FLVS Staff Profile

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Phyllis Lentz

For Phyllis Lentz, both change and constancy are positive realities. As the Director of Global Services for FLVS, Ms. Lentz assists her clients in discovering new approaches to student learning. All the while recognizing that student achievement is the constant goal.

Ms. Lentz is a career educator who began her career as a high school business education teacher. She was the first in her school to introduce the new technology of computers into the curriculum. She says, “It was easy to see that computers would change the way we did business. And it was important that my students were prepared for those changes.”

After moving to Florida, Ms. Lentz guided the Orange County School District through several technology implementation projects. In 1996, she became one of the original members of the FLVS staff, bringing an educator’s point of view to the development of online learning.

Today, Ms. Lentz travels extensively throughout the United States and internationally. Her goal is to assist clients in developing an appropriate online instructional approach based on solid pedagogical principals. Referring to the 1992 SCANS Report, Ms. Lentz says that the new educational paradigm makes student achievement the constant, with time and place as the variables.

Ms. Lentz received her B.S. in Business Education form the University of Toledo and her M.S. in Computer Education from Nova University. She serves as an adjunct professor at Florida Southern College.

Phyllis Lentz is Director of Global Services for FLVS