Amanda Warco

Experience

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  MATCH Middle School

  Aug 2007 - Jul 2009

  • Managed logistics of move in of 30 staff members and 90 students to new building for startup charter school. • Established and oversaw daily building operations and maintenance. • Created student leadership and incentives programs.

  • Building Manager/Americorps Coordinator

    Jul 2008 - Jul 2009

  • MATCH Corps Member

    Aug 2007 - Jun 2008
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  Uncommon Schools

  Jul 2009 - Aug 2012

  Special Projects Coordinator

  • Conducted operations and data projects for 12 public charter schools serving low-income students in Brooklyn. • Acted as a liaison with Board members, produced documents for Board meetings and managed new Board member on-boarding. • Engineered a database to manage lottery applications for 3000 students and supervised 10 temporary employees in entering the applications and communicating with applicant families.

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  Education Pioneers

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Fellow

  • Identified and directed a third-party vendor to build a data warehouse and assessment creation tool that centralized student assessment data for Promise Academy Charter School, a school serving 450 students in Kindergarten through 5th grade. • Orchestrated the process of transferring 5 years of historical data. • Trained 60 staff members on its use.

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  NYC Department of Education

  Sept 2013 - May 2014

  Research Intern

  • Spearheaded a project to research school time use in successful New York City high schools.• Wrote descriptive case studies to be published in a publicly released report.• Performed quantitative data analysis to assess student academic outcomes on a range of college enrollment indicators.

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  Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University

  Jun 2014 - Jun 2016

  Research Associate

  • Directed original quantitative analyses of district, state, and federal education finance policies and allocations.• Executed technical assistance projects with school districts and state education agencies to analyze funding policies.• Presented research findings at academic conferences and to policymakers, advocacy organizations, and funders.

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  Coney Island Prep

  Jul 2016 - Feb 2024

  • Managed 3 direct reports, including two director-level roles, on student recruitment and enrollment, compliance, and operational support tasks.• Implemented growth plan of expansion to 4th campus location, 40% student enrollment growth during a time of decreasing citywide enrollment and creation of new facilities and IT departments.• Pioneered and supervised an Operations Fellowship to increase capacity of our central operations support for 4 campuses of over 1,300 students K-12. • Executed the search for and implementation of a new student information system for over 1,200 students and trained 200 staff on its use.• Overhauled per-pupil invoice submission to increase efficiency and streamline annual budget forecasting. • Spearheaded pandemic health & safety response including monitoring all federal, state, and local health guidance and creating COVID case monitoring & reporting structures. • Led strategic planning process for data and operational needs across a 1,000 student, 3-campus K-12 charter school.• Coordinated 3 school-based operational teams and 1 central office operational team to complete strategic plan objectives.• Designed and implemented weekly data dashboards to communicate actionable student and staff data to leadership.

  • Senior Director of Data & Compliance

    Jul 2022 - Feb 2024

  • Director of Data & Compliance

    Oct 2019 - Jun 2022

  • Director of Data & Assessment

    Jul 2016 - Sept 2019
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  Braven

  Mar 2024 - now

  Director of Learning & Continuous Improvement