Providing legal and policy support to school districts and education organizations throughout Washington State.

• Reenergized the district’s government relations program • Grew the district’s partnership initiative and drove two partnership policies, resulting in a high-profile grant to establish intensive community partnerships in three schools• Oversaw a complete School Board policy overhaul, including developing best practice School Board governance policies and working with domain experts to ensure content area policies represented best practice• Increased School Board… Show more • Reenergized the district’s government relations program • Grew the district’s partnership initiative and drove two partnership policies, resulting in a high-profile grant to establish intensive community partnerships in three schools• Oversaw a complete School Board policy overhaul, including developing best practice School Board governance policies and working with domain experts to ensure content area policies represented best practice• Increased School Board satisfaction by restructuring the School Board office into a professional, proactive support team• Drove a new advertising policy to allow selected advertising that resulted in full funding for an improved annual District calendar• Built trust and credibility as the go-to person for politically challenging issues coming before the School Board Show less

• Lead staff on two successful rounds of school closure, including leading key research staff, ensuring legal requirements were met, developing community engagement processes, liaison to School Board and senior staff, and primary author of preliminary and final recommendation reports • Co-lead on developing new Superintendent transition process when Dr. Goodloe-Johnson arrived in 2007• Co-lead developing the new District-wide strategic plan, including briefing senior staff and… Show more • Lead staff on two successful rounds of school closure, including leading key research staff, ensuring legal requirements were met, developing community engagement processes, liaison to School Board and senior staff, and primary author of preliminary and final recommendation reports • Co-lead on developing new Superintendent transition process when Dr. Goodloe-Johnson arrived in 2007• Co-lead developing the new District-wide strategic plan, including briefing senior staff and School Board, developing community engagement process, working with labor partners, identifying strategic plan projects and goals, and writing the plan itself; the plan received a unanimous vote by the School Board in June 2008 Show less

• Represented the district in all academic areas, including special education, bilingual, advanced learning, truancy, health• Lead staff on implementation of the Leave No Child Behind Act