Rita Wright Email & Phone Number

United States

• Lead a team of 10+ Education Leaders serving as National Academic Advisors or Solutions Architects
• Provide support nationally for all product lines to promote a solution selling focus.
• Deliver sales and leadership sessions for state and large district opportunities as well as internal audiences
• Present relevant and current educational content and product information at company sponsored events and forums
• Support district customers with data analysis, problem solving, and related initiatives
• Serve as the education and product expert and support customer understanding and use of the programs and data through leadership presentations.

Southeast

• Present relevant and current educational content and product information at company sponsored events and forums
• Submit proposals for conference sessions and deliver those presentations at state and national conferences.
• Work with 16 District Account Executives to sell STAR Enterprise products and services across all assigned territories.
• Provide sales and leadership sessions in person and via webex across ten states.
• Collaborate with the sales force, product line managers and marketing department to create and help develop ideas that will grow the STAR product line.
• Serve as the STAR Enterprise expert and support customer understanding and use of the programs through leadership presentations

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Supervise on a constant, ongoing basis the translation of the district's educational philosophy, goals, and objectives into active terms that directly benefit each individual student.
• Supervises planning, budgeting, and implementation of all district programs and services that impact instruction. The areas include: Curriculum and Instruction, Federal Programs, Professional Learning, Guidance and.
• Provide fiscal leadership for budgets totaling over $45 million
• Provides direct supervision and leadership for 13 program area directors and 37 supervisors
• Coordinates proven, research-based methods and strategies for curricular reform for the 56 schools in the district
• Promotes research and development work to identify new and innovative programs and practices and then seeks and writes proposals for external funding for those innovations

Montgomery, Alabama, United States

• Advises and counsels the superintendent in all matters of instruction, curriculum, assessment, professional development, and all educational support functions including finance, facilities, and personnel
• Provides direct supervision and leadership for 2 assistant superintendents, 3 executive directors, and 57 principals
• Oversees implementation of district strategic plan and participates in community forums to provide plan updates to stakeholders
• Fiscal oversight of budgets totaling over $37 million
• Assists with major district initiatives and concerns includingo Carrying out a major facilities study and capital plan update that includes school grade configuration and zone changes, school closings and/or.
• Represents the school system at civic functions, state department meetings, legislative events, governmental boards, public events, etc.

• Plan and administer all system level activities related to curriculum and instruction including textbooks, pacing guides, formative assessments, etc.
• Direct all federal programs including planning, budgeting, implementing, and evaluating.
• Plan and implement system-wide strategies for developing, implementing, monitoring, and supporting curriculum and instruction models that will lead to academic improvement including the supervision of employees
• Assist and advise principals
• Administer programs and supervise personnel for technology, testing, special education, alternative education, adult education, advanced placement, gifted, school improvement, federal programs, preschool, and career.
• Establish and maintain instructional improvement by analyzing assessments and coordinating results with quality instructional practices.

• Establish and maintain instructional improvement by analyzing assessments and coordinating results with quality instructional practices.
• Responsible for designing and implementing full inclusion model for special education students.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct professional development activities related to curriculum, classroom instruction, system initiatives, assessment, and integration of technology into the curriculum.
• Conduct instructional reviews of both teachers and principals as outlined in the Calhoun County Guide for Planning and Monitoring Effective Instruction.
• Conduct PEPE evaluations for principals
• Provide leadership to school improvement teams and coordinate the school improvement planning process.

• Supervise the distance learning staff
• Plan and administer the $10M distance learning budget including all itineraries, travel claims, proposals, contracts, and purchase orders
• Organize the ACCESS Advisory Committee
• Serve as point of contact for governor’s office, legislators, program directors of other agencies
• Develop proposals, brochures, forms, reports, guidelines, etc.
• Write grants to promote and fund distance learning

• Establish and maintain instructional improvement by analyzing assessments and coordinating results with quality instructional practices.
• Administer instructional programs and services that improve student performance.
• Design and implement full inclusion model for special education students.
• Work with local administrators to implement quality curriculum programs.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct professional development activities related to curriculum, classroom instruction, system initiatives, assessment, and integration of technology into the curriculum.
• Conduct instructional reviews of both teachers and principals.

Education Specialist, Educational Leadership

Ma In Education, Chemistry Education

Bs In Education, Science, Chemistry, English

Education

Transferred to JSU before graduating