Michelle Rhee, former Chancellor of Washington D.C. public schools from 2007 to 2010, discusses the leadership challenges that came with her education reform. Michelle shares how she led through this very public and very polarizing season in our nation’s educational system.
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Michelle Rhee
Founder and CEO | Studentsfirst.orgStudents First
Published May 12, 2015TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO
Change ManagementLeading OrganizationsMichelle Rhee, former Chancellor of Washington D.C. public schools from 2007 to 2010, discusses the leadership challenges that came with her education reform. Michelle shares how she led through this very public and very polarizing season in our nation’s educational system.
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Michelle Rhee
Founder and CEOStudentsfirst.org
Founder and CEO of Studentsfirst.org; Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools. Washington, D.C. Leaders know that change isn’t easy—and it doesn’t come overnight. That’s why, for the past 18 years, Michelle Rhee has stayed the course with a single objective: to give children the needed skills to compete in a changing world. Rhee, who served with Teach for America, founded The New Teacher Project, equipping school districts to transform how they recruit and train qualified teachers. During her three years as Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. Public Schools, students’ scores and graduation rates rose dramatically. Today, Rhee is CEO of StudentsFirst, a movement to transform public education. She holds firm to her conviction that teachers are the most powerful driving force behind student achievement.
Years at GLS 2011