Dr. Carol Keirstead has over 30 years of experience in leading and managing educational enterprises. Carol currently leads the National Comprehensive Center’s portfolio of work on Diversifying the Educator Workforce and serves as co-lead for the Center’s Driving Equity Through School Improvement Community of Practice. She also serves as project lead on the Region 7 Comprehensive Center’s intensive technical assistance project using implementation science to build capacity of the Mississippi Department of Education to improve the design and implementation of its Professional Growth System. From 2005 through 2019, Carol led USED funded technical assistance centers serving states in the Northeast, where she was responsible for the overall design and operation of the center and led work supporting states’ school improvement, equity, and educator effectiveness policies and programs. Other RMC work Carol has led supported includes several projects conducting site visits for the purpose of collecting and analyzing data on district and school effectiveness. From 2010-2014, Carol served as a Trustee of the Lowell Community Charter Public School, helping to lead a rapid school turnaround that resulted in the school achieving and sustaining Level 1 status and outperforming the district and state in serving high needs students. Carol holds a doctoral degree in Leadership in Schooling.