Former President, COO to Guide Next Chapter for Educational Non-Profit
ALAMEDA, CA (November 11, 2021) — Collaborative Classroom’s Board of Trustees announced that Dr. Kelly Stuart, Collaborative Classroom’s president and chief operating officer, has been named the next chief executive officer of the leading nonprofit organization. Dr. Stuart succeeds Roger King, who retired as CEO on October 31 after 6 years.
Before joining Collaborative Classroom as vice president for sales and implementation in 2013, Dr. Stuart led the Doing What Works (DWW) Initiative for WestEd, working closely with national experts and disseminating DWW materials to national organizations and state departments of education for the U.S. Department of Education. The former director of special programs at the Success For All Foundation, she began her career as an elementary school teacher in California.
“ I am honored that the Collaborative Classroom Board has entrusted me with the leadership of this organization,” Stuart said. “Our mission is ambitious, but recent years have demonstrated our ability to exceed the expectations of our partner school districts, educators, learners, and families.”
Under the leadership of Stuart and King, Collaborative Classroom currently impacts 3.8 million students and more than 150,000 educators through its unique curricula.
Collaborative Classroom is known for helping educators nurture student thinking and develop students into highly literate and independent readers, writers, and critical thinkers.
“Kelly Stuart has been a key driver of Collaborative Classroom’s success in recent years, guiding sales, implementation, and operations from our most challenging days toward our most successful,” Collaborative Classroom Board Chair Susan Wally said. “Moving forward, we are fortunate to have her as our next CEO.”
“Kelly Stuart has been a key driver of Collaborative Classroom’s success in recent years, guiding sales, implementation, and operations from our most challenging days toward our most successful.”
– Susan Wally, Collaborative Classroom Board Chair
In taking on the CEO position, Dr. Stuart has laid out a three-point plan for continuing to grow Collaborative Classroom and its impact on school districts and learners across the country, including:
- Build powerful, effective programs through a research-based pedagogy proven to develop cognitively independent learners;
- Double the organization’s teacher and student impact over the next five years; and
- Develop robust professional learning to advance teacher practice, including curriculum-based learning, asynchronous professional learning opportunities and implementation resources, and one-on-one curriculum-based asynchronous coaching via Collaborative Coach.
Dr. Stuart has also led efforts to expand Collaborative Classroom’s partnerships with a wide range of national education organizations, including CORE, the National Writing Project, WestEd, Javelin Learning, and the Management Center. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership, a master’s in administration, a bachelor’s in liberal arts, and a California Teaching Credential.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Peter Brunn
Vice President for Organizational Learning
pbrunn@collaborativeclassroom.org
510.914.0893