Director, PARCC Instructional Supports & Educator Engagement 

Doug works for Achieve as Director, PARCC Instructional Supports & Educator Engagement. While at Achieve, Doug has worked with a dozen states to increase the rigor of their standards and align their standards and assessments. Recently, he participated as a member of the writing team of the Common Core State Standards, having principal responsibility for creating Appendix A to the mathematics standards, also known as the Model Course Pathways in Mathematics.  

Prior to joining Achieve, Doug spent 12 years in the Bellevue, Washington Public Schools as a teacher, an assistant principal and a principal. As a mathematics teacher, Doug taught courses from pre-algebra to AP Calculus BC and participated in district-wide curriculum development.  He later became an assistant principal at Bellevue High School and Sammamish High School, where he supervised the mathematics departments and supported mathematics curriculum development.  In 2006, Doug became the principal of Chinook Middle School, where he managed the development of new curriculum in mathematics, science, and social studies at the school level.  He also served as the liaison between the school district and the University of Washington’s LIFE Center to provide staff development to principals and curriculum developers on the applications of learning theory and cognitive science to instructional leadership, curriculum development and classroom instruction.

Doug earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Washington, his master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Western Washington University, and his principal certification from the University of Washington’s Danforth Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program.