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San Francisco, California, Us

Partners in School Innovation’s mission is to transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives. We accelerate, strengthen and sustain improved teaching, learning and achievement in under-performing public schools and districts.Applying our distinctive Results-Oriented Continuous Improvement approach, our work focuses on:* Strengthening leaders’ abilities to concentrate on student outcomes and align school resources* Creating an integrated system for teacher professional learning rooted in the continuous- improvement process* Building a strong instructional program geared to Common Core standards* Cultivating a deep commitment to equity and a 'growth mindset' in students, teachers, and leaders.In each partnership, we work ourselves out of a job in 3-5 years by helping our partner schools and districts to develop the capabilities they need to continue improvement toward eliminating the achievement gap.

Upper Marlboro, Md, Us

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Direct responsibility for leading the ‘Opportunity Zone,’ the district school support unit responsible for 10 District Schools of Choice, (4 Charter Schools & 6 Thematic, Program schools). • Led, managed, evaluated, and built leadership capacity of school principals in the Opportunity Zone• Developed and managed the district school choice process, including new more equity-focused lottery process.• Developed, implemented and managed district New Schools Choice Initiative including solicitation recruitment and development of charter schools and contract schools.• Managed Department of Pupil Accounting & School Boundaries.• Managed development of educational specifications for all new school construction.• Managed budgets of 3 departments with over 300 employees including schools.ACHIEVEMENTS: • Successfully developed District Contract School Process • Successfully designed and developed New School Choice Initiative that increased the number of parents choosing schools by 30%, while increasing participation of meal-program eligible students by 17%.• Developed plan to increase the number of schools of choice by 200% within 3 years, using charter schools, contract schools and replicating popular district-developed schools.• Reorganized pupil accounting & school boundaries in order to deliver more efficient and effective customer service.• Developed district-wide plan to transform 18 elementary and middle schools into k-8 schools.

Managed Foundation Relationships with Leadership of Partner Districts in Jackson Public Schools (MS), Gilroy Unified Schools District (CA), Elgin/U46 (IL) & Baltimore City Public School System (MD).Developed Scope of Work and MOUs between Foundation and District Leaders in regards to supporting District-wide reform . Managed Foundation Fiscal and Human resources totally 11 Million Dollars in support of district reform efforts. Led Foundation team in implementation of the Foundation Approach to Reform in partner districts.Developed capacity of District leadership to plan, implement and evaluate reform efforts in the following areas:Leadership Development (Jackson, Baltimore, Elgin/U46)Curriculum & Instruction in Literacy (Jackson, Elgin/U46, Gilroy)Assessment & Accountability (Jackson, Gilroy)Technology & Data (Baltimore, Jackson, Elgin/U46)Governance (Jackson)Constituent Engagement (Jackson)Operations (Jackson, Gilroy)Human Resources (Elgin/U46)

Oakland, California, Us

Manage Office of Research & Equity (7 employees and 3 contractors) Construct and implement evaluation program for district educational initiatives including Charter & New Schools Program, Open Court, High Point, and Project SOAR. Design Oakland Accountability & Compliance components of the district’s strategic plan. Train school site leadership to use data to inform decisions, monitor progress and demonstrate institutional impact. Monitor district implementation of the Voluntary Resolution Plan. Develop and implement strategies to measure equal access to core curriculum, to evaluate teacher expectations of student achievement and to insure equal access to high quality educational interventions. Design and then manage the development of a district database management infrastructure. Develop policy for research in the district, and support structure for fielding and responding to data requests.

Managed 3 research projects totaling $7M over four years. Projects included development of software support for schools, including creation of survey and questionnaire measures and database report-building and manipulation products. Research methodology consisted of focus group testing, model-building activities, guided observations and additional qualitative methods like portfolio assembly and interviews. In addition, duties included managing seven graduate students engaged in work in schools in three states, and 4 computer software programmers: designing interfaces and software functionality, writing product specifications and revisions, and analyzing data using SPSS, SAS and Excel. Extensive writing responsibilities were required including proposals, technical reports and policy briefings (state of Caifornia & Federal).

Phd, Education

B.A., English

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