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  Charla McCoy, Ph.D.
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Charla McCoy is an educator with eleven years’ campus administration in a great variety of grade-level and ethnic/socio-economic settings (in DISD, Skyline HS, Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, Madison HS, and Harry Stone Middle School). She has experience promoting interagency, interdepartmental coordination, implementing innovative programs, and developing school-community ties, serving nine years on the DISD central administrative staff (grant writing; project planning, management, and evaluation). She was also Director of Development for the Department of Human Services Special Projects Bureau (state and federal social services grant development and management). Her teaching experience includes grades 6-12 (Spanish, English, English as a Second Language; Swimming Coach); Adult Basic Education; community college; and university courses.

Her years as an independent consultant in educational services and grants development and management have resulted in acquisition of approximately five million dollars for a variety of public and private institutions and corporations, as well as provision of substantial assistance in program planning and management, staff development, and other educational services. Clients have included the Dallas, Fort Worth, HEB, Wilmer Hutchins, Carrollton-Farmers Branch, and Irving school districts, the World Craniofacial Foundation, The Women’s Museum, Brookhaven College, Frank Phillips College, the University of Texas at Arlington, the Pharos Group, Lightspan, Inc., and the E.L. Dalton Company.