M E E T THE T E A M
Arati Singh
President
Arati (pronounced "Arthy") helps clients chart a path to educational equity and excellence in school systems around the country (and in her beloved Texas!) Prior to launching Raise Achievement, she worked for ten years at the Washington, DC-based Academy for Educational Development (now FHI360), where she led federal grant-funded instructional design, program evaluation, and technical assistance for amazing clients such as the Botswana Ministry of Education, Texas A & M University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction (Instructional Technology focus) from The University of Texas at Austin. Career highlights include:
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Leading and implementing evaluation, grantwriting, and technical assistance for $40 million in federally funded initiatives in college readiness, teacher quality, STEM education, and service learning—including two highly competitive National Science Foundation grants and several GEAR UP grants.
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Co-authoring a policy paper on Head Start teacher quality that was disseminated among members of the U.S. Congress and national Head Start associations, was written up in Education Week, and has been downloaded nearly 2,000 times.
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Teach for America 4th grade bilingual teacher in Donna ISD (TX); runner up teacher of the year.
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PTA President of fabulous Oak Hill Elementary, a high performing Title I school in Austin ISD. In 2015, the school received the PTA National School of Excellence Award, one of 126 in the nation, thanks to the success in nurturing leadership and enthusiastic involvement from our Spanish-speaking community.
Her work is a tribute to her former fourth grade students at Moye Elementary; they challenged her, inspired her, and remind her that behind every statistic lies a child's rich story and unlimited potential.
Dr. Nancy Scammacca Lewis
Quantitative Researcher
Trish Dew
College Access Consultant
Dr. Lewis has 18 years’ experience in program evaluation, qualitative research, and quantitative research experience, a master’s degree in Program Evaluation (2002), and a doctoral degree in Quantitative Methods (2003), both from the College of Education of the University of Texas at Austin. She has designed and conducted quantitative and qualitative research for projects involving program evaluation, market segmentation, survey construction, survey data analysis and reporting, reliability and validity analyses, and advanced statistical techniques for clients in the fields of education, social services, advocacy, medicine, and religion. Her work with regression discontinuity designs in reading and mathematics interventions has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, Exceptional Children and Remedial and Special Education. Most recently, she is the first author of a methodology paper that was published in Review of Educational Research and a meta-analysis published in Journal of Learning Disabilities.
Trish has been helping students and their families navigate the world of college planning for over a decade in both college and high school settings. She has a B.A. Degree in Communications, an M.A. Degree in Counseling, and is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor. Trish has presented at both regional and national conferences, such as The National CollegeBoard Conference in Washington D.C.
She has also been a Project Manager where she conducted an exhaustive snapshot of College & Career Readiness resources (CCR), highlighting which of the available tools are actually useful and engaging for students/parent/educators. She created a report that provided a detailed product feature comparison chart and a clear and exhaustive gap analysis of what is still needed for successful student achievement and engagement among all of the currently available CCR resources.
Her passions include working with students individually and working with programs that assist first generation college going students. She truly enjoys helping her clients work through complex processes.
Through our experience and networks, we have access to a wide range of expertise in the field.
THE C O M P A N Y
Raise Achievement, LLC is a boutique consulting company located in beautiful Austin, Texas. The company launched in 2011 and is a Texas-certified HUB (historically underutilized business). Raise Achievement has worked with these fabulous and satisfied clients:
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Baylor University - evaluate GEAR UP Waco, with partner Paul T. Bucci, PhD, LLC
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The University of Texas at Austin Institute of Public School Initiatives - needs assessment and technical assistance for Texas GEAR UP
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Texas A & M University - evaluate a National Science Foundation (NSF) Instructional Materials Development grant; joint venture partner on an additional NSF grant proposal
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Rice University - joint venture partner on an NSF grant proposal
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AMS Public Interest - joint venture partner on a Texas Education Agency grant proposal and consultant on various projects
In addition to providing the highest caliber of services, Raise Achievement can be your go-to Texas-certified HUB. This type of language has become commonplace on Texas Education Agency RFPs:
The HUB Subcontracting goal for this procurement is 26.0% minority, woman-owned and/or veteran service disabled owned business participation. In the event proposals have equal scores, the proposal with the highest percentage of HUB subcontracting will be awarded the contract.
Raise Achievment brings in excellent consultants as needed to make your proposal competitive and your project successful.
C O N T A C T
Please contact Arati at asingh@raiseachievement.com or 512.301.8952.
Our mailing address is:
Raise Achievement, LLC
8101 Cobblestone
Austin, Texas 78735
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