ED&D Podcast: Episode 9
Joseph F. Johnson Jr., Ph.D.
Executive Coach, National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST)
Dr. Joseph Johnson is the Founding Executive Director of the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) at San Diego State University. While serving at NCUST, Dr. Johnson served as a Professor of Educational Leadership at SDSU, then as the Dean of the College of Education, and finally as the University’s Provost and Senior Vice President. Prior to coming to SDSU in 2005, he served for six years as a teacher in Southeast San Diego, as a school and district administrator in New Mexico, as a state department official in both Texas and Ohio, as a researcher at the University of Texas, and as a Senior Executive Service Director at the US Department of Education where he led the nation’s largest federal elementary and secondary education programs. Early in his career, he received the New Mexico Council for Exceptional Children’s Educator of the Year Award. Later, he was chosen as the Texas Educator of Year by the Association of Compensatory Educators. More recently, the College Board granted him the Dr. Asa Hilliard Model of Excellence Award. He has published multiple articles, book chapters, reports, and books including Teaching Practices from America’s Best Urban Schools and Leadership in America’s Best Urban Schools.
Rupi Boyd, Ed.D.
Executive Coach, National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST)
Dr. Rupi Boyd is a former teacher, principal, and instructional superintendent. As an instructional leader, she had an unparalleled record of accomplishment in raising student achievement and of turning around low performing schools in Los Angeles and San Diego Unified School District. Dr. Boyd’s thoughtful instructional-based and comprehensive approach to improvement is combined with building a team of exemplary external supports for the school; close work with the principals to build their instructional, administrative and overall leadership capacities; and ambitious bu appropriate and carefully scaffold, professional development for teachers, counselors and others to address instruction, climate, data-based decision-making and other key levers for genuine school reform. Dr. Boyd served on the English Learner Advisory Committee for the California Department of Education.