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• Reduce overwhelming amounts of student-level data into a manageable number of essential questions to be asked and answered routinely by teachers, principals and district administrators using K12 Lift visualizations:- Is our Tier 1 instruction effective? For whom?- What percentage of our students are growing quickly enough?• Model for school principals how to introduce K12 Lift visualizations to faculties, and how to lead evidence-driven conversations with individual teachers. To date, K12 Lift has presented to dozens of faculties and other stakeholder groups and has led more than 200 teacher-level conversations.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Designed and delivered on-site support to Florida’s 400+ underperforming schools and districts through five regional executive directors and a staff of approximately 100 school improvement specialists• Coordinated the ongoing development of Florida’s Continuous Improvement Management System (www.floridacims.org), an online platform created to integrate tenets of problem solving into district and school improvement plans• Convened district and school leaders around topics of common concern for purposes of learning, sharing, and guiding state support

Palatka, Fl

• Built and led a district Data Driven Instruction team that co-wrote and co-implemented a $7 million Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grant• Designed and prototyped dashboards for attributing student learning gains to teachers, contributing to Putnam’s superintendent being named Florida’s first District Data Leader of the Year by the Florida Department of Education• Designed and implemented an energy management program that used short cycle improvement data visualizations to reduce annual energy costs by 20%, ultimately saving more than $1.5 million over four years

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Sigma Phi EpsilonPresidential Scholar; Barry Goldwater Scholar