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Tammie Causey-Konaté

New Orleans,LA

Summary

Dynamic and respected thought leader in the education sector, recognized for transformational thinking and exceptional relationship-building abilities. Proven track record of delivering high-quality work while navigating complex internal and external dynamics. Career experience spans multiple roles, including practitioner, scholar, researcher, and administrator, showcasing a comprehensive understanding of the educational landscape. Specializes in advancing leadership for the design and continuous improvement of education systems, effectively engaging communities to implement evidence-based strategies that enhance educator effectiveness and promote holistic student development.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Co-Lead Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest Training, Coaching, and Technical Support (TCTS) Facilitation Community of Practice (CoP)

AIR
01.2025 - 05.2025
  • Causey-Konaté helped to organize, facilitate, and manage meetings and supports for cadres of AIR TCTS consultants with shared interests and expertise in fostering knowledge exchange and continuous learning by actively curating discussions across the group and promoting best practices in meeting facilitation.

Advisor, Center on Fiscal Equity

U.S. Department of Education
10.2024 - 05.2025
  • Causey-Konaté was responsible for advising Center leadership and staff on considerations touching any and all aspects of the Center’s work and deliverables.

Principal Investigator (PI) and Project Director

The Wallace Foundation
07.2024 - 05.2025
  • Causey-Konaté and the AIR team designed and implemented a 2-year evaluation of Men of Color in Educational Leadership (MCEL) Resilient, Representative Leadership (RRL) Toolkit (a suite of professional learning leadership tools and resources) and the immersive leadership development process that delineates MCEL’s work with men of color serving in educational leadership roles in schools, districts, and beyond.

Project Co-lead, Supporting Early Career and Aspiring Teachers (SECAT)

Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest
01.2023 - 01.2024
  • Causey-Konaté, along with her task co-led and provided in-depth coaching and formative evaluation support to Louisiana Department of Education personnel. Support included, but was not limited to work sessions grounded in adult learning principles and utilizing implementation frameworks to detail effective practices relevant to survey development, focus groups, implementation rubric development.

Implementation Lead, Supporting Diverse and Inclusive Educator Environments (SIDEE), Minnesota

REL Midwest
01.2022 - 01.2024
  • Causey-Konaté led six coaches in facilitating the co-design of content, and providing in-depth coaching consultation to St. Louis Public School District and Red Lake School District leaders to support them in refining and creating conditions for recruiting, supporting, and retaining educators. Via all-staff social perceptiveness training, leadership coaching for school leadership teams, in addition to instructional leadership coaching and affinity group for educators of color and Indigenous educators, the REL Midwest TCTS team provided over 24 hours of support to each participating school.

Co-PI and Project Director

The Wallace Foundation
10.2021 - 05.2025
  • Causey-Konaté and the AIR team were part of a $102 million Wallace Foundation initiative to examine principal pipelines. In this work, AIR collaborated with a broad range of partners, including researchers and scholars from The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brown University, Columbia Teachers College, UCLA, and WestEd to study eight large, high-needs school districts that will create principal pipelines grounded in equity.

Research-Practice Partnerships (RPP) Network Co-Lead

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
01.2020 - 01.2024
  • Causey-Konaté, along with her task co-lead, recruited, selected and supported a network of eight RPPs from six states across the nation to engage RPPs in community-led research and innovations to optimize pandemic-related educational experiences and leverage lessons learned for the benefit of underrepresented students. RPPs received customized coaching and research support from AIR TA consultants and researchers to advance the vision of their RPPs.

Senior TA Consultant

American Institutes for Research (AIR)
05.2013 - 05.2025
  • Tammie Causey-Konaté is a Senior Consultant at American Institutes for Research and Advisor to the Center on Fiscal Equity. Her work centered systemic transformation for student success and was grounded in implementation science and continuous improvement efforts.

CEO and Principal

ImpactEd Enterprises, LLC
04.2025 - Current
  • Tammie Causey-Konaté is CEO and Principal of Impact-Ed Enterprises, LLC. Impact-Ed advances rigorous research and sound teaching, coaching, and technical support practices that transform the educational enterprise for the realization of sustainable change that yields impactful solutions.

PI and Project Director

Sunflower County Consolidated School District
12.2021 - 02.2024
  • Causey-Konaté led a project that successfully guided school leadership teams in 13 schools in a Mississippi Delta school district through six stages of systemic change for system-wide implementation of trauma-informed, socially and emotionally restorative practices for reversing trends of exclusionary discipline and mediocre academic performance.

Advisor, NSI Evaluation Project

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
01.2021 - 04.2022
  • Causey-Konaté supported the NSI Evaluation team in applying improvement frameworks to expand conceptualizations of continuous learning and apply learnings to the coding and analysis of data collected in evaluation of continuous improvement of schools in 31 NSI operated by 25 intermediaries.

