Overview
Rochelle Herring is Vice President of K–12 Systems at WestEd, with 20 years of experience designing, scaling, and managing extensive initiatives. She is an expert in leadership, literacy, and evidence-based decision-making. Her portfolio includes the teacher workforce, culturally responsive systems, education leadership and systems design, and literacy content areas.
Currently, Herring works a an Advisor and Quality Assurance Reviewer for the Reading Apprenticeship for Academic Literacy curriculum. She is also working with Reading Apprenticeship North Carolina to build partnerships with rural districts and to scale and design a sustainability strategy for the statewide literacy effort. She also works with the Arizona Supervisors of Principals Academy as a Principal Supervisor Coach, Professional Development Leader, and Technical Assistance Designer. For the Illinois Bridge Project, Herring organizes the Advisory Panel of national experts, provides coaching to assistant principals who are aspiring principals, and advises on the scale strategy.
Before joining WestEd, Herring was a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Senior Program Officer at the Wallace Foundation, where she managed initiatives such as the Equity Centered Pipeline Initiative, the Principal Pipeline Initiative, the Principal Supervisor Initiative, and the University Principal Preparation Initiative. She began her career as a classroom teacher in New Jersey and spent much of her early career working with the National Center on Education and the Economy to assist schools in the implementation of the America’s Choice School Design and as Special Assistant for Turnaround Initiatives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Education
- EdD in administration social policy and planning, Harvard University
- EdM in administration social policy and planning, Harvard University
- EdM in communications computing and technology, Columbia University
- MA in psychological foundations of reading, New York University
- BA in psychology, Spelman College