{"id":1658,"date":"2014-07-17T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2015-12-29T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T16:08:23","slug":"kristina-kyles-assumes-leadership-of-msdes-division-of-student-family-school-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/kristina-kyles-assumes-leadership-of-msdes-division-of-student-family-school-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristina Kyles Assumes Leadership of MSDE&#8217;s Division of Student, Family &amp; School Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Carol Beck to Lead Office of School Innovations<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Department of Education has added two experienced leaders to its staff.<\/p>\n<p>Kristina Anne Kyles, former principal of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Baltimore City, has joined MSDE as Assistant State Superintendent in the Division of Student, Family, and School Support.\u00a0 Baltimore nonprofit leader Carol Beck is the new director of School Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fortunate to have Kristina and Carol join us at MSDE.\u00a0 Both have broad, relevant experience, and have used performance measures to drive educational results in the communities and schools they have served,\u201d said State Superintendent Lillian M. Lowery.\u00a0 \u201cThe wealth of experience that these new staff members have will enhance our capacity to address the unique needs of students and educators across the State.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to becoming principal at Dunbar, Kyles co-founded and led Houston Academics, now known as Clear Path Educational Consulting, which assists minority students in gaining access to higher education.\u00a0 She also has been a teacher and administrator in Massachusetts.\u00a0 She holds a bachelor\u2019s from Hope College and a master\u2019s in educational leadership from Simmons College.\u00a0 She is currently a doctoral student at Cambridge College.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Beck comes to MSDE after serving as the director of Supporting Public Schools for Choice for the past four years.\u00a0 She has more than 30 years of experience in Baltimore\u2019s nonprofit sector in philanthropy, administration, and program development.\u00a0 She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from St. Joseph\u2019s University and a master\u2019s from the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Beck to Lead Office of School Innovations<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Maryland State Department of Education has added two experienced leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/kristina-kyles-assumes-leadership-of-msdes-division-of-student-family-school-support\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}