With a young family, the Del Neros left California to be closer to family back in Arizona. Finally, with family support, Mary went back to school at ASU for her Master's Degree in Secondary Education. “I received the gift of a great education, now it was time to give back to my home city.” Her desire was to share her love of learning with At-Risk students, so Alhambra High School in Maryvale is where she landed for her student teaching experience. This was followed by 2 years at Adobe Mountain School, Juvenile Secure Care Facility with ADJC. It was there that she knew At-Risk students needed individual understanding to fill in their academic holes. “Maybe if I could teach the students earlier, it could prevent their paths from leading to a corrections facility.” A position opened up in the Paradise Valley School District with their At-Risk high school, so Mary started teaching art for them 14 years ago.

“Art is important for everyone as a healthy part of life”, so Mary personally pursues her art practice in her home studio. “I love clay because it is so forgiving!” Even though she teaches full-time as a Public School teacher, she works weekly with her own craft teaching and working on commissions at home in her studio.

“Blueprint has been on my radar for over 20 years. I have seen them grow and evolve to find their lane on this Online Academic road. What they have figured out for their students has intrigued me because it’s innovative and successful. This forward-thinking is something I would like to support for the students of Arizona. For this reason, I’m honored to be a part of this Board and excited to see what the future holds.”

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Students learn in a variety of ways and Blueprint can blend different methods of delivery that is best suited for each student. These educational options are meant to help inspire students towards a more rewarding and purposeful future. A future of many opportunities that they discover and of which they can be proud!

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