Leadership

Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford Faculty Advisor, SNS Board Member

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. From 1994-2001, she served as executive director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, a blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report, What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s Future, led to sweeping policy changes affecting teaching and teacher education. In 2006, this report was named one of the most influential affecting U.S. education and Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy over the last decade. Among Darling-Hammond’s more than 300 publications are Preparing Teachers for a Changing World: What Teachers Should Learn and be Able to Do (with John Bransford, for the National Academy of Education, winner of the Pomeroy Award from AACTE), Teaching as the Learning Profession: A Handbook of Policy and Practice (Jossey-Bass: 1999) (co-edited with Gary Sykes), which received the National Staff Development Council’s Outstanding Book Award for 2000; and The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Schools that Work , recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 1998

Kevin Sved, Chief Executive Officer

Kevin Sved is a pioneer in the charter school movement, having established The Accelerated School in South Central Los Angeles in 1994. The schools he co-founded and led from 1994 to 2009 are The Accelerated School (K-8, 776 API), Wallis Annenberg High School (740 API), and Accelerated Charter Elementary (Dual Language K-5, 749 API). Kevin was awarded the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for Innovative Solutions in 2006 and The Gleitsman Foundation 2004 Citizen Activist Award. Kevin earned his M.Ed and teaching credential from UCLA.

Yetunde Reeves, Principal

Yetunde Reeves comes to East Palo Alto Academy from Oakland Unified School District, where she served as a teacher for five years, earning distinction as a Nationally Board Certified Teacher in Adolescent Social Studies. After earning her Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and an administrative credential from Mills College, she became an assistant principal for one year and then served as principal for four years in a high school dedicated to creating a college-going culture for underserved youth. Yetunde earned her M.Ed and teaching credential from UCLA. Yetunde grew up in East Palo Alto, enabling her to bring a wealth of understanding to her role as principal at EPAA.

Jeff Camarillo, Vice Principal

Before coming to EPAA, Jeff Camarillo served as lead history teacher for a Compton middle school for seven years after teaching in San Francisco for two years. He has also honed his leadership skills as director of the summer mural arts program for EPA’s Mural, Music and Arts Project, a proven enrichment program in our community. From 2008 to 2011, Jeff supervised student teachers for the Stanford Teacher Education Program’s Summer Institute. Jeff is a graduate of Stanford’s Teacher Education Program and a Teaching Ambassador Fellow with the US Department of Education.