Alex Draper

Community School Director @Center For Supportive Schools

New York, NY, US

Lead representative for the Community-Based Organization Community School contract at Fordham Leadership Academy, a NYC Public Community School, in the Bronx. Creation and management of Community School Budget, including school CEP-aligned work goals, assessing expense impacts & allocation of funds exceeding annually.Management of partnerships with external service providers for all stakeholder groups, including administration of subcontracts, partnership impact review processes, and contract negotiations.Supervision and coordination of partnership work, ensuring collaborative efforts are optimized and aligned to school goals, and building roadmaps for continuous growth and improvement.Assessment of program impact through robust quantitative data analysis, surveying, evaluation protocols and qualitative interviews, including an annual “Forum” multi-stakeholders event.Design and execution of whole-school events, activities & programs, for all stakeholders, increasing access to enrichment, culture-building, academic & post-secondary opportunities.Supervision of Community School staff & committees containing multiple stakeholders.Leadership of attendance vision, spearheading culture-building efforts to incentivize universal attendance, and overseeing targeted interventions for chronic absenteeism; Year-To-Date average attendances of 91% in 2022-23, 92% in 2023-24 and 93.5% in 2024-25.

Relay Graduate School of Education

Master of Arts - MA, Secondary Education and Teaching

University of Liverpool

BSc Bachelor of Science (Hons), Physiology, General