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Destiny Shantell Woodbury is a consultant on Mass Insight's School Improvement Team. She will be working on an equity audit with Aldine ISD and school improvement support with Allentown School District. In this capacity, she conducts district and school reviews, reports on key findings, and supports partners in identifying high-leverage and sustainable solutions. She is from Providence, Rhode Island, lives in Houston, TX, is in her 15th year in education, and is also a Doctoral Student at Vanderbilt University. Destiny has been a middle school science teacher, grade level chair, department chair, instructional coach, instructional specialist, and school leader. As a School Leader, she reduced the suspension incident rate from 44% to 15%. In 2015, her students were ranked #1 out of all KIPP middle schools across the nation on the NWEA MAP Assessment and generated the highest student achievement in fifth-grade science in school history by over 25%: 94% of students met their typical growth goals, 89% of students met their tiered growth targets and grew an average of 3.51 years. She holds a BS in Chemistry, BA in Chemistry, and BA in Secondary Education with four minors in Physics, Math, Spanish, and Leadership Studies from the University of Rhode Island and an M.Ed from National-Louis University. She was a professional athlete who trained for the 2008 and 2012 Olympics in the 400 meters.