Julie Corbett, EdD, President and Founder of Corbett Education Consulting LLC, is a leader and systems thinker who strives to positively impact the lives of children by improving the access to and the quality of the U.S. public education system. Her work bridges education, democracy, and non-profit sectors.
Having served as a locally-elected school board member, Dr. Corbett is passionate about mitigating barriers to community voice and empowering community members to participate in civic engagement. That experience led her to pursue a Doctorate of Education at American University. Her dissertation is titled: “Seats of change: An examination of how equity-focused pipelines mitigate the disproportionate racial representation of school boards.”
Dr. Corbett has extensive experience with the school and district continuous improvement process, understands systemic reform and structural changes for improvement, and implementation of the federal school improvement requirements at the state and district levels, and education governance (school boards). She has led qualitative research projects, developed publications, facilitated professional learning networks and trainings, and has completed numerous promising practice and case study research projects on state education agencies, districts, charter management organizations, and schools. Dr. Corbett is the author of dozens of publications and has overseen and performed peer reviews of state, district, and school improvement plans.
Dr. Corbett was previously the Advisor to the School & District Improvement state collaborative working group managed by CCSSO, was a strategic partner for the federally-funded Center on School Turnaround (at WestEd), and served as the Project Director of the Systemic Technical Assistance Team (STAT) for the National Comprehensive Center (at Westat). She also earned an MPA from the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration and University of Delaware and a BA from Denison University. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two young boys and is often found on the sidelines of soccer games, leading civic engagement work in the schools, or fostering animals for local non-profits.
