Equity in Our Schools

About

Dr. GwenCarol Holmes has worked passionately for over 40 years to educate ALL students in numerous schools and districts all across the United States, both rural and urban, large and small. She has served as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, educational provider and researcher, chief academic officer, and superintendent.

She has facilitated the creation of cultures and systems that support equity as a teacher, as a principal of multiple schools including a reconstituted school, as a chief academic officer of a very diverse district, and as a superintendent of a district with large numbers of marginalized students.

She also worked as an education service provider and researcher at the Success for All Foundation and Johns Hopkins University where her work focused on the impact of a data-drive district reform model on student outcomes. The culmination of this work can be found in Slavin, R. E., Cheung, A., Holmes G., Madden, N., & Chamberlain, A. (2013). Effects of a Data-Driven District Reform Model on State Assessment Outcomes. American Educational Research Journal 50(2), 371-396.

Repeatedly her work has contributed to significantly improving achievement outcomes for marginalized students.

She currently lives with her husband in Las Vegas, NV where she delights in nurturing her grandchildren.

Recent Reads

The Call to Courage: Standing Up and Speaking Out Against the Assult on Democracy, Educators, and Students in America’s Schools, by Sheldon Berman and Lu

The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Socieities Welcomd Newcomers, by Zeke Hernandez

Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond

Unconscious Bias in Schools, by Tracey A. Benson and Sarah E. Fiarman

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, by Jon Meacham

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, by Michelle Obama

A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire

Take My Hand, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Good Trouble at School: A Guide to Building an Antiracist School System, by Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. and Douglas Reed

Get in touch

GwenCarol is always available for side collaborations and conversations. If you want to chat about creating equity in our schools do not hesitate to reach out via the Contact