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Dr. Robin Avelar La Salle is the CEO and Founder of Orenda Education (formerly Principal’s Exchange), a technical assistance organization that has served schools and districts for 23 years. She has been a teacher, administrator and university professor. She earned her Ph.D. in education from Stanford University.
Her research interests revolve around issues of educational equity, including the academic achievement of historically underperforming students, the use of data to close the achievement gap, and the relationship between language, literacy and culture.
Her career as an “equity warrior” is captured in her books: Shattering Inequities: Real Life Wisdom for School and District Leaders (2018), and Data Strategies to Uncover and Eliminate Hidden Inequities: The Wallpaper Effect (2010), both co-authored with Dr. Ruth Johnson.