Cheryl Appleman - Founder and
President
Ms.
Appleman has been working in the after school enrichment industry for
over twenty years, serving in nearly every role and capacity the
industry has to offer. Her work in this industry had modest beginnings,
with after school ballet classes which she taught at a small number of
schools. These classes were the start of what would become Kids in
Motion, her first after school enrichment company. In 1988, with her
company growing in size and stature, Cheryl began work with the Los
Angeles Unified School District and assisted in developing the first
district-approved licensing procedures which would pave the way for
privately owned enrichment programs to operate on school campuses.
Cheryl has been involved in a number of charitable ventures as well. In
1993, Cheryl established the United Children’s Foundation, a non-profit
organization dedicated to providing scholarship assistance to children
for academic and fine arts programs. It was also during this time that
Cheryl ran children’s theatre programs at UCLA and at the surgical
recovery ward of the Los Angeles Children’s hospital. In 1996, Ms.
Appleman sold Kids in Motion for a substantial sum and took a brief
hiatus from the industry to pursue other interests, including founding
the Academy of Children’s Services – the first California state
registered vocational school for enrichment teachers. In 1998, Cheryl
returned to the school enrichment business by launching Performing Arts
Workshops, which very quickly became one of the largest and most
successful enrichment companies in the Los Angeles area. With PAW being
firmly established, Cheryl turned her attention to two fronts: first, to
provide training and certification to enrichment teachers by founding
NETA, and second, providing training to entrepreneurs wishing to start
their own enrichment companies by initiating the ASA Program. You can
learn more on the web at
www.afterschooladvantage.com
and
www.netanational.org.
Timothey Fitzgerald - Vice President
A lifelong student of theater and the martial
arts, Mr. Fitzgerald holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from UCLA’s
School of Theater, Film and Television as well as a Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Theater from Loyola Marymount University. He also holds 2nd
degree black belts in Taekwondo and Hapkido. Timothey has been an
educator for over ten years and has been an enrichment teacher and
programmer since 1997. He has helped launch after school enrichment
programs in the Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Long Beach and Torrance
Unified School Districts. Mr. Fitzgerald’s teaching duties have taken
him overseas and throughout Southern California. He has been an ESL
teacher in Korea, and acting coach and martial arts instructor at over a
dozen public and private schools throughout the Los Angeles area.
Timothey is currently the artistic director of Performing Arts
Workshops, designing and developing curriculum for both their school
enrichment and summer camp programs. Timothey is the Vice President of the National Enrichment Teacher’s Association, an
organization dedicated to the training and certification of enrichment
instructors. To learn more about PAW and NETA on the web, go to
www.performingartsworkshops.com
and
www.netanational.org.
