Dr. Dyer is the former Superintendent of Gainesville, GA City Schools. She led the district from 2009 - 2014 in the AASA-Scholastic sponsored study of implementing the UCLA Mental Health Center's Unified System of Learning Supports. She is a Certified Dropout Prevention Specialist with the National Dropout Prevention Network. She holds a Ph. D. in Social Foundations of Education from Georgia State University. Dr. Dyer completed the Educational Leadership Institute at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and Harvard Graduate School of Education institutes in 2000 and 2003.