Carmen Jiménez, MA has served in many leadership roles in the New York City school system as well as Teachers College, Columbia University, Harvard University and Bank Street College. In 2000 she designed and served as Principal Director of the Professional Development Leadership Center in District 10 in New York City. In this role, she provided professional development to aspiring and experienced principals and assistant principals. Ms. Jimenez served as a middle school and K-8 principal for 13 years in the NYC Public Schools, where she developed particular expertise as a principal turn-around specialist, successfully leading three under performing schools to significantly greater success. In her last leadership work within NYC she served as Director of the Partnership School Organization for the Academy for Educational Development’s Middle Start National Center.
Ms. Jimenez has also served as Deputy Superintendent in Harlem, New York. She has significant experience in district administration serving as director of School Improvement in District 10; manager of Program Planning and Development at the Urban Coalition; coordinator of Staff Development and Program Planning at the Institute of Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and director of Training and Staff Development at the Office of Bilingual Education New York City Board of Education.
Since 1997 Ms. Jimenez has been a member of the summer faculty at the Harvard Principal’s Center Summer Institutes and has served as a member of the Advisory Board for the Harvard Principal’s Center. She also serves as adjunct faculty for the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Ms. Jimenez has worked with the school improvement movement since its inception in New York City and continues to believe, and strives to bring into her work, the simple belief that its creator, the late Dr. Ronald Edmonds, espoused: all children can learn. Her particular interests lie in the field of principal leadership; the work of principals in creating high performing schools and moving school improvement to scale through distributed leadership models.
Ms. Jimenez is a graduate of NYC Public Schools, is one of the first members of ASPIRA who received scholarships to attend private university. She holds a Masters Degree from Hunter College and a Masters from Bank Street College of Education. She was the recipient of a Title VII, bilingual education doctoral studies fellowship from Seton Hall University where currently she is ABD.
Carmen Jimenez
cjimenez53@gmail.com