EDUCATION
For more than two decades Brenda Pollard has mentored and coached teachers in research-based best practice strategies that move students from at-risk to on-target. The goal of Brenda’s CSL professional development work for the ACHIEVE Initiative is to help teachers use data as a tool to take down poverty and foster improvement and growth focused on student success.
Previously, Brenda’s work with three high-priority public schools helped move them from Tennessee state “takeover” status to national Blue-Ribbon School designations. She has trained in professional development, teacher mentoring, intervention, curriculum instruction, and disaggregation of data at public and private schools. Brenda has been a sought-after presenter at district and national conferences from Chicago to New Orleans.
Brenda trained as a journalist and worked in Arlington, Texas, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania as a news reporter. She is active in community service projects at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, homeless shelters, nursing homes, and annual walks to end breast cancer.
