Gemar Mills
Chief Academic Officer @College Achieve Public Schools (CAPS)
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Academic Officer @College Achieve Public Schools (CAPS)
NJ, US
EDUCATION
Montclair State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics
Seton Hall University
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Educational Leadership and Administration, General
SKILLS
ABOUT GEMAR MILLS
Mills—just 27 when he became principal—had been celebrated for his triumph in transforming Shabazz in a few short years from a virtual war zone to a school in which hope fills the halls. After the turnaround, the school was profiled in magazines, in a documentary produced by New Jersey’s largest newspaper, The Star-Ledger, and in the book Most Likely to Succeed, by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith, which calls for radically overhauling U.S. high schools.Last year, after four successful years at the helm, Mills decided to walk away, lured by an offer to become the chief education officer for a well-funded New York City-based nonprofit called The Future Project, which he says is working in about 50 campuses across America—including Shabazz and a half dozen other schools in Newark—to reinvent the structure of the nation’s high schools.
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