NWA Executive Board Member:  Sharon Moss

Sharon is the wife of State School Board Member and contractor, Richard Moss, and the mother of three children: Lauren 17, Garrett 15, and Jacob 13. She was born in New York, spent her early childhood in Virginia, but grew up primarily in Texas. She enjoys spending time with her very active family, scrap-booking and reading.

Sharon has taught school in the private sector for seven years where she developed a passion for learning and teaching. It was through these experiences that she became inspired by the idea of founding a quality Charter School available to all children, regardless of family demographics, where fundamental principles are restored, the interest and curiosity of each child is ignited and an environment is fostered where each child develops a lifelong love of learning, leadership and service.

Noah Webster Academy is the result of that dream.

NWA Executive Board Member: Peter Tennis

Peter has an insatiable passion for learning and leadership, on both a personal and organizational level. Born and raised in Seattle, Peter was fortunate enough to learn the early lessons of leadership on self and groups while exploring wilderness and traveling the continent on amateur ice hockey teams.

After service to both country and church, He began what he considers his greatest role in life and his truest purpose: that of Husband and Father. Peter and Teresa Tennis are the parents of three children, one of whom is currently a scholar at Noah Webster Academy.

Peter is an expert at creating systems and processes that allow organizations to increase their performance and competitiveness within their marketplace or sphere of influence. He has spent the majority of his adult life working to improve some of the world's largest companies, as well as many smaller businesses and organizations. He is an advisor and friend to top leadership teams in the pursuit of greatness, and his ideas have been implemented and are in use in many of the Fortune 500 and countless small businesses throughout the world.

Peter and his family currently reside in Orem. When he is not spending time with his family, planning Scout activities, reading or writing, or playing in the mountains, he runs his own practice helping both for-profit and non-profit organizations reach the next level.

Peter is excited to unite scholars, parents, teachers, administrators and community members, and fulfill the Purpose, Mission and Charter of Noah Webster Academy.

Board Members

NWA Board Member: Glenn Way

NWA Board Member: Brad Daw

Brad Daw was born in Provo on February 7, 1963. He developed a love of
reading at the tender age of three. After several readings of "The Three
Billy Goats Gruff" to Brad, his father tired of reading the same book and
told Brad to read the book himself. His father had the book open and Brad
recited all the words on the first page. Dad, momentarily surprised,
paused for a few seconds then turned the page. Brad continued reciting,
always sure of when to pause and let his father turn the page. He didn't
actually learn the alphabet until he was five, but he was always good at
memorizing. In the fourth grade, Brad won second prize for most number of
books read in the class. The prize was a copy of "Where the Red Fern
Grows" by Wilson Rawls. This beloved, well worn novel still sits on the
family bookshelf today.

In 1981, Brad graduated from Shelley High School in (you guessed it)
Shelley, Idaho. He served a mission in Southern Florida from 1982 to
1983. Brad attended BYU, majored in Electrical Engineering, and graduated
in 1987. He took his first job as an engineer in Sunnyvale, California.
Brad was married to Laura Olsen on March 14, 1989. In 1991, Brad and Laura
brought their first child, Sara, into the world. In the fall of 1992 Brad
moved his family to Utah to take a job with WordPerfect. While living in
Utah, they were blessed with four more children: Jessica, Sam, Matthew,
and Jackson.

Brad got involved in politics when he attended his first precinct caucus
meeting in 1994 and was elected precinct chair. He is currently serving in
the Utah State Legislature as a State Representative.

Brad and his wife have three sons in Noah Webster Academy and is looking
forward to being a part of this great institution.

NWA Board Member/Parent Organization President:  Lisa Winegar

Lisa has lived in Utah for most of her life. She grew up in Mapleton, Utah. She attended BYU where she graduated with a Business Degree and at the same time met her husband in statistics. They were both business majors and graduated on the same day. She has held many jobs over the years, but her last one was with O.C. Tanner. Then she was fortunate enough to stay home and raise her children. She has three children, two sons and a daughter.

Rick grew up on a cotton farm in southeast Arizona. He has a Masters Degree in Educational Administration and began his education career as the director of a Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural and Adult Basic Education program for a school district just west of Phoenix, Arizona. He then moved to the Davis School District and taught at Clearfield and South Weber Elementary Schools. He was also the director of the South Weber Community School and the town’s summer Recreation Director.

He then left the elementary school environment and spent time at IBM, WordPerfect, Novell, and other companies where he focused on education and training. Being raised in a small farming community, along with spending time in various states (Arizona, Utah, Maryland, California, North Carolina, and Texas) and living outside the United States (Mexico and Germany), has helped him develop a deep sense of patriotism and a love for this wonderful country and the values it was founded upon. He feels that these various experiences, built upon his love of education which was founded in his elementary classroom experiences give him a unique perspective for the Noah Webster Academy teachers, scholars, and community.

Rick enjoys being involved in his community (especially young people), and also enjoys participating in tennis, golf, hiking and traveling. He and his wife, Joan, are the proud parents of five children.

Rick is committed to find and give professional development opportunities to the best teachers available that they will, in turn, inspire the scholars that come through the doors of Noah Webster Academy with a lifelong love of learning, leadership, and service.