Amy Vorenberg
Norfolk,CT
Summary
Experienced Head of School, including interim positions, to ensure stability in community, organizational strength and strategic partnership with Board of Trustees. Proven ability to lead and inspire teams, ensuring alignment with Board goals while fostering a culture of excellence.
Overview
40
40
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Director/Head of School
Nantucket Partnership for Children
Nantucket, MA
07.2024 - 06.2026
- Mentored 3staff on best practices, fostering professional development, collaboration, and team cohesion.
- Enhanced a culture of accountability and transparency within the organization to ensure mission alignment and operational excellence.
Interim Head of School
Shore Country Day School
Beverly, MA
07.2023 - 06.2024
- Oversaw budgeting processes to align financial resources with institutional priorities and long-term goals.
- Cultivated relationships with parents and community stakeholders, strengthening school partnerships and support systems.
- Carefully and respectfully reorganized the staffing model to align with budget realities, including eliminating over 20 FTEs.
Division Head
Indian Mountain School
Lakeville, CT
07.2020 - 06.2023
- Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 9, 310 students (85 in Lower School)
- Hired to enhance program in the Lower School.
- Developed remote program to include use of Dreambox, Lexia, and innovative curricular options for home learning during Covid pandemic.
Consultant/Division Head
King School
Stamford, CT
02.2018 - 06.2020
- Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 12, 690 students (140 in Lower School)
- Hired to partner with new Head of School to redesign the Lower School at King.
- Redesigned reporting structure, including creation of new reports and conference protocols.
- Introduced Responsive Classroom methodology to Lower School community, including implementation of new Assembly led by Grade 5 students.
Head of School
Beauvoir, National Cathedral Elementary School
Washington, DC
07.2013 - 01.2017
- Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 3, 396 students, 15-million-dollar budget.
- Worked with St. Albans School, National Cathedral School and Washington National Cathedral to collaboratively manage the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation.
- Redesigned Beauvoir’s administrative structure to support an enhanced culture of thinking, teaching and learning across the school.
- Redesigned teaching model across the school to build teacher capacity through team teaching.
- Developed programming to support diversity, equity and inclusion across the school, including a new initiative Kaleidoscope (parent diversity group).
Head of School
The Philadelphia School
Philadelphia, PA
08.2006 - 06.2013
- PreKindergarten – Grade 8, 412 students, 9-million-dollar budget.
- Worked with Board of Trustees to purchase and develop property from the City of Philadelphia.
- Repurposed a garage building into a Multipurpose Theater and developed a LEED certified Early Childhood Classroom building and gardens with over 14,000 square feet of new teaching spaces.
- Developed and achieved strategic plan, master plan, school size model, in support of property acquisition.
- Redesigned administrative structure, thematic curricular sequence, and teacher evaluation/professional development system.
- Raised over $6,000,000 in Every Inch a Classroom Capital Campaign, including two seven-figure gifts, to fund new teaching space in two buildings.
- Purchased property from the City of Philadelphia through Bond financing, renegotiated to conventional debt, for 8.3 million. Secured a $1,000,000 RACP grant.
- Student body grew by 50 students, from 360 to 410 children, in six years (2007-2012) and created school size model for future growth to 500 students.
Lower School Division Head
Shady Hill School
Cambridge, MA
07.2000 - 06.2006
- PreKindergarten – Grade 8, 510 students, (260 in the Lower School)
- Appointed Director of Curricular Program and Professional Development for the full faculty in 2005.
- Coordinated of all aspects of life in the Lower School: hiring, faculty evaluation, curriculum, student services, admission work, participation on the Administrative Council, and curricular innovations.
Third Grade Teacher
Shady Hill School
Cambridge, MA
08.1994 - 06.2000
- Taught sixteen third graders, including Central Subject on Island Cultures (Puerto Rico) and Whales.
- Designed and implemented curriculum in all subject areas, including language arts, math, science, and affective education.
