The Staff Retention Edge: How Charter Schools Are Keeping Their Best Teachers
The Staff Retention Edge: How Charter Schools Are Keeping Their Best Teachers
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Meeting Room 225-227
Teacher turnover is costing charter schools more than they may realize: in dollars, in culture, and in student outcomes. This session identifies what actually drives teachers to stay, what the data reveals about where retention efforts tend to fall short, and what leaders in the field are doing to change that. Drawing on staff experience data from hundreds of charter schools and candid lessons from the field, presenters will share what schools making progress on retention have in common and how leaders have translated staff feedback into decisions that staff can actually see and feel using the LISTEN cycle. Charter leader presenters will share honest experiences: what changed in their schools, what surprised them, and what made the difference. Attendees leave with practical communication tools and a 6-step cycle they can implement immediately.
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Presenters

Head of School
Washington Latin Public Charter School
Peter Anderson is Head of Schools/CEO of Washington Latin Public Charter Schools, a leading non-selective charter school in Washington, D.C. With extensive experience as a school administrator, he has presented at conferences on topics including charter school governance, diversity and inclusion, and professional development. Peter is a Pahara Fellow, a Stanford EdLEADers alumnus, and serves on boards for various educational organizations. He is deeply committed to fostering flourishing learning environments for both students and educators

Chief Strategy Officer
Attuned Partners
Dina Hasiotis is a Chief Strategy Officer at Attuned Education Partners, where she partners with school system leaders to build actionable plans aligned to their vision of success and tackle the challenge of improving student outcomes at scale. She works side by side with senior leaders as they work to implement their plans, including through progress monitoring, direct coaching, and organizational design and sustainability. Prior to Attuned, Dina worked at NOLA Public Schools in leadership roles building and executing support and accountability systems in the nation's first all-charter school district. Specifically, served as the Senior Advisor to the Superintendent and the Chief School Support and Improvement Officer, where she managed multiple divisions tasked with creating strategic initiatives for system wide improvement, providing direct support services to schools to increase academic outcomes and handling district communications. Throughout her work in New Orleans, Dina developed ground-breaking policy, designed and implemented one of the most rigorous and dynamic school accountability frameworks in the country; oversaw charter renewals, school closures and directly managed schools within the district’s portfolio, and regularly convened community members and led broad stakeholder engagements to ensure policies and plans reflected the needs and experiences of those they were intended to support. Prior to NOLA-PS, Dina was a Partner at TNTP where she led strategic partnerships with school districts across the country as they implemented teacher talent and school leadership initiatives. Also while at TNTP, Dina was the lead researcher for the landmark report The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth About Our Quest for Teacher Development. Dina proudly began her career teaching 7th grade in New Orleans. She is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Partner
Attuned Education Partners
Evan Rudall is a Partner at Attuned Education Partners. Previously, Evan co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Zearn, a non-profit that builds rigorous and engaging K-5 digital math content used to personalize instruction in school and at home. Evan was the CEO of Uncommon Schools from 2008 to 2012, during which time the organization’s performance earned the Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools for demonstrating the most outstanding student achievement in the country. Evan served as Uncommon’s founding COO from 2005-2008. Evan also is the Founder and former Co-Director of Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, an urban college preparatory public school that was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as one of eight of the highest-performing charter schools in the country. After founding Roxbury Prep, Evan served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Chancellor for Teaching and Learning of the New York City Department of Education. Prior to founding Roxbury Prep, Evan directed Summerbridge Louisville, a non-profit academic enrichment program. He also taught, coached, and served as Assistant Middle School Director at Kentucky Country Day School. Evan received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, his Ed.M. from Harvard University, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Head of Growth
Attuned Education Partners
John Trevino is Head of Growth at Attuned Education Partners, where he partners with district and network leaders to understand their goals, learn their challenges, and connect them with the Attuned solutions best positioned to deliver breakthrough outcomes for their students. John came to this work through the classroom. As a Teach For America corps member in Minneapolis, he taught 4th and 6th grade ELA before moving into school leadership, first as an assistant principal, then as a founding principal of a high-performing middle school in North Minneapolis. John holds a B.A. from Carleton College, where he was a Posse Scholar, and is a graduate of the Relay Graduate School of Education National Principals Academy Fellowship. His commitment to this work is personal. John grew up as a Latino public school student in Chicago, where he saw firsthand how much the quality of a classroom determines a child's future, especially for students of color. That conviction has shaped every role he's held since, from his first classroom in Minneapolis to the work he does today at Attuned.
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