Beth Kay, Operations Manager

Biographical Information

Beth Kay was the founder and 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. 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. Beth began her teaching career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa.