Nada Djordjevich, Ed.M.
Executive Director
Ms. Djordjevich is the senior associate in educational reform. She holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Ms. Djordjevich served as the lead external entity for two of the ten largest districts in the state, Oakland Unified School District and San Francisco Unified School District, developing a strategic plan for Program Improvement. These plans included a comprehensive work plan from pre-kindergarten to high school, a tiered approach to individual school’s needs, and a systemic focus on eliminating the achievement gap.
In the past four years, 100% of the grants that Ms. Djordjevich facilitated for G&A clients have been awarded, resulting in over fourteen million dollars for schools, districts and university partners, including three Math and Science partnership grants, and a smaller learning community grant. San Francisco Unified School District's partnership grant was recently recognized by the state as a leading example of successful science partnerships for student achievement in science, literacy and reducing the achievement gap for Hispanic-Latino and African American students.
Ms. Djordjevich has also overseen the development of 40 individual school site plans in 9 urban schools serving Title One students and designated as underperforming by state and federal laws. The majority of her schools exceeded the district and state performance average, including Los Medanos Elementary, which made the highest academic gains of 70 statewide schools in this program and eliminated the achievement gap in three years.
She led the evaluation of several National Science Foundation initiatives in Oakland Unified School District including the University of California Berkeley’s ACCESS professional development provided to K-12 mathematics teachers, and the Education Trust, Standards-in-Practice professional development program for secondary educators, and served as the evaluator for three California Math and Science Partnership Grants.
Prior to arrival at Gibson, she served as the Academic Dean for the Johns Hopkins University's Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth’s summer residential program at Skidmore College and was a humanities teacher at The Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She taught classes at City College of San Francisco, worked for Teach for America as the Director of Auxiliary Operations and led bicycle trips for Backroads Travel Company.