Jose Viana joined Lexia Learning in December 2019 as a senior advisor. Viana was most recently the Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director of the Office of English Language Acquisition at the US Department of Education. Prior to joining the Department, Viana served for 8 years as an administrator of the Migrant Education Program for North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction. Viana began his career in Miami-Dade County Public Schools as an elementary school teacher for English language learners and later was a humanities and technology instructor at an IB World School. In 2006, Viana became an elementary school administrator for Durham (North Carolina) Public Schools, where he established the districtwide Title 1 Parent Advisement Committee for Hispanics to help ensure that Latino children from low-income families met challenging academic state standards.  Viana is a first-generation Cuban immigrant who started his primary years as an English language learner. He has devoted his life to improving educational opportunities for minority populations and is honored to serve our nation's emergent bilinguals and families.

Andrea Bitner is an English Language Learner Educator outside of Philadelphia, PA.    Throughout her 23 years in education, she has worked with students in grades K-12 as a high school English Teacher, Title 1 Reading Specialist, English Language Learner Teacher, and Teacher Mentor.  She inspires and supports others by teaching strategies to reach, connect, and communicate with bilingual students and families. She is also the proud author of "Take Me Home," and the co-author of "The Impact of Influence-Volume 3" and "100 No-Nonsense Things ALL School Leaders Shout Stop Doing."