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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.
Statewide K–12 & Higher Ed Dashboard Suite
Statewide K–12 & Higher Ed Dashboard Suite
Image from: https://www.tn.gov/education/news/2023/5/22/tennessee-makes-historic-gains-in-third-grade-reading--offers-strong-support-for-students-.html
Impact
Impact
The dashboards gave the client a more coherent picture of statewide patterns, gaps, and opportunities across K–12 and higher education. The work supported clearer policy conversations by allowing users to compare institutions, examine trends over time, and explore differences by geography, sector, race/ethnicity, rural status, finance, and student outcomes.
Image from: https://www.tableau.com/learn/get-started/maps
Problem
Problem
A nonprofit education organization needed a clearer way to understand the education landscape across a southern state at the state, district, and school level. Relevant data existed across multiple public sources, but it was fragmented, difficult to compare, and not organized in a way that supported policy, advocacy, or strategic decision-making.
Approach
Approach
I developed a confidential suite of Tableau dashboards integrating longitudinal K–12 and higher education data. The work required building school and institution lists, cleaning and joining data across sources, addressing data suppression, creating geographic mapping layers, and designing comparisons across schools, districts, sectors, and the state.
Deliverable
Deliverable
A seven-dashboard Tableau suite focused on higher education enrollment and graduation, K–12 enrollment and demographics, standardized test outcomes, student discipline and policy, educator representation, school finance, and postsecondary access measures such as FAFSA completion and college-going rates.
Tools Used
Tools Used
Tableau, Google Sheets, Excel, public education datasets, geographic mapping (shapefiles), data cleaning in Tableau Prep, longitudinal analysis, data suppression review, school and district crosswalk development.
Schoolwide Continuous Improvement Framework
Schoolwide Continuous Improvement Framework
Problem
Problem
Fallston Elementary School needed a clearer structure for aligning adult work to student outcomes. The school had committed educators, but needed stronger systems for identifying root causes, selecting high-leverage strategies, saying “no” to off-goal activities, monitoring progress, and making adjustments before the end of the year.
Approach
Approach
We implemented a schoolwide continuous improvement framework grounded in improvement science. Each teacher and team developed goals tied to student learning outcomes, not just process measures. Teams used root cause analysis, driver diagrams, SMART goals, intermediate measures, and outcome measures to monitor progress and refine instruction, intervention, and support.
Deliverable
Deliverable
A practical school improvement system connecting schoolwide goals, teacher/team goals, MTSS, instructional coaching, classroom observations, family communication, and regular data review routines.
Tools Used
Tools Used
Improvement science (based on the work of Anthony Bryk), root cause analysis, driver diagrams, SMART goals, MTSS, benchmark data, classroom observation data, team planning tools, Teacher Working Conditions Survey data.
Image from: https://fallston.clevelandcountyschools.org/
Impact
Impact
Fallston Elementary’s school report card grade improved from a D to a B. The school also saw improvement in student outcomes alongside gains in Teacher Working Conditions Survey measures. The work demonstrated how disciplined planning, teacher ownership, data-informed decision-making, and practical implementation can support improvement in a rural elementary school context.
Project AWARE/ACTIVATE Implementation and Evaluation System
Project AWARE/ACTIVATE Implementation and Evaluation System
Impact
Impact
The work expanded the district’s capacity to identify student needs, respond to mental health and safety concerns, train school-based teams, and coordinate support across schools and community partners. It also contributed to broader state-level learning around school mental health, suicide risk protocols, and threat assessment practices.
Problem
Problem
Cleveland County Schools needed stronger systems for school-based mental health support, suicide risk response, threat assessment, behavioral support, and cross-agency coordination. The district also needed ways to monitor implementation and demonstrate progress toward federal grant goals.
Approach
Approach
As Project AWARE/ACTIVATE Grant Evaluator and later Grant Director, I helped build systems for tracking student support needs, training participation, school mental health services, suicidal ideation protocols, threat assessment processes, and progress toward grant outcomes. This work required collaboration among school administrators, counselors, social workers, mental health clinicians, behavior specialists, community agencies, district leaders, and state partners.
Deliverable
Deliverable
A districtwide implementation and evaluation structure for school mental health and safety supports, including training systems, data tracking tools, implementation monitoring, protocol development, and cross-sector coordination.
Tools Used
Tools Used
Grant evaluation, implementation monitoring, school mental health data, training records, protocol development, cross-agency collaboration, continuous improvement, federal grant reporting.
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