Ms. Lou-Ann Coppola is an early education teacher, who taught in the public-school system for many years. For the past twenty -five years she has been teaching at the Academy.

Ms. Coppola is the quintessential matriarch of her beloved Italian-American family and has four children and many grandchildren.

When she is not leading sessions on beginning arithmetic skills or instilling the love of learning in her students, she can be found tooling around in her garden, reading, researching on her iPad or preparing a Sunday meal for her family.