Amanda Meyer

About Amanda Meyer

As an improvement advisor, my superpower is making the big ideas of continuous improvement relevant, accessible, and useful to practitioners.I partner with schools, districts, and youth-facing non-profit organizations committed to redesigning systems in service of providing a truly excellent education to all children. My collaborators and I bring equity values to life in everyday practice through understanding variation in data, improving processes, learning through inquiry & iteration, and navigating the human side of change.I design and facilitate engaging professional learning; contribute to the strategic development and management of large cross-school networks; and serve as an improvement coach to individuals and teams. A strength is my ability to weave my theoretical background on continuous improvement with my practical knowledge of what will work for educators on the ground. In my practice, I create scaffolds, templates, and concrete examples to support practitioners in using improvement methods.I believe continuous improvement provides ways of working together that can help us bring our equity visions to life in organizations. However, I believe that lasting change in practice is impossible without deep, internal work around one’s own ways of thinking, being, and relating. I infuse explicit attention to issues of identity, power, bias, and privilege in improvement work, with the goal of interrupting reproductive patterns of thought and discourse that prevent teams from achieving equitable results. In service of this, I also regularly reflect on my own identities as a cis-gendered, able-bodied, white woman, and how the identities I hold impact my work and relationships with others. Additional Qualifications:• Strong presentation, facilitation, teaching, and adult learning design skills• Experienced in the application of continuous improvement methods in diverse settings, including in classroom, school, large urban district, community college, and non-profit organizational contexts• Expertise in developing improvers at all levels of their learning trajectory, from beginning practitioner to improvement team leader to improvement coach• Theoretical and practical understanding of measurement for improvement, including practical data collection and visual display methods• Familiar with related disciplines often drawn upon in collaborative improvement work, including systems thinking, human-centered design, and team development

Experience

1. Deputy Chief of Improvement, School Networks

   Core Districts

   Jan 2026 — Present · Oakland, CA, US

   Lead design and strategy work for the Breakthrough Success Community (BTSC), a multi-district improvement network focused on improving 9th grade on-track. Provide district coaching and design network convenings for the innovative, 10-year CORE Schools high school redesign initiative in collaboration with the National Equity Project and Transcend. Serve as an improvement advisor and coach within the hub of the Raising Attendance and Improving Student Engagement (RAISE) Network, focused on cutting K12 chronic absenteeism by half across California.

Education

• Washington University in St. Louis

  Bachelor of Arts, Latin American Studies, Spanish, Educational Studies

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• User-Centered Design
• Teaching
• Microsoft Office
• English
• Public Speaking
• Tutoring
• Leadership
• Research
• Spanish
• Data Analysis
• Academic Writing
• Program Evaluation
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Meeting Facilitation
• Esl
• Quality Improvement
• Training
• Final Cut Pro