Leadership

Redesigning educational ecosystems. Best in class educators.

Disruptive Thinkers. A cumulative total of 414 years of academic excellence in education.

Our Leadership Team

Executive Leadership Team

RESTART’s leadership team are industry experts with a collective 414 years of experience transforming school districts and have successfully closed the student academic achievement gap in one year for general education, ELL, and SPED scholars.

As seasoned ‘Practitioners’ of the teaching craft, award winning educators, and lifelong learners they’ve helped scholars all across this nation attain academic efficiency within one year.

Chief Academic Officer

Monique Wells

NJ, NY, MD, DC, VA

Chief Advisor

Lois Harrison Jones

VA, TX, MA, DC

Chief Operations Officer David McFarland

NY, NJ

Chief Human Resources Officer

Kym Scott

NJ, NY

Chief Finance Officer

Mark Johnson

CA, NY, NJ

Senior Leadership Team

RESTART Fellow Principal Leadership Tyshawn Chisholm

DC, VA, MD, SC

Director of Community Engagement

Judith Imiote

DC, GA, CO

Director of Early Childhood Education

Doreen Aristy

NC, MA

Director of ELL Services

Ernest Cotton

DC, MD

Director of Professional Development

Yolanda Hood

MO, MI, TN, MS

Director of ELA Literacy Instruction

John Edouiassaint

Director of School Climate & Culture

Laronica Maurer

Director of RTI & SEL

Angela Searcy

IL, NY, TX

Director of Math Instruction

Reginald Pate

Director of SPED Instruction

Yamaro Scott

NC, SC

Director of E-Learning

Krystle Pate

Data Management

Valarie Lawson

VA, DC

Director of Principal Leadership

Aimy Steele

Grants/Fellowships

Linda Faulk

Director of MIS & Web Development

Bilal Elmrabate

Morocco

Bookkeeper

Thomas Lawson

DC, VA

Community Engagement & Marketing Intern

Brandon M. Warren

Oxford, London, DC, MA

Volunteer Director of Gifted & Talented

Michelle McCartan

Director of the Anti-Bullying Initiative

Jesse Saperstein

TX, FL, CA

Director of College & Career Readiness & Adult Learning

Huda Hassan

NV, GA

Volunteer Director of Nutrition

Renee Brown

AZ, IL

Director of Adult Education

Desiree Smith

MA, CT

Volunteer Director of Social Studies

George Mitchell

DE, PA,VA

Director of STEM

Nicholas Jennings

TX, FL, CA

Volunteer Director of Health & Athletics

Winthrop Barnes

NY, CA

Strategic Advisory Committee

Lois Harrison-Jones

VA, TX, MA, DC

Valerie Dargan

NJ, NY, DC

Reg Weaver

IL, DC, NY, NJ

Erinn F. Floyd

AL, TX, MD, DC, GA

Marietta English

Michael Hamilton

TX, MI, AZ

Valarie Harrison

Kenneth Wesson

CA, MO, KS

Monique Wells

NJ, NY, MD, DC, VA

Community Advisory Committee

My students did very well once I put into action all the strategies RESTART showed our team. No other company could have closed the students enormous achievement gap in such a short period of time that. The class environment was stimulating and challenging with a lot of work but, well worth it!

I've been using a lot of The Wells Standard Framework teaching and leadership strategies for the past 7 years and my students score higher and higher every year on their standardized tests. the enormous achievement gap my students had. The class environment was stimulating and challenging with a lot of work but, well worth it!

It’s engaging and the material and process relatable. It's a lot of work on the front end but The Wells Standard Framework worked seamlessly with what we had in place. We were able to hit the goals we wanted on the standardized tests. RESTART was a great fit for us and all in all a much needed confidence boost for our teachers and parents.

They give a cogent perspective on closing the achievement gap. RESTART’s instructional methods actually worked. The students scored high on the standardized tests.

Our school team implemented RESTART's framework and we saw that our standardized test scores soared tremendously; all in less than a year. When the test scores came back the results were really a lot better than what we expected.