About: Marla Ucelli-Kashyap
Profile:
Marla Ucelli-Kashyap
is director of district
redesign and leadership
at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and guest editor of issue number 27 of Voices
in Urban Education. Marla Ucelli directs the Institute's work in district redesign, which responds to district requests to build their capacity in key areas such as central office infrastructure and school district organization. From 2000 to 2002, her primary responsibility was School Communities that Work: A National Task Force on the Future of Urban Districts, culminating in the publication of the Portfolio for District Redesign, a set of interrelated frameworks, tools, and other resources to help school districts make the transition toward a new kind of support system, a "smart district." Prior to joining the Institute, she was associate director in the Equal Opportunity Division at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she was responsible for the Foundation's efforts to improve the education and development of children going to school in poor urban communities in the U.S. From 1990 to 1998, Marla was special assistant for education to New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean. In that post, she was the governor's senior advisor on state policy issues in K–12 and higher education, as well as on national education activities. Prior to that, she was special assistant to then-president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Ernest L. Boyer. Marla holds a BA from New York University and an MPA from Rutgers. She frequently speaks and writes on issues related to urban district redesign, philanthropy in education, and urban community colleges.
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