Instruction Partners

Executive Assistant

• Manages complex scheduling and calendar logistics with a high degree of autonomy, independently evaluating issues, anticipating challenges, and driving solutions to maximize the CEO's time efficiency
• Develops, tracks, and manages discrete project plans in Asana to keep executive office operations, travel, and personal commitments strictly aligned
• Coordinates travel arrangements and itineraries, adapting existing tools and frameworks to better fit the shifting needs of the executive office
• Tracks and reminds the CEO of key team celebrations and organizational milestones, managing the timeline to ensure timely celebration and recognition
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with the development team, collaborating across functions to align on routines and ensure the seamless completion of grant and funding deliverables
• Drafts high-level professional communications and manages executive social media channels, adapting communication styles to context and purpose across diverse audiences
• Manages expense reporting workflows, proactively identifying workflow efficiencies, following up with vendors, and leading the end-to-end reconciliation process
• Provides informal guidance, feedback, and operational expertise to other administrative or support team members to improve organization-wide administrative workflows
• Manages and executes virtual and in-person board meeting logistics with full ownership, driving progress toward deadlines and ensuring all outcomes are delivered on time
• Communicates clearly across diverse audiences, preparing and delivering critical logistical and committee requirements to senior leadership
• Attends formal meetings to capture accurate minutes and evaluates existing digital filing systems to maintain high-quality, easily accessible records
• Manages onboarding projects and tracks recruitment steps for new board members, adapting existing templates and resources based on predefined guidelines
• Updates and refines annual board collateral, recruitment overviews, and demographic reporting frameworks to accurately support grant and compliance requirements
• Manages and executes the annual and ongoing collection of conflict of interest surveys, taking full ownership of the timeline, tracking system, and data integrity
• Embodies organizational values in all daily interactions with the governing board, actively fostering trust, collaboration, and professional relationship management
• Independently resolves complex travel-related logistics and unexpected challenges for site visits and educational tours
• Directs advisory council meeting logistics by actively evaluating and anticipating stakeholder needs to foster deep external relationships
• Provides specialized administrative expertise to serve as a resource for others, evaluating the effectiveness of follow-up processes and implementing improvements

Lead Executive Assistant to the CEO

Director

• Provides strategic leadership for the organization’s custom consulting function
• Steers the portfolio of custom consulting engagements
• Leads the design, delivery, and scaling of new service lines
• Establishes systems for data-driven iterative design
• Owns custom consulting business development with accountability for an annual revenue target
• Manages senior leaders, providing strategic direction, coaching, and senior-level guidance

Managing Director, Custom Consulting Services

• Lead elementary reading initiatives with district and school leaders
• Build data-informed plans for the improvement of elementary reading
• Strengthen leaders’ instructional and change management skills
• Partner with internal and external colleagues for program implementation
• Support schools in building and maintaining a strong elementary reading system
• Conduct structured school walkthroughs to observe and assess classroom instruction
• Manage partner contracts and deliverables

Director of Instructional Support – Elementary Reading Initiative

Artificial Intelligence

• Leads the design and execution of annual school visits to observe technology-supported instruction
• Develops observation protocols and interview tools
• Facilitates structured interviews with stakeholders to yield comparable insights
• Conducts in-depth technical interviews with product teams
• Analyzes product impact data by reviewing internal and third-party research
• Manages ethical data use and consent processes
• Authors product specific essays and briefs translating findings into instructional implications
• Maintains a centralized evidence database to support organizational strategy
• Represents findings in conversations with state leaders and funders

Senior Director, AI Learning Tour

• Manages a portfolio of district implementations of AI-powered solutions, with deep attention to instructional quality and outcomes for students of color, students experiencing poverty, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities
• Serves as the primary relationship holder for assigned partner systems and product developer partners, building high-trust relationships that enable honest learning
• Tracks the implementation and integration of solutions in assigned districts, monitoring usage, fidelity to High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)-aligned teaching, and emerging signals of impact and unintended consequences
• Monitors the enabling conditions through leadership, coaching, scheduling, and infrastructure that determine whether implementation actually changes teacher practice
• Engages with product developers to understand product intent, surface implementation realities and feed insight back into product development
• Designs and delivers resources that build district and school leader capacity around effective implementation of AI-powered tools alongside HQIM cores
• Coaches and develops staff, treating development as partnership rather than oversight

Senior Director, Solutions Implementation

• Design and drive research architecture and rapid cycle learning systems
• Define enterprise strategy for the implementation framework
• Shape organization-wide narrative regarding effective implementation
• Lead district and product developer partnerships focused on solution implementation
• Leads and develops a team of Senior Directors/Associate Director pairs

