In preparation for Workshop 1, please complete the following by the date listed:
- ASAP: Complete the onboarding survey if you have not yet done so.
- By 2/12: Connect with your coach and meet with them at least once before Workshop 1.
- By 2/25: Conduct empathy interviews and compile data.
- By 2/25: Read “Changing the Discourse in Schools” and be ready to analyze and use the text at Workshop 1.
- By 2/25: Visit the Design Fellowship website for more resources.
Meet Our Facilitators
Kim Beck
Associate Director, Talent Development
As Associate Director, Talent Development on CityBridge’s Incubation Team, Kim Beck is a manager, coach, and workshop facilitator for educators and innovators serving the young people of DC.
With over 10 years of teaching experience, Kim is committed to helping students and teachers develop the knowledge and sense of belonging necessary to succeed in school and life. Prior to joining CityBridge, Kim was a Vice Principal at KIPP DC: Promise Academy, a Blue Ribbon school where she oversaw Kindergarten and 1st grade. Kim began her teaching career at KIPP DC as a founding elementary school teacher, ultimately becoming a dean and then Vice-Principal. Prior to teaching, Kim played professional basketball for the WNBA.
Kim holds a B.A. in History from George Washington University.
Andrew Plemmons Pratt
Director, Incubation
Andrew Plemmons Pratt is a Director of Incubation and leads the School Design Fellowship. The Fellowship is a year-long experience for district and charter school leaders to think deeply and dream big about how school has to change in order to create a more equitable future.
Andrew’s work is grounded in the anti-racist belief that equitable schools can disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression. At CityBridge, he has: coached school entrepreneurs on the development of successful charter applications; co-designed and co-led the Breakthrough Design Fellowship, which merged the consciousness of racial equity work with the creativity of design thinking; co-led local School Retool cohorts; and led the Education Innovation Fellowship.
Before joining CityBridge Andrew was Deputy Director of School Partnerships at New Classrooms; taught seventh grade English as a Teach For America corps member in Prince George’s County, Maryland; and was the founding Managing Editor of ScienceProgress.org at the Center for American Progress. He holds a B.A. in English and American studies and an M.A. in English, both from the University of Virginia.