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Click here for NOPS TV opsb.us >WorkbenchRoom >WorkbenchMembersWorkbenchMembersWorkbenchMeetings/Agendas Committee Meetings/Agendas Meeting Minutes Resolutions   John A. Brown, Sr. – District 1, President – View Map John Alan Brown, Sr, is a lifelong and proud native of New Orleans. He is a graduate of Walter L. Cohen,Matriculationof 1966.Withoutupper school, John left New Orleans to pursue his educational and sturdy aspirations at Winston-Salem State University. While at Winston-Salem, he was a member of the football and track programs. John earned hisMerchantryEducation Bachelor’s stratum from Winston-Salem in 1970, and a M. Ed. Special Education/SchoolWardshipfrom the University of New Orleans in 1977. John’s passion for educating young inner municipality youth led him when to his hometown of New Orleans. His career in education started at RabouinUpperSchool in 1970 surpassing he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1971.Withoutreceiving an Honorable Discharge in 1973, he returned home to work as a Supervisor/Coach for the New Orleans Recreational Department (NORD). John spent myriad hours at St. Roch Playground implementing recreational programs for zone youth, many of which have ripened to be not only productive and contributing citizens of our polity but moreover prominent leaders. Later that year, he returned to a teaching position at FortierUpperSchool, where he served as a Special EducationMerchantryEd teacher and AdministrativeTeammatefor 8 ½ years. A retired OPSB educator of 30 years, John has remained single-minded to the needs and challenges of OPSB and the broader educational landscape. Prior to his retirement in 2003, John served as Principal of Alcee FortierUpperSchool, Harriet Tubman Elementary School and Phillips JuniorUpperSchool. John was selected as Principal of the Year for the 1991-1992 and 1999-2000 school years, respectively. Prior to that time, he served asTeammatePrincipal of Joseph S. ClarkUpperSchool, and as Administrative Intern to his mentor, the late Dr. Norward Roussell. In April 2006, John returned to New Orleans without eight months in Chicago, Illinois pursuit Hurricane Katrina. His visualization to return home was purely out of a strong desire to see New Orleans reach higher, envision greater and be largest than overly before. Upon his return, John joined the School Leadership Center (SLC) of Greater New Orleans as its Fellows Director, the mission of which is to inspire and develop instructional leadership among principals and other educators, thereby up-and-coming student victory In the schools of those school leaders. Over the past 10 years, he has visited with and come to know increasingly than 300 of the principals and teammate school leaders from Orleans and surrounding parishes who enrolled and completed the SLC Fellows Leadership Program. John is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., a togetherness and service organization for which he continues to urgently serve as President (Polemarch) of the New Orleans Alumni Chapter. He moreover serves as Chairman of a mentoring program at LakeZoneHigh, a collaboration between Urban League of Greater New Orleans and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., as well as the RPGA Chairman for an yearly goody golf tournament benefiting Children’s Hospital. John is moreover a member of St. Peter Claver Catholic Church. John and his wife of over 43 years, Wynella, have three children, Jawan (Henry), Jade (Donnie) and John, Jr.; and three grandchildren, Honree, Jadon and Dorsett. Contact Mr. Brown – [email protected] Ethan Ashley – District 2 – View Map Ethan Ashley was born and raised in Compton, California. At the age of 16, he graduated from Woodrow WilsonUpperSchool, a law magnet upper school in Los Angeles, California. Withoutupper school, he unfurled his education at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Juris Doctorate by the age of 22. While in D.C., Ethan worked for Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the Department of JusticeStarchyRights Division, Criminal Section, and the Washington Lawyers Committee forStarchyRights and Urban Affairs. During his studies at Howard and without the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Ethan defended over a week’s worth of service each year since 2006 to the municipality of New Orleans. To protract his efforts of rebuilding New Orleans, Ethan, immediately without graduation from law school, moved to New Orleans to work as a first-year staff shyster and project director at