Executive Director, Solutions Implementation

• Leads the design of professional learning (PL) experiences that are research-driven and scalable
• Translates complex research and district data into multi-year learning arcs that equip educators and leaders to improve student math outcomes and identity development
• Defines and leads the vision for multi-year professional learning across districts, grades, and schools
• Anticipates opportunities for alignment across functions and intervenes early to maintain system-wide coherence
• Collaborates proactively with internal teams to ensure implementation decisions support organizational strategy and long-term student outcomes
• Ensures tools, frameworks, and session designs are coherent, research-informed, and implementable across diverse contexts
• Guides Director-level designers in making design decisions and navigating ambiguity across multiple teams
• Leads the translation of cutting-edge research into system-level design decisions
• Defines and tracks multi-horizon success metrics: immediate session-level outcomes, short-term teacher/leader practice changes, annual growth, and multi-year system-wide impact

Senior Director, Professional Learning Systems – Middle School Math Initiative

• Serve as the primary partner to the President and executive leaders for internal strategy
• Architect internal structures and performance outcome routines that integrate people and technology
• Lead the internal artificial intelligence transition to improve staff productivity and staff experience
• Direct high-stakes leadership rhythms to maintain organizational agility and alignment
• Evaluate complex, cross-functional challenges with a systems lens to balance risk and opportunity

Executive Director – Organizational Performance

• Lead the strategic design and oversight of learning systems that drive organizational results
• Ensure that data collection, validation, and quality monitoring align with broad divisional goals
• Spearhead adaptive management practices and the evolution of the research and development learning system
• Optimize and improve upon the research and development learning system and results frameworks
• Manage the learning system to ensure timely access to high quality, user-oriented data
• Design sophisticated measurement plans to assess key inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes of pilot initiatives
• Guide data analysts to create user-centered data visuals

Director, Learning and Continuous Improvement

People Operations

• Provide executive administrative support to the Executive Director of People and Culture
• Manage internal operations and contribute to culture and engagement efforts across the organization
• Support proactive calendar management, meeting coordination, travel planning, and preparation of materials for internal and external engagements
• Manage day-to-day operations that enhance the effectiveness of the People and Culture team
• Help design and execute culture-building initiatives such as retreats, team-building activities, internal celebrations, and engagement campaigns
• Coordinate cross-functional projects, gather input from stakeholders, and support alignment across teams
• Maintain strong internal communication by supporting meetings, sharing timely updates, and managing shared documentation

People and Culture Coordinator

• Leads the design of professional learning (PL) experiences that are research-driven and scalable
• Translates complex research and district data into multi-year learning arcs that equip educators and leaders to improve student math outcomes and identity development
• Ensures quality, scalability, and measurable student outcomes
• Owns end-to-end professional learning design at the system level
• Establishes standards, protocols, and quality benchmarks that connect design with how sessions are implemented
• Guides Director-level designers in making design decisions
• Monitors emerging trends in math education, language development, and student identity to strategically evolve PL approaches

Senior Director, Design – Middle School Math Initiative

Content Marketing Manager

• Support instructional improvement on the ground with school system partners
• Work closely with internal leaders, executing professional development, diagnosing and progress monitoring instruction and school conditions
• Build and coach capacity in instructional leaders, providing content and curricular expertise throughout the country
• Partner with internal leaders to observe, analyze, and monitor instruction, systemic conditions, and instructional leadership practices using diagnostic tools
• Communicate clearly and proactively with partners, building strong, trust-based relationships with system and school leaders

Math Content Specialist

Compliance

• Leads increasingly complex projects and ensures outcomes related to the end-to-end compliance lifecycle for the 3-year grant cycle including planning, implementation, and sustainability phases
• Adapts and integrates multiple frameworks to ensure all deliverables, such as needs assessments and instructional leadership coaching, aligned with specific district pathways
• Evaluates issues and anticipates challenges to ensure all assigned delivery team members provide required training content identified in district needs assessments
• Assesses complex issues and weighs alternatives as the primary liaison for compliance-related data collection to ensure district partners meet reporting deadlines
• Applies knowledge to shape programs and processes by coordinating with finance and program teams to ensure all allowable costs are tracked and documented according to federal and state fiscal guidelines
• Supports district leadership in navigating application and reporting portals, providing guidance to strengthen team expertise
• Collaborates with engagement teams to develop contract completion and impact templates to ensure accountability and sustained impact
• Acts as a strategic advisor during the contract renewal process, translating complex grant requirements into clear operational guidelines for leadership

Associate Director, LIFT Program Compliance

Designer

• Oversee the production of core materials within critical service lines
• Ensure all deliverables align with state, district, and philanthropic funding requirements
• Manage independent production schedules and coordinate with internal stakeholders
• Provide the professional learning and feedback necessary for delivery team members