Beth Kay, Operations Manager

Biographical Information

Beth founded and was the principal of The Met Sacramento Charter High School until June 2007. The school met its AYP goals each year and all of its graduating seniors were accepted to college, even though there are no entrance requirements for the school. Wherever Beth works she develops partnerships and programs. The latest program is the Early College Program collaboration with Sacramento City College. This program is to ensure that students of color and those living in poverty have increased access to college. In fact, the average college course GPA for The Met’s high school students is a B-. Throughout the previous 15 years she taught and lead in urban, suburban and international high schools. Beth has been a presenter at national conferences on leadership and teaching and learning innovation. She consults for other schools nationally on curriculum, instruction, assessment, school leadership and management. Beth trained as a small school leader through an innovative administrative credentialing program which was site based, at Fenway High School in Boston, a nationally recognized small urban school, in collaboration with Northeastern University. She received a Masters in Teaching and Learning in 1997 from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Beth graduated from The University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts, Biology in 1991. Beth is the past recipient of teaching awards, notably, one from the National Science Foundation.