Congratulations to the 25 outstanding Sarasota County Schools educators selected for Barancik Foundation’s 2025 TIME Fellowship!
The TIME Fellowship provides public-school educators with the resources to experience meaningful professional renewal and personal rejuvenation. TIME Fellows each receive up to $12,000 from Barancik Foundation to complete a personal project that they design to revitalize their passion for teaching and their commitment to their students.
“Margie and Chuck Barancik loved the teachers in this community, and they recognized them as the professionals they are,” said Teri A Hansen, president and CEO of Barancik Foundation. “Our TIME Fellowship provides these dedicated educators with time and space they otherwise wouldn’t have to reconnect with what inspired them to teach in the first place.”
Proposals selected by the Foundation for 2025 fellowships range from immersive foreign-language learning in Spain to firsthand explorations of scientific innovation and macroeconomics in Japan so teachers can put academic concepts into dynamic new real-world contexts for their students. Themes that thread through many of the successful applications include a desire to continue lifelong learning and clear plans to turn Fellowship experiences into practical, engaging lessons for the classroom.
Meet Our 2025 TIME Fellows
- Amy Archer, Garden Elementary School
- Clay Burton, Venice High School
- Charles Carney, Pine View School
- Joanna Davis-Lanum, Garden Elementary School
- Thomas Austin Dunk, Sarasota High School
- Chad Erickson, Bay Haven School of Basics Plus
- Hali Flahavan, Pine View School
- Allison Foster, Southside Elementary School
- Amy Gerlt, Heron Creek Middle School
- Kimberly Hall, Alta Vista Elementary School
- Andrew Harshman, Sarasota High School
- Kristina Harshman, Sarasota High School
- Andrew Jaffee, Alta Vista Elementary School
- Jennifer Kaskiw, Tuttle Elementary School
- Alevtina Lazareva, Pine View School
- Denise Milliken, Toledo Blade Elementary School
- James Minor, Riverview High School
- Jason Mocherman, Riverview High School
- Margaret Novello, Glenallen Elementary School
- Kathryn O’Hare, Oak Park School
- Katerina Peltier, Booker High School
- Chad Smith, Riverview High School
- Michaela Stockhill, Riverview High School
- Liz Storino, Heron Creek Middle School
- Felice Tannen, Bay Haven School of Basics Plus
Go here for a summary of each exciting fellowship project.
The new class of TIME Fellows will complete their fellowship experiences by the end of 2025. This is the fourth group of TIME Fellows selected by Barancik Foundation since 2022.
About the TIME Fellowship Program
Through the TIME Fellowship program, Barancik Foundation annually invites teachers, principals, and assistant principals at traditional public schools within the Sarasota County School District to submit proposals for a unique project or experience that will renew their commitment to the profession of teaching. Fellowships are meant to be intellectually stimulating and personally rejuvenating while creatively expanding the educator’s experience. The projects ultimately benefit students, as TIME Fellows bring new ideas, educational approaches, and energy back to their schools and classrooms.
The TIME Fellowship program is part of Barancik Foundation’s initiative to help Sarasota County Schools recruit, retain, and recognize highly effective teachers. “Outside of family, teachers have the greatest influence on a child’s academic performance and future success,” noted Hansen. All applicants are asked to commit to continue teaching in Sarasota County Schools for at least three years after completing their fellowship.
TIME stands for “Time to Inspire Margie’s Educators.” The fellowship program was created in honor of Margie Barancik, who was a teacher herself.
