Rockford Administrator's Breakfast

Friday, October 24, 2025  | 8AM - 10 AM

Prairie Street Brewing Company

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Rockford Breakfast 2025

Join us for breakfast on Friday, October 24, 2025  and connect with colleagues over a delicious breakfast and hear how ThinkCERCA has partnered with  Rockford Public schools.

 

We’ll hear from our Chicago based success team, including:

▪️Sylvia Ibarra Delgado | ThinkCERCA Success Manager & MLL Expert

▪️Lisa Gardner | ThinkCERCA Director of School and District Success
▪️Eileen Murphy | ThinkCERCA's Founder and CEO 

 

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Location:

Prairie Street Brewing Company

Petritz Board Room  

200 Prairie Street | Rockford, IL 61107

 


New to ThinkCERCA? Discover how we can be your comprehensive literacy solution – from direct instruction to benchmark writing assessments, professional scoring and more – all with demonstrated impact on high school, college, and career readiness. 

Meet Our Team

 

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Sylvia Ibarra Delgado

ThinkCERCA

Success Manager & MLL Expert

Sylvia has 7 years of experience as a classroom teacher in Math, Reading, Science, and Social Studies, followed by 7 years as an administrator specializing in Bilingual, ESL, and Dual Language programs. She currently teaches pre-service educators at the University of Illinois-Chicago and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction with a focus on Literacy, Language, and Culture. She is also an international marathoner. 

 

 

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Eileen Murphy

ThinkCERCA's Founder and CEO

 

 

Eileen Murphy is the founder and CEO of ThinkCERCA, a tool designed to support systems-level literacy growth. Eileen spent 20 years as a classroom teacher, English department chair, and Director of Curriculum and Instruction for 115 schools before founding ThinkCERCA. She is also an NCTE author and a Pahara Aspen Fellow. 



 

 

 

 

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Lisa Gardner

Senior District Success Manager