Tracy Cone and Stacy Hanley, TTP Project Directors

Stacy Hanley and Tracy Cone met while earning their BS and MS in Special Education from Florida State University, and have since dedicated their lives to the education of children.

Tracy was born and raised in Connecticut. She has worked in many capacities helping children with varying exceptionalities. This has included working with impoverished children, children with autism, and children with emotional difficulties. Tracy spent time at FSU tutoring student-athletes, and went to Germany, along with Stacy, to teach in a special education resource room at an US Army Post. Upon returning to the states, Tracy was a teacher at Helen Keller Middle School in Easton, CT until she began working at Eagle Hill School, one of the nation’s premier schools for students with learning disabilities.

Stacy was born and raised in Georgia. While completing her degrees and afterward, Stacy has made it her mission to work with children of various needs and exceptionalities. She has spent countless hours volunteering in many capacities, which includes work in schools developing reading curriculum for underprivileged children in mainstream settings. Stacy also did contract work for Florida State University, teaching a class for the School of Education and assessing and implementing educational research. After running her own tutoring business in Tallahassee, Florida, Stacy journeyed to the northeast to join Tracy as a teacher at Eagle Hill School.

After a recent, eye-opening trip to Thailand, Stacy and Tracy were overwhelmed by the devastation left by last year’s tsunami. The island of Phi Phi, particularly, left a lasting impression on them. Upon returning from Thailand, they decided to create the Thailand Teacher Project as a way of helping to give the children of Phi Phi Island a foundation of literacy from which they can begin to rebuild their lives.