M. CLAIRE BROWN
Long Beach
Summary
Talent management professional with 20 years of experience in public education. Senior team leader and manager with strengths in analytical and strategic thinking. I thrive on understanding how systems and conditions come together to create the current reality, so that I can better develop equitable and efficient solutions for the future.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Vice President, Talent Management
Partnership For Los Angeles Schools
Los Angeles
06.2014 - Current
- Eleven years of experience overseeing talent strategy for a network of 20 of the LA Unified School District’s historically most underserved schools. Familiar with union and non-union work environments.
- Lead team responsible for recruitment and selection of teacher and administrator candidates, new hire onboarding and training, monitoring of performance management systems for school-based staff.
- Expand team impact, growing from 2 to 7 full-time members over ten years
- Develop the capacity of principals as human capital leaders to ensure they recruit, select, manage performance for, and retain high-impact educators.
- Utilize data and evidence to support principals in making key talent decisions.
- Influence district-wide teacher recruitment and hiring policies so that the hardest-to-staff schools receive equitable support and resources.
- In 2021, launched the first-ever Teacher Residency program in our school network’s history in partnership with Alder Graduate School of Education; wrote grants totaling $3 million to fund the program for its first five years, hired staff, and supported leaders to grow the annual Residency cohort from 10 members to 25 members over four years.
- From 2014 to 2019, I also oversaw the complete talent cycle (recruitment, selection, onboarding, performance management, and offboarding) for approximately 70 home office employees of the Partnership for LA Schools, in addition to supporting talent systems at school sites.
Manager of Teacher and Leadership Develoment
Partnership For Los Angeles Schools
Los Angeles
11.2012 - 05.2014
- Designed and implemented systems from scratch to support robust teacher leadership opportunities for 150 classroom teachers per year.
- Supported the Chief Academic Officer and Principal Supervisors to implement a leadership development sequence for principals and aspiring school leaders.
Executive Associate to the Chief Academic Officer
Partnership For Los Angeles Schools
Los Angeles
09.2011 - 10.2012
- Supported Chief Academic Officer on a variety of special projects that developed into our organization’s teacher leader and school leader development programs.
Director of Elementary Math (part-time)
USC ReadersPlus
Los Angeles
12.2009 - 05.2011
Summer Fellow
Education Pioneers & The Cotsen Family Foundation
Los Angeles
06.2010 - 08.2010
- Part of Education Pioneers' selective Summer Fellowship, which invites graduate students with backgrounds in operations, strategy, business, and policy to impact the field of education. I spent the summer with the Cotsen Family Foundation’s Art of Teaching program, reviewing and offering revision guidance for their mentor teacher selection process.
Program Associate
Teach For America
San Francisco
06.2008 - 06.2009
Teacher (3rd Grade)
Osborn School District
Phoenix
07.2007 - 05.2008
Teacher (3rd Grade) and Corps Member
Teach For America & Isaac School District
Phoenix
07.2005 - 05.2007
Education
Master of Public Policy - Public Policy
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA05-2011
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology; Certificate in Women's Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Madison, WI05-2005
Skills
- Building an inclusive and diverse workforce
- Project management
- Recruitment, selection, and onboarding
- Performance management
- Data-driven decision making
- Mentoring, coaching, and team building
- Integrity and confidentiality
Languages
Spanish
Elementary
Certification
- Professional in Human Resources, HRCI (expired, willing to renew)
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Vice President, Talent Management
Partnership For Los Angeles Schools
06.2014 - Current
Manager of Teacher and Leadership Develoment
Partnership For Los Angeles Schools
11.2012 - 05.2014
Executive Associate to the Chief Academic Officer
Partnership For Los Angeles Schools
09.2011 - 10.2012
Summer Fellow
Education Pioneers & The Cotsen Family Foundation
06.2010 - 08.2010
Director of Elementary Math (part-time)
USC ReadersPlus
12.2009 - 05.2011
Program Associate
Teach For America
06.2008 - 06.2009
Teacher (3rd Grade)
Osborn School District
07.2007 - 05.2008
Teacher (3rd Grade) and Corps Member
Teach For America & Isaac School District
07.2005 - 05.2007
Master of Public Policy - Public Policy
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology; Certificate in Women's Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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