Brandi Kenner
CEO at Choice-filled Lives Network, is a cognitive developmental scientist, researcher, and nonprofit and organizational development guru with nearly two decades of experience in the K-12 and birth-5 sectors, as well as higher education. She has keen expertise in capacity building (knowledge, skills, understanding, will, and leadership) within organizations, and supports clients in ensuring alignment and synchronicity between the organization’s mission/vision/values and actual policies, practices, programming, systems and rituals. Accordingly, she provides sustainable solutions for institutionalizing and “blueprinting”, while also supporting specific areas of need such as school and district transformation efforts, program development, research & evaluation, and fund development. Dr. Kenner and the Choice-filled Lives Network team, and Network Partners, provide research-based, innovative and high-quality services and solutions at highly competitive industry rates.
Dr. Kenner received her Ph.D. in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and maintains a higher education affiliation with Yale University’s Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT. Her primary research areas are: The Intersection of Social-emotional Learning and Language and Literacy Development; Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners; Cognitive Mechanisms underlying Early Language and Literacy Development; Organic Organizational Development; and Human Cognition & Development broadly. She also holds a Master of Education in Behavior and Learning Disabilities from Georgia State University, and a bachelor of arts degree in general studies with foci in both elementary education and sociology from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI.
Dr. Kenner has played significant roles in the founding of several schools and educational programs to-date, including many schools and programs with dual-language immersion models. She has also received intensive additional training and endorsements in school governance and all facets of nonprofit leadership, management, operations, and fiscal management. You can follow Dr. Brandi Kenner and Choice-filled Lives Network on Twitter.
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