Rasheed Meadows, Ed.L.D.
Founder and CEO, Rasheed Meadows & Associates LLC
Dr. Meadows is a national consultant for education leadership, equity, and innovation, focused on the intersection of technology, high quality content, and liberatory learning experiences for students, teachers, and school leaders.
Most recently, as Chief Executive Officer of High Tech High (HTH), Rasheed led a charter management organization of 16 schools serving nearly 1000 staff members and 6500 students in grades K-12 across San Diego, CA. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he increased access to technology for students and families to ensure successful and high-quality learning, managed complex mitigation plans for safety and learning for staff and students during the pandemic, worked with teachers to establish a new labor union to collectively bargaining a long-term contract, and safely returned all students to in-person learning. He also developed a long-term strategic plan for High Tech High with a focus on students meeting their goals through high-quality, project-based learning and centering equity and personalized learning.
Before joining HTH, Dr. Meadows served as a Vice President at TNTP, overseeing the national organization’s consulting work in the Northeast, helping educators, schools, and school systems more effectively meet students’ needs. He also was a leader in TNTP’s equity innovation work, pushing the organization to become a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive place, and managing TNTP’s first team to help schools and districts do the same. Meadows also founded TNTP’s Bridge Fellowship, an award granted to “bold leaders with a history of advancing big ideas in their field,” aiming to improve outcomes and school experiences for Black and Latino young men.
Prior to joining TNTP, Rasheed served as Network Superintendent for Boston Public Schools, where he led schools serving over 5,000 students and directly supported 15 principals and their leadership teams. Rasheed began his career as a science and technology teacher before serving as Dean of Students at a large, public high school in Cambridge, MA. Later, he became a founding administrator at a Boston public middle school, and then Founding Headmaster at Boston’s Urban Science Academy, where he substantially raised graduation rates, narrowed achievement gaps, and achieved some of the highest graduation rates for special education students in the district.
Rasheed holds a bachelor’s in biology from Yale University, as well as a master’s in teaching and curriculum and a doctorate in education leadership from Harvard University.