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Bill Carbone

Executive Director
Rock and Soul Forever Foundation

Bill Carbone is a seasoned leader and collaborator who believes that a culture of empathy and empowerment is the best route to energetic, high-performing teams--like the team of quirky, brilliant minds at TeachRock who work toward transformative change in school culture and student outcomes.

Bill brings decades as a researcher, teacher, journalist, and musician to the executive directorship and has created groundbreaking curriculum collections and spearheaded exponential growth at TeachRock. He brought the org face-to-face with 10,000 teachers during founder Stevie Van Zandt’s 2018-19 “Teacher Solidarity Tour,” and oversaw a 400% increase in usership during the pandemic. Since, he's helped bring TeachRock’s open educational resources from the web to the classroom in schools nationwide.

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