• Design and execute the T3 Workforce Development and Community Alliances model; serve as Workforce Development thought leader; activate our Family and Parent Engagement continuum strategy and leadership team collaboration.• Increased access to family engagement opportunities for middle school families in Fort Worth and Crowley, Texas, reached over 1800 families, triple the number of families since last fiscal year.• Fostered stronger school-family connections through 40+ after-school events to connect families with school activities and curriculum.• Enhanced communication between families and their home schools by leading our team to implement a family engagement communication plan. This initiative aimed to empower families to become active partners in their children's middle school education, leading to improved student outcomes.• Implemented a comprehensive family engagement program servicing middle and high school parents across three districts. • Created the framework and launched the Career Skills Academy, designed to train young job seekers with essential, durable skills upon entering the workforce. • Built the framework for the implementation of the T3 Career Advising Model.• Brought on board two manufacturing partners for future internships, field studies, and student employment opportunities.• Developed our workforce development career competencies for aspiring high school and college graduates with essential durable skills to succeed in the workforce.

• Education Leadership: Train school administrators and teachers on culturally relevant academic content and diversity-focused K-12 assessment design.• Higher-Level Learning: Deliver advanced training to help students develop critical thinking and information literacy skills.• Personalized Coaching: Design and host virtual coaching sessions using a hands-on, learn-by-doing approach to build both short-term and long-term professional skills.• Interactive Workshops: Facilitate online workshops on high-impact topics, including inclusive practices, flexible instructional models, and instructional & organizational leadership.• Learning Walks Collaboration: Collaborate with school teams to design and conduct Learning Walks, using evidence-based classroom observations to analyze trends in teaching practices and efficacy.• Strategic Initiative Development: Develop and sponsor strategies to achieve key objectives across multiple functional or business groups.• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership in specialized functional or process areas, guiding school and work teams to success.• Program Development: Lead the development and implementation of coaching programs and initiatives for complex educational functions or business operations.

• As the former National Place Network Director, I managed a portfolio of 21 rural K-12 schools nationwide and a team of coaches in pursuit of operational excellence. • Created and implemented organizational procedures that ensure network schools capture and use operational data to meet internal and external goals. • Serve on the DEI committee and apply design thinking to all DEI initiatives to ensure a user-centric view and bolster innovative solutions.• Offers thought partnership and a customer-centric view of DEI solutions developed.• Liaise and manage DEI Policies, procedures, and best practices.• Lead collaboration efforts with the executive management team to develop and implement strategic programming focused on Network revenue growth and operational efficiency. Measurables include school district/school satisfaction, the impact of the Place-Based Education model, and stakeholder transparency. • Coach the professional development team in recognizing areas where operations could be more evidence-based, equitable, and scalable and design and execute initiatives to address these needs.• Fosters partnerships with external organizations to support portfolio growth by codifying operational design practices at schools and support the development and enhancement of data, procurement, and other operational systems.

● Recruited the company’s entire management and school team and oversaw the hiring and development of all faculty and staff associates, creating an empowering and collaborative work environment.● Led the reorganization efforts of adult learning and trauma reduction strategies, launching an innovative Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training program with a 70% reduction in student infractions and opportunity identification in staff retention.● Designed and implemented the school’s professional development plan and training schedule. ● Provides technical leadership for school/work teams in specialized functional or process areas.

• Overhauled and redesigned severely outdated curriculum and instructional approaches, which resulted in annual student academic growth of 20% or better. • Directed all aspects of resource planning, product sourcing, grant management, and cross- functional collaboration to drive the rapid improvement of key performance indicators. • Raised an underperforming elementary school from a level 3 rating to a level 2 rating in one year. • Increased an elementary school’s composite NWEA scores in Reading by 73%. • Enhanced the school’s multi-tiered student intervention and prevention system to increase individual student academic achievement, attendance, behavior, and overall school performance by 45%. • Instituted an assessment for proficiency process that aligns with the International Baccalaureate (IB) framework, which focuses on student’s proficiency in IB criteria. • Increased school’s graduation rate by 39% to a historic high of 94% in one year. • Oversaw resurgence of the school’s attendance rate by 65% in two years. • Overhauled student code of conduct policy that has decreased the school’s misconduct totals by 15% yearly. • Designed systems for consistent teacher development and instructional coaching through data analysis, leading to a 2.5 annual point gain on the ACT composite.

● Increased school annual attendance rate by 5% (90% to 95%) in two years. ● Developed a student intervention system that monitored students’ academic, attendance and behavior. System helped to increase freshmen and sophomore on track rate to 85% and 90%, respectively. Academically, 40% of our students either meets/exceeds on the PSAE. School’s behavior referrals decreased by 200. ● Designed systems for consistent teacher development and instructional coaching through data analysis that led to a 1.5 annual point gain on PSAE.

● Spearheaded collaboration with participating schools to provide support for high quality implementation, including daily problem solving around database management, data gathering processes, internal school communication structures and rewards distribution. ● Streamlined community outreach efforts and coordination of communication with REA, IT, CEO’s office, program coordinators and parents. ● Synthesized Harvard’s Ed Labs and CPS Central Office communication needs into a more coordinated communication outlet that promoted and informed media outlets and the public in a timely consistent manger.

● Rapidly built and repaired relationships with South Shore, Hedgewick, Auburn Gresham, Chatham, North Lawndale communities to engage in conversations about having an alternative school within their neighborhood. ● Trained five charter management organizations and their 15 principals on Board policies and CPS academic guidelines for effective school implementation and placement. ● Authored a standard evaluation process called CPS Graduation Pathways Standards for Excellence, in assessing alternative school’s instructional strategies, student engagement, classroom management, teaching and learning, professional development, and school leadership per educational institutions RFP. ● Coordinated CPS’ first two virtual high school programs for the Chicago Public Alternative High School network.

● Authored Chicago Public Schools’ first ever-citywide student teen anti-violence summit series. More than 50,000 students participated worldwide annually during citywide online teen summit series. ● Designed and oversaw a system-wide high school program called “Just Go! Student Attendance Club” designed to encourage students to create local programs and incentives that would get students interested in coming to and staying in school. The program was in 46 high schools in 2003-2007 influencing over 100,000 students. Attendance rates rose 20% in more than 30 high schools. Managed a budget of $10,000,000 for the program. ● Led CPS’ annual two-day citywide parent conference and resource vendor fair that featured more than 80 vendors and drew more than 40,000 parents and community members to the event. ● Oversaw external partnerships with such organizations as the Chicago Bears and Chicago Bulls, Office Depot, Power 92 and B96 radio stations, Universal Pictures, and the Chicago YMCA to increase the quantity and quality of student academic and attendance incentive programs.