Master's Academy Online

WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT

The Master’s Academy of NW Florida will celebrate 20 years of providing a quality, Bible centered education to students in grades K-12. The school opened its doors to the Marianna community on June 1, 2004. Over the years, the school grew to provide a solid education to several hundred students and several hundred more taking part in Spanish classes, tutoring courses, summer program and excursions, and an afternoon program opened for extended day care. TMA, as it is lovingly called, became a friendly school that provided a caring environment coupled with a solid Christian education to all who attended. The school’s Preschool Program was especially highly sought after by interested parents, as enrollment proved it continually at maximum capacity from year to year. The elementary, middle school and high school curriculum, rigorous in nature, were taught by master teachers who led the students in their daily course of study toward academic excellence.

The Master’s Academy of NW Florida is now MastersAcademy.Online

The school offers K-12 instruction e-learning and/or print-book curriculum courses delivered to students and their families who choose to educate at home. The use of mastersacademy.online programs and assistance to parents will provide academic challenge from a Christian perspective, allow more family time and flexibility through student choices of extended courses both academic and elective. Therefore, creating an exemplary all-around academic education for students who are willing and able to learn at home and parents who need the assistance and expertise of a school to help them succeed. At the core of its values, mastersacademy.online will honor God with integrity online and at all times. We believe that if we live with integrity, nothing else matters. If we don’t, nothing matters.

The school’s offices are located in Marianna, Fl., and an additional satellite office for testing and assessments is located in Panama City Beach, Fl. The school is registered with the Florida Department of Education. It is a member of The Florida Christian Coalition of Private School Association (FCCPSA) and is a member of The Chamber of Commerce in Jackson County. The school is a sponsor of Friends of the Library of Jackson County and is an affiliate of The Home School Legal Defense Fund.

Chief Executive Officer and President

Ms. Anna Lopez-Wooden has more than 25 years professional career experience in the field of Education and Leadership. She gave rise to the corporation and founded, The Master's Academy of NW Florida, Incorporated, on April 28, 2003.

Ms. Wooden began community meetings in 2001 and selected the school’s non-profit and advisory boards. She marketed the school through strategic survey methods facilitating recruitment, pre-enrollment, admission and student success at the school.

Ms. Wooden led the school to become a premier educational facility supporting student success in all grades. She developed and led a multi-graded classroom format of at least two grade levels, in which pre-learning and re-teaching were the norm. Students were continuously exposed to re-teaching as they listened in on, and benefited from, lessons which were being taught in the other grade. This method prepared and stimulated the students’ minds to excellence in their own grade.

Her innovative teaching and leadership abilities exemplified through expert motivational project management. She implemented school day-to-day policies and procedures, developed on & off school-wide community events, planned and implemented age appropriate curriculum, multi-graded curriculum. Her supportive educational strategies motivated teachers to achieve peak performance.

She developed broad and specific age curriculum strategies, attended workshops, continuing education training seminars and implemented assessment procedures to effectively score and measure student learning. She became avid about writing specialized curriculum and developed individualized learning plans for the students at the school.

Through the years, the school grew to receive high rankings from parents in the community as their children were learning beyond academic expectations. The use of specialized advanced and excel curriculum coupled with exemplary teaching became the norm from year to year. Ms. Wooden developed and implemented a successful enrollment management program at the school from year to year. She monitored, identified and tracked special and individualized instruction, remediation, at-risk and academic talent at the school. She’s effectively taught students with Autism and was observed and commended for exemplary teaching by Florida State University’s CARD program.

Ms. Wooden recruited teachers for the school and hired, trained, all teaching staff at the school. She evaluated, supervised and trained all personnel at the school. She founded a community based feeding program and helped lead the efforts of the Parent Teachers Association comprised of parents, friends, and community leaders.

Ms. Wooden became known in the community for her engaging personality and love for her students. She developed and managed after school programs, summer enrichment programs, remediation programs, college preparatory programs, credit recovery High School and College programs. She guided and counseled students through story boarding techniques, life mapping, and taught soft skills to High School students for workforce development and success. Ms. Wooden has written grants, developed innovative scholarships at the school and has worked with local, state and federal grant offices, TRIO programs, National Merit Scholarship Programs, and encouraged and inspired first-time college students to pursue a post-secondary education.

Ms. Wooden’s innovative and entrepreneurial spirit led her to developed a foreign language work and pilot another program, DeColores Language School. DeColores, a subsidiary of the school, offered Spanish language courses offering semester learning and school certificates.

Ms. Wooden also devoted herself to DeColores' programs and translated and certified English to Spanish technical and medical documents. Her most favorable project was the English-to-Spanish translation of the In-Patient Guidebook at Jackson Hospital in Marianna, FL. The local funeral home requested her assistance with highly technical and legal document translations and certifications to help non-English speaking families in the community with their sensitive needs during funeral arrangements.

She assisted local public school teachers at Riverside Elementary School in Marianna, FL., with Spanish translation and interpretation of classroom lessons. Her goal in assisting these students and their teachers was that both would be effectively understood and communication would shine in their respective classrooms. She worked with teachers so that without a language barrier, assessments, outcomes, and testing would validate student learning and teaching standards.

Community wide interested students such as pastors, missionaries, college students, church leaders, nurses, and law enforcement officers sought specialized Spanish language course and instruction with Ms. Wooden at DeColores Language School.

She also became a mentor and teacher to Chipola College students by remediating and teaching Spanish (beginner, intermediate and advanced) courses. Her remediation and retention strategies proved successful, and those students under her training passed their foreign language requirement and obtained their Bachelor’s degree at the college.

Ms. Wooden was nominated for Jackson County Citizen of the Year and received certificate commendations from Steve Meadows, Florida State Attorney, for her exemplary work in the community. She is a long time member of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in Marianna, Florida. She also received awards for her years in volunteering teaching English to non-English speaking adults through the programs at The Jackson County Public Library System in Marianna, Florida.

Ms. Wooden has spoken at numerous educational conferences about the need for Individualized Education and Instruction. She holds an M.A. in Human Services Counseling & Executive Leadership from Liberty University (2013). She holds a B.A. in Christian Education from The Baptist College of Florida (1999). Furthermore, she also holds Post-Graduate Level Certifications in School Leadership and Post-Graduate Level Training and Certification in Autism Education, both from Liberty University (2012-2013).

Throughout her career, she has also continually and actively served her church in many roles. She is a Chaplain volunteer and has received training and certification in this capacity. She served as adjunct Spanish language instructor for seminary level courses under the New Orleans Baptist Seminary's Extension church site in Quincy, Florida (2012-2015). Likewise, she is a motivational and inspiring keynote speaker at conferences and is an aspiring author.

She is devoted to her family, her church and actively pursues professional development. She enjoys learning, research, reading, and wants to learn to speak Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Wooden has candidate status for a terminal-level degree (PhD).