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Nashville, TN, US

Nashville, TN, US

• Serve as Chief liaison between the Tennessee State Board of Education and Tennessee Department of Education.
• Collaborate with state board staff and department content teams to revise existing Prek-12 rules and policies in response to legislation, new statewide education initiatives, and research-backed best practices.
• Project manage across multiple layers of executive and cabinet-level department leadership to support policy and rule revision. Support work includes eliciting feedback from internal content experts and external.
• Lead strategy, engagement, and production process for proactive policy work, including authoring of policy white papers and personalized legislative reports designed to educate stakeholders about current department.
• Serve as secondary liaison to Tennessee General Assembly during legislative session. Legislative duties include direct lobbying, member outreach, bill tracking and analysis, drafting of original legislation, and.
• Manage full-time policy analyst.

Nashville, TN, US

• Led data collection, management, and analysis process culminating in the production of accountability and continuous improvement focused reports for Tennessee’s 38 educator preparation providers.
• Collaborated with state board research director to produce consumer-facing report card rating quality and effectiveness of Tennessee’s 38 educator preparation providers.
• Designed and led engagement sessions with working groups focused on improving educator preparation.
• Conducted research and policy analysis to inform state-level efforts to foster innovation in teacher preparation, including the expansion of unique teacher residency models.
• Collaborated with external researchers studying Tennessee’s educator preparation providers by consulting on research design and data collection.
• Managed full-time data analyst.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Served as Comptroller’s designee in House and Senate education committees during legislative session.
• Performed fiscal analysis and bill summary for legislation related to education.
• Authored large reports on Tennessee-specific topics in education policy at the request of legislators. Research topics included community schools, educator preparation, and remediation in higher education.
• Used Stata, Excel, and GIS to analyze student and educator-level data from Tennessee.

• National Honor Society faculty sponsor
• Coached and guided senior cohort through the college search and selection process

Washington, District OF Columbia, US

• Compiled, reviewed, and summarized research studies for inclusion in research backed indicators used by NCTQ to rate and rank the countries’ teacher preparation programs.
• Led presentations on new and relevant research studies to staff during research briefings.
• Authored policy memos and briefs on various studies relevant to NCTQs policy interests at the district and state level.
• Analyzed data trends in the evaluation of teacher preparation programs to determine the impact of NCTQ’s annual policy reports on how accreditation programs prepare teachers for the workforce.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Administer targeted math interventions to select students.
• Compile and analyze student data.
• Continuously critique and analyze effect of interventions for future implementation.

• Paired MS Performing Arts Standards with National Core Arts Standards.
• Paired MS Educator Code of Ethics with National Model Code of Ethics for Educators (MCEE).
• Collected, analyzed and created data reports on educator ethics violations.
• Created updatable document allowing for continuous analysis of educator misconduct.
• Summarized ethics violation case files for review committee.
• Created various editable documents for educator ethics violations review committee.

Clarksdale, Mississippi, US

• Co-authored district policy for student Chromebook usage.
• Coached and guided senior class on college application and scholarship process, including resume building, entrance essays, and FAFSA completion.
• Lead 55 AP English students in a Title 1 school with a 75% graduation rate to a 90% college acceptance rate.
• Combined and paired ACT standards with CCSS standards.
• Race to the Top 1:1 student technology initiative committee member.
• Volleyball and Tennis coach.

Master’S Degree, Education Policy Analysis

Master’S Degree, Curriculum And Instruction

Bachelor’S Degree, English Language And Literature/Letters