TheApple brings members of the education community together to support and advance the profession. TheApple provides resources to promote careers in education, while fostering a community with exclusive benefits where information about the education community is provided to the education community by the community itself.

In 2008, TheApple joined with Monster Worldwide (Nasdaq: MNST) to accelerate growth and to improve the career and educational opportunities for our members. Monster's vision is to bring people together to advance their lives, which is a perfect fit for TheApple. To learn more about Monster, visit monsterworldwide.com.

Our Team:

Jill Hare – Editor

Prior to starting TheApple, Jill was a elementary school music teacher at Warren T. Jackson Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was named Teacher of the Year in 2003. While there, she lead large choral groups, musical productions, and a closed circuit news broadcast. She spent 10 years as a professional musician, performer and composer. She was a music major at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music and graduated from Teachers College Columbia with her Masters in Music Education.

Kit Richert – Associate Editor

Kit is a new addition to The Apple after working as a middle school psychologist in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District in California. As a school psychologist, Kit worked extensively with Special Education students, and developed expertise in assessment, counseling, and behavior management. Kit was a clinical psychology major at Tufts University and received her Ph.D. in Education from UC Berkeley. Her doctoral research focused on children with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.