Jim May

As Chief Schools Officer, Jim focuses on supporting the implementation efforts of over 200 schools in 28 states and Australia that make up the New Tech Network (NTN). Working to ensure that every NTN school has the support it needs to become a great school, he supports NTN’s school coaches, assessment initiatives, leadership development work, and national events.

Prior to joining the New Tech Network in 2011, he was a founding staff member of Two River Public Charter School (an EL Education School) in Washington, DC and served as the school’s Principal until 2010. In addition to his work at NTN, Jim teaches as an adjunct faculty member at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education and serves as a member of the graduate school’s advisory board. He has also served as a Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholar, an education policy fellow at the Institute for Educational Leadership, a fellow at the National Center for Leadership, a 2016 Riley Fellow, and is presently a Deeper Learning Equity Fellow.

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