Wonders Academy

 Katrina was born and raised in Indiana.  She earned a degree in business management from Indiana University.  She is a stay-at-home mom of three daughters, and a baby boy who serve as her muses.
Katrina has a love of music, animals, and is a lifelong learner. The experiences in her educational pursuits drive her to offer children an alternative education model. The belief that children will excel when given the free-rein to do so, fuels her passion for
Wonders Academy. 

She has spent over four years learning and researching the Acton methods and curriculum. When you see how the students thrive, she thinks you too will wish you had been able to go to Acton for your education. She's proud to be offering this revolutionary school model to Warsaw.

Laura lived on both US coasts and in between as a child,  then settled into Vanderbilt University for her undergraduate studies in  the College of Arts and Science.
After being awarded the highly competitive Walter Wattles Fellowship at Lloyd’s of London, Laura worked in the aviation insurance  industry in New York City.  Deciding to follow her calling into the  world of education, Laura returned to Nashville and earned her Master of  Education at Peabody College. This led her to her work at the Oklahoma  Arts Institute, creating fine arts education programs for teachers and  talented high school students.
Laura married Jeff Sandefer and is the happy mother of  Sam and Charlie and step-mother to Taite. It is the inspiration of these  children that led Laura and Jeff to co-found Acton Academy.
Her greatest hero is her mother who was a Master Teacher.  Her wisest mentor is her father who sent her off to college with two  words of advice: "Be curious".

 Jeff Sandefer lives a dual life as an entrepreneur and a Socratic Guide.
As an entrepreneur, he founded his first company at age 16 and went on to found or co-found seven successful businesses.
As a Socratic teacher at the University of Texas, Jeff’s  students five times voted him the school’s Outstanding Teacher and  Businessweek named him one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in  America.   Jeff went on to co-found the Acton School of Business, an MBA  program perennially ranked by the Princeton Review among the best in  the nation. In 2012 The Economist honored him as one of the top fifteen  Business School professors in the world.
Jeff is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where  he served for over twenty years on the school’s governing committees. He  was a longtime director of the Philanthropy Roundtable and National  Review magazine and one of the youngest members ever elected to the  Texas Business Hall of Fame.

 “I’ve visited and studied hundreds of innovative models  of schooling over the past decade, and Acton continues to be one of the  most promising models…. Acton is a truly inspiring and exceptional  school.”   — Bernard Bull, associate professor of  education at Concordia University Wisconsin, author of Etale –  Education, Innovation, Experimentation  

 “Acton Academy is on the leading edge of what it means to give students agency of their own learning.”   — Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy  

 “Acton Academy is one of the most important education developments in the world.”   — Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, Previously Executive Director of Education for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.