Christy Croll

I'm deeply comfortable with team leadership, having managed and coached cross-functional teams of up to 25 direct reports. I also lean heavily on my training in Crucial Conversations to keep teams aligned, joyful, and focused on outcomes. In addition to focusing on team development and leadership, I start with data analysis and build frameworks that ensure compliance and strong operations.

• Federal Compliance & Operations: Designed and deployed a district-approved federal Time and Effort tracking framework for 65+ instructional staff and hundreds of served students, ensuring federal compliance and audit-ready data integrity under TEA and EDGAR (Education Department General Administrative Regulations) guidelines

Over the past decade, I’ve built the operational 'backbones'—the workflows, digital frameworks, and enablement strategies—needed to scale high-impact educational impact. 

Examples of  Impact 

• Share data and lead staff committees in a campus-wide plan of action, resulting in a 50% reduction in special ed disciplinary action over a year. 

• Tracking data for CCEIS grant reporting to support the use of funding, which involved assessment results collection and analysis, doubling the number of services provided over a year

Tools Utilized to Tell a Story: 

• Google Sheets, Excel, data mining in Student Information System (SIS) and Visualization Dashboards and graphics in presentations (Tableau, pivot tables, heat maps, graphics from Canva)

• • Data Storytelling & Insights: Transformed raw operational and performance metrics into compelling executive narratives for senior stakeholders, moving beyond basic data points to build actionable, insight-based strategic plans.

    • • Dynamic staffing dashboard accessed by directors and key staff daily, showing the live counts and ratios that impacted central program placement and staffing resources.

      • Adapted dashboard as needed to ensure resource stewardship and budgeting remained within district goals, which required Intense and frequent data analysis with difficult and complex decision-making.

• Cross-Functional Mentorship: Partnered with and coached direct reports and organizational leaders to optimize delivery workflows, directly correlating leadership enablement to enhanced end-user performance and program outcomes.

• • Program Enablement & Scale: Designed and facilitated high-impact trainings and enablement programs that bridged the gap between executive strategy ("the why") and team execution ("the what"), ensuring uniform, organization-wide alignment.

• • Strategic Leadership & Retention: Cultivated a high-performance culture of "joyful partnership" across multi-site cohorts, resulting in measurable increases in cross-functional alignment, stakeholder satisfaction, and team retention.

  • Systems Architecture & Lifecycles: Managed end-to-end project lifecycles to develop robust operational frameworks and deliverables, streamlining cross-functional workflows and codifying institutional knowledge to scale programs efficiently.

    • • Developed and designed knowledge bases: 

        • POP accessed by every admin in the district, impacting compliance and operating procedures. 

        • SPLASH knowledge base utilized by special education staff and leadership to communicate operating procedures and build foundational common language

• Large-Scale Initiative Management: Orchestrated complex, multi-stakeholder community initiatives and public events, successfully expanding organizational brand touchpoints and increasing end-user access to critical post-program pathways.

• Partnered with Region 11 for the discipline dashboard for SD

• Redefined and enhanced Legal Framework Operating Procedures

• Created campus-specific data reporting for decision-making