John Carwell is an education associate at the Delaware Department of Education where he oversees and innovates the review and support of schools in DE. In his previous roles, he was the Vice President of Community and District Partnerships at Rodel Foundation where he found best practices in education reform from in and outside the state and figured out how to replicate them in Delaware. Before Rodel, John served as a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Department of Education in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education where he managed grants for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program. On the school level, he served as Program Director for the Institute for Student Achievement where he managed several school-based academic support programs for low‐performing students in the Fairfax County Public Schools district in Virginia and managed grants for educational programs that supported disadvantaged youth in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area with the Commonwealth Foundation.