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Ryan Etheridge, Ed.D.
Ryan Etheridge, Ed.D.
LEADER, EDUCATOR, DATA STRATEGIST
I help schools, districts, nonprofits, and education organizations turn complex data and promising ideas into practical systems for improvement.
I help schools, districts, nonprofits, and education organizations turn complex data and promising ideas into practical systems for improvement.
I am the principal of Fallston Elementary, a rural school in North Carolina. I'm passionate about rural education and school improvement. Fallston has risen from a school report card grade of D to a B in two years. I have an Ed.D. in K-12 Educational Leadership and Policy from Vanderbilt University where I focused my work on how school structure affects student outcomes.
Formerly, I served as the Director of Federal Programs where I managed the writing and management of federal and state grants. Before this role I was the Project AWARE/ACTIVATE Grant Director and Evaluator. I helped advance policy for suicidal ideation and threat assessments in schools - both of which were eventually legislated. Our models served as the template for districts across the state.
Etheridge Consulting LLC allows me the space to develop larger scale dashboards and work with leaders in the K-12 and Higher Education space. I love data visualization, mapping, and statistics. I'm fluent in Data Studio and Tableau and I'm in the middle of a conversion to R. Give me a dataset and a unique problem and I know I'm about to have a great day.
I'm a scholar-practitioner with a rural public education lens.
Capstone
Capstone
My Ed.D. capstone studied the effects of school setting on fifth-grade outcomes. In this quasi-experimental design, we conducted regression analysis and propensity score matching to determine the impact of this transition. This method allowed us to estimate a causal relationship between school setting and student outcomes.
Real World Experience
Real World Experience
I take the scholar-practicioner role seriously. I love data but it only matters to me in context. I keep one foot in the gritty, day-to-day work of leading schools and another in the world of data and statistics. Give me a devoted team and a commitment to improvement, and we can build something that matters.
Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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