Board + Advisors

Board of Directors

Officers
Chair: Joe Dello Russo, Retired Senior Executive, MFS Investment Management
Treasurer: Vacant
Recorder: Joan Connolly, Consultant, Retired Superintendent, Malden Public Schools

Members
Andrés Alonso, Professor of Practice, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education
Rachel Bonkovsky, Senior Director, School Transformation, Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Anne Bowie, Public Service Manager, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Jim Darr, Retired Senior Executive, State Street Bank
Cathleen Finn, New England Program Manager, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM
Deb Goldberg, Member, Board of Directors, Commonwealth Covenant Fund
Terry Herndon, Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peggy Kemp, Headmaster, Fenway Pilot High School
Deborah Meier, Senior Scholar, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
Johanna Sullivan, Associate, Nutter, McClennen & Fish
Dania Vázquez, Headmaster, Margarita Muñiz Academy
Naia Wilson, Headmaster, New Mission High School

Quality Performance Assessment (QPA) Advisory Committee

In order to build a model performance assessment system, we acknowledge the wealth of experience from past decades of scholarly and practical work in this field. Our QPA Advisory Committee brings together practitioners, policy makers, technical experts, and content experts to serve as counselors in the design, implementation and policy of our performance assessment framework.

Members
Dr. Theresa Austin, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Katie Bowler, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Dr. Cindy Gray, Elkhorn Public Schools
Dr. Karin Hess, Educational Research in Action LLC
Dr. Stuart Kahl, Measured Progress
Paul Leather, New Hampshire Department of Education
Dr. Sharon Lee, retired from Rhode Island Department of Education
Dr. Beth Miller, Expeditionary Learning
Dr. Ray Pecheone, Stanford University School of Education
Charlie Toulmin , Nellie Mae Education Foundation