MY WORK leading KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT
In my capacity as the Managing Director of Knowledge Development, I led a team that worked to capture, develop, synthesize and share core knowledge and organizational insights. Specifically, our team was charged with leading the evolution of the Teaching As Leadership framework. We sought to codify the lessons from high-performing classrooms around the world (in partnership with other TFALL organizations) where we aimed to better understand the question, "what differentiates classrooms in marginalized communities, where students are leaving on a path of broadened opportunity?"
SYNTHESIZING KNOWLEDGE INSIGHTS TO PROVOKE ORGANIZATIONAL ALIGNMENT: "EMBRACING BROADER STUDENT OUTCOMES" WHITE PAPER
- In three years, we convened hundreds of conversations with luminaries in the education field, authored dozens of white paper proposals for policy shifts, and synthesized myriad perspectives to generate clear proposals for organizational action, this is an example.
- I authored this in January 2014, in my role as Chief of Staff to the SVP, Knowledge Development.
- As a result of this team's collective work, Teach For America has evolved its position on a number of important social and strategic questions. As a result of my individual contribution to this effort, TFA has broadened its definitions for the outcomes that matter most for students--from strict emphasis on academic achievement alone to a wide array of social, cultural and personal indicators.
- While this book was a team collaboration, I wrote and revised this chapter under the editorial guidance of my manager.
