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Lifelong and avid learner, exceptional listener, and engaging storyteller with proven ability to create vision, strategy and execute with impact. A bold and courageous leader who builds high performing teams. Cultivator of strong, trusted, and lasting relationships with diverse constituencies. Jonathan is a former school superintendent, foundation president, non-profit leader and entrepreneur, and life-long believer in putting children at the center of education, Jonathan spent over four years running the public schools in Sacramento, known as “America’s Most Diverse City.” An outsider to education by trade (formerly a labor law attorney and non-profit leader) but a passionate advocate for equity and system-wide change, Raymond implemented bold initiatives to transform the school district around a vision that focused on supporting the whole child. Highlights included transforming some of the district’s poorest performing schools in the neediest neighborhoods to some of the highest performing, raising graduation rates, expanding early education, summer learning programs, dual-language programs, college and career pathways, and introducing salad bars and healthier meals, and social and emotional learning to the curriculum. His journey in Sacramento was about changing the culture in the neediest schools and throughout the school district to one of excellence and demonstrating, in a time of great financial stress, that we can do something dramatic and bold when kids' futures are at stake.Jonathan was a Fellow at the Broad Superintendents Academy and he completed the Executive Management Program at Harvard Business School. He holds a JD from the George Mason Law School in Arlington, VA and holds an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he also earned his BA.He recently served as president of the Stuart Foundation in San Francisco, started his own consulting practice teaching and coaching superintendents (JPR - Taking Risks for Kids https://jpraymond.org/ ), and is currently serving as Executive Director for the Massachusetts Covid-19 Relief Fund, a humanitarian efforts to support the communities and residents throughout Massachusetts impacted by the response to Covid-19.

Listed skills include Educational Leadership, Staff Development, Curriculum Design, Non Profits, and 36 others.