Ameetha Palanki Portfolio

2020

Vice-President of Digital Transformation. Member of the executive team. Responsible for guiding the company through a pivot from a consulting company with technology to a full product company for digital transformation in financial services.

2016

Chief Academic Officer. Developed the implementation and content strategy with new states and large districts around the use of the TeachForward system to support professional development, coaching and mentoring, and teacher evaluation and leadership.

2010

Co-Founder and Vice-President. Developed the company and product strategy and oversaw product management, training, implementation, and support for the company. Designed, developed, and delivered instructional materials for professional development and training services for instructional improvement.

2009

Vice-President of Product Strategy and Operations. Assisted with merger of previous company. Co-developed the system requirements for evaluating teacher practice for the $20M Gates-funded MET project. Established operational processes and technologies for onboarding new customers and professional development.

2001

Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer. Directed product and professional development strategy for the company including the design of the first instructional improvement system in the field. Developed blended professional development modules and online product training materials.

2000

Director of Content and Product Strategy. Directed product strategy and authored the educational taxonomy that enabled the personalization of web-based content. Recruited and trained distributed team to evaluate over 300,000 pieces of web-based educational content for an on-line educational portal application.

1996

Director for Bay Area and Adjunct Faculty. Trained and coached public school principals and school teams through the process of whole school change focused on leadership development; coaching the principal as instructional leader in breaking the school down into small units, literacy, and math; standards-based planning and alignment to assessments; data-driven decision-making and assessment; and organizational change and behavior.

1990

Vice-President and Senior Research Associate. Co-directed new school reform effort (the Responsive Schools Project or RSP) in twenty-three schools within seven school districts that integrates school reform of curriculum, teaching, and assessment with school-linked service initiatives. Developed curricular materials and trained school-based teams; designed action research plans and instruments for teams; and evaluated policy and administrative implications of these projects.


	Companies that I co-founded or grew to bring new learning models and online products to market.		Years in leadership training and coaching, strategic planning, and policy advocacy.		Years as an executive in non-profits and software companies in K-12 and higher education		Years in online or blended models for learner-centered design		Years in building pragmatic solutions

My Areas of Expertise

Education

My Experience

Timeline of My Experience

1990-Current