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| Suzana Ustabecir comes to her school leadership role with a master of education in administration and supervision, as well as a bachelor of arts in elementary education. |
Suzana Ustabecir is an experienced schoolteacher and educational administrator who has served multiple principal and assistant/resident principal positions with Chicago Public Schools. Since 2016, she has provided the district with targeted educational services as an instructional effectiveness specialist. To augment and inform her professional activities, Suzana Ustabecir holds active membership in New Leaders.
Originally established as New Leaders for New Schools, the group has helped train and prepare approximately 3,200 educational leaders in 30 cities across the United States. In addition to offering programs for teachers, principals, principal supervisors, and district administrators, the organization helps to build successful instructional teams through its Transforming Teams initiative.
Providing an organized framework for effective collaboration, Transforming Teams balances in-class content, such as research-based online tutorials and case studies, with real-world practice, such as collective instructional planning to meet specific pedagogical priorities. These include helping participants master the best practices of high-functioning teams and use data to support strategic planning with a concentration on standards-aligned instruction..