- Created innovative curriculum on Media Literacy and empowering students as fully-literate in the age of information.
Third Grade Teacher
Fessenden School
Newton, MA
08.1991 - 06.1992
- Taught self-contained classroom, traditional curriculum and teaching environment.
- Dorm parent for sixteen 4th & 5th graders.
Assistant Director
Independent School Association of Massachusetts (now AISNE)
Milton, MA
08.1990 - 06.1991
- Coordinated programming for ISAM, including thirty conferences annually.
- Created teams for school accreditation processes.
Mixed-Age Group Teacher
Atrium School
Watertown, MA
05.1986 - 06.1990
- Team-taught in various configurations, including a Kindergarten/Grade One/Grade Two mix, Grade One-Grade Two mix, Grade Two- Grade Three mix, and Grade Three.
Education
Professional Leadership Coach Certification -
IPEC
08-2022
Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study - Educational Leadership
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
01-2019
Master of Science - undefined
Wheelock College (now Boston University)
Boston, MA06-1986
Bachelor of Arts - undefined
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH09-1984
Skills
- Community relations
- Program management
- Strategic planning
- Project management
- Team building
- Curriculum implementation
Affiliations
- MEMBER| THE HEADS NETWORK| 2024 - 2026
- BOARD MEMBER| ADVIS (ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE VALLEY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS |2008 – 2013
- BOARD MEMBER| KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION |2008 – 2010
- BOARD MEMBER| GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL |2015-2017
- MEMBER, DC LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITEE| AISGW (ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS GREATER WASHINGTON) |2014-2017
Timeline
Executive Director/Head of School
Nantucket Partnership for Children
07.2024 - 06.2026
Interim Head of School
Shore Country Day School
07.2023 - 06.2024
Division Head
Indian Mountain School
07.2020 - 06.2023
Consultant/Division Head
King School
02.2018 - 06.2020
Head of School
Beauvoir, National Cathedral Elementary School
07.2013 - 01.2017
Head of School
The Philadelphia School
08.2006 - 06.2013
Lower School Division Head
Shady Hill School
07.2000 - 06.2006
Third Grade Teacher
Shady Hill School
08.1994 - 06.2000
Third Grade Teacher
Fessenden School
08.1991 - 06.1992
Assistant Director
Independent School Association of Massachusetts (now AISNE)
08.1990 - 06.1991
Mixed-Age Group Teacher
Atrium School
05.1986 - 06.1990
Master of Science - undefined
Wheelock College (now Boston University)
Bachelor of Arts - undefined
University of New Hampshire
Professional Leadership Coach Certification -
IPEC
Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study - Educational Leadership
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Fundraising
- Developed relationships to secure over $6,000,000 in funding for capital projects at The Philadelphia School.
- Elevated Beauvoir’s Annual Giving to over $800,000, including first-time Faculty/Staff participation at 100%.
- Engaged community to raise over $650,000 at Beauvoir Auction, including over $220,000 in Fund-a-Scholar gifts.
Professional Development
- The Heads Network, Annual Conference 2026
- IPEC Professional Coach Program, 2021 – Certified in 2022
- Certificate of Advanced Leadership, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
- SAIS Heads Conference with Michael Thompson & Rob Evans, Summer 2014 & 2016
- Reggio Emilia Study Group, NAREA Tour 2015
- NAIS Diversity Institute for Heads, Summer 2010, facilitator Summer 2011
- NAIS New Heads Institute, Summer 2006
- NAIS/EE Ford Fellowship for Aspiring Heads, 2004 Cohort
- NAIS Annual Conference attendee since 1998
- Presenter: Collaborative Leadership (Philadelphia, 2013)
- Presenter: Media Literacy (Dallas, 2004)
- NAIS People of Color Conference attendee (eight years)
- David Mallery workshops on Administrator’s Life & New Teacher Institute
- Felton Media Literacy Scholar - Media Literacy Project at Babson College, Wellesley
- Curriculum Mapping with Heidi Hayes Jacobs