ABOUT · THE PEOPLE
WHO'S BUILDING THIS.
CORE TEAM
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Alexandra Rathmann-Noonan
Director of School Support, New York Performance Standards Consortium
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Christine DonFrancesco
Senior Policy Analyst, Assessment and Accountability, National Education Association
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Harry Feder
Executive Director, National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)
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Jenny Poon
Partner, Center for Innovation in Education
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Karen Perry
Executive Director, University of Kentucky Center for Next Generation Leadership
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Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor, Psychology, Urban Education & Public Scholarship, City University of New York
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Mica Baum-Tuccillo
Mellon Public Humanities Fellow, PublicsLab, CUNY Graduate Center; Faculty Lecturer, John Jay College (CUNY)
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Michael Rothman
Senior Director, Education Pathways, City University of New York
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Paul Leather
Partner, Education Policy and State and National Relationships, Center for Innovation in Education
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Pam Moran
Executive Director, Virginia School Consortium for Learning
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Tony Monfiletto
Former Director, Instituto del Puente at Future Focused Education
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Doannie Tran
Managing Partner, Center for Innovation in Education
LEAD ORGANIZATIONS
Center for Innovation in Education
National experts in performance-based assessment and reciprocal accountability.
National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)
Advocates for fair, accurate, and educationally sound assessment for students, teachers, and schools.
ADVISORS
Steve Sireci
Professor of Psychometrics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jal Mehta
Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Jason Glass
Superintendent
Palo Alto Unified School District
Pedro Noguera
Dean
USC Rossier School of Education
Elliot Washor
Founder
Big Picture Learning
Ross Wiener
Independent Consultant (Ross Wiener LLC); Senior Advisor, Field-Building, Initiative on Superintendent as Civic Leader
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Lara Evangelista
Executive Director
Internationals Network for Public Schools
Lu Young
Chair; also clinical associate professor and director of the Center for Next Generation Leadership
Kentucky Board of Education; University of Kentucky
Susan Lyons
Principal Consultant
Lyons Assessment Consulting
Mike Hesketh
Shelby County business owner; community co-leader of Shelby County's Local Laboratory of Learning (as of 2022)
Kentucky
Gretchen Morgan
VP, Policy
Linked Learning Alliance
Daaiyah Bilal-Threats
Senior Director, Education Policy & Implementation Center
National Education Association (NEA)
Babak Mostaghimi
Founding Partner
LearnerStudio
Demi Edwards
CEO and Co-Founder
Education Reimagined
Ashley White
Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education; inaugural Educational Fellow for Equity, Access, and Opportunity
University of Wisconsin–Madison; NAACP
Veda Johnson, MD
Pediatrician; founder of school-based health systems in DeKalb County
Emory University
Meisha Ross-Porter
Visiting Senior Fellow
Center for Educational Innovation
Gaby Lopez
Founder
Overflow Education Partners
Tommy Chang
CEO
New Teacher Center
Raima Dutt
Senior Advisor
KSVT
Trace Brooking
Student Representative
Kentucky Board of Education
Stuart Slavin, MD
Fmr Associate Dean for Curriculum; Author of The Success Trap
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Mike Matsuda
Former Superintendent, Anaheim Union High School District; Senior Advisor to the Dean of the School of Education; Harvard Fellow
Loyola Marymount University; Harvard
Mike Fulton
Facilitator, retired superintendent
Success-Ready Students Network (Missouri)