TONYA WILLIAMS LEATHERS, Ed.D.

• Manage a portfolio of client engagements and contracts within the Southeastern region of the United States to meet client needs and achieve ambitious goals
• Drive the development of services by leveraging external networks across North Carolina and Virginia to impact K-12 education
• Manage a portfolio of contracts in North Carolina by effectively managing diverse teams and building inclusive team culture-utilizing excellent management skills to develop talent to achieve ambitious goals
• Provide organizational leadership by managing, motivating, and influencing a strong network of external stakeholders towards a clear vision supporting business development and impact goals.

• Worked with the Superintendent to align curriculum, instruction, and assessment in the high schools through evidence- based resources, professional development, and accountability measures.
• Drive Strategy and Innovation: Coached and evaluated eleven high school principals, two elementary school principals, the virtual academy principal, and the alternative school principal.
• Motivate and influence others to act: Facilitated monthly high school area principal's meetings focused on curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
• Lead Thriving Teams: Operationalized a Differentiated Support Plan to support all 47 schools; Operationalized Summer Learning for high schools.
• Support sustainability and growth: Collaborated with senior leadership every week to ensure cross-department planning, communication, and organization.
• Contribute to leadership and management teams: Developed a ninth-grade intervention plan during the 2021-22 school year; collaborated with the local School Board to enact policy change.

Led Riverside High School to Exceed Growth by state standards for 2017, 2018, and 2019 school years.

• Motivate and influence others to act: Partnered with the community to increase the human and financial resources, including being awarded a grant to initiate an Equity-Oriented Leadership Team
• Lead Thriving Teams: Implemented Restorative Practices, which decreased out-of-school suspensions by 50%.
• Support sustainability and growth: Researched, developed, and initiated a Freshman Academy to decrease the dropout rate.
• Contribute to leadership and management teams: Mentored seven Principal Interns from North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

As determined by national criteria, led Sherwood Githens Middle School to attain a National School to Watch.
• Motivate and influence others to act: Shifted the results of the Teacher Working Condition Survey from 70% to 90% of teachers believe Sherwood Githens is a good place to work and learn
• Lead Thriving Teams: Increased leadership capacity of teacher leaders, which contributed to becoming a National School to Watch.
• Contribute to leadership and management teams: Served as the North Carolina Middle Level Association Board member and served as its Secretary from 2012 to 2016.

Increased the overall proficiency rate by 15.1% at Eno Valley, which removed the low-performing school status.

• Lead Thriving Teams: With district support, earned a $1.25 million grant to focus on the achievement of African American males
• Support sustainability and growth: Collaborated with the community to increase parental participation in the PTA and increase the budget from $5,000 to $20,000 in a Title I school.

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• Led at the school level in the following manners: Management Team Leader, Team Leader, Sited-based Representative, and Track Coach.