Megan Reed

• Participate in district-level decision-making to establish and review policies, goals, objectives, and initiatives supporting high schools.
• Collaborate with school leadership to ensure alignment between programs and practices
• Supports team's development of new innovations related to major workstreams
• Monitor and track overall progress of collaborative work related to strategic
  plan.
• Keep district leadership and other cross-sector stakeholders informed of progress related to redesign successes across BPS schools.
• Collaborate with philanthropic and strategic partners on innovative program design
• Establish cross-sector collaborative networks at high schools to design, oversee, and monitor the implementation of design plans.
• Work with schools to make necessary changes to their practices that will expand access to OSS programs and services

• Directly supervise Data and Analytics, Recruitment, Licensure, Performance Management and Employee Information Services/Leaves and Human Capital Development teams. Support in managing entire office of 60+ individuals.
• Manage and develop Human Capital Leadership team to increase managerial efficacy, set and monitor progress to KPIs and co-author vision and strategic plan for office.
• Collaboratively authored and facilitated successful engagement process around new School Leader contract for SY23-24.
• Increased focused and efficacy of Customer Service, Transactional Excellence and Collaboration in office.
• Oversaw expansion of office to include additional teams and employees.
• Facilitate partnerships with key unions and support in implementation of new and adapted union contracts.

Performed duties of Director of Leadership Development and:

• Developed agendas for and facilitated School Leader Cabinet where selected school leaders partner with Superintendent and senior level district officials to influence district policy and strategy.
• Set vision for and facilitated cross-functional, diverse professional learning team of 25 members to develop and facilitate all School Leader Professional Learning for 125 School Leaders.
• Strategized and collaborated across district to shape, communicate and roll out district wide instructional focus on Equitable Literacy and Teaming.
• Oversaw, grew and nurtured school leadership pipeline programs. Programs quadrupled in number and yielded majority candidates who reflect linguistic, ethnic and racial diversity of our students.
• Worked collaboratively across departments to align district supports for and knowledge of district instructional focus.
• Developed managerial and technical skills of direct reports.

• Oversaw operations of Office of Human Capital which supports 10,000 employees in Boston Public Schools.
• Organized and initiated district Human Capital COVID response in areas of staffing, leaves, hiring, evaluations.
• Reorganized teams and team meeting structures to maximize ability to focus on COVID response.
• Sat on executive cabinet team and engaged in district level decision making.

• Created and expanded New Leader Induction programming for new school leaders that included leadership development in anti-racist instructional and leadership practices.
• Expanded and oversaw New Leader mentoring program; developed professional learning and accountability measures for mentors.
• Onboarded all new leaders through Human Capital, operational and adaptive measures.
• Revised and managed processes for recruitment, cultivation and hiring of school leaders district wide. Included training and facilitating team of 40 central office staff to execute coherent, and rigorous screening days that are bias resistant.
• Screened over one hundred candidates yearly and yielded skilled candidate pool that reflects the linguistic, cultural, ethnic and racial diversity of our students.
• Collaborated on development of priorities and vision for Office of Human Capital as a part of OHC Leadership Team.
• Work with external partners such as The Wallace Foundation and The Wallace Foundation and The New Teacher Project to actualize best practices in the field in building school leader pipelines and selection processes.

• Served as instructional and executive leadership coach in public, parochial and charter schools.
• Built relationships and established brave spaces to enable learning and growth at leader and educator levels.
• Facilitated leader growth in areas of anti-racist practices, difficult conversations, setting and articulating vision, building teams, providing effective feedback and change management.
• Increased knowledge of Common Core State Standards at leader and teacher level and catalyze shifts to planning and implementing culturally responsive, grade level standards- aligned lessons that promote student independence.
• Developed building level facility in interpreting and responding to data and developing and sustaining healthy data practices.
• Planned and delivered network-wide school facing professional developments.
• Developed and delivered presentations to educate clients on topics related to coaching

• Chosen from nationwide applicants to facilitate a week of development for teachers and leaders from across the country on English Language Arts standards and equitable instruction.
• Received near perfect ratings for facilitation.

• Directly hired, coached and evaluated teaching staff and administrative staff.
• Co-constructed and implemented vision for instructional culture and excellence, co-directed school culture and operations.
• Oversaw and increased impact of Special Education and Tutoring departments.
• Shifted instructional practice and planning to align to Common Core standards, to center in cultural responsiveness and to inspire criticality and curiosity.
• Redesigned data analysis and data response to empower teachers to understand and respond to individual student strength and need and to reflect boldly on their teaching practice.
• Developed cross functional leadership team.
• Created and co-lead RTI team.
• Increased MCAS, SGP and attained competitive PARCC scores; attained one of highest sixth grade math Title One SGP's in the state and the highest ELA SGP in school history.
• Co-developed a continuum of instructional practices for 6th - 12th grades to support coherence of student experience.

• Graduated first seniors with one hundred percent four year college acceptance.
• Increased API (Academic Performance Index) of school by sixty five points.
• School recipient of Title One Academic Achievement Award.
• Facilitated partnership between UC Berkeley, Aspire Public Schools, community colleges to build and maintain our early college programming.
• Managed multi-million dollar budget for school site, reduced inherited deficit.
• Planned and led weekly professional development and leadership team meetings that promoted community, growth in practice and focus on student assets.
• Created and oversaw creation of elements of student life including athletics, clubs and student government.
• With staff, created extensive college readiness supports systems.
• Substantially increased staff retention and student wait list numbers.
• Received much higher than Aspire average on all principal staff and family feedback surveys.

• Created and managed first school-wide tiered student support and collaborative built student and adult culture.
• Worked directly with families to support student success.
• Led professional development and coaching that shifted mindsets of educators to focus on assets, knowledge and promise of our students and community.

Taught 4th, 5th grade and 7th and 8th grade Humanities, High School Boys advisory.

• Lead Educator -Fourth through Eighth Grades: garnered buy in for school wide policies, led data analysis, pedagogical reform.
• Aspire New Teacher and Advisory Trainer: Separately trained new Aspire educators in implementation of ELA guidelines and Advisory guidelines.
• Model Teacher: mentored and demonstrated lessons for new Aspire teachers.