Get Yours today! School and district Leaders delivering brilliantly across difference in the Partners Book by Cohen Change Agents: Transforming Schools from the Bottom Up. Preorder it today! https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/author/justin-cohen Students of color living through the challenges of poverty getting the opportunity to thrive! Derek Mitchell has been the CEO of Partners in School Innovation since 2009. Under Derek’s leadership of “Partners,” the organization has adapted to a dynamic educational landscape and grown to address an expanding need for equity-centered school improvement. Partners has joined with national funders such asthe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation to help educators build their capacity to serve some of the most challenged communities in the United States. Along the way, Dr. Mitchell has published reflections about Partners’ work in a variety of journals and blogs such as Phi Delta Kappan, EdSource, and Leadership magazine.Before coming to Partners, he earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from UCLA; served as the director of technology and student achievement for the Oakland Unified School District in California; supported district-wide reform across the country for the Stupski Foundation; and was the executive director of theOpportunity Zone in Prince George’s County in Maryland.
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