Whether serving as Founder and President of JUST MATH, as a Board Member for the Pennsylvania Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, or as a member of an Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, one mission remains constant:  Sittler’s desire and ability to develop and support effective leaders in order to increase student achievement across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.   Currently, Sittler is the contracted Director of Curriculum and Instruction for a Virtual Learning Network – an instructional technology consulting firm that specializes in blended learning and cyber schools.  While serving in this role, Sittler forms working partnerships with public schools and informal education providers to help them establish and maintain their own cyber schools and blended learning programs.  

Sittler’s most recent (published) successes include the citing of her work in Pennsylvania’s Phase 2 Race to the Top application. During the 2008-2009 school year, Sittler served as a contracted Mathematics and School Leadership Cluster Leader for an affiliate of the National Center on Education and the Economy – Americas Choice.  Consequently, the eight (8) schools that received on-site technical assistance in the areas of school leadership and mathematics from Sittler:

• Showed increases in student achievement at the advanced level in mathematics that that were 3.5 times greater than the school district as a whole. 
• Showed growth in proficiency in mathematics equal to 2-3 times greater than the remainder of the district. 
• Students also posted percentage point reductions in below basic double the district reduction in below basic in math. 

(Source:  Pennsylvania Race to the Top, CFDA # 84.395A). 

Sittler attributes some of her ability to effectively develop and support effective leaders in order to increase student achievement to her experiences in and beyond the K-16 school system. Experiences in and beyond the K-16 school system have enabled her to have access to resources which many are unfamiliar. Her active involvement in the political arena of education has, and continues to afford her with opportunities to navigate the political trail for the betterment of the school districts that she supports.