Overview
As a Professional Learning Designer and Coach for WestEd’s Educational Leadership and Systems Design team, Lauryn Fullerton is focused on partnering with school and district leaders to build their leadership capacity, improve support for principals, and implement continuous improvement.
Currently, Fullerton supervises projects designed to enrich the professional learning opportunities and experiences of aspiring and existing school principals. She is the lead for the Bridge Project, a federally funded program designed to increase principal diversity in Illinois. Fullerton is also a co-principal investigator for the Tennessee Rural Principals Network, an initiative that aims to provide professional learning opportunities, leadership coaching, and networking for approximately 450 principals in rural schools across Tennessee.
Before joining WestEd, Fullerton was a Network Chief for Chicago Public Schools (CPS), where she managed a portfolio of 18 schools, serving over 10,000 students. At CPS, she codified practices and provided professional development that helped improve student outcomes. Before joining CPS, Fullerton was the Chief of Schools at Ednovate, a charter management organization in Los Angeles, where she designed the network’s principal residency program and created the leadership development pipeline. Fullerton has served as an instructor, assistant principal, and founding principal at Noble Schools in Chicago and began her career as a Teach for America corps member and elementary schoolteacher in Baltimore City Public Schools.
Education
- EdS in administration and supervision, National Louis University
- MAT in elementary education, Johns Hopkins University
- BA in public health studies, Johns Hopkins University
