Rachel Scott Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, United States

Long Island City, New York

We are currently implementing and learning from our culturally and linguistically responsive partnership with schools and central offices, aimed at reconfiguring school leadership and central office work to support culturally relevant pedagogy in the classroom. Informed by liberatory design as well as expansive learning, we aim to function as true partners in the work, learning and refining our practice together.Also working nationally as a designer and facilitator of adult learning with school systems across the country.

Long Island City, New York

Lead the development of organizational strategy related to online and blended learning for school and district leaders, as well as the development of products and services in this area. NYCLA successfully converted 90% of our face-to-face engagements to virtual ones in the era of COVID-19. These engagements included intensive multi-day institutes like Foundations of Principal Supervision and aspiring principals' programs in various districts around the country as well as virtual facilitation training. We focused particularly on establishing online environments that created the conditions necessary for participants to engage in productive virtual conversations about race and equity.Specific products we developed included a set of self-guided online "mentor modules" for sitting principals overseeing "resident" principals as part of an aspiring principals' programs. Modules can be used in multiple ways by program administrators to support mentors, who play a key role in the success of aspiring principals. We have also offered a "blended residency" experience for aspiring principals. These developing leaders served as yearlong "residents" in selected school sites under the guidance of mentor principals. Throughout the year, the cohort came together regularly (both in person and online) to work through a curriculum aligned with their leadership responsibilities.

Brooklyn, Ny

I worked with educators, nonprofits, school district administrators, and publishers to create and improve programs and curricula that supported adult learning--especially when that learning was related to the improvement of K-12 public education. This work included the development of strategic plans, theories of change, program guides, online courses, curricula and training materials of various kinds, and tools that enabled program evaluation.Clients included: Teaching Channel, Ramapo for Children, the Office of Achievement Resources at the New York City Department of Education, Kathleen Cushman, the T. Colin Campbell Foundation, Fremont Unified School District, and Springboard Schools (now Pivot Learning Partners).

Managed innovative community-based social marketing campaigns aimed at improving public health in underserved populations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Projects I worked on include the "Dogs Are Talking" Syphilis Awareness Campaign, the California Breathing Asthma Awareness Campaign, and the Go Folic! Women's Nutrition Project.

Led and supervised a five-person team responsible for professional development, knowledge management, knowledge development and performance monitoring at an organization that provided coaching assistance to principals and grade-level teams of teachers.

Led the development of a coaching model intended to support school and district leaders. Designed and delivered professional development to a cadre of 70+ executive coaches working with those leaders. Provided individual coaches with support and guidance as they led their clients through the steps of the change process. Created tools and rubrics for both clients and coaches.

B.A., Music

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