Leadership

"So much of what you have done and how you have coached and who you are as a person has just made significant impact on every single student and teacher and leader in Austin, most especially me. I just can’t fathom what it would have been like to implement Eureka these last four years without your leadership and your guidance and your humor and your support and the warmth with which you pushed us, and pushed me to think differently about math.  I have never left a conversation with you without something to implement. -Ashley Dobravolsky, Regional Math Leader, KIPP Austin

"Every time I saw you when you would come to KIPP Jax, I could really feel how much you cared about my personal growth.  Knowing that you see so many people all over the country and to actually feel like you cared about me and where I was going was really special and impactful."  -Lauren Thrasher, Kindergarten Teacher at KIPP Jacksonville

"Emilee drew folks together, shepherded the process through a range of challenges, and throughout demonstrated the plain-spoken straightforwardness and charisma that I’ve come to take for granted from Emilee." -Dan Coleman, Ph.D., founder of Big Sky Blue

"Emilee is a leader who is driven by her passion and vision for what is possible for students in K-12 education. She has a unique ability to motivate and inspire people around that vision, contributing to the cultivation of teams who are eager, aligned on what they are working towards, how they will get there, and invested in the ultimate impact of achieving their goals."   -Melissa White, Learning Experience Design Manager at Great Minds, former Regional Math Leader, KIPP Jacksonville

"Emilee is an incredible educator and leader. She has a depth of math content knowledge, lens for math pedagogical practice, and commitment to equity in math classrooms that are all outstanding on their own and even rarer to find in combination. She is an amazing leader of adult learning for teachers and education leaders, weaving all of her strengths into every learning experience she designs. I grew tremendously under her leadership..." - Michael Stephenson, Math Achievement Director, KIPP Foundation

"Emilee’s impact on me, on our leaders, on teachers, on our students is immeasurable and we’re now in a place largely because of her support and her work where people understand what conceptual understanding ... what the story of math, what lesson purpose is and think that it’s important. We’ve come so far as a result of the work that she’s done."  -Matthew Leftwich, Secondary Regional Math Leader, KIPP Atlanta