Kelley Simmons Email & Phone Number

Baldwin, Ga, Us

Gainesville, Georgia, United States

Gainesville, Georgia

Greater Atlanta Area

The Sunshine House is the nation's fourth largest child care company with 119 centers across nine states. Responsible for operations, leadership, and organizational development practices to ensure above average progress toward identified growth goals. We use a continuous improvement process to drive systemic alignment of resources and systems in order to provide high quality child development programs to children and families.

Alpharetta, Ga

The world's largest educational community, responsible for developing and executing large scale training and continuing education efforts for 27,000 schools located in 72 countries. o Developed content for State Directors of Education, Superintendents, and school leadership teams in the area of systems thinking, organizational effectiveness, continuous improvement, root cause analysis, data driven and standards based school improvement. o Created priority and goal driven plans to deliver trainings and evaluate effectiveness.o Created marketing plans and branding plans to increase awareness of the required training.o Consulted with IT department to build $10M state of the art intelligent data management software platform.o Consulted with International division to create and deliver worldwide access to training and educational opportunities. Created culturally competent training programs.

I am proud to serve as Executive Vice President of the National Association of Woman MBAs, Greater Atlanta chapter. An organization dedicated to the growth, empowerment, and development of women, this newly formed chapter is committed to serving professional/executive women in the Atlanta area. Send me an email if you are interested in more information! Don't worry if you don't have an MBA--other professional degrees are applicable. Come join us and be a part of something great!

Absolute Success is an educational consulting company located in the Atlanta, GA metro area. We specialize in providing schools and government education agencies support in technical services, leadership development, and powerful change management initiatives, all designed to increase capacity and student achievement across the nation and globe. Additionally, we provide support and strategic advice to education business owners in business growth and development, program evaluation, strategic planning, marketing, messaging, and branding efforts.Some recent engagements include:*U.S. Department of Education--engaged by the Office of Innovation and Improvement to review applications for the Charter Schools Program Grant.*Blackman-Jones Consent Decree School Review Team--engaged by the Special Master of the Federal Court to conduct deep dive reviews of schools in order to determine DCPS' progress in meeting the requirements of the Consent Decree.*Futures Education--engaged to redesign corporate messaging and branding, redesign corporate website, and consult with proposal writing.*Louisiana State Department of Education--engaged to conduct site visits to charter schools in the Recovery School District and to provide feedback regarding strengths and challenges facing individual schools.*American Academy of Liberal Education--served on team conducting site review of schools applying for accreditation. Expert on the special education and teacher quality components.*DC Charter School Special Education Cooperative--engaged to design organizational development plan including web based messaging and branding. *Capital Schools, Inc.--engaged to conduct market research on the viability of creating a new business line.*LearningHouse, Inc.--engaged to create graduate level on-line courses in Special Education.*International Advisor--engaged to assist the government of Qatar in its efforts to reform the nation' schools.

Responsible for managing the fulfillment of professional development contracts for public and non-public schools in the Mid-Atlantic region. Consult with school leaders to create school wide professional development plans. Assist in identifying funding sources for PD under NCLB. Manage the logistics and delivery of workshops to ensure quality and commitment to professional standards.

Ph.D., Education/Special Education

In addition, I have a Masters Degree from American University in Special Education and an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M.

B.S., Elementary Education

H. S., General