Nick Carson Email & Phone Number

Napa, Ca, Us

Remote

-Lead the planning, launch, and implementation of team-based strategic school staffing models across K-12 schools nationwide.-Collaborate with school system leaders to design innovative staffing structures that address student outcomes, teacher shortages, and burnout.-Oversee and support a regional team of coaches providing direct implementation support to schools.Drive continuous improvement by tracking growth and outcomes, informing regional and national strategy for team-based models.-Build capacity for coaching teams, providing feedback, and ensuring the achievement of implementation goals.-Partner with schools to ensure sustainable, deeper, and personalized learning environments through educator teams​.

Remote

• Drive growth in customer acquisition and sales revenue within government and nonprofit sectors.• Strategize with potential buyers to align Childcare Management Software (CCMS) with their organizational goals, resulting in improved operational efficiency and cost savings.• Establish and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers in government agencies and nonprofit organizations.• Successfully closed deals and negotiated contracts, resulting in increased market share and revenue.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless implementation and high customer satisfaction.

Delivered support and accountability to a portfolio of KIPP regions to empower their outcomes, equity, sustainability, and growth.• Managed a diverse set of client relationships with CEOs and their senior teams in multiple KIPP regions to drive annual goals and KPIs. Partnership resulted in increased academic outcomes and strengthened organizational effectiveness.• Designed, executed, and led a national program strategy to prepare KIPP single site regions (one school) to grow into multi-school regions while also improving school performance. • Drove adoption of technical products and services from KIPP Foundation (national organization) to improve performance of local regions by customizing the product and service to meet the region’s need. • Collaborated with senior teams and local Boards of Directors to create multi-year strategic business plans, detailing new school openings, improved replicable systems, and organizational build out. • Proactively advised CEOs and senior leadership teams to increase their collective leadership capacity to meet organizational goals focused on academics, local advocacy efforts, and inclusive talent practices.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Trusted advisor and coach for principal community within a network of 6 elementary schools in San Francisco Unified School District. Goal: To adopt and implement a school transformation model designed to improve academic outcomes. This resulted in significant student achievement gains (5 – 9 percentage point gain on state test) and outperforming the state and district averages.• Interim District Partnership Director (Cabinet level position) for six months and co-led organization-wide decision-making around HR, performance management and program implementation.• Planned and facilitated professional development sessions for a network of 6 principals, district leaders and over 100 teachers.• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on specialized knowledge to the organization around school leadership and systems-thinking transformation efforts for elementary schools.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Led academic, cultural, and operational functions of the school, which resulted in KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy became the highest performing middle school in San Francisco Unified School District, top 10% of all schools in California and named a 2007 California Distinguished School.• Served as Interim Principal for 6 months. Managed a team of teachers to achieve some of the highest student achievement scores in the district.

San Francisco, Ca

• Drove student performance from the 23rd to 33rd percentile (English Language Arts). • Drove student performance from 44th to 81st percentile (Math). 78 percent of the students ended the year proficient on the state test, outperforming both the district and state averages (Math). • Planned and managed Saturday school program with 20 volunteers and 150 students.

San Francisco Bay Area

Erikson School is a non-public school that provides a therapeutic school program for students ages 8-19. The school serves students with learning, emotional and/or behavioral special needs, and all students have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Drove YOY increased performance on Stanford 10 district assessment in both reading and math.• Served as a 5th grade faculty liaison to Federal Bureau of Investigation for FBI sponsored Junior Special Agents Program within school.• Selected as Writing Coach for DC Scores, a national writing and soccer program integrated in under-served schools.