Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Believing education is the most durable tool a community has to empower its citizens to participate, advocate, and shape the place they live. When community leads, student success follows.
- Orchestrated expansion of 8 personalized/blended classrooms to 200+, district-wide - Led development, implementation, and monitoring of district improvement goals for Teaching & Learning - Led implementation of district-wide DEI initiatives to decrease student equity gaps from 45% to 26% in 5 years - Maximized multi-million dollar budget - Analyzed and effectively delegated for project completion - Enabled multiple resources to work as unified team Results - closed the racial equity gap by 19% between 2013 - 2017.
Lexington fellows began working together as a personalized learning fellowship sponsored by the Lexington Institute, a non-profit policy think tank focused on education reform. Over the course of two rounds for the fellowship over 100 leaders applied for a coveted spot. “I am thrilled with the caliber of these superintendents we have selected to be part of this program,” said Don Soifer, Executive Vice President of the Lexington Institute. “The commitment to being leaders for personalizing learning for all students that each of these fellows has shown makes me confident for the future of American education.”