Eric Brown M.Ed. Email & Phone Number

A Cleveland Ohio native, Eric moved to Arizona in 2010 after successful acceptance into The New Teacher Project’s (TNTP) highly selective Teaching Fellowship. The goal of the program is to offer students, grappling with the challenges of poverty, great teachers who are dedicated to altering the persistent socioeconomic disparity of academic performance between groups of students. Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Communication from Cleveland State University, and a Master's degree in Education from Arizona State University. His background focuses on optimizing educational strategies to enhance social change, with a focus on topics related to disadvantaged populations. Eric has experience in long-term planning, behavior modeling, curriculum design, data collection, high-level predictive analysis, and also leading and creating teams. Working on his graduate degree in 2012, Eric did extensive research in improving the traditional grading model in low-income schools, and the importance of technology in the classroom. In 2011, as an English Teacher, Eric was able to get a whopping 89% of his students to pass the Arizona Instruments to Measure Standards (AIMS) reading test. In 2008, in partnership with the Young Democrats of America (YDA), he did volunteer work, strategic planning, and canvassing for the Obama Campaign. In 2006, he worked on Mayor Frank G. Jackson’s Youth Summer Employment program, in Cleveland Ohio, with Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU). His hobbies include: photography, video editing, graphic design, and writing. Additional Skills: Advanced level skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; Mac OS Keynote, Pages, and Numbers; Sales (phone and in-person); excellent verbal and written communication skills; Curriculum design; technology integration; advanced writing and editing; and graphic design.