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Our TeamTed Preston, CEOTed Preston joined MPSP in 2008 after spending many years as a manager and consultant. His clients ranged from charter management organizations to portfolio companies of private equity firms. Ted spent 8 years at EF Education, serving as CEO of Smithsonian Student Travel and CFO for EF Educational Tours. Prior to his roles as CEO and CFO, Ted held several financial and sales management positions in EF Educational Tours. Ted has also worked as the Executive Director of Summerbridge Cincinnati, an educational non-profit organization, and as the Director of Educational Programming for The Community Builders Inc., a nationally recognized developer of affordable housing. He is a founding Board Member and former Board Chair of the Edward W. Brooke Charter School, a high performing charter school in Boston. A graduate of Brown University, Ted also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. John Maycock, Chief Program OfficerJohn Maycock is a former Senior Director of Score! Educational Centers, Inc. At Score!, John managed multiple after-school education centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was responsible for managing the reading, math and writing performance of over 1,200 students. After leaving Score!, John served as the Manager of Business Services for Edtec Inc., a company that offers business, development and educational services to California charter schools. In this role, he managed overall client relations, analyzed student assessment data, and wrote whole-school accountability plans. Most recently, John served as the Managing Director for the Qatar School Reform Project, where he served as a consultant to a national school reform initiative in Doha, Qatar. He holds a BA in English from Middlebury College and an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Marci Cornell-Feist, Consultant, Strategic DirectionMarci Cornell-Feist is the principal of Meetinghouse Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in charter school creation and sustainability with a particular emphasis on governance, fundraising, and philanthropic-advising to donors actively supporting the charter school movement. For the past seven years, Marci's work has been exclusively focused on charter school creation and sustainability. She has worked extensively with more than 80 charter schools nationwide, including 48 of the 59 charter schools in Massachusetts – many on a very intensive, ongoing basis. In addition to individual charter schools in Massachusetts, Marci consults to Building Excellent Schools, the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board, the National KIPP Foundation, and individual charter schools in CO, CA, DC, IL, IN, NJ, and NY. Marci is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Bowdoin College. She is the author of the Charter School Trustees Handbook, used in charter schools nationwide. Johanna Dennehy, Assessment Data AnalystJohanna Dennehy joined MPSP in 2008 after working at the MATCH Charter Public High School in Boston for two years. At MATCH, Johanna was first a member of the MATCH Corps tutoring program, where she tutored six students and worked as a teaching assistant for a freshman ELA class. Later, she joined the MATCH Corps Staff, where she trained incoming tutors on pedagogy and professionalism, and organized a system to provide tutorial feedback throughout the year. In addition to her work with the Corps, she collected and analyzed data on indicators of student achievement for the school's leadership team. Before MATCH, Johanna worked in the Barrington (RI) Public Schools, the offices of Rhode Island Senators Lincoln Chafee and Jack Reed, and the Middle East Studies program at the American Enterprise Institute. She holds a dual BA in English and History from Georgetown University. Lana Ewing, Director of School SupportLana Ewing is a former founding 1st and 2nd grade teacher at the Edward W. Brooke Charter School in Boston. As a member of the founding team, she helped design and implement their elementary school program, specializing in data-driven curriculum writing, strategic planning, and operations management. Prior to joining Brooke, Lana worked as a Senior Account Manager for Integrity Interactive, designing ethics and compliance educational programming. As part of the 2003 Teach for America Corp, Lana taught 2nd and 3rd grades in the South Bronx, New York. She holds a BA in International Politics from Connecticut College and an EdM from Fordham University. Leslie Hunt, Assessment Data AnalystLeslie Hunt is a former Litigation Legal Assistant at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. At Skadden, she was responsible for assisting in the research and drafting of pleadings, as well as managing the maintenance of multiple cases. Most recently, she received her M.Ed from Boston University. She spent the year working at the Edwards Middle School, Charlestown, MA in student services and built upon her undergraduate senior thesis, which was a quantitative study on the relationship between academic achievement and socioeconomic disparities. She also holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Union College. Cassie Kearney, Deputy DirectorCassie Kearney is a former Manager in the Corporate Investments & Development Group at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Inc. in New York. At Starwood, she was responsible for the analysis and implementation of strategic investments, partnerships, and other capital initiatives to enhance and expand Starwood’s lines of business. Prior to Starwood, Cassie was an investment banking analyst in the Telecommunications, Media and Technology Group at JPMorgan. Most recently, she was a consultant in the Strategy and Analytics Group at Digitas LLC where she was responsible for the development and implementation of strategic marketing partnerships for a non-profit client. Cassie holds a dual BS in Finance and Operations & Strategic Management from Boston College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Catherine Minihan, Assessment DeveloperCatherine (Katie) Minihan taught for three years at Nations Ford Elementary School, an urban public elementary school in Charlotte, North Carolina. While at Nations Ford Katie served as grade level chair for fifth grade. She also analyzed state assessment data to inform school instructional practice, including the ongoing analysis of data from the statewide formative assessments conducted throughout each school year. Katie also utilized the North Carolina Standard Course of Study while creating assessments for use within her classroom. While completing her graduate program Katie focused her studies on educational measurement and assessment. She holds a dual BS in Elementary Education and Sociology from Vanderbilt University and an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Blake Reynolds, Assessment Data AnalystBlake Reynolds is a former Civil Rights Analyst at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Southern Regional Office in Atlanta, GA. In 2007, he had the responsibility of collecting and analyzing student demographic data from Georgia's public and private schools to examine the aspects of desegregation when considering enrollments within each of Georgia's 180 school districts. His success in research on private schools resulted in co-authoring the State Advisory Committee [SAC] report and presenting a briefing to the SAC about the role of private school enrollments with re-segregation. Blake's undergraduate work included educational ability grouping, transformative wealth, and racial privilege and discrimination. He holds a BA in Sociology focused in race and urban studies from Georgia State University. Jen White, Director of School SupportJen White is an organizational development and training professional specializing in education reform and program development. For five years, she worked with Pearson Education, training educators to analyze child progress to inform program improvement and to integrate technology into school communities. Most recently, she consulted for a non-profit cancer research foundation, aligning their strategic plan to sustainable organizational systems and documenting operational processes. Jen has four years of assistant teaching experience, including three years volunteering in 10th-11th grade English classes at Bell Multicultural, a charter high school in Washington, DC. She holds a BA in Intercultural Communication with certification in Spanish Language and an MA in School Psychology from Tufts University. Assessment DevelopersMPSP employs a team of English and Mathematics part-time assessment development consultants. These talented individuals are all experienced educators, most of whom have experience teaching within Massachusetts. These consultants are enlisted to write questions based on their grade and subject area expertise and skills. |