Project Co-Lead, Foundational Factors Necessary for Establishing Educational Equity in Racine Unified School District (RUSD)

REL Midwest
10.2020 - 12.2021
  • Causey-Konaté and her co-lead provided in-depth coaching and consultation to RUSD district leaders to support them in identifying key problems of practice based on examination of existing district data (such as the number of applications and offers, as well as retention rates); determining root causes of key problems; and identifying and applying pertinent evidence-based practices associated with improving teacher retention, particularly in schools serving large populations of students experiencing poverty.

Deputy Director

Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC), AIR, ED
01.2014 - 01.2019
  • Causey-Konaté provided support and leadership to five state managers and 15 project leads in assisting SEAs in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina with improving schools. Her work responded to unique educational obstacles faced by underserved populations and resulted in a number of statewide changes likely to improve outcomes and increase access to quality education through projects on college and career readiness; improving accountability systems, educator talent, and standards and assessment.

Education

Ph.D. - Educational Administration

University of New Orleans
01.2000

M.Ed. - Curriculum and Instruction

University of New Orleans
01.1996

B.A. - Secondary English Education

University of New Orleans
01.1986

Skills

  • Education system development
  • Comprehensive training and coaching
  • Implementation of evidence-based strategies for educator enhancement
  • Interdepartmental collaboration expertise
  • Strategic solution design
  • Organizational change management
  • Process optimization
  • Strategic visioning
  • Risk mitigation strategies
  • Global perspective
  • Effective decision making
  • Operational excellence

Affiliations

  • American Educational Research Association
  • Courageous Conversation
  • Equitable Evaluation Initiative
  • National Equity Project
  • National Implementation Research Network

Certification

  • Executive Presentation Skills, Communispond, 2017
  • Board of Examiner, National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), 2001
  • English 6–12 Valid Teaching Certificate, Louisiana Department of Education, 1986
  • National Equity Project. Trained November 2023 – February 2024 in Designing and Facilitating Meetings

LANGUAGE

English–Native

Timeline

CEO and Principal

ImpactEd Enterprises, LLC
04.2025 - Current

Co-Lead Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest Training, Coaching, and Technical Support (TCTS) Facilitation Community of Practice (CoP)

AIR
01.2025 - 05.2025

Advisor, Center on Fiscal Equity

U.S. Department of Education
10.2024 - 05.2025

Principal Investigator (PI) and Project Director

The Wallace Foundation
07.2024 - 05.2025

Project Co-lead, Supporting Early Career and Aspiring Teachers (SECAT)

Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest
01.2023 - 01.2024

Implementation Lead, Supporting Diverse and Inclusive Educator Environments (SIDEE), Minnesota

REL Midwest
01.2022 - 01.2024

PI and Project Director

Sunflower County Consolidated School District
12.2021 - 02.2024

Co-PI and Project Director

The Wallace Foundation
10.2021 - 05.2025

Advisor, NSI Evaluation Project

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
01.2021 - 04.2022

Project Co-Lead, Foundational Factors Necessary for Establishing Educational Equity in Racine Unified School District (RUSD)

REL Midwest
10.2020 - 12.2021

Research-Practice Partnerships (RPP) Network Co-Lead

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
01.2020 - 01.2024

Deputy Director

Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC), AIR, ED
01.2014 - 01.2019

Senior TA Consultant

American Institutes for Research (AIR)
05.2013 - 05.2025

M.Ed. - Curriculum and Instruction

University of New Orleans

B.A. - Secondary English Education

University of New Orleans

Ph.D. - Educational Administration

University of New Orleans

Publications

  • Causey-Konaté, T. (February 2023). What does equity require of me? The Learning Professional: The Learning Forward Journal.
  • Lachlan-Hache, L., Kimmel, L., Krohn, C., Dolby, D., & Causey-Konaté, T. (2023). How districts and states are addressing teacher turnover. The Learning Professional: The Learning Forward Journal.
  • Causey-Konaté, T.M. (August 2020). Taking Off Our Blindfolds, While We Wear Our Masks. REL Southwest Roundup Blog Series.
  • Causey-Konaté, T. M., & Montgomery-Richard, M. (Eds.). (2018). Called to Sankofa: Leading in Through, and Beyond Disaster: A Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2014 - 2019      Deputy Director.  Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) at The American Institutes for Research, funded by the U.S. Department of Education.


2005 - 2013      Educational Leadership Doctoral Program Coordinator and Associate Professor (tenured, 2011). Department of Educational Leadership, Counseling and Foundations, College of Education and Human Performance, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA.


2004 - 2007      Internal Consultant to Guinean West African Public Schools. Textbooks for a Global Society (TAGS), George W. H. Bush Presidential Literacy Initiative , Dillard University Division of Educational and Psychological Studies, New Orleans, LA.


2000 - 2005      Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor. Division of Educational and Psychological Studies, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA.

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