the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, where he was tasked with running their project to end juvenile life sentences in the state of Louisiana. In this position, Ethan worked in a legal, organizational, and policy-based capacity. Ethan’s passion to transpiration the infamous school-to-prison-pipeline is what motivated his career transpiration into the field of education. For scrutinizingly two years, Ethan worked as the New Orleans Director for theWoebegoneAlliance for Educational Options, where he was tasked with organizing, fundraising, and developing programs focused on increasing upper quality educational options for woebegone youth who come from low income and working matriculation families.  In September of 2014, Ethan Ashley joined the Urban League of Greater New Orleans as the Director ofPolityEngagement. As Director ofPolityEngagement, Ethan leads the polity and partnership based work in education, criminal justice, and societal engagement. Ethan created and leads an educational leadership polity program tabbed Urban Leaders for Equity and Diversity (ULEAD), a juvenile volitional to detention program calledPolityCoaching, and various starchy engagement activities including theUpperSchoolSocietalEngagement Challenge. Currently, Ethan is the Director of Policy andSponsorshipfor the Louisiana Children’s Research Center forMinutiaeand Learning, where he leads the community, organizing and partnership based work as well as the policy initiatives statewide and nationally. With regard to service, Ethan has raised thousands of dollars for and as a workbench member of Youth Run NOLA, a local non-profit organization focused on empowering underserved youth through running. Ethan has served as firsthand past polity service chair for the Louis A. Martinent Legal Society, a voluntary bar undertone whose mission is to wastefulness justice and effect change. Ethan was moreover the previous director of a voluntary literacy program at the Youth Study Center in New Orleans. He is a proud member and mentor for the Son of a Saint, a non-profit focused on enhancing the lives of fatherless young males. Ethan is an newsy workbench member for Bard EarlyHigherNew Orleans, a rigorous, credit-bearing, tuition-free higher undertow of student in the liberal arts and sciences misogynist to junior and senior level students. Ethan is moreover a workbench member of the Boy Scouts of America Southeast Louisiana Council. Ethan has conducted 4 graduation ceremonies, including most recently Joseph S. Clark PreparatoryUpperSchool, and 3 higher declaration ceremonies. He has presented at numerous conferences, including the NationalLeaseSchool Conference, Teacher for America Leaders of Color Conference, PIE Conference, and theWoebegoneAlliance for Educational Options Conference. He has moreover conducted “Know Your Rights” trainings to over 1,000 youth in New Orleans. Ethan is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity, Inc. Ethan is a 2014 fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’sPolityLeadership Network. During his fellowship, he created and still maintains aWoebegoneMale Leadership program tabbed the New OrleansWoebegoneMaleVictoryNetwork (NOBMAN).  Ethan is the proud co-owner of JE Howard Ventures, an investment visitor that specializes in polity development. Above all, Ethan is a member of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church and is a strong well-wisher for youth justice, starchy rights, and servant leadership. Contact Mr. Ashley – [email protected] Sarah Newell Usdin – District 3 – View Map Sarah Newell Usdin is the Founder and past-CEO of New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO), a nonprofit organization defended to supporting and developing the people, resources and environment necessary to unzip spanking-new public schools for every child in New Orleans.  NSNO directly launched/expanded lease schools, invested in recruitment/training for principals and teachers, and incubated quality support providers to serve schools citywide.  The positive changes in the New Orleans public school environment were validated by the ribbon of a $33 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant  to NSNO and the RSD to turn virtually schools in New Orleans and Tennessee.Sarah’s unshortened professional career has been in public education.  In 1992, without teaching in Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship, she joined Teach for America and taught 5th grade for three years surpassing rhadamanthine Teach for America’s Executive Director in Louisiana.  