Charter Staff

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Joseph J. D'Amico, Director

 

Joseph J. D'Amico, Director, Education Assessment & Charter School Accreditation

Prior to coming to AALE Joe was with Catapult Learning a division of Educate, Inc., the parent company of Sylvan Learning, Hooked on Phonics, and Education Station. At Catapult he was Executive Director of Education Quality responsible for management and evaluation of all supplemental services teacher training and program implementation activities for the East Region. Before that Joe was a Senior Associate with La Luz Training LLC. There he was responsible for strategic business development and planning and was the principal manager for development and delivery of La Luz's educational training, management development, and technical assistance programs. He designed and managed the 2000-2001 program development evaluation of 19 charter schools for the D.C. Public Charter School Board and conducted this evaluation with six charter schools in 2002-03 and six more in 2003-04.

Joe came to La Luz from the George B. Thomas, Sr. Learning Academy, Inc. where he was Executive Director, responsible for strategic development and management of all organizational operations for ten student tutoring centers that serve over 2000 youngsters in Montgomery County, Maryland. He also was responsible for management of the Learning Academy grants and of its partnerships and alliances with governmental and school district agencies. Before that Joe was Vice President of Educational Research Service in Arlington, Virginia, a private, not-for-profit organization that serves the reform, research, and school improvement needs of educators across the country.

Joe has been a Senior Program Associate for the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory where he was Deputy Director of R-Tec, a business unit charged with widespread dissemination of technology-based products and services and also the Director of Rural and Small School Initiatives. He was Training and Development Director for Learning Institute, the teacher training division of Learning magazine, a Senior Research Associate at Research for Better Schools, Inc, and a teacher in both public and proprietary schools.

Joe has a Master's degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master's degree in Anthropology from Brandeis University, and a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology, also from the University of Pennsylvania. He is listed in Who's Who in American Education, is a former member of the International Technology Education Association Standards Development Team, and has been on the selection committee of the National Association of Secondary School Principals Principal of the Year award. Joe is on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Rural Education and he is a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Educational Computing Research, Journal of Staff Development, Review of Educational Research, and the Teachers College Record.