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Paul Powell
Paul Powell is the Founder and CEO of Arete Education Partners. He is also a Founding Director of the Florida Charter Institute at Miami Dade College and Executive Director of True North Classical Academy, roles he has held since 2023. He brings extensive experience in school leadership, having served for nearly a decade at Uncommon Schools as Regional Superintendent of Instruction, as well as in earlier roles including Assistant Superintendent and Associate Managing Director. Paul is also Founder and President of Powell Consulting. Earlier in his career, he was Founding Principal of True North Troy Preparatory Charter School and served as a Program Director with Teach For America in New York City. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Goucher College and an MA in Secondary Mathematics Education from Loyola Marymount University, and currently serves as a trustee of Goucher College.
Kathryn Perkins
Kathryn Perkins is the Managing Director at Arete Education Partners. She also serves as the Executive Deputy Director of The Florida Charter Institute’s “Educate” efforts, responsible for studying, codifying, and disseminating research-backed, clinically-proven leadership and instructional practice to educators across the state.
Kathryn comes to FCI after over a decade with Uncommon Schools, a network of 54 schools serving over 20,000 students. Here, she drove pace-setting student achievement in both school and network settings, most recently as Director of Strategy and Operations on the Curriculum & Assessment Team, where she helped direct network-wide curriculum, assessment, and professional learning efforts. Previously, Kathryn was a Dean of Instruction and literacy teacher at one of Uncommon’s top performing middle schools, which she joined during her time as a Teach for America corp member.
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