Darlene M. Brown
Project Director
Darlene Brown is a Project Director with SEDL's Improving School Performance program. Dr. Brown oversees the planning and delivery of technical assistance and professional development in Louisiana, and assists in providing these services to other states served by the Southeast Comprehensive Center. Her current work includes the revision of the Louisiana school improvement plan. In addition, she serves on the Louisiana Pacesetter Academy team, charged with the development of the Louisiana statewide system of support. These efforts are part of the Center on Innovation and Improvement’s Pacesetter States Academy, which provides support and resources for nine states in the process of evaluating and developing a comprehensive statewide system of support.
Contact Information
You may contact Darlene M. Brown at 800-644-8671
Dr. Brown’s research interests include leadership, teacher preparation, and school improvement and turnaround.
- Turning Around Schools: Dr. Brown has 10 years of experience providing technical assistance and professional development to districts and schools implementing a comprehensive school reform model at the local, regional, and national levels. She has provided on-site technical assistance and professional development to more than 50 schools representing 20 districts in the states of Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
- Leadership: Dr. Brown has 3 years experience as the director of a charter network of four schools: two preK–8 schools, one Early College High School, and one state-operated (RSD) school. Prior to this, she served on the national faculty for the Accelerated Schools Plus Project, as Midwest regional director of the National Accelerated Schools Plus Project, as assistant director of the Accelerated Schools Project, as director of professional development schools, and as coordinator of professional development at the University of New Orleans.
Prior to joining SEDL in 2008, Dr. Brown was the director of the Capital One/University of New Orleans (UNO) Charter School Network. She has also served as a professor of professional practice in educational leadership, as a coordinator of professional development schools, and as a coordinator of professional development for charter schools during her tenure at UNO. Dr. Brown has 15 years of experience in school reform and 11 years of experience in Louisiana's public school system. Education
Dr. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree as a speech, language, and hearing specialist in speech education from the University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly Northeast Louisiana University). She holds a master's degree in educational administration and a PhD in educational leadership from the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. SEDL Publications
- Southeast Comprehensive Center eBulletin, Volume 4, Number 4: Creating and Implementing High-Quality Data Systems at the State Level (2010)
- Constructing Foundations for Success: Implications of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel Report (2009)
- Rapid Response: Project-based Learning (2008)
- Rapid Response: Response to Intervention Practices (2008)
- Morgan, D. (2000, Fall). Accelerated schools project. Louisiana Social Studies Journal, 17(1), 24–25.
- Two proposals accepted for presentation. California Charter Conference, Sacramento, CA. (2008, March).
- Mobile workshop on K–12 education. National League of Cities Conference, New Orleans, LA. (2007, August).
- Served as mistress of ceremony. Accelerated Schools National Conference, San Francisco, CA. (2004, January).
- Differentiated instruction in an accelerated classroom. Double session presented at the Regional Accelerated Schools Conference, Deerfield, IL. (2003, November).
- Time-on-Task in the middle school. Session presented at the Louisiana Middle School Conference. (2003, January).
- Time-on-Task in the middle school. Session presented at the National Middle School Conference. (2002, November).
