Brent Westrop
Executive Director @Downtown Denver Expeditionary School
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Director @Downtown Denver Expeditionary School
Denver, CO, US
Reporting directly to the Downtown Denver Expeditionary School’s (DDES) Board of Directors, the Executive Director (ED) is responsible for all aspects of DDES’s organizational health, including fulfillment of the school’s vision/mission to create a city as campus environment for an intentional racially and ethnically integrated school, leading strategic growth and other initiatives, overseeing a $4 million+ school budget and rigorous academic program, writing policy and procedure as a single site charter organization, supervising a team of over 50 staff members and a student population of over 300 students, fundraising, developing the school’s value-driven professional culture, collaborating with the Downtown Denver community, and, in partnership with the School Principal, advancing achievement of the school’s academic goals.
EDUCATION
University of Colorado Denver
Master’s Degree, Curriculum and Instruction
The Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver
Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
University of Cambridge
LLM, Commercial Law
Queen's University
BA, History & Politics
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
LLB (JD), Law
ABOUT BRENT WESTROP
Brent Westrop is currently the Executive Director (ED) of the Downtown Denver Expeditionary School (DDES), a K-5 DPS public charter school in Denver Public Schools (DPS) that is a credentialed EL Education elementary school. DDES seeks to richly implement the core principles, practices, and curriculum of EL Education to offer a diverse, caring and collaborative learning environment while utilizing the city of Denver as its campus. After spending close to 10 years practicing corporate law at top firms across North America, while volunteering in education on the side, Brent entered the education field in 2013. He worked as a special education teacher and the special education department chair at Hill Campus of Arts & Sciences, a top performing middle school in DPS. At Hill, he served on the school\'s Collaborative School Committee, its School Leadership Team and coached its co-ed cross-country team. At the time, he also served on the Bargaining Team of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association. In 2016-17, he completed the Ritchie Program for School Leaders, a collaboration between DPS and the University of Denver, which allowed him to obtain his Principal’s license while serving as a school leader at Gust Elementary School, an ECE-5 serving over 700 students in Southwest Denver. Brent continued his work at Gust, first serving as an Assistant Principal, and then as Principal Resident before joining DDES as ED in July 2021.
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