Experience

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  Johns Hopkins University

  • Office of Government and Comuunity Affairs

  • Special Consultant, Office of the President

    • Nov 2015 - Present
    • Office of Government and Comuunity Affairs

    Corporate partnership coordination of the Pathways in Early College High School (PTECH) located in Baltimore's Dunbar High School. The Healthcare corporate partners are Johns Hopkins University and Medicine, the University of Maryland Baltimore, and Kaiser Permanente. IBM is a supporting partner and supports a technology focused PTECH program at Baltimore's Carver High School.

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  Spilman Education Services LLC

  • Baltimore, Maryland

  • Principal/Academic Director Creative City Public Charter School

    • Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
    • Baltimore, Maryland

    Recognized as a transformational leader in the field of educational leadership who successfully turned around four Baltimore City schools. This body of work includes leading Baltimore's first junior high school to middle school conversion (Woodbourne Junior High to Chinquapin Middle School), leading the transformation of a struggling middle school (Canton Middle School) into a nationally recognized middle school model within the Carnegie Corporation of New York's middle grades school reform initiative, and current success in turning around a young "arts integration" charter school (Creative City Public Charter School) that embraces a progressive educational philosophy.

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  Collegebound Foundation, Inc.

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Executive Director

    • Aug 1999 - Jun 2013
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    • Led the affairs and expansion of an urban college access educational non-profit foundation (CollegeBound Foundation), now nationally acclaimed as a cutting edge leader in the field of college access and college completion. Grew the organization’s annual budget from $850,000 to over $3 million. • Raised the awareness of CollegeBound Foundation, identified new opportunities, developed strong relationships with existing and potential individual and organizational donors across multiple and diverse constituencies, thus increasing the number of schools, grants and funders contributing to the organization and its mission. • Effectively led the design, implementation and expansion of CollegeBound’s Scholarship, Last Dollar Grants and College Access Advising Programs, supporting the organization’s mission of transforming students’ lives and helping them go to college, with a broader goal to prepare them to be members of Baltimore's workforce and contribute to the strengthening of the social and economic fabric of our city.

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  Canton Middle School

  • Principal

    • Aug 1989 - Aug 1999

    • Led the transformation of a low performing urban school by investing in teacher development and empowering teachers to become the primary decision makers in the school. Led the development of the implementation of a teacher designed curriculum that resulted in extraordinary student achievement gains and an increase in student attendance form 78% to 92%.• Led the design of a state-of-the-art educational program which was nationally recognized by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for designing a non-graded instructional program that focused on individually student growth and development while integrating computer, telecommunication, and distance learning technologies into every classroom.