Twenty-five more Sarasota County Schools educators will receive the resources to complete the educational experience of a lifetime as recipients of Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation’s 2026 TIME Fellowship.
Awarded annually, the TIME Fellowship provides public-school educators with up to $12,000 to complete intellectually stimulating projects that they design to renew them professionally and rejuvenate them personally. Ultimately, the fellowships are intended to spark new energy and creative approaches to teaching and learning in Sarasota County classrooms and schools.
“Margie Barancik was a former teacher herself, and she and Chuck loved the teachers in this community,” said Teri A Hansen, president and CEO of Barancik Foundation. “They also felt that teachers should be treated as the professionals they are. Our TIME Fellowship provides our district’s dedicated educators with the time and space to reconnect with their love of teaching.”
TIME stands for “Time to Inspire Margie’s Educators.” The fellowship program was created in 2022 in memory of Margie and Chuck Barancik.
Meet the 2026 TIME Fellows
The new class of 25 TIME Fellows was chosen from more than 110 competitive applications. Selected proposals range from a math teacher walking in the footsteps of history’s greatest mathematicians and an art teacher studying folk art and cultural traditions across Scandinavia to a Spanish teacher enrolling in an intensive summer instructional program at the University of Granada and an assistant principal reconnecting with servant leadership as she and her family volunteer at the Dream Center in Los Angeles.
Barancik Foundation’s 2026 TIME Fellows are:
- Erin Boyd, Skye Ranch School
- AJ Brown, Riverview High School
- Ryan Chase, Sarasota High School
- Lynsey Davis, Riverview High School
- Grace Duyn, Garden Elementary School
- Gretchen Eidelbus, Taylor Ranch Elementary School
- Farnaz Fehr, Bay Haven School of Basics Plus
- Charlotte Harber, Oak Park School
- Justine Holcomb, Tuttle Elementary School
- Christine Magan, North Port High School
- Lisa McQuaid, Bay Haven School of Basics Plus
- Ellen Millar, Riverview High School
- Taylor Mowery, Brentwood Elementary School
- Pamela Novak, Pine View School
- Leah Pollard-Lane, Fruitville Elementary School
- Francisco Ramirez, Alta Vista Elementary School
- Rick Ramon, Booker High School
- Derek Reich, Sarasota High School
- Lindsay Rowe, Booker High School
- Rawley Ryckman, Southside Elementary School
- Jeremy Steffy, Riverview High School
- Kathleen Suchora, Pine View School
- Brooke Teal, Triad Alternative School
- Daniele Therrien, Venice High School
- Jodie Vaughn, Suncoast Technical College North Port
Go here to view descriptions of the 2026 TIME Fellowship projects.
“Nearly half of the TIME Fellows selected this year had applied before, several of them multiple times,” noted Barancik Foundation’s Hansen. “We encourage educators whose proposals were not chosen for 2026 to consider applying again next year.”
The new class of TIME Fellows will complete their fellowship experiences during the 2026 calendar year. Since 2022, Barancik Foundation has awarded 125 Sarasota County Schools educators with the TIME Fellowship.
