Sarah Glover

NAD K-6 Pedagogical Advisor

EXPERIENCE

12/14-present Panorama Education                                                                                                 Boston,MA

Vice President, Client Success

• Grew team from 7 to 45; lead team to deliver all work to over 800 clients, including NewYork City, Dallas, and the CORE school systems in California
• Achieve net promoter scores of 60+ across two platforms and 25% of our client base
• Responsible for renewals of over $13M in revenue
• Hire, develop, manage four functional units within Client Success (Product Support, Services, Account Management, Teaching &Learning)
• Serve on executive leadership team

1/13-11/14       Harvard Graduate School of Education                                                      Cambridge,MA

Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships

• Develop, execute partnership strategy for  HGSE
• Fulfill outreach on behalf of the dean for people and organizations who wish to work with HGSE
• Work with faculty to develop projects and partnerships to promulgate their  work
• Develop information management systems for tracking faculty and doctoral work in the field

2/10-1/13         Center  for Education Policy Research, Harvard University               Cambridge,MA

Executive Director, Strategic Data Project (SDP)

• Managed 22-person team to deliver high quality analysis to agency partners and provide support to 110+ SDP Fellows in 37 agencies
• Grew project from six agency partnerships to 37
• Worked with school district leadership teams to plan and manage the SDP engagement in their agencies
• Delivered analytic findings to district leadership, including human capital analyses
• Contributed to development of Strategic Performance Indicators for human capital and college-going  trends
• Secured second round of funding ($8.2M from BMGF)
• Generated $1.3M in Fellowship enrollment fee revenue
• Managed $4M annualbudget

6/05-1/10         Glover Consulting Group                                                                                    Bozeman,MT

Founder, Principal

• Researched, analyzed education policy issues for non-profits, education consulting firms, school districts, andfoundations
• Designed, facilitated strategic planning retreats for boards of directors and school board trustees
• Wrote case studies  and curriculum for school board and district leadership development
• Partial client list includes: Education First Consulting, The Broad Foundation, Denver Public Schools, Gwinnett County Public Schools, and the Center for Reform of School Systems

11/04–5/05      Speaker of the House, Texas Legislature                                                            Austin,TX

Education Policy Analyst

• Worked with committee chairman and other elected representatives to craft legislation
• Developed state education policy proposals for legislative consideration
• Created communications materials to support legislative proposals
• Analyzed, compared legislative proposals

9/01–10/04      Center for Reform of School Systems                                                              Houston,TX

Director, Programs and Operations, 6/03 – 10/04

• Oversaw programs and operations of non-profit with $1.5 million in annualrevenue
• Managed seven-personstaff
• Designed and delivered training to school boards of large, urban districts in Texas and nationally
• Managed relationships with key funders and partners
• Developed programproposals

Project Manager, 9/01 – 6/03

• Managed four-day, annual institute for newly elected school board members in Texas
• Developed case-study based curriculum and adapted over all institute design
• Synthesized research and history of school reform issues for institute participants

8/00–4/01        School People                                                                                                               Austin,TX

Director, Education Business Development

• Initiated and managed strategic partnerships (including DellComputers)
• Designed product launch for clients, including statewide launch in Michigan
• Wrote preliminary business plan, marketing strategy

12/94–7/97       Education Commission of the States                                                                 Denver,CO

Senior Project Coordinator

• Coordinated $6.5million, five-year project and work of 12-person team
• Promoted adoption of whole school reform in urbanschool districts
• Directed quarterly progress  and financial reporting  to Annenberg Foundation
• Managed relationship with project partner, New AmericanSchools
• Designed and facilitated workshops, meetings, retreats (internal andexternal)

7/91–11/94       IBM                                                                                                                            Boulder,CO

Import/Export Analyst, 10/92-11/94

• Implemented dutycollection program ($1mm collected in 1993-94)
• Developed background in Baldrige and ISO 9000 principles

Education Programs Assistant,  7/91-10/92                                                                          Washington,DC

• Staffed The Business Roundtable  Education Initiative, a task force of 180 CEOs
• Developed  policy positions on federal education legislation for TheBusiness Roundtable

LEADERSHIP

PUBLICATIONS

• Page, L; Fullerton, J; Bacher-Hicks, A; Owens, A.; Cohodes, Sarah R; West, M; Glover, S.; “The Strategic Data Project’s Strategic Performance Indicators,” Education Finance and Policy, Volume 8, Issue 3. Summer
• “Inventing the Future: Building Budgets  and Allocating Resources for the 21st Century,” The Broad Center for the Management of School 2009.
• “Writing the Story of Reform in Denver Public Schools,”Center for Reform of School Systems and The Broad Foundation.
• “The Spirit of Louis: Reclaiming the Core Mission in St.Louis Public Schools,” Center for Reform of School Systems and The Broad Foundation. 2006.
• “TheLastAct:Reinventing High Schools in Sacramento,”Center for Reform of School Systems and The Broad Foundation.
• “Four for the Future: A reform board hires a corporate turnaround firm to manage St.Louis Schools,”Center for Reform of School Systems and TheBroad 2004. Included in The Redesign of Urban School Systems: Case Studies in District Governance, edited by Donald R. McAdams and Dan Katzir. Harvard Education Press.2013.
• “Steering a True Course,” EducationNext. Summer

TEACHING

• Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School: Public Education Leadership Project, July 2014 – served as a facilitator for the Boston Public Schools leadership
• Harvard Graduate School of Education: Strategic Data Project Institute for Leadership in Analytics, February and July 2014: Taught “Increasing College-Going Rates in Fulton County Schools”case Published  byHarvard Education Press.
• Harvard Graduate School of Education: Special Topic Seminar on Using Analysisin School Districts, January
• The Broad Center for Management. Taught half-day sessions at the Broad Residency about  Theories of Action for Change(for school districts).2013, 2014, 2018, 2019(planned)

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Austin                                                                                   May 2000

Master of Business Administration and Master of Public Affairs Combined GPA: 3.9

McCombs School of Business:

• FirstPlace,Venture Capital Investment Competition, Central Region(2000)
• Recipient, Norma Carpenter Anderson scholarship

LBJ School of Public Affairs:

• Recipient, full scholarship (tuition and fees)

Tufts University;  Medford,MA                                                                                                         May 1991

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science; Graduated Cum Laude

University of Granada, Spain                                                                                                           1/90 –5/90