BRYAN C. HASSEL is Co-President of Public Impact. He consults nationally with leading public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and foundations working for dramatic improvements in K–12 education. He is a recognized expert on charter schools, school turnarounds, school funding systems, and teacher and principal effectiveness. His work has appeared in Education Next, Education Week, and numerous other publications. He was named to the spring 2015 class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellows Program, designed to support exceptional leaders reimagining U.S. public schools. Dr. Hassel received his Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University and his master’s degree in politics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his B.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which he attended as a Morehead Scholar. He is a senior research affiliate with the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Read More or Contact Bryan…
EMILY AYSCUE HASSEL is Co-President of Public Impact. She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact’s work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in pre–K to grade 12 education. Ms. Hassel is co-leading Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture initiative, an effort to reach more students with excellent teachers and principals and provide more educators with paid residencies, on-the-job support, and paid career advancement. Her work has appeared in Education Week, Education Next, and other publications. Ms. Hassel was a Pahara-Aspen Teacher Leader Fellow, in a group designed to cultivate and support teacher leaders who are working to improve the teaching profession and student outcomes. She was previously a consultant and manager for the Hay Group, a leading human resources consulting firm. Ms. Hassel received her law and master in business administration degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served on the North Carolina Law Review. Read More or Contact Emily…
LUCY STEINER is the senior vice president for educator excellence and implementation services and a group director at Public Impact. She spearheads implementation of Opportunity Culture staffing models in schools and districts nationwide, leads complex projects, manages and develops consultants, and serves on the firmwide management team. She and her project teams deliver research, training, and consulting on a variety of critical education issues, including teacher and leader policy, school restructuring and turnarounds, and teacher professional development. Her work often provides a bridge between district leadership, school leadership, and instruction. Read More or Contact Lucy…
SHARON KEBSCHULL BARRETT is the vice president for editorial services and communications at Public Impact. She writes publications about the Opportunity Culture initiative, edits all materials for the Opportunity Culture website, edits the firm’s blogs and Public Impact reports, works with Opportunity Culture Fellows to edit the columns they write, and provides other research, interviewing, and writing for the firm. Read More or Contact Sharon…
ANDY BAXTER is a vice president and senior consulting manager at Public Impact. He covers a broad range of Public Impact’s focal areas, including Opportunity Culture implementation, data, assessment, and accountability. Read More or Contact Andy…
LYRIA BOAST is the vice president for data analytics and a senior consulting manager at Public Impact and serves on the firmwide management team. Ms. Boast leads Public Impact’s work evaluating educational quality metrics at the school, district and state levels and developing accountability systems to monitor school performance. She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools. She also leads the development of and ongoing updates to the data dashboard illustrating Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture work in schools across the U.S. She has also contributed to projects on extending the reach of excellent teachers, school finance, and evaluating school turnarounds. Read More or Contact Lyria…
WHITAKER BROWN is an associate consultant with Public Impact, focusing on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Whitaker…
RENEE COLEMAN is an analyst at Public Impact, doing research and collecting data on education issues and supporting the Opportunity Culture implementation team and the communications team. Read More or Contact Renee…
GRAYSON COOPER is a senior consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative research and analysis and assisting schools and districts implementing an Opportunity Culture. Read More or Contact Grayson…
STEPHANIE DEAN is vice president of strategic policy advising and a senior consulting manager at Public Impact. Her work focuses on identifying and cultivating state policy conditions that help schools extend the reach of excellent teachers. She has also written and advised clients on teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, school leadership, technology in rural education, competency-based assessment systems, and the development of “learner positioning systems” to create a platform for personalized learning. Read More or Contact Stephanie…
CIERA DIXON is an associate consultant with Public Impact, focused primarily on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Ciera…
DANIELA DOYLE is the vice president for school finance and charter excellence and a consulting manager at Public Impact. Her work addresses a wide range of education issues, including school finance, turnarounds, and charter schools quality and growth. Ms. Doyle co-authored Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: A Look “Under the Hood” of Teacher Evaluation Systems, which won the 2012 “Most Actionable Research” Eddies! award from the PIE Network. Read More or Contact Daniela…
SHONAKA ELLISON is a senior consultant with Public Impact, assisting schools in implementing an Opportunity Culture and performing state policy analyses to extend the reach of excellent teachers. Read More or Contact Shonaka…
PRESTON FAULK is an associate consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative analyses of schools and districts, with a focus on accountability and school turnarounds. Read More or Contact Preston…
TIM FIELD is the vice president for school turnarounds and charter excellence and a consulting manager at Public Impact. He consults and leads project teams on a wide range of education policy and school management issues, with a particular focus on school turnarounds and charter school quality and growth. His work includes leading research on strategies to increase the supply and diversity of high-quality charter schools; he also works directly with charter school authorizers to develop strong performance frameworks and authorizing practices. Mr. Field has worked extensively with SEAs, school districts, and schools to plan and implement school turnaround initiatives. Read More or Contact Tim…
JULIA FISHER is a senior consultant with Public Impact, focusing on innovative ways to serve students most in need with a high-quality education. Read More or Contact Julia…
DAVID GILMORE is an analyst at Public Impact, doing research and collecting data on education issues and supporting the data analytics team on a variety of projects. Read More or Contact David…
IZZI HERNANDEZ-CRUZ is an associate consultant with Public Impact, conducting quantitative analyses of school and district performance metrics to support strong accountability and turnaround evaluation efforts in both traditional and charter schools. Read More or Contact Izzi…
LaSHONDA B. HESTER is a senior consultant with Public Impact, focused primarily on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact LaShonda…
JESSICA JENKINS is an associate consultant with Public Impact, focused primarily on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Jessica…
JULI KIM is a senior consultant with Public Impact conducting qualitative research and analysis. Her work addresses a variety of education issues with a focus on school turnarounds, charter schools, and the role of philanthropy in education. Read More or Contact Juli…
KENDALL HEDDING KING is a senior consultant with Public Impact, with a focus on school turnarounds and assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Kendall…
CASSIE LUTTERLOH is a senior consultant with Public Impact, focusing on assisting schools and districts in implementing an Opportunity Culture. Read More or Contact Cassie…
CHANDLER ROWLAND is an associate consultant with Public Impact, focused primarily on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Chandler…
TROY SMITH is a consultant with Public Impact, focusing on assisting districts and schools in implementing Opportunity Culture models that extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams. Read More or Contact Troy……
BEVERLEY TYNDALL is the vice president for production and web communications at Public Impact. She coordinates the layout and production of all publications, manages the firm’s websites, and produces videos for the Opportunity Culture initiative. Read More or Contact Beverley…
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