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Our Team | High Tech High Graduate School of Education
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A Program of High Tech High GSE
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Meet our Team

Our team has spent years supporting districts, schools and organizations in using continuous improvement to make learning better for students. We believe in collaboration, momentum, and the optimism that drive real change for all young people. NCIE connects improvers around what works – and what’s next. Improvement never stops, and neither do we!

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Tina Schuster

Professional Learning Designer

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Sofía Tannenhaus

Director, CARPE Collaborative

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Stacey Caillier

Director, National Coalition for Improvement in Education

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Ruth Smith

Improvement Facilitator

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Ryan Gallagher

Director of Continuous Improvement

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Rossa Doño-Ramírez

Improvement Facilitator

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Nicole Hubbard

Improvement Facilitator

Michelle Pledger, a woman with curly hair styled in an updo, wears a sleeveless lime green top and smiles confidently with arms crossed in front of a plain light background.

Michelle Pledger

Director of Liberation

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Mari Jones

Director of Collective Learning & Movement Building

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Kareen Yang

Project Manager

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Juliane Fricke

Project Manager

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Erica Geary

Data Scientist

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