
Introducing District Administration’s first annual comprehensive list—in no particular order—of some of the country’s most influential, impactful leaders and innovators in K12 education. Collectively but in varying capacities they’re helping shape the future of students across the country— and around the world—by turning their passions into actions:
Christina Grant’s education career started more than 20 years ago as a public school teacher in Harlem. Since then, she has been the superintendent of the Great Oaks Foundation, deputy executive director at the New York City Department of Education and superintendent of the Office of the State Superintendent of Education in Washington, D.C. She is now the executive director for the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University.