<p>Dr. Shaun Nelms is the Vice President for Community Partnerships at the University of Rochester. One of his notable achievements was creating and implementing a school transformation model for the lowest-performing school in the lowest-performing district in New York State.</p>

Using Innovation and the Power of Community to Reach Equity and Excellence for ALL in the AC-Stage of Education

Voices for Excellence Healthy Education Initiative. The initiative's core is to create a national cohort of districts to improve schools and education. Looking closely at the health issues in our schools and how it affects absenteeism rates, cognition rates (impact and implications), and performance of leaders/teachers (impact and implications). 