Chief Executive Officer

• Jan 2023 - Present

Senior Vice President Operations

• Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

Added 1.2M in direct sales/fundraising revenue since February. Full P&L responsibilities of 20M budget. Lead a 280 person team across eight school and clinic facilities. Reversed a steep 3-year 40% enrollment decline and turned into a growing organization for the first time since 2019. Revived Outreach home learning business, increasing revenue by 40%. Enriched family supports by adding after school care and therapy to our offerings. Added 1.2M in direct sales/fundraising revenue since February. Full P&L responsibilities of 20M budget. Lead a 280 person team across eight school and clinic facilities. Reversed a steep 3-year 40% enrollment decline and turned into a growing organization for the first time since 2019. Revived Outreach home learning business, increasing revenue by 40%. Enriched family supports by adding after school care and therapy to our offerings.

Chief Executive Officer & Superintendent

• Jul 2019 - Feb 2022

Full P&L responsibilities for a 70M budget. Created Portrait of a Warrior social/emotional competencies we want students to have at graduation. Collaboration, Communication, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Empathy, and Perseverance Worked with a representative group to create the Transcend 2026 strategic plan. Includes full stakeholder agreement to adopt deeper learning & project-based learning pedagogy as the core instructional model. Established educator diversity program to increase the number of teachers of color in the profession. Adding Makerspaces to each elementary and middle school. Creatively allocating ESSER funds to construct four high bay skilled trade lab spaces and a career center at Wayne High School. Established K-9 STEM summer school program. Led districtwide response to COVID-19. Show less

Chief Executive Officer & Superintendent

• Jul 2010 - Jul 2019

Created the Deeper Learning Training Center (DLTC) in 2016, with over 200 visitors seeing our schools in action over the past several years. Through the DLTC, established an alternative revenue stream for our schools as we have begun charging visitors a fee to visit our schools and see K-12 Project Based Learning in action. Through the DLTC, we created and charged for over four professional development conferences with teachers, administrators, and students teaching students and educators from other districts. 100% student graduation rate for the classes of 2012, 2015, 2016 100% success rate in passing levies Passed a 7.4 mill new emergency tax levy during the recession in November, 2012 with 64% of the vote Successfully reduced the annual budget by 9% without significantly increasing class sizes Middle School named Ohio Middle School “Team of the Year” for 2016-17 Named on Newsweek’s “Best High School” list for first time ever in 2013 and four of last five years (2013-2017). Number one or two rated school district in entire Miami Valley all four years. Yellow Springs Schools invited into the prestigious ILN (Innovative Learning Network) in 2014. One of 15 districts statewide. Worked with legislators to construct and pass legislation that allows ILN (Innovative Learning Network) districts to apply for waivers from assessment, evaluation, and report card requirements. Recognized by the Dayton Daily News for showing the greatest gain in OGT scores of any school district in the Miami Valley Collaboratively led a district-wide pedagogical shift to Project Based Learning Raised average district ACT scores from 22 to 25 Improved district performance index from 98 to 101 Created the Yellow Springs Schools Capital and Endowment Fund and secured $150,000 in seed money Led a district-wide shift to Google Docs for document creation and collaboration Improved district/building websites & created new brand/mantra (“Fearless Thinkers”) Show less

Adjunct Professor - Education Law

• 2013 - 2014

Instructing graduate students in an M.Ed./Principal licensure program using a Problem Based Learning pedagogical approach. Instructing graduate students in an M.Ed./Principal licensure program using a Problem Based Learning pedagogical approach.

Middle School Principal

• Aug 2008 - Jul 2010

School earned prestigious Soar Award from Battelle for Kids for making significant value-added growth (top 2%) in my final year as principal Performance Index was #1 for Middle Schools in Ohio We improved Performance Index from 107-109 We decreased OAA failure rate for African American students by 50% in reading and 56% in science We decreased OAA failure rate for special education students by 33% in reading We decreased OAA failure rate for economically disadvantaged students by 60% in reading, 42% in math, and 69% in science Collaboratively developed and implemented a Response to Intervention (RTI) system in reading and math Adopted universal screeners and progress monitoring for the first time Instructed educators in Culturally Responsive Practices Show less

Middle School Principal

• Jul 2005 - Jul 2008

Improved state rating from Continuous Improvement to Effective We moved from meeting 33% of state indicators to 71% Our Performance Index went from 88-93 Over 60% reduction in out of school suspensions Over 30% reduction in in-school suspensions Led a school with 100 staff members and over 1,300 students Created the Accelerated Learning Center (ALC), a peer tutoring center Improved state rating from Continuous Improvement to Effective We moved from meeting 33% of state indicators to 71% Our Performance Index went from 88-93 Over 60% reduction in out of school suspensions Over 30% reduction in in-school suspensions Led a school with 100 staff members and over 1,300 students Created the Accelerated Learning Center (ALC), a peer tutoring center

Assistant Principal

• Aug 2004 - Jul 2005

We improved our state rating from Continuous Improvement to Effective Collaborated with community businesses in creating an attendance incentive for students Translated for many Spanish speaking families We improved our state rating from Continuous Improvement to Effective Collaborated with community businesses in creating an attendance incentive for students Translated for many Spanish speaking families