She went on to serve as a partner with The New Teacher Project (TNTP), working to recruit, train, and certify thousands of high-quality public school teachers.  Sarah is a member of the Pahara-Aspen Institute Global Leadership Network and was the recipient of The Peter JenningsRibbonforSocietalLeadership.Usdin majored in religion and German at Colgate University and holds a master’s stratum in curriculum and instruction from Louisiana State University. She represents District 3 on the Orleans Parish School Board.   Contact Ms. Usdin – [email protected] Leslie Ellison – District 4, Vice President – View Map The Honorable Leslie Ellison serves the citizens of Algiers, Faubourg Marigny, Bywater and the French Quarter on the Orleans Parish School Board, District 4. Ms. Ellison was first elected to the Orleans Parish SchoolWorkbenchon November 6, 2012, and has held numerous leadership positions since thesping office. She currently serves as Vice President of OPSB, and is a member of the board’s Legal, Budget and Finance and Property committees. A strong visionary and passionate education leader, Ms. Ellison’s transferral to service rests in putting the needs of children and the polity first. She has displayed wise prowess in these capacities for increasingly than 20 years through legislative and policy sponsorship on education reform as well as intergovernmental wires at the local, state, national and international levels. In wing to her service on the Orleans Parish School Board, Ms. Ellison is a member of various community, merchantry and service organizations. She is owner and CEO of the Ellison Group, LLC and serves as zookeeper at Gideon Christian Fellowship International. Ms. Ellison obtained a stratum in merchantry wardship from Southern University at New Orleans. A graduate of Orleans public schools, she attended Paul B. Habans Elementary, Edna Karr and Oliver Perry Walker SeniorUpperSchool, respectively. Ms. Ellison is a lifelong resident of the historic Tunisburg/McClendonville polity in Algiers, Louisiana. Contact Ms. Ellison – [email protected] Ben Kleban – District 5 – View Map Ben Kleban is the Founder & former President of New OrleansHigherPrep lease schools, which operates three lease schools – Lawrence D. Crocker Elementary School, Sylvanie Williams Elementary School, Walter L. CohenUpperSchool – as well as an Early Learning Center at John W. Hoffman. Over the past ten years, New OrleansHigherPrep has achieved significant wonk gains for its students, including two successful school turnarounds. CohenUpperSchool has achieved 100% higher visa three years in a row.  Mr. Kleban has wits as a upper school math teacher, and began his career in corporate finance. He holds a B.S. inMerchantryAdministration from Pepperdine University, completed the teacher certification program at the University of Pennsylvania, and received an MBA from HarvardMerchantrySchool. Contact Mr. Kleban – [email protected] Woody Koppel – District 6 – View Map Woody Koppel, a native New Orleanian, attended Henry Allen, Jean Gordon, De La Salle and the University of the South at Sewanee, Tn., where he earned a B.A. in fine arts. Now a successful businessperson, Koppel was an topnotch teacher at James Lewis Elementary, who travelled as far as the Anna Freud Centre in England to learn strategies for teaching at-risk youth. He urgently volunteers and is a workbench member of Boys Hope, Girls Hope. He is married and has a son. Contact Mr. Koppel – [email protected] Nolan Marshall, Jr. – District 7 –View Map Mr. Marshall was elected to the Orleans Parish SchoolWorkbenchin 2012 representing District 7. He has served on several local non-profit boards and has been a member and officer in many school and polity organizations. He presently serves on the workbench of directors for the Bayou District Foundation, which has the responsibility for the redevelopment of the St. Bernard HousingMinutiaearea. He is moreover a workbench commissioner for the New Orleans Recreation Department. Nolan Marshall, Jr. is a native New Orleanian, educated at Macarty Elementary in the Lower Ninth Ward (now Martin Luther King Elementary), St. AugustineUpperSchool, Loyola University and the University of New Orleans. Known in the polity mainly as a photographer, Nolan operated the merchantry his father started in 1948, Marshall Studios, from 1972 to 2013.  He is the father of two daughters and one son, five granddaughters and three grandsons. All have been educated in traditional public schools as well as private, parochial and/or lease schools. 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