Dr. Amy Swann the Chief Executive Officer for Matchbook Learning (MBL), former Mind Trust Innovation Fellow, mentor for the Gratitude Network, and a Senior Consultant for School Growth.  She has spent the last 19+ years improving failing schools in Indianapolis, Danville & Lexington KY, Newark NJ, Detroit MI, and D.C.  Under Dr. Swann’s leadership multiple schools have moved out of the bottom 5% and are no longer failing.  Prior to joining MBL, under Dr. Swann’s leadership, Bate Middle school in Kentucky, went from being a “state watch list school” to being named one of the first national P21 Exemplar schools.  Dr. Swann’s work with performance assessments, project based learning, and personalized learning has been featured widely in publications including the Harvard Letter, District Administration, on the Next Generation Learning Challenges site, on PBS News Hour, on KET, in Chalk Beat, and in Tom Vander Ark’s Getting Smart blog. In addition, Dr. Swann’s leadership has been documented and written about in books such as: Five Critical Leadership Practices: The Secret to High Performing Schools by R. Ash & P. Hodge (2016), Beyond Measure: Rescuing an overscheduled, over tested, underestimated generation by Abeles, V. & Rubenstein, G. (2015), and The Test by Kamenetz, A. (2015).  In addition to the national work that Dr. Swann has done, she has also spoken and published papers internationally during International Symposiums on Education Leadership in Jyvaskyla Finland, at the University of Shanghai, and in Uppsala, Sweden.