Dr. Dash Weerasinghe
Dash combines experience in K-12 education with data analysis and visualization skills to provide a 360-degree view of education performance, effectiveness of programs, and insights into future education policy.
Currently he serves as the Managing Director of Analytics and Insights at the Commit Partnership in Dallas, TX. Prior to Commit, Dash worked for fourteen years at Dallas ISD as Director of Office of Institutional Research and fifteen in Plano ISD as Executive Director of Assessment, Research, and Program Evaluation. In Dallas, he was instrumental in developing and implementing the teacher and school effectiveness system. He also designed the MyData Portal for online delivery of student and school assessment data. In Plano, he managed all state and national assessment programs, district and campus data analytics, and program evaluations. In addition, he was responsible for the long-term plans for district and campus improvement.
Dash served on TEA Commissioner’s Accountability and Technical Advisory Committee from 2012 – 2022 and was on the design team on the A-F accountability system. He has served the advisory teams for Riverside CogAT assessment and NWEA MAP Growth assessment.
I bring in experience from large urban districts with high economically disadvantaged and English language learners as well as high performing suburban districts. I have also served on the Texas Education Agency Commissioners School Accountability Technical Advisory Committee from 2012 to 2020.
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Dash is an alumnus of Texas Tech University where he completed his master’s in computational mathematics and doctorate in statistics. His area of expertise is assessment, demographic, and staff data analytics, school turn-around systems, school and district improvement planning, teacher and school effectiveness systems.
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Plano, Texas, USA
