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Sharon Kebschull Barrett
Senior Vice President, Editorial Services and Communications
Sharon Kebschull Barrett is the senior vice president for editorial services and communications at Public Impact®, and she serves on the firmwide strategy team. She writes publications about the Opportunity Culture® initiative, creates or edits all materials for the firm’s websites, blogs, audio pieces, videos, and reports; and provides other research, interviewing, and writing for the firm. A former newspaper reporter and copy editor, Barrett is the author of two cookbooks, Desserts from an Herb Garden and Morning Glories (St. Martin’s Press). She has a B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
Example projects: Barrett writes case studies and other publications, audio pieces, and materials for the Opportunity Culture® website, including instructional leadership and excellence materials. Among her publications, she wrote “Using Innovative Staffing to Boost Student Success” in The Compass in August 2023; co-authored the op-ed “Will Learning Pods Be Only for the Rich?” for Education Week in August 2020; wrote “Recruiting for Hard-to-Staff Schools” for the August 2015 School Administrator magazine; and co-authored “Turnaround principal competencies: A process for hiring the most skillful leaders for the demands of changing the fortunes of the most-troubled schools” for School Administrator in August 2012. Other work includes multiple columns published in EducationNC, including “How one educator used a paraprofessional role to become a stronger teacher” in August 2020, “Consistency and care: Confronting COVID-19 in a rural school community” in April 2020, and “Putting data in its place: How strong teaching teams use data to achieve student growth” in March 2020. She co-authored Innovative Staffing to Personalize Learning: How new teaching roles and blended learning help students succeed, and co-authored reports as part of a series with the Center on Reinventing Public Education on pandemic learning pods.