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Caroline Roth

Florence,MA

Summary

Results-oriented educator with 18 years of experience and co-founder of Thrive Education Collective, specializing in instructional leadership coaching and professional learning services. Successfully developed scalable principal coaching programs and designed practice-based professional development. Proven track record of achieving significant impact in schools and districts through expertise in education.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Co-Founder

Thrive Education Collective
04.2022 - Current
  • Company Overview: Founded Education Consulting Company that provides instructional leadership coaching, principal coaching and professional learning services that has served 16 unique partners and impacted 7,000+ students
  • Implement our trademark coaching program for district leaders to improve student achievement in ELA through use of student data, effective implementation of high-quality curriculum
  • Developed scalable principal coaching program focused on build principal leadership competencies and school outcomes
  • Design and deliver practice-based professional development tailored to the unique needs of clients, generally focused on developing instructional leadership and teacher practice
  • Achieved a 100% net promoter score with all of our 16 unique partners
  • Founded Education Consulting Company that provides instructional leadership coaching, principal coaching and professional learning services that has served 16 unique partners and impacted 7,000+ students

Consultant

Building Excellent Schools
10.2021 - 03.2022
  • Generated case studies and curates resource bank of anti-bias and Whole Child Development practices to support principals founding schools striving to create an equitable and responsive school environment

Consultant

Brooklyn Laboratory School
11.2021 - 01.2022
  • Worked with the Executive Director to generate and oversee the transition plan for a Senior Leader, including overall transition planning, team restructuring, and School Leader development

Consultant

Achievement First Charter Schools
10.2021 - 11.2021
  • Worked with principal to support creating and sustaining a safe and academically rigorous school culture with the transition back to in-person learning

Trainer

The Collaborative for Inclusive Education
09.2021 - 09.2021
  • Led two-part training for principals and assistant principals serving 20+ schools across New York City on most effective practices and methods for teacher development

Summer Academy Lead

Achievement First
07.2021 - 07.2021
  • Managed all three of Achievement First’s 3rd-8th Virtual Grade Summer School sites, with 600+ enrolled students from 32 different schools across Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island
  • Developed vision for experience, staff and student expectations, and all family communication for all of our Summer Academies
  • Partnered with Cadence Learning to ensure aligned and quality implementation of their curriculum across 6 different grades by 35 different staff members

Principal

Achievement First Endeavor Middle School
07.2016 - 06.2021
  • Company Overview: A high-performing charter 5-8 middle school serving 400 students with 53 staff members
  • Developed school-wide adult culture, student culture, and academic vision, priorities, and goals. Align weekly Professional Development, communication and data driven response structures to achieve them
  • Led and coached Leadership Team of eight on instructional coaching (including Looking at Student Work, Observation & Feedback, Intellectual Preparation), systems leadership, and team leadership
  • Led school through the transition to remote learning, maintaining 85% staff retention, 85% of family satisfaction with their online learning experience, and 90th percentile student investment results as measured through Panorama (63% affirmative)
  • Partnered with Regional Superintendent to create 21-22 Readiness Vision for all Achievement First Middle Schools and developed aligned training for all principals
  • Endeavor consistently outpaced New York State in Achievement Results: 2018-2019 Results: ELA – 55% vs 43% NY State; Math – 75% vs 43% NY State
  • Endeavor named New York State “Recognition School” in 2020 because of our high academic performance and progress in the 2018-2019 school year
  • Led school through double digit gains in both ELA and State Test Results: Avg: +12% in ELA + 14% in Math
  • Maintained an 84% staff retention and +12% gains in Organizational Health Survey from 2015-2016 results, including +29% improvement in Staff Morale and +31% Staff Satisfaction with the Leadership Team
  • Dramatically increased the diversity and representation of our school staff (staff members who identify as Black, Latino, or Multi-Racial (BLM) since 2015-2016: Increased number of BLM school leaders +45% and overall BLM staff representation by +30%
  • Improved overall all organizational health data questions related to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion by +20% and overall organizational health data for staff who identify as BLM by 18% points
  • Reduced the % of students suspended by 22% since the 2015-2016 school year
  • A high-performing charter 5-8 middle school serving 400 students with 53 staff members

Principal in Residence

Achievement First Endeavor Middle School
07.2015 - 06.2016
  • Coached ELA Academic Dean and Upper School humanities teams to achieve +25% gains on the ELA State Test
  • Led the visioning, planning, goal setting, progress monitoring, progress communication and weekly professional

History and English Language Arts Academic Dean

Achievement First Endeavor Middle School
05.2013 - 06.2015
  • Led the History and English departments, including bi-weekly Professional Development, quarterly formal data analysis meetings, weekly lesson plan feedback, Intellectual Preparation meetings and observations
  • Achieved the second highest ELA State Test growth of all AF middle schools: +8% student proficiency
  • Observe and coach 8-10 ELA, Science, History teachers weekly: 80% of ELA teachers achieved positive SAMS as measured by the ELA NY State Test, 100% of ELA teachers in 2014-2015 achieved their ELA goals

7th Grade English Teacher

Achievement First Endeavor Middle School
08.2011 - 05.2013
  • Named a Stage 4 Distinguished Teacher based on Teacher Career Pathways evaluation as measured by my Student Achievement results, Student, Family and Peer Survey performance

Teacher

Teach for America
07.2008 - 06.2010

Education

M.A. - Urban Education

Loyola Marymount University
Marina Del Rey, CA
06.2008 - 06.2010

B.A. - English

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH

Activities

  • Anti-Racist Training & Experience, Educators for Justice, Featured Speaker, 10/01/20, Selected to be a speaker on Educators for Justice Discussion Series on Anti-Racist Allyship in Action., New York City Special Education Collaborative, Professional Development Facilitator, 06/01/18, Co-planned and facilitated Professional Development session 'Creating Spaces for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Anti-Bias Work in Schools' based on the Endeavor Middle School’s work in the 2016-2018 school years., Border Crossers Training (now Center for Racial Justice in Education), 01/01/15, Attended 'Talking about Race in Schools' training.
  • Social Emotional Learning Training & Experience, Ramapo Training, Attended 3 Ramapo workshops on Social Emotional Learning and Trauma-Responsive Practices in Schools., Valor Compass Training, 06/01/17 - 06/30/16, Attended multi-day workshops 4 times a year to be trained on the 'Valor Compass Practices'; a Social-Emotional Learning program.
  • Additional Leadership Programs & Experience, Relay’s Graduate School of Education National Principal Academy Fellow, 06/01/15 - 06/30/16, Attended summer-long intensive and quarterly professional development through Relay’s Graduate School of Education on leadership power-skills on Adult Culture, Student Culture and Instructional Leadership to become a certified National Principal Academy Fellow., Achievement First Leadership Fellows, New York, NY, 09/01/12 - 05/31/13, Participated in 4 separate day-long workshops to improve adaptive and technical leadership skills., Political Strategy and Communications Course, Los Angeles, CA, 05/01/11 - 06/30/11, Attended six week course at University of Southern California in best practices of how to communicate Education Policy at local and national level.
  • Literacy Instruction Trainings, Doug Lemov Reading and the Common Core Workshop, Albany NY, 01/01/14, Attended a three-day educational workshop on best practices around Common Core Aligned Reading instruction.

Timeline

Co-Founder

Thrive Education Collective
04.2022 - Current

Consultant

Brooklyn Laboratory School
11.2021 - 01.2022

Consultant

Building Excellent Schools
10.2021 - 03.2022

Consultant

Achievement First Charter Schools
10.2021 - 11.2021

Trainer

The Collaborative for Inclusive Education
09.2021 - 09.2021

Summer Academy Lead

Achievement First
07.2021 - 07.2021

Principal

Achievement First Endeavor Middle School
07.2016 - 06.2021

Principal in Residence

Achievement First Endeavor Middle School
07.2015 - 06.2016

History and English Language Arts Academic Dean

Achievement First Endeavor Middle School
05.2013 - 06.2015

7th Grade English Teacher

Achievement First Endeavor Middle School
08.2011 - 05.2013

Teacher

Teach for America
07.2008 - 06.2010

M.A. - Urban Education

Loyola Marymount University
06.2008 - 06.2010

B.A. - English

Dartmouth College
Caroline Roth