Dr. Connie J. Smith

Connie Smith, Ph.D., serves as Senior Regional Director for Tennessee and Vice President, Office of Transformation for Cognia. She leads turnaround work with schools and systems that are struggling.

Dr. Smith has been an educator for 42 years as a special education teacher, principal, assistant superintendent, superintendent and Assistant Commissioner, Division of Accountability/Assessment.

She served as State Takeover Agent for the Governor for underperforming school districts. She was the Executive Director of the Tennessee School Boards Association.

She’s spent her life ‘helping teachers teach and students learn’ and training educators to ‘get their arms around the data.’

Dr. Smith has her baccalaureate and master’s degrees from Tennessee Technological University, an Ed.S. Degree in Psychology and Special Education from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York City.

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