DEBORAH JACKSON-DENNISON, Ed.D. Post Office Box 2894, Window Rock, Arizona, 86515 INDIGENOUS Cell: 505.399.8541 • [email protected] INGENUITY Research Based Education Reform Models PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE INDIGENOUS INGENUITY, LLC Small Business Owner January 2015 - Present: Founder & Chief Executive Officer INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEMIC REFORMIST American Indian Education Systemic Reformist: Results driven visionary leader with 30 years of successful experience providing leadership for educational excellence through systemic organizational improvement and strategic planning to economically diversified institutions of learning on Indian Country. Responsibly prepared to implement and provide successful facilitation, instructional supervision, directional support, program management and stewardess leadership to an organization willing to work toward continuous im-provement focused on life long learning and overall increased productivity, especially relative to improving learning goals and outcomes of American Indian students and communities. Additional expertise and consultant support in: • Correlation & Integration of Research Based Education Reform Models with Native thought & philosophies on Life Long Learn-ing for Greater Relevancy & Meaning • Historical Aspects of Indian Education • Strategic Planning, Development of Organiza-tional Vision, Mission, Values & Goals • Leadership & Team Building, Process & Per-formance Improvement • Contract Negotiations & Strategic Alliances • Finance, Budgeting & Cost Management • Capital Development, Improvement, & Fi-nance • Curriculum Development, Alignment & Im-plementation • Instructional Leadership for Improvement • Assessment Analysis for Improved Perfor-mance & Growth for Student Learning • Organizational Recruitment & Retention • Government Regulations, Relations & Com-munications • Policy & Procedure Development • Human Resources Development • Learning Theories & Best Practices • Public Relations & Media Affairs July 2016 - Present INTERIM SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS SAN CARLOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, SAN CARLOS, ARIZONA Chief Executive Officer as Interim Superintendent of Schools with a yearly budget of 30 million dollars to oversee productive learning for 1,700 students with a staff of nearly 250 Full Time Employees and 3 schools within the public school district located on the San Carlos Apache Indian nation in southern Arizona. Work-ing to design and implement a systematic approach, including instilling best practices and procedures in support of continuous school improvement by bridging the Apache cultural thoughts on Life-Long Learning for greater relevancy and ownership focused on improving student learning. Currently working to implement a standards based learning and teaching educational reform model focused on providing greater accounta-bility to student achievement and learning in line Dr. Deborah Jackson - Dennison, Ceo • Indegenious Ingenuinty DEBORAH JACKSON-DENNISON, Ed.D. Post Office Box 2894, Window Rock, Arizona, 86515 INDIGENOUS Cell: 505.399.8541 • [email protected] INGENUITY Research Based Education Reform Models with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 and the AzMerit Arizona standards. Currently assessing the school district’s vision and mission statements and the current organizational structure to design and implement a 5 year strategic plan of operation focused on improving student learning. Providing the guidance and support for the development and implementation of a culturally responsive educational system by guiding improvements to the overall organizational and in-structional system. 2009 - December 2014 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS WINDOW ROCK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, FORT DEFIANCE, ARIZONA Chief Executive Officer as Superintendent of Schools with a yearly budget of 38 million dollars to oversee productive learning for nearly 2,500 students with a staff of nearly 450 Full Time Employees and 7 schools within the public school district located at the Capitol of the Navajo Indian nation in northeastern Arizona. Revitalized Embracing Change for Student Learning, a standards based learning and teaching educational reform model focused on provid-ing greater accountability to student achievement and learning originally developed in line with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and AZLEARNS, Arizona’s state compliance plan to NCLB, under an approved waiver from USDOE. Reviewed and revised the school district’s vision and mission statements and 5-year strategic plan of opera-tion focused on improving student learning outcomes. Reviewed and refined the organizational structure to better meet the identified learning needs of district students, parents and community while still implementing federal and state budgetary cuts. Provided guidance and support for the development and implementation of a culturally relevant curriculum aligned to the Arizona state standards and the new Common Core. Worked to improve overall organiza-tional and instructional design for all schools and the overall district to improve letter grades under the Arizona De-partment of Education’s approved waiver. Implemented best practices and performance assessment systems in sup-port of continuous school improvement. Led the completion of new 22 million dollar middle school. Led the design, development, finance bonding and construction processes for completion of the new $37 million dollar BeeHoldZil (Stronghold) Fighting Scouts Events Center. As chair of the Arizona State Impact Aid Association led the work with the state Legislature for all Arizona Indian lands public schools to prevent further cash sweeps with the passage of HB 2725 that separated Impact Aid from state funds at the Apache County Treasurers office lifting the budget limits on Impact Aid funds. Led WRUSD to earn first ever Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. 2005 – 2009 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS GANADO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, GANADO, ARIZONA Chief Executive Officer as Superintendent of Schools with a yearly budget of 35 million dollars to oversee productive learning for 2,010 students with a staff of nearly 380 FTEs and 4 schools within the public school district located in the heart of the Navajo Indian nation in northeastern Arizona. Worked to implement a standards based learning and teaching educational reform model focused on providing greater accountabil-ity to student achievement and learning in line with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and AZLEARNS, Arizona’s state compliance plan to NCLB. Developed the school district’s vision and mission statements and a 5 year strategic plan of operation focused on improving student learning called the “Ga-nado Foundations of Learning.” Provided guidance and support for the development and implementation of a culturally relevant curriculum aligned to the Arizona state standards. Guided the improvements to the overall organizational and instructional design to bring all Ganado schools to a performing and higher cate-gory. Implemented best practices and performance assessment systems in support of continuous school improvement. Dr. Deborah Jackson - Dennison, Ceo • Indegenious Ingenuinty | 2 DEBORAH JACKSON-DENNISON, Ed.D. Post Office Box 2894, Window Rock, Arizona, 86515 INDIGENOUS Cell: 505.399.8541 • [email protected] INGENUITY Research Based Education Reform Models 2002 - 2005 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS WINDOW ROCK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, FORT DEFIANCE, ARIZONA Chief Executive Officer as Superintendent of Schools with a yearly budget of 40 million dollars to oversee productive learning for nearly 3,000 students with a staff of nearly 450 FTEs and 7 schools within the public school district located on the Capitol of the Navajo Indian nation in northeastern Arizona. Led the design, development and implementation of “Embracing Change for Student Learning,” a culturally relevant stand-ards based learning and teaching educational reform model that correlates with the Navajo philosophy of life long learning to better focus on providing greater accountability to student achievement and learning in line with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and AZLEARNS, Arizona’s state compliance plan to NCLB. Developed the school district’s vision and mission statements and a 5 year strategic plan of opera-tion again focused on improving student learning under “Embracing Change for Student Learning.” Refined the organizational structure to better meet the identified learning needs of district students. Provided guid-ance and support for the development and implementation of a culturally relevant curriculum aligned to the Arizona state standards. Improved the overall organizational and instructional design and brought all 7 schools to a performing and higher category. Implemented best practices and performance assessment systems in support of continuous school improvement. Led the design, development and implementation for the first and only Navajo or Native language immersion public school in the country called TseHootsooi Dine’ Bi Olta. NOTABLE EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACCOMPLISHMENTS • 2010 – Appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE). Elected to serve as Co-Chair and now Chair of NACIE. • 2006-2014 served on the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools (NAFIS) Board that works to ensure federal impact aid funding availability to schools and children residing on Federal Property, Military Based and Indian Lands. • 2003-2014 served as President Elect